COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Redmen Get Cold and Lose

Mark Randall scored 25 points and unranked Kansas beat No. 25 St. John’s, 66-57, Friday night for the preseason National Invitation Tournament championship. It was the Jayhawks’ third consecutive victory over a nationally ranked team.

Kansas, which beat No. 2 Louisiana State and No. 1 UNLV to reach the finals, took advantage of four long scoreless streaks by St. John’s, including an 8-0 run that turned a one-point deficit with 6:07 left into a 63-56 lead with 2:08 to play.

St. John’s guard Boo Harvey, academically ineligible in 1988-89 and for the first game this season, scored 17 of his 28 points in the first 11:12 of the second half as the Redmen cut Kansas’ lead to 52-51.

A three-point shot by Jeff Gueldner made it 55-51 before five unanswered points by the Redmen put them ahead, 56-55, with 6:07 remaining.

Kansas then scored the next eight points as St. John’s went scoreless for 5:26. The Redmen didn’t have a field goal for the last 7:24 and made just two of seven shots from the free-throw line in that span.

Nevada Las Vegas 88, DePaul 53--Forward Larry Johnson scored 21 of his 32 points in the second half as the top-ranked Rebels broke open a close game to rout the Blue Demons in the third-place game of the preseason NIT.

UNLV led, 38-30, in the first minute of the second half when Johnson started a 25-9 run with a layup. The run, which gave UNLV a 63-39 lead, included 12 consecutive points by the Rebels, five by Johnson.

Georgia Tech 108, Georgia State 83--Freshman guard Kenny Anderson made an impressive debut by scoring 28 points to help the No. 23 Yellow Jackets beat their crosstown rivals in Atlanta.

Anderson made two three-point shots early in the second half that broke the game open. He also had five assists and three steals.

LaSalle 62, Southwest Missouri State 58--Bob Johnson made four free throws in the final 42 seconds to give the Explorers the win in the first round of the Fresno State tournament.

Johnson, a reserve who played 24 minutes, did not have a point until he made the first two free throws with 42 seconds left to break a 58-58 tie. He added the other two free throws with two seconds remaining after Southwest Missouri missed two baskets.

Lionel Simmons, making his 100th consecutive start for LaSalle, led all scorers with 20 points.

Texas Christian 83, Tulane 63--The Green Wave, playing their first intercollegiate game in three years, couldn’t handle Craig Sibley--who scored 25 points--and the Horned Frogs at New Orleans.

Tulane dropped men’s basketball after the 1984-85 season in the wake of a point-shaving scandal.

In spite of shooting only 28% from the field, Tulane lead for much of the first half and trailed only 34-30 at halftime.

But the Green Wave, which has nine freshmen on the team and no seniors, shot only 23% from the field in the second half, while TCU shot 69%.

Arkansas 97, Samford 67--Todd Day scored nine unanswered points late in the first half as the No. 9 Razorbacks ran away from the Bulldogs at Pine Bluff, Ark.

Day’s rally came with Arkansas leading, 33-20, and only 4 1/2 minutes left in the half. He followed his own miss for a basket, converted a three-point play and then had back-to-back slam dunks as the Razorbacks opened a 42-23 lead with 2:56 left.

Stanford 88, Cal Poly SLO 56--Forward Adam Keefe scored 21 points and Andrew Vlahov added 15 as the Cardinal eased past the Mustangs at Stanford.

Vlahov scored 13 of his points in the first half to spark Stanford to a 43-22 lead. Keefe was shut out for the first 13 minutes of the game, then scored eight unanswered points late in the first half.

Guard James Gama led the Mustangs with 20 points. Former Stanford reserve Stuart Thomas, who transferred to Cal Poly last year, finished with 11.

Brigham Young 83, Sienna 62--Guard Marty Haws scored 40 points to lead the Cougars to the nonconference win at Provo, Utah.

Haws scored 30 points in the first half as BYU built a 50-36 lead.