ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Reggie Williams scored 34 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead VMI to a 102-97 win over UNC Asheville.

The Keydets (9-12, 2-3) won at UNCA for the first time in their four seasons in the Big South.

Travis Holmes tallied 17 points and had seven steals for VMI, with Matt Murrer adding 14 points. Chavis Holmes had 13 points.

The Bulldogs (6-14, 2-4) had a season-high 29 turnovers to VMI's 11. The Keydets had 19 steals.

UNC took a 92-91 lead with four minutes to go, but VMI answered with a 8-0 run to take the lead for good.

After Donovan Jones hit a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 99-97 with 37 seconds left, Williams made one of two free throws. Bryan Smithson of UNCA had a 3-pointer rim out with 15 seconds left.

VMI had 13 3-pointers to UNCA's five.

Liberty 66, Charleston Southern 63

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Larry Blair scored 15 points, including a pair of free throws with 10 seconds to go, to help the Flames snap their 21-game road losing streak. It was Liberty's first road win since Feb. 24, 2005.

No. 13 Oklahoma State 66, Oklahoma 61

STILLWATER, Okla. -- Byron Eaton scored a season-high 17 points to help Oklahoma State hold off a last-minute charge in the Bedlam rivalry game.

WOMEN

No. 1 Duke 74, No. 4 Tennessee 70

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Thompson-Boling Arena was loud and full of orange for Tennessee's showdown against Duke. Even men's coach Bruce Pearl joined the student section, painting his bare chest orange and supplying the white "V" in GO VOLS.

The Blue Devils loved it.

Duke (20-0) stormed out to a 19-0 lead, never trailed and held on to win. It was one of the most dominating performances early by an opponent that fans here have seen in a long time.

Tennessee (17-2) was 0-of-8 from the field before finally Nicky Anosike scored with 14:02 remaining before halftime.

Abby Waner made her first eight shots and had 21 by the break. She finished with 24 and was 6-of-9 from beyond the arc. Lindsey Harding scored 14 her of 21 points in the second half, and Wanisha Smith added 15.

Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt said her team might have suffered from being too worked up about the game.

"It was a great opportunity for us to see how we would stack up against the No. 1 team in the country coming off losses to them in the last two years," she said. "Obviously we didn't lack for desire."

The Blue Devils started the year 20-0 for the second straight season and got victory No. 20 by handing Tennessee only its 17th loss in Thompson-Boling Arena, which opened in 1987.

Tennessee rallied from as many as 21 points down in the first half to tie it at 48 with 10:48 remaining.

Harding scored on a drive with 1:37 left to put Duke ahead 70-63, but Tennessee went 2-of-4 at the foul line and Candace Parker scored to cut it to 70-67.

The Lady Vols' last chance came after Alberta Auguste hit a 3 with 6.1 seconds left to cut it to 72-70, and they immediately fouled Harding. She made both free throws to ice it.

-- Staff and wire reports

NOTES

CSN, Cox blame each other for Sunday's technical woes

Some area viewers weren't able to watch Comcast SportsNet's telecast of the Maryland-Virginia Tech men's basketball game Sunday night.

Adelphia Communications customers in Blacksburg never saw the game, while Cox Communications customers in Roanoke and Roanoke County saw the telecast give way to a black screen during the second half. CSN stayed dark well after the game.

CSN communications coordinator Stephanie Offen said Monday the problem was related to Sunday's winter storm. She said it was also a problem for CSN viewers in Richmond. She placed the blame on the local cable systems.

"It was ice on the dish where they receive the signal," Offen said. "Once they realized they were having problems, they took the necessary measures to fix it, whether it was cleaning off the dish or heating the dish. ... It was weather on their end."

But Mike Pedelty, public affairs director for Cox's Roanoke office, blamed CSN. He noted that CSN was the only one of Cox's channels to go to black.

"If we had a weather-related problem, it would happen on all of our channels, not just one," he said. "It sounds to me like an uplink problem that they probably had."

"The reason that it could be our channel [that went dark] as opposed to the other channels is that they receive our channel on a separate dish," Offen said.

-- Mark Berman

Wolfpack's Yow to return

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Two months after cancer forced her away from basketball, North Carolina State coach Kay Yow still fights a disease that won't let her rest.

The Hall of Famer showed little sign of backing down as she announced she'd return to the team -- even as she adapts to what her body will and won't let her do.

"Of course, I'm always anxious to get back with the team, but I have to be realistic about it," Yow said.

"I told myself that I don't want to get back with the team and it be a hindrance. I have to be able to make a contribution. I wanted to get back, but I wanted to be sure I could do that before I came back."

The 64-year-old coach plans to resume her duties today, with her first game likely coming Thursday against Virginia. Yow, first diagnosed with cancer in 1987, left the team in November after doctors found the cancer that first recurred during the 2004-05 season was progressing.

Yow is in her 32nd season as head coach here and has a record of 696-321 in 36 seasons overall. She was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and coached the U.S. women's team to a gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Dr. Mark Graham, Yow's longtime oncologist, called her treatments "life-extending" instead of curative.

Yow hopes to go on road trips, though said she would have to wear a mask on airplanes to protect her immune system.

-- Associated Press