DURHAM, N.C. — Jon Scheyer and Kyle Singler scored 22 points apiece and No. 2 Duke held off a late Stephen Curry-led charge to beat Davidson 79-67 on Wednesday night.
Gerald Henderson added 11 points on 3-of-11 shooting for the Blue Devils (13-1). They never trailed, outscored the Wildcats 20-7 to start the second half and withstood their late comeback attempt to win their 67th straight nonconference home game.
Curry, the nation's leading scorer, scored 29 points — the most Duke has allowed any player this season — on 10-of-22 shooting for Davidson (10-3), with 21 of those coming in the second half as he tried to rally his team from a 25-point deficit.
He scored eight straight points during a 14-2 spurt midway through the half to help the Wildcats close to 13.
Davidson then pulled to 69-61 on Andrew Lovedale's basket in the post with 3:53 left, but couldn't get any closer. Scheyer scored six points in the final 2 minutes — including the 1,000th of his career — to help Duke pull away late.
No. 3 NORTH CAROLINA 108, COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 70: At Chapel Hill, N.C., Tyler Hansbrough had 24 points and North Carolina bounced back from its first loss by beating College of Charleston. Deon Thompson added 15 points for the Tar Heels (14-1), who used a 19-2 run spanning halftime to turn the game into a rout.
No. 11 SYRACUSE 85, DEPAUL 68: At Syracuse, N.Y., Andy Rautins scored 17 points and Paul Harris added 14 to lead six Syracuse players in double figures in the Orange's win over DePaul. It was the sixth straight victory for Syracuse (15-1, 3-0 Big East) and the third consecutive loss for DePaul (8-8, 0-3). Dar Tucker led the Blue Demons with 18 points, Will Walker had 13, Mac Koshwal 12, and Devin Hill 10. Syracuse used an early 12-2 run to open a double-digit lead and the Blue Demons struggled with costly turnovers and never recovered.
GONZAGA 89, No. 15 TENNESSEE 79 (OT): At Knoxville, Tenn., Matt Bouldin tied a career high with 26 points to help Gonzaga upset Tennessee in overtime. With 26 seconds left, Tyler Smith hit a layup for Tennessee to tie the game at 73. Bouldin missed a shot at the other end of the floor, and Wayne Chism came up with the ball in the ensuing scramble, but couldn't get it to the Vols' end of the floor before time expired. It was all Gonzaga (9-4) in the extra period, as Austin Daye hit a 3-pointer and four free throws to help the Zags grab their second win over the Vols for the season. Gonzaga won 83-74 on Nov. 30 in the Old Spice Classic championship in Orlando, Fla.
HARVARD 82, No. 17 BOSTON COLLEGE 70: At Boston, Jeremy Lin scored 27 points to lead Harvard to an upset of Boston College, coming three days after the Eagles upset previously top-ranked North Carolina. The Eagles (13-3), who had their 10-game winning streak snapped, defeated the unbeaten Tar Heels 85-78 in Chapel Hill on Sunday for one of the school's biggest regular-season wins to move into the Top 25.
Corey Raji paced BC with 16 points, Tyrese Rice had 14, Joe Trapani had 12. Rice was held to three points until the final four minutes. Oliver McNally had 17 points and Andrew Pusar 13 for the Crimson (8-6), who had never beaten a ranked team before and lost 15 of their last 16 games against the Eagles.
No. 18 MARQUETTE 81, RUTGERS 76: At Piscataway, N.J., Wesley Matthews scored 23 points, hitting all 10 of his shots, to help Marquette beat Rutgers. Jerel McNeal added 16 points and Dominic James had 15 for the Golden Eagles (14-2), who won their sixth straight in starting 3-0 in the Big East for the first time since joining the conference in 2005. Mike Rosario scored 22 to lead Rutgers (9-7, 0-3), which dropped its fourth straight. The freshman helped the Scarlet Knights' rally as Rutgers sliced a 21-point deficit to two with 37 seconds remaining. Corey Chandler added 19 points and seven rebounds for the Knights.
No. 23 LOUISVILLE 71, SOUTH FLORIDA 57: At Tampa, Fla., Earl Clark scored 22 points and Louisville shut down South Florida during a crucial eight-minute stretch of the second half to pull away in the Cardinals' Big East opener. Taking up the slack with leading scorer Samardo Samuels on the bench in foul trouble much of the game, Clark made 8-of-18 shots and finished with a team-leading nine rebounds. Edgar Sosa added 12 points for the Cardinals (10-3, 1-0).
Dominique Jones led South Florida (5-9, 0-2) with 11 points, but missed 9 of 10 shots from the field and was not on the floor at the end when Bulls reserves scored 10 points in the final 1:03 to make the final score look a little more respectable.