College Basketball Roundup : Top-Ranked Duke Too Much for Stetson, 90-62

When Duke’s leading scorer, Danny Ferry, got into early foul trouble, the Blue Devils found their offensive punch elsewhere--but not without some trepidation.

“It was scary,” Coach Mike Krzyzewski said after the top-ranked Blue Devils beat Stetson, 90-62, Monday night.

“The good and the bad. The bad is that we were not able to play him and it was frustrating for Danny. The good part of it was that we faced something like this against a good basketball team; a team that’s going to put a lot of pressure on us. I saw a lot more maturity from the backcourt tonight.”

Phil Henderson scored 17 points, Alaa Abdelnaby had 16 and Ferry scored 14 points in 13 minutes. John Smith added 12 points for the Blue Devils (5-0).

Duke grabbed a 10-point lead less than 4 minutes into the game and led, 29-13, when Ferry got his third foul and went out at the 11:09 mark.

Duke led by as many as 19, but Stetson (2-1) closed within 11 on Randy Anderson’s 3-point shot and trailed, 48-36, at halftime.

Michigan 98, Tampa 65--Glen Rice scored 29 points as the second-ranked Wolverines defeated the Division II Spartans at Ann Arbor, Mich.

Rumeal Robinson added 18 points for Michigan (6-0), Loy Vaught contributed 17 and Sean Higgins 16. Bryan Williams had 15 points for Tampa (3-1).

Tennessee 84, Virginia Military 82--Mark Griffin’s tip-in with 2 seconds left gave the No. 16 Volunteers (4-0) a double-overtime victory at Knoxville, Tenn.

VMI (1-2) tied the game, 82-82, on 2 free throws by Damon Williams with 11 seconds left. Tennessee’s Greg Bell missed a 3-point attempt with 5 seconds left. The Volunteers’ Clarence Swearengen rebounded and missed a reverse layup, but Griffin came down the lane and tipped in the missed shot for the winning points.

Tennessee led almost the entire game until Williams hit a 3-point shot with 3 seconds left in regulation to tie the score, 69-69.

Ramon Williams, Damon Williams’ twin, had a chance to win it for the Keydets when he went to the foul line for two shots with his team trailing, 76-75, with 2 seconds left in the first overtime. But he made only one shot and the teams went into a second overtime tied, 76-76.

Tennessee scored first in the second overtime on a slam dunk by Dyron Nix, who led the Volunteers with 25 points. Michael Williams tied it for the Keydets.

Doug Roth tipped in a miss with 1:22 left for an 80-78 Tennessee lead, but Lennon Mings responded for VMI with 1:02 left to tie the score, 80-80.

VMI had the ball with 41 seconds left, but Swearengen stole the ball from Ramon Williams and Roth’s dunk on the ensuing fast break with 25 seconds left gave Tennessee an 82-80 lead.

Creighton 84, San Jose State 77--Bob Harstad scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Bluejays to victory over the Spartans at Omaha.

Steve Haney led San Jose (2-2) with 20 points.

New Mexico State 70, New Mexico 66--Steve McGlothin scored 17 points, including 8 straight to open the second half, and the Aggies beat the Lobos at Las Cruces.

New Mexico (2-3), which wiped out an 11-point second-half deficit behind the 3-point shooting of Rob Robbins and freshman Willie Banks, scored only 1 field goal in the final 3:50, a 3-pointer by guard Darrell McGee with 13 seconds left that cut the deficit to 68-66.

South Carolina 57, Maryland 51--Barry Manning scored 5 points in the final 37 seconds and Brent Price added a key 3-pointer as the Gamecocks defeated the Terrapins at Columbia, S.C.

With the Gamecocks (3-0) leading, 47-46, Price hit a 3-pointer with 3:01 left. Moments later, Terry Dozier stole an inbounds pass at halfcourt and raced down for a dunk to give the Gamecocks a 52-46 advantage with 2:16 left.

Maryland (3-1) cut it to 4 points, but Manning scored 5 straight points to give the Gamecocks a 57-48 lead with 17 seconds left.

California 99, U.S. International 73--Leonard Taylor scored 16 points and added 11 rebounds to lead the Bears to victory at Berkeley.

The Bears (4-2) took the lead for good in a 13-0 run early in the first half. They hit 6 3-pointers in the half and were ahead, 51-34, at halftime.

Ryan Drew and Matt Beeuwsaert also scored 16 points each for Cal.

California’s score was its highest since a 99-73 victory over Hawaii Pacific in 1983. The score was also California’s highest point total against a Division I opponent since a 102-73 victory over Iowa State in 1977.

La Salle 81, St. Joseph’s 57--Lionel Simmons scored 31 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as the Explorers (3-1) turned back St. Joseph’s (2-2) at Philadelphia.