NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Jared Butler scored 22 points and No. 1 Baylor beat Oklahoma 65-54 for its Big 12-record 23rd consecutive win. Baylor broke a tie with Kansas, which won 22 straight during the 1996-97 season. Mark Vital had 10 points and Freddie Gillespie grabbed 10 rebounds for the Bears. Baylor guard MaCio Teague, the team's leading scorer in Big 12 play, sat out for the second straight game with a wrist injury. Kristian Doolittle had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma. The Sooners hosted a No. 1 team for the first time in 23 years.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Miles McBride had 11 points in his first start, Sean McNeil also scored 11 and No. 17 West Virginia took over early in the second half to beat Oklahoma State 65-47, snapping a three-game losing streak. The win gave coach Bob Huggins his 879th career victory, tying North Carolina's Dean Smith for sixth all-time in Division I. Oklahoma State led 33-28 at halftime but was limited to 14 points in the second half. Cameron McGriff scored 19 for the Cowboys.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Baylor's Kim Mulkey became the fastest Division I men's or women's coach to 600 wins, reaching the milestone when Juicy Landrum scored 19 points to lift the No. 2 Lady Bears to a 77-62 victory over Texas Tech. The Lady Bears broke open a tie game by scoring the first seven points of the fourth quarter. Baylor extended a pair of Big 12 records with its 54th consecutive league win and 43rd straight road victory in conference play. Mulkey earned her 600th win in her 700th game, four games faster than Adolph Rupp with the Kentucky men.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has hired Jonathan Wallace to coach special teams and running backs, completing an overhaul of coach Les Miles' staff as the Jayhawks head into Year 2 of the former national championship-winning coach's regime. Miles announced the hiring in a statement Tuesday. Wallace spent last season coaching tight ends at Air Force, and he spent the previous season at Bethel, a Division III school in Minnesota where he worked with recently promoted offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon.
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UNDATED (AP) — The NCAA is moving toward allowing all Division I athletes to transfer one time without sitting out a season of competition. A plan to change the waiver process is expected to be presented to the Division I Council in April. If adopted, new criteria would go into effect for the 2020-21 academic year. Currently, football, men's and women's basketball, men's hockey and baseball players must sit out one season after transferring. The NCAA adjusted waiver criteria two years ago to give more athletes the chance to become immediately eligible, but that has led to complaints about inconsistency in the process. If the plan is adopted, any athlete in good academic standing and not facing a disciplinary suspension will be allowed to transfer and play immediately for the new school.
UNDATED (AP) — Jalen Crutcher scored 18 points and No. 5 Dayton picked up its 15th straight victory by downing VCU, 66-61. Jalen Smith dropped in 22 points and grabbed 19 rebounds as seventh-ranked Maryland held off Northwestern, 76-67 to take a two-game lead in the Big Ten Conference at 12-3. Eighth-ranked Florida State was an 82-67 winner against Pittsburgh as freshman Patrick Williams contributed 16 points and Anthony Polite added 10 with six rebounds.
Tuesday Scores
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (1)Baylor 65 Oklahoma 54
Final (5)Dayton 66 VCU 61
Final (7)Maryland 76 Northwestern 67
Final (8)Florida St. 82 Pittsburgh 67
Final Illinois 62 (9)Penn St. 56
Final (10)Kentucky 79 LSU 76
Final (15)Creighton 73 (19)Marquette 65
Final (17)West Virginia 65 Oklahoma St. 47
Wednesday Sports Schedule
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
(6)Duke at NC State 9 p.m.
Syracuse at (11)Louisville 7 p.m.
(12)Villanova at DePaul 9 p.m.
(13)Auburn at Georgia 7 p.m.
(21)Butler at (16)Seton Hall 6:30 p.m.
Tulsa at (22)Houston 9 p.m.