College Basketball Roundup : Chievous Leads Missouri’s Win Over Sooners

Derrick Chievous preferred to go out like a lion.

In the final home appearance of his college career Thursday night, Missouri’s career scoring leader had 35 points and 18 rebounds as the Tigers stopped No. 4-ranked Oklahoma, 93-90, in overtime at Columbia, Mo.

“He was pretty good, very good, outstanding,” Missouri Coach Norm Stewart said of Chievous. “He’s had so many good games for us, he was great.”

The Sooners, who overcame a 14-point deficit to force an 84-84 deadlock in regulation, need to beat Nebraska at home Saturday to win the regular-season Big Eight title.

Oklahoma’s Mookie Blaylock missed a desperation three-pointer at the buzzer as the Sooners fell to 11-2 in the league and 26-3 overall. Missouri rose to 7-6 and 18-8.

Missouri freshman Doug Smith, who had just two points in the first half, finished with 21, including a slam dunk to break an 88-88 overtime tie. He said Chievous inspired his effort.

“He motivates everybody,” Smith said. “His hard play carries over. He’s just a great guy to be around.”

Oklahoma has already secured the top seed in the conference tournament and remains hopeful of being one of the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.

“Missouri played great, probably as well as I’ve ever seen them play,” Oklahoma Coach Billy Tubbs said. “I don’t think we’ll lose any national respect after this loss. A game like this speaks well of the Big Eight.”

After Smith’s go-ahead basket, Missouri increased the lead to 92-88 when Chievous made two free throws with 27 seconds left.

Stacey King, who fouled out in the overtime, scored 23 points for Oklahoma and Blaylock scored 19. Freshman Terrence Mullins scored a season-high 15 points for the Sooners, who are trying to win Big Eight football and basketball titles in the same season for the first time in their history.

Purdue 84, Wisconsin 56--The No. 2 Boilermakers held the Badgers to only 16 points in the first half at Madison, Wis., as they raised their record to 25-2 overall and 14-1 in the Big Ten.

Troy Lewis scored 18 points for Purdue and Steve Scheffler added a career-high 15.

Danny Jones scored 20 points for Wisconsin (10-15 and 4-11).

Iowa 103, Michigan State 87--Roy Marble scored 23 points, and B.J. Armstrong added 20 for the No. 11 Hawkeyes, who outscored the Spartans, 18-1, at the free throw line in the first half as they took a 56-42 lead at East Lansing, Mich.

Iowa improved to 21-7 and 11-4, while Michigan State dropped to 9-16 and 4-11.

George Papadakos and freshman Jesse Hall each had 13 points for the Spartans.

North Carolina State 74, Maryland 68--Charles Schackleford scored 21 points, including six points in a 14-2 run that enabled the Wolfpack to overcome a 39-34 halftime deficit in the Atlantic Coast Conference game at Raleigh, N.C.

Brian Howard scored 15 points and Chucky Brown had 14 for the Wolfpack (22-6 and 9-4).

Tony Massenburg scored 16 points and Lewis added 15 for Maryland (15-11 and 5-8).

Houston 82, Arkansas 77--Richard Hollis scored 25 points at Houston as the Cougars eliminated the Razorbacks from the Southwest Conference title race.

The result gave Southern Methodist its first outright SWC title since 1967, although the Mustangs shared the title with Texas in 1972.

Arkansas dropped to 19-7 and 10-5. Houston is 15-11 and 9-6. SMU, which has completed its conference season, is 23-6 and 12-4.

BYU 89, New Mexico 82--Michael Smith scored 24 points and Jeff Chatman added 19 as the No. 15 Cougars overcame an 11-point deficit midway through the second half of the Western Athletic Conference game at Provo, Utah.

BYU (24-3 and 13-2) trailed by three points with 3:05 left but scored nine straight points to take an 83-77 lead with 47 seconds left.

New Mexico (20-11 and 8-7) was led by Charlie Thomas and Hunter Greene with 20 points apiece.

Utah 66, UTEP 55--Mitch Smith scored 17 points and Chris Smith added 11, including three three-pointers in the second half, as the Utes (18-9 and 10-5) pulled away from the Miners at Salt Lake City.

Chris Sandle had 18 points for UTEP (20-8 and 9-6).