Top 25 roundup: No. 4 Alabama survives scare by Memphis

December 14 – Behind the duo of Brandon Miller and Mark Sears, No. 4 Alabama pushed its profitable streak to 4 video games with a 91-88 win over Memphis on Tuesday evening in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Miller completed with a team-high 24 factors and added eight rebounds and 5 assists. Sears had a team-high 12 factors within the first half and completed with 18. Noah Clowney put up 11 factors, 9 rebounds and a team-high three blocks for the Crimson Tide (9-1).

Memphis main scorer Kendric Davis had a game-high 30 factors and 5 assists. DeAndre Williams added 15 factors and 9 boards however fouled out with 6:18 to go. A 9-2 Memphis run, sparked by Williams and Davis, tied the sport at 57 with 9:56 left, however Alabama scored the subsequent seven factors.

The Tigers (8-3) trimmed Alabama’s result in 75-70 with 3:03 to play. However back-to-back buckets by Miller, a 3-pointer and a dunk, gave the Crimson Tide an 82-73 benefit with 1:12 to go, sufficient cushion to carry off a late Memphis surge.

No. 5 Houston 74, North Carolina A&T 46

Ja’Vier Francis established profession highs of 17 factors and 15 rebounds, and the Cougars bounced again from their first lack of the season to steamroll the visiting Aggies in nonconference play.

Marcus Sasser additionally scored 17 factors for Houston (10-1), which performed for the primary time since dropping the No. 1 rating Saturday with a 71-65 residence loss towards No. 8 Alabama. Emanuel Sharp added 10 factors for the Cougars, who held a crew beneath 50 factors for the seventh time this season.

Kam Woods scored a season-best 26 factors for the Aggies (4-5), who had a three-game profitable streak halted. Demetric Horton added 11 factors for North Carolina A&T, which trailed by 15 on the break and 34 at one level within the second half.

No. 9 Arizona 99, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 61

Azuolas Tubelis had 20 factors and 13 rebounds because the Wildcats performed with out start line guard Kerr Kriisa for many of the sport on account of sickness in a victory over the Islanders in Tucson, Ariz.

Tubelis, a junior, posted his fourth consecutive sport with not less than 20 factors and have become the 53rd participant in class historical past to attain 1,000. He additionally had 4 assists and three steals for the Wildcats (9-1), who received their twenty fourth consecutive sport at McKale Middle.

Simeon Fryer scored 12 factors to steer the Islanders (5-5), who have been outrebounded by 20 and did not have the scale to comprise Tubelis and Arizona’s different publish gamers. Oumar Ballo had 13 factors and eight rebounds for the Wildcats. A 3rd huge man, freshman Henri Veesaar, scored a career-high 16 factors.

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