Kansas hands No. 2 Baylor first loss
LAWRENCE, KAN. » Kansas finally put a blemish on second-ranked Baylor’s perfect season. David McCormack bruised his way to 20 points, Marcus Garrett added 14 on his senior night, and the No. 17 Jayhawks beat the Bears 71-58 on Saturday to leave top-ranked Gonzaga as the nation’s only unbeaten team.
They also made the sure Baylor would need to wait at least a few more days to clinch its first conference title since 1950.
Kansas (18-8, 12-6) improved to 17-5 against top-10 teams in Allen Fieldhouse under coach Bill Self. Baylor (181, 11-1) led wire-to-wire when the teams met last month in Waco, Texas.
(3) MICHIGAN 73, INDIANA 57 » Franz Wagner scored 21 points and Isaiah Livers had 16 points and 10 rebounds, helping Michigan (18-1, 13-1 Big Ten) pull away from Indiana (12-12, 7-10).
(5) ILLINOIS 74, (23) WISCONSIN 69 » Kofi Cockburn scored 19 points, and Illinois (18-6, 15-4 Big Ten) completed its first regular-season sweep of Wisconsin (16-9, 10-8) since 2005.
(6) ALABAMA 64, MISSISSIPPI STATE 59 » Jaden Shackleford scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half, and Alabama
(19-6, 14-2) beat Mississippi State (1312, 7-9) to clinch its first SEC regularseason championship since 2002. OKLAHOMA STATE 94, (7) OKLAHOMA 90 » Freshman Cade Cunningham scored
10 of his season-high 40 points in overtime, leading Oklahoma State (16-6,
9-6 Big 12) over in-state rival Oklahoma (15-7, 8-7).
(10) WEST VIRGINIA 65, KANSAS STATE
43 » Sean McNeil scored 16 points and West Virginia (17-6, 10-4 Big 12) used two big second-half runs to beat Kansas State (7-19, 3-14).
NORTH CAROLINA 78, (11) FLORIDA STATE 70 » Freshman Walker Kessler scored a season-high 20 points, and North Carolina (15-8, 9-5 ACC) beat Florida State (14-4, 10-3) to boost its NCAA Tournament chances and give coach Roy Williams his 900th career victory.
XAVIER 77, (13) CREIGHTON 69 » Paul Scruggs scored 23 points and Zach Freemantle added 17, helping Xavier
(13-5, 6-5 Big East) beat Creighton (176, 13-5) and bolster its NCAA Tournament hopes.
(18) TEXAS TECH 68, (14) TEXAS 59 » Mac McClung had 16 points to lead five Texas Tech players in double figures, and the Red Raiders (15-8, 7-7 Big 12) beat Texas (14-7, 8-6) to snap a threegame losing streak.
(16) VIRGINIA TECH 84, WAKE FOREST 46 » Keve Aluma scored 23 points and Tyrece Radford had 15, leading Virginia Tech (15-5, 9-4) to a rout of Wake Forest (6-13, 3-13).
UTAH 71, (19) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 61 » Alphonso Plummer scored 19 points, Timmy Allen added 15 points and eight assists, and Utah (10-11, 7-10
Pac-12) pulled away late to upset USC
(19-6, 13-5).
(20) ARKANSAS 83, LSU 75 » Justin Smith had 19 points and 10 rebounds, helping Arkansas (19-5, 11-4 SEC) over LSU (14-8, 9-6).
(21) LOYOLA CHICAGO 65, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 58, » Cameron Krutwig had 20 points and Loyola Chicago (21-4, 16-2 Missouri Valley) scored the last eight points in overtime against Southern Illinois (11-13, 5-13).
(22) SAN DIEGO STATE 62, BOISE STATE
58 » Matt Mitchell hit two free throws with 3.3 seconds left and fellow senior Jordan Schakel made four free throws in the final 8.7 seconds, leading San Diego State (19-4, 13-3 Mountain West) over Boise State (18-6, 14-5) and to its
10th straight victory.
AUBURN 77, (25) TENNESSEE 72 » Allen Flanigan scored a season-high 23 points and had seven rebounds, leading Auburn (12-13, 6-10 SEC) over Tennessee (16-7, 9-7).
CLEMSON 66, MIAMI 58 » Aamir Simms and Al-Amir Dawes each scored 19 points and Clemson (15-5, 9-5 ACC) beat short-handed Miami (7-15, 3-15) for its fifth straight victory.
Bonner-Prendergast All-Delco Isaiah Wong led Miami, which had only six scholarship players, with 28 points on 10-of-18 shooting. Wong scored 20plus for the ninth time this season.
Women
(7) BAYLOR 85, KANSAS STATE 49 » Queen Egbo scored 19 points and Baylor (19-2, 14-1) extended the nation’s longest current streak of consecutive regular-season women’s conference titles to 11, wrapping up a tie for the Big
12 crown by beating Kansas State (715, 2-13).
(1) UCONN 97, BUTLER 68 » Freshman Paige Bueckers set a school record with
14 assists and also scored 20 points, Aailyah Edwards added 24 points and
14 rebounds and Connecticut (20-1, 17-0 Big East) routed Butler (2-16, 2-15).