Sports in brief: Fernandez carries Temple to upset win

Basketball: Villanova’s perfect record and city dominance are finished.

Juan Fernandez hit seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 33 points and Ryan Brooks added 20 points in Temple’s 75-65 victory over the third-ranked Wildcats on Sunday in Philadelphia.

Temple (8-2) fans bellowed “Overrated!” moments before they stormed the court in their biggest win in coach Fran Dunphy’s four seasons

Fernandez led a sizzling 3-point attack that stunned the Wildcats (9-1) in the second half and helped the Owls pull away for their first win over a top-five team since beating No. 1 Cincinnati on Feb. 20, 2000. The Owls opened the half on an 11-0 run and grabbed a lead they would never surrender.

Scottie Reynolds led Villanova with 23 points, Antonio Pena had 16 and Corey Fisher 14.

•Cincinnati loses to Xavier in double OT: Jason Love got his 18th rebound with 9.8 seconds left and made a clinching free throw, leading Xavier to an 83-79 double-overtime victory over No. 19 Cincinnati (6-2) in a nasty and classic renewal of their crosstown rivalry.

Xavier (6-3) wasted a 10-point lead in regulation, survived Lance Stephenson’s off-target shot at the end of the first overtime, then pulled it out on its home court behind its lone senior.

•Portland State uses 3-pointer to bury Pepperdine: Phil Nelson led a barrage from beyond the arc with career highs of 28 points and eight 3-pointers as Portland State defeated Pepperdine (3-8) 93-81 in Malibu, Calif.

The Vikings (5-4) made 17 3s, one shy of the school record, and connected on 51.5 percent of their attempts.

The Vikings were up 67-62 with less than nine minutes to play but went on a 12-0 run to put the game away.

•Slow start dooms Rockets: This was one slow start the Houston Rockets couldn’t overcome.

Chris Bosh scored 27 points and Hedo Turkoglu had a season-high 23 as the Toronto Raptors took a 15-point lead in the first quarter and went on to beat the visiting Rockets 101-88.

Jarrett Jack added 17 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the Raptors, who snapped a two-game losing streak. Andrea Bargnani also had 14 points, and Sonny Weems had 11.

Carl Landry scored 25 points, Luis Scola had 21 points and 15 rebounds, and Aaron Brooks put in 20 for the Rockets, who had won two straight and five of six.

•Lady Vols get past Rutgers: Shekinna Stricklen scored 19 points to lead a balanced offense and No. 4 Tennessee beat Rutgers 68-54 in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Glory Johnson and Alyssia Brewer each added 10 points for the Lady Vols (8-0).

Brittany Ray scored 29 points to lead Rutgers (7-5).

Angie Bjorklund (University HS) scored eight points and added five rebounds for Tennessee.

Phelps takes 200 fly for fifth victory

Miscellany: Michael Phelps won the 200-yard butterfly, giving the 14-time Olympic champion five first-place finishes in five events at the three-day NBAC Christmas meet at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

Phelps, swimming for the host North Baltimore Aquatic Club, finished in 1 minute, 42.29 seconds, nearly 3 seconds ahead of Todd Patrick.

During the meet’s first two days, Phelps won the 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle and 400 individual medley. He had also been scheduled to swim in the 100 freestyle on Sunday and swam it in preliminaries, but skipped the final to concentrate on the 200 fly. The two events were 22 minutes apart.

•Rays, Balfour agree to terms: Right-handed reliever Grant Balfour has agreed to a $2.05 million, one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, avoiding arbitration.

Balfour went 5-4 with a 4.81 ERA in 73 appearances last season.

•Virginia beats Akron on PKs for College Cup: Virginia beat Akron 3-2 on penalty kicks after a scoreless game to win the NCAA Men’s College Cup in Cary, N.C.

The Cavaliers won the championship when Blair Gavin, who made the clinching penalty kick to help Akron eliminate North Carolina in Friday’s semifinals, sent the final shot high over the crossbar.

The second-seeded Cavaliers (19-3-3) claimed their sixth College Cup championship and first since they won four straight national titles from 1991 through 1994.

•Smallwood wins first PBA title: Tom Smallwood got a major title with his first PBA Tour win, upsetting Wes Malott 244-228 at the PBA World Championship in Wichita, Kan.

Smallwood, a former assembly line worker who was laid off from his job with General Motors nearly a year ago, earned $50,000, a two-year exemption on the PBA Tour and his first chance to bowl in the Tournament of Champions in January.

•Miller skips event with injury; Hirscher wins: Marcel Hirscher of Austria claimed his first World Cup victory, winning a giant slalom in the French Alps that Bode Miller skipped after spraining his ankle playing volleyball in Val D’isere, France.

Hirscher led after the first run on the challenging Face de Bellevarde course and finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 16.28 seconds. Massimiliano Blardone of Italy was 0.77 seconds off the pace and Benjamin Raich of Austria was third, 1.32 back.

•Fog doesn’t slow Aubert in women’s slalom: Sandrine Aubert of France has won her first World Cup race of the season by besting world champion Maria Riesch in a foggy second run of a women’s slalom in Are, Sweden.

Riesch finished second but still overtook Lindsey Vonn in the overall standings. The American finished eighth and is now 20 points behind Riesch.

•Holcomb wins third straight 4-man bobsled race: Steven Holcomb of the United States drove to his third straight World Cup four-man bobsled victory of the season in Winterberg, Germany, further cementing himself as the Olympic favorite.

Holcomb and his reigning world championship team of Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curt Tomasevicz finished two runs in a combined 1 minute, 50.70 seconds. That was 0.10 of a second ahead of the German sled piloted by defending Olympic champion Andre Lange.

•Davis, Nesbitt complete sweeps: Shani Davis claimed his second title in three days, winning the 1,000 meters in the final long-track speedskating World Cup, in Kearns, Utah, before the Vancouver Olympics.

The American skated the distance in 1 minute, 6.67 seconds at the Utah Olympic Oval, again beating rival Chad Hedrick, who was fifth.

Christine Nesbitt of Canada matched Davis’ feat on the women’s side, claiming the 1,000 to go with her title in the 1,500 a day earlier. She won in 1:13.36.

•Hamlin gets World Cup luge bronze: Erin Hamlin was third in a World Cup race at Lillehammer, Norway for her highest finish ever in the series, becoming the first U.S. woman to medal on the top international circuit since Ashley Hayden took bronze at Winterberg in 2005.

Tony Benshoof of White Bear Lake, Minn., sealed his third Olympic trip with a ninth-place finish in the men’s race.