EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Keith Appling came off the bench to score 17 points and Denzel Valentine and Travis Trice added 15 apiece Friday to power Michigan State to a 98-65 victory over Mount St. Mary's and help the Spartans continue their domination of non-conference opponents at home during November.
The last time the Spartans (7-0) lost at home in November was to a David Robinson-led Navy team on Nov. 29, 1986. Michigan State has won 74 straight games against unranked non-conference opponents at home.
Michigan State - which is off to its best start since opening the 2000-01 season with a 12-0 mark - did not start Appling, Adreian Payne and Branden Dawson due to "classroom attendance issues."
The Mountaineers twice led by one point and kept it close before Michigan State's three usual starters entered the game with 14:12 left in the opening half.
Will Miller scored 15 points for Mount St. Mary's (2-6), which was facing the No. 1 team for only the second time in school history.
VILLANOVA 63, No. 2 KANSAS 59
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) - Ryan Arcidiacono's 3-pointer with 10.1 seconds left put Villanova on top for good and the Wildcats upset No. 2 Kansas in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis.
Arcidiacono had missed all five of his previous shots, but made the one that counted - the Wildcats' only field goal in the final 7 minutes.
Darrun Hilliard and Dylan Ennis each scored 14 for Villanova (6-0), which meets Iowa in Saturday night's championship game. JayVaughn Pinkston scored 13 and James Bell added 10.
Frank Mason scored 12 for Kansas (5-1). His three-point play with 34.2 seconds left gave Kansas its first lead in more than 25 minutes, but the Jayhawks couldn't hold on in the final moments.
Perry Ellis scored 11, while Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid added 10 each for Kansas.
No. 4 ARIZONA 72, No. 6 DUKE 66
NEW YORK (AP) - Nick Johnson scored all but two of his 15 points in the second half and No. 4 Arizona beat No. 6 Duke in the championship game of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
The game was expected to be a matchup of two of the best freshmen in the country and, although Aaron Gordon of Arizona and Jabari Parker of Duke didn't spend a lot of time covering each other, they were both key factors in the outcome.
Gordon, the quiet forward, finished with 10 points and seven rebounds and came up big late with a dunk on an alley-oop pass and then fed Rondae Hollis-Jefferson for a dunk less than a minute later to give the Wildcats (7-0) a 61-51 lead with 3:59 to play.
Parker, who had 19 points for his first game under 20 points this season, struggled against Arizona's physical defense and was 7 of 21 from the field. He came into the game shooting 60 percent from the field.
No. 5 OKLAHOMA STATE 69, BUTLER 67
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Marcus Smart scored 17 points to help the Cowboys survive a major scare against Butler in an Old Spice Classic semifinal.
Oklahoma State (7-0) again came out flat to start the second half one day after watching a 23-point halftime lead dwindle to four with 3 minutes to play before beating Purdue 97-87. The Cowboys will play in Sunday night's championship against No. 21 Memphis, which beat LSU 76-69.
With the Cowboys holding a 68-67 lead in the final minute, Smart missed three free throws, including the front end of a 1-and-1.
Butler's Khyle Marshall was fouled with 8.4 seconds remaining, but also missed his free throws.
Le'Bryan Nash made it 69-67 by hitting 1 of 2 from the line before Butler's Elijah Brown had his last-second 3 blocked.
Butler (5-1) got 15 points from Brown.
No. 7 OHIO STATE 99, NORTH FLORIDA 64
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - LaQuinton Ross broke out of a frigid shooting spell by scoring 17 points and No. 7 Ohio State rode a 19-point first-half run to a victory over North Florida.
Amir Williams and Amedeo Della each hit career highs for the Buckeyes (6-0), with 18 and 17 points, respectively. Aaron Craft added 16 points, making his first 3-pointer of the season, while Lenzelle Smith Jr. had 10.
Beau Beech and Dallas Moore had 14 points apiece and Charles McRoy 11 for North Florida (4-4), which fell to 0-16 against ranked teams and 0-6 against teams in the top 10.
No. 9 LOUISVILLE 69, SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 38
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Chris Jones came off the bench to score 18 points, including four 3-pointers, and No. 9 Louisville bounced back from its first loss to roll past Southern Mississippi.
Five days after a lackluster effort in a 93-84 loss to North Carolina, the Cardinals (6-1) got a better effort on both ends with the help of two new starters. Freshman point guard Terry Rozier got things going offensively by making his first three from beyond the arc en route to nine points, while redshirt freshman center Mangok Mathiang had seven rebounds and three blocks.
Jones made 4 of 7 from long range and 5 of 10 overall. Louisville shot 23 of 55 (42 percent) and matched a season high with 12 3-pointers.
The Cardinals' trademark pressure defense forced 22 turnovers and stifled the Golden Eagles (6-1) at the start of both halves, holding them scoreless for nearly 12 combined minutes.
Michael Craig's nine points led the Golden Eagles, who shot 13 of 45 from the field (29 percent).
No. 14 OREGON 85, PACIFIC 62
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Mike Moser scored 19 points to lead No. 14 Oregon past Pacific.
Johnathan Loyd had 13 assists, tied with four others for the second-most ever by an Oregon player.
The Ducks (5-0) scored 20 straight points after halftime to break open a close game. Pacific (4-1) led 36-29 after the break, but then went nearly seven minutes without scoring.
T.J. Wallace and Trevin Harris had 14 points each for the Tigers.
Joseph Young finished with 14 points for the Ducks, Jason Calliste added 15 and Damyean Dotson had 13 points and seven rebounds.
No. 15 FLORIDA 67, FLORIDA STATE 66
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Dorian Finney-Smith made a free throw with 1.3 seconds left, lifting No. 15 Florida over rival Florida State.
Finney-Smith struggled all night from the field, missing 10 of 12 shots, but came up big in the clutch.
He grabbed an offensive rebound on a missed jumper by Scottie Wilbekin and got fouled on the putback. He missed the first free throw, but gathered himself and sank the second one for the Gators (6-1).
Florida State (5-2) had a shot to win it, but Ian Miller's desperation heave from half court bounced off the back of the rim, just missing by inches.
Casey Prather led Florida with 19 points, and Michael Frazier II added 17. Finney-Smith finished with six points and 10 rebounds.
Miller finished with 13 points and Boris Bojanovsky had 14 points for Florida State.
The Gators extended their home-winning streak to 20 and won their fifth straight in the series.
No. 19 UCLA, 95, NORTHWESTERN 79
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Jordan Adams, Zach LaVine and Bryce Alford scored 18 points apiece to lead No. 19 UCLA over Northwestern in the final round of the Las Vegas Invitational.
The Bruins (7-0) shot 13 of 17 from 3-point range to finish 4-0 in the round-robin tournament for a share of the crown with Missouri.
Tournament MVP Kyle Anderson added 16 points, nine rebounds and nine assists as the Bruins shot 64 percent from the field overall (35 of 55).
Alford hit all four of his 3-point attempts in setting a career high for points.
Steve Alford became the first UCLA coach to win his first seven games. Hall of Fame great John Wooden started his Bruins stint 6-1 in 1948-49.
JerShon Cobb led Northwestern (4-4) with 22 points. Kale Abrahamson added 19 and Tre Demps 15 for the Wildcats, who went 2-2 in the tourney.
SAN DIEGO STATE 86, No. 20 CREIGHTON 80
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) - Xavier Thames scored six of his 26 points in the final 1:18, J.J. O'Brien had 15 points and seven rebounds, and San Diego State overcame 30 points by Doug McDermott to upset No. 20 Creighton in the second round of the Wooden Legacy at Cal State Fullerton.
Winston Shepard added 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Aztecs (4-1).
Ethan Wragge had 15 points for Creighton (5-1).
McDermott connected on his first six shots, including three consecutive 3-pointers during a game-opening 19-7 run. But the nation's top scorer among returning players missed his next 11 field-goal attempts and San Diego State stormed back with a 31-9 run to pull ahead 38-28 with 2:03 left in the half.
Thames led the Aztecs to a 40-30 halftime lead with 13 points.
No. 21 MEMPHIS 76, LSU 69
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Austin Nichols scored 19 points and Chris Crawford had 17 to lead No. 21 Memphis to victory over LSU in a semifinal at the Old Spice Classic.
Joe Jackson added 16 points for Memphis (4-1), which will play No. 5 Oklahoma State in Sunday night's championship game.
Memphis' only loss this season came to Oklahoma State, which won handily 101-80 on Nov. 19.
Anthony Hickey scored 20 points for LSU (4-2).
No. 22 MICHIGAN 87, COPPIN STATE 45
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Playing without leading scorer Nik Stauskas, No. 22 Michigan found plenty of offensive firepower to rout Coppin State.
Freshman Zak Irvin matched his career-high of 10 points by halftime, when Michigan led 42-23, and brought the Crisler Center crowd to its feet by connecting on three consecutive 3-pointers for a 63-31 lead with 13:24 left to play.
The freshman finished with 24 points on 9-of-13 shooting, including 6 of 10 from 3-point range.
Caris LeVert added 15 points and Glenn Robinson III 14 points for Michigan (5-2). Dallas Gary came off the bench to score a team-high 11 points Coppin State (2-3).
No. 23 IOWA 89, UTEP 53
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) - Aaron White scored 17 points, Zach McCabe added 14 and No. 23 Iowa rolled into the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis with an easy victory over Texas-El Paso.
Peter Jok scored 14 and Melsahn Basabe finished with 10 for the Hawkeyes (7-0), who have won five times this season by at least 31 points. Iowa will meet Villanova for the tournament title on Saturday.
After needing overtime to beat Xavier in the quarterfinals, Iowa took care of this one early. A 13-0 run in the opening minutes put the Hawkeyes in control, and Iowa's first 20-point lead came a mere 14 minutes into the contest.
Julian Washburn scored 13 for UTEP (4-3). No other Miner finished with more than seven.
No. 25 MARQUETTE 76, GEORGE WASHINGTON 60
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) - Davante Gardner scored 20 points and had nine rebounds to lead No. 25 Marquette over George Washington in the semifinals of the Wooden Legacy.
Marquette (5-2) used a 12-2 run early in the first half to build a double-digit lead and never trailed.
The Colonials (5-1) tried to stage a couple of comebacks in the second half but never got any closer than 12 points in the second half.
George Washington hurt itself by shooting just 35 percent from the floor, and making just 15 of 25 free throws.
Gardner had 14 of his game-high 20 points, when the Golden Eagles built a 21-point halftime lead. Jake Thomas added 13 points for the Marquette.
The Colonials were led by Kethan Savage and Maurice Creek, who scored 15 and 14 points, respectively.