Section B·Page 4
The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, January 25, 2000
Unbeaten Syracuse defeats Connecticut
The Associated Press
SYRACUSE, N.Y.
One less question for
Syracuse and still no losses.
The fourth-ranked Orangemen remained the nation's only unbeaten team with an 88-74 victory against No. 6 Connecticut on yesterday as six players scored in double fixtures.
Syracuse's first 10 games all were at home and the competition wasn't too steep. Then the Orangemen (16-0, 6-0 Big East) went on the road for three straight games and won all three.
Connecticut (13-4, 2-3) was the first ranked team for Syracuse, and the Orangemen responded with an emphatic win.
The game also added to the questions facing Connecticut, which has lost three of its last six and has now doubled its
loss total from last season's national championship run.
The start matches the best in Syracuse history on the 1917-18 team also won its first 16 games.
Ryan Blackwell had 18 points and 12 rebounds for Syracuse, which finished with a 47-31 rebound advantage, while Etan Thomas had 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Jason Hart had 14 points and eight assists for the Orangemen, Tony Bland had 12 points and Damone Brown and DeShaun Williams added 10 each.
Jake Voskuhl had 19 points for Connecticut, while Kevin Freeman had 14 and Khalid El-Amin nine, six in the first half as he was held below 10 points for just the third time this season.
Syracuse put this one away with a 22.2 run in the first half as it broke
from an 18-18 tie
Williams, a freshman,
had eight points, including
consecutive 3-pointers
that made it 40-20 with
51-17 left. The Grangeren
lead 44-25 at halftime, and
it could have been a lot
worse as they missed
their last 10 shots from
the field in the half.
The Huskies, whose three other losses were by a total of 12 points, never could get a sustained run in the second half. A dunk by Thomas on a nice pass from Hart with 11:14 left gave Syracuse its biggest lead, 66-41. Hart's 3-pointer with 8:01 left made it 69-47 and was the Orangemen's last field goal of the game as they went 19-for-23 from the line the rest of the way.
Connecticut was missing starters Voskuhl and Richard Hamilton because of injuries.
Tar Heels out of Top 25 for first time in a decade
It's the powder blues these days at North Carolina.
The Associated Press
The Tar Heels (11-8), ranked as high as No. 2 earlier in the season, fell out of The Associated Press college basketball poll for the first time in 10 years yesterday.
"We have never been concerned about national rankings, whether we were ranked high or not." North Carolina coach Bill Guthrie said. "I am concerned, however, that we're losing games."
The Tar Heels lost to Virginia and Florida State last week, extending their losing streak to four, dropping them out of the rankings from No. 21. It was the first time since the preseason poll of 1990-91, a stretch of 172 consecutive polls, that North Carolina was not ranked.
Last week's ranking put the Tar Heels second on the consecutive poll streak, one better than their run from 1972 to 1982, but short of UCLA's 221 consecutive rankings from 1966 to 1980.
Kentucky had a run of 164
consecutive polls that ended last month. The longest current streak belongs to Arizona, which has been in 83 straight, a streak that began with the first regular-season poll of the 1995-96 season. Stanford and Duke are tied for second at 66, runs that began with the preseason poll of 1996-97.
The Tar Heels are shooting over 50 percent to lead the Atlantic Coast Conference but have lost six of their last nine games because of poor ballhandling and a porous defense.
North Carolina entertains No. 22 Maryland tomorrow night, hoping to avoid its first five-game skid since the final five games of the 1952 season.
"If there was any magic solution, I'd sure like to find it," Guthridge said. "We've had good practices. We just have to get over this losing and start winning again. We're a good team. We're not a great team."
Meanwhile, Cincinnati remained a runaway No.1 in the poll.
The Bearcats (18-1), who easily beat Memphis and Marquette last week, were atop the poll for the third straight week and eighth this season, receiving 66 of 70 first-place votes from a national media panel.
Fourteen ranked teams lost a total of 17 games last week. That was reflected in only Cincinnati and No. 20 Vanderbilt keeping the same places as last week and three teams dropping out of the Top 25.
Stanford (15-1), No. 1 for three weeks this season, received two first-place votes and moved up one spot to No. 2. Duke, which has won 15 straight after opening the season with two losses, jumped from fifth to No. 3 after setting an ACC record with 28 consecutive regular-season victories.
Syracuse (15-0), the only unbeaten team in Division I, moved from sixth to fourth. Arizona (16-3), which followed a win at UCLA with a loss at Southern California, dropped from second to fifth. Syracuse and Arizona each received one first-select vote.
MEN'S BASKETBALL TOP 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points for a first place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
| | Record | Pts | Pvs |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Cincinnati(66) | 18-1 | 1,742 | 3 |
| 2. Stanford(2) | 15-1 | 1,664 | 3 |
| 3. Duke | 15-2 | 1,582 | 5 |
| 4. Syracuse(1) | 15-0 | 1,546 | 6 |
| 5. Arizona(1) | 16-3 | 1,463 | 2 |
| 6. Connecticut | 13-3 | 1,365 | 8 |
| 7. Auburn | 16-2 | 1,300 | 4 |
| 8. Ohio St. | 13-3 | 1,199 | 13 |
| 9. Michigan St. | 13-5 | 1,044 | 10 |
| 10. Florida | 14-3 | 1,034 | 9 |
| 11. Tennessee | 16-2 | 1,027 | 16 |
| **12. Kansas** | **15-3** | **1,015** | **7** |
| 13. Tulsa | 18-1 | 950 | 15 |
| 14. Indiana | 14-3 | 884 | 11 |
| **15. Oklahoma St.** | **14-2** | **739** | **12** |
| 16. Kentucky | 14-5 | 725 | 18 |
| **17. Texas** | **12-5** | **626** | **14** |
| **18. Oklahoma** | **15-3** | **484** | **17** |
| 19. Utah | 14-3 | 474 | 22 |
| 20. Vanderbilt | 14-3 | 300 | 20 |
| 21. N.C. State | 13-3 | 263 | — |
| 22. Maryland | 13-5 | 225 | 24 |
| 23. Southern Cal | 12-5 | 176 | — |
| 24. Temple | 12-4 | 174 | — |
| 25. St. John's | 12-4 | 170 | 19 |
Others receiving votes: Purdue 152, UCLA 97,
Iowa St 49, Oregon 41, Gonzaga 43, LSU 34,
Seton Hall 28, Michigan 20, DePaul 16, Illinois
15, Kent 13, Missouri 12, Marquette 10,
SMU 8, SMU 8, North Carolina 7, Wake
Forest 7, Akron 5, BYU 5, St. Bonaventure 5,
Virginia 5, Louisville 5, Bowling Green 1,
Delaware 1, Detroit 1, Mississippi 1, Tulane 1.
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