Emanuel Sharp made a career-high eight 3-pointers and scored 27 points to lead No. 3 Houston to a 66-52 victory over Utah on Tuesday in Salt Lake City.

Sharp shot 8-for-13 from long distance to help the Cougars (22-2, 10-1 Big 12) win their fifth straight game and move into a tie with No. 1 Arizona atop the Big 12 standings. He has made 277 3-pointers at Houston, passing Marcus Sasser (276) as the school’s career leader in made 3-point field goals.

Sharp carried the Cougars on a night where no other Houston player scored in double figures. Leading scorer Kingston Flemings was held to four points on 2-of-9 shooting.

Keanu Dawes led Utah with 15 points and eight rebounds while Seydou Traore and Terrence Brown added 12 points apiece. The Utes (9-15, 1-10) committed 13 turnovers, leading to 20 Houston points, as they dropped their sixth game in a row.

Sharp gave Houston an early advantage with his hot outside shooting. He went 6 of 7 from 3-point range over the first 10-plus minutes to help the Cougars break open a close game.

Starting with Sharp’s last outside basket of the first half, Houston went on a 10-0 run to grab a 33-18 lead. Milos Uzan helped fuel the run with a pair of layups. The Utes went nearly 5 1/2 minutes without a point until Don McHenry ended the drought with a layup.

Houston missed seven consecutive shots to end the half, scoring a single point over the final four minutes before halftime. The drought opened the door for Utah to cut the deficit to 34-25 going into the locker room.

The Cougars kept Utah from drawing any closer. They scored four baskets on their first four possessions after halftime to fuel a 14-4 run. Sharp punctuated the surge with a pair of 3-pointers, giving Houston a 48-29 lead.

Houston led by as many as 22 points in the second half, going up 55-33 on a dunk from Chris Cenac Jr. with 8:13 remaining.

–Field Level Media

Darius Acuff Jr. scored 28 points and No. 21 Arkansas never trailed in rolling past LSU 91-62 on Tuesday night in Southeastern Conference action at Baton Rouge, La.

Meleek Thomas added 20 points, Trevon Brazile had 14 points and 12 rebounds and Billy Richmond III scored 13 for the Razorbacks (18-6, 8-3 SEC) who won for the fifth time in six games, including an 85-81 victory over the visiting Tigers on Jan. 24.

Marquel Sutton scored 18, Pablo Tamba had 11 and Robert Miller III scored 10 to lead LSU (14-10, 2-9), which played its third consecutive game without starting point guard Dedan Thomas Jr., who leads the team in scoring (15.3) and assists (6.5), because of a lower-leg injury.

Arkansas played without two injured players — guards D.J. Wagner and Karter Knox, both of whom have started 18 games — and used just seven players until the final three minutes.

The Razorbacks shot 56.5% from the floor while the Tigers shot just 30.8% from the field and 14.3% on 3-pointers.

Acuff scored Arkansas’s first six points of the second half, and the Razorbacks increased their 15-point halftime lead to 19. The Tigers responded with the next four points, but Thomas scored five points during a 12-3 run that extended the lead to 60-36.

Miller made one free throw for LSU, but Arkansas scored the next nine points and held a 69-37 lead midway through the half.

Nick Pringle made a layup and Acuff and Brazile had consecutive three-point plays as the Razorbacks scored the first eight points of the game. Miller made a layup for LSU’s first points after nearly four minutes, but layups by Pringle and Acuff pushed the lead to 12-2.

PJ Carter hit a 3-pointer for the Tigers, but Arkansas answered with an 11-3 run to build a 15-point lead. The Razorbacks led by 15 again before Miller scored four points during a 6-0 run that brought LSU within 31-22.

Arkansas expanded its lead to 17 points before Jalen Reece’s jumper trimmed the lead to 42-27 at halftime.

–Field Level Media

Top-seeded Taylor Fritz fought off a stiff test from U.S. countryman Marcos Giron to earn a 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (1) win in the first round of the Nexo Dallas Open on Tuesday.

Fritz posted a 21-9 edge in aces and won 81% of his first-serve points. However, he managed to break Giron’s serve in just two of his 10 opportunities.

Second-seeded Ben Shelton of the United States bested Canada’s Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-4, but two other seeded players fell. Great Britain’s Jack Pinnington Jones trounced fourth-seeded Flavio Cobolli of Italy 6-2, 6-2, and Croatia’s Marin Cilic edged sixth-seeded Learner Tien of the U.S. 7-5, 7-6 (4).

It was the 600th career ATP Tour win for Cilic, 37, who joined Serbia’s Novak Djokovic (1,168) as the only active players to reach that milestone. He also passed Goran Ivanisevic’s total of 599 wins to top the all-time list among Croatians.

Other winners were Aleksandar Kovacevic and Alex Michelsen of the United States and Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia.

In the last match of the night, defending champion Denis Shapovalov of Canada, the seventh seed, was set to oppose Rafael Jodar of Spain.

ABN Amro Open

Serbia’s Hamad Medjedovic, a lucky loser from qualifying, took advantage of his late entry into the event at Rotterdam, Netherlands, and defeated Belgium’s Zizou Bergs 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in the first round.

Medjedovic, who entered the draw when Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan withdrew, trailed 5-2 in the first set and fought off a set point in the next game before capturing the tiebreaker. The players exchanged service breaks in the 11th and 12th games of the second set, and Medjedovic again came through in a tiebreaker.

Top-seeded Alex de Minaur of Australia downed France’s Arthur Fils 7-6 (3), 6-2, and the Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor beat France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-4, 6-4. France’s Quentin Halys and Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff also advanced.

IEB+ Argentina Open

Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo pulled off a first-round upset in his home land, defeating fifth-seeded Daniel Altmaier of Germany 6-2, 6-2 in Buenos Aires.

Altmaier struggled with his serve, putting just 69% of his first serves in play and winning only 35% of his second serves. He also committed 30 unforced errors to Cerundolo’s nine.

Sixth-seeded Camilo Ugo Carabelli won an all-Argentine matchup against Francisco Comesana 6-4, 7-6 (3), and eighth-seeded Matteo Berrettini of Italy ousted Argentina’s Federico Coria 7-5, 7-5. Also moving on were the Czech Republic’s Tomas Barrios Vera, Argentina’s Roman Andres Burruchaga and Peru’s Ignacio Buse.

–Field Level Media