COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Arizona Gets Past Penn State

Matt Othick scored 17 points and No. 21 Arizona held Penn State to 30% shooting and beat the Nittany Lions, 74-55, Thursday night and advance to the final of the Arizona tournament at Tucson.

Arizona (4-2) limited Penn State to 18 field goals in 60 attempts, breaking a tournament record set earlier in the evening by Purdue, which beat Wake Forest in the opener.

The victory was the Wildcats’ 36th in a row at home. They will meet the Boilermakers in the championship game on Saturday.

Ed Fogell scored 14 points for the Nittany Lions.

Oregon 77, Northeastern 74--Keith Reynolds scored 23 points, nine in the closing four minutes, and Terrell Brandon added 18 as the Ducks won a first-round game in the Far West tournament at Portland, Ore.

Reynolds scored 15 points in the second half and made 11 of 11 from the free-throw line.

Freshman guard Lamont Hough had 15 points and Steve Carney 14 for the Huskies (2-5). Oregon is 6-3.

No. 1 Syracuse 85, Lafayette 64--Billy Owens had 15 of his 17 points in the first half as the Orangemen pulled away from the Leopards at Syracuse, N.Y., for their 15th consecutive home-court victory.

Syracuse, which also got 17 points from Stephen Thompson, improved to 9-0 while matching its longest winning streak in the Carrier Dome. The last home-court loss for Syracuse was against Pittsburgh on Jan. 4, 1989.

Syracuse also won 15 in a row at home during the 1984-85 and 1985-86 seasons.

Lafayette (5-3) got 15 points from center Richard Soto.

No. 5 Michigan 102, Northern Michigan 74--Terry Mills scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half as the Wolverines won easily at Ann Arbor, Mich.

Loy Vaught topped the Wolverines (9-1) with 20 points.

Dan Viitala had 14 points for Northern Michigan (6-3).

No. 10 Indiana 94, Texas A&M; 66--Freshman Calbert Cheaney scored 21 points as the Hoosiers won the Hoosier tournament at Indianapolis.

Indiana (10-0), off to its best start in seven years and playing with its ninth different starting lineup, took a seven-point lead at halftime and put the game out of reach with 11 consecutive points midway through the second half.

Tony Milton had 25 points for Texas A&M; (7-7).

No. 14 Georgia Tech 111, Pittsburgh 92--Freshman Kenny Anderson had 32 points, 18 assists and 12 rebounds as the Yellow Jackets won the Kuppenheimer tournament in Atlanta.

Dennis Scott had 30 points and 10 rebounds for Georgia Tech (8-0). Oliver finished with 28 points.

Brian Shorter scored 29 for Pittsburgh (5-5).

No. 20 La Salle 76, Florida 69--Lionel Simmons scored 33 points, including six of La Salle’s last eight points, as the Explorers won the Sugar Bowl tournament in New Orleans.

Florida (4-3) had cut a 13-point deficit to 70-67 with 1:12 left in the game. But Doug Overton dribbled away 40 seconds for La Salle (7-0), and passed to Simmons, who hit an eight-foot jumper with 28 seconds left in the game.

Dwayne Davis had 19 points for Florida.

Arizona State 92, Manhattan 70--Matt Anderson scored 14 of his 21 points in a lopsided first half as the Sun Devils won a first-round game in the Arizona State tournament in Tempe, Ariz.

The Sun Devils (5-4) will play in tonight’s championship game against Georgia (7-1), which beat Wisconsin, 65-64, in the other first-round game.

Keith Bullock had 14 points for Manhattan (4-4).

Utah State 79, Utah 77--Kendall Youngblood scored a career-high 27 points and Randy Funk scored 11 to lead the Aggies at Logan.

Josh Grant tied his career high with 31 points for Utah (6-4) of the Western Athletic Conference. Utah State of the Big West is 5-5.