Bird's 16 points helped compensate for UConn's distracted post play.
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D'Angelo Harrison's 26 points helped host St. John's beat South Carolina, 89-65.
Those points helped to move him into 10th place in the overall standings and automatically qualify for the Chase.
VERMONT 73, HOFSTRA 65 Tony Orciari's 12 second-half points helped host Vermont end Hofstra's winning streak at 10 games.
Lemieux, who has 701 career points, helped New Jersey win the Stanley Cup last spring -- his fourth with three teams.
COLGATE 77, ARMY 71 Mitch Rolls's 23 points helped Colgate win back-to-back games for only the second time this season in a victory at West Point.
BUTLER 68, FORDHAM 63 Rotnei Clarke's 22 points helped No. 11 Butler (21-5, 8-3 Atlantic 10) win at Fordham (6-20, 2-9).
In the general election campaign, a slugfest against a Republican assemblyman, Alfred A. DelliBovi, she won by 10 percentage points, helped by her law-and-order background.
Its operating margin on home sales was 12.2 percent, up 6.6 percentage points, helped by an increase in selling prices and a decline in buyer incentives.
Rose's presence, and another energy jolt off the bench from Russell Westbrook (8 points), helped the United States play faster and more aggressively than it did against Lithuania.
