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N.C. STATE 78, COLUMBIA 58: Sharnise Beal scored a career-high 26 points to lead visiting N.C. State to a 78-58 victory over Columbia on Monday afternoon at Levien Gymnasium.

Tia Bell added 14 points for the Wolfpack (6-6), which was minus head coach Kay Yow. Shayla Fields scored 12 points and added five assists.

Yow did not feel well and Monday marked the first game she has missed since taking a 16-game leave of absence during the 2006-07 season when a reoccurrence of breast cancer came about in November of 2006.

"It was not one of her better days and she would have been here for the game if she could have," said associate head coach Stephanie Glance, who filled in for Yow.

Judie Lomax led Columbia (4-5) with 16 points and 13 rebounds.

GEORGIA 67, CLEMSON 50: Porsha Phillips scored 15 points and Georgia dominated the second half in its victory over Clemson.

Christy Marshall added 13, Angela Puleo scored 12 and Ashley Houts had 11 points for the Bulldogs (9-2) in the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga.

Clemson (8-3), which had a six-game winning streak snapped, was led by Lele Hardy with 20 points.

The Tigers led by 12 points twice in the first half, holding Georgia without a field goal for nearly six minutes in one stretch. But the Bulldogs went on an 8-0 run to cut the Tigers' lead to 32-28 at halftime, before taking charge in the second half.

CAMPBELL 69, WINSTON-SALEM STATE 56: Lynisha Ochogu scored 18 points as Campbell improved to 6-4 with its victory over host Winston-Salem State in the C.E. Gaines Center. Gara Bell added 10 points.

MaLisa Bumpus led Winston-Salem State (0-10) with a game-high 23 points. Jillian Charlet scored 11 points and pulled down 10 rebounds.

NO. 20 VANDERBILT 67, LIBERTY 50: Freshman Tia Gibbs had 15 points and four steals as Vanderbilt defeated Liberty. Gibbs made three of four 3-pointers, shot 5-for-7 overall, and had seven points and three steals during an 18-0 first-half run that put the Commodores ahead to stay.

NO. 21 OKLAHOMA STATE 90, EASTERN KENTUCKY 35: Andrea Riley scored 23 points in Oklahoma State's route of Eastern Kentucky. Riley, the Big 12 Conference's leading scorer (22.2 ppg), also had seven assists, five rebounds and four steals.