BOSTON (AP) Elijah Hughes scored 28 points and Buddy Boeheim added 21 to lead Syracuse to an 84-71 victory over Boston College on Tuesday night.

Bourama Sidibe had 12 rebounds for the Orange (17-13, 10-9 Atlantic Coast Conference), who scored 10 of the last 13 points in the first half to turn a one-point game into a 35-27 halftime lead and never trailed in the second. Losers of six of its previous nine games, Syracuse enjoyed a home court of sorts at Conte Forum, where the BC students were on spring break and the majority of the half-filled arena was rooting for the Orange.

Derryck Thornton scored 18 points, Jay Heath had 17 and Steffon Mitchell had 11 rebounds and 10 assists for BC (13-17, 7-12). Thornton had six and Heath had five of a school-record 19 3-pointers for the Eagles, who have lost four in a row heading into the regular-season finale against No. 7 Florida State.

The Eagles missed 24 of their 30 attempts from 3-point range in a 26-point loss at Syracuse on Jan. 15 - including all 14 in the first half. But on Tuesday night, they hit three of their first four at home to open an early lead before going into a slump, missing 10 of their next 12 from beyond the arc.

BC was without three of its top six players - Jared (ankle) and Jairus (knee) Hamilton, and Nik Popovic (back), who together accounted for 28 points and 12 rebounds per game.

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