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- — The Associated Press

NO. 3 PURDUE 92, NO. 1 ARIZONA 84

INDIANAPOL­IS >> Fletcher Loyer tied a career high with 27 points, Braden Smith added 26 and No. 3 Purdue beat No. 1 Arizona 92-84 on Saturday.

Zach Edey added 22 points and nine rebounds, with the 7-foot-4 All-American handling the middle while Smith and Loyer supplied the outside firepower in the Indy Classic.

The Boilermake­rs (10-1) handed the Wildcats their first loss while defeating a No. 1-ranked team for the first time since beating Arizona 72-69 on Nov. 25, 2000, which also was played in Indianapol­is.

Caleb Love scored 29 points and Keshad Johnson added 24 for the Wildcats (8-1). Oumar Ballo added 13 points.

NO. 2 KANSAS 75, INDIANA 71

BLOOMINGTO­N, IND. >> Kevin McCullar Jr. scored 21 points, including four crucial free throws in the final minute, and Hunter Dickinson had 17 points and 14 rebounds as Kansas rallied in the second half for a win over Indiana.

The Jayhawks (10-1), who picked up their first victory at Assembly Hall, trailed by as many as 13 and did not take their first lead of the game until Dickinson scored in the post to make it 62-61 with 4:53 remaining.

Trey Galloway scored a career-high 28 points for Indiana (73), Mackenzie Mbako had 14, Malik Reneau finished with 13, and Kel’el Ware added 11 points and 15 rebounds.

KJ Adams Jr. had 14 points for Kansas and Dajuan Harris Jr. contribute­d 12 points and five assists.

NO. 4 HOUSTON 70, TEXAM A&M 66

HOUSTON >> Emanuel Sharp scored 21 points, L.J. Cryer added 17 and unbeaten Houston held off Texas.

Cryer has scored in double figures in 10 straight games, and Sharp has reached double figures in nine of 11 games this season.

Jamal Shead had 12 points and eight assists, and J’Wan Roberts had 10 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for Houston (110), which shot 43% and made 11 3-pointers.

Wade Taylor IV scored 34 points, including 26 in the second half, to lead an Aggies’ rally. Texas A&M (7-4) shot 38% from the field, including 9 of 27 on 3-pointers. The Aggies have lost two straight.

MEMPHIS 79, NO. 13 CLEMSON 77

MEMPHIS, TENN. >> David Jones scored 16 of his 22 points in the second half, Jahvon Quinerly added 17 points and six assists, and Memphis held on to beat Clemson.

Nick Jourdain added 11 points for Memphis (8-2).

PJ Hall led Clemson (9-1) with 21 points, while Chauncey Wiggins finished with 19 and Chase Hunter had 13.

Hunter hit the first of two free throws with 1.3 seconds left to cut the Memphis lead to 79-77, but his miss of the second was grabbed by Memphis’ Malcolm Dandridge, preserving the Tigers’ win.

NO. 15 FLORIDA ATLANTIC 64, ST. BONAVENTUR­E 54

SPRINGFIEL­D, MASS. >> Johnell Davis scored 16 points and Florida Atlantic held off St. Bonaventur­e in the Hall of Fame Classic.

Vladislav Goldin added 11 points for FAU (9-2), nine of them in the second half.

Moses Flowers had 12 points for St. Bonaventur­e (7-3), which had won five straight coming into the game. Assa Essamvous and Chad Venning each added 11 points. But Venning fouled out with just over 5 minutes left in the game.

The Owls went into halftime leading 27-26 after a long 3-pointer by Venning was ruled to have come just after the buzzer.

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