GAME RECAPS: No. 9 Memphis blows by Hogs, 94-72

Newsom also had eight rebounds, helping the Tigers' extend the nation's second-longest home winning streak. The victory ended Arkansas' four-game winning string in the series. Reserve Chad Allen had 20 points and nine rebounds, including eight on the offensive end, for Memphis (12-2). Lorenzen Wright added 20 points for the Tigers. Jesse Pate led the Razorbacks (9-6) with 19 points and Lee Wilson had 13. Derek Hood came off the bench for 11 and Kareem Reid finished with 10. Memphis broke the game open midway through the second half with a 19-1 run over a 4:44 stretch, led by the 3-point shooting of Newsom. Arkansas never got closer than 16 the rest of the way. Drexel 87, Northeastern 65 BOSTON -- Malik Rose scored 27 points, including 18 in the second half, to lead Drexel to an 87-65 win over Northeastern in a North Atlantic Conference game Thursday night. Drexel (11-2 overall, 7-0 NAC) led 34-32 at intermission, but started the second half with nine straight points in rolling to their seventh consecutive victory. The Huskies (1-14, 0-8) lost their seventh in a row. Jeff Myers added 22 points and freshman Mike DeRocckis had nine, including a pair of 3-pointers, for Drexel. Damon Singletary scored 14 points for Northeastern. Lonnie Harrell, the Huskies' top scorer going into the game, was limited to five points, nine below his season average. Northeastern turned the ball over on its first four possessions of the second half. Drexel outscored Northeastern 28-10 in the first 10 minutes of the period to build a 62-42 advantage. The Dragons got their largest lead of the night, 77-47, with 4:44 remaining. Pistons 100, Spurs 98 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Grant Hill's driving layup with 17 seconds to play gave the Detroit Pistons a 100-98 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night. Hill drove past David Robinson to hit the tiebreaking layup, and Chuck Person missed a 3-pointer with one second to go. San Antonio played without former Piston Sean Elliott, who averages 23 points but was sidelined with a sprained foot, and saw their five-game winning streak come to an end. Detroit won its fifth in a row at home. Allan Houston led the Pistons with 28 points, while Otis Thorpe had 25 and Hill had 19 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. David Robinson had 37 for the Spurs, and Vinny Del Negro added 18. The Pistons got within one, 80-79, with 8:54 to go, but Doc Rivers hit a 3-pointer, Robinson blocked Mark West's shot and Cory Alexander hit a running jumper to make it a six-point game. But Detroit scored the next six to tie it, and after Thorpe's finger roll with 4:30 to go, the Pistons led 92-89. Robinson then hit free throws to tie it back up. It was still tied with 1:50 to go, but Hill put Detroit ahead with a dunk, and Person missed a jumper. Houston missed a shot on the other end, and Robinson retied it at 98 with a 16-footer, but he couldn't stop Hill's drive. The Spurs led 55-50 at halftime, but two baskets by Thorpe capped a 11-3 Pistons run that put Detroit ahead 67-66 late in the third period. Robinson took over at that point, scoring two baskets and setting up another as San Antonio pulled back ahead by 74-69 with 12 minutes to play. Celtics 108, Rockets 106 HOUSTON -- Dino Radja scored 23 points and Boston's sharpshooters took over in the fourth quarter as the Celtics overcame a season-high 51 points by Hakeem Olajuwon for a 108-106 victory over the Rockets on Thursday night. It took the Rockets a half to adjust to playing without three injured players, including swingman Mario Elie, and they trailed 67-54 at the half as Boston hit 60 percent from the field. The Rockets almost pulled it off, taking a 100-98 lead with 4:45 left, but the Celtics hit clutch outside shots. Dee Brown's two fre throws with 30 seconds left gave Boston the final 108-106 lead. It snapped Houston's three-game winning streak. Olajuwon, who narrowly missed his career high of 52 points, played a masterful game, but he missed the final shot of the game that could have forced overtime with 2.1 seconds left. Olajuwon had 14 rebounds and was 11-of-14 at the free throw line. The Rockets had only nine players in uniform because of injuries to Elie, out for at least six weeks after undergoing surgery on his broken wrist earlier in the day, and Robert Horry and top reserve Sam Cassell.