COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Harvey, St. John’s Shoot Down Fifth-Ranked Georgetown, 63-62

Lou Carnesecca was going to call a timeout, but instead left the game in Boo Harvey’s hands.

Harvey made a three-point basket with eight seconds remaining Wednesday night and St. John’s defeated fifth-ranked Georgetown, 63-62, in a Big East Conference game at Landover, Md.

“I figured I’d call timeout and get something set up, but he had it all the way,” Carnesecca said. “I’m not going to mess with him. . . . That’s the third time he’s done it.”

Harvey had won one game for the Redmen (21-7, 9-5 in the Big East) with a buzzer-beater and sent another into overtime this season.

“I threw it behind my back to my left hand,” Harvey said. “It freed me up for that second to get the shot off.”

But Harvey didn’t do it alone. St. John’s held Georgetown (20-4, 9-4) scoreless for the last 3:11.

“Of all the times we’ve won this year, this has got to rate up there as one of the biggest,” Carnesecca said. “The kids didn’t die.”

The Redmen trailed, 62-56, but scored the last seven points. St. John’s didn’t have the lead until Harvey’s winning basket.

Mark Tillmon missed a three-point shot at the buzzer, allowing the Redmen to avenge a 74-67 loss to Georgetown 18 days earlier in New York. The setback dropped the Hoyas a game behind first-place Connecticut in the Big East.

Malik Sealy scored 21 points for St. John’s and Harvey added 17.

Tillmon scored 18 for Georgetown. Alonzo Mourning had 13.

No. 1 Missouri 89, Iowa State 85--Doug Smith scored 34 points and the top-ranked Tigers made five free throws in the last 1:29 to win a Big Eight Conference game at Columbia, Mo.

Iowa State (8-16, 2-9), which has lost seven in a row, cut Missouri’s lead to 82-79 on a three-point basket by Terry Woods with 1:49 to play. Anthony Peeler hit a free throw with 1:29 left, and Nathan Buntin made two to increase the lead to 85-79.

Doug Collins scored to get Iowa State to within 85-83. But Travis Ford, the Big Eight’s leading free throw shooter, made two with 42 seconds left and Missouri (25-2, 11-1) was home free.

No. 2 Kansas 103, Colorado 71--Kevin Pritchard scored 18 points and the Jayhawks made 70% of their shots in the first half while routing the Buffaloes in a Big Eight game at Boulder, Colo.

The Jayhawks (26-2, 9-2) broke out of a 20-20 tie with eight consecutive points to start a 27-9 run that made it 47-29 at halftime.

Shaun Vandiver scored 27 points for Colorado (10-15, 2-10). Rick Calloway had 17 points for Kansas.

North Carolina State 76, No. 3 Duke 71--Rodney Monroe scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half as the Wolfpack ambushed the Blue Devils in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Raleigh, N.C.

Alaa Abdelnaby scored 32 points for Duke (22-5, 9-3), including two free throws with 1:35 left to cut N.C. State’s lead to 72-71.

Monroe sank four free throws in the final 15 seconds to put the game away as the Wolfpack (18-8, 6-5) beat Duke for the fourth consecutive time at Raleigh.

No. 10 Oklahoma 88, Nebraska 66--Skeeter Henry scored 13 consecutive points as the Sooners defeated the Cornhuskers in a Big Eight game at Lincoln, Neb.

Nebraska (9-15, 2-9) had a 30-25 lead, but Henry’s burst helped Oklahoma (20-4, 8-3) surge to a 56-39 lead.

Damon Patterson had 23 points for the Sooners, Henry added 22.

No. 12 Louisiana State 75, Alabama 69--Chris Jackson scored only 16 points, but Shaquille O’Neal had 18 points and 14 rebounds as the Tigers got past the Crimson Tide in a Southeastern Conference game at Baton Rouge, La.

Jackson scored 146 points in his previous three games and was averaging 29 points for the season.

LSU (21-5, 11-4) moved into a tie with Georgia for the SEC lead.

Alabama (18-8, 9-6) took a 69-67 lead on a three-point play by Marcus Webb with 2:16 left but didn’t score again.

No. 13 Arkansas 114, Texas A&M; 100--Lenzie Howell scored 32 points and the Razorbacks clinched at least a tie for the Southwest Conference championship by outgunning the Aggies at Fayetteville, Ark.

Arkansas (22-4, 13-2) had a 56-43 halftime lead that grew to 97-74 with 7:47 left.

Darren Rhea scored 26 points for the Aggies (12-15, 5-8).

No. 19 Illinois 90, No. 9 Purdue 78--Kendall Gill scored 21 points and the Illini defeated the Boilermakers in a Big Ten Conference game at Champaign, Ill.

The Illini (19-6, 9-6) hit 19 consecutive free throws in the second half and 31 of 38 for the game.

Stephen Scheffler had 20 points for Purdue (19-5, 11-3).

No. 23 Clemson 89, Wake Forest 75--Elden Campbell scored 24 points and the Tigers defeated the Deacons in an ACC game at Winston-Salem, N.C.

Campbell, a 6-11 senior center, has scored 1,761 points in his four-year career, tying Butch Zatezalo (1968-1970) as the all-time leader for Clemson (21-5, 8-3).

Anthony Tucker had 26 points for Wake Forest (9-15, 0-11).