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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Trent Forrest scored 14 of his 16 points after halftime, and No. 6 Florida State rallied from a double-digit deficit to beat No. 11 Louisville 82-67. FSU took over first place in the ACC by a half-game over Louisville and No. 7 Duke. Patrick Williams' thunderous dunk capped a 15-0 run that put the Seminoles ahead for good. The Seminoles outscored Louisville 50-27 after halftime and extended their home winning streak to 22 games. Devin Vassell and M.J. Walker each scored 12 points for FSU, which set a school record for regular-season ACC wins. Ryan McMahon scored 14 points for Louisville.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is back on top of the college basketball world after knocking off Baylor. And the Bears dropped to No. 2 in The Associated Press men's poll following the close loss. The Jayhawks took over the No. 1 ranking for the second time this season following a week there in December. The Bears fell to second after their 23-game winning streak ended. Gonzaga was No. 3 after a loss to BYU. And Dayton leapfrogged San Diego State for No. 4 following the Aztecs' first loss of the season. They were followed by Florida State, Duke, Kentucky, Maryland and Creighton in rounding out the top 10. Every team in the top 10 found itself in a new position from last week.
NEW YORK (AP) — South Carolina still leads the way in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll in a week that saw seven ranked teams fall to unranked opponents. The top of the poll was unscathed with none of the first seven teams losing. The No. 1 Gamecocks received 27 of 30 first-place votes from the national media panel a day after clinching their fifth Southeastern Conference title in seven years. No. 2 Baylor got two first-place votes and No. 3 Oregon got one. Stanford and Louisville round out the top five teams in the poll. TCU enters the rankings for the first time in two years, coming in at No. 25.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Haley Gorecki scored 13 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter to help Duke beat No. 8 North Carolina State 70-65.Onome Akinbode-James added 12 points and Kyra Lambert had 11 for the Blue Devils (17-10, 11-5 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won their sixth consecutive game.Leaonna Odom had 10 points as Duke won at N.C. State for the first time since 2013.Elissa Cunane had 23 points and 12 rebounds to lead N.C. State (23-4, 12-4), which suffered its third loss in four games.
UNDATED (AP) — BYU might just have gone from the most precarious of positions on the NCAA Tournament bubble to a near-lock in one memorable night, thanks to one spectacular performance against second-ranked Gonzaga. The Cougars (23-7) were trending in the right direction anyway, winning seven straight heading into their match-up with the Bulldogs. But the show they put on with a 91-78 victory Saturday night, long after folks on the East Coast probably went to bed, was exactly the kind of game BYU coach Mark Pope had been hoping to see as March drew near.
UNDATED (AP) — The Duke baseball program is celebrating the first perfect game in program history. Bryce Jarvis struck out 15 while retiring all 27 batters in a 2-0 win over Cornell on Friday. There has been at least one perfect game in seven straight years in Division I baseball. It was the 18th nine-inning perfect game since the NCAA began tracking the statistic in 1957. There were two other no-hitters over the weekend. Mississippi's Doug Nikhazy, Drew McDaniel and Jackson Kimbrell combined for one against Xavier. UNC Greensboro's Jake Lewis and Austin Parsley teamed up for one against Fairfield.
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