COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Pauley’s 23 Help Kansas Beat Oklahoma, 84-65

Eric Pauley had a personal-best 23 points and 12 rebounds and helped key a 17-4 run Monday night that broke open a tight Big Eight game and carried No. 3 Kansas to an 84-65 victory over Oklahoma at Lawrence, Kan.

Pauley, a 6-foot-10 junior, scored eight points in the five-minute run and Adonis Jordan, a 5-11 point guard, scored six as Kansas, 21-3 overall and 9-2 in the conference, won its 15th consecutive Big Eight game at home and swept their two-game series with the Sooners for the first time since 1986.

Oklahoma (17-7, 5-6) pulled back to 52-50 on Damon Patterson’s basket. But then Pauley made a basket and Jordan hit a three-pointer to put the Jayhawks in control.

Jordan finished with 22 points, and Rex Walters, who had been battling a shooting slump, had 18.

South Florida 81, No. 15 Tulane 76--Bobby Russell made up for a disappointment at home with a three-pointer on the road with 10 seconds to play that broke a 76-76 tie in a Metro Conference upset over Tulane (19-4, 7-2) at New Orleans.

Fred Lewis led South Florida (17-8, 5-5) with 22 points.

Russell missed a three-point shot at Tampa that would have won that game in regulation when the teams met Feb. 6. Tulane went on to win, 78-70, in overtime.

Monday night, Russell’s three-pointer broke the late tie, and Radenko Dobras hit two free throws with four seconds left.

No. 20 St. John’s 72, Providence 68--St. John’s, which had missed 16 of its first 40 free throws, made all six it attempted in the final 2:55 of overtime at Providence, R.I., and the Redmen (17-7, 11-5) won their seventh in a row in a Big East game.

Providence (13-15, 5-11) tied the score, 62-62, with three seconds to play in regulation on a rebound basket by Trent Forbes.

OTHER GAMES

Henry Williams paced all scorers with 30 points and 10 rebounds to lead North Carolina Charlotte to a 72-65 victory over Tennessee at Charlotte, N.C. . . . David Degitz scored 15 points to lead Penn State to a 71-51 victory over Old Dominion at State College, Pa. The Nittany Lions are 20-7 and hoping to gain an NCAA tournament bid as an independent. . . . Lucius Davis scored 29 points, including a breakaway dunk with 11 seconds remaining, to help UC Santa Barbara beat New Mexico State, 64-59, in a Big West game at Goleta.