Purdue Surprises No. 1 Arizona

Arizona Coach Lute Olson drew up a potential game-winning play, hoping to get the ball inside.

His players had other ideas.

Brett Buscher blocked Lamont Frazier’s shot in the final seconds, setting up a breakaway basket by Willie Deane as Purdue stunned No. 1 Arizona, 72-69, on Saturday in the John Wooden Tradition game at Indianapolis.

“It was a case of over-penetration on the part of our guards. It got us nothing . . .,” Olson said about the shot. “It’s a fastbreak waiting to happen, and that’s exactly what it did.”

Rodney Smith led Purdue (1-1) with 20 points, and Deane and Joe Marshall each had 16 for the Boilermakers.

Wooden, a Purdue alum, was in attendance and presented Purdue Coach Gene Keady with a trophy. Wooden told Keady he was proud of the effort and performance of the Boilermakers.

Purdue, which shot 35% in a season-opening loss to Central Michigan, avoided opening the season with consecutive losses for the first time since 1976. Keady took over in 1980.

“They played us at the wrong time,” Keady said. “It was good we got beat Tuesday. We really believed we could beat the No. 1 team. I could see it in their eyes.”

Marshall, a transfer from Mississippi State who scored only two points in his Purdue debut, made seven of nine shots against Arizona.

The Boilermakers (1-1) took a 70-68 lead on Deane’s basket with 1:13 left, and Arizona’s Michael Wright made the second of two free throws to make the score 70-69.

Arizona (3-1) led by as many as seven points in the second half. The Wildcats had a 55-50 lead when Gilbert Arenas, who scored 18 points, hurt his ankle on a layup attempt and did not return until the final minute.

Smith’s two free throws tied the score, 64-64, with 3:43 remaining. Arizona regained the lead on two Jason Gardner free throws, but Purdue came right back to tie the score. The teams kept exchanging free throws until it was 68-68.

Wright also scored 18 points and Gardner added 14 for the Wildcats, who won the Maui Invitational on Wednesday.

No. 2 Duke 91, Army 48--Carlos Boozer scored all 22 of his points in the first half as the Blue Devils rolled at Durham, N.C., on their way to what will probably be a No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press poll.

Nate James added 12 points for Duke (5-0).

Kenny Doleac had eight points for Army (2-1), which shot 29%.

No. 3 Kansas 99, Washburn 56--Kirk Hinrich made his first seven shots, including five three-pointers, as the Jayhawks (5-0) routed Division II Washburn (2-1) for victory No. 500 in storied Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan.

The Jayhawks are 500-98 at Allen Fieldhouse, which opened in 1955 during Wilt Chamberlain’s freshman year.

Hinrich, a sophomore point guard, finished with 22 points.

No. 4 Michigan State 83, Eastern Washington 61--Charlie Bell scored 31 points as the Spartans won the Spartan Classic at East Lansing, Mich.

Bell scored 19 points in the first half to help the Spartans (3-0) open a 45-31 lead.

After Eastern Washington (2-2) scored the first two points of the second half, Bell triggered an 8-0 run with a jump shot.

No. 5 Stanford 71, Georgia 58--Sophomore Casey Jacobsen had 22 points and five rebounds to lead the Cardinal in the Puerto Rico Shootout at Bayamon.

“They’re a well-disciplined basketball team,” Georgia Coach Jim Harrick said. “They don’t beat themselves. We’re still at a stage where we beat ourselves.”

Ryan Mendez added 17 points for Stanford.

No. 13 Utah 61, Memphis 58--Jeff Johnson’s tip-in the final minute ensured Utah victory in the consolation game of the Puerto Rico Shootout at Bayamon.

Johnson and Nate Althoff each scored 15 points and Chris Burgess added 12 for the Utes.

Utah, which trailed by as many as 12 points in the first half, tied the score, 44-44, with 11:51 remaining in the second half.

Kelly Wise led Memphis with 15 points.

No. 14 Notre Dame 69, No. 16 Cincinnati 51--Troy Murphy scored 30 points, blocked six shots and had seven rebounds to lead the Irish at Indianapolis.

With Notre Dame leading, 45-40, Murphy made a three-pointer with 9:30 left, the first of nine consecutive points for the Irish. The run put Notre Dame (3-0) ahead, 54-46, with 6:13 remaining.

David Graves contributed 17 points to the victory and Ryan Humphrey had 10 rebounds and 10 points.

Kenny Satterfield led Cincinnati (2-1) with 17 points and Donald Little had 12.

No. 17 Wake Forest 86, Campbell 47--Craig Dawson scored 21 points and Antwan Scott had 16 points and four blocked shots to lead the Demon Deacons at Winston Salem, N.C.

Wake Forest (4-0) shot 57.6%. Campbell (1-2) shot 30%.

No. 18 Wisconsin 68, Northern Illinois 64--Mike Kelley scored 17 points and Roy Boone made three free throws in the final seconds to lead the Badgers in a nonconference game at Madison, Wis.

Wisconsin (1-1), which led by as many as 18 points in the first half, saw the Huskies (0-4) close to within 65-64 on Al Sewasciuk’s three free throws with 13.4 seconds remaining.

No. 19 Oklahoma 83, Tulane 69--Hollis Price scored 30 points for the Sooners in the semifinal victory at the Big Island Invitational at Hilo, Hawaii.

Price, J.R. Raymond and Tim Heskett made three-point shots in a 90-second span as Oklahoma opened a 10-point lead early in the first half and never looked back.

Brandon Spann scored 20 points for Tulane.

No. 21 DePaul 93, Alaska Anchorage 76--Freshman Imari Sawyer handed out 11 assists as the Blue Demons (3-1) beat their Division II opponent to take fourth place in the Great Alaska Shootout.

Sawyer had 30 assists in three games to set a record for the 23-year-old tournament. He broke the mark of 29 set by Stanford’s Brevin Knight.

Penn State 73, No. 22 Kentucky 68--Joe and Jon Crispin combined for 57 points, making 13 of 23 three-point shots, to lift Penn State to the victory at Lexington, Ky.

Joe Crispin, a senior, scored 31 and Jon, a sophomore, added 26, as Penn State (2-0) handed Kentucky only its second loss in a home opener at Rupp Arena, a span of 25 seasons.

Boos cascaded from the sellout crowd in the final seconds, and Penn State players mobbed each other in celebration at midcourt when the game ended. The Wildcats had won 11 consecutive home openers since beginning the 1988-89 season with an 85-82 loss to Northwestern State in Eddie Sutton’s last season.

The Wildcats (1-3) had also won 20 in a row at home since a 47-46 loss to Tennessee on Jan. 12, 1999.

Kentucky is off to its worst start since 1984 when it opened 1-4.

No. 23 St. John’s 92, Niagara 59--St. John’s got 16 points apiece from freshmen Omar Cook, Willie Shaw and Kyle Cuffe in the victory at New York.

Anthony Glover had 13 points and Alpha Bangura 12 for St. John’s (3-1), which shot 61%.

Damond Stewart’s scored 20 points for Niagara (2-1), which made only nine of 36 three-point shots.

No. 24 Arkansas 99, Louisiana Monroe 59--The Razorbacks set a school record with 26 steals in the victory at Fayetteville, Ark.

Jannero Pargo had seven steals for Arkansas (3-1), which converted 36 turnovers by Monroe (1-2) into 43 points.

Arkansas stole the ball 16 times in the first half while building a 48-26 lead. The Razorbacks blew open the game with 19 unanswered points in the first half.