No. 5 Kentucky ends No. 1 Tennessee’s 19-game win streak
LEXINGTON, KY. >> PJ Washington scored 23 points, Keldon Johnson added 19 and No. 5 Kentucky upset No. 1 Tennessee 86-69 Saturday night to end the Volunteers’
19-game winning streak. The Wildcats used a 25-7 surge over a little more than seven minutes for a 62-38 lead, providing a cushion that withstood the Volunteers’ 13-0 spurt soon after that cut the advantage in half. Kentucky maintained a double-digit lead to win the highly anticipated matchup of top-five schools.
Kentucky (21-4, 10-2) also avoided a second consecutive SEC loss to stay within reach of co-leader Tennessee (23-2,
11-1), which hadn’t lost since Nov. 23 to No. 2 Kansas.
(2) DUKE 94, NORTH CAROLINA STATE 78 >> RJ Barrett had Duke’s first triple-double in 13 years, finishing with 23 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the Blue Devils’ victory.
Zion Williamson scored
32 points on 12-of-16 shooting and Tre Jones added 13 to help the Blue Devils (232, 11-1 ACC) win their ninth straight.
(4) VIRGINIA 60, NOTRE DAME
54>> Kyle Guy scored 22 points, De’Andre Hunter had
20 with 10 rebounds and Virginia (22-2, 10-2 ACC) withstood a late push by Notre Dame (13-12, 3-9).
Hunter scored six points during a 9-0 run for the Cavaliers after the Fighting Irish closed to within 45-44 with
8:12 left.
(6) MICHIGAN 65, (24) MARYLAND 52 >> Charles Matthews scored 14 points and Iggy Brazdeikis added 13 to lift Michigan (23-3, 12-3 Big Ten) over Maryland (19-7, 10-5).
The Wolverines rebounded from their loss at Penn State earlier in the week. Michigan raced out to a 14-2 advantage and led by as much as 15 in the first half.
(8) NORTH CAROLINA 95, WAKE FOREST 57 >> Cameron Johnson scored 27 points, and North Carolina (20-5, 102) scored the game’s first 18 points en route to its biggestever margin of victory in an ACC road game.
(12) PURDUE 76, PENN STATE
64 >> Carsen Edwards scored
15 of his 21 points in the second half and Matt Haarms added a career-high 18 for Purdue (18-7, 11-3 Big Ten).
Lamar Stevens finished with 18 points and Rasir Bolton had 17 for Penn State
(9-16, 2-12). The Nittany Lions have lost have 10 of 12.
(14) KANSAS 78, WEST VIRGINIA 53 >> Devon Dotson and K.J. Lawson each scored 15 points, and Kansas (20-6, 9-4 Big 12) beat depleted West Virginia (10-15, 2-10).
West Virginia struggled without former starters Esa Ahmed and Wesley Harris, who were dismissed from the team earlier in the week for violating athletic department policies.
(15) TEXAS TECH 86, BAYLOR
61>> Jarrett Culver scored 18 points and Davide Moretti added 17 as Texas Tech (216, 9-4 Big 12) cruised past short-handed and turnoverprone Baylor (16-9, 7-5).
(16) LOUISVILLE 56, CLEMSON
55>> Christen Cunningham scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half to rally Louisville (18-8, 9-4 ACC), which hung on in the final seconds.
(17) FLORIDA STATE 69, GEORGIA TECH 47 >> Christ Koumadje had 10 points and 12 rebounds as Florida State
(20-5, 8-4) tied a school record with its seventh straight ACC win.
(19) LSU 83, GEORGIA 79 >> Tremont Waters scored 20 points, Ja’vonte Smart added
19 and LSU (21-4, 11-1 SEC) won its fourth straight game.
(23) IOWA STATE 78, (18) KANSAS STATE 64 >> Lindell Wigginton hit five 3-pointers and scored 23 points, Talen Horton-Tucker buried six 3s and had 20, and Iowa State 196, 8-4) pulled away late to tighten up the Big 12 title race.
Marial Shayok added 13 points and 13 rebounds for the Cyclones, who pulled within a game of the Wildcats (19-6, 9-3) with six games to go.
(21) IOWA 71, RUTGERS 69 >> Joe Wieskamp banked in a
3-pointer from the corner with less than a second to play and Iowa (20-5, 9-5 Big Ten) posted a miraculous victory over Rutgers (12-13, 5-10) for its fourth straight win.
The Scarlet Knights appeared on the verge of their second upset of a ranked team this season when Gio Baker got a friendly role on a
3-pointer from the top of the key with 3.3 seconds to play.
(22) VIRGINIA TECH 70, PITTSBURGH 64 >> Kerry Blackshear Jr. scored a seasonhigh 29 points, Ahmed Hill added 14 and Virginia Tech
(20-5, 9-4 ACC) held off Pittsburgh (12-14, 2-11).