ACC Wednesday Hoops: Tech falls to Siena, Cavs lose to Seattle

Boston College Defeats Bucknell, 84-80: Reggie Jackson scored 22 points, including 15 in the second half, and the Eagles fought back from an early 16-point deficit to gain a hard-fought 84-80 win over Bucknell before 4,116 fans in Conte Forum.

Trailing 37-21 with 8:19 remaining in the first half, BC ran off 14 straight points to narrow the Bison advantage to two points. Senior Joe Trapani tallied eight points in this rally. BC trailed 42-39 at the intermission.

Bucknell, which finished the game with a Conte Forum record 15 three-pointers (on 29 attempts), made seven treys in the opening half.

The host Eagles took their first lead at 60-59 on the Jackson three-pointer with 9:56 to play. BC took the lead for good - 79-76 - on a Biko Paris trey with 2:18 left.

Terps Handle NJIT, 89-50: Jordan Williams did his usual thing, and this time he got plenty of help from his Maryland teammates in a lopsided victory at College Park.

Williams had 14 points and 12 rebounds, and five other Terrapins scored in double figures Wednesday night in an 89-50 rout of NJIT.

It was the sixth straight double-double for Williams, the longest such streak by a Maryland player since Joe Smith had a seven-game run in 1995.

Grant's Six 3-Pointers Lead Hurricanes Past Rice: Malcolm Grant scored 25 points, highlighted by six 3-pointers, to lead Miami over Rice 73-67 on day two of the Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic on Wednesday .

Grant, who missed just two shots from behind the arc, was 5 of 6 from the free throw line for the Hurricanes (9-3). He also was one point shy of a career high and snapped his streak of consecutive free throws at 33 when he missed with 4:06 left in the game.

Arsalan Kazemi led the Owls (6-5) with a career-high 26 points, and added 14 rebounds for his seventh double-double this season. Lucas Kuipers added 12 points and Tamir Jackson 11.

Wood's Last-Second Shot Lifts Wolfpack: Sophomore Scott Wood scored on a follow shot with 2.1 seconds remaining, as NC State survived a scare from Delaware State Wednesday night at the RBC Center to take a 72-70 victory.

The Hornets tied the score with a pair of free throws by leading scorer Casey Walker with 37.6 seconds remaining on the clock. The Wolfpack called time out and held the ball for the final shot, with freshman Ryan Harrow taking a 3-pointer from the wing.

Wood rebounded the ball in the lane and made his only basket of the night with less than a second on the shot clock.

Delaware State called two timeouts and got a halfcourt shot from Jay Threatt that actually hit the front of the rim and caromed off the backboard as time expired.

Georgia Tech Falls To Siena 62-57: Ryan Rossiter scored 12 of his 19 points in the second half and had 13 rebounds as Siena stunned Georgia Tech for the second time in program history, 62-57 on Wednesday night.

Entering the game, the Saints (4-6) considered their 76-68 win over the Yellow Jackets in the 1994 NIT to be their greatest home win.

Rossiter had his 40th double-double despite a sickness requiring two IVs before the game and a blow to the face late in the first half that sent him to the locker room for medical attention.

Siena used a 15-2 second-half run to turn a six-point deficit into a 49-44 lead with 9:51 to play.

Georgia Tech (6-5) tied the game twice, but never regained the lead in the homecoming of coach Paul Hewitt, who left Siena for the Yellow Jackets in 2000.

The Saints hit 6 of 8 free throws in the final 38 seconds.

Glen Rice paced Georgia Tech with 15 points.

Virginia Suffers 59-53 Loss to Seattle: Sterling Carter scored 19 points and Aaron Broussard added 15 as Seattle snapped Virginia's five-game winning streak with a 59-53 victory on Wednesday night.

Broussard also added 10 rebounds for the Redhawks, who had lost two straight games.

Virginia (8-4) welcomed leading scorer Mike Scott back into the lineup, but it didn't make much difference.

The senior co-captain, who had missed the previous two games with an ankle injury, was rusty. In 31 minutes off the bench, Scott had 12 points and eight rebounds.

Seattle (5-10), which led by as many as 10 in the first half, led 30-23 at the break.

Early in the second half, the Redhawks built on their momentum. Back-to-back buckets by Cervante Burrell — a circus shot in the lane and a jumper — gave Seattle a 41-30 lead.

The Redhawks, in just their second year at the Division I level, took a 15-point lead — their biggest of the game — on a drive by Carter with 5:45 remaining.

Virginia mounted a late rally, trimming the lead to six with less than 4 minutes to play after a pick-n-roll play between Scott and Sammy Zeglinski.

However, Seattle's Brandon Durham scored on a putback, which came after Broussard had been blocked twice in a row by Scott.