Top 25 Summary: No. 22 UCLA beats No. 14 Gonzaga

Top 25 Summary: No. 22 UCLA beats No. 14 Gonzaga

NCAA Basketball: UCLA at GonzagaDec 28, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; UCLA Bruins guard Eric Dailey Jr. (3) celebrates the Bruins’ 65-62 victory over the Gonzaga Bulldogs at the Intuit Dome. Mandatory attribution: Robert Hanashiro-Imagn Images

Sebastian Mack made up for two missed late free throws by converting a 3-pointer with 33 seconds left as No. 22 UCLA cruised to a 65-62 victory over No. 14 Gonzaga in the West Coast Hoops Showdown in Inglewood on Saturday. Calif.

Eric Dailey Jr. led UCLA with 18 points, shooting 4 of 5 from 3-point range. Kobe Johnson scored all 12 points on 4 of 6 shooting from distance for the Bruins and added eight rebounds.

Skyy Clark scored 11 points for UCLA (11-2) with a game-high nine rebounds and dished out seven assists.

Graham Ike led all scorers with 24 points on 11 of 16 shooting from the floor for Gonzaga (9-4) and grabbed eight rebounds. Ryan Nembhard finished the game with 16 points and eight assists for the Bulldogs.

No. 13 Texas A&M 92, Abilene Christian 54

Wade Taylor IV scored 15 points and dished out 10 assists and CJ Wilcher added 14 points as the Aggies throttled the Wildcats in College Station, Texas.

The Aggies (11-2) were in charge from the start, building a 19-point lead at halftime and never looking back. Texas A&M scored the first three points of the second half, led by 28 points with 13:23 to play and celebrated its seventh straight win.

Taylor moved him into second place on the Aggies’ all-time scoring list. His 1,779 points trail only Bernard King, who had 1,990 points from 1999 to 2003. Quion Williams led the Wildcats (8-6) with 14 points. Abilene Christian missed its final six shots and went pointless for the final 5:24 of the game.

Memphis 87, No. 16 Ole Miss 70

Colby Rogers made 6 of 9 3-pointers and scored 28 points as the host Tigers never trailed in a win over the Rebels, who snapped a five-game winning streak.

PJ Haggerty added 17 points, seven rebounds and six assists, Dain Dainja had 16 points and Moussa Cisse, an Ole Miss transfer who is in his second stint with the Tigers (10-3), had 13 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks.

Sean Pedulla scored 13 points, Jaylen Murray 12 and Malik Dia added 11 to lead the Rebels (11-2), who had won their last five games.

Utah State 67, No. 20 San Diego State 66

Tucker Anderson hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 6.8 seconds left to help visiting Utah State pull off an upset of the Aztecs in their Mountain West Conference match.

Anderson had 14 points off the bench, including four 3-pointers, while Ian Martinez led Utah State (12-1, 2-0 MWC) with 17 points. Mason Falslev added 16 points for the Aggies, who trailed by 18 late in the first half before beating a ranked team on the road for the first time since December 1991.

Nick Boyd and Miles Byrd each scored 14 points to lead San Diego State (8-3, 1-1), which had a five-game winning streak snapped.

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