Indiana women best Iowa in top-five clash before record crowd
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Grace Berger finished with a season-high 26 points, nine rebounds and six assists and Mackenzie Holmes added 24 points as No. 2 Indiana used a late scoring run to pull away from No. 5 Iowa 87-78 on Thursday night in Bloomington.
The Hoosiers (23-1, 12-1 Big Ten) used a 17-7 fourth-quarter run to earn their 11th consecutive win, this time in front of a record crowd of 13,046. Indiana has broken the attendance mark three times since January and now has a1 ½-game lead in the chase for its first regular-season conference crown since the Big Ten’s inaugural season of 1982-83.
Caitlin Clark had 35 points, 10 assists and four rebounds to lead the Hawkeyes (19-5, 11-2), who lost for the first time since Jan. 1.
Not surprisingly, the rematch of last season’s Big Ten Tournament title game and first top-five matchup in Big Ten play in nearly 30 years lived up to the billing.
MORE TOP 10 WOMEN No. 1 South Carolina 83, Auburn 48:
Zia Cooke had 15 points and four assists in 20 minutes to lead South Carolina (24-0, 11-0 SEC) to its 30th straight win. The Gamecocks were coming off an 81-77 win over No. 4 UConn and will host No. 3 LSU on Sunday.
Aliyah Boston had 10 points and eight rebounds for South Carolina before exiting with 8:54 left to end a string of eight double-doubles.
No. 6 Stanford 84, No. 17 Arizona 60: Cameron Brink and Haley Jones each scored 18 points as the visiting Cardinal (23-3, 11-2 Pac-12) won their sixth straight against the Wildcats (18-6, 8-5), a streak that includes the 2021 NCAA title game.
Stanford moved a half-game ahead of No. 7 Utah and into first place in the conference. Jones shot 8 for 11 from the field and added 12 rebounds and six assists.
No. 8 Maryland 79, Northwestern 54:
Diamond Miller scored 18 points for the visiting Terrapins (20-5, 12-3 Big Ten), who outscored Northwestern 18-2 while holding the Wildcats (8-16, 1-12) without a field goal in the second quarter.
No. 9 Duke 68, Boston College 27:
Reigan Richardson scored 14 points and Celeste Taylor added 11 to lead Duke (21-3, 11-2 ACC) to the 1,000th win in the program’s history. Richardson scored 10 points in the second quarter, when the visiting Blue Devils turned a five-point lead into a 32-14 runaway.
ACC WOMEN Louisville 68, Virginia 58:
Shorthanded Virginia (14-11, 3-11 ACC) fell late at John Paul Jones Arena to the Cardinals (18-8, 9-4) in the teams’ first meeting since 2020.
Louisville outscored the Cavaliers
22-10 in the final quarter, including a 7-0 run after the game was tied at 50 with 4:12 left in the contest. Louisville’s Hailey Van Lith led all scorers with 17 points, including a critical three-point play late in the fourth quarter.
UVA, with just eight players available, saw two of its leading scorers — Camryn Taylor and London Clarkson — foul out in the final five minutes. Taylor led UVA with 14 points.
TOP 25 MEN No. 1 Purdue 87, Iowa 73:
Braden Smith scored a career-high 24 points for the Boilermakers (23-2, 12-2 Big Ten) in West Lafayette, Indiana. The freshman guard shot 8 of 10, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range, and Zach Edey scored 14 points on 4-of-7 shooting.
Kris Murray led Iowa (15-9, 7-6) with 24 points.
No. 4 Arizona 85, California 62: Azuolas Tubelis had 23 points, 14 rebounds and four steals for the Wildcats (22-3, 11-3 Pac-12) in Berkeley, California.
Tubelis, the Pac-12 Player of the Week, recorded his conference-leading 11th double-double of the season.
No. 7 UCLA 62, Oregon State 47:
Amari Bailey scored a seasonhigh 24 points. The freshman guard was 10 of 16 from the field and scored 18 points in the second half as UCLA (20-4, 11-2 Pac-12) pulled away.
Loyola Marymount 78, No. 15 Saint Mary’s 74:
Cam Shelton scored all of his career-high 31 points after halftime, enough to overcome him mistakenly taking a timeout late in overtime, and lead LMU (17-9, 7-5 West Coast Conference) past Saint Mary’s (21-4, 10-1) in Los Angeles.
No. 16 Gonzaga 99, San Francisco 81: Former Catholic High guard Rasir Bolton scored 23 points and had six assists and Drew Timme added 21 points for the Bulldogs (20-5, 9-2 WCC) in Spokane, Washington.
STATE MEN Gardner-Webb 61, Radford 48:
Anthony Selden’s 14 points helped the Runnin’ Bulldogs (14-11, 9-4 Big South) end a ninegame winning streak by the host Highlanders (16-10, 10-3). Bryan Antoine led Radford with 16 points.
Liberty 70, Bellarmine 50: Darius McGhee had 21 points and seven assists in Lynchburg for the Flames (20-6, 11-2), who share first place in the Atlantic Sun with Kennesaw State.
Georgia Southern 76, James Madison 73:
Andrei Savrasov had 22 points and 10 rebounds in Statesboro as the host Eagles (13-13, 6-7 Sun Belt) beat their former coach, Mark Byington, and the Dukes (17-9, 8-5).
Terrence Edwards finished with 16 points, nine rebounds and two steals for JMU.