COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Baylor waited 39 years to get back into the Top 25. Then the Bears had to wait some more, enduring five overtimes to get their first win as a ranked team.
Curtis Jerrells scored a career-high 36 points, including 11 in the fifth overtime to lead No. 25 Baylor to a 116-110 win over No. 18 Texas A&M on Wednesday night.
Baylor (16-2, 4-0 Big 12) won its fifth in a row and first since entering the rankings for the first time since 1969 on Monday. It broke a 15-game home winning streak for Texas A&M (15-4, 1-3) and is the Aggies’ third straight loss.
No. 1 Memphis 56, Tulsa 41: At Tulsa, Okla., Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 20 points, Derrick Rose added 19 points and the top-ranked Tigers beat the pesky Golden Hurricanes to avoid the fate that befell the Tigers their only other time with the No. 1 ranking 25 years earlier.
After winning each of its last six games by at least 20 points, Memphis (18-0, 5-0 Conference USA) didn’t take a double-digit lead until Douglas-Roberts’ two-handed jam with 6:21 remaining made it 48-38.
The last time Memphis reached No. 1, Virginia Tech was waiting hours later to pull off a 64-56 upset on Jan. 10, 1983. It took the school just over a quarter-century to get back to the top.
No. 2 Kansas 83, Iowa State 59: At Lawrence, Kan., Darnell Jackson had 21 points and 11 rebounds to help the Jayhawks stay unbeaten.
The Jayhawks (19-0, 4-0 Big 12), one of two unbeaten teams in Division I when the night began, dominated almost from the start, leading by 10 at halftime en route to their 33rd victory in their past 34 games.
The 6-foot-8 Jackson, with his first double-double of the season, scored six points during a 15-5 run in the second half that gave Kansas a comfortable 64-41 lead over the Cyclones (12-7, 2-2), who had won nine of their last 11 but hadn’t played a ranked team all year.
No. 5 North Carolina 98, Miami 82: At Coral Gables, Fla., Tyler Hansbrough scored 27 of his season-high 35 points after halftime, Lawson scored 15 of his 23 points in the opening 20 minutes, and the Tar Heels got back to their winning ways by beating the Hurricanes.
Hansbrough made 10 of 15 shots from the floor and 15 of 16 from the line.
Wayne Ellington added 12 points for North Carolina (19-1, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), which lost its No. 1 ranking after an 82-80 home loss to Maryland on Saturday.
No. 7 Indiana 65, Iowa 43: At Bloomington, Ind., D.J. White scored 19 points and Eric Gordon added 17 to help the Hoosiers extend their winning streak to 13.
Indiana (17-1, 6-0) has now won 29 in a row at Assembly Hall, the nation’s fourth-longest home winning streak. It’s the best start in Big Ten play and the longest winning span at Indiana since 1992-93. The Hoosiers’ only loss this season came Nov. 24 against Xavier.
No. 13 Pittsburgh 81, St. John’s 57: At New York, Sam Young scored 26 points and the Panthers beat the Red Storm at Madison Square Garden.
Ronald Ramon added 16 points and five assists for the Panthers (16-3, 4-2 Big East), who have won four of five overall and improved to 5-2 since starters Mike Cook and Levance Fields were injured.
Anthony Mason Jr. had a career-high 29 points for the Red Storm (7-10, 1-5), who have lost four straight.
Rutgers 80, No. 18 Villanova 68: At Piscataway, N.J., Anthony Farmer and Mike Coburn each scored 23 points to help the Scarlet Knights get their first victory against a ranked opponent in more than two years.
Malcolm Grant scored 23 points, including a stretch of 17 in a row, for the Wildcats (13-4, 3-3), who lost for the first time in five games against Rutgers (9-11, 1-6).
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