Manhattan ? Eddie Sutton loves to salt away victories like these, like saving money for a rainy day.

Down nine points with five minutes to go, Jamaal Brown’s two three-pointers keyed a charge, and freshman Terrel Harris’ three gave the Cowboys the lead Saturday in a stunning 63-61 victory over demoralized Kansas State.

“Any time you can rally, that’s something you can build on and you reach back,” said Sutton, whose youthful Cowboys (13-9 overall, 3-5 Big 12 Conference) had lost four in a row. “If you’ve got a game like that and you’re down, and say, ‘Hey, remember what we did at Kansas State.'”

It was a bitter and depressing setback for Kansas State (12-7, 3-5), which in its previous game became the first team in more than a year to lose to Baylor.

“This has been the toughest week of basketball since I have been here,” junior guard Lance Harris said. “It is hard to move forward knowing that we have these past couple of losses. We played a lot better today than we did at Baylor, but we just didn’t finish the game.”

“We are really down right now,” said Harris, who scored 14 and was the only Kansas State player who came out to talk with reporters. “We really don’t know what to think.”

The Cowboys got a boost from 6-foot-9 sophomore Marcus Dove, who had missed the previous 10 games because of injury. A defensive specialist, Dove helped hold Cartier Martin to just eight points – the first time in 20 games Martin did not score in double figures.

“That’s a pretty amazing way to drop that game today, and it’s just really unfortunate,” said coach Jim Wooldridge, who is under pressure to make a breakthrough in his sixth year at K-State.

Texas Tech 73, Missouri 55

Lubbock, Texas – Even though Texas Tech won by 18 points, Bob Knight wants to see his team finish off opponents and not squander leads.

Tech never trailed and led by as much as 21 before Missouri used a 15-2 run, capped by back-to-back three-pointers by Jimmy McKinney, to pull within 59-51 with 5:08 remaining.

Tech, which scored only one field goal in a nine-minute stretch in the second half, stiffened and responded with a 14-0 run to seal the victory.

“When you’ve got a team in a position to stick the knife in the heart, you’ve got to be able to do it, and we have not been able to do that,” Knight said.

Jarrius Jackson and Darryl Dora each scored 22 to lead Texas Tech (12-10, 4-4).

The Tigers (10-10, 3-6) lost their their fifth straight. The Raiders held Thomas Gardner, the Big 12’s leading scorer, to two points on a pair of free throws.

No. 7 Texas 83, Texas A&M 70

Austin, Texas – P.J. Tucker scored 25, helping Texas survive a 31-point effort from Texas A&M’s Joseph Jones to keep its league lead. Kenton Paulino added 19 points, and Daniel Gibson had 13 for the Longhorns (19-3, 7-1). Acie Law scored 18 for the Aggies (13-7, 3-6), who have lost six of their last eight.

Nebraska 60, Baylor 45

Lincoln, Neb. – Aleks Maric scored 12 in a 26-5 run at the start of the second half, leading Nebraska (15-6, 5-3). The Huskers trailed Baylor (1-7, 1-7) by seven at halftime, but their defense cooled the hot-shooting Bears, and Maric’s inside play dominated the early second half. Baylor made just two of its first 18 shots in the second half and finished 5-of-24 after halftime. Aaron Bruce had 17 points, all in the first half, to lead Baylor.