TCU ends game on 18-1 run to stun No. 2 Baylor
Desmond Bane scored 23 points, with eight straight in TCU’S tiebreaking run as the Horned Frogs upended No. 2 Baylor 75-72 on Saturday at home.
Bane made a long tiebreaking 3-pointer with 4:42 left that put the Horned Frogs (16-13, 7-9 Big 12) ahead to stay. After blocking a shot by Jared Butler, Bane then made a turnaround jumper before adding another 3 to make it 6355 with just over three minutes left. That was part of a bigger 18-1 spurt that Bane had started with another 3-pointer.
Baylor (25-3, 14-2) lost for the second time in three games since winning a Big 12-record 23 games in a row. The Bears were the nation’s No. 1 team when they lost a week ago to now-no.1 Kansas (26-3, 15-1), which is a game ahead of them in the league standings after beating Kansas State on Saturday.
This was only the third Big 12 game this season when Baylor, which is still in contention for its first Big 12 title and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, trailed in the second half.
PJ Fuller added 21 points for the Horned Frogs, while Jaire Grayer had 13 points and nine rebounds.
Butler and Freddie Gillespie both had 18 points while Macio Teague had 13 for Baylor, the highestranked team to visit TCU since then-no. 1 Kansas in December 2003 before the Frogs were in the Big 12. Gillespie also had 17 rebounds.
TCU was up 68-55 after Fuller made two free throws with 1:19 left, though Gillespie’s layup with nine seconds left cut the margin to three in the final 10 seconds before Diante Smith made two clinching free throws for the Frogs.
The Frogs were down by as many as 12 points in the second half, but shot 76.2% (16 of 21) from the field while scoring 54 points over the final 20 minutes.
NO. 1 KANSAS 62, KANSAS STATE 58 >> Kansas guard Devon Dotson shared a laugh with Kansas State counterpart Cartier Diarra at mid-court as the final seconds ticked down on the Jayhawks’ nip-and-tuck victory.
Talk about a different ending from their game in Allen Fieldhouse last month.
In their first meeting since the Jayhawks and Wildcats took a brawl into the stands, Dotson poured in 25 points to help Kansas absorb the loss of bruising center Udoka Azubuike for long stretches, and the Jayhawks held on down the stretch that gave them sole possession of first place in the Big 12.
NO. 5 SAN DIEGO STATE 83, NEVADA 76 >> Malachi Flynn scored 36 points on 13-of20 shooting and No. 5 San Diego State overcame a 13-point second-half deficit to beat Nevada.
K.J. Feagin briefly left the game with a rolled ankle, but returned and finished with 14 points for the Aztecs (28-1, 17-1 Mountain West) while shooting 4 of 10 beyond the arc. VIRGINIA 52, NO. 7 DUKE 50 >> Mamadi Diakite made a short, go-ahead jumper with 37 seconds left and Jay Huff blocked Vernon Carey Jr.’s shot under the basket with 3.7 remaining as Virginia ended a three-game home losing streak against Duke.
Huff led Virginia (21-7, 13-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) with 15 points, nine rebounds and 10 blocked shots, none bigger than when he rejected Carey’s attempt from in close with the Cavaliers leading 51-50. Huff also ripped the ball away, was fouled and made one of two free throws at the other end.
CLEMSON 70, NO. 6 FLORIDA STATE 69 >> Freshman Alamir Dawes hit a twisting, driving bucket with a second left and Clemson toppled another highly ranked team, rallying past Florida State.
NO. 8 KENTUCKY 73, NO. 15 AUBURN 66 >> Immanuel Quickley had 18 points and a career-high 12 rebounds, Kentucky used a big run in the first half before holding off Auburn and clinch the Southeastern Conference regular season championship.
PROVIDENCE 58, NO. 12 VILLANOVA 54 >> Luwane Pipkins scored 27 points to lead Providence to its fifth win over a Top 25 team this month, holding off Villanova.
NO. 13 SETON HALL 88, MARQUETTE 79 >> Myles Powell scored 28 points and Sandro Mamukelashvili added 26 as Seton Hall built a big second-half lead and then held off Marquette.
NO. 18 IOWA 77, NO. 16 PENN STATE 68 >> Luka Garza scored 25 points and had 17 rebounds as Iowa pulled away in the second half for a victory over the Nittany Lions.
NO. 17 BYU 81, PEPPERDINE 64 >> Yoeli Childs scored a career-high 38 points and BYU completed a perfect February as it rallied for a victory over Pepperdine. OKLAHOMA 73, NO. 20 WEST VIRGINIA 62 >> Kristian Doolittle scored 19 points two days after undergoing surgery to repair a broken nose and Oklahoma boosted its NCAA Tournament hopes. TEXAS 68, NO. 22 TEXAS TECH 58 >> Andrew Jones had a career-high 22 points and Texas scored the game’s last eight points over the final minute, stretching its winning streak to four games.
NO. 24 MICHIGAN STATE 78, NO. 9 MARYLAND >> Michigan State knocked off host Maryland, continuing the Spartans’ torrid run and tightening up the Big Ten Conference race heading into the final week of the regular season.
Four players scored in double figures, led by Cassius Winston with 20 points and six assists, as the Spartans (20-9, 12-6) won for the fourth time in the last five games.