Category: Basketball

Jaron Pierre Jr. put up 31 points as Jacksonville State beat Coastal Carolina 71-53 on Sunday. Pierre shot 11 of 19 from the field, including 2 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 7 for 8 from the line for the Gamecocks (3-1). Koree Cotton scored 13 points while going 5 of 8 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and added six rebounds.

Andrej Jakimovski scored 20 points and Elijah Malone added another 16 as Colorado rolled to its fourth-straight win to start the season, knocking off Harvard 88-66 on Sunday. Evan Nelson hit a 3 to pull Harvard within five, 31-26 with four minutes left in the first half, but Javon Ruffin hit two 3-pointers and Jakimovski turned a three-point play to give Colorado a 46-34 lead at the break.

Igor Milicic scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds, and Zakai Zeigler had 19 points and eight assists to lead No. 11 Tennessee to a 103-68 victory over Austin Peay on Sunday afternoon. Jordan Gainey scored 15, Cade Phillips added 13 and Felix Okpara had 12 points to help the Volunteers (4-0). Jahmai Mashack also scored 10 for Tennessee.

Jasin Sinani had 24 points in Campbell's 86-66 victory over Navy on Sunday. Sinani shot 6 for 11 (2 for 5 from 3-point range) and 10 of 11 from the free-throw line for the Fighting Camels (3-2). Terren Frank shot 8 for 13, including 1 for 3 from beyond the arc to add 17 points.

Yaya Felder and Bella Fontleroy each scored 12 points, Sarah Andrews added 11 points, and Baylor defeated stubborn Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 65-42 on Sunday. Baylor led all the way but it wasn't until an 11-0 run in the fourth quarter that the Bears were able to put the game away.

Chloe Moore-McNeil scored 21 points and Yarden Garzon put up 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Indiana rebounded from back-to-back losses to Harvard and Butler to knock off No. 24 Stanford 79-66 on Sunday afternoon. The game was the second of a home-and-home series between the schools that began in the final season of Indiana Hall of Famer and 1975 Indiana graduate Tara VanDerveer's 38-year career at Stanford. The Hoosiers (2-2) took the lead at the end of the first quarter when Moore-McNeil drilled a 3 to tie the game and Garzon scored at the basket to make it 24-22 and they never trailed the rest of the way.

Tyson Degenhart had 20 points and 11 rebounds, Andrew Meadow added 18 points and Boise State defeated Clemson 84-71 on Sunday, extending the Broncos' nonconference home winning streak to 15 games. After leading by one point at halftime, Boise State went up by eight when Emmanuel Ugbo scored six straight points for a 51-43 lead with 13 1/2 minutes remaining in the second half. The lead reached 11 points when Julian Bowie made a layup and Javan Buchanan followed with a 3-pointer for a 64-53 lead with 7 1/2 minutes to go.

Matthew Cleveland scored 15 points to lead six players in double figures and Miami rolled to a 93-63 victory over winless Coppin State on Sunday. Cleveland sank 6 of 10 shots with three 3-pointers for the Hurricanes (3-0), adding seven rebounds. Brandon Johnson finished with 14 points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots for Miami.

Mikey Lewis hit two free throws with five seconds left to give Saint Mary's a three-point lead, Brice Williams missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer to tie and the Gaels earned a 77-74 win over Nebraska in a neutral-site game played in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Sunday afternoon. Lewis hit a jumper and knocked down a 3 with 4:13 left to give Saint Mary’s a double-digit lead, 73-63, but the Cornhuskers clawed back behind four free throws from Williams, a tip-in and 1 of 2 free throws by Berke Buyuktuncel, and a Rollie Worster layup to make it 75-72 with under a minute left.