Ursuline’s Grant scores 26 in loss

Her total was not enough to lift Penn State past No. 1-ranked Connecticut.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — With her team struggling to find its shooting touch, Connecticut center Tina Charles took over.

Charles had 29 points, 18 rebounds, and four blocks to lift No. 1 Connecticut over Penn State 77-63 in the second game of the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden.

Ursuline High graduate Tyra Grant scored 26 points for Penn State (5-5).

“Being that it was the No. 1 team in the nation, we hung with them all the way till the final buzzer went off,” Grant said. “Our whole schedule we played tough teams, ranked teams, we’ve always come close to beating them. When we hit the Big Ten Conference, hopefully these type of games will get us over the hump.”

Maya Moore added 21 points for the Huskies, who will head to Cancun to play in the Caribbean Classic this week.

Mashea Williams scored 17 points and Brianne O’Rourke added 13 for the Nittany Lions, who open Big Ten play next Sunday against Michigan State.

No. 6 Texas 74, No. 7 Tennessee 59.

AUSTIN, Texas — Brittainey Raven scored 21 points and Texas continued its best start in 20 years.

Kat Nash added 12 points for the Longhorns, who are 9-0 for the first time since the 1987-88 season.

No. 12 Louisville 75, Kentucky 59.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Angel McCoughtry scored 31 points to lead Louisville.

Three other players scored in double figures for the Lady Cardinals (9-1) with Candyce Bingham getting 14, Monique Reid 12 and Deseree’ Byrd 10.

No. 14 Rutgers 59, Army 38

NEW YORK — Epiphanny Prince scored 25 points and Kia Vaughn added a season-high 12 for Rutgers in the first game of the Maggie Dixon Classic.

No. 24 Oklahoma State 85, No. 19 TCU 80

STILLWATER, Okla. — Andrea Riley had 19 points and 10 assists and Oklahoma State avenged a lopsided defeat by TCU a season earlier.

No. 25 Kansas St. 73, Texas-Arlington 63

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Shalee Lehning scored 15 of her 21 points in the second half to lead Kansas State.

Ashley Sweat scored 14 points for the Wildcats (9-0), and Marlies Gipson had 12 points, 11 rebounds and a season-high five blocks.

Men

PHOENIX — Nic Wise scored 21 points, including three free throws in the final 31 seconds, and Arizona upset No. 4 Gonzaga 69-64 on Sunday.

Jordan Hill added 22 points and Chase Budinger had 14 for the Wildcats (7-2), who beat a team ranked in the top four for the first time since Nov. 8, 2001, when they beat No. 2 Maryland.

The Wildcats, who led most of the game, outscored Gonzaga 7-2 over the last 2:25, with Hill and Wise scoring all their points.

Austin Daye had 22 points and Matt Bouldin added 14 for the Bulldogs (7-1).

No. 15 Villanova 70, La Salle 59

PHILADELPHIA — Corey Stokes scored 18 points and Scottie Reynolds had 13 to lead Villanova.

The Wildcats (10-1) won their second straight game against a Philadelphia city school and seem to have another local Big 5 championship wrapped up. Stokes and Reynolds went a combined 7-for-12 from 3-point range.

The Wildcats led by 10 points at halftime without much production from leading scorer Dante Cunningham. Cunningham averages 17.5 points and 8.0 rebounds, but was held scoreless in the first half and grabbed only one rebound in 7 minutes. He scored nine points in the second half to help Villanova win for the 17th time in its last 18 city series games.

Rodney Green and Kimmani Barrett each scored 16 points for the Explorers (4-4), who had a three-game winning streak snapped.

No. 20 Arizona St. 59, IUPUI 58, OT

PHOENIX — Jeff Pendergraph and Derek Glasser scored all of Arizona State’s four points in overtime, and the Sun Devils rallied from a 16-point second-half deficit to defeat IUPUI.

Rihards Kuksiks scored 18 points, all on 3-pointers, to lead the Sun Devils (8-1), who trailed 39-23 in the early minutes of the second half.

IUPUI scored two points in the final 7 minutes of regulation and three in overtime — all by guard Gary Patterson, who had 19 points.

The Sun Devils had two field goals in overtime — one by Pendergraph, who finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds, the other by Glasser.

Arizona State turned the ball over on its final possession of overtime, but IUPUI’s Alex Young missed an off-balance 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Young had 19 points for the Jaguars (5-4), who fell to 0-7 all-time against ranked opponents.

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