West Virginia took care of Villanova's unbeaten record and avenged an embarrassing loss from last season.

The 24th-ranked Mountaineers handed No. 3 Villanova its first loss of the season, 91-87 on Sunday.

West Virginia, which beat then-No. 7 Oklahoma 92-68 last month, has won eight in a row after losing three straight in late November. The Mountaineers lost at Villanova by 38 points last year.

"Coming here and beating them, it was tremendous," said Kevin Pittsnogle, who had 23 points in the victory. "They were hitting incredible shots, but we can shoot with anybody."

Joe Herber scored 23 points and Mike Gansey added 21 as the Mountaineers (10-3, 2-0 Big East) beat their second top-10 opponent this season.

Randy Foye had 24 points and Mike Nardi scored 23 for Villanova (10-1, 1-1). The Wildcats had 22 turnovers to offset a strong shooting performance.

Villanova could've moved up in the rankings with a victory because Marquette beat No. 2 Connecticut 94-79 on Tuesday.

"I thought we were prepared," Wright said. "I just give West Virginia a lot of credit. They made more intelligent plays and executed better longer in a great game."

At Madison, Wis., Kammron Taylor scored 27 points and Wisconsin beat Michigan State for the seventh time in eight meetings.

Shannon Brown scored 31 points for Michigan State (12-4, 0-2), but Wisconsin held the Spartans' other two scoring threats, Maurice Ager and Paul Davis, in check.

"No team is going to do well if two of their three best players don't play well at all," Izzo said. "Ours have really struggled in the first two games."

In Atlanta, Zam Fredrick hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 33.5 seconds left and Georgia Tech topped Boston College, which went more than 11 minutes without a field goal and struggled to make anything outside the lane.

Craig Smith tried his best to carry the Eagles (11-3, 0-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) by himself, scoring 26 points. He tied it at 55 by hitting a free throw with 55.5 seconds left.

Georgia Tech's Anthony Morrow, who scored 15 points, drove the baseline but was forced to pull up. He spotted Fredrick lingering outside the 3-point arc and hurled a long pass to the point guard, who swished the open shot.

"When I took that shot, I didn't think about the situation," Fredrick said. "I try to treat every shot the same way. I just knew we needed a basket and I was open. It just happened to put us up by three with less than a minute to go. It was a big shot."

The Wildcats shot 58 percent (29-for-50) from the floor, including 57.7 percent from 3-point range (15-for-26), but had trouble once West Virginia started trapping on defense.

"They're the best in the conference at that," Wildcats coach Jay Wright said. "Obviously, we've got to get better taking care of the ball. There's two teams that have trapped us — the last two teams — and we've turned the ball over.

"Even against Temple, another team that trapped a lot, we turned the ball over. Even when we're winning, we've said we're a work in progress. We still have to get a lot better. I think that was proven today."

At Winston-Salem, N.C., J.J. Redick scored 32 points with old nemesis Chris Paul watching from a front-row seat as Duke held off Wake Forest, leaving the Blue Devils one of only three unbeaten teams in Division I.Lee Melchionni added 17 points for Duke (14-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), which played a large part of the game without star center Shelden Williams. He picked up his third foul with about 5 minutes left in the first half, then got his fourth soon after the break.Wake Forest center Eric Williams took advantage of Williams' absence to score 17 points.

At Memphis, Tenn., Rodney Carney had 21 points and Darius Washington scored seven of his 14 during a key stretch to help the Tigers hold off Winthrop.Carney shot 7-of-14, including 4-of-9 from 3-point range as Memphis (13-2) won its second straight after losing to No. 15 Texas last week. The Tigers' only other loss was to No. 1 Duke in the Preseason NIT championship game.