College Basketball Roundup : Sooners Upset Kansas With Grace

Ricky Grace doesn’t show up big in the box score, unless you look in the assist column.

Grace scored only eight points, but he had 10 assists and blocked a last-second shot by Mark Turgeon of Kansas as 16th-ranked Oklahoma beat No. 20 Kansas, 76-74, Thursday night in a Big Eight Conference game at Norman, Okla.

“It was clean all the way,” Grace said of his block of Turgeon’s 3-point jumper at the buzzer. “I saw him fake Mac (Tim McCalister) and I just came over to help out.”

McCalister, who finished with 21 points, gave Oklahoma (11-3 overall, 3-1 in the Big Eight) the lead with a jumper from left of the key with nine seconds left. After two timeouts, Kansas (9-5, 2-1) got the ball to Turgeon, whose only other shot was a successful 3-pointer earlier in the half.

Kansas, with Danny Manning scoring 21 points, shot 65% from the field compared to Oklahoma’s 39%. But the Jayhawks committed 22 turnovers to 9 for Oklahoma.

The Sooners trailed, 61-56, with 6:50 left after a 9-0 run by Kansas.

But David Johnson came off the bench to score five points in an 8-0 surge that put the Sooners ahead, 64-61. Oklahoma had a 74-70 lead on two free throws each by McCalister and Harvey Grant, but the Jayhawks tied it, 74-74, on two free throws by Mark Randall with 1:54 left.

Indiana 103, Wisconsin 65--Steve Alford scored 21 points, hitting 7 of 8 from 3-point range, as the fourth-ranked Hoosiers trounced the Badgers in a Big Ten game at Bloomington, Ind.

The Hoosiers (13-1, 4-0) scored the first 12 points and cruised to a 48-26 halftime lead en route to beating Wisconsin (10-8, 0-5) for the 14th straight time.

Trent Jackson scored 22 points for the Badgers.

DePaul 84, Loyola Chicago 65--Dallas Comegys scored 23 points and Kevin Edwards added 21 to lead the undefeated and seventh-ranked Blue Demons past the cross-town rival Ramblers at Chicago.

The Blue Demons (13-0) scored victory No. 1,000 in school history.

DePaul blew a 13-point lead in the first half, but the Blue Demons outscored the Ramblers, 16-2, to take a 58-45 lead early in the second half.

Bernard Jackson and Andre Moore had 18 points each for Loyola (7-7).

Alabama 69, LSU 65--Jim Farmer scored 19 points, including four free throws down the stretch, to lift the Crimson Tide to its ninth straight victory, a Southeastern Conference win over the Tigers at Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Farmer scored the final eight points for Alabama (12-2, 5-0) to hold off LSU (9-8, 1-5), which rallied from a 35-24 halftime lead.

Anthony Wilson scored 22 points for LSU.

Temple 66, Penn State 49--Howard Evans scored 24 points in an Atlantic 10 game at Philadelphia to lead the No. 11 Owls past the Nittany Lions for their 27th straight victory in McGonicle Hall.

The Owls (15-2, 5-0) were holding a 28-25 lead two minutes into the second half when Evans scored 17 points in a 23-4 burst.

Paul Murphy scored 14 points for Penn State (8-4, 2-2).

North Carolina State 75, Wake Forest 67--Bennie Bolton scored 14 of his 18 points in the first half at Raleigh, N.C., as the 14th-ranked Wolfpack handed the Deacons their 20th consecutive ACC defeat

Wake Forest (8-5, 0-3) hit 11 of their first 14 shots, the last a jumper by Tyrone Bogues at the 9:11 mark to tie the score, 22-22. But Wake Forest hit just 3 of its next 15 shots and North Carolina State ran off to a 42-29 halftime lead.