College Basketball Roundup : Purdue Ends Indiana’s Winning Streak, 75-64

Purdue had just taken down Big Ten leader Indiana, but Coach Gene Keady wasn’t satisfied.

Troy Lewis scored 18 points as the sixth-ranked Boilermakers defeated the third-ranked Hoosiers, 75-64, Thursday night at West Lafayette, Ind. The victory left Purdue (22-3 overall, 13-2 in the Big Ten) a half-game behind the Hoosiers (23-3, 14-2).

“We’re still climbing the ladder, playing for the (conference) championship,” Keady said after his team snapped the Hoosiers’ nine-game winning streak. “That’s just one more rung.

“In the first half, we wanted to rebound with them. In the second half, we wanted to go at them and get them in foul trouble. Those were our objectives, and we accomplished them.”

Purdue made 24 of 32 free throws as three Indiana starters fouled out.

Lewis made only two field goals, both three-pointers, but he sank 12 free throws--including 5 after Indiana narrowed a 12-point deficit to one point in the final minutes.

The Hoosiers had seven free throws in an 11-2 spurt to pull within 51-50 on a field goal by Joe Hillman.

The Hoosiers again closed within 53-52 before Lewis’ three-pointer halted the comeback for good. The Boilermakers’ lead wasn’t safe, however, until after they made 9 of 11 free throws down the stretch.

Purdue’s Todd Mitchell had 17 points, including five free throws late in the game, and Everette Stephens added 14.

Daryl Thomas scored 18 points for Indiana, while Rick Calloway and Steve Alford had 15 each.

Vanderbilt 84, Florida 76--Barry Goheen scored 10 of his 25 points in the final five minutes, and the Commodores upset the No. 18-ranked Gators in a Southeastern Conference game at Nashville, Tenn.

Florida (21-7, 12-5) fell behind by 13 points in the first half, but caught up at 61-61 with 5:52 left.

Bobby Westbrooks’ scored with 5:36 left to give Vanderbilt (15-14, 6-11) the lead for good, Will Perdue extended the Commodores’ lead to 65-61 with a dunk and then Goheen took over.

The 6-foot 3-inch sophomore hit three free throws, scored on a fast break and then converted a three-point play to put the Commodores in front, 73-64, with 3:12 to play.

Goheen added two free throws to make it 77-67 after a flagrant technical foul on Florida’s Vernon Maxwell with 2:28 left.

Vanderbilt got another basket from Perdue, who scored 22 points, and hit 5 of 7 free throws in the final 47 seconds to clinch the victory.

Andrew Moten scored 14 points for Florida. Maxwell, averaging 22.3, managed only 11.

North Carolina 77, Duke 71--Kenny Smith scored 22 points, and the second-ranked Tar Heels held off the 17th-ranked Blue Devils in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Chapel Hill, N.C.

The Tar Heels (26-2, 13-0) built a 43-25 halftime lead and increased it to 53-27 early in the second half before Duke (21-7, 8-5) rallied.

The Blue Devils went on a 28-8 run to get back into the game, and closed to 61-55 on Danny Ferry’s 3-point shot with 2:22 remaining.

But Duke’s chance to cut the lead to three points disappeared when Ferry’s inbounds pass after a North Carolina turnover went out of bounds with 50 seconds left.

North Carolina made 5 of 6 free throws in the final 49 seconds to seal the victory.

Ferry had 17 points for Duke.

Iowa 93, Michigan State 64--Roy Marble scored 18 points, and the seventh-ranked Hawkeyes scored a school-record 24th victory by trouncing the Spartans at Iowa City, Iowa.

B.J. Armstrong scored 11 first-half points to carry the Hawkeyes (24-4, 11-4) to a 44-26 halftime lead.

Vernon Carr had 26 points for the Spartans (10-15, 5-10).

Florida State 108, Miami 84--Pee Wee Barber scored 40 points and the Seminoles reversed an earlier defeat by beating the Hurricanes at Tallahassee, Fla.

Barber connected on 14 of 26 shots, including 5 of 9 from 3-point range, and LaRae Davis added 20 points for Florida State (17-9).

Tito Horford had 30 points and 16 rebounds for Miami (13-15).

St. Peter’s 71, Army 68--The Peacocks trailed by 22 points in the second half, but scored the final nine points to beat the Cadets at West Point, N.Y., and win the Metro Atlantic Conference regular-season championship.

Kevin Houston, the nation’s leading scorer, had 44 points to help Army (13-14, 8-6) build its lead, but St. Peter’s (20-6, 11-3) got back into the game with a 21-2 spurt in the second half.

TOURNAMENTS Alabama Birmingham 77, South Alabama 64--James Ponder scored 22 points and the Blazers got past the Jaguars in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament at Bowling Green, Ky.

In other first round games, Tellis Frank collected 16 points and 6 rebounds and regular-season champion Western Kentucky got past Old Dominion, 60-58, Michael Milling scored 20 points as North Carolina Charlotte beat Virginia Commonwealth, 88-73, and Ronnie Murphy scored 20 to lead Jacksonville past South Florida, 68-63.

Xavier 104, Butler 98--Byron Larkin scored 26 points and J. D. Barnett added 23, including 4 free throws in the last minute, help the Musketeers overcome the Bulldogs in the first round of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference Tournament at Indianapolis.

In other opening-round games, Bernard Jackson scored 31 points and Andre Moore added 25 to power Loyola of Chicago to an 80-75 victory over Detroit, and Monroe Douglass scored 25 points, 19 in the second half, to lift St. Louis past Oral Roberts, 75-64.