Memphis, Tenn. ? John Calipari wanted to test his Memphis Tigers. Junior guard Chris Douglas-Roberts snapped out of his personal slump and helped them pass in dominating fashion.
Douglas-Roberts scored 24 points, Robert Dozier added 19, and the second-ranked Tigers beat No. 5 Georgetown, 85-71, on Saturday, extending the nation’s second-longest home winning streak to 37 games.
“If you win, it’s a huge game,” Calipari said. “That’s why it was. We won it with defense. We executed offensively the best we executed all year.”
Freshman guard Derrick Rose had 18 points for Memphis, while Joey Dorsey had 11 points and 13 rebounds, grabbing 11 boards in the second half. The Tigers are a victory shy of matching their second-best start in 1982-83.
“They had contributions up and down the line,” Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. “That’s what good teams do. That’s why you have to look at them as one of the best, if not the best, team in the country right now because they can hurt you in so many different ways.”
No. 1 North Carolina 105, UC Santa Barbara 70
Chapel Hill, N.C. – Tyler Hansbrough scored 21 points in North Carolina’s dominating win.
Marcus Ginyard added a career-high 17 points, Wayne Ellington also had 17, and Ty Lawson finished with 15 for the Tar Heels, who shot 57 percent in continuing their best start since the 1997-98 team won its first 17 games.
The Tar Heels never trailed, led by 20 points at halftime and made it a 30-point game just four minutes into the second half.
No. 8 UCLA 69, Michigan 54
Ann Arbor, Mich. – Josh Shipp scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half for UCLA.
The Wolverines led by as many as eight points in the second half, but couldn’t keep up with UCLA down the stretch.
Kevin Love had 17 points and 16 rebounds for UCLA, while Luc Richard Mbah a Moute added 12 points and 13 rebounds. UCLA finished with a 47-29 advantage on the glass.
DeShawn Sims led Michigan with 12 points, and Manny Harris added 11.
No. 12 Tennessee 82, Xavier 75
Cincinnati – J.P. Prince scored a career-high 23 points, and Tyler Smith led Tennessee’s late surge.
Tennessee won its sixth straight despite an uncharacteristically quiet game from beyond the three-point arc. The Volunteers overcame it with Prince’s breakout game and a sticky defense that forced Xavier into a season-high 21 turnovers.
No. 13 Indiana 73, Coppin State 46
Bloomington, Ind. – D.J. White had 21 points and eight rebounds, and Eric Gordon scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half for Indiana.
The Hoosiers have won 25 straight at home.
Mississippi 85, No. 15 Clemson 82
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico – Dwayne Curtis and Chris Warren both scored 19 points to lead Mississippi in the matchup of unbeaten teams in the championship game of the San Juan Shootout.
Warren and Curtis, who also grabbed nine rebounds, went a combined 4-for-5 from the free-throw line in the final 90 seconds for Mississippi, which matched the best start in school history. The Rebels started 11-0 in 1936-37 and 2000-01.
No. 16 Butler 78, Fla. Gulf Coast 66
Fort Myers, Fla. – A.J. Graves scored 17 points, and Butler made 14 of 15 free throws in the final 6:21 to take control and pull away.
Both teams went to the foul line 28 times, but the difference was Butler made 26 while Gulf Coast was able to convert only 17 of its attempts, including one of four during a stretch when the Eagles were still in the game.
No. 17 Vanderbilt 83, Tennessee State 74
Nashville, Tenn. – Shan Foster scored 22 points for Vanderbilt, which overcame a nine-point deficit to defeat pesky Tennessee State.
The Commodores improved to 11-0, one win away from a school record.
No. 19 Arizona 74, San Diego State 58
Tuscon, Ariz. – Jordan Hill had 15 points and 10 rebounds as Arizona won its sixth straight.
It was the third double-double of the season and second in a row for Hill. The 6-foot-10 sophomore was 6-of-7 from the field to lead Arizona in scoring for the third time in four games.
No. 20 Villanova 72, Columbia 56
Villanova, Pa. – Shane Clark scored 15 points, and Scottie Reynolds had 14 for Villanova.
Dante Cunningham added nine points and 12 rebounds for the Wildcats, who won their fifth game in a row and defeated the Lions for the fourth straight time.
K.J. Matsui scored 19 points – including six three-pointers – and John Baumann added 13 for Columbia, which is coached by former Villanova assistant Joe Jones.
Oakland, Mich. 68, No. 23 Oregon 62
Auburn Hills, Mich. – Derick Nelson had 22 points and nine rebounds, and Oakland stunned Oregon for its first victory over a Top 25 team in school history.
Oakland withstood a 20-0 run in the second half to hand the Ducks their second straight loss. Erik Kangas and Johnathan Jones added 12 each for Oakland.
The game was played as the second game of a doubleheader with Texas-Michigan State.
No. 24 West Virginia 77, Canisius 54
Buffalo, N.Y. – Joe Alexander scored 20 points, and West Virginia easily delivered coach Bob Huggins his 600th career victory.
Huggins is the sixth active Division I coach to reach the 600-win mark, doing so in his 26th season overall and first at his alma mater. Huggins joined Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski, Lute Olson, Jim Boeheim and Jim Calhoun, all of whom already have passed the 750-win mark.
Huggins became the 29th coach to reach the plateau.
No. 25 USC 78, Cal Poly 55
Los Angeles – Daniel Hackett scored 19 points, O.J. Mayo added 18 points and a career-high six assists, and Southern Cal did its typical excellent job on defense.