NCAA basketball: No. 7 Hoyas rally to down Friars

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Chris Wright scored 21 points and Greg Monroe had 12 points and 12 assists to lead No. 7 Georgetown to a 79-70 victory over Providence on Tuesday night.

Wright scored 16 points in the second half as the Hoyas (18-5, 8-5 Big East) erased an eight-point deficit.

Jamine Peterson scored 23 points and Bilal Dixon had 16 rebounds for Providence (12-12, 4-8).

Providence led 47-40 with 15 minutes left before Georgetown scored 14 of the next 15 points, getting a three-point play from Wright to tie it and then took the lead with 12 minutes left.

Julian Vaughn scored 19 points for the Hoyas.

NO. 6 PURDUE 76, NO. 10 MICHIGAN STATE 64: At East Lansing, Mich., E'Twaun Moore scored a season-high 25 points and JaJuan Johnson added 19, lifting No. 6 Purdue to a 76-64 victory over No. 10 Michigan State on Tuesday night.

The Boilermakers (20-3, 8-3) have won six straight, while the Spartans (19-6, 9-3) have lost three in a row to lose their commanding lead in the Big Ten.

NO. 3 KENTUCKY 66, ALABAMA 55: At Lexingtom, Ky., John Wall had 22 points and 10 rebounds for his first double-double, and fellow freshman DeMarcus Cousins got his seventh in a row, as No. 3 Kentucky outmuscled Alabama.

With 16 points and 13 rebounds, Cousins extended his UK freshman record with 15 double-doubles. The last Kentucky player to get seven in a row was Jim Andrews, who had a team-record 10 straight in 1973.

ILLINOIS 63, NO. 11 WISCONSIN 56: At Madison, Wis., Demetri McCamey scored 27 points and Mike Tisdale added 19 on 8-of-11 shooting as Illinois snapped Wisconsin's 51-0 home record against unranked Big Ten opponents under coach Bo Ryan. The Illini (17-8, 9-3) became the first team to beat Ryan three times at the Kohl Center after wins in 2005 and '06, and ended Wisconsin's 18-game home winning streak. Illinois won its fifth straight game. Wisconsin (18-6, 8-4) got 15 points from Jason Bohannon, including 13 in the second half, and 12 from Trevon Hughes.

McCamey scored 15 of Illinois' final 20 points of the half and the Illini hit 10 consecutive shots straddling halftime to erase a double-digit deficit.

NO. 22 VANDERBILT 90, NO. 12 TENNESSEE 71: At Nashville, Tenn., Jeffery Taylor scored 16 of his career-high 26 points in the first half, and Vanderbilt swept the season series against its instate rival. The Commodores (18-5, 7-2) grabbed sole possession of second place in the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division, one loss behind No. 3 Kentucky. J.P. Prince had 19 points and Wayne Chism added 16 for Tennessee (18-5, 6-3), which had a three-game winning streak snapped.