College Basketball Roundup : Roy Marble’s Free Throw Lifts Iowa Past North Carolina

Iowa used some aggressive rebounding and 23 points from Roy Marble to keep North Carolina off balance Saturday at Chapel Hill, N.C. But it took a little luck to put Marble on the free-throw line so the No. 9 Hawkeyes could beat the No. 6 Tar Heels.

North Carolina’s Jeff Lebo missed a short jumper with 22 seconds left that would have broken a 97-97 tie, and a foul was called in a scramble under the Iowa basket. Marble, despite North Carolina protests that he had not been fouled, made a free throw with 11 seconds left to give Iowa (13-1) a 98-97 victory.

It appeared that Ed Horton, who missed 2 key free throws earlier, was the Iowa player fouled, but Marble, who made his 8 previous free throws, got the nod from officials after pleading: “It was me. It was me.”

Marble missed the first free throw, but he hit the second.

North Carolina Coach Dean Smith did not take a timeout to set up a play, and King Rice’s long jumper was blocked.

North Carolina (12-2) trailed by 8 points at halftime but took a 68-66 lead on a 3-point play by Rice with 13:41 left. It was the first of 14 lead changes in the second half.

Oklahoma 94, N.C. Charlotte 86--Andre Wiley came off the bench to score a career-high 29 points at Norman, Okla., including 8 in a late surge that helped hold off the 49ers, enabling the No. 4 Sooners to extend their winning streak to 10.

Stacey King scored 25 points and Mookie Blaylock added 24 for Oklahoma (12-1). North Carolina-Charlotte (6-3) got 33 points from Byron Dinkins.

Oklahoma, averaging 113 points per game, went cold in the second half and went 6:44 without a field goal. A free throw by Henry Williams, who scored 22 points, capped a 19-4 run during the Sooner drought and made the score 78-75 with 5:18 left.

Wiley scored 10 straight Oklahoma points as the Sooners opened an 88-78 lead.

Duke 84, Virginia 76--Christian Laettner scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half to rally the top-ranked Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference game at Charlottesville, Va. It was Duke’s 13th straight win over the Cavaliers.

Virginia (7-5 overall, 0-1 in the ACC), which has not beaten Duke (11-0, 2-0) since the first round of the 1983 ACC tournament, held a 38-35 halftime lead, led by Richard Morgan with 22 points.

Morgan, a senior guard, finished with a career-high 31 points but was hampered by foul trouble in the second half. He picked up his fourth personal with 18:31 remaining and the Cavaliers leading, 43-38.

Laettner, a 6-10 freshman, scored 12 of Duke’s next 15 points, including 9 straight in one stretch. He capped the run with a lay-in and free throw that put the Blue Devils ahead to stay, 53-50, at the 14:46 mark.

Syracuse 90, Seton Hall 66--Junior forward Derrick Coleman had 21 points to lead a balanced Syracuse attack and the No. 2 Orangemen handed No. 10 Seton Hall its first loss in the Big East game at Syracuse.

Syracuse, bouncing back after its first loss of the season Wednesday night against Pittsburgh, never has lost to Seton Hall (13-1, 2-1) at the Carrier Dome in 9 meetings. The Orangemen are 18-1 overall against the Pirates since conference play began.

Syracuse (14-1, 1-1) used its pressure defense to start a 17-4 run that turned a 13-11 advantage into a 30-15 lead with 7:30 left in the first half. Coleman, who also had 15 rebounds, had 6 points in the run. The Orangemen closed the half with a 9-1 run to take a 45-23 lead.

Illinois 71, Michigan State 54--Kendall Gill and Nick Anderson each scored 21 points to lead the unbeaten and No. 3 Illini over the Spartans in their Big Ten opener at Champaign, Ill.

After building a 36-26 lead at the half, Illinois (13-0) scored just 19 points in the first 15 minutes of the second half, and Michigan State (9-3, 0-2) got to within 55-50 with about 5 minutes left. However, the Illini took control with a 12-2 run.

Louisville 81, De Paul 67--Kenny Payne scored 8 points during an 11-0 run late in the game at Louisville that enabled the No. 13 Cardinals to extend their winning streak to 9 games.

Louisville (9-2) led, 67-62, with 4 minutes left when Payne made 2 short jump shots, Pervis Ellison hit a jumper, Payne scored 2 more baskets before Tony Kimbro capped the rally with a free throw at the 1:39 mark, giving the Cardinals their largest lead, 78-62.

Ellison led Louisville with 21 points and had 11 rebounds. David Booth and Stanley Brundy each scored 20 points for De Paul (8-7). Brundy also had 12 rebounds.

Georgetown 112, Miami (Fla.) 79--The No. 5 Hoyas, rebounding from a 94-86 loss to Seton Hall last Tuesday, led by as many as 40 points in the second half at Landover, Md.

Freshman center Alonzo Mourning scored 15 of his season-high 26 points in the decisive first half as Georgetown snapped Miami’s 5-game winning streak. Mourning also had 17 rebounds and 6 blocked shots.

Georgetown (10-1) took command early, using a 15-4 run to build its lead to 27-12. The Hurricanes (9-5), who entered the contest averaging 90 points a game, trailed, 52-33, at halftime after making only 13 of 36 field goal attempts.

Michigan 94, Northwestern 66--Glen Rice scored 17 of his 25 points in the first half as the No. 7 Wolverines rolled past the Wildcats at Ann Arbor, Mich., in their Big Ten opener.

The Wildcats (7-5, 0-2) trailed, 34-26, when Michigan Coach Bill Frieder drew a technical for flipping his towel in the face of referee Ted Valentine with 7:25 left in the half.

Two free throws by Jeff Gross narrowed the lead to 34-28. But Rice had 6 points as Michigan (13-1) outscored Northwestern, 14-6, to lead 48-34 at halftime.

Missouri 84, Colorado 75--The Buffaloes led, 61-58, after 2 free throws by Rodell Guest with 9:04 left, but freshman Anthony Peeler sparked a 12-0 run and the No. 11 Tigers rallied in their Big Eight opener at Boulder, Colo.

Peeler made 2 layups and 2 free throws in the streak that ended with Missouri ahead, 70-61, with 5:56 left. Missouri (13-3) extended its lead over Colorado (5-9) to 11 points on 2 free throws by Greg Church with 3:28 remaining and the Tigers weren’t threatened again.

Florida State 104, So. Mississippi 79--Tharon Mayes scored 29 points, and George McCloud and Tony Dawson added 20 each to lead the No. 15 Seminoles in their Metro Conference opener at Tallahassee, Fla.

The Golden Eagles (1-7, 0-2) trailed, 64-55, midway through the final half when Mayes scored 6 points during a 15-4 run that put the Seminoles (10-1) ahead, 79-59.

Tennessee 86, Mississippi State 85--Dyron Nix’s 8-foot bank shot with 11 seconds left lifted the No. 17 Volunteers past the Tigers in a Southeastern Conference game at Starkville, Miss.

Mississippi State’s Chris Clark hit 2 free throws to put the Bulldogs ahead, 85-84, with 32 seconds left. Tennessee worked the ball to Nix twice, and the second time he took Clark to the baseline and hit the winning shot. Nix was held to 10 points.

The Volunteers (10-1, 3-0) won their sixth straight. The Tigers (7-4, 1-1) lost at home for the first time this season.

Kansas 127, Iowa State 82--The No. 18 Jayhawks broke the school record for points in a game in a Big Eight opener at Lawrence, Kan.

Kansas (12-1), which scored 111 points last Tuesday in beating Brown, broke the record of 121 set against Central Missouri State in 1978. The Jayhawks scored 71 points in the second half, breaking the record of 61 set against Murray State in 1974 and equaled in the Central Missouri State game.

Iowa State is 7-4.

Ohio State 73, Wisconsin 70--Jay Burson scored 19 of his 21 points in the second half, including 10 in the final 3:24, as the No. 14 Buckeyes erased a 4-point deficit to snap the Badgers’ 4-game winning streak in a Big Ten game at Columbus, Ohio.

Ohio State (10-3, 1-1) trailed, 36-30, at the half but outscored Wisconsin, 15-2, over the first 7 minutes of the second half to take a 45-38 lead. The Badgers (9-2, 1-1) came back to take a 64-60 lead with 3:24 left on 4 free throws by Danny Jones.

But Burson scored 10 of the game’s next 12 points, including 6 free throws, giving Ohio State a 70-67 lead with 33 seconds left.

North Carolina State 71, Temple 59--The No. 16 Wolfpack held off 3 second-half challenges by the Owls at Raleigh, N.C., to improve their record to 9-1.

When Temple (4-5) made two runs at N.C. State midway through the second half, Rodney Monroe, who scored 27 points, capped them with 3-point field goals. The first gave the Wolfpack a 52-39 lead. The second, with 10:10 left, gave the Wolfpack a 60-46 lead.

Temple cashed in on cold Wolfpack shooting in the final 8 minutes to make its third charge, but it only helped to make the deficit smaller. A 9-1 run brought the Owls to within 68-59 with 23 seconds remaining.

Mark Macon, Temple’s leading scorer at 20.4 points per game, had a career-low 6 points on 3-of-10 shooting.

Georgia Tech 84, Wake Forest 75--Muscular 6-9 forward Tom Hammonds powered his way inside for 30 points and 10 rebounds as the No. 19 Yellow Jackets (9-2) rallied in the second half to win their Atlantic Coast Conference opener at Greensboro, N.C.

Florida 80, Georgia 66--Dwayne Schintzius scored 22 points, Livingston Chatman had 21 and Clifford Lett made 10 consecutive free throws in the final 2:23 as the Gators never trailed in upsetting the No. 20 Bulldogs in the Southeastern Conference game at Athens, Ga.

Florida (6-7, 1-2) built a 24-12 lead midway through the first half and it was 38-18 at halftime.

Georgia is 9-4 and 1-2.

Boston College 95, Pittsburgh 83--Dana Barros scored a career-high 43 points, setting a record for the most points scored in a Big East Conference game, to lead the Eagles at Pittsburgh.

Barros, whose previous high was 35 points against Seton Hall last season, was 14 of 22 from the field and 9 of 16 from 3-point range. He scored 17 of his points in the first 6:24 of the second half, hitting 5 3-pointers, as Boston College (8-4, 1-1) opened a 64-48 lead.

Three players--Seton Hall’s Mark Bryant and Dan Callandrillo and Georgetown’s Jaren Jackson--held the previous Big East record of 38 points.

Pittsburgh is 7-5 and 1-1.

Louisiana State 104, Auburn 77--Freshman Chris Jackson scored 33 points and Ricky Blanton had 31 as the Tigers (9-4, 2-1) built a big halftime lead and eased to the Southeastern Conference victory at Baton Rouge, La.

Texas El Paso 91, Brigham Young 76--Tim Hardaway scored 19 of his 24 points in the first half to lead the Miners (13-1, 2-0) past the Cougars in a Western Athletic Conference game at El Paso.

Michael Smith scored 22 points for BYU (5-6, 0-2).