Unbeaten WSU topples Trojans

By Associated Press     Jan 11, 2008

Southern California's O.J. Mayo, foreground, drives to the basket against Washington State's Robbie Cowgill. No. 4 Washington State stymied the Trojans on Thursday.

? No. 4 Washington State passed its first major test of the season most impressively Thursday night.

The Cougars will face an even bigger one Saturday.

Davin Harmeling scored a season-high 19 points, Aron Baynes had 18 points and nine rebounds, and Washington State beat Southern California 73-58 to give the unbeaten Cougars their best start in 91 years.

Taylor Rochestie added 12 points and seven assists and Derrick Low had 10 points and five assists for the Cougars (14-0, 2-0), who beat USC for just the 12th time in 53 road games.

WSU will complete its visit to Los Angeles on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion against No. 5 UCLA (15-1, 3-0) in the sixth-ever Pac-10 game matching two teams ranked in the top five. The Cougars have won just once in 50 road games against the Bruins.

O.J. Mayo, the Pac-10’s leading scorer, led USC (9-6, 0-3) with 22 points and seven rebounds.

Gibson and Dwight Lewis added 16 points each for the Trojans, giving those three all but four of their team’s points.

No. 5 UCLA 69, Washington 55

Los Angeles – Russell Westbrook scored 18 points, and UCLA shot better than 52 percent from the field.

UCLA point guard Darren Collison left the game and was diagnosed with a hip contusion.

No. 14 Butler 74, Wis.-Green Bay 65

Indianapolis – Matt Howard had 22 points and nine rebounds for Butler in its seventh straight victory.

Mike Green scored 18 points, and Willie Veasley had seven points and a career-high 11 rebounds for the Bulldogs, who tied the 2002-03 team for the best start in school history.

No. 21 Wisconsin 70, Illinois 60

Madison, Wis. – Trevon Hughes scored 22 points, and Brian Butch added 16 as Wisconsin gave the Illini their first four-game losing streak under coach Bruce Weber.

Illinois fell to 0-3 in the Big Ten.

No. 23 Stanford 66, Oregon St. 46

Corvallis, Ore. – Lawrence Hill had 13 points, and Brook Lopez had 12 points and nine rebounds to lead Stanford.

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