Newton scores 16 as No. 1 Uconn stifles No. 18 Creighton
Tristen Newton scored 16 points and No. 1 Uconn used a stifling defense on Wednesday night to beat No. 18 Creighton, 62-48.
Cam Spencer and Alex Karaban each had 13 points for the Huskies, with all of Karaban’s scoring coming in the second half. Star center Donovan Clingan returned after missing five games with a tendon injury in his right foot. The 7-foot-2 sophomore scored six points with five rebounds in 16 minutes.
Steven Ashworth led Creighton with 14 points while Baylor Scheierman, who came into the game averaging 18 points a game, added 12.
RJ Davis scored 21 points and No. 4 North Carolina beat Louisville
86-70 for its seventh straight victory, the Tar Heels’ longest winning streak in five seasons.
Armando Bacot had 19 points, Cormac Ryan added 17 and former Louisville player Jae’lyn Withers scored 15 off the bench for North Carolina.
The Tar Heels have won seven in a row for the first time under thirdyear coach Hubert Davis. They’re off to their best ACC start in eight years.
Jamal Shead scored a career-high 29 points and also had 10 assists, J’wan Roberts added 12 points and No. 5 Houston snapped a twogame losing streak with a 77-54 win over No. 25 Texas Tech.
Shead scored 15 first half points, shooting 6 for 9 from the field as Houston led 38-29 at the half. He finished 12 of 16 from the field and either scored or assisted on 22 of the Cougars’ 33 field goals.
The Cougars, who have now won 15 straight at home, were coming off losses at Iowa State and TCU last week. Houston shot 52% and had a 40-8 advantage in points in the paint.
Antonio Reeves scored 27 points and Kentucky beat Mississippi State for coach John Calipari’s 400th victory with the Wildcats.
Kentucky shot 62% in the second half and 56% overall to provide the milestone victory for the Hall of Famer, who became the third-fastest active coach to achieve that with a program.
Rob Dillingham added 16 points for the Wildcats.
Tolu Smith III had 26 points for the Bulldogs.
Jalon Moore scored 16 points and Javian
Mccollum and Rivaldo Soares each added 13 to help Oklahoma defeat West Virginia.
Otega Oweh added 12 points and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma, which shot 63.6% in the second half to pull away. The Sooners bounced back from losses to TCU and Kansas.
Noah Farrakhan scored 14 points and Raequan Battle added 12 for West Virginia, which was trying to build momentum after upsetting then-no. 25 Texas last Saturday.
Jordan Wright scored a game-high 27 points leading LSU to a victory over No. 22 Mississippi.
Wright, a graduate transfer from Vanderbilt and a Baton Rouge area native, scored six of LSU’S nine points to close the first half and eight of Tigers’ 10 points to open the second half.