STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Quinndary Weatherspoon scored 21 points and Mississippi State used a big first half to beat Oregon State 74-57 on Thursday night.Weatherspoon had missed the previous two games because of what was thought to be a season-ending left wrist injury. The sophomore guard was 6 of 7 from the field and 4 of 5 on 3-pointers and had four steals.I am just so happy about our effort and to see how happy our guys were playing tonight, said Mississippi State head coach Ben Howland. It was great just having Q (Weatherspoon) back on the floor but then to have him play so good was great for us in the first half. His defensive pressure was so intense and he is the ultimate team guy.Last week Mississippi State officials announced that Weatherspoon had suffered a season-ending injury with a torn ligament in his left wrist.About a week ago I started feeling better and it got better by the day, said Weatherspoon. I started dribbling and shooting and it feels good now. I didnt feel much pain and it is back to normal. It felt good tonight.Mario Kegler added 12 points for Mississippi State (5-2) while Lamar Peters and Eli Wright scored 10 apiece.Stephen Thompson Jr. scored 20 points for Oregon State (3-5), Jaquori McLaughlin had 12 and Cheikh NDiaye added 10.Mississippi State jumped to a 13-3 lead behind a pair of 3-pointers by Weatherspoon and hit 7 of 9 from beyond the arc and 58.3 percent from the floor for a 45-19 halftime lead.Oregon State shot just 33 percent in the first half and had 12 turnovers.I was unbelievably fired up about our first half and how we played so hard, said Howland. Our doubling in the post was so much better than our previous games. And our ball pressure was so good. Coming in, we saw that Oregon State had a lot of turnovers. So that was something we tried to focus on. Everybody was swarming to the ball and it sped them up.Mississippi State finished shooting 50 percent from the field and made 11 of 19 3-pointers. 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MONACO -- Radamel Falcao scored twice as Monaco cruised to a 3-0 win over CSKA Moscow to take a big step toward qualifying for the Champions League knockout stages.In his first European game for seven weeks following a lengthy break for concussion, Monacos captain caused havoc in the CSKA defense as the Russian champion remained winless from four games.Valere Germain took advantage of some hapless goalkeeping from Igor Akinfeev to score the 13th-minute opener. The Russian keeper went low to try and stop Germain after he broke through the defense, but the forward knocked the ball first into, then over him and tapped it into the net.Falcao scored Monacos second from a Benjamin Mendy cross in the 29th and then displayed neat footwork to make it 3-0 in the 41st. The Colombia striker played a one-two with Germain before turning CSKAs Pontus Wernbloom and knocking the ball past Akinfeev, who has not kept a clean sheet in 41 straight Champions League appearances.Falcao could haave completed a hat trick in the second half, but shot wide twice from good positions.dddddddddddd Guido Carrillo came on as a substitute for Falcao and hit the post late on.Monaco is now top of Group E with eight points, two more than Bayer Leverkusen after the German side beat Tottenham 1-0 at Wembley. 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