College Basketball Roundup : Georgia Tech Takes Out Frustration on Duke, 75-66

Bobby Cremins didn’t want Georgia Tech to be embarrassed two games in a row, and apparently, neither did Bruce Dalrymple.

Dalrymple scored 25 points, including eight free throws in the final 1:07, and the Yellow Jackets upset No. 13 Duke, 75-66, Thursday night in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Atlanta, Ga.

“We didn’t play really smart at times, but we played hard,” said Cremins, whose team was trounced, 92-55, Saturday by No. 1 North Carolina. “We were hungry. I was concerned we might get embarrassed again.”

Dalrymple’s free throws came after the Blue Devils (15-4, 4-3) closed to 65-62 on a three-point field goal by Quin Snyder with 1:14 left.

Duke rallied from a 58-43 deficit with 7:02 remaining on two field goals each by John Smith and Danny Ferry in a 10-0 run that ended on two free throws by Snyder with 4:20 left.

The Blue Devils cut the lead to 60-57 with 2:42 left on Tommy Amaker’s 15-footer, but four consecutive points by Duane Ferrell and Dalrymple’s free throws put Georgia Tech (10-7, 2-4) back in command.

Tommy Hammonds added 18 points for Georgia Tech, while Ferry scored 17 points for Duke.

The game was interrupted briefly midway through the first half when Tech’s Craig Neal and Ferry got tangled up and fell to the floor before getting into a shoving match. Ferry was assessed a technical foul.

Purdue 75, Ohio State 73--Troy Lewis scored 26 points and Todd Mitchell added 21, including two free throws with 12 seconds left that gave the fourth-ranked Boilermakers a Big Ten victory over the Buckeyes at Columbus, Ohio.

The Boilermakers (16-2, 7-1) trailed, 63-61, with 3:11 left when Lewis hit a three-point shot and Ohio State (13-7, 4-4) never caught up.

Doug Lee and Mitchell each made one free throw and Lewis added two more with 38 seconds remaining for a 70-65 Purdue lead.

After a three-pointer by Dennis Hopson pulled Ohio State to within 71-70 with 17 seconds left, Mitchell hit his two free throws. Everette Stephens added two more free throws with eight seconds left.

Tony White then hit a three-point shot at the buzzer for Ohio State, which got 35 points from Hopson.

Oklahoma 82, Iowa State 76--Tim McCalister scored 28 points, 17 in the second half, as the No. 10 Sooners turned back the Cyclones in a Big Eight game at Norman, Okla.

Iowa State (10-9, 2-4) trailed by as many as 10 points in the first half, but rallied to tie the score, 49-49, with 14:23 left.

McCalister and Ricky Grace scored seven points apiece in a seven-minute span in which the Sooners (16-3, 5-1) took a 68-61 lead.

A layup by Grace with 5:27 remaining made it 72-63 and the closest the Cyclones could get was 80-76 with 23 seconds left.

Harvey Grant added 15 points for the Sooners and Grace had 14.

Jeff Grayer, who missed all eight of his field-goal attempts and had just five points at halftime, finished with 29 points for the Cyclones. Tom Schafer had 22, but did not score in the final 11:57.

Iowa 89, Michigan State 75--Kevin Gamble scored 19 points and Jeff Moe came off the bench to add 15 as the second-ranked Hawkeyes beat the Spartans in a Big Ten game at East Lansing, Mich.

The Hawkeyes (19-1, 7-1) broke open a one-point game in the first half with a 16-2 spurt that included four three-pointers. Two long jumpers by Moe and one each by Gamble and Brad Lohaus helped Iowa turn an 11-10 deficit into a 26-13 lead.

Todd Wolfe scored 18 points for Michigan State (7-11, 2-6), which never got closer than seven points after Iowa’s first-half outburst.

Temple 82, Duquesne 64--Mike Vreeswyk scored 22 points and Nate Blackwell added 19 as the seventh-ranked Owls coasted past the Dukes in an Atlantic 10 game at Philadelphia.

The Owls (20-2, 9-0) controlled the game with a zone press that forced the Dukes (8-11, 4-6) into 22 turnovers. Temple held Emmett Sellers, averaging 20.5 a game, to 10 points.