Pitt Bounces Back Against Syracuse

Carl Krauser ended a scoring slump with a career-high 32 points, and No. 12 Pittsburgh bounced back from its first loss with an 80-67 victory over No. 25 Syracuse on Monday night at Pittsburgh.

The loss was the third straight for the Orange, all to teams ranked 12th or higher. Pitt improved to 16-1 overall and 5-1 in the Big East Conference.

Krauser, the senior guard who led the Panthers to a 15-0 start before their 55-50 loss Saturday at St. John’s, had averaged only eight points, or half his season’s average, over the previous three games.

His previous career high was 31 in 2004.

Eric Devendorf and Gerry McNamara each scored 18 points for Syracuse (15-5, 3-3).

No. 4 Texas 80, Oklahoma State 46 -- Brad Buckman scored 19 points to help the visiting Longhorns (17-2, 5-0) beat the Cowboys (12-7, 2-3) for their ninth in a row. The loss matched Eddie Sutton’s worst at Oklahoma State, also to Texas, 92-58, in 1997.

No. 7 Gonzaga 84, San Francisco 75 -- Adam Morrison scored 41 points, and the Zags (16-3, 6-0 West Coast Conference) avenged one of their two conference losses from last season while winning their seventh in a row.

Morrison had his fourth 40-point effort in the last five games in the Zags’ 15th straight WCC win.

Armondo Surratt had a career-high 30 points for San Francisco (7-11, 3-2).

WOMEN

No. 6 Maryland 68, No. 25 Virginia Tech 62 -- Kristi Toliver scored 17 points to help the Terrapins (17-2, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) beat the Hokies (14-4, 1-4) at Blacksburg, Va.

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Maryland men’s senior guard and leading scorer Chris McCray was suspended for the rest of the season because of academic reasons.