Witt's streak hits nine

Wooster missed its final three free throws and Gregg Hill made the No. 19 Scots pay, scoring with four seconds left in overtime for an 87-86 win.

Hill, who scored five points in the final 15 seconds, finished with 16 points as Wittenberg won for the ninth consecutive game after a 1-5 start. Brendan Barabino scored 26 points, including 9-for-11 foul shooting. Wooster's three missed free throws were its only misses in 17 attempts on the night. Saturday's men's scores. For Saturday's top women's basketball news, scroll down.

Whitworth improved to 11-3, winning 83-78 at No. 7 Puget Sound and holding the Loggers 20 points under their season average. Steve Djurickovic scored 30 points, 20 of them in the second half, as Carthage beat No. 9 Augustana 74-68. No. 25 Randolph-Macon won at archrival Hampden-Sydney 72-59 after starting the game in a 13-0 hole. Dan Holbrook scored 27 on 12-for-14 shooting as No. 14 Mass-Dartmouth remained unbeaten with an 84-80 win at Plymouth State. The Panthers shot 65% in the loss, while Wentworth went one better, shooting 67% from the floor in an 85-84 loss to Roger Williams. Hamidou Soumare scored 32 points and Jimmy Bartolotta added 22 as MIT beat Springfield 75-58.

&&b-boxl&&Bowdoin couldn't maintain its Friday night momentum and lost to Middlebury 69-52. No. 3 Amherst trailed Bates by one in the closing seconds but Brian Baskauskas saved the Lord Jeffs with the winning bucket in a 77-76 victory. No. 4 Mary Hardin-Baylor had another rough day in Abilene, Texas, losing 79-76 at McMurry by shooting 25% from three-point range and missing 17 free throws.

Two big men's games in the Mid-Atlantic region had lopsided results. Ursinus rolled past Gettysburg 83-53 for its seventh straight victory. The Bears have beaten the second-place Bullets by 25 and 33 points this year. Elizabethtown upped its record to 13-1 by cruising past DeSales 80-69. The Blue Jays led by as many as 32 points.