A look at some of the stats, facts and story lines you might have missed while waiting for last night's 1 vs. 2 game in Memphis.

Kansas State loses to No. 5 Texas, 74-65, but not because of super frosh Michael Beasley. Beasley goes for 30 points and 15 rebounds. To put those numbers in perspective, there have been only 18 such games in NCAA Division I this season ... and Beasley has six of them.

Northern Illinois plays Western Michigan in the first athletic contest on campus since the Valentine's Day shootings that left six dead. Northern loses, 56-49. Does anyone care as much as they might have a month ago?

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By all accounts, the scene and the mood inside NIU's arena was far from the norm. "I couldn't even yell at the referees the way I wanted," admits Western Michigan coach Steve Hawkins.

Rutgers' C. Vivian Stringer becomes the third women's coach to win 800 games with a 60-46 win vs. DePaul. But the rarer feat just might belong to losing coach Doug Bruno. He has now been on the losing end of two of the three milestone 800ths -- Stringer and Tennessee's Pat Summitt.

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Houston's Robert McKiver puts on the top scoring performance of the season in NCAA Division I with 52 points in a 95-67 rout of Southern Mississippi. It also gives him a story to tell the grandkids. His total smashes the Hofheinz Pavilion record of 44 set in the 1977 NIT by a kid from Indiana State by the name of Larry Bird. The top scoring games this season:

Player..... School.....No.

Robert McKiver.....Houston.....52

Charron Fisher.....Niagara.....45

Michael Beasley.....Kansas State.....44

Justin Jonas.....Troy.....44

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The women's version of New Jersey Institute of Technology can be found at Fordham. Four days after NJIT becomes the first men's squad to finish a season 0-29, the Rams lose to Charlotte, 79-55, to fall to 0-28 and tie the NCAA women's record for futility in a season, equaling Charleston Southern (1991) and Centenary (2000). "I know it," Fordham coach Cathy Andruzzi says of the record. "I try not to think about it, because if I think about it, I would get impatient."

Senior Nights tend to be emotional affairs. But romantic? South Alabama's Daon Merritt surprises girlfriend Treva Dortch with an engagement during pregame cermonies, then goes out and scores a game-high 22 points in an 81-61 Sun Belt win vs. New Orleans.

The No. 4 Rutgers women handed No. 1 Connecticut its only loss of the season, 73-71, Feb. 5 in East Piscataway, N.J. The rematch is on tomorrow night at Connecticut with the Big East regular-season title on the line.