Iowa State follows big win with a crash

Makai Mason scored 25 points, including five free throws in the final 38 seconds as Baylor held on to beat No. 20 Iowa State 73-70 on Tuesday night in Waco, Texas.

Iowa State (12-3, 2-1 Big 12) was coming off a 17point home win over thenNo. 5 Kansas three days earlier. The Cyclones had won five in a row and entered the AP Top 25 on Monday for the first time since the end of the 2016-17 season.

Devonte Bandoo made two free throws with five seconds left for Baylor (9-5, 1-1), and Iowa State had one more shot to tie the game but Nick Weiler-Babb’s defended 3-pointer from the right side was not even close.

Mason had a short jumper with 1:48 left to tie the game at 66. After Mason made the tiebreaking free throw before missing another with 38 seconds left, King McClure grabbed the offensive rebound. That set up two more free throws by Mason.

Marial Shayok had 19 points to lead Iowa State.

Duke travels well: Freshman sensation Zion Williamson scored a season-high 30 points with 10 rebounds, and No. 1 Duke won its first road game of the season by beating Wake Forest 87-65 in WinstonSalem, N.C.

RJ Barrett finished with 21 points and matched a season high with seven assists, and Cameron Reddish added 10 points, helping the Blue Devils (13-0, 2-0 ACC) win their eighth straight game.

Layups: Former USC forward Jordan Usher has transferred to Georgia Tech and will be eligible for spring semester in 2019. Usher, from Canton, Ga., averaged 8.6 points and 3.7 rebounds in 12 games, including two starts, for the Trojans this season. He averaged 4.8 points and 2.0 rebounds as a freshman in 2017-18 . ... Oklahoma State announced that graduate transfer guard Mike Cunningham is no longer with the program. Cunningham averaged 8.0 points and 1.1 assists in seven games for the Cowboys but hadn’t played since Dec. 16 against Nebraska.