COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Georgetown Goes to Mourning, Stops Villanova

With your team trailing by a point and time running out, who better to throw the ball to than Alonzo Mourning?

Just don’t expect sound advice from your father, even if he does happen to be the coach.

With No. 3 Georgetown trailing Villanova, 69-68, and only 20 seconds remaining, Ronnie Thompson turned to father-coach John Thompson and told him his plan.

“He said, ‘I’m going to throw it to Alonzo (Mourning),’ ” Coach Thompson said. “I said, ‘no, yes, be careful.’ Alonzo was maybe our third option.”

Thompson, however, threw a pass inside the lane to Mourning, whose layup put Georgetown ahead with 18 seconds left. The Hoyas held on to win the Big East Conference game at Philadelphia, 70-69, as the Wildcats missed their last three shots.

Georgetown, 15-1 and 5-1 in the conference, lost to Connecticut on Saturday. Villanova (11-9, 3-4) shot only 29.6% from the field, but stayed close by making 32 of 34 free throws. Lance Miller had 16 points for the Wildcats.

No. 6 Arkansas 100, Houston 89--Mario Credit and Ron Huery scored 21 points apiece to lead the Razorbacks in a Southwest Conference game at Fayetteville, Ark.

Arkansas (15-2, 7-0), plays Texas Thursday in a battle of first-place teams in the conference. Texas is 6-0 after defeating Texas Tech on Monday.

Houston (12-6, 3-3) got 26 points from Chris Morris.

No. 8 Duke 109, William & Mary 76--Phil Henderson scored 25 points to lead the Blue Devils in a nonconference game at Williamsburg, Va.

Duke (14-3), which was 38 for 43 from the free-throw line, took an 11-9 lead five minutes into the game and steadily pulled away from the Indians (4-12), who got 14 points apiece from Jimmy Apple and Casey Potts.

No. 18 La Salle 89, Loyola (Md.) 69--Lionel Simmons scored 36 points to lead the Explorers in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game at Philadelphia.

Simmons has scored in double figures in 93 consecutive games. La Salle (13-1, 4-0) also got 10 points apiece from Doug Overton, Randy Woods and Bobby Johnson.

Kevin Green scored 22 for Loyola (3-13, 1-5).

Wisconsin 77, No. 21 Minnesota 75--Patrick Tompkins took an inbounds pass from Kurt Portmann and laid it in as time expired to lift the Badgers in a Big Ten Conference game at Madison, Wis.

Minnesota (12-4, 3-3) had rallied from a 21-point deficit in the final 12 minutes. Willie Burton had 24 points for the Golden Gophers.

Willie Simms scored 22 points and Tim Locum 20 for Wisconsin (11-7, 2-4).

New Orleans 77, Southern Mississippi 75--Tony Harris scored on a fast-break layup as time expired in the second overtime to give the Privateers a victory at New Orleans.

Harris, who finished with 23 points, grabbed a rebound and then ran the length of the court to score and give the Privateers (9-8) their fourth consecutive victory.

Marquette 65, St. Louis 59--Mark Anglavar made a three-point shot with six minutes left at Milwaukee to give the Warriors the lead for good as they took over first place in the Midwestern Collegiate Conference.

Anglavar scored 16 points and Tony Smith 15 to become the school’s 10th all-time scorer. Marquette, winner of four consecutive games, improves to 10-5 and 4-1.

Texas 97, Texas Tech 77--Joey Wright and Travis Mays scored 25 points each to lead the Longhorns in a Southwest Conference game at Lubbock, Tex.

North Carolina 73, Wake Forest 61--North Carolina tied Kentucky as college basketball’s winningest team as Rick Fox led five players in double figures in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Chapel Hill, N.C.

Each team has won 1,472 games.

Fox finished with 19 points for North Carolina (14-6, 4-1). Sam Ivy had 23 for Wake Forest (7-10, 0-5).