FRIDAY,JAN.18,2002
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No.1 Duke cruises against No.3 Maryland
The Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. — Jason Williams has had a lot of great games for No. 1 Duke. His output against Maryland on Thursday night was high on the list.
The third-ranked Terrapins were unable to stop the All-American guard, who scored 34 points as the Blue Devils took over first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 99-78 victory.
Jason Williams had 34 points, eight assists and seven rebounds for the Blue Devils.
"Jason was huge." Duke coach Mike Krzeyzewski said. "He just gave us the confidence. He played like a
great player. A lot of kids put up numbers, but he did it in a great game." Williams had struggled some against the Terrapins in his career, shooting 39 percent in seven previous outings, but he was on this time.
"More than scoring or assists, I did a good job on defense," he said. "I am getting a lot better with that. That's the part of my game that's improving a lot."
In addition to shooting 13-for-23 from the field, Williams had eight assists, seven rebounds and three steals.
Williams helped lead a defensive charge that forced Maryland into 36 percent shooting in the second half
and 21 turnovers that led to 30 points for the Blue Devils (15-1, 4-1).
"You've got to score when you play Duke," Maryland coach Gary Williams said when asked about his team's second-half collapse. "The last two years we scored enough.
"In the first half we scored consistently and we were in the game," he added. "Then we came out in the second half and I didn't think our energy level was as good as in the first half and you pay for it here."
Lonny Baxter led Maryland (13-3, 3-1) with 24 points before fouling out with 3:46 left and his team down 15 points.
UCLA edges Arizona State
TEMPE, Ariz. — Billy Knight and Jason Kapono had seen enough close games to handle Arizona State's late comeback.
The Associated Press
Knight had 21 points and Kapono scored five of his 20 over the final 39 seconds as UCLA (No. 11 ESPN/USA Today, No. 9 AP) beat the Sun Devils 82-79 Thursday night, the Bruins' 11th win in 12 games.
"Our trademark any time we're playing a team like this is we kind of build a lead, and then we tend to go off on our own," Kapono said. "We started shooting quickly and
stuff, and then we found ourselves in trouble.
"But we stayed poised and fought back and came out with a win, even if it was a nasty win."
Matt Barnes had 19 points and nine rebounds for the Bruins (13-3, 5-1 Pac-10), while Dan Gadzuric scored 10 of his 14 points in the second half.
"We always expect a tough game against a Rob Evans-coached team." UCLA coach Steve Lavin said. "The shoes are always squeaking when we come in here. We were fortunate."
Chad Prewitt had 22 points and eight rebounds
for the Sun Devils (10-6, 3-4), who rallied from a double-digit deficit twice in the second half only to fall short for the 25th time in their last 26 games against the Bruins.
Kapono made four free throws with 39 seconds to go, including two on a technical foul after a fan threw coins onto the court, to give the Bruins an 80-72 lead that proved decisive.
"That technical shouldn't happen." Evans said. "When the game is close, you let the players decide things. It was demoralizing when you work as hard as these kids worked."
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<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Conference</th><th colspan="2">All Games</th></tr><tr><th>W</th><th>L</th><th>W</th><th>L</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Kansas</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>14</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Texas</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>12</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Oklahoma</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>14</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Missouri</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>13</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Oklahoma St.</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>15</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Texas Tech</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>13</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Baylor</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>12</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Colorado</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>10</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Iowa St.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>9</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Nebraska</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>8</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Kansas St.</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>6</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Texas A&M</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>6</td><td>11</td></tr></tbody></table>
Saturday's Games
No. 5 Oklahoma at No. 4 Kansas
No. 21 Missouri at Colorado
Texas Tech at No. 6 Oklahoma St.
Baylor at Texas A&M
Iowa st. at Kansas St.
Nebraska at Texas
Monday's Games
No. 5 Oklahoma at No.21 Missouri
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<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Conference</th><th colspan="2">All Games</th></tr><tr><th>W</th><th>L</th><th>W</th><th>L</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Kansas St.</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>17</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Texas</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>13</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Oklahoma</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>14</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Missouri</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>12</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Texas A&amp;M</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>10</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Iowa St.</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>14</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Colorado</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>12</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Texas Tech</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>10</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Baylor</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Oklahoma St.</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>8</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Nebraska</td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>11</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Kansas</td><td>0</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>13</td></tr></tbody></table>
Saturday's Games
Missouri at no. 13 Baylor
No. 22 Colorado at Texas A&M
No. 14 Iowa St. at no. 15 Tech
Kansas at Nebraska
No. 9 Kansas St. at Oklahoma St.
No. 12 Texas at no. 3 Oklahoma
NBA Thursday's Games
Philadelphia 93, Charlotte 88
Chicago 94, Atlanta 91
Dallas 108, Memphis 97
San Antonio 102, Utah 98
Miami 95, Seattle 80
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Arizona deals USC its first Pac-10 loss
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Luke Walton had his first career triple-double and was the point man in a stifling zone defense as No. 15 Arizona handed No. 18 Southern California its first Pac-10 loss with a 97-80 rout Thursday night.
The 6-foot- junior son of former UCLA and NBA great Bill Walton had a career-high 27 points, 11 rebounds
Walton was 7-for-11 from the field and a career-high 13-of-15 at the foul line.
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Arizona led by as many as 27 points in the first half and by 31 in the second. A 17-7 run to finish the game got Trojans within 17.
Sam Clancy scored 31 points for USC, one short of his career-high. Desmon Farmer added 13 and Gennaro Busterna had 10 for the Trojans, who shot 33 percent from the field, compared with Arizona's 54 percent.
The Wildcats scored the game's first 10 points, then followed with an 18-0 outburst that had the home crowd roaring and Arizona up 34-7.
St. John's slides by Boston College
The Associated Press
BOSTON — St. John's coach Mike Jarvis had some unsolicited advice for Troy Bell: Stay in school.
"They start talking about kids in college heading to the NBA. I think that
when that happens, it hurts kids. And it's hurting Boston College now," Jarvis said after St. John's beat the Eagles (No. 21 ESPN/USA Today, No. 22 AP) 64-57 Thursday night. "I hope, for Troy Bell's sake, he's not reading those things."
Marcus Hatten had 18 points and eight assists and Alpha Ban-
gura had 16 points for St. John's (12-4, 3-2 Big East), which fell behind 16-2 before improving to 3-0 against ranked teams this season.
Bell, the leading scorer in the conference and its preseason player of the year, scored just 12 points on 3-for-17 shooting. BC (13-4, 2-3) has lost three of its last four games, and Bell shot 31 percent in the losses, including 1-for-18 from 3-point range.
"I take a lot of responsibility for how our team does," Bell said. "And I just don't feel like I'm holding up my end of the bargain right now."
Jarvis said it wasn't that Bell wasn't ready for the NBA, or that the talk was going to his head.
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Ironically, it was Jarvis who created a ruckus when he suggested two years ago that Notre Dame sophomore Troy Murphy was headed to the NBA. But on Thursday, Jarvis said, "Our game is getting weaker by the minute as the NBA takes kids form the cradle to the NBA. We don't need to lose Troy Bell to the NBA."
"I'm just saying it's a distraction," Jarvis said, asking members of the Boston media to stop writing about the subject.
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