Miles Kelly scored 16 of his game-high 21 points in the second half as Georgia Tech rallied for a 73-65 victory over host Boston College on Saturday in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Kelly shot 7 of 14 from the field, including 5 of 11 from 3-point range, for the Yellow Jackets, who overcame a nine-point deficit in the final 10:08.

Lance Terry added 17 points and seven rebounds, while Kyle Sturdivant chipped in 14 points, five rebounds and four assists for the Yellow Jackets.

Georgia Tech (14-17, 6-14 ACC), which won for the fifth time in its past six games, shot 26 of 62 (41.9 percent) from the field, including 11 of 29 (37.9 percent) from 3-point range.

Boston College (15-16, 9-10), which ended a three-game winning streak, was led by T.J. Bickerstaff’s 15 points, nine rebounds and four assists.

Jaeden Zackery finished with 14 points and eight rebounds, while CJ Penha added 13 points.

The Eagles shot 25 of 57 (43.9 percent) from the field, including 6 of 22 (27.3 percent) from beyond the arc.

After Boston College had a 55-46 advantage with 10:08 remaining, Georgia Tech countered with a 14-3 run to take a 60-58 lead following Sturdivant’s 3-pointer with 6:02 left.

Mason Madsen’s 3-pointer tied the game at 63 for the Eagles with 2:13 to play, but Kelly hit a 3-pointer before Sturdivant made another for a 69-63 advantage with 58 seconds remaining.

Georgia Tech led by as many as nine in the first half en route to a 36-30 halftime advantage.

Terry scored eight points and Moore added seven in the first 20 minutes for Georgia Tech, which shot 15 of 32 (46.9 percent) from the field before the break, including 4 of 14 (28.6 percent) from beyond the arc.

Boston College was led by Bickerstaff, Zackery and Penha, who scored eight first-half points apiece.

The Eagles shot 12 of 31 (38.7 percent) from the field prior to halftime, including a woeful 1 of 10 (10 percent) from distance.

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In the final home game of his college career, Jayden Gardner scored 16 points on 8-of-12 shooting to help propel No. 13 Virginia to a wire-to-wire 75-60 victory over Louisville on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va.

Armaan Franklin added 16 points and five assists as Virginia (23-6, 15-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) won a share of the league title and clinched the No. 2 seed in next week’s ACC tournament.

It is the sixth regular-season banner for the Cavaliers since 2014. They tie the winner of Saturday night’s Pitt-Miami game for first place in the ACC. Both teams beat Virginia in the regular season and own the tiebreaker to decide the top seed for the conference tournament.

Virginia dominated from the start on Saturday, showing why it leads the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio. In the first half, the Cavaliers had just three miscues and all 13 of their baskets came by way of passes. Virginia totaled 25 assists to seven turnovers for the game.

Reece Beekman had five points, 11 assists and zero turnovers for Virginia. Kihei Clark added six points and six assists in his final home game.

Mike James topped Louisville (4-27, 2-18) with 24 points. El Ellis added 14 points for the Cardinals, who have already topped the school record for losses in a season.

Before the game was three minutes old, Franklin and Clark had 3-pointers and Virginia had an 8-2 lead.

During a dry spell in which Louisville failed to score a field goal, Virginia went on a 13-2 run, triggered by Francisco Caffaro’s slam dunk.

During the run, Gardner worked inside for two baskets and Franklin added another 3-pointer as the Cavaliers rolled to a 26-10 lead.

From there, Louisville never got the deficit into single digits.

James scored seven straight points for the Cardinals late in the first half, but Cavaliers reserve Isaac McKneely hit a 3-pointer to make it 36-20 at the break.

In the second half, Virginia’s advantage toggled between 12 and 19 points.

In the final minute, after fans chanted for an appearance from walk-on senior Chase Coleman, Virginia coach Tony Bennett complied, and Coleman responded with a celebratory 3-pointer with 30 seconds left.

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Wendell Green Jr. scored 24 points and Johni Broome added 17 as host Auburn posted a resume-enhancing 79-70 victory over No. 12 Tennessee in a key Southeastern Conference matchup Saturday afternoon.

Green scored seven points in the final 1:37 of the game as the Tigers (20-11, 10-8 SEC) finished the game on a 17-7 run to spoil Tennessee’s opportunity to clinch a double-bye in the upcoming SEC tournament.

The loss for the Volunteers (22-9, 11-7) opened the way for Missouri and/or Vanderbilt to move into the No. 4 spot depending the results of their games Saturday night.

Santiago Vescovi led Tennessee with 21 points. Freshman Tobe Awaka had 10 boards to help the Vols to a 35-29 rebounding advantage.

Tyreke Key scored 13 points and Julian Phillips and Josiah-Jordan James had 10 each for the Vols, while Allen Flanigan with 16 and Jaylin Williams with 13 also were in double figures for the Tigers.

The Tigers made up for the rebounding deficit and 13-5 Tennessee advantage in second-chance points by outscoring the Vols 21-4 in points off turnovers and 15-0 in fast-break points.

Auburn overcame a four-point halftime deficit to establish a pair of six-point leads, the last at 56-50 just past the midpoint of the second period before Vescovi hit a 3-pointer to cap a 9-2 spurt for a 59-58 Tennessee lead with 7:32 remaining in the game.

The two teams swapped the lead three times before the Tigers went on a 9-0 run for a 69-63 bulge with 3:14 remaining, and Green’s layup and free throw gave the Tigers a 72-64 lead with 1:37 on the clock.

The Vols used 50-percent shooting and 5-of-8 success from 3-point range to build a 34-30 lead at the halftime break. They were looking at their biggest lead of the first half until Green hit a corner-3 off an in-bounds pass at the buzzer for Auburn’s only field goal in the last 4:08 of the period.

The Tigers the opened the second half with two quick baskets to tie it at 34-34 less than a minute in.

–Field Level Media

Erik Stevenson scored 27 points as West Virginia knocked off No. 11 Kansas State 89-81 in Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday in Big 12 play.

Stevenson was one of three Mountaineers with at least 20 points. They also got a career high 23 points from Kedrian Johnson and 20 from Emmitt Matthews Jr. Tre Mitchell added 14 for West Virginia.

The Mountaineers (18-13, 7-11 Big 12) finished the conference season 7-6 after losing their first five Big 12 games. They will be either the No. 7 or No. 8 seed in next week’s Big 12 Championship in Kansas City, Mo.

The Wildcats (23-8, 11-7) were led by Keyontae Johnson and Markquis Nowell with 24 points apiece. All of Nowell’s points came in the second half. Cam Carter had 13.

The Wildcats were playing without Desi Sills, who was inserted into the starting lineup at the beginning of the team’s four-game winning streak. Sills was attending the funeral of a family member. Kansas State will be the No. 2 or No. 3 seed next week in Kansas City.

West Virginia never trailed in the second half. They opened up a 10-point lead on Stevenson’s 3-pointer with 8:49 left and the Wildcats never caught up. The Mountaineers stretched the lead to as many as 15 points.

The first half was a back-and-forth contest. Kansas State scored the first eight points of the game, but the Mountaineers answered with a 14-5 run to take the lead. The lead didn’t last long as K-State ripped off 11 straight to grab a 10-point lead.

It took a little while, but West Virginia made up the entire deficit and went to the locker room with a 39-37 halftime lead. Matthews and Kedrian Johnson did most of the scoring for the Mountaineers. Matthews scored 14 points on 7-of-9 shooting. Kedrian Johnson added 11 points.

Keyontae Johnson scored almost half of K-State’s points, pouring in 16. He hit 7 of 14 field goals, including 2 of 5 from 3-point range. Nowell did not score in the first half, but he dished out seven first-half assists and finished with eight.

Both teams committed 12 first-half turnovers. Kansas State finished with 20 while the Mountaineers had 16.

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Kam Jones scored 23 points and Big East player of the year candidate Tyler Kolek collected 18 points and 10 assists as No. 6 Marquette posted a 96-94 victory over visiting St. John’s on Saturday in Milwaukee.

The Golden Eagles (25-6, 17-3 Big East) also received 14 points from Stevie Mitchell, 13 points and seven assists from Oso Ighodaro and 10 points from Olivier-Maxence Prosper.

Dylan Addae-Wusu scored 25 points to lead St. John’s (17-14, 7-13). Posh Alexander contributed 18 points, David Jones had 17, O’Mar Stanley added 15 and Joel Soriano recorded 14 points and 11 rebounds.

St. John’s went on a 10-2 run in the final minute including three 3-pointers, one of which including a foul on the shot.

With the Red Storm down two, David Joplin missed two free throws for Marquette and Stanley got fouled on the other end. He made the first and missed the second, leading to a Marquette rebound and, subsequently, the victory.

Marquette got out to a strong lead early on in the first half, going up by as many as 19 points following 23-2 run.

St. John’s was not out of it though, going on a 14-3 spurt and then an 8-0 run to bring the deficit down to four.

The Golden Eagles went into halftime with a 53-47 lead despite Addae-Wusu sinking a shot from well beyond half-court as the buzzer sounded.

The second half continued to be a dogfight for Marquette as St. John’s was able to bring the deficit down to just two points, 75-73, with just over five minutes to go. While Marquette pushed its lead back to double digits, the end of this game was a wild one.

–Field Level Media

Meechie Johnson’s tie-breaking free throws with 40 seconds left gave South Carolina the lead for good in a 61-55 victory over visiting Georgia on Saturday in Columbia, S.C.

Johnson scored 12 of his game-high 18 points in the second half to go along with seven assists. Hayden Brown added 13 points and five rebounds as the Gamecocks ended a three-game losing streak.

Jacobi Wright added 14 points and Gregory “GG” Jackson II added nine points and five rebounds for South Carolina (11-20, 4-14, SEC).

The Gamecocks shot 20 of 52 (38.5 percent) from the field, including an abysmal 2 of 14 (14.3 percent) from 3-point range. South Carolina outrebounded the Bulldogs 40-25.

Georgia (16-15, 6-12), which has dropped a season-high five straight games, was led by Terry Roberts’ 14 points and five rebounds.

Braelen Bridges added 12 points and four rebounds, with Mardrez McBride and Justin Hill scoring eight points apiece for Georgia.

The Bulldogs shot 19 of 51 (37.3 percent) from the field, including 5 of 23 (21.7 percent) from beyond the arc.

After Georgia tied the game at 53 on Jailyn Ingram’s layup with 53 seconds remaining, Johnson’s two free throws 13 seconds later gave the Gamecocks a 55-53 lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

Georgia had a chance to take the lead in the closing seconds, but Hill missed a layup with 10 seconds left and Johnson split a pair of free throws with seven seconds remaining to make it a three-point game.

South Carolina, which was aided by a technical foul on Roberts, went 5-for-6 from the free-throw line in the final three seconds to secure the victory.

After Jusaun Holt’s layup gave Georgia a 23-15 advantage with 6:12 left in the first half, the Gamecocks chipped away at the lead, pulling to within 27-25 at halftime.

McBride scored eight points and Roberts added seven in the first 20 minutes for Georgia.

South Carolina was led by Brown and Johnson, who scored six first-half points.

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Senior point guard Xavier Johnson will not return to No. 15 Indiana this season, the school announced Saturday.

Johnson last played Dec. 17 against Kansas and sustained a broken foot, subsequently undergoing surgery. He was averaging 9.9 points and a team-high 4.9 assists in the first 11 games of the season.

“After consulting with my family, coaches and medical staff, I’ve decided to rest for the remainder of the season and will not be returning to competition,” Johnson said in a school-issued statement. “After healing my foot, my focus will be to pursue a medical hardship waiver and return to playing for the Hoosiers next season.”

In the 2021-22 season, Johnson averaged 12.1 points and 5.1 per game. He was an All-Big Ten honorable mention selection.

He spent his first three seasons at Pitt.

–Field Level Media

Nebraska and Iowa have plenty on the line Sunday when the Big Ten teams meet at Iowa City, Iowa, in the regular season finale for both teams.

For Nebraska (15-15, 8-11), a win would give the Cornhuskers a third Quad 1 road victory and their first sweep of the Hawkeyes since joining the Big Ten in 2011-12.

For Iowa (19-11, 11-8), a victory would assure the Hawkeyes of a double bye in next week’s Big Ten tournament and a potential second-place finish in the conference race.

The Hawkeyes can also strengthen their NCAA seeding. They already have 12 wins combined in Quad 1 (four wins) and Quad 2 (eight) on their resume, second most in the Big Ten behind Purdue (15).

Iowa coach Fran McCaffery is also going for the school record for regular season coaching victories in the Big Ten. Thursday’s win at No. 15 Indiana was McCaffery’s 126th, tying Tom Davis for the most in program history.

“All we’re thinking about right now is Nebraska on Sunday,” McCaffery said. “We’ll deal with the Big Ten tournament Sunday evening, I guess.

“We just have respect for everybody in this league, whether we’re home or away. Who shows up, if anybody is hurt, it doesn’t matter.”

Connor McCaffery, the coach’s son playing his last game at home Sunday on Senior Day, ranks first in the country in assist-to-turnover ratio (4.0). He also led the nation in 2020 with a 4.6 ratio. He has amassed 514 career assists, seventh most in program history.

Of Nebraska’s 15 losses this season, 13 are against teams in the top 60 of the NET as of March 1.

“Next year, hopefully we’re playing for seedings (in the NCAA Tournament),” Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg said. “Right now we’re playing for our lives. That’s going to be an important part of the process — the steps that these guys are taking, our younger players, in having big impacts on some of the games we won.”

Derrick Walker leads the Cornhuskers with 13.8 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. He was one of five Nebraska starters who scored in double figures in a 66-50 home defeat of Iowa on Dec. 29.

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Jaren Holmes had 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists and Tre King recorded 13 points and seven rebounds to lead Iowa State to a stunning 73-58 rout of No. 7 Baylor in Big 12 play on Saturday at Waco, Texas.

Gabe Kalscheur scored 12 points as the Cyclones (18-12, 9-9 Big 12) snapped a four-game losing streak and won for just the third time in 11 contests. Iowa State led for more than 35 1/2 minutes while beating the Bears by 15 points for the second time this season.

Adam Flagler scored 20 points and LJ Cryer added 13 for Baylor (22-9, 11-7), which lost for the third time in the past five games. Leading scorer Keyonte George (ankle) returned from a one-game absence but had just seven points on 3-of-10 shooting.

The Cyclones outplayed Baylor from the outset in their first contest since third-leading scorer Caleb Grill was dismissed from the team due to “a failure to meet the program’s expectations.”

Iowa State ended a nine-game losing streak in Waco dating back to an 87-82 triumph on Feb. 20, 2013.

The Cyclones shot 54.2 percent from the field, including 6 of 16 from 3-point range, and owned a 36-24 rebounding edge.

Baylor connected on 35.8 percent of its attempts and was 10 of 28 from behind the arc. Flagler made five 3-pointers for the Bears.

King hit a 3-pointer to start the second half and give Iowa State a 36-22 lead. Baylor answered with 10 straight points, capped by 3-pointers from Cryer and Flagler, to move within four.

The Cyclones responded by scoring the next 11 points. Kalscheur scored five points during the spurt, including a 3-pointer to make the score 47-32 with 12:07 remaining.

The Bears scored eight of the next 10 points to move within nine but Kalscheur drained a three to start a 9-0 run, and Iowa State took a 58-40 lead on a jumper by Osun Osunniyi with 5:51 left. Baylor was unable to make a late charge as the Cyclones’ lead topped out at 20.

Iowa State shot 54.2 percent (13 of 24) from the field in the first half while taking a 33-22 lead. Baylor was just 8 of 29 (27.6 percent) in the half.

The Cyclones used an 11-4 run to open up a 22-11 lead on a basket by Robert Jones with 6:03 left in the half.

Cryer hit a 3-pointer to tentatively halt the Iowa State charge. But Holmes scored two baskets and King hit a jumper to make it a 28-14 game with 3:26 remaining in the half.

–Field Level Media

Dre Davis scored a career-high 24 points as visiting Seton Hall posted an 82-58 victory over No. 20 Providence on Saturday in the final regular-season game for each team.

Davis made 9 of his 10 field goal attempts, including each of his four 3-pointers. The Pirates shot 62.5 percent from the field (30 of 48) en route to ending a three-game losing streak.

Seton Hall (17-14, 10-10 Big East) received a career-high 19 points from Femi Odukale and 15 from KC Ndefo.

The Pirates were without point guard Kadary Richmond (back) and 6-foot-10 senior forward Tray Jackson (sprained ankle).

Richmond’s back injury also prevented him from playing in Seton Hall’s previous two games, an 82-60 loss to Xavier on Feb. 24 and a 76-72 setback at Villanova on Tuesday.

Richmond ranks third on the team in scoring (10.1 ppg) and second in rebounding (5.2 rpg). He had 28 points, nine rebounds and five assists when Providence beat Seton Hall 71-67 on Dec. 17.

The Friars (21-10, 13-7) finished the regular season with back-to-back setbacks at home — their only losses in Providence this season. Bryce Hopkins, who began the day as the Friars’ leading scorer (16.5 ppg) and rebounder (8.7 rpg), was held to four points and four boards in 29 minutes.

Devin Carter (14), Ed Croswell (13) and Jared Bynum (12) were Providence’s leading scorers on Saturday.

Providence trailed by 24 after a layup by Ndefo with 16:32 to play before trimming that margin to 13 by scoring 16 of the next 21 points. It was 57-44 following a Croswell layup with 11:57 left, but the Friars never got any closer. Seton Hall led by 32 with 2:33 to play.

It was all Seton Hall in the first 20 minutes. The Pirates shot 65.4 percent from the field (17 of 26) and led 44-25 at halftime. The 19-point lead was Seton Hall’s largest lead of the first half.

–Field Level Media