COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

No. 21 Louisville 73, Southern Mississippi 71--Cornelius Holden scored 32 points, including two free throws with eight seconds left, to give the Cardinals the Metro Conference victory at Hattiesburg, Miss.

Holden made 14 of 14 shots and all four of his free throws. He was fouled by Clarence Weatherspoon to set up the winning foul shots. He clinched the victory with a steal.

Louisville (23-7, 12-2), the regular season conference champion, plays Tulane on Thursday in the conference tournament at Biloxi, Miss. Southern Mississippi (18-10, 9-5) is seeded second and plays Virginia Tech.

OTHER GAMES

SOUTH

Florida State 79, South Carolina 70--Tharon Mayes, playing in only his second game in a month, scored 25 points, including four free throws in the final minute, to lead the Seminoles to the Metro Conference win at Columbia, S.C.

Mayes, who was suspended for seven games by Florida State Coach Pat Kennedy for an on-campus altercation, scored 13 points in the final 8:10 as the Seminoles (16-14, 6-8) held off a pair of late rallies by the Gamecocks.

The loss dropped South Carolina (13-13, 6-8) into a tie with Florida State for fifth place in the conference.

MIDWEST

Indiana 70, Wisconsin 68--Calbert Cheaney made a 15-foot jump shot with two seconds left to give the Hoosiers the Big Ten victory at Madison, Wis.

Cheaney’s basket, which came with two defenders hanging on him, capped a 10-0 Indiana rally over the last 3:11. After a pair of timeouts, Wisconsin’s Kurt Portmann threw a baseball pass to Tim Locum. Locum took the pass just past midcourt, but his shot fell short.

Indiana is 17-9 overall and 7-9 in the Big Ten. Wisconsin is 14-16 and 4-13.

Texas 89, DePaul 79--Lance Blanks scored 30 points at Rosemont, Ill., to help the Longhorns extend their winning streak to five games.

The game was tied, 69-69, with 7:10 left when Joey Wright drove the baseline for a layup to give Texas (20-6) a lead it never relinquished. Texas earlier appeared to have the game well in hand. The Blue Demons trailed, 66-56, with 13:22 remaining. But a 10-0 DePaul run midway through the second half tied the game, 66-66, with 9:17 left.

Stephen Howard’s 25 points led DePaul (16-14), whose hopes of getting an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament were hurt by the defeat.

Ball State 84, Central Michigan 57--The easy victory at Muncie, Ind., enabled the Cardinals to become the first team to win consecutive regular-season Mid-American Conference titles since Bowling Green in 1961 and 1962.

Chandler Thompson and Billy Butts each scored five points during a 12-2 run that gave Ball State (21-6, 13-3) a 58-38 lead with 8:35 left. A 14-3 run in which Thompson scored six points extended the lead to 74-48 with 3:09 left.

The Chippewas (11-16, 6-10) stayed close in the first half and trailed 37-30 at halftime.