Second-Ranked Memphis Uses Defense to Rout Rice
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Jon Scheyer scored 21 points and No. 7 Duke made eight straight free throws in the final 1 minute 34 seconds to defeat host Florida State, 70-57.
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Pau Gasol scored 22 points and Shane Battier added 18, and Memphis won for the first time in five games this season. Kobe Bryant, guarded by a three-man rotation, had 20 points on 4-for-19 shooting for the Lakers.
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Joey Dorsey, Robert Dozier and Shawn Taggart scored 11 points apiece, and the second-ranked Memphis Tigers shook off the rust from an 11-day break by beating Middle Tennessee 65-41 Saturday night in the opening game of the Sun Belt Classic doubleheader.
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Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 19 points to lead No. 7 Memphis to a 77-64 victory over Houston on Sunday, extending the nation's longest winning streak to 17.
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This week, it's unanimous for No. 1 Memphis. The only unbeaten team in Division I received all 72 first-place votes from the national media panel Monday and became the first unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press college basketball poll since Florida did it for two weeks last February on the way to a second straight national championship.
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Freshman Derrick Rose scored 19 points and No. 2 Memphis overcame a somewhat lackluster start Wednesday night to beat East Carolina 99-58 in the Conference USA opener for both teams.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Eddy Curry scored 20 points, and Kirk Hinrich and Ben Gordon each added 15 points to lead Chicago past Memphis. Chicago won for the only the second time on the road this season and Memphis
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Gerry McNamara had 19 points, 10 assists and a career-high nine rebounds and Josh Pace equaled his career-high with 22 points, leading No. 7 Syracuse past Rice 88-72 on Wednesday night.
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Chris Douglas-Roberts scored with 2 minutes 32 seconds left to break a 60-all tie, and top-ranked Memphis remained the country's only undefeated team by pulling out a 70-64 victory yesterday over visiting Texas-El Paso.
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Pau Gasol scored 20 points and Shane Battier added 19 to help the Grizzlies defeat the New Orleans Hornets 84-76 Friday night, giving Memphis its sixth straight victory.
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Chris Douglas-Roberts and No. 1 Memphis made the shot that counted, then watched Alabama-Birmingham hit the one that didn't.
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Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 22 points and No. 1 Memphis rallied from its first halftime deficit since Dec. 4 to remain undefeated with a 68-59 victory over Houston on Wednesday night.
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Memphis coach John Calipari doesn't hesitate to say what players love to hear. "We're a team trying to play fast," he said.
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Pau Gasol scored 24 points to lead Memphis to a 97-89 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night, the Grizzlies&#39; third win in four games under new coach Mike Fratello.
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Memphis keeps showing how much better they are than the rest of Conference USA. Now, the eighth-ranked Tigers are starting to get even more comfortable in the role.
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-- Memphis is still the only unbeaten and still a unanimous No. 1. The Tigers (23-0), easy winners over SMU and Central Florida last week, were a runaway choice at the top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll for a second straight week Monday.
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Robert Dozier had 18 points, Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 17 and second-ranked Memphis beat No. 17 Arizona 76-63 on Saturday night, the third time the Tigers have knocked off a ranked opponent this season.