EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. ? Cincinnati was the team without the high national ranking and didn’t have any players known by their first names.

That mattered little to the Bearcats, who played defense like Bob Huggins’ teams have in the past in toppling No. 5 Oregon, 77-52, Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic.

Cincinnati (5-2) handed the Ducks (6-1) and their two stars named Luke their first loss of the season in convincing fashion, holding them 40 points below their scoring average.

“We had to make this game a fist fight,” Huggins said. “We had to get back and go five-on-five. We can’t let them play in transition. We had to try and be as physical as we possibly can.”

And while the pregame attention was on Oregon’s Luke Ridnour and Luke Jackson, after the game it was Tony Bobbitt, a junior college transfer, that everyone was talking about.

Bobbitt had 29 points, one more than he had for the entire season. He entered the game 8-for-29 from the field and was 9-for-14 Tuesday, including 6-for-11 from three-point range.

“Once I hit the first one in the corner I felt I was on,” Bobbitt said. “I got in that rhythm and like Hugs keeps telling you ‘Shoot the ball if you have a wide open shot.'”

His fifth three-pointer of the game gave him 24 points and Cincinnati a 60-30 lead.

His sixth three came with 9:02 to play and gave the Bearcats their biggest lead of the game at 68-33.

Ridnour had 10 points to lead the Ducks, who shot 36 percent, well off the 48.5 mark they had coming in.

No. 3 Duke 91, N.C. A&T 57

Greensboro, N.C. — Dahntay Jones scored a season-high 18 points, and Duke forced 18 first-half turnovers. The Blue Devils, playing for the first time in 10 days, improved to 6-0 for the 12th time in 23 seasons under coach Mike Krzyzewski. Steven Koger led North Carolina A&T (0-5) with 16 points.

No. 15 Michigan State 80, Loyola of Chicago 54

East Lansing, Mich. — Chris Hill had 18 points, seven rebounds and seven assists as Michigan State beat Loyola of Chicago for its 34th consecutive win over a non-conference opponent at home. Michigan State (6-2) didn’t suffer from a letdown against the Ramblers (4-4) after winning at Kentucky on Saturday, and rolled to its fourth straight victory. Hill was 6-of-11 from the field.

Richmond 83, No. 17 Stanford 69

Stanford, Calif. — Mike Skrocki scored 27 points as Richmond ruined No. 17 Stanford’s own tournament with a victory in the consolation game of the Stanford Invitational.

It was the first time the Cardinal dropped consecutive non-conference home games since 1981, when they lost to Santa Clara and Marquette.

Pepperdine won the tournament by defeating Montana, 86-69, in the championship earlier Tuesday behind a career-high 19 points by David Patten and four others who scored in double figures.

The Cardinal (5-3) lost both games of their own tournament for the first time. The tournament began in 1984, and Stanford had won the past seven titles.