SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Wes Johnson and Kris Joseph combined to make six straight free throws in the final 33 seconds, and No. 2 Syracuse held off Connecticut 72-67 on Wednesday night after squandering a 16-point lead in the second half.

Jerome Dyson's 3-pointer for the Huskies tied it at 65 with 2:33 left, but Johnson put the Orange back in front by hitting two foul shots with 30.4 seconds to go.

It was the 11th straight victory for Syracuse (24-1, 12-1 Big East) and it snapped a six-game skid against the Huskies in the regular season.

Connecticut (14-10, 4-7) dropped to 0-6 on the road this season and 1-5 against ranked teams. George Blaney fell to 3-4 in place of coach Jim Calhoun, who took a medical leave of absence last month.

Rick Jackson led Syracuse with 15 points. Dyson paced Connecticut with 19.

No. 8 Duke 64, North Carolina 54

Jon Scheyer scored 24 points and Duke pulled away in the final minutes to beat rival North Carolina for the second time in the past eight meetings.

Kyle Singler added 19 points for the Blue Devils (20-4, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who shot poorly all night and couldn't make much of anything in close. But boasting a bigger and tougher front line than in years past, Duke dominated the boards and got plenty of extra looks to make up for all those misses.

Duke hit nine 3-pointers, but shot 32 percent overall and went 13 for 51 (25 percent) from inside the arc.

The loss only added to the defending national champions' misery in a season that is slipping away. North Carolina (13-11, 2-7) has lost eight of 10 since the start of 2010, including four in a row overall to fall near the bottom of the league standings.

Will Graves scored 13 points to lead the Tar Heels, who retired the No. 50 jersey of former star Tyler Hansbrough in a halftime ceremony.

No. 13 Ohio St. 69, Indiana 52

William Buford scored 21 points and Kyle Madsen had a career-high 11, leading Ohio State over Indiana.

The game was so lopsided that Hoosiers fans started leaving with approximately 11 minutes left — with about 5 minutes to go, many of the seats were empty.

The Buckeyes (19-6, 9-3 Big Ten) have won eight straight Big Ten games and four in a row over the Hoosiers. It is Ohio State's longest winning streak in the rivalry since 1968-70.

No. 15 New Mexico 76, No. 23 UNLV 66

Roman Martinez scored 16 points, including four 3-pointers, and Darington Hobson had 16 points and had 13 rebounds for New Mexico.

Dairese Gary added 15 points, and Phillip McDonald had 13 for the Lobos (22-3, 8-2 Mountain West), who were 11 of 21 from 3-point range and had a 45-23 rebounding advantage. Oscar Bellfield led UNLV (19-5, 7-3) with 15 points, Tre'Von Willis had 13 points and 10 assists, and Matt Shaw added 12 points.

No. 19 Northern Iowa 57, Drake 48

Adam Koch scored 12 points and Northern Iowa clinched at least a share of the Missouri Valley title by beating Drake.

Ali Farokhmanesh and Johnny Moran each added 10 points for the Panthers (22-2, 13-1), who can lock up the top seed in next month's conference tournament with a win at Bradley on Saturday.

Miami 64, No. 20 Georgia Tech 62

After missing a key free throw, James Dews made a 15-footer at the buzzer to give Miami a victory over Georgia Tech before a sparse crowd.

Dews missed the front end of a one-and-one with 19 seconds left, and Iman Shumpert sank a layup for Tech to tie it with 10 seconds to go. That capped a comeback by the Yellow Jackets, who trailed by 14 early in the second half.

No. 24 Baylor 55, Nebraska 53

Ekpe Udoh scored the go-ahead basket with 25 seconds left and Quincy Acy made two big defensive plays at the end to give Baylor a victory over Nebraska.