Top 25 roundup: No. 6 Kentucky dismantles Hofstra 96-73

Malik Monk scored 20 points, Isaiah Briscoe had 19 and No. 6 Kentucky took control with a 26-3 run spanning halftime in a 96-73 victory over Hofstra on Sunday in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival at Barclays Center in New York.

De’Aaron Fox had 15 points and Bam Adebayo added 14 for Kentucky (9-1). The Wildcats closed the first half on a 12-0 run and opened the second with a 14-3 spurt to go ahead 62-36 with 16 minutes to play.

The Pride (6-5), who came in having won four of five, stayed with the Wildcats for 16 minutes, trailing 36-33 with 4 minutes left in the first half. Deron Powers had 18 points for Hofstra in the first meeting between the schools.

Monk had seven of the points in the 12-0 run and Adebayo had six in the 14-3 run. Kentucky started dominating inside, finishing with a 48-28 advantage in the paint, and on the perimeter, shooting 51.4 percent overall and 8 of 23 from 3-point range.

Justin Wright-Foreman had 14 points for Hofstra and Rokas Gustys added 13.

(7) North Carolina 73, Tennessee 71: Justin Jackson scored the go-ahead basket with 2:14 left to help the Tar Heels (10-1) rally from 15 down to beat the Vols (4-4) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Freshman Brandon Robinson added a key tip-in with 52.4 seconds left for the Tar Heels. Tennessee had a last chance to tie, but Tony Bradley Jr. blocked Lamonte Turner’s drive.

North Carolina shot just 40 percent, with Jackson managing seven points on 3-for-15 shooting. Sophomore Kenny Williams III had 12 points, while Nate Britt had 11 points, seven assists and five steals in place of point guard Joel Berry II, who missed his second straight with an ankle injury.

Robert Hubbs III led Tennessee with 21 points.

(12) Saint Mary’s 84, UC Irvine 53: Jock Landale had 15 points and seven rebounds, Evan Fitzner added a season-high 12 points and the Gaels (7-1) bounced back from thier first loss of the season and beat the Anteaters (5-6) in moraga, California.

Saint Mary’s was crisp offensively most of the game and shot 56.3 percent from the floor, a vast improvement from two nights earlier when the Gaels went 16 of 51 in a 65-51 loss to Texas-Arlington.

Eyassu Workue scored 14 points for the Anteaters.

Florida State 83, (21) Florida 79: Dwayne Bacon scored 24 points, Terrence Mann added 16 and the Seminoles (10-1) held on to beat Florida (7-3) in Tallahassee, Florida.

Bacon scored nine points during a 15-4 run early in the second half that helped the Seminoles take control after it was tied at 38.

Florida State led by 13 midway through the second half before the Gators started to slowly chip away. Florida used a 14-5 run to get within three, but could not get closer.

Kasey Hill scored a career-high 21 points for Florida, and KeVaughn Allen added 15.

(24) Oregon 63, Alabama 56: Tyler Dorsey scored 19 points and Dylan Ennis hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer as the shot clock expired to help the Ducks (8-2) beat the Crimson Tide (4-4) in Eugene, Oregon.

Dillon Brooks and Chris Boucher added 10 points each for the Ducks. They won their sixth consecutive game and 31st in a row at home.

Ennis’ shot started a 9-0 run for the Ducks to finish the game after Donta Hall’s fifth dunk tied it for Alabama at 56-all with 3:16 left to play. Hall led the Crimson Tide with 14 points.

Brooks found Ennis open on the right wing after getting caught in the air on a baseline drive. Ennis and Brooks each had six of Oregon’s 18 assists.