COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Penn Too Good for Ivy League

Pennsylvania is 1-0 in the Ivy League, or 30-0, if you prefer to take the longer view.

The Quakers don’t--well, most of them.

“It would be great to go undefeated in the three years I’ve been a starter here,� said Eric Moore, whose 20 points led No. 25 Penn past Harvard, 90-63, on Friday night in Cambridge, Mass.

The Quakers (7-1) last lost a conference game on March 6, 1992, and on Friday matched the record for consecutive league victories. They can break it tonight at Dartmouth.

“I think we’ll be hard-pressed to find an Ivy League team playing at that caliber in the next five or six years,� said Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan, whose Crimson (3-9, 1-1) lost their sixth in a row.

Penn Coach Fran Dunphy says all he cares about is the victory.

“We never talk about the record,� he said. “Twenty years from now, it will be a good accomplishment. But right now, we’re 1-0 in the league, and that’s what we’re focused on.�

OTHER GAMES

Darnell Burton scored four of his 15 points in the final 28 seconds as Cincinnati (9-5) rallied from 12 behind in the second half of a 67-64 victory over DePaul (6-3) at Rosemont, Ill. . . . East Carolina (7-3) got 18 points apiece from Chuckie Robinson and Skipp Schaefbauer in an 80-76 victory over East Tennessee State (4-7) at Greenville, N.C.

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Basketball Notes

New Mexico State reserve center Crafton Ferguson has been suspended from the Aggies’ game Monday against UC Irvine and a March 4 game against UC Santa Barbara for elbowing the Gauchos’ Doug Muse. . . . New Mexico’s Charles Smith and Cornelius Ausborne admitted taking $2,000 worth of electronic equipment from the dormitory room of two other students last spring. No charges were filed and they have agreed to make restitution. The incident was the second involving Smith and Ausborne. Last month, the school confirmed they had been arrested for shoplifting at an Albuquerque Wal-Mart store on Oct. 3. . . . Terry Dickerson, a guard for the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was shot while he apparently was being robbed at a convenience store. The wound was not life threatening.