No. 1 Kansas keeps rolling, hands UCLA fourth straight defeat, 73-61

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Markief Morris scored a career-high 19 points and No. 1 Kansas pulled away in the second half to beat UCLA 73-61 on Sunday, sending the Bruins to their fourth consecutive loss.

Xavier Henry added 16 points and Sherron Collins had 14 for the Jayhawks (7-0), who led the entire game but allowed UCLA to get within four early in the second half.

Michael Roll scored 16 points and Nikola Dragovic added 14 for the Bruins (2-5), who haven’t lost four in a row since 2003-04, coach Ben Howland’s first season in Westwood.

The last time the schools met was in the 2007 NCAA tournament’s West Region, when UCLA won by 13 points and went on to the second of three consecutive Final Four appearances.

Collins’ jumper gave Kansas its largest lead of the first half, 29-16. The Bruins ended the half on a 12-6 run to close to 35-28. UCLA outscored Kansas 6-3 to start the second half and get to 38-34.

No. 3 Villanova 95, Maryland 86

WASHINGTON — Dominant inside and out, Villanova remained unbeaten with a solid win over Maryland.

Scottie Reynolds scored 25 points and Corey Fisher added 20 to lead the Wildcats in the BB&T Classic.

No. 14 Connecticut 79, Harvard 73

STORRS, Conn. — Jerome Dyson scored 24 points and came within an assist of a triple-double for Connecticut.

The 6-foot-4 Dyson, who has scored over 20 points in five of UConn’s seven games, grabbed 14 rebounds.

Kemba Walker had 20 points and Stanley Robinson added 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Huskies (6-1).

Jeremy Lin had 30 points for Harvard (6-2), which got within four points in the last 10 seconds, after trailing by as many as 16 in the second half.

No. 18 Clemson 72, South Carolina 61

CLEMSON, S.C. — Tanner Smith and Demontez Stitt scored 14 points each and Clemson won its sixth straight game over rival South Carolina.

The Tigers (7-2) used a late 18-6 run to pull away — and bounce back from a bad defeat to Illinois on Wednesday night when they surrendered a 23-point second-half lead and lost 76-74.

Devan Downey, who scored a career-high 37 points against the Tigers last season, was 3 of 15 from the field for eight points.

No. 21 Florida St. 82, Fla. International 62

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Deividas Dulkys scored a career-high 19 points and Florida State overcame a slow start and poor first-half shooting.

The taller Seminoles rode a 26-3 run to a 34-17 halftime lead, allowing first-year coach Isiah Thomas’ visiting Panthers only one field goal over the final 11:02 of the half. FIU shot 22.2 percent in the first half and 35.5 percent for the game.