College Basketball Roundup : Williams Scores 28 to Lead LSU

John Williams scored 28 points, including a layup with 11 seconds left, to give LSU a 63-61 Southeastern Conference basketball victory over Auburn Tuesday night at Auburn, Ala.

The game was originally scheduled for Jan. 25 because Williams and another LSU player came down with chicken pox and several other players were exposed to the illness.

Auburn (12-8 overall and 6-4 in the SEC) was leading, 61-59, when Derrick Taylor of LSU (17-6, 5-5) hit a jumper to tie the score with a minute left. Taylor stole a pass with 35 seconds left to set up Williams’ game-winning basket, which snapped LSU’s four-game losing streak.

Auburn’s Mike Jones had a chance to send the game into overtime, but he missed a 15-foot jumper with three seconds left.

LSU didn’t lead until 3:49 remained when Anthony Wilson hit a jumper to give the Tigers a 55-53 advantage.

Chuck Person scored 14 points for Auburn and became the 14th player in SEC history to score more than 2,000 career points. Person, a senior, has 2,010.

Texas El Paso 64, Oregon State 49--Dave Feitl scored 24 points and the 17th-ranked Miners came from behind to beat the Beavers at Corvallis, Ore.

The 6-11 Feitl sank 12 of 15 shots, most of them from the 10- to 15-foot range.

Oregon State (9-9) led, 30-26, at halftime, and was still ahead, 40-35, when Jose Ortiz scored an inside basket with 13:53 to play.

UTEP (19-3), using its size and quickness advantage, outscored the Beavers, 19-5, over the next 8:13 to take control. The score was tied, 44-44, with 10:09 left, but UTEP scored 20 of the game’s final 25 points to hand Oregon State its fifth defeat in six games.

The Miners sank 14 of 17 field-goal attempts in the second half.

Darryl Flowers scored 16 points for the Beavers but fouled out with 2:27 to go. Ortiz added 10 for Oregon State.

Juden Smith added 11 points for the Miners.

Texas El Paso was without Coach Don Haskins, who remained in Texas with the flu.

Villanova 67, Boston College 57--Freshman guard Kenny Wilson scored all 12 of his points in the final 11 1/2 minutes as the Wildcats pulled away for a Big East Conference victory over the Eagles at Boston.

Jamie Benton’s basket pulled the Eagles (12-10, 3-8) to within 36-34 with just over 14 minutes remaining. But Wilson hit three long jumpers as Villanova (16-9, 6-3) moved out to a 53-42 lead and maintained control the rest of the way.

Freshman guard Dana Barros scored 20 points for the Eagles, and Jamie Benton added 13. Roger McCready, the team’s leading scorer, had only eight points. Harold Pressley added 16 points for Villanova.

DePaul 73, Evansville 41--Freshman Rod Stickland scored 18 points and the Blue Demons won for the fourth time in five games by routing the Purple Aces at Rosemont, Ill.

The Blue Demons (13-6) rolled up a 37-20 halftime lead to start Evansville (6-14) on the way to its fifth straight defeat.

Evansville Coach Jim Crews had only eight players because of injuries and suspensions.