College basketball

Women: Duke hands Va. Tech worst loss of the year

By wire services
Published February 23, 2006

DURHAM, N.C. - Mistie Williams and Monique Currie scored 14 apiece to lead No. 1 Duke's 93-51 rout of Virginia Tech on Wednesday night.

Laura Kurz had 11 points on 5-for-5 shooting from the field, and Abby Waner and Jessica Foley added 10 apiece for the Blue Devils, who led from the start.

Williams, Currie and Foley improved to 121-11 in their four years at Duke.

"This team has always played together well," Blue Devils coach Gail Goestenkors said. "They've always been unselfish. It starts with the senior leadership. They could take 20 shots a game but they don't, and they make sure everyone gets involved."

The Blue Devils had 24 assists, shot 61 percent from the floor and scored 30 off the Hokies' 23 turnovers.

Dawn Chriss scored 12 to lead Virginia Tech, which lost by its biggest margin of the season and worst in two years in the ACC.

NO. 7 RUTGERS 71, MARQUETTE 50: Cappie Pondexter had 20 points and Matee Ajavon added 18 to move the visiting Knights closer to their second straight regular-season Big East title. Rutgers has won 22 straight Big East games and 10 straight overall.

NO. 8 UCONN 65, SYRACUSE 36: Renee Montgomery scored 10 of her 19 during a decisive second-half run for the visiting Huskies.

NO. 10 BAYLOR 86, COLORADO 40: Sophia Young had 20 points for the host Bears and became the Big 12's career rebounding leader, moving one ahead of the 1,223 career rebounds set by Texas' Stacy Stephens.

NO. 19 UTAH 75, UNLV 64: Kim Smith scored 26 and Shona Thorburn had nine assists for the host Utes, giving her a school career record 619, surpassing the 612 record set by Alli Bills in 1998.

NO. 21 BYU 67, SAN DIEGO ST. 49: Ambrosia Anderson scored 17 for the host Cougars.

NO. 23 NEW MEXICO 79, AIR FORCE 63: Dionne Marsh was 8-for-11 from the line and has hit 142 of 196 free throws this season - both school free-throw records for the host Lobos.

NO. 25 TEXAS A&M 79, TEXAS 67: The host Aggies led by as many as 15 in the first half and kept the momentum in the second half by hitting almost 48 percent of their shots.

TAMPA 61, FLORIDA TECH 60: Down one, Lindsay Taylor connected on a shot with 10 seconds remaining and the visiting Spartans got a stop to win after trailing the final nine minutes.

SAINT LEO 73, ECKERD 63: The host Monarchs scored six straight in the final two minutes in their second straight Sunshine State win.

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