Isaiah Evans scored a career-high 23 points and got some offensive help as No. 6 Duke defeated Texas 75-60 in the season opener for both teams Tuesday night in Charlotte.

Highly touted freshman Cameron Boozer, son of former Duke and NBA star Carlos Boozer, scored all 15 of his points in the second half and grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds. Patrick Ngongba II added 10 points.

The Blue Devils, who shot 42.3% from the field and 39.1% from 3-point range, opened the second half with a 10-0 run to erase a 33-32 halftime deficit and surge into the lead.

Dailyn Swain scored 16 points and Matas Vokietaitis and reserve Jordan Pope each had 15 points for Texas. The Longhorns were hurt by 16 turnovers and 32.2% shooting from the field. They also missed 12 of their 17 attempts from 3-point range.

No. 1 Purdue 82, Evansville 51

Fletcher Loyer scored a career-high 30 points and Braden Smith moved into third place in Big Ten Conference history for most assists as the Boilermakers walloped the Purple Aces in West Lafayette, Ind.

Jack Benter added 11 points and three 3-pointers for Purdue, which sank 13 of 29 3-point attempts as a team. That included a 7-of-10 performance from Loyer, who took up the slack as last season’s leading scorer, Trey Kaufman-Renn, sat out with a hip injury.

Joshua Hughes scored 15 points and Saint Louis transfer AJ Casey added 14 to pace the Evansville, which played without its top returning scorer as well. Forward Connor Turnbull, last season’s Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year, sat out due to an undisclosed injury.

No. 9 Kentucky 77, Nicholls 51

Sophomore Collin Chandler scored 11 of his career-best 15 points in the second half as the Wildcats pulled away for the win over the Colonels to open both teams’ seasons in Lexington, Ky.

Kentucky’s top scorer last season, Otega Oweh, added 13 points. Freshman guard Jasper Johnson tallied 11 points, and Florida transfer Denzel Aberdeen added 10 points and six assists.

Reserve Jalin Rice paced the Colonels with 13 points on 5-for-6 shooting. The Wildcats wound up with a 51-30 rebounding edge and outscored the Colonels 42-20 in the paint.

No. 10 Texas Tech 98, Lindenwood 60

With four teammates sidelined, Christian Anderson scored a career-high 34 points to propel the Red Raiders over the Lions at Lubbock, Texas, in the opening game for both teams.

Anderson, who helped bring Texas Tech to the Elite Eight last season as its sixth man, topped his previous career high in the first half when he tallied 25 points. Anderson also posted a career-high 11 assists and added seven rebounds. UNC Greensboro transfer Donovan Atwell added 22 points, including 13 in the second half when Texas Tech pulled away.

Mekhi Cooper scored 15 points and Milos Nenadic contributed 12 points and 11 rebounds to pace Lindenwood, which is a full member of Division I after playing two reclassification seasons in the Ohio Valley Conference.

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Oregon missed floor general and main scoring threat Jackson Shelstad but found a way to pull out a 60-59 season-opening victory over Hawaii on Tuesday night in Eugene, Ore.

With Shelstad out due to a hand injury, the Ducks got 18 points from Elon transfer Takai Simpkins, including the game-winning layup with three seconds to play. Nate Bittle, who joined Shelstad on the Big Ten’s all-conference preseason team, added 12 points and 14 rebounds.

Oregon went from a seven-point halftime lead to a one-point advantage as Hawaii went on a brief run to start the second half. The Ducks appeared to take over when they built a 50-36 lead, but the Rainbow Warriors used a 14-0 run to draw even at 50 with 7:53 to play.

During that stretch, Hawaii’s Dre Bullock drove for a transition dunk with 8:33 to play that energized the visitors’ bench.

The Ducks lost starting forward Kwame Evans to a knee injury midway through the second half. Evans, a key contributor in his first two seasons in the program, appeared to bang knees with a Hawaii player and had to be helped off the court and to the locker room.

Hawaii took its first lead, 54-52, since the first half on an Isaac Johnson jumper with 5:31 to play. Johnson, a former Duck, finished with a team high 13 points and eight rebounds before fouling out.

Gytis Nemeiksa, who led Hawaii in scoring last season, fouled out with eight points and four rebounds.

The Ducks couldn’t get the ball to Bittle in the final minutes and missed several shots before Simpkins gave them a one-point lead with his drive to the basket.

Hawaii had time to get the ball downcourt in the final seconds, but Hunter Erickson was off target with a shot at the buzzer.

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Stanford freshman Ebuka Okorie scored 26 points in his debut, and the host Cardinal answered repeated runs from Portland State in an 89-79 win on Tuesday in the teams’ season opener.

The Cardinal built second-half leads of 14 and 15 points en route to the program’s 15th straight home-opening win. The victory did not come without struggle, however, as Portland State twice whittled the deficit to single-digit margins behind 13-of-27 3-point shooting.

The Vikings’ Sebastian Tidor came off the bench to shoot 6-of-10 from beyond the arc, including hitting consecutive attempts to ignite a 12-2 run early in the second half. He ignited a spurt that pulled Portland State to within four.

Stanford responded with a 15-6 run midway through the half to push the lead back to 15. Tidor capped a 13-6 Portland State answer with a 3-pointer, part of his team-high 22 points, but after trimming the deficit to nine, the Vikings could get no closer.

Okorie’s record-setting performance on 9-of-17 field-goal shooting helped the Cardinal keep Portland State at bay down the stretch. Okorie also grabbed seven rebounds to match AJ Rohosy’s team-high, dished two assists and notched a pair of steals.

Benny Gealer collected another five steals as the Cardinal forced the Vikings into 21 turnovers that Stanford converted into 25 points. Gealer finished with 12 points and Chisom Okpara scored 21 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the floor.

Jaylin Henderson joined Tidor scoring in double-digits for Portland State with 19, getting to the foul line for 8-of-11 free-throw shooting. The rest of the Vikings combined to attempt just five more foul shots.

Stanford, meanwhile, went 29-of-36 at the charity stripe. Alex Dupre and Tre-Vaughn Minott both fouled out for Portland State, while preseason All-Big Sky Conference honoree Terri Miller Jr. played much of the second half with four personal fouls.

Despite the foul trouble, Miller shot 3-of-5 from 3-point distance on the way to 14 points.

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Newcomer Anthony Johnson led Arizona State with 17 points and the Sun Devils’ depth fueled an 81-64 win over Southern Utah on Tuesday in Tempe, Ariz.

Johnson, a transfer from the NAIA school University of the Cumberlands (Ky.), led Arizona State with 17 points on 6-of-9 accuracy from the field. He also finished with four rebounds and three assists.

Seven Sun Devils finished the game with at least seven points, and four players finished with double-digit scoring totals. The Arizona State bench accounted for 35 points.

Massamba Diop hit 6 of 8 field-goal attempts and registered 14 points, while Allen Mukeba and Bryce Ford recorded 11 apiece. Mukeba rejected four Southern Utah shots, while Ford knocked down 3 of 5 from behind the arc.

The Sun Devils are coming off a 13-20 season in which they lost 11 of their last 12 games.

Elijah Duval led the Thunderbirds with 17 points off 8-of-14 shooting. The only other Southern Utah player in double digits was Isaiah Cottrell, who finished with 11 points and seven rebounds.

The Thunderbirds misfired on 21 of 25 attempts from 3-point range.

The game got off to a hot start offensively for the Sun Devils, who took a 20-10 lead with 11:03 left in the first half following a layup by Johnson.

Southern Utah cut the deficit down to 34-28 off a jumper from Jalen Lee with 1:41 left in the first half.

From that point, however, the Sun Devils controlled the rest of the game with their offense. Arizona State ended the game shooting 49.2% from the field and 39.1% from the 3-point arc.

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Isaiah Evans scored a career-high 23 points and got some offensive help as No. 6 Duke defeated Texas 75-60 in the season opener for both teams Tuesday night in Charlotte.

Highly touted freshman Cameron Boozer, son of former Duke and NBA star Carlos Boozer, scored all 15 of his points in the second half and grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds. Patrick Ngongba II added 10 points.

The Blue Devils, who shot 42.3% from the field and 39.1% from 3-point range, opened the second half with a 10-0 run to surge ahead.

Dailyn Swain scored 16 points and Matas Vokietaitis and reserve Jordan Pope, who made three 3-pointers, each had 15 points for Texas, which was hurt by 16 turnovers and 32.2% shooting from the field. The Longhorns missed 12 of their 17 attempts from 3-point range.

It was billed as a neutral-court matchup, but there was a partisan Duke turnout as the Blue Devils played an in-state game.

Texas was within 51-48 after Swain’s basket with 9:33 remaining in regulation. Duke scored the next eight points before the Longhorns’ drought ended with Vokietaitis’ traditional 3-point play.

Duke’s Caleb Foster countered with a 3-pointer while Texas went another two-plus minutes without scoring. The gap grew to 17 points with 2:38 to play.

Evans, a sophomore, made 4 of 8 from beyond the arc. Boozer missed all four of his 3-point attempts but went 9-for-12 on free throws.

Duke climbed to a 23-14 lead, courtesy of 14 points from Evans. But Texas posted an 11-3 run across the final 6 1/2 minutes of the half for a 33-32 lead at the break. The Blue Devils were 1-for-10 from the field with two turnovers during that stretch.

Duke made 4 of 8 first-half free throws, while the Longhorns were 11 of 12.

Boozer, who was dazzling during the preseason. was 0-for-7 in the first half. His first points came on free throws in the second half.

Maliq Brown, who didn’t play in the preseason for Duke because of a knee injury, was the first player off the bench. He scored three points.

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Bennett Stirtz scored 15 of his 19 points in the first half, as the Iowa Hawkeyes took control early and never looked back, opening the Ben McCollum era with a 101-69 victory over Robert Morris on Tuesday night in Iowa City, Iowa.

Stirtz, one of six players who followed McCollum from Drake, made his first five field-goal attempts and finished 6-of-10 shooting on the night.

Fellow Drake transfers Tavion Banks (17 points), Cam Manyawu (10 points) and Isaia Howard (10 points) also shined for the Hawkeyes, who took control of the game early and never let up.

Stirtz, who earned 2024-25 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year honors, also dished out six assists and is expected to be the floor leader for the Hawkeyes, who shot 61.7% for the game, including 7-of-15 from 3-point range.

Meanwhile, 6-foot-10 new Hawkeye Alvaro Folgueiras, who averaged a team-leading 14.1 points and 9.1 rebounds for Robert Morris last season, added 11 points, five rebounds and three assists against his former team.

The Hawkeyes’ first five points of the night came at the free-throw line, where they finished 36-of-44. However, after Robert Morris’ Nikolaos Chitikoudis’ basket got his squad within 3-2, Iowa reeled off the next 14 points to essentially put the game out of reach.

Five different Hawkeyes scored during that run, highlighted by five points from Stirtz. Folgueiras knocked down the first of his three 3-pointers during that spurt for Iowa, which shot 64.0%, including 4-of-7 from 3-poinr range, to lead 49-26 at halftime.

The Hawkeyes also scored 16 points off 13 first-half turnovers by Robert Morris, which shot 37.9% from the field, and 1-of-11 from beyond the arc in the opening 20 minutes.

Chitikoudis had a team-high 14 points and nine rebounds before fouling out for the Colonials, who committed 23 turnovers overall (which resulted in 33 Iowa points), but shot 63.2%, including 10-of-13 from distance, in the second half.

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