College Basketball Roundup : Purdue Stuns Its Coach and Toledo

Purdue Coach Gene Keady, wary before the game since no Big Ten team had ever won in Toledo’s Centennial Hall, was surprised afterward.

“This team still amazes me,” Keady said after the second-ranked Boilermakers rolled to an 89-67 victory over Toledo. “I thought this would be gut-check night, one that would go down to the last shot.”

Instead, it was effectively over early in the second half, after Purdue (7-0) made its first 11 baskets after intermission. Forward Todd Mitchell, who played in Toledo in high school, hit six of those and finished with 20 points.

Troy Lewis added 15 points for the Boilermakers, while Melvin McCants had 14 points and 9 rebounds and Everette Stephens scored 12. They also held Toledo (6-2) to 40% shooting from the field.

“It’s going to take a good team playing well for 40 minutes to beat them,” Rocket Coach Bob Nichols said. “Defensively, they are one of the best teams we’ve played in a long time.”

Toledo was paced by Jeff Haar, who scored 13 points, and Mark German, who finished with 10.

A sellout crowd of 9,172 watched Toledo, a Mid-American Conference school, lose its first home game in six contests against Big Ten teams in Nichols’ 22 years.

Kansas 74, The Citadel 71--Danny Manning scored 24 points and the 13th-ranked Jayhawks survived a second-half scare to win at Lawrence, Kan.

Ryan Nesbit hit two straight three-point shots, and eight consecutive points overall, that reduced Kansas’ lead to seven, 66-59, with 4:26 to play. Another three-pointer, this time by Craig Bardo, cut the margin to four, 72-68, with 22 seconds remaining, but Manning then rifled a length-of-the-court pass to Cedric Hunter for a layup with 18 seconds left to put the game out of reach.

Hunter finished with 17 points and Kevin Pritchard 13 for the Jayhawks (6-1). Leon Bryant scored 20 points, Craig Burgess 13 and Nesbit 11 for the Bulldogs (5-3).

Iowa 104, Rider 71--In improving to 10-0, the third-ranked Hawkeyes had four people score in double figures, led by Roy Marble’s 19 points, and won easily at Iowa City.

Forward Brad Lohaus and guard B.J. Armstrong added 13 points apiece and forward Al Lorenzen chipped in 12 for Iowa. Marshall Grier scored a game-high 25 points for Rider (1-8) while teammate Ron Simpson added 22.

The Hawkeyes also finished with a 57-33 advantage in rebounds.

North Carolina 95, Furman 65--Dave Popson scored 16 points and Kenny Smith and Ranzino Smith added 14 each for the Tar Heels at Charlotte, N.C.

No. 4 North Carolina (7-1) led by only six points with 5:44 left in the first half before Popson, who also had 11 rebounds, scored four straight points and the Tar Heels expanded the margin to 47-33 at intermission. Popson had 12 points and 7 rebounds by that time.

Furman (5-3) scored the first basket of the second half to pull to within 12, but could draw no closer. The lead went to 75-43 after a 22-4 run by North Carolina.

DePaul 72, Northwestern 54--The Blue Demons improved their record to 8-0 by holding Northwestern scoreless for five minutes in the middle of the second half at Rosemont, Ill.

Dallas Comegys scored 24 points for 17th-ranked DePaul, eight coming during a 13-0 second-half run. However, that was after Northwestern (5-3) had taken a 33-31 lead by the intermission.

“I’m bothered, that in our last three games, we’ve waited for the opposition to set the tempo,” DePaul Coach Joey Meyer said. “It took a full-court press in the second half to turn the game around.”

Memphis State 101, San Diego State 75--Freshman Sylvester Gray scored 13 of his 15 points after intermission and had a game-high 11 rebounds at Memphis, Tenn., to lead the Tigers, who used a second-half run of their own to put the game away.

Leading, 43-40, at halftime, Memphis State (7-4) afterward went to a full-court pressure that produced a flurry of points. The Tigers were ahead, 64-61, with nine minutes to play when Gray started a 24-5 run with a pair of slam dunks.

Tony Ross made good on four of six three-point attempts and had a game-high 21 points for San Diego State (1-6). Josh Lowery added 18.

Vanderbilt 63, Louisiana State 61--Freshman guard Scott Draud continued his role as the Commodores’ main scoring threat, finishing with 16 points at Baton Rouge, La., to lead the Southeastern Conference win.

Draud hit four three-point shots. Glen Clem, Will Perdue and Barry Goheen each added 12 points for Vanderbilt (9-1). Darryl Joe led LSU (4-4) with 14.

Duke 74, Miami 67--The host Hurricanes, although now 1-7, led by a point after scoring the first basket of the second half and trailed by only two with 8:35 left in the game before falling.

Guards Tommy Amaker scored 21 points and Kevin Strickland added 19 to lead Duke (6-1). Forwards Danny Ferry and Billy King contributed 13 and 12, respectively, for the Blue Devils.

Forward Eric Brown led Miami with 17 points, while freshman center Tito Horford had 13 in his second game.

Santa Clara 80, Pacific 68--Sophomore center Jens Gordon scored 19 points at Stockton as Santa Clara improved to 6-3 and Pacific lost its third straight.

Five players scored in double figures for Santa Clara, which shot 63% from the floor and outrebounded Pacific, 45-24. Brent Counts had 23 points for the Tigers (3-5).

USF 86, Harvard 65--Anthony Mann scored 20 points to lead San Francisco to a victory in its down Met Life tournament. USF (7-8) moves into the championship game Tuesday night against Utah State, which defeated Fordham, 93-88, in overtime.

Hayward State 66, San Jose State 60--Guard Eric Williams, who played for San Jose State during the 1983-84 season, scored a season-high 30 points, including 16 in the second half, at San Jose to lead Hayward.