| NCAA Basketball: |
| Arkansas upsets again, tops No. 7 Texas (AP) |
| Texas coach Rick Barnes can think of one way to improve the Big 12. Just add Arkansas. Michael Washington scored 22 points, including a driving dunk in the final minute, and the Razorbacks beat the seventh-ranked Longhorns 67-61 Tuesday night. Arkansas has now beaten two top 10 teams from the Big 12 this season. |
| No. 5 UConn tops No. 25 West Virginia (AP) |
| Jim Calhoun figured No. 5 Connecticut would need all the second chances it could get against No. 25 West Virginia, and that meant going hard after missed shots. Jeff Adrien scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half and Connecticut used a huge rebounding advantage to beat the cold-shooting Mountaineers 61-55 on Tuesday night. |
| Family ties: Obama calls Beavers coach (AP) |
| His inauguration is less than two weeks away and waiting is an economy in turmoil and violence in the Middle East. President-elect Barack Obama still found time to chat with a basketball coach. Oregon State's Craig Robinson, his brother-in-law. The Beavers, a team in need of a big turnaround, beat Southern California last weekend. |
| Reynolds' 40 lift No. 18 Villanova in OT (AP) |
| Villanova had the choice of fawning over its offensive star or defensive stopper after an 89-85 overtime victory over Seton Hall on Tuesday night. Scottie Reynolds was the obvious pick at one of the end of the court for the 18th-ranked Wildcats as he matched his career high with 40 points, going 5-of-8 from 3-point range and 15-of-16 from the free throw line. |
| No. 12 Clemson moves to 15-0, tops Tide (AP) |
| K.C. Rivers knows it's not Clemson's shooting touch or fastbreak attack that's fueling its latest unbeaten streak. "We call it mental focus," said Rivers, the team's senior captain. "When you want to do something, you've got to focus in on doing it and (coach Oliver Purnell) has made us focus in on stopping on defense. |
| No. 8 Michigan St. wins eighth straight (AP) |
| Michigan State made five 3-pointers in less than 3 minutes, making up for what was otherwise a lackluster performance. Kalin Lucas scored six of his 20 points on 3-pointers during the first-half barrage that gave the eighth-ranked Spartans the lead for a good in a 67-58 win over Ohio State on Tuesday night. |
| Penn State upsets No. 14 Purdue 67-64 (AP) |
| Danny Morrissey hated the shot so much as it left his hand that he looked away after the ball bounced high into the air off the rim. He didn't know until he saw teammate Talor Battle's smiling face that the ugly shot turned into a key 3-pointer that helped Penn State hold off No. 14 Purdue down the stretch of a 67-64 victory on Tuesday night. |
| Arizona St. F Pendergraph has MCL sprain (AP) |
| The opening weekend of Pac-10 play provided a glimpse of No. 20 Arizona State's strength and weakness. The Sun Devils relied on hot shooting to rout Stanford 90-60 in Palo Alto. Then they watched California slice their matchup zone to ribbons in an 81-71 loss at Berkeley. As Arizona State (12-2, 1-1 Pac-10) prepares to tip off the Pac-10 home season against lowly Oregon State (6-6, 1-1) on Thursday... |
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