Category: NCAA Basketball

Day Day Thomas scored 18 of his season-high 20 points in the first half, Jizzle James had seven of his 15 points in the final four minutes and Cincinnati led the entire second half of a 93-83 victory over UCF on Wednesday night. James sank a jumper from the free-throw line for an 85-77 lead and he added a left-handed layup on the next possession for a 10-point lead with 1:44 remaining. James also had a steal on back-to-back possessions in the final minute, both leading to dunks by Dillon Mitchell to help secure it.

Sydney Shaw had 13 of her career-high 22 points in the first quarter and No. 18 West Virginia rolled to a 76-43 win over Kansas on Wednesday night. The Mountaineers held the Jayhawks scoreless for more than seven minutes to start the game and were never threatened. Jordan Harrison converted a three-point play with 44 seconds to go in the first quarter to make it 18-0.

Tyrese Proctor scored 16 points to lead five Duke players in double figures and the No. 2 Blue Devils extended the longest winning streak in the nation to 16 games with an 83-54 win over Syracuse on Wednesday night. Kon Knueppel had 12 for Duke (20-2, 12-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), Cooper Flagg scored 11, and Sion James and Isaiah Evans had 10 points each.

How many points did Cooper Flagg score vs. Syracuse on Wednesday night? Here's how the freshman star performed against the Orange:

CJ Huntley had 20 points, including a buzzer-beating dunk, in Appalachian State's 60-58 victory against Southern Miss on Wednesday night. Huntley added 12 rebounds for the Mountaineers (14-9, 8-4 Sun Belt Conference). Jalil Beaubrun scored 12 points and added eight rebounds.

Jaden Seymour's 18 points helped East Tennessee State defeat VMI 62-55 on Wednesday night. Seymour also had 10 rebounds for the Buccaneers (14-10, 7-4 Southern Conference). John Buggs III scored 12 points and added six rebounds.

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USC was without starting point guard and leading scorer Desmond Claude on Tuesday night at Northwestern, but that actually seemed to have little to do with why the Trojans lost and followed a momentous top-10 win with bad Big Ten road loss. With Claude sitting after taking a hard fall in USC's win over then-No. 7 Michigan State on Saturday (though he played through the injury in that win), the Trojans got everything they could have asked for with Clark Slajchert making his first start of the season and delivering 24 points on 9-of-11 shooting (4-of-4 on 3-pointers).

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