Maryland Can’t Hold Off Virginia

Virginia won its first Atlantic Coast Conference road game of the season in improbable fashion -- and at an unlikely location.

Reserve Devin Smith scored 17 points and keyed a 16-0 second-half run as the Cavaliers erased a 12-point deficit and stunned No. 8 Maryland, 86-78, Thursday night at College Park, Md.

Down, 65-53, with 12:50 remaining, Virginia appeared headed to its 10th straight defeat at Maryland (14-5, 6-2). But Smith sparked the comeback, twice hitting successive three-pointers to spark the Cavaliers to their second road win of the year.

“We beat an excellent team in a very tough place to play,” Virginia Coach Pete Gillen said. “It was a special victory.”

Virginia had been winless at Maryland since 1993.

Travis Watson had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Cavaliers (13-7, 4-4).

Ryan Randle scored 17 for the Terrapins, the defending NCAA champions who had won 14 straight ACC home games and were 11-1 at home.

Drew Nicholas and Steve Blake became the 38th and 39th players in Maryland history to surpass 1,000 career points. Nicholas had 20 for a 1,007 total and Blake had 12 for 1,001 points.

No. 14 Wake Forest 73, North Carolina State 58 -- Josh Howard scored 20 of his 24 points in the second half as the Demon Deacons (16-2, 6-2) beat the Wolfpack (12-6, 5-3) at Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun had his prostate removed and a full recovery is expected.

WOMEN

Alana Beard scored 21 points, and No. 2 Duke (21-1, 9-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) beat host Clemson (11-10, 3-7), 61-49.... Every Tennessee player scored as the No. 3 Lady Vols (19-3, 8-0 Southeastern Conference) beat Mississippi, 86-43.... No. 4 Louisiana State (19-1, 7-1) beat No. 16 South Carolina (16-5, 4-4 Southeastern Conference), 69-66, at Columbia, S.C. ... No. 6 Stanford (18-2, 10-1 Pacific 10) defeated Oregon (8-13, 4-8), 85-54, at Palo Alto.... Erika Valek scored 18 points as No. 10 Purdue (19-3, 8-2 Big Ten) beat Northwestern (6-16, 1-10), 74-56, at West Lafayette, Ind. ... No. 17 Georgia (15-5, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) held off No. 12 Mississippi State (16-5, 5-3), 76-71, at Athens, Ga. ... Penn State’s Kelly Mazzante became the first Big Ten player to reach 2,000 points as a junior as the No. 13 Nittany Lions (19-5, 9-1) beat Illinois (13-7, 5-5), 82-69.... No. 25 Ohio State (16-5, 7-3 Big Ten) beat No. 15 Minnesota (16-4, 5-4 Big Ten), 66-58, at Columbus, Ohio.... No. 18 Vanderbilt (14-7, 4-4 Southeastern) defeated Alabama (11-10, 1-7), 80-69, at Nashville.... Host Arizona (15-6, 8-4) beat No. 20 Washington (17-4, 9-3 Pac-10), 79-66.... No. 21 Wisconsin-Green Bay (18-3, 9-1 Horizon League) beat Cleveland State (6-14, 4-6), 79-59, at Cleveland.

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Jacksonville State’s Shanika Freeman set a women’s NCAA record by making 22 consecutive free throws against Florida Atlantic at Boca Raton, Fla.