Arizona completes sweep of Bay Area

Published 4:00 am Monday, January 10, 2011

TUCSON, Ariz. — Jamelle Horne, who lost his starting job one game before the Pac-10 season began, scored 16 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Arizona completed a home sweep of the Bay Area schools with a 67-57 victory over Stanford in a contest pushed back a day because of Saturday’s mass shooting in suburban Tucson.

Horne, six-of-seven shooting overall, made all four of his 3-point attempts, two to lift the Wildcats (14-3, 3-1) out of trouble down the stretch. Derrick Williams, coming off a career-high 31 points in Arizona’s 73-71 victory over California on Thursday night, made all five of his shots, two of them 3-pointers, to finish with 14.

Josh Owens scored 18 and Jeremy Green 15 for Stanford (9-5, 2-1).

The Sunday afternoon game had been scheduled for Saturday but was postponed because of the shooting outside a supermarket that killed six and critically wounded U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Before the tip-off, university president Robert Shelton spoke to the crowd from center court, thanking Stanford for its cooperation and praising doctors at nearby University Medical Center “without whose efforts we’d have a lot of dead people right now in Tucson.”

In his postgame radio show, Arizona coach Sean Miller thanked the crowd of 14,374 for showing up under the unusual, trying circumstances.

“Hopefully today kind of served as a healing moment that took everybody’s mind off the tragedy,” he said.

Also on Sunday:

No. 1 Duke 71

Maryland 64

DURHAM, N.C. — Kyle Singler had 25 points and a season-high 10 rebounds, and Duke beat Maryland to extend its winning streak to 25.

No. 2 Ohio State 67

Minnesota 64

COLUMBUS, Ohio — David Lighty scored 19 points and Ohio State survived a scare when Austin Hollins’ 3-pointer came up short in the final seconds, allowing the Buckeyes to remain unbeaten with a victory over Minnesota.

No. 3 Kansas 67

Michigan 60

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Marcus Morris scored 22 points, and Kansas remained undefeated.

No. 7 Villanova 72

No. 24 Cincinnati 61

VILLANOVA, Pa. — Corey Fisher scored 21 points and Maalik Wayns had 13 of his 15 in the second half as Villanova handed Cincinnati its first loss of the season.

No. 11 Purdue 75

Iowa 52

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Ryne Smith scored 18 points to help Purdue to its 10th straight win. Smith made a career-high six 3-pointers, surpassing his record of five set twice in the previous three games.

California 63

UCLA 52

LOS ANGELES — Nikola Vucevic scored 20 points to lead Southern California’s inside game and the Trojans defeated UCLA for their fourth straight win over the crosstown rival.

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