SALT LAKE CITY -- Luka Drca scored a career-high 19 points to lead Utah over UTSA 69-47 Tuesday night.
Drca made 8 of 11 from the field and hit three 3-pointers. Carlon Brown scored 10 points and Kim Tillie added nine points for the Utes, who connected on a season-best 57 percent from the field. The Utes' (6-7) snapped a three-game losing skid.
Carlon Brown scored 10 points and Kim Tillie added nine points for the Utes, who connected on a season-best 57 percent from the field.
Devin Gibson led UTSA (8-3) with 15 points. The Roadrunners suffered an 11-minute period in the second half without a field goal. Omar Johnson, who had 12 points, finally ended the drought with 3:36 remaining and the Roadrunners trailed 63-40.
Utah outscored UTSA in the paint by a 42-16 margin and recorded 10 blocks against the much smaller Roadrunners. David Foster, who is fourth in the nation in blocked shots, had six rejections.
* FURMAN 77, UTAH VALLEY 69: At Berkeley, Calif., Jordan Miller scored 24 points and Furman beat Utah Valley in the consolation game of the Golden Bear Classic.
Amu Saaka had 22 points, nine rebounds and four assists for the Paladins, who finished with 14 blocked shots and made 51 percent of their field-goal tries on the way to snapping a five-game losing streak. Furman (6-6) was outrebounded 41-32 but converted 20-of-29 free throws -- 11-of-12 by Miller -- to bounce back after falling 72-60 to UC Santa Barbara on Monday night.
Colin Reddick, Chris Toler and Neil Duval each had three blocks and Noah States had two for the Paladins.
Corey Claitt and Shawn Deadwiler each scored 16 points to lead Utah Valley (6-7) in the game played at California's Haas Pavilion. Nick Jenson grabbed 10 rebounds for the Wolverines.
Top 25
* NO. 1 KANSAS 81, BELMONT 51: At Lawrence, Kan., Cole Aldrich had 11 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks to lead No. 1 Kansas over Belmont.
* NO. 2 TEXAS 95, GARDNER-WEBB 63: At Austin, Texas, Damion James had 14 points and 13 rebounds -- his 43rd career double-double -- and Texas overcame a sluggish start.
* NO. 3 KENTUCKY 104, HARTFORD 61: At Lexington, Ky., Freshman point guard John Wall set a Kentucky record with 16 assists.
* NO. 4 PURDUE 67, IOWA 56: At Iowa City, Iowa, E'Twaun Moore scored 21 points, 15 in the second half, and Purdue overcame a sluggish start for its best start in 16 seasons.
* NO. 5 SYRACUSE 80, SETON HALL 73: At Newark, N.J., Wesley Johnson had 20 points, a career-best 19 rebounds and led a 15-point second-half run for Syracuse.
* NO. 6 WEST VIRGINIA 63, MARQUETTE 62: At Morgantown, W.Va., Da'Sean Butler's 20-foot jumper with 2 seconds left lifted West Virginia.
* NO. 7 DUKE 84, LONG BEACH ST. 63: At DURHAM, N.C., Jon Scheyer scored 22 points and Nolan Smith added 19 for Duke.
* NO. 12 KANSAS ST. 85, CLEVELAND ST. 56: At Manhattan, Kan., Jacob Pullen and Curtis Kelly sparked a take-charge run in the first half to lead Kansas State to its ninth straight victory.
* NO. 16 MISSISSIPPI 90, JACKSONVILLE ST. 75: At Oxford, Miss., Terrico White scored 29 points and Mississippi connected for a school-record 14 3-pointers.
* NO. 19 NEW MEXICO 90, NO. 20 TEXAS TECH 75: At Albuquerque, N.M., Darington Hobson had 23 points and 12 rebounds for New Mexico.
* NO. 21 CLEMSON 70, SOUTH CAROLINA ST. 67: At Clemson, S.C., Demontez Stitt made two free throws after Andre Young's steal in the final minute and Clemson avoided a big upset in its final nonconference game.
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