No. 14 Kansas tops TCU in OT; Baylor nips OU
FORT WORTH — Devon Dotson scored 25 points, including six free throws in the final 40 seconds of overtime, and No. 14 Kansas beat TCU 82-77 on Monday night for its second win in a row while starting four freshmen.
After blowing a 12-point lead in the second half, the Jayhawks (19-6, 8-4 Big 12) never trailed in overtime. They broke the final tie on K.J. Lawson’s jumper with 1:09 left before Dotson sealed it at the free-throw line.
Dotson also had 10 rebounds for one of the three double-doubles for Kansas. Ochai Agbaji had 20 points and 11 rebounds, while Dedric Lawson, a junior and the only non-freshman starter, had 14 points and 10 rebounds.
TCU (17-7, 5-6), trying to win consecutive games against Top 25 teams for the first time in school history, had a 13-0 run late in regulation and took a 69-65 lead on JD Miller’s two free throws with 2:07 left. The Frogs didn’t score again until overtime.
BAYLOR 59, OKLAHOMA 53
Devonte Bandoo scored 19 points, and the Bears ended a two-game skid with a win over the Sooners in Oklahona.
Bandoo was 5-of-7 shooting from 3-point range for the Bears (16-8, 7-4 Big 12), who made 10 as a team from beyond the arc, and led a Baylor bench that outscored Oklahoma’s reserves 24-7 to sweep the season series.
The Bears took control with a 13-2 run after the game was tied at 35, but they didn’t put it away until a Freddie Gillespie put back made it a four-point game with 36 seconds remaining. Jared Butler was the only other Bear in double figures with 11.
VIRGINIA 69, NORTH CAROLINA 61
Kyle Guy scored 20 points, including back-to-back 3-pointers in the final two minutes, to help the No. 4 Cavaliers beat the eighth-ranked Tar Heels in Chapel Hill, N.C.
De’Andre Hunter also had 20 points for Virginia (21-2, 9-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who played with veteran poise down the stretch after trailing for a good chunk of the second half. The Cavaliers were coming off a second loss this season to No. 2 Duke and arrived in Chapel Hill facing the prospect of their first losing streak of any kind in two years. Yet Guy and his teammates rallied from seven down in the final eight minutes to snap UNC’s sevengame winning streak.
Coby White scored 17 points to lead North Carolina (19-5, 9-2), which was off to its best start in league play under 16th-year coach Roy Williams. UNC shot just 35 percent for the game.
W. VIRGINIA DISMISSES PAIR
West Virginia starters Esa Ahmad and Wes Harris have been dismissed from the team for undisclosed violations of athletic department policies. The Mountaineers announced the dismissals Monday night without elaboration.
Ahmad, a senior, was the team’s third-leading scorer this season at 12 points per game and the third-leading rebounder at 5.8. Harris, a junior, averaged 7.9 points and 4.5 rebounds. The dismissals come during a tumultuous season for the Mountaineers (10-14, 2-9 Big 12), who are in last place in the league and have lost 10 of their last 12 games.
Women CONNECTICUT 97 SOUTH CAROLINA 79
Napheesa Collier had 31 points, 16 rebounds and six assists to help the No. 4 Huskies beat the 11thranked Gamecocks in Hartford, Conn.
Katie Lou Samuelson added 29 points for the Huskies (22-2), who blew open a close game with a huge third quarter in which they outscored the Gamecocks 29-12.
Samuelson scored 14 points in the game-changing quarter.
KENTUCKY 68, ALABAMA 53
Rhyne Howard scored 23 points with four 3-pointers, Maci Morris added 17 points, and the 17th-ranked Wildcats beat the host Crimson Tide.
MICHIGAN 77 ST. 77, INDIANA 61
Shay Colley scored a careerhigh 32 points on 12-of-18 shooting to help the 23rd-ranked Spartans beat the Hoosiers in East Lansing, Mich., and avenge an earlier loss to Indiana.