College Basketball: No. 11 Butler tops Davidson
Gordon Hayward scored 17 points and Willie Veasley added 15 to lead No. 11 Butler to a 73-62 win over Davidson in Indianapolis yesterday.
The Bulldogs (1-0) rallied twice from 10-point deficits in the first half.
The Wildcats (0-1) were led by Ben Allison with 13 points.
Michigan 97, Northern Michigan 50 - Manny Harris had 18 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 assists as the No. 15 Wolverines (1-0) routed the Division II Wildcats (0-1) in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Marc Renelique had 11 points for the Wildcats, who trailed by as many as 50 points.
Oklahoma 95, Mount St. Mary's 71 - Steven Pledger scored 21 points to lift the No. 17 Sooners (1-0) to a victory over the Mountaineers (0-1) in Norman, Okla.
Jeremy Goode led Mount St. Mary's with 18 points but had eight of his team's 15 turnovers.
Dayton 90, Creighton 80 - Chris Johnson had a double-double, and Chris Wright led a second-half surge that carried the No. 21 Flyers (1-0) to a win over the Bluejays (0-1) in Dayton, Ohio.
P'Allen Stinnett scored 18 points to lead Creighton.
Georgia Tech 100, Florida A&M 59 - Iman Shumpert scored 18 points, despite playing only 19 minutes, as the No. 22 Yellow Jackets (1-0) trounced the Rattlers (0-1) in Atlanta.
Oklahoma State 86, Seattle 64 - James Anderson scored 22 points as the Cowboys (1-0) beat the Redhawks (0-1) in Stillwater, Okla., in a Las Vegas Invitational game delayed 1 hour, 40 minutes because officials showed up late.
Oklahoma State blamed the mix-up on organizers of the tournament, claiming that officials were told the wrong starting time for the game. The organizers did not respond to messages left by the AP.
Even after the officials arrived, the delays weren't finished - Seattle went missing, out on a sandwich run.
Binghamton 54, Bloomsburg 49 - Moussa Camara scored 16 as the defending America East champion Bearcats (1-0), now coached by former Temple star Mark Macon as interim and with six players from last year's squad kicked off the team, eked out a win over the Huskies in Vestal, N.Y.
Elsewhere: Delaware State (1-0) pinned a 67-57 loss on Holy Family, led by Justin Swidowski with 20, in Dover, Del. . . . Ryan Wittman put up 23 as Cornell (1-0) beat host Alabama, 71-67, (0-1) in Tuscaloosa. . . . Mike Rosario had 17 to help Rutgers (1-0) to a 74-67 win over Marist (0-1) in Piscataway, N.J. . . . Douglas Davis scored 16 points to lead Princeton (1-0) to a 71-68 victory over Central Michigan (0-1) in Mount Pleasant, Mich. . . . Sharaud Curry scored 17 to give host Providence (2-0) a 76-65 win over Bucknell (0-2).
Women
Connecticut 105, Northeastern 35 - Kalana Greene scored her 1,000th career point as top-ranked UConn (1-0) won a battle of Huskies by routing Northeastern (0-1) in Storrs, Conn.Elsewhere: In the early game of the Iona Tip-Off Tournament in New Rochelle, N.Y., Miami (Ohio) (1-0), rallied to beat Bucknell (0-1), 75-54. In the late game, Arizona (1-0) prevailed over Iona (0-1), 75-70, in overtime.
