Luke Skaljac scored a career-high 19 points as No. 23 Miami (Ohio) remained unbeaten with a 73-71 victory over host Buffalo on Tuesday night in a Mid-American Conference contest.
Buffalo closed to 73-71 on a Noah Batchelor 3-pointer with 12 seconds to play and had a chance to win the game, but Ryan Sabol’s 3-pointer with four seconds left hit the front rim and bounced out.
Skaljac also had five steals, four rebounds and three assists. Miami (23-0, 11-0 MAC) received an 11-point performance from Brant Byers and 10 points, five rebounds and eight assists from Peter Suder.
Arizona (22-0) is the only other unbeaten Division I team in the country.
Buffalo’s Angelo Brizzi made nine of 14 field-goal attempts and scored a game-high 22 points. Daniel Freitag added 18 points, seven assists and four rebounds for the Bulls (14-9, 4-7).
No. 3 UConn 92, Xavier 60
Silas Demary Jr. collected 17 points and eight assists to help the Huskies power past the Musketeers in Hartford, Conn., for their 18th straight win.
Tarris Reed Jr. made all seven of his shot attempts from the floor to join Eric Reibe with 14 points for UConn (22-1, 12-0 Big East). Reed, who also had eight rebounds, is 19-for-20 from the field in his past three games.
All Wright scored 14 points and Roddie Anderson III and Malik Messina-Moore each added 10 for Xavier (12-11, 4-8).
No. 4 Duke 67, Boston College 49
Cameron Boozer registered 19 points and 12 rebounds to power the Blue Devils past the Eagles in Durham, N.C., for their 10th straight victory.
Boozer shot 9 of 17 from the floor and also tallied a season-best five steals for Duke (21-1, 10-0 ACC). Isaiah Evans added 12 points for the Blue Devils, while Patrick Ngongba totaled nine points and nine boards.
Fred Payne paced Boston College (9-13, 2-7) with 14 points as the Eagles took their seventh loss in the past nine games.
No. 18 Virginia 67, Pitt 47
Sam Lewis scored 15 points, Thijs De Ridder had a double-double and the Cavaliers eased past the lowly Panthers in Charlottesville, Va.
The Cavaliers (19-3, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) have won eight of their last nine games. They improved to 11-1 at home and 17-1 when outrebounding the opposition, posting a 38-31 advantage over the smaller Panthers (9-14, 2-8). De Ridder, the reigning ACC Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week, had 10 points and 12 rebounds, and Lewis sank 4 of 8 3-pointers.
Pitt has lost five of its last six games and fell to 1-6 on the road and 0-3 against Top 25 opponents. Cameron Corhen and Nojus Indrusaitis led the Panthers with 11 points each.
No. 19 Saint Louis 91, Davidson 82
Brady Dunlap poured in 22 points off the bench and the Billikens overcame a first-half hole to beat the Wildcats at Davidson, N.C.
Dunlap made all six of his 3-point attempts and accounted for half of the Billikens’ 3-point baskets. Robbie Avila’s 17 points, Amari McCottry’s 14 points and Trey Green’s 13 points were also clutch for Saint Louis (22-1, 10-0 Atlantic 10), which has won 16 games in a row. The Billikens shot 50.8% from the field.
Josh Scovens posted 17 points and 10 rebounds, Parker Friedrichsen tallied 15 points and Devin Brown finished with 13 points for Davidson (13-9, 5-5).
No. 22 St. John’s 68, DePaul 56
The Red Storm reeled off 12 straight points early in the second half to trigger a win over the Blue Demons in Chicago.
Zuby Ejiofor produced 16 points, nine rebounds and four assists to pace St. John’s (17-5, 10-1), which won its eighth in a row to set up a first-place showdown with No. 3 UConn on Friday in New York.
Layden Blocker posted 13 points for DePaul (12-11, 4-8), which was trying to extend its home winning streak in league play to five games for the first time since March 2005. The Blue Demons shot 34.6% from the field.
No. 25 Tennessee 84, Ole Miss 66
Nate Ament scored 28 points, Ja’Kobi Gillespie added 20 and the Volunteers rode a second-half surge to win their fourth consecutive game by defeating the Rebels in Knoxville, Tenn.
Gillespie bounced back from a foul-plagued 11-point outing against Auburn on Saturday to surpass his team-leading season average (18.6). J.P. Estrella had 12 points and nine rebounds and Bishop Boswell added 10 points and eight boards for the Volunteers (16-6, 6-3 SEC), who had a 58-41 scoring advantage in the second half.
Patton Pinkins and AJ Storr scored 15 points each, Ilias Kamardine added 11 and Eduardo Klafke had 10 for the Rebels (11-11, 3-6).
–Field Level Media
