Auburn shakes off 13-point first half

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AUBURN 49, ALABAMA 37

AUBURN, Ala. — Allen Payne and Josh Wallace scored 11 points as Auburn held Alabama scoreless for more than nine minutes in the second half of a 49-37 comeback victory Wednesday night.

The Tigers (9-13, 3-6) ended a six-game losing streak despite managing just 13 points in the first half.

It was a season- low in points for Alabama (14-8, 6-3), which had won 6 of 7 games and five in a row in the rivalry. The Tide’s previous low was 50 points.

Payne scored nine points in the second half. Wallace, who was averaging 3.6 points, matched his season high with all of his points coming in the second half.

Trevor Releford and Rodney Cooper led Alabama with 11 points each.

In other SEC games, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 24 points and led

Georgia’s three-point shooting onslaught as the Bulldogs defeated Tennessee 6862 to win for the fifth time in their past six games. Georgia (11-11, 5-4) shot 11 of 20 from three-point range. CaldwellPope was 5 of 7 from beyond the threepoint line. Kenny Gaines added 12 points and Vincent Williams had 10 points for Georgia, which has won four consecutive conference games for the first time since 2003. Jordan McRae scored 17 points and Jarnell Stokes had 16 points for Tennessee (11-10, 3-6), which never led all night. Stokes also had 11 rebounds. ... Anthony Hickey scored 14 points and LSU hung on for its third consecutive victory, 57-56 over Vanderbilt in Baton Rouge, La. Johnny O’Bryant III added 10 points for the Tigers (13-7, 4-5), who led by as many as 12 early in the second half before Vanderbilt (8-13, 2-7) methodically pulled as close as 55-53 on Rod Odom’s threepointer with 10 seconds left. O’Bryant then made two critical free throws for a four-point cushion that rendered Odom’s three-pointer in the final seconds meaningless. Odom finished with a game-high 20 points. Dai-Jon Parker added 11 points and nine rebounds for Vanderbilt.

In games involving Top 25 teams, Jake Odum scored 22 points, topping the 1,000-point mark for his career and leading Indiana State past No. 16 Creighton 76-57 in Terre Haute, Ind. It was a huge night for the Sycamores (15-8, 8-4), who beat a ranked team at home for the first time since December 2006. Doug McDermott of Creighton (20-4, 9-3) finished with just eight points, all in the first half, and the nation’s top shooting team was held to 41.7 percent from the field. ... Michael Cobbins blocked a shot and converted a fast-break layup with two-tenths of a second left in overtime, lifting No. 22 Oklahoma State over Baylor 69-67 in Stillwater, Okla. Marcus Smart scored 14 points and Markel Brown added 13 for Oklahoma State (16-5, 6-3). Baylor (14-8, 5-4) had a chance to win in the final seconds of overtime, but Cobbins blocked a shot by A.J. Walton (Little Rock Hall) under the basket and then raced to the other end and made the winning layup. ... Wayne Blackshear scored a career-high 19 points and hit a three-pointer to ignite a 23-2 run early in the second half that carried No. 11

Louisville to a 68-48 victory over Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J. Russ Smith added 14 points and six rebounds as the Cardinals (19-4, 7-3) won their third consecutive game by holding Rutgers (12-9, 3-7) to a season-low point total. ... Rotnei Clarke scored 17 points and No. 14 Butler defeated St. Bonaventure 77-58 in Indianapolis. Andrew Smith added 13 points and Khyle Marshall and Chase Stigall scored 12 each as the Bulldogs (19-4, 6-2) improved to 12-0 at home. ... Gary Harris scored 15 points and Keith Appling added 14 points before leaving the game with an injury to help No. 12 Michigan State bounce back from a poor first half to beat No. 18

Minnesota 61-50 in East Lansing, Mich. Appling left the court with 1:17 left, holding his right shoulder after getting tied up with Joe Coleman. The Spartans (19-4 8-2) moved into a second-place tie with No. 3 Michigan. ... Kadeem Batts scored 25 points and Providence narrowly won its second consecutive game after holding a late lead, beating No. 17 Cincinnati 54-50 in Providence, R.I. The Bearcats had cut their biggest deficit, 47-34 with 6:49 left, to 49-48 on two free throws by Cheikh Mbodj with 2:28 remaining. It was 52-50 when Batts missed two free throws with 13.4 seconds to go and Justin Jackson rebounded for Cincinnati. But Sean Kilpatrick, who led Cincinnati (18-5, 6-4) with 13 points, lost the ball on a backcourt violation with 2 seconds to play and Batts finished the scoring with two free throws. ... Todd Mayo and Vander Blue scored 13 points each to help No. 24 Marquette beat South Florida 70-47 in Tampa, Fla. ... Garlon Green scored 20 points and

TCU held on for a 62-55 upset of fifthranked Kansas for the Horned Frogs’ first Big 12 victory. The Jayhawks (19-3, 7-2), coming off a loss four days earlier against Oklahoma State, have their first losing streak in more than seven years. They had played 264 games in a row since January 2006 without consecutive losses, the longest active streak in NCAA Division I. TCU (10-12, 1-8) never trailed in the game. ... Jamal Fenton scored all five of his points in a late surge for No. 15 New

Mexico to help the Lobos beat Air Force 81-58 in Albuquerque, N.M. With New Mexico (20-3, 7-1) leading 57-51, Fenton started a 14-1 run with a time-clock beating, turnaround floater from the lane. ... Mark Lyons scored a season-high 25 points and led a key stretch in the second half, helping No. 7 Arizona hold off visiting

Stanford 73-66 on the 40th anniversary of the first game at the McKale Center. Solomon Hill added 23 points and Angelo Chol gave Arizona (20-2, 9-2) a lift with Grant Jerrett out, grabbing eight rebounds.