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Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999

No. 19 Iowa drops Minnesota

Buckeyes rally past No. 22 Golden Gophers, 76-73

Associated Press

   IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Dean Oliver scored 15 points and four other Hawkeyes were in double figures Wednesday night as No. 19 Iowa, playing with three new starters, rallied to beat No. 22 Minnesota 76-73.
   J.R. Koch and Jacob Jaacks, making his first start, each scored 12 points while Ryan Luehrsmann had 11 and Kent McCausland added 10 for the Hawkeyes (16-6, 7-5 Big Ten), who shook up their lineup after surrendering 185 points in losses to Purdue and Michigan State last week.
   Quincy Lewis, the league's leading scorer at 24 points a game, finished with 30 points and Kevin Clark had 23 for Minnesota (14-7, 5-6), which lost its second straight game and again was denied its first conference road win.
   Joining Jaacks in their first starts were freshman Joey Range, who finished with six points, and Wisconsin transfer Sam Okey, playing his seventh game for Iowa after becoming eligible this semester.
   Okey scored four points but had to leave the game with 13:37 to play after injuring his right arm.
   Clark, fouled by Jaacks on a 3-point attempt, made three free throws to cap a 12-4 run and pull Minnesota into a tie at 57 with 7:51 remaining. A 3-pointer by Lewis gave the Golden Gophers a 69-64 lead with 4:11 to play.
   Two free throws by Jaacks, who also had eight rebounds, gave Iowa a 70-69 lead with 2:27 left, but Lewis answered with two free throws to give Minnesota a one-point lead.
   McCausland put Iowa ahead for good at 73-71 with a 3-pointer from the right side with 2:12 remaining, and Joel Przybilla was called for goaltending on a layup by Jaacks that gave the Hawkeyes a 75-71 lead with a minute to go.
   Lewis pulled the Golden Gophers within 75-73, but Jason Bauer made one free throw with 17 seconds left for the winning margin. Iowa was 7-of-10 from the line over the final 2:49.
   Minnesota had a chance at the end, but Lewis missed the mark with a jumper with about three seconds to play and Iowa rebounded the ball as time expired.
   AT NO. 2 CONNECTICUT 66, BOSTON COLLEGE 50:Khalid El-Amin scored 19 points as No. 2 Connecticut beat Boston College in the Huskies' 21st straight win over the Eagles.
   Richard Hamilton, UConn's leading scorer who sat out the last two games with a deep thigh bruise, returned and was 4 of 15 from the field, getting all of his nine points in the first half.
   UConn shot 40 percent (23 of 58) for the game, while the Eagles were at 36 percent (21 of 56).
   The Huskies (21-1, 12-1 Big East) made up the difference on the foul line, hitting 17 of 28. Boston College (6-15, 3-10) didn't get to the line often and was just 2 of 6.
   Brian Ross led the Eagles with 20 points, matching his career-high.
   AT MARQUETTE 62, NO. 4 CINCINNATI 58: Brian Wardle scored 19 points and freshman Oluoma Nnamaka came up with some clutch plays in the final minute for the Bearcats lost consecutive games for the first time in four seasons.
   Nnamaka's three-point play with 39 seconds left broke a 54-54 tie and his free throw with 9.1 seconds left provided the final margin.
   Ryan Fletcher had 15 points for the Bearcats (21-3, 8-3 Conference USA), who lost Saturday at DePaul in overtime.
   Marquette (12-12, 4-8), which lost to the Bearcats 75-56 on Jan. 4, is the only team to have defeated Cincinnati in each of the last four seasons.
   NO. 7 MARYLAND 63, AT NC STATE 50: Terence Morris had 17 points and a career-high 16 rebounds as Maryland won despite being held 24 points under its scoring average.
   The Terrapins (21-4, 9-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) played without senior center Obinna Ekezie, who ruptured his right Achilles' tendon in practice Tuesday night and is lost for the season.
   Kenny Inge had 14 points for N.C. State (15-9, 5-7), which shot 25.5 percent -- the worst mark in school history over a span of 2,136 games.
   AT NO. 15 WISCONSIN 57, NORTHWESTERN 45: Ty Calderwood scored eight points in a 15-0 run that keyed the Badgers' win.
   Calderwood finished with 13 points to lead Wisconsin (20-5, 8-4 Big Ten), while Sean Mason added 12.
   Evan Eschmeyer led Northwestern (14-7, 6-5) with 16 points.
   After trailing by as many as 14 points early in the second half, the Wildcats rallied to take a 45-42 lead on a 3-pointer by Steve LePore with just under seven minutes remaining. Those were the last points the Wildcats would score, as they missed their last eight shots and committed three turnovers down the stretch.
   AT NO. 19 IOWA 76, NO. 22 MINNESOTA 73: Dean Oliver scored 15 points and four others were in double figures for the Hawkeyes, who were playing with three new starters.
   J.R. Koch and Jacob Jaacks, making his first start, each scored 12 points while Ryan Luehrsmann had 11 and Kent McCausland added 10 for the Hawkeyes (16-6, 7-5 Big Ten), who shook up their lineup after surrendering 185 points in losses to Purdue and Michigan State last week.
   Quincy Lewis, the league's leading scorer at 24 points a game, finished with 30 points and Kevin Clark had 23 for Minnesota (14-7, 5-6), which lost its second straight game and again was denied its first conference road win.
   Joining Jaacks in their first starts were freshman Joey Range, who finished with six points, and Wisconsin transfer Sam Okey, playing his seventh game for Iowa after becoming eligible this semester. Okey scored four points but had to leave the game with 13:37 to play after injuring his right arm.
   AT TENNESSEE 91, NO. 23 FLORIDA 56: Brandon Wharton scored 20 points as Tennessee broke out of a two-game slump.
   The Volunteers (15-7, 7-4 Southeastern Conference) held Florida (16-6, 7-5), the SEC's top scoring team, 33 points below its season average and to its lowest output of the season.
   Isiah Victor added 17 points for Tennessee.
   Kenyan Weaks had 12 points for Florida, which shot 32 percent.
   NEBRASKA 64, AT NO. 24 KANSAS 57: Gary Cochran hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:42 left, then Nebraska outshot Kansas at the foul line, breaking the Cornhuskers' 15-year losing streak in Allen Fieldhouse.
   Ryan Robertson, after two other Kansas players had gone 0 for 4 from the free throw line in the closing two minutes, made two foul shots to make it 59-57 with 37 seconds remaining. After a timeout, Nebraska inbounded the ball and Marlon London immediately fouled Chad Johnson, who hit one free throw for a 60-57 lead.
   With 24 seconds to go, Kansas' Jeff Boschee missed twice from the line, then Larry Florence and Troy Piatkowski each made two free throws in the final seconds as the Jayhawks, who hadn't been swept by Nebraska since 1982-83, watched helplessly.
   

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