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San Diego State ranked for first time
The 5-0 team is powering forward
SAN Diego State forward Kawhi Leonard shoots the ball over Green Bay's Daniel Turner, left in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, in Oxford, Ohio.
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OXFORD, Ohio — Kawhi Leonard had another double-double, and No. 18 San Diego State turned up its defensive pressure and used two crushing scoring runs to pull away from Miami (Ohio) 77-56 Monday night in the GBE Classic.
The Aztecs improved to 5-0 for the first time in three years, nationally ranked for the first time in their history. All five wins have come away from home, highlighted by a 79-76 victory at then-No. 11 Gonzaga — the Aztecs' biggest road win in their history.
Miami (2-3) had 19 turnovers and shot 37 percent from the field. San Diego State put it away with a 25-point run in the second half, holding the RedHawks scoreless for 12 minutes, 35 seconds.
Leonard, a sophomore forward, leads the Aztecs in scoring and rebounding. He had 12 points and 13 rebounds on Monday, his eighth straight double-double. Point guard D.J. Gay led with 19 points.
Miami tied it at 39 early in the second half, then missed 12 shots and had a dozen turnovers during San Diego State's 25-0 spurt. Nick Winbush led Miami with 12 points.
The Aztecs got off to slow starts in the first two games of the tournament on Miami's home floor, and wanted to break the bad habit. Instead, they found themselves playing from behind right away. Winbush made a fastbreak layup against a full-court press, then hit a pair of free throws that put Miami up 17-6 with 13:39 left in the half.
San Diego State turned up the pressure on a Miami offense run by freshman point guard Quinten Rollins, using a half-court trap to rattle the Red Hawks.
The Aztecs weren't finished.
James Rahon hit a 3-pointer and made a three-point play during a 16-0 run that put San Diego State ahead 22-17. Miami was reduced to passing the ball around the perimeter and taking low-percentage shots with the clock running down during the scoring drought. One frustrated fan yelled: "Get the ball inside once!"
They increased the run to 25-2, holding Miami to only one basket during a 10-minute span. The spurt ended with an embarrassing Miami moment — Orlando Williams passed the ball inbound before Rollins was ready. Gay grabbed it and passed to Rahon for an easy basket and a 31-19 lead.
The RedHawks went 1 for 9 from the field with six turnovers during the 10-minute run.
The Aztecs missed their first four shots to open the second half, giving Miami a chance to pull even. A 3-pointer by Winbush and a driving layup by Antonio Ballard made it 39-all.
Gay hit a free throw to break the tie, then hit a floater in the lane and a long 3-pointer that sparked the decisive 25-point run.
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San Diego State forward Kawhi Leonard grabs a rebound in front of Miami (Ohio) forward Antinoi Ballard (35) and Allen Robers, left, in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Monday, Nov. 22, 2015, in Oxford, Ohio.
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Duke wins over Marquette in Sprint Center showdown
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Mason Plumlee hustled ahead of the pack on the Marquette turnover, took a bounce pass from Kyrie Irving and jammed a onehanded dunk Monday night that brought Duke's fans to their feet.
Plumlee howled, perhaps as much from relief as from excitement.
For much of the game, Marquette had chipped away at a 14-point Blue Devil lead, finally tying the score in the ninth minute of the second half. Plumlee, the starting center who'd been quiet through top-ranked Duke's first three games, lifted the Blue Devils out of their turnover-prone doldrums to an 82-77 win at Sprint Center.
The win in the CBE Classic semifinals lifted Duke into Tuesday night's tournament final, where the Blue Devils will face the winner of Monday's late game between No. 4 Kansas State
and No. 22 Gonzaga on Tuesday night.
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Guard Irving and Smith can do things with the ball and run the floor in ways Scheyer never could. But Scheyer averaged just 1.6 turnovers per game last season and rarely made a mental mistake.
also grabbed 12 rebounds, handed out four assists and blocked five shots in by far the most dominating performance of his career.
Irving and Smith were erratic, particularly in the final 10 minutes of the first half. They combined for six giveaways in the first half, and that helped keep Marquette close after Duke led 23-9 nine minutes into the game.
At times Monday, it appeared that Duke missed 2009-10 senior guard Jon Scheyer and his ability to protect the ball.
On one fast break, Smith appeared to hit Irving in stride for what should have been an easy layup. Irving, the highly regarded freshman point guard, fumbled the ball out of bounds.
Nolan Smith added 18 points and Kyle Singler added 14 as the seniors took a back seat in the first big game of the season.
and helped the Blue Devils survive a stiff challenge from Marquette (4-1). The score was tied 57-57 when Plumlee rebounded a Kyrie Irving miss and passed back out to the top of the key for Nolan Smith, who rattled in a 3-pointer.
Andre Dawkins stole the ball near halfcourt and sailed in for a reverse layup and a five-point lead, sending Marquette scrambling for a timeout, trailing 62-57. But Plumlee didn't let up.
Attacking the rim on post-ups and offensive rebounds, he scored 14 points in the final 11 minutes to lift the Blue Devils to a win in their first serious challenge of the season. Smith added 18 points and Kyle Singler 14 as the seniors took a back seat in the first big game of the season.
Plumlee, a sophomore who moved into the starting lineup after playing a reserve role last season,
Center Miles Plumlee fumbled another pass out of bounds in exactly the same fashion. Those two mistakes
accounted for four points the Blue Devils could have used as Marquette cut into the lead.
Duke was ahead 40-31 at halftime, but committed three more turnovers (two by Miles Plumlee) in the first five minutes of the second half. Darius Johnson-Odom, the junior guard from Raleigh's Wakefield High, spun through the lane for an acrobatic layup, made a 3-pointer and set up Jimmy Butler for a layup that cut the Blue Devils' lead to 46-41.
Johnson-Odom tied the game with 11:21 left at 53-53 for the first time since the third minute when he made a three-point play with a 16-footer and a free throw on a foul by Dawkins.
Shortly afterward, Mason Plumlee took control for Duke, in a performance that for the first time established his ability to lead the team on a big stage.
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Despite strong team, Miami Heat struggles to play well
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MIAMI — All the Miami Heat banners, reminders of everything from division titles to the 2006 NBA championship, were missing from the rafters Monday night.
Fitting, because the Heat look nothing like champions these days.
Danny Granger had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Brandon Rush added 20 points and the Indiana Pacers added to Miami's week of woe, beating the Heat 93-77 in the worst shooting game of Dwyane Wade's career.
Wade finished with three points on 1-for-13 shooting. He had never shot so poorly when taking at least 13 tries, and the point total was the third-lowest of his career. He has been held scoreless twice.
LeBron James scored 25 points and Chris Bosh had 21 points and 14 rebounds for Miami, which learned earlier Monday that top reserve Udonis Haslem will need surgery to repair a torn foot ligament and be out indefinitely.
The Pacers (6-6) had been 0-4 when scoring less than 99 points. Granger hit a pair of 3-pointers 36 seconds apart in the final $2\frac{1}{2}$ minutes to seal it, the last one giving Indiana a 91-75 lead and sending just about everyone who was left in the seats heading to the exits.
T. J. Ford scored 13 points and Mike Dunleavy added 11 for the Pacers, who took control with a 29-11 run in the second quarter.
Hours after learning Haslem will have surgery Tuesday, the Heat struggled just about every step of the way.
Indiana's reserves outscored their counterparts 40-4. The only Miami reserve to score was Jamaal Magloire, who entered with three points all season.
Wade missed his last nine shots of Friday's game against Charlotte, when he was batting fullexymptoms. He didn't play Saturday in Memphis, then made just one of his 13 shots against the Pacers.
Here's a perfect example of how the night went for Miami. With 1:16 left, James and Bosh both leapt for a defensive rebound. They both missed it, both fell over backwards, and the ball went to Indiana.
Zydrunas Iligauskas and Carlos
Arroyo each scored 12 for Miami.
Wade drove into the lane from the right wing midway through the third quarter, tossed up a shot off the board and in — only to have it waved off by Solomon Jones drawing a charge on the play. Wade attacked Jones again on the next Miami possession, got his layup
Not even two minutes later, the 7-foot-3, 260-pound Ilgauskas was called for a charge against 6-foot, 160-pound Darren Collison, who had no problem standing tall against a man who looks twice his size.
And when Wade got an attempt to finally fall, it didn't count.
So over that span, he gone a baffling 1 for 22 from the field.
blocked, then got a technical foul out of frustration.
It was that sort of night for the Pacers.
Magloire ended the possession with a defensive rebound, James made two free throws at the other end, and the Heat were down 74-64 entering the fourth.
They took the fight to Miami.
— an absolute eternity in a game with a 24-second shot clock.
with one sequence in the third quarter maybe summing it all up best. Indiana held the ball for 54 straight seconds on one possession
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