Hoyas get payback win over Monarchs, 66-48

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NORFOLK, Va. — Roy Hibbert, Patrick Ewing Jr. and their Georgetown teammates remembered well losing at home to Old Dominion last season. They got all they could handle from the Monarchs and Gerald Lee on Wednesday night before exacting their revenge.

“To come here and get payback, it felt good,” Ewing said after the fifth-ranked Hoyas used a 20-3 run spanning halftime to break a 21-all tie on their way to a 66-48 victory.

Hibbert led the Hoyas with 14 points and 10 rebounds in just 24 minutes. He had seven points in the run that changed the game, quieting a sellout crowd at the Constant Center that was delighting in watching Lee dominate the 7-foot-2 preseason All-American.

No. 4 Kansas 87,
Florida Atlantic 49

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Brandon Rush scored 17 points and Kansas routed Florida Atlantic, a rude welcome back to Allen Fieldhouse for Rex Walters. One of the more popular players of the Roy Williams era at Kansas, Walters is in his second season as head coach at Florida Atlantic.

No. 8 Texas 98, Texas Southern 61

AUSTIN, Texas — Damion James had 19 points and 10 rebounds and Texas ran its record to 6-0 for only the second time in coach Rick Barnes’ 10 seasons. Texas started the 2005-06 season 8-0.

No. 10 Michigan St. 81,
No. 24 North Carolina St. 58

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Goran Suton had 16 points and 12 rebounds and Michigan State cruised past North Carolina State.

The Spartans (5-1) have won 30 straight nonconference home games at Breslin Center, extending what was the nation’s sixth-longest active streak entering the game that was part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

No. 23 Xavier 93, Oakland 68

CINCINNATI — Before it took the court as a nationally ranked team for the first time in 11 months, No. 23 Xavier thought about what happened the last time it reached such heights.

The Musketeers want to stay around longer this time.

Stanley Burrell scored 15 points in a tone-setting first half, and Xavier used one crushing run after another to beat Oakland for its fourth straight win and its first as a ranked team.

Women

No. 23 Vanderbilt 68,
No. 11 Duke 55

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jessica Mooney scored 16 points to lead Vanderbilt. Mooney was 4-for-7 was from the field and added six rebounds for Vanderbilt (6-1).

No. 5 Rutgers 56, Saint Joseph’s 50

PHILADELPHIA — Kia Vaughn had 12 points and 11 rebounds and Rutgers survived a scare from feisty Saint Joseph’s.

No. 12 California 75,
Loyola Marymount 54

BERKELEY, Calif. — Ashley Walker had 25 points and 10 rebounds, leading California to a victory over Loyola Marymount.