College BBall

What a big day for college basketball. 5 games with ranked teams going against each other.

#6 Duke crushed #7 Xavier 82-64.
IT was never close as the dukies jumped out to a big lead and never looked back.

#2 UConn beat #7 Gonzaga 88-83 in OT.
UConn was able to battle bak even with their big man fouled out. It was a back and forth game and the Zags were up early in the second half by 15.
(by the way i realize that gonzaga and xavier are both #7, that's how espn has them labeled.)

#22 Michigan State beat #5 Texas 67-63
MSU led 2-0 and then fell behind for awhile but the furthest they were back was 7 points. A big three by Durrell Summers in the last 20 seconds gave MSU the lead.

#18 Purdue beat #20 Davison 76-58
Stephen Curry could never catch fire at Conseco Fieldhouse and shot 3-14 in the first half and 5-26 overall. Purdue got their first win this year over a ranked team and look to keep rolling with sure wins over IPFW and Valpo going into their Big 10 schedule.

#11 Syracuse beat #21 Memphis 72-65
Syracuse was shorthanded with the suspension of Eric Devendorf, but the first game back for Jonny Flynn has been a big one. He scored 24 points, dished out 6 assists and grabbed 4 rebounds.

The biggest story of the day was #9 Louisville losing to unranked Minnesota 70-64. It will be interested when there is talk come tournament time and finally no one says the Big 10 is one of the worst BCS conferences.