Associated Press
LUBBOCK -- Tweety Carter scored 18 points to lead No. 21 Baylor past Texas Tech 86-68 on Tuesday night, the Bears' sixth win in seven games.
The Bears (23-6, 10-5 Big 12) got off to a slow start and trailed by 11 points in the first half but came to life right after the break.
Baylor used a 14-5 run to go up 51-43, then built its largest lead, 76-58, on a dunk by Ekpe Udoh with 5:29 remaining.
Texas Tech whittled its deficit to 81-68 on a jumper in the lane by Mike Singletary with 2:32 remaining but the Red Raiders could get no closer.
Singletary scored 20 points to lead Texas Tech (16-13, 4-11).
Baylor had five players score in double figures.
The loss was the Red Raiders' sixth straight overall and their fourth consecutive at home. The last time Tech lost four straight conference games at home was in 2000.
Carter had nine assists and two steals, and the Bears owned the boards, outrebounding the Red Raiders 39-23.
Carter hit 7 of 12 field goals attempts, including 3 of 6 from behind the arc.
Udoh scored 17 points, Josh Lomers added 13, Quincy had 12 and Anthony Jones got 10.
Udoh, who averaged 4.4 blocks per game coming in, had one against Texas Tech.
The 14-5 run that broke the game open in the second half included four points from Udoh, a 3-pointer by Carter and field goals from Lomers, Jones and LaceDarius Dunn.
The Bears were nearly flawless from the free throw line, missing only three of 24 attempts.
Baylor started slowly and fell behind as Tech made six of its first seven shots.
The Red Raiders used a 14-2 run, including five points from Singletary and four from D'waylon Roberts, to lead 22-11 with just over 10 minutes left.
The Bears gradually came to life, chipping into their deficit with a 14-4 run that included seven points from Carter to trail 26-25 with just over 6 minutes remaining in the half.
Tech cooled off as the half progressed, finishing 14 of 28 from the field, including 4 of 10 from beyond the arc. The Red Raiders led 38-37 at halftime.
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Missouri 69, Iowa State 67, OT: AMES, Iowa -- Zaire Taylor drove the length of the floor and banked in a layup at the buzzer to lead Missouri past Iowa State.
J.T. Tiller tied a season high with 17 points and Marcus Denmon added 16 for the Tigers (22-8, 10-5 Big 12), who won for the fourth time in five games.
Missouri's Michael Dixon hit a layup off a Denmon block to tie it at 65 with 1:48 left in OT. Taylor then answered a Marquis Gilstrap layup with a jumper with 11.5 seconds left.
Iowa State (14-16, 3-12) then turned it over under the basket, setting up Taylor's acrobatic winner.
Gilstrap led five Iowa State players in double figures with 15 points and 13 rebounds. The Cyclones have lost eight of nine.
For the entire 45 minutes, it was about as close as a basketball game can be between these border rivals. There were 13 lead changes and 17 ties, and neither team led by more than four points.
The difference was Taylor's heroics -- and Iowa State's inability to handle the ball on two crucial possessions.
Gilstrap drove the length of the court and hit a runner off the glass to put Iowa State ahead 59-57 with 1:21 left in regulation. Denmon answered with a floater in traffic, but Craig Brackins hit two free throws to make it 61-59.
In a sign of things to come, Taylor hit a scoop shot to pull Missouri even at 61-all with 18 seconds left. The Cyclones then bungled their final possession of regulation, as Gilstrap was stripped from beyond the arc with 2 seconds left to force overtime.
The Cyclones pushed the ball up the floor the last time they touched the ball in overtime, but Scott Christopherson's pass to LaRon Dendy went through his legs. Taylor then raced up the court and broke Iowa State's heart.
Taylor scored just six points, but all of them were huge for the Tigers.
Iowa State held a slim lead throughout the start of the second half. But Missouri took the lead behind Denmon, who hit a layup off a steal to make it 42-41. Denmon followed with back-to-back 3s to put the Tigers ahead 48-44.
Christopherson answered with a pair of 3s, though, and two free throws by Diante Garrett put the Cyclones ahead 55-54 with 4:14 left in regulation.
Garrett had 14 points and Brackins added 14 points and 10 rebounds, becoming the sixth player in school history with 1,500 points and 700 rebounds.
It was the home finale for the Cyclones, and a rather bizarre and ultimately heartbreaking Senior Day as well.
Iowa State has just two seniors on its roster, Gilstrap and forward Jamie Vanderbeken -- but both could conceivable return next season.
Vanderbeken played in just 10 games this season because of a variety of injuries, and he intends to apply for a medical redshirt that he'll likely receive.
Gilstrap began an injury-plagued career in junior college five years ago. Though Iowa State has appealed to the NCAA to grant Gilstrap one more season under the medical hardship rule, his future is very much up in the air.
Missouri now heads home to host No. 2 Kansas in its regular season finale. The Tigers were pounded by the Jayhawks 84-65 in Lawrence on Jan. 25.
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Colorado 81, Nebraska 68: LINCOLN, Neb. -- Reserve forward Casey Crawford had career highs with 20 points and six 3-pointers, and Colorado ended its 36-game Big 12 road losing streak.
Alec Burks and Cory Higgins added 19 points apiece and Marcus Relphorde 12 for the Buffaloes (14-15, 5-10 Big 12).
Jorge Brian Diaz had 15 points, Lance Jeter 14 and Ryan Anderson 10 for the Cornhuskers (14-16, 2-13).
Colorado had runs of 19-4 in the first half and 19-5 in the second. After Crawford hit his sixth 3, putting the Buffaloes up 65-45 with 7:48 left, fans started leaving the Devaney Sports Center.
Colorado's previous Big 12 road win was an 80-78 overtime victory at Oklahoma State on Jan. 21, 2006.
Tuesday's win also ended Colorado's 28-game road losing streak against Division I opponents. The Buffaloes' last road win of any kind was 73-70 over Colorado State on Dec. 22, 2007.
Crawford, who averages 4.2 points a game, seemed to catch the Huskers by surprise. He was 1 for 3 on 3s with five points in Colorado's 72-60 win in January.
The 6-foot-9, 245-pound junior was left open as Nebraska tried to concentrate its defensive efforts on Burks and Higgins.
Crawford, who hadn't scored more than 10 points in a game, made his first 3 during a 12-0 spurt in the first half. He made four straight 3s in the second half as the Buffaloes' lead grew to 20 points.
Colorado won in spite of being outrebounded 40-20.
But the Buffaloes finished with a season-high 12 3-pointers and shot 62 percent from the field.
The Huskers, down 35-28 at half, closed to 46-40 with 13:40 left. But then Colorado went on its 19-5 run to put the game out of reach.
Colorado's season sweep of Nebraska was its first over a Big 12 opponent since beating Missouri twice in 2006.
The win was the Buffaloes' first in Lincoln since 2004.
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Oklahoma's Warren to undergo season-ending surgery: NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma sophomore guard Willie Warren will have season-ending arthroscopic surgery on his injured right ankle.
The school said Warren will have the procedure Wednesday. Warren, last season's Big 12 Conference freshman of the year, is the Sooners' leading scorer, averaging 16.3 points per game.
He initially injured the ankle during a practice Jan. 21 and missed two games. He re-injured it during Oklahoma's game at Colorado on Feb. 17. Warren has missed Oklahoma's last four games.
Oklahoma (13-16, 4-11 Big 12) has lost seven straight games, its longest losing streak since dropping eight straight during the 1968-69 season. The Sooners are in danger of posting their first losing season since the 1980-81 campaign.
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