College Basketball Roundup : Memphis State Rebounds, 74-55

Junior center William Bedford had 21 points and 19 rebounds Monday night as third-ranked Memphis State bounced back from its first defeat of the season with a 74-55 Metro Conference victory over Cincinnati at Memphis, Tenn.

The Tigers (21-1 overall, 6-1 in the conference), who lost a chance to take the No. 1 spot in the polls when they were upset by Virginia Tech, 76-72, Saturday, stretched their home-court winning streak to 34 games by beating the Bearcats (9-11, 3-4).

Cincinnati stayed in the game on the outside shooting of sophomore guard Roger McClendon, who scored 20 points and hit three 15-footers in a row to bring Cincinnati to within 62-51 with 5:13 left.

But sophomore forward Vincent Askew, who scored 19 points, made six straight free throws for the Tigers in the final minutes.

St. John’s 85, Providence 61--Walter Berry scored 29 points and Mark Jackson had a school-record 16 assists as the 10th-ranked Redmen routed the Friars at New York.

St. John’s (21-3, 8-2), which had to go to overtime to beat Providence, 95-90, in their first meeting, bounced back from Saturday’s 68-64 loss to Syracuse and rolled to a 46-32 lead by making 68% of its shots in the first half.

Jackson, who extended his single-season assist record to 210, broke the single-game record of 14 set by Larry Jenkins in 1973.

Billy Donovan scored 17 for Providence (10-11, 2-8).

Notre Dame 69, Maryland 62--David Rivers scored 18 points as the 14th-ranked Irish beat the Terrapins at South Bend, Ind.

Rivers and Ken Barlow scored six points each as the Irish (15-3) broke away from a 43-43 tie with a 12-3 run to take control.

Len Bias scored 25 points for Maryland (11-10).

Louisville 74, South Carolina 72--Milt Wagner hit an 18-foot jump shot with 25 seconds left to give the 16th-ranked Cardinals a Metro Conference victory over the Gamecocks at Louisville, Ky.

Linwood Moye of South Carolina (11-8, 2-4), who scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half, missed a last-second shot that would have forced overtime.