ANN ARBOR, Michigan: Trey Burke scored 19 points and freshman Nik Stauskas added 12 to lead No. 3 Michigan to a 67-39 victory over Binghamton on Tuesday night.
The Wolverines (10-0) are off to their best start since their national title season of 1988-89, and this win was every bit the mismatch it looked like before the opening tip. The Bearcats (2-9) were coming off a 22-point loss to Bryant. They led Michigan 10-8 before the Wolverines went on a 19-2 run.
It was 34-14 at halftime.
Jordan Reed scored 11 points and was Binghamton’s only player in double figures. He also had eight rebounds.
Harvard 65 Boston U 64: In Boston, Siyani Chambers scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half and hit the game-winning jumper with 4 seconds left to lift Harvard past Boston University.
Wesley Saunders chipped in with 16 points to help Harvard (5-4) win its fourth game in a row against Boston.
Trailing 62-60 late in the second half, Boston (3-6) tied the game on Dom Morris’ layup with 1:13 left to play.
Harvard answered with 46 seconds left when Saunders made 1 of 2 free throws to give the Crimson the lead 63-62.
D.J. Irving’s jumper put Boston ahead 64-63 with only 9 seconds left, but Chambers responded, connecting with the game-winning jumper with just 4 ticks remaining.
Irving missed a jumper as time expired, sealing the victory for Harvard.
Irving led Boston with 24 points and Morris added a double-double, 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Auburn 92 Grambling State 42: In Auburn, Alabama, Chris Denson scored 13 points in his first appearance this season as Auburn defeated Grambling State, snapping a four-game losing streak.
Auburn (3-5) won for only the second time in seven games as Denson provided Frankie Sullivan, the leading scorer in the Southeastern Conference, some much-needed support.
A junior guard, Denson missed the first seven games because he was academically ineligible. Last season, he averaged 8.7 points per game. Denson had seven by halftime against Grambling State.
Sullivan, who came in averaging 19.7 points per game, had 10 points, five assists, four rebounds and three steals. Noel Johnson and Jordan Price added 14 points apiece off the bench and Rob Chubb had 10 points.
Illinois 64 Norfolk State 54: In Champaign, Illinois, Brandon Paul scored 14 points and D.J. Richardson overcame a shoulder injury to add 11 and help 10th-ranked Illinois hold off Norfolk State.
The Illini (11-0) were coming of a win at Gonzaga on Saturday that helped move them into the top 10, but were sluggish against the Spartans. Illinois was shooting 46 percent from the field coming in but shot just 35 percent on the night.
Rashid Gaston scored 12 points and Pendarvis Williams added 11 for Norfolk State (6-6), which led for much of the first half.
Richardson left late in the first half with a badly bruised shoulder but returned. His layup with just under two minutes remaining put the Illini up 56-51 and they went on to get the win.
LSU 80 Chattanooga 67: IN Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Andre Stringer made the most of his first start of the season and poured in 13 of his season-high 18 points in the first half to vault LSU to victory over Chattanooga.
Johnny O’Bryant III also tallied his third straight double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Tigers.
LSU (6-0) has won all six of its games under first-year coach Johnny Jones. The last time the Tigers opened the season with a 6-0 mark was during the 2008-09 season when the program won its last SEC regular-season championship.
Trailing 23-20 at the 9:35 mark of the first half, LSU ripped off 22 of the stanza’s final 29 points to take a 42-30 advantage into intermission. The Tigers limited Chattanooga (2-7) to a pair of field goals during the stretch.
Jacksonville State 79 Martin Methodist 64: In Jacksonville, Alabama, Darion Rackley finished with 27 points, knocking down 6 of 10 3-pointers to help Jacksonville State beat Martin Methodist.
Ronnie Boggs scored 20 points and had four steals, and Tarvin Gaines added 12 points off the bench to help Jacksonville State (7-2) win its fourth game in a row.
The Gamecocks built an early lead shooting 57.1 percent (16 for 28) in the first half compared to Martin Methodist’s 36 percent (9 for 25).
Jacksonville State connected on 7 3-pointers in the first half compared to just one by Martin Methodist (6-6) as the Gamecocks took a 44-28 lead into halftime.
Jacksonville State led by as much as 28 points in the second half, running away with the victory.
NCAA honoring best of last 75 years
Let the arguments begin.
The NCAA, as part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of March Madness, has released lists of the top players, teams and moments to help fans as they vote for those to be honored at the Final Four.
The NCAA said Tuesday that the fan voting, which will start in early January at NCAA.com/MarchMadness, will trim the list of 75 players to 15, and the 25 teams and 35 moments will be cut to one each.
The lists were compiled and researched by the NCAA’s basketball and statistics staffs, which consulted with the NCAA’s media partners and selected members of the US Basketball Writers Association.
CBS Sports, CBS Sports Network and CBSSports.com, in conjunction with the NCAA, will air original programming commemorating 75 years of March Madness.
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