No. 1 Kentucky beats up Boston University

Freshman center Skal Labissiere had one of his best nights, scoring 16 points with seven rebounds and three blocks.

The undefeated Wildcats, who reached No. 1 in the most recent Associated Press men’s basketball top 25 poll for the first time this year, have now won their first five games of the season and will look to make it six in a row at 4 p.m. Friday against South Florida.

Lee 4-4 1-4 9, Labissiere 7-13 2-5 16, Ulis 4-12 6-6 15, Briscoe 4-10 3-7 11, Murray 5-9 0-0 12, Matthews 1-1 1-4 3, David 0-0 0-0 0, Mulder 0-0 0-0 0, Poythress 7-8 0-0 14, Hawkins 0-1 0-0 0, Willis 1-6 0-0 2.

Jamal Murray scored 12 points and Isaiah Briscoe had 11. Kentucky settled for several three-point shots against Boston’s zone but could not convert on many of those attempts.

Boston University (2-3) got 15 points from John Papale.

LAHAINA, Hawaii – Perry Ellis scored 24 points on 9-of-12 shooting and Kansas had another easy win on the way to the Maui Jim Maui Invitational championship game. It will be the second championship for either school. The Jayhawks were up 59-33 at halftime and by at least 20 points for all but the closing seconds of the second half. “So, all in all, I was pleased with how hard we fought, but we can’t make those type of mistakes against a team like that and put yourself in position to win the game”. Antigua’s Bulls lost their first four games of the season before beating Albany 63-61 on Tuesday.

BC 5, UConn 1 – Austin Cangelosi, Colin White, Josh Couturier, and Miles Wood scored in the first period and Thatcher Demko turned aside 29 shots as the Eagles remained ideal in Hockey East play with a win over the Huskies (3-10-0, 1-7-0) in Hartford. At one point Boston was shooting 43% from the field and 44% from 3. Oklahoma outrebounded the Cardinals 51-23 in a warmup for Sunday’s home game against Wisconsin.

“Then in the second half, I thought they did a better job clamping down on our 3-point shooters”. He produced two volleyball-style spikes against the Terriers and then, with the lead still just 10 and eight minutes to go, met Boston’s Nathan Dieudonne at the rim for a forceful rejection. Ulis also had six assists, three steals and two turnovers in 34 minutes. He returned to the game 92 seconds later.

IN will play UNLV for fifth place on Wednesday. “Maybe have them need to go to some guys without a lot of experience”. He finished with 14. He was 7 of 8 from the field – all from close range.

The resulting free throws left Kentucky with a 62-53 lead.

The game couldn’t have started much worse for Wake Forest (3-2).

“I just took what the defense gave me”, Poythress said. Surprisingly, that was UK’s largest first-half lead.

CINCINNATI – Troy Caupain and Jacob Evans III scored 15 points apiece, and Cincinnati overcame low-percentage shooting to beat Southeastern Louisiana.

It quickly became 10-0 after Marcus Lee gets an offensive rebound after Skal missed his shot for a three point play after his dunk.

Evans made a pair of free throws and back-to-back 3s that helped Cincinnati pull away down the stretch, finishing with a career high.