Terry Roberts scored 13 of his game-high 20 points in the second half to lead Georgia to a 65-61 victory over visiting Bucknell on Friday in the opening round of the Sunshine Slam in Athens, Ga.

Roberts finished shooting 7 for 20 from the field, including 2 for 7 from distance, to go along with a game-high nine rebounds.

Jabri Abdur-Rahim added 10 points and four rebounds, while Frank Anselem and Jaxon Etter chipped in eight points apiece for Georgia.

The Bulldogs (3-1), who led by as many as 14 points in the second half, saw their lead cut to 61-57 on Xander Rice’s 3-pointer with 1:02 left. But Roberts countered with two free throws to make it a six-point game with 18 seconds to go.

The Bison trimmed the lead to 63-61 on Andre Screen’s dunk with eight seconds left, but Justin Hill made two free throws with 5.9 seconds left to secure the win.

Georgia shot 18 for 54 (33.3 percent) from the field, including 6 for 21 (28.6 percent) from 3-point range, but were an outstanding 23 for 26 from the free-throw line.

Bucknell (2-2) was led by Rice, who had 19 points, while Alex Timmerman and Screen each posted 10 points and four rebounds. Elvin Edmonds IV finished with nine points.

The Bison shot 24 for 54 (44.4 percent) from the field, including 5 for 20 (25 percent) from beyond the arc, in addition to getting outrebounded 37-29.

After Jake van der Heijden’s layup gave Bucknell a 39-38 lead with 13:03 left in the game, the Bulldogs went on a 17-2 run to take a 55-41 lead on Abdur-Rahim’s layup with 8:09 to go.

The teams will continue the tournament next week in Daytona Beach, Fla., beginning on Monday, when Georgia faces Saint Joseph’s (2-1) while Bucknell faces Presbyterian (1-3).

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Vanderbilt took control early in an easy 76-43 win over visiting Morehead State on Saturday evening in Nashville.

Tyrin Lawrence led Vanderbilt (2-2) in scoring with 17 points, with 13 coming in the first half. Liam Robbins put up nine points and seven rebounds.

Alex Gross led Morehead State (2-3) in scoring with 14 before fouling out, while Drew Thelwell added 11 points and 10 rebounds.

The Eagles shot a miserable 27 percent from the field.

Mark Freeman — Morehead State’s leading scorer at 12.3 points coming in — managed three points on 1-of-7 shooting. Freeman went down with 7:21 left after apparently rolling his left ankle.

Morehead led briefly at 2-0, but never again. The Commodores led by 25 at half and quickly made it 29 with Quentin Millora-Brown’s layup and foul shot with 18:16 remaining.

Vandy went heavily to the bench the rest of the night, with freshman Malik Dia canning a corner 3 to push the lead to 30 for the first time with 12:15 left. Dia finished with nine points.

The Eagles started the game 3 of 6 from the field and went 3 of 24 the rest of the period.

The Commodores opened their first double-digit lead with 11:35 left in the first half on Robbins’ layup that made it 17-6.

Vandy stretched it to 24-8 on a Lawrence 3 followed by his lay-up with 8:18 left. Lawrence provided the Commodores with their first 20-point advantage at 31-11 with a jumper in the paint with 4:07 left.

The lead was 38-13 at the break, with the Commodores shooting 51.5 percent in the half while turning it over just five times.

Vandy played without freshman Paul Lewis, who missed the contest due to illness.

Vandy has won consecutive games, including Tuesday’s overtime win at Temple, since a 60-48 home loss to Southern Miss last week.

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Erik Stevenson poured in 21 points in a red-hot shooting performance as West Virginia routed Penn 92-58 in Morgantown, W.Va., on Friday night.

West Virginia coach Bob Huggins earned his 920th win, tying him with Jim Calhoun for third place on the Division I list. Above them are Jim Boeheim (999) and Mike Krzyzewski (1,202).

Stevenson, who began the night averaging 11.7 points per game on 50 percent shooting, hit his first eight shots, including four 3-pointers. He went 8 of 9 from the floor overall in 16 minutes.

The Mountaineers (4-0) shot 64.3 percent in the first half to take control, and they never let the Quakers back in the game.

Tre Mitchell, Kedrian Johnson and Joe Toussaint added 11 points apiece, and West Virginia finished at 55.6 percent shooting, including 52.2 percent (12 of 23) from long range.

Penn (1-4) played without leading scorer Jordan Dingle (19.8 points per game), who sustained a leg injury in the Quakers’ win over Drexel on Tuesday.

Clark Slajchert, Penn’s only other player averaging in double figures at 15 points per game, scored 20 on Friday. He went 7 of 17 from the floor. Max Martz added 10 points and 10 rebounds.

The Quakers shot 35 percent from the floor and hurt themselves badly with 18 turnovers that the Mountaineers turned into 21 points. Penn went 7 of 24 (29.2 percent) from 3-point range.

Leading by 21 at the half, the Mountaineers went on a 7-1 run to open the second half, capped by Johnson’s 3-pointer, to lead 59-32. Penn never got the deficit under 20 the rest of the way.

West Virginia shot a blistering 60 percent on 3-point attempts as it built the lead in the first half.

The Mountaineers went on a 17-2 run to lead 28-9 with 10:51 left before halftime. Mitchell scored seven points, including a 3-pointer, in the burst, and Stevenson, Toussaint and Emmitt Matthews Jr. also hit from long range.

The Quakers cut their deficit to 13, but West Virginia pushed the bulge to 52-31 at the half, with Stevenson scoring the Mountaineers’ final 10 points, including two more treys.

Stevenson finished the half with 17 points on 6-of-6 shooting, including four 3-pointers. Mitchell added 11 points before intermission.

Slajchert led Penn with 10 at the break.

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Jayhlon Young swished a pair of go-ahead free throws with 1:30 left in overtime, C.J. Kelly scored 18 points and Taylor Hendricks had a double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds to lift Central Florida to a 60-56 win against Oklahoma State on Friday in a Baha Mar Hoops tournament semifinal in Nassau, Bahamas.

Central Florida (3-1) advanced to meet the winner of Friday’s game between DePaul and Santa Clara in the tournament championship Sunday. Oklahoma State (2-2) will face the loser in the consolation game.

Moussa Cisse had 14 points and 14 rebounds for Oklahoma State to notch his third straight double-double. Avery Anderson III had 12 points and five assists, while Kalib Boone scored 10 points.

Both teams had an opportunity for a winning basket in the closing seconds of regulation but were unable to convert. With the Knights leading 58-56, C.J. Walker blocked a Cisse shot out of bounds with seven seconds to go. John-Michael Wright’s attempt at a tying basket was no good with one second remaining.

The Cowboys led by as many as 17 late in the first half, but the Knights crept to within 41-40 on a Kelly 3-pointer with 7:41 to play, then took a 45-44 lead on a Hendricks trey with 4:56 left.

The Knights started 4-for-20 from the field and didn’t reach double figures as a team until a Hendricks trey with 5:36 left in the first half.

Oklahoma State missed its final six field goal attempts and shot 29.3 percent in the game, including 2-for-20 from 3-point range. Central Florida shot 30.5 percent.

The Knights committed 21 turnovers compared to 18 for the Cowboys.

Oklahoma State went 38.5 percent from the floor in the first half but frustrated the Knights further by blocking six shots, including four by Cisse. During one sequence, Cisse recovered from an unsuccessful lob attempt on the offensive end to track down a Knights’ run in transition and block a layup from beyond.

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Kyle Filipowski scored a game-high 18 points and Tyrese Proctor added 13 points and 10 rebounds as No. 7 Duke cruised to a 92-58 victory over visiting Delaware on Friday at Durham, N.C.

Filipowski shot 7 of 13 from the field, including 2 of 5 from 3-point range, to go along with eight rebounds, while Proctor shot 5 of 10 from the field and added four assists.

Mark Mitchell chipped in 12 points and three rebounds for Duke, with Jacob Grandison finishing with 10 points and four rebounds as the Blue Devils (3-1) rebounded from a 69-64 setback to No. 5 Kansas on Tuesday.

The Blue Devils, who led by as many as 38 points in the second half, shot 34 of 68 (50 percent) from the field, including 6 of 14 (42.9 percent) from 3-point range, in addition to outrebounding the Blue Hens 47-25.

Delaware (1-2) was led by Jyare Davis’ 11 points and three rebounds, with Jameer Nelson Jr. and Cavan Reilly adding 10 points apiece. LJ Owens had eight points and four rebounds.

The Blue Hens shot 21 of 55 (38.2 percent) from the field, including 5 of 22 (22.7 percent) from beyond the arc, in addition to allowing 46 points in the paint.

Leading 42-36 at halftime, the Blue Devils opened the second half on a 10-4 run to extend their lead to 52-40 following Mitchell’s layup with 16:33 remaining and never looked back.

After the Blue Hens took an early 5-3 lead, the Blue Devils took control of the game by going on a 23-9 run capped by Proctor’s two free throws for a 26-14 lead with 10:06 left in the first half.

Proctor scored nine points in the first half and Filipowski and Grandison added seven points apiece for Duke, which shot 16 of 30 (53.3 percent) from the field, including 3 of 7 (42.9 percent) from beyond the arc.

Delaware was led in the first half by Reilly’s 10 points, while Davis added seven.

The Blue Hens shot 12 for 29 (41.4 percent) from the field, including 5 for 13 (38.5 percent) from distance in the first 20 minutes.

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Armaan Franklin scored a career-high 26 points and spurred a decisive run over the first 10 minutes of the second half as No. 16 Virginia defeated No. 5 Baylor 86-79 on Friday in an opening-round game in the Continental Tire Main Event in Las Vegas.

The Cavaliers (3-0) advanced to the winners’ bracket to play the winner of the second opening-round game between No. 8 UCLA and No. 19 Illinois. The championship and consolation games will be played on Sunday afternoon.

Virginia trailed by three points at halftime but leapfrogged to the lead and took control of the game with 32-7 run over the first 10:22 of the second half. Baylor eventually got back to within six points on Dale Bonner’s putback layup with 1:04 remaining but would get no closer.

Kadin Shedrick hit for 17 points for the Cavaliers, with Ben Vander Plas hitting for 14 and Reece Beekman adding 10 points and 10 assists. Virginia was 8 of 12 from beyond the arc in the second half and shot 55.6 percent from the floor on the night.

Keyonte George led Baylor (3-1) with 20 points while LJ Cryer added 19, Adam Flagler had 15 and Caleb Lohner tallied 11.

The teams stood toe to toe in the first half, with four ties and two lead changes, the latest when Cryer canned a 3-pointer to put the Bears in top at 18-15 at the 8:24 mark. Baylor eventually forged a seven-point lead, its largest of the game, on George’s 3-pointer with 4:11 to play.

But the Cavaliers used their defense to get back in the game. Two free throws by Vander Plas after a steal by Franklin allowed Virginia to close to within 33-30 at the break.

Cryer led all scorers with 13 points before halftime as Baylor poured in seven 3-pointers over the first 20 minutes. Shedrick and Franklin paced the Cavaliers with eight points apiece; Virginia did the majority of its damage from close range, attempting only two shots from beyond the arc and making one of them.

Things completely changed in the second half as Virginia got hot from the outside and scored 24 of the half’s first 28 points to sweep to a 54-37 lead. Thirteen of the Cavaliers’ points over that stretch came from Franklin, including three 3-pointers.

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Trayce Jackson-Davis poured in 30 points and Xavier Johnson added 23 as No. 12 Indiana held on for an 81-79 win over host Xavier in the Gavitt Tipoff Games on Friday at Cincinnati.

Jackson-Davis and Johnson combined to shoot 20 of 24 from the field for the Hoosiers (3-0), who earned their first true road nonconference win since Nov. 30, 2011, at North Carolina State.

Xavier (3-1), which had two chances to take the lead in the final 30 seconds, received 15 points apiece from Zach Freemantle and Souley Boum. The Musketeers’ preseason all-Big East honoree Colby Jones, who was questionable to play because of a sprained ankle, fouled out in the final two minutes with 13 points, seven rebounds, six assists, three steals and two blocks.

Jackson-Davis hit his first seven shots from the field and Johnson made all four of his tries to combine for 28 of Indiana’s 38 first-half points. But at least one of the dynamic duo’s baskets came with a cost.

When Johnson swished a 3-pointer in front of Xavier’s bench with 2:55 left in the first half, he pulled the Hoosiers within 33-32. But while celebrating the basket, he was whistled for a technical that sent him to the sidelines with two fouls.

Boum hit both technical free throws, then fed Freemantle for a layup on the ensuing possession to help Xavier establish its 40-38 halftime lead.

When Johnson blasted down the lane for a layup with 18:55 remaining, he gave the Hoosiers their first lead since the opening five minutes.

Indiana earned its biggest lead at 54-46 on Malik Reneau’s transition layup with 14:07 to go, but Reneau also was hit with a technical for taunting. That led to two more Boum free throws and a long Adam Kunkel 3-pointer to slice the margin to 54-51.

The teams then traded the lead four times in 91 seconds before Johnson sank two free throws and turned a steal into a breakaway layup. That fueled an 8-0 run that gave Indiana a 73-66 lead with 4:11 to go.

Once again, Xavier cut into the deficit and had two chances in the final 30 seconds to erase Indiana’s 80-79 edge. The first time, Boum fell down after light contact in the frontcourt and Indiana forced a jump ball to regain possession with 0:24 left.

After Reneau missed two free throws, Kunkel missed a contested drive with three seconds left and Johnson claimed the rebound. Johnson then sank a free throw to cap the scoring.

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It hasn’t taken Houston freshman Jarace Walker long to figure out what coach Kelvin Sampson wants to see out of his players.

“He focuses on defense and rebounding and playing hard before anything,” Walker said. “That’s the culture of the program.”

And it’s the reason the Cougars (4-0) are ranked No. 3 heading into Sunday night’s game against Oregon (2-1) in Eugene, Ore.

Walker, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward, is considered a likely lottery pick in next year’s NBA draft. Through four games, he’s second on the Cougars with 13.0 points per game — Marcus Sasser leads at 16.8 — and is averaging a team-high 7.3 rebounds.

“Just watching his progress, Jarace reminds me of tic-tac-toe,” Sampson said. “There’s an X and then there’s an O. There’s a X and O. Pretty soon we’ve got to start stringing some Xs together, some Os together. Consistency.

“Where Jarace is now to where he is going to be a month from now, two months from now, I think he’s just going to continue to blossom.”

In an 83-48 victory against Texas Southern on Wednesday in the Cougar Classic, Walker had 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting and six rebounds. That came two days after scoring just two points without a field goal against Oral Roberts. He also shot 3 for 14 for eight points in his collegiate debut.

“I thought he played good in the first game of the season, regardless of what the numbers say,” Sampson said. “It’s how I evaluate him that matters. I think the toughest thing for young kids, whether it’s the NBA, college or high school, ninth and 10th graders, they are going to have ups and they are going to have downs. They are going to have highs and they are going to have lows. It’s just the way it’s going to be. The youngest players are the most inconsistent. You say, ‘Why doesn’t he do this every night?’ Because he’s 19 years old, a freshman.”

What has Walker learned so far?

“Really just how hard they play,” he said. “It makes you want to take it to another level when you see a brother down on the floor for a loose ball and taking charges. It’s just a family.”

Oregon was No. 21 in the preseason rankings before a 69-56 home loss to UC Irvine on Nov. 11.

The Ducks had their best offensive output of the season Tuesday in an 81-51 victory against Montana State, shooting 53.3 percent from the field with five players in double-figure scoring.

Freshman center Kel’el Ware came off the bench for a team-high 16 points and seven rebounds.

“He played hard and his defense was much more active,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said. “A much better game with much better purpose.”

Will Richardson had 12 points and six assists, Quincy Guerrier added 11 points and seven rebounds and Nate Bittle and Keeshawn Barthelemy scored 10 points apiece.

The Ducks got a scare when 6-11 N’Faly Dante, their leading scorer in the first two games of the season, went down late in the second half without being touched. The senior had knee surgery two years ago.

“His hip’s been bothering him and he hit it on that play,” Altman said. “I think he’ll be OK. Gonna take a couple days off here and let him rest it a couple days, but I think by Friday he’ll be ready to go.”

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Khalif Battle scored 24 points off the bench Friday, including 13 during a decisive first-half run, as Temple held off Rutgers 72-66 in a Basketball Hall of Fame Showcase game at Uncasville, Conn.

Jamille Reynolds had 17 points and nine rebounds for Temple (2-2), which has alternated losses with wins in its first four games. Hysier Miller scored 12 points and Zach Hicks added 10 points for the Owls.

Clifford Omoruyi had 21 points and 11 rebounds for Rutgers (3-1), which whittled a 19-point deficit to four in the final minute but shot just 38.3 percent from the field and was 1-of-16 (6.3 percent) from 3-point range. Cam Spencer finished with 17 points and a team-high four assists for the Scarlet Knights while Aundre Hyatt added 13 points.

Temple scored the first five points before Rutgers responded with a 6-0 run and took its only lead on Omouryi’s dunk with 17:10 left in the first half. The Owls responded by going on a 33-13 run highlighted by an individual 7-0 spurt by Battle to take their biggest lead at 36-17 on a Hicks 3-pointer with 3:17 remaining before halftime.

Temple led 38-23 at the half and maintained a double-digit lead for the first 10 minutes of the second half before Rutgers went on a 7-0 run capped by Hyatt’s layup to close within 51-45 with 6:57 remaining. The Owls were 0-for-3 with three turnovers during the Scarlet Knights’ surge.

Miller stopped the Rutgers run by hitting a 3-pointer. The Scarlet Knights pulled within 58-51 following a 3-point play by Hyatt with 3:29 left, but Reynolds hit a spinning hook on the next trip down the floor and Battle converted a layup after Reynolds stole the ball from Hyatt.

The Scarlet Knights mounted one more comeback attempt in the final 90 seconds, when they went on an 11-3 run that included a trio of layups by Spencer and was capped when Derek Simpson hit Rutgers’ lone 3-pointer with 12.3 seconds left to cut Temple’s lead to 70-66.

Miller hit a pair of free throws and Spencer and Simpson each missed 3-pointers shortly before the buzzer.

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Loyola Marymount outscored Georgetown 52-24 in the second half en route to an 84-66 win in the opening round of the Jamaica Classic on Friday in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Loyola advances to the Montego Bay Division championship game on Sunday versus Wake Forest, a 75-63 winner over La Salle. Georgetown plays La Salle in the consolation game.

Keli Leaupepe led Loyola (3-2) with 15 points and nine rebounds, and Justin Ahrens added 12 points. The Lions shot 54.3 percent (19 for 35) in the second half, including 50 percent (9 of 18) from three-point range. Michael Graham chipped in nine points and nine rebounds.

Brandon Murray led the Hoyas (2-2) with 19 points and Jay Heath added 15 points. Primo Spears, who averaged 23.7 points over Georgetown’s first three games, finished with 10 points on 4-of-17 shooting.

Georgetown shot just 27.6 percent (8 of 29) from the field after intermission, including 25 percent (3-of-12) from beyond the arc.

The Lions outrebounded the Hoyas 24-14 in the second half.

Loyola trailed by 10 at halftime, but Cam Shelton’s layup capped a 6-0 burst that pulled the Lions within 44-40, and Shelton’s fast-break dunk tied the score at 46 with 13:36 remaining.

Ahrens and Alex Merkviladze hit consecutive 3-pointers to cap a 12-0 run and put the Lions up 52-46.

Rick Issanza’s dunk followed by 3s from Merkviladze and Chance Stephens pushed the lead to 63-48 with 9:02 left to play, and Graham’s dunk made it 70-54 with 5:10 remaining.

The Hoyas got within 74-63 on Spears’ driving layup with 2:37 remaining, but the Lions answered with five quick points, including Leaupepe’s 3-pointer.

Georgetown trailed 19-16 when Murray’s layup ignited a 10-0 run capped by Akok Akok’s layup. The Hoyas took their biggest lead of the half, 38-27, on Ryan Mutombo’s layup with 1:58 remaining ahead of a 42-32 halftime advantage.

The Hoyas shot 48 percent (14 for 29) in the first half and made 14 of 14 free throws while the Lions hit 41 percent (13 of 32) and went 3 for 4 from the foul line.

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