Terps lose key reserve: Miami upsets slumping Virginia

Bruce Brown made a 3-pointer with 23.8 seconds left in overtime and Miami beat No. 18 Virginia 54-48 on Monday night for the Cavaliers’ fourth straight loss.

Brown scored 14 points to lead the visiting Hurricanes (19-8, 9-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) to their third consecutive victory. Kamari Murphy and Dejan Vasiljevic added 10 points each.

Devon Hall scored 15 points to lead Virginia (18-9, 8-7), which last lost four straight in 2009-10, Tony Bennett’s first season as coach.

Isaiah Wilkins added 10 points and 10 rebounds, including two free throws with four seconds left in regulation to tie it.

Miami thought it had won when Davon Reed hit a 3-pointer at the end of the second half, but a video review was used to determine he released the ball just after the buzzer.

A put-back by Marial Shayok with 39 seconds left gave the Cavs a 48-47 lead, but Brown made his only 3-pointer of the game on the Hurricanes’ ensuing possession, and Miami sealed it at the free-throw line. Maryland center Michal Cekovsky will miss the rest of the season with a fractured left ankle.

The injury occurred Sunday in the latter stages of a 71-60 loss to Wisconsin.

Cekovsky, a 7-foot-1 junior from Slovakia, played in 17 games this season for the 24th-ranked Terrapins. He was averaging 7.6 points and 2.8 rebounds coming off the bench.

Cekovsky missed 10 games this season with injuries, none as serious as the one he sustained with four minutes left in Sunday’s game.

Coach Mark Turgeon says, “I feel badly for Ceko. “It felt like he was really starting to turn the corner and his best basketball was ahead of him.”

Turgeon says he expects Cekovsky to make a “full recovery for next season.”

For the third straight week, Gonzaga, Villanova and Kansas are the top three teams in The Associated Press poll.

It is the fourth week at No. 1 for Gonzaga (28-0), the only unbeaten team in Division I.