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BY STEVE YANDA


charlottesville—Were they so inclined, members of the Vir- ginia men’s basketball team could flatter themselves by pointing out they held visiting Radford without a made basket from the field for nearly a 12- minute stretch that spanned both halves Tuesday. And for a Cavaliers squad that


has demonstrated considerable defensive improvement during its three-game winning streak, perhaps that’s the way to go. But Virginia also could exam-


ine its 54-44 victory over a Big South foe that entered the night riding a five-game losing streak and take a spin at self-depreca- tion. The Cavaliers (6-3) missed


MEN’SROUNDUP Morris brothers lead No. 4 Kansas past Memphis ASSOCIATED PRESS MarkieffMorris had 16 points


and his twin brother Marcus added 14 to lead No. 4 Kansas to an 81-68 victory over No. 13 Memphis on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. Tyshawn Taylor had 13 points


and Thomas Robinson added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Jayhawks (8-0), who had lost in both of their previous appear- ances in the event that raises money for the V Foundation, a cancer research project that has raised over $100million. Will Barton scored 16 points


to lead the Tigers (7-1), who are 1-2 in the Jimmy V andwho have lost four straight against Kan- sas, including the 2008 national championship game. Kansas had troublewith turn-


overs in the first half, finishing with 12,whichwasmore than its average for a game this season (11.9). The Jayhawks opened the sec-


ond half on an 11-4 run to take a 48-39 lead. Suddenly the turnovers


stopped and the Jayhawks start- ed defending hard on the perim- eter, stopping the Memphis guards fromdriving. The Tigers missed 16 of their


first 23 shots in the second half and Kansas took advantage of the poor shooting, taking a 67-54 lead on a jumper by Marcus Morris left. Memphis didn’t get closer than 10 points the rest of the way with Kansas’ biggest lead coming on a three-pointer by BradyMorningstar thatmade it 74-59. Marcus Morris had eight re-


bounds and Markieff grabbed seven for the Jayhawks, who finished with a 44-31 advantage on the boards. Chris Crawford had 15 points,


12 in the first half when he was 4-for-6 from the field. The Jay- hawks didn’t give many open looks in the second half and he made one of four shots in the final 20minutes.


Coppin State edges Navy Akeem Ellis scored 20 points


and grabbed 12 rebounds, while Tony Gallo added 19 points for the Eagles in a 65-64 victory over the Midshipmen in Balti- more. Ellis nailed the game-winning


jumperwith 6.7 seconds remain- ing to give Coppin State (3-3) a one-point lead. O.J. Avworo missed a jumper


in the lane on the ensuing pos- session for Navy and Gallo grabbed the rebound to seal the victory for the Eagles. Greg Brown led the Midship-


WOMEN’SROUNDUP Rodgers scores 22, but Georgetown edged by Miami in OT ASSOCIATED PRESS Georgetown’s Sugar Rodgers


sank a three-pointer with 21 sec- onds left to send the game into overtime, but the No. 11 Hoyas couldn’t overcome their turn- overs or poor shooting and lost, 81-72, to hostMiami. Riquina Williams scored 23


points and grabbed six rebounds for the Hurricanes (8-1), who went 8 for 8 from the free throw line in overtime towin their sev- enth straight and snap George- town’s three-gamewin streak. Georgetown(7-2),whichmade 30.6 percent of its shots in the


first half and 53.6 percent of them in the second half, made only 2 of 9 shots fromthe floor in the extra period. The Hoyas out- reboundedMiami, 55-33,buthad 23 turnovers to the Hurricanes’ 14.


Rodgers finished with 22


points and eight rebounds. Rub- yleeWright added 13 points and seven assists. Monica McNutt had 12 points. Four of Georgetown’s five


starters finished the game with four or more fouls. The Hoyas had 22 personal fouls, while the Hurricanes had only 14. l DEPAUL 67, PITTSBURGH 51: Sam Quigley had 17 points


and nine assists, and Keisha Hamptonscored15points tohelp the No. 24 Blue Demons over- come a slowstart inPittsburghto win the Big East opener for both teams. Jania Sims scored 15 points


and Asia Logan 12 for the Pan- thers (4-4, 0-1), who opened the gamewith a 7-0 spurt. DePaul (9-1, 1-0) responded


with a 21-4 run and went on to win its sixth straight. Taylor Pikes had 10 rebounds


as the BlueDemons outrebound- ed the Panthers 51-43. Pittsburgh shot 25 percent


from the floor and was 4 of 27 fromthree-point range.


l KENTUCKY 77, TENNESSEE


TECH53:VictoriaDunlap scored 30pointsbeforeleavingthegame late with leg cramps and the No. 14Wildcats easilywon at home. Dunlapscored14of the first20


points for Kentucky (6-1), which didn’t getmuch production from anyone else in the first half. Dunlap also had 9 boards, 5


steals, 3 assists and 3 blocks. Sophomore A’dia Mathies added 17points,6steals and4assists for Kentucky. TacarraHayes scored13points


to lead Tennessee Tech (5-2). l GEORGIA 69, MERCER 53:


Freshman guard KhaalidahMill- er scored a career-high 16 points


to lead the No. 25 Lady Dogs at home. Georgia (7-2) shot 53.6 percent


fromthe floor and outrebounded the Bears, 49-27. MeredithMitchell and Porsha


Phillips scored 13 points for the Lady Dogs, while Tamika Willis added 11 and Anne Marie Arm- strong 10. Ronika Ransford led Georgia


with a career-high 11 rebounds. Mercer (1-7) shot 130.4 percent


fromthe floorandturnedtheball over 27 times. Kendra Grant led the Bears


with 14 points, while BrianaWil- lams,who came inaveraging 18.4 points per game,was held to 10.


men (4-7) with 14 points, Jordan Sugars added 12, Isaiah Roberts 11 and J.J. Avila 10. l FAIRFIELD 72, HOWARD


52: Yorel Hawkins scored 16 points as the Stags beat the visiting Bison.


points and Maurice Barrow had 10 for Fairfield (5-3). The Stags won easily despite an off night from leading scorer Derrick Needham, who tallied seven points after hitting double fig-


ures in six of the first seven games. The Stags led 36-24 at half-


15 of their first 16 shots fromthe field in the second half andwent 13 minutes 6 seconds without a made basket. Coach Tony Bennett’s squad


had put forth stretches of offen- sive ineptitude this season, but none was more putrid or drawn out than the one on display Tuesday night. “We’ll have to repaint the


rims, I know, after that game,” Bennett said. “We got some good looks, and certainly, we were very cold. We had some strug- gles, but I just said, ‘Hey, you’re going tohave towinugly.Try and win it on the defensive end.” As ugly contests go, the one


hosted Tuesday night at John Paul Jones Arena ranked among the top five in which senior forward Mike Scott said he ever had participated. Scott notched his fifth consecutive double-dou- ble, but he did so despite shoot- ing 1 for 7 fromthe field. The lone make came with 18 seconds to play on a tip-in off a


missed lay-up by senior guard Mustapha Farrakhan on which Scott said he wasn’t even at- tempting to score. “That tells you what kind of


night it was,” said Scott, who finished with 10 points, 13 re- bounds and six turnovers. “I tapped it. I was trying to go for the rebound. I wasn’t trying to even tap the ball in.” Scott’s last-second bucket


made himjust the fourth Virgin- ia player to tally a field goal on the night. The Cavaliers shot 28 percent (13 for 47) fromthe field against Radford’s 2-3 zone de- fense. The Highlanders used the


zone to pack in the lane, which forced Virginia to rely on perim- eter jump shots for much of the first half. Unable to establish an interior presence, the Cavaliers resorted primarily to creating open looks for freshmen guards JoeHarris andK.T.Harrell in the corners.Harris andHarrell com- bined to tally 21 of Virginia’s 32


points before halftime “I just feel like we were a little


indecisive sometimes on the zone,” said Farrakhan, who tal- lied 14 points on 2 for 7 shooting. “But [Bennett] just kept telling us to be aggressive and attack the gaps. We did it a couple times, but not on a consistent basis.” Virginia shot 6 for 11 from


beyond the arc (54.5 percent) in the first half, but then went frigid after the break. The Cava- liers shot 2 for 10 from three- point range andmade four shots fromthe field in the second half. Twelve of their 22 second-half points were generated from the free throw line. Bennett has said that perhaps


the most important develop- ment he noticed in his squad during its three-week, six-game road trip was in his players’ collective patience level. By the end of the stretch, the Cavaliers were not easily flustered, and — somewhat surprisingly — that


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trait came in handy against Rad- ford (2-6). When the final horn sounded,


Bennett met Highlanders Coach Brad Greenberg with a hand- shake at mid-court. His team’s lead never shrank to single digits in the second half, and it got encouraging defensive contribu- tions from junior center Assane Sene and sophomore guard Jon- tel Evans. And yet, itwasGreenbergwho


— with a pat on Bennett’s left shoulder and a few words into his ear—seemed to be consoling the victorious team’s coach. “Not much you can do,” Ben-


nett said. “You try to get the ball in the high post, try to get the ball moving. If you get clean looks, you have to take one. If they’re not going in, you still have to shoot ‘em. I think our limitations showed up. . . . Itwas a hard night offensively, without a doubt.”


yandas@washpost.com MARYLAND LOYOLA 79 61


Maryland took advantage of its pronounced size advantage to scored 30 of the next 34 points, dominating Loyola in the paint before staving off the Grey- hounds’ second-half rally in a 79-61 win. Led by 6-foot-4 center Lynetta


Kizer who scored a season-high 21 points on 9-of-10 shooting, Maryland (8-1) won its seventh straight overall, as well as its 11th straight against Loyola (2-6). Sophomore Tianna Hawkins, whois6-3, added 17 pointsand12 rebounds for the Terrapins, who outrebounded the Greyhounds, 51-26. “I thought our energy was


kind of sporadic, but it was obvi- ously great to see some things from our end in terms of our post play,” Maryland Coach Brenda Frese said. “I thought all four [of our] post players did a tremen- dous job, just dominating the glass, dominating inside. That was a big difference for us, and really helped us through this game.” Fifth-year guard Erica DiCle-


mente scored a career-high 23 points for Loyola, which needed a big day from the perimeter to have a shot, but time and again came up short. The Greyhounds started 0-14 from three-point range, and finished 8 for 30. “We knew we probably had to


make 12-15 threes,” Loyola Coach Joe Logan said. “You’re not going to get many looks inside. You’re not going to get many drives to the basket. They’re zone is very good and very long. It’s almost like the Syracusemenwhere they can go from three-point line to three-point line touching hands. “I give our kids a lot of credit


for not backing down,” Loyola looked determined to


mae a game of it early, forcing turnovers at the defensive end, drawing fouls and using an 8-1 run to build a 10-7 lead after the first seven minutes. The Grey- hounds then extended their lead to five on consecutive jumpers by Miriam McKenzie and DiCle- mente. Then, as suddenly as it began,


Loyola’s party was over. Followingatimeout, theTerra-


pins quickly moved ahead on back-to-back three-pointers by Kim Rodgers, who had entered the night 1 for 15 from beyond the arc over her past two games. But whereMaryland really did


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Tyrel Reed and Kansas held a 44-31 rebounding advantage while defeatingMemphis in the JimmyVClassic atMadison Square Garden. Colin Nickerson added 11


time and opened the second half on an 11-3 run for a 47-27 lead with 14 minutes remaining. Jamel Fields hit a three-pointer


the bulk of its damage was on the inside where Kizer,Hawkins and 6-3 sophomore Diandra Tchatch- ouang (nine points, nine re- bounds) had their way. Even playing without second-


with three minutes to go to give the Stags their largest lead at 69-45. Alphonso Leary and Anton


Dickerson scored 11 points each for Howard (1-8), which lost its eighth straight.


leading scorer Alyssa Thomas, out with a lacerated knee,Mary- land rode its utter dominance in the paint to a 30-4 run over the span of 10 minutes – including 17-0 during one span – to com- pletely change the complexion of the game. “It’s difficult because they’re


huge,” Loyola guard Miriam McKenzie sad. “It’s hard to guard them.” . Time and again, Maryland’s


inside players outjumped the smaller Greyhounds for re- bounds, then made them count with layups at the offensive end. Loyola, however, hung tough,


getting as close as 12 with just more than six minutes to play. “These games are here to pre-


pare us for conference play and really just to help us get into the flow,” Kizer said. “These games are definitely important, and we have to understand that.We have to bring it against teams like this.”


Said Logan, “We will not see


another team as fast as they are or as long as they are, thank goodness, and I think that will help us in the long run.” —Baltimore Sun


Terps win from the post position


No. 22 Maryland uses its size advantage


to cruise past Loyola BY RICH SCHERR


baltimore — There came a point late in the first halfTuesday at Reitz Arena when upset-mind- ed Loyola learned the undeni- able truth about No. 22 Mary- land.


Despite starting three fresh-


men, these Terrapins are for real. Trailing by five points early,


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