No. 10 Tennessee beats newly crowned No. 1 Alabama

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Zakai Zeigler andSantiago Vescovi each scored 15 points and No. 10 Tennessee tookdown newly minted No. 1 Alabama 68-59 on Wednesday night.

Playing its first game as the top-ranked team since the 2002-03season, the Crimson Tide (22-4, 12-1 SEC) led just once in theearly going and committed 19 turnovers.

Unlike football, when Tennessee fans stormed their home fieldafter beating No. 3 Alabama 52-49 in October, this sellout crowdstayed in the seats when it was over. “Rocky Top” loudly blared asthe Volunteers (20-6, 9-5) ended a two-game skid.

Alabama’s loss was the eighth by an AP No. 1 team this season.That ties the most in a regular season with 1993-94 in a statdating to 1948-49.

Alabama became the last Power 5 men’s team to lose a conferencegame this season. The Tide reached No. 1 in the latest poll by TheAssociated Press on Monday, but its only lead in this game came at12-11.

Jonas Aidoo had 12 points and 11 rebounds for Tennessee.

Brandon Miller led Alabama with 15 points, Jaden Bradley added14 and Nimari Burnett had 11.

NO. 7 VIRGINIA 61, LOUISVILLE 58

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Armaan Franklin and Kihei Clark eachscored 14 points and Virginia overcame poor foul shooting to winits third straight game.

The Cavaliers (20-4, 12-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) led 58-50with 3:47 remaining but missed five free throws down the stretch togive the ACC-worst Cardinals (3-23, 1-14) a chance.

El Ellis had 21 points for Louisville, which has lost fourstraight since its lone ACC victory.

NO. 11 MARQUETTE 69, NO. 16 XAVIER 68

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Olivier-Maxence Prosper tipped in a putbackwith 1.6 seconds left and Marquette edged Xavier to extend its slimBig East lead.

Marquette (21-6, 13-3), picked to finish ninth by the league’scoaches in the preseason poll, moved 1 1/2 games ahead of Xavier(19-7, 11-4), No. 24 Providence and No. 18 Creighton.

After a layup by Jack Nunge put the Musketeers ahead 68-67 with8.3 seconds remaining, Marquette raced up the floor. Kam Jonesmissed his driving layup attempt, but Prosper used his right handto tip in the offensive rebound and put the Golden Eagles back infront.

Xavier’s Jerome Hunter threw a long inbounds pass to Nunge,whose deep 3-point try caromed off the backboard as the buzzersounded.

NORTHWESTERN 64, NO. 14 INDIANA 62

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Boo Buie scored the tiebreaking basketwith two seconds remaining and Northwestern followed up its firstwin over a top-ranked team by beating Indiana.

After defeating Purdue on Sunday for the program’s first victoryover an opponent ranked No. 1 in the AP poll, the Wildcats (19-7,10-5 Big Ten) blew a 19-point halftime lead before topping theHoosiers (18-8, 9-6).

Northwestern took sole possession of second place in theconference standings with its program-record fourth victory over aranked opponent this season. Northwestern hadn’t beaten Top 25teams in consecutive games since January 2009.

Buie had 21 points, six rebounds and four assists.

Trayce Jackson-Davis led Indiana with 23 points, 10 rebounds andeight assists.

NO. 19 IOWA STATE 70, NO. 22 TCU 59

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Aljaz Kunc had career highs of 22 points andfive 3-pointers in his first start in nearly two months, and IowaState never trailed.

The Cyclones won their nation-best seventh game against a Top 25opponent.

Jaren Holmes added 16 points for the Cyclones (17-8, 8-5). Kunc,playing his fourth game since missing six weeks with a brokenfinger, made four of his 3s in the first half.

TCU (17-9, 6-7) lost its fourth straight while playing its fifthgame without injured conference preseason player of the year andtop scorer Mike Miles Jr.

NO. 21 SAN DIEGO STATE 45, FRESNO STATE 43

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Matt Bradley scored 10 points and SanDiego State slipped past Fresno State in a defensive struggle.

San Diego State (21-5, 12-2 Mountain West Conference) has wonfour in a row and eight of nine overall, extending its win streakagainst the Bulldogs to eight games.

Nathan Mensah had eight points, eight rebounds and four blocksfor SDSU, and Keshad Johnson added seven points and eightboards.

Isaiah Hill led Fresno State (9-16, 5-9) with 16 points. TheBulldogs shot 31% from the field and went just 2 of 25 from 3-pointrange.