College Basketball Roundup : Northwestern Surprises Indiana, 66-64

Terry Buford and Jeff Grose each hit four free throws in the final three minutes Monday night to rally Northwestern to a 66-64 upset victory over No. 13 Indiana in a Big Ten Conference game at Evanston, Ill.

Northwestern (6-6 overall and 1-1 in the Big Ten) went 21 for 21 from the foul line in the second half to overcome Indiana’s 10-point lead. Indiana (8-4) fell to 0-2 in the league, the Hoosiers’ worst start in conference play in eight years.

Joe Hillman’s three-pointer gave Indiana a 59-58 lead with 4:17 left. The Hoosiers’ margin increased to 61-58 with 3:22 remaining when Dean Garrett, who had 14 points, made a pair of free throws.

Buford then made two free throws at the 2:51 mark and added two more with 1:10 left to put Northwestern ahead, 62-61. Grose added two free throws with 28 seconds to go to make it 64-61.

Keith Smart led the Hoosiers with 20 points.

Grose had 18 points for the Wildcats, and Rick Calloway added 14 for Indiana.

Villanova 80, Syracuse 78--Syracuse’s Rony Seikaly never expected the new Tom Greis.

Greis, a 7-foot 2-inch sophomore, scored Villanova’s first 8 points, made all 8 of his shots from the field and finished with 20 points as the Wildcats upset the seventh-ranked Orangemen at Philadelphia. Last season, as a freshman, Greis scored only eight points in two games with Syracuse.

Mark Plansky led Villanova with 21 points as the Wildcats broke Syracuse’s 10-game winning streak this season and its 6-game victory string against the Wildcats.

Syracuse (12-3, 2-1) was led by Sherman Douglas with 22 points and Derrick Coleman with 20. Steven Thompson and Seikaly scored 16 points each.

Louisiana State 84, Oklahoma 77--Jose Vargas scored 30 points and led a defense that held third-ranked Oklahoma 40 points below its average as the Tigers handed the Sooners their first defeat of the season at New Orleans.

Oklahoma (14-1) averaged 116 points a game through its first 14 games this season.

LSU (7-4) got 19 points from Rickey Blanton and 16 from Darryl Joe.

Vargas held Stacey King to 14 points, 5 below his average. Blanton and Bernard Woodside shared the job of covering Harvey Grant, holding him to 19 points, 4 below his average of 23 points a game.

Iowa 109, Lafayette 68-- Iowa center Ed Horton generated the inside power against a smaller, less physical Lafayette team at Iowa City, Iowa.

Horton made 10 of 11 from the field for a career-high 22 points and pulled down 6 rebounds as No. 17 Iowa routed Lafayette.

Pitt 85, Duquesne 58--Demetreus Gore scored 21 points and Pittsburgh opened the game with a 17-0 run, leading the second-ranked Panthers to victory over cross-city rival Duquesne.