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Jeff Adrien scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half and No. 5 Connecticut beat No. 25 West Virginia 61-55 on Tuesday night. Hasheem Thabeet added 13 points and 13 rebounds for Connecticut (13-1, 2-1 Big East). With the victory, Huskies coach Jim Calhoun moved past Lefty Driesell into seventh place on the NCAA career wins list with 787.

Kalin Lucas scored 20 points to lead eighth-ranked Michigan State to a 67-58 win over Ohio State on Tuesday night. Michigan State (12-2, 3-0 Big Ten) has won eight straight since being routed by North Carolina and 26 in a row at home, dating to a loss against the Buckeyes nearly two years ago. The Buckeyes (10-3, 1-2) have lost three of four after starting 9-0.

The son of Cal State Northridge basketball coach Bobby Braswell, along with senior guard Deon Tresvant and two others, was charged Tuesday with commercial burglary and grand theft. The four men allegedly stole more than $6,600 in merchandise from a Best Buy store on New Year's Day, according to the Los Angeles district attorney's office.

A plane carrying Louisville's basketball team to a game in Florida returned to the airport after the pilots received a fire warning that turned out to be false. A spokeswoman for the airline operating the Cardinals' flight said the plane was at about 10,000 feet and less than 10 minutes into its flight Tuesday when a warning message in the cockpit indicated a fire on board.

The opening weekend of Pac-10 play provided a glimpse of No. 20 Arizona State's strength and weakness. The Sun Devils relied on hot shooting to rout Stanford 90-60 in Palo Alto. Then they watched California slice their matchup zone to ribbons in an 81-71 loss at Berkeley. As Arizona State (12-2, 1-1 Pac-10) prepares to tip off the Pac-10 home season against lowly Oregon State (6-6, 1-1) on Thursday...

Pittsburgh waited 60 years to be ranked No. 1. The Panthers don't want the distinction to go away after only six days. "It's a big thing," point guard Levance Fields said. "Everybody on campus is excited, everywhere you go somebody's saying, 'You're No. 1.' But we know we have a lot more to do and that's a good thing.

The economic downturn is forcing the University of Illinois to delay plans to build a new basketball arena or refurbish 46-year-old Assembly Hall. Illinois had planned to decide whether to rebuild or replace the on-campus arena by the end of 2008, but athletic director Ron Guenther put those plans on hold indefinitely after meeting with university chancellor Richard Herman.

Louisville's Edgar Sosa erased two years of erratic play with what he hopes was one career-altering shot. Now comes the hard part for the showy but self-conscious Carindals guard: backing it up. "I don't want to be a one-game wonder," said Sosa, who drained a long 3-pointer in the final seconds of Louisville's thrilling 74-71 win against rival Kentucky on Sunday.

Mike Montgomery interrupted Jerome Randle to correct his point guard's grammar. "Me and Patrick ...," Randle began. "Patrick and I," Montgomery quickly chimed in after a game the other day, and Randle started his sentence over. He didn't mind one bit the coach's gesture, and just smiled. Randle is thriving so far during his junior season at California under Montgomery's guidance -- and the Golden...

Since stringing together nine wins to open the season, all the Ohio State Buckeyes have gotten lately is bad news. "I haven't heard a guy say, 'Poor us' or anything like that," coach Thad Matta said Monday. "We've been pretty focused on what we've been trying to do." First, they lost their captain and most experienced player David Lighty, who is out six to 12 weeks with a broken bone in his foot.

Even without coach Jeff Capel on the bench, it was business as usual for No. 6 Oklahoma. The Sooners reached the century mark for the first time this season, easily beating Maryland Eastern Shore 100-64 on Monday night while Capel was being treated in a hospital for a stomach virus. Assistant Mark Cline took over the coaching duties for the first time.

Luke Harangody didn't let being in foul trouble against an athletic Georgetown team bother him. Neither did Notre Dame coach Mike Brey. Harangody thought he would spend about 10 minutes on the bench when he picked up his fourth foul with 15:17 left and the 13th-ranked Fighting Irish up by six points. Instead, he sat less than 4 minutes, then scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds down the...

Michigan State traditionally improves during its winter break. This season has been no exception, and it's helped the Spartans climb back toward their preseason ranking. Michigan State, No. 8 in latest Top 25 poll, has won seven straight since being routed by North Carolina. "We're starting to head in the direction that we can sub properly and not by necessity," coach Tom Izzo said Monday.

Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel has been hospitalized with a stomach virus and will not be on the bench for the Sooners' game Monday night against Maryland-Eastern Shore. Assistant coach Mark Cline will lead the No. 6 Sooners in Capel's place. It will be the first time Capel has missed a game in his three seasons with the team.

Pittsburgh made it to the top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll for the first time and it wasn't even close. The Panthers (14-0) took advantage of losses by season-long unanimous No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Connecticut to make the jump from third to first Monday, receiving all but two of the first-place votes from the national media panel.

Landry Fields matched his career best with 19 points and grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds as Stanford beat Arizona 76-60 on Sunday night. Lawrence Hill added 14 points as the Cardinal (11-1, 1-1 in the Pac-10) recorded their fourth straight win over the Wildcats. Anthony Goods added 13 points. Jordan Hill scored 17 points and had 16 rebounds for Arizona (9-5, 0-2), which lost its second straight...

If Mike Montgomery's team keeps this up, California might just be considered a contender in the Pac-10 Conference after all. Jerome Randle converted a four-point play with 2:13 remaining, matched his career high with 26 points and had a career-best 10 assists to lead Cal to an 81-71 victory over No. 17 Arizona State on Sunday night for a seventh straight win.

It takes a lot to please Mike Krzyzewski, but there might be only one way for No. 5 Duke to top the dominance of its defense after halftime against Virginia Tech. "Probably (allowing) single digits, he would have been really happy," guard Jon Scheyer quipped. Coach K will just have to settle for allowing 13 points in the second half of his team's 69-44 rout of the Hokies on Sunday night, Virginia...

Tyrese Rice came through with another big game against North Carolina, one that ended all the talk of a perfect season for the top-ranked Tar Heels. Rice scored 25 points and Rakim Sanders added 22 to help Boston College stun North Carolina 85-78 on Sunday, likely ending the Tar Heels' run atop the early season polls with a surprisingly one-sided road victory.

In the midst of a season on the verge of spinning out of control, Louisville coach Rick Pitino told enigmatic point guard Edgar Sosa maybe it would be best if the talented but troubled junior got a fresh start somewhere else. Sosa told Pitino he just needed one more last chance in a career full of last chances.