No. 7 Virginia falls to FSU
Seminoles use big 1st half to win ACC showdown; Walker scores 17 points
M.J. Walker scored 17 points and No. 16 Florida State built a big firsthalf lead, beating No. 7 Virginia 81-60 on Monday night in a showdown between the top two teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Raiquan Gray had 15 points for the Seminoles (12-3, 8-2), and Walker made five of Florida State’s season-high 13 3-pointers — on 24 attempts.
Trey Murphy III had 13 points and Kihei Clark added 12 in the second half for Virginia (15-4, 11-2), which had won four in a row.
Women
Stanford 63, Oregon 61: Kiana Williams scored 20 points to lead No. 6 Stanford over No. 13 Oregon.
Kentucky 85, Florida 73: Rhyne Howard scored 31 points and grabbed nine rebounds and No. 17 Kentucky turned back Florida.
Depaul 82, Seton Hall 76: Dee Bekelja had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Sonya Morris added 20 points, six rebounds and five assists and No. 19 Depaul used a big third quarter to beat Seton Hall.
Notes: Highly touted Duke freshman Jalen Johnson is foregoing the rest of the Blue Devils’ season and declaring for the NBA draft. The school announced Johnson’s decision on Monday night. The move was first reported by Zagsblog.com. The 6foot-9, 220-pound forward was averaging
11.2 points and 6.1 rebounds, though he missed three games and significant practice time with a December foot injury in an unexpectedly bumpy season for the Blue Devils . ... Boston College is down another man. The basketball team that struggled to fill out a lineup as COVID-19 protocols chipped away at the roster lost coach Jim Christian on Monday when he was fired with three weeks remaining in his seventh season. The Eagles are 3-13 with just one win in 10 Atlantic Coast Conference games. Athletic director Pat Kraft said assistant Scott Spinelli will coach the team the rest of the season . ... The Big 12 Conference on Monday adjusted its basketball schedule for this week because of extreme winter weather that created travel issues throughout Texas
and Oklahoma. The league said the TCU men’s game at No. 15 Texas Tech would not be played Tuesday night. That came less than 24 hours after the dates had already been switched and the home sites flipflopped for the scheduled back-to-back games between the Horned Frogs and Red Raiders. No. 12 Texas will now play at No. 9 Oklahoma on Wednesday night after that game was pushed back from its scheduled Tuesday slot. The league also postponed the Longhorns’ game at Iowa State that was scheduled for Thursday night. Big 12 officials later postponed two women’s games scheduled for Wednesday because of the inclement weather: Texas at TCU, and Texas Tech at Oklahoma. There were no immediate makeup dates for the postponed games.