Stop Sweet Dreams From Turning Scary

In Brief

Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Jermaine Dixon shoots in front of St. John&rsquo;s Quincy Roberts (10) in the first half of a Big East basketball game in Pittsburgh on Sunday. With its 90-67 victory, top-ranked Pitt improved its overall record to 15-0 and league mark to 3-0.
 
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PITTSBURGH &mdash; No. 1 and not done. Not yet anyway.
DeJuan Blair scored 23 points and cleaned up inside with 15 rebounds as Pittsburgh, playing its first game as the nation&rsquo;s top-ranked basketball team, pulled away in the second half for a 90-67 win on Sunday over St. John&rsquo;s, one of the few Big East Conference members not among the Top 25.
Leading by just five points at halftime, Pitt (15-0, 3-0 Big East) clamped down on defense and found its shooting range, knocking down three three-pointers in a 17-6 spurt in the first seven minutes of the second half.
D.J. Kennedy, who won a Pennsylvania state high school title as Blair&rsquo;s teammate, scored 18 for the Red Storm (10-5, 1-2).
No. 4 Wake Forest 92, No. 3 North Carolina
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. &mdash; Jeff Teague scored a career-high 34 points and No. 4 Wake Forest held on to beat third-ranked North Carolina.
Chas McFarland matched a season high with 20 points for the Demon Deacons (14-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who remained one of three unbeatens in Division I and matched the 1980-81 team that also won its first 14 games.
Danny Green scored 22 points and Tyler Hansbrough added 17 on 3-of-12 shooting &mdash; he went without a field goal in the second half for UNC (14-2, 0-2).
In a span of eight days, the once-unanimous No. 1 team in the nation has lost two of three and shares last place in the ACC with Georgia Tech. UNC has lost its first two league games for the first time since 1996-97, when it started 0-3.
No. 14 Purdue 65, Wisconsin 52
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; JaJuan Johnson had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Robbie Hummel scored 16 in his return from a back injury and Purdue beat Wisconsin.
Joe Krabbenhoft had 13 points and seven rebounds for Wisconsin (12-4, 3-1 Big Ten).
No. 16 Xavier 86, Fordham 60
NEW YORK &mdash; B.J. Raymond scored 18 points to lead six Xavier players in double figures. It was the fourth straight victory for Xavier (13-2, 2-0 Atlantic 10).
No. 22 Minnesota 79,  Penn State 59
MINNEAPOLIS &mdash; Reserve Devron Bostick scored 19 points to lead Minnesota, which made all nine of its three-point attempts in a win over Penn State.
Fellow junior college transfer Paul Carter added 14 for the Gophers (15-1, 3-1 Big Ten), who shot 62.5 percent.
Talor Battle had 19 points and nine assists for Penn State (13-4, 2-2). But the Big Ten&rsquo;s leading scorer didn&rsquo;t get on the board until 15 minutes had passed Teammate Stanley Pringle, who averaged 19.3 points in the first three league games of the year, was held to seven points.
 
Temple 75, La Salle 68
PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Dionte Christmas scored 30 points and Lavoy Allen added a career-best 21 as Temple (8-6) defeated city rival La Salle (8-6) in the Atlantic 10 opener for both teams.

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