McNamara goes out with a loss

The Syracuse senior scored 29 points in a 92-82 loss to No. 4 Villanova.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Fans came in record numbers to celebrate the career of Gerry McNamara. Then the Villanova Wildcats put a damper on their day.
Allan Ray scored 28 points, Randy Foye had 21 and No. 4 Villanova beat Syracuse 92-82 in McNamara's final regular-season home game.
The win for Villanova (24-3, 14-2 Big East) earned the Wildcats a tie for the conference title with Connecticut and a second seed in the Big East tournament. Syracuse (19-12, 8-9), which has won just three times in its last 13 games, will play Cincinnati (19-11, 8-8) on Wednesday in a game with big implications for the NCAA tournament.
McNamara, one of the most popular players in Syracuse history, is the only one with 2,000 career points, 600 career assists and 250 career steals, and he was treated as royalty by the sellout crowd of 33,633, an NCAA on-campus record. The fans didn't get the ending they wanted, despite a game-high 29 points and eight assists by McNamara in his 130th straight start, tops in the nation.
No. 5 Gonzaga 96,San Diego 92, OT
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Adam Morrison scored 24 points as Gonzaga won in a semifinal game of the West Coast Conference tournament.
Nick Lewis had a game-high 26 points for fifth-seed San Diego (18-12), including a basket as time expired in regulation that tied the game at 85.
The Bulldogs (26-3) survived an upset on free throws and three-point plays in the second half of the physical game, which sidelined Gonzaga center JP Batista.
No. 6 Texas 72,No. 19 Oklahoma 48
AUSTIN, Texas -- Daniel Gibson scored 22 points and Texas won a share of its first Big 12 title since 1999.
The Longhorns also secured a No. 1 seed in the conference tournament.
Texas (25-5, 13-3) shares the Big 12 title with Kansas, a team the Longhorns beat by 25 a week earlier, but gets the top seed in the conference tournament because of the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Gibson had six assists and hit four of Texas' nine 3-pointers. P.J. Tucker added 13 points for the Longhorns.
No. 17 Florida 79, Kentucky 64
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Joakim Noah had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead Florida, giving the Gators a fourth straight win over the Wildcats for the first time in the 79-year history of the series.
The Gators won for the first time at Rupp Arena since 1998 and clinched second place in the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division and a first-round bye in the conference tournament this week. Kentucky, third place in the East, will have to play on the tournament's opening day for the first time since 1979.
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