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Braden Smith scored a career-high 24 points to lead No. 1 Purdue to an 8773 victory over visiting Iowa on Thursday night.

Smith, a freshman guard, shot 8 of 10 — including 4 of 5 from 3-point range.

“I wish he would shoot more, from Day One I told him that,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said. “He’s a 40 to 45 percent 3-point shooter and it didn’t make sense. Any time you have the ability to play through ball screens, get to the rim and shoot or take the pullups and open shots, too.

“He likes to get everyone involved. He has really good

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instincts, but at times he doesn’t play off his instincts.”

But Smith did exactly that against Iowa.

“I attack the game the same way,” Smith said. “When the shots fall, the confidence goes up a little bit. It just felt good to make a couple of shots.”

Zach Edey scored 14 points on 4-of-7 shooting. Edey, who was averaging 22.4 points entering the game, had just four points until the final 81⁄2 minutes. He grabbed a team-high 14 rebounds, and Caleb Furst added 10 as Purdue held a 43-23 edge.

“They doubled Zach every time he touched the ball and we still scored 87 points,” Painter said.

Fletcher Loyer scored 17 points, Furst 11 and Mason Gillis 10 for the Boilermakers (23-2, 12-2 Big Ten).

“It’s cool to see, but when teams want to play like that we have a bunch of guys that can step up,” Edey said. “We have a really deep team and we’ve got a lot of guys that can hurt you and that was showing today.”

Kris Murray led Iowa with 24 points on 10-of-16 shooting, and Filip Rebraca had 17 for the Hawkeyes (15-9, 7-6).

“He’s (Smith) terrific, but everybody on the team is really good, that’s why they are ranked No. 1,“Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “Our anticipation rotations were not good enough. It’s hard because their team is very unselfish, they share the ball. That gives you a lot of ground to cover.

The Boilermakers led by as many as 21 points early in the second half. Purdue was ahead 68-51 when the Hawkeyes went on a 13-2 spurt to close the deficit to 70-64 with 5:39 remaining.

No. 4 Arizona 85, Cal 62: Azuolis Tubelis scored 23 points to lead the visiting Wildcats (21-3, 10-3 Pac-12) past the hapless Bears (320, 2-10).

No. 7 UCLA 62, Oregon State 47: Amari Bailey scored a career-high 24 points to lead UCLA past Oregon State (9-16, 3-11 Pac-12).

Jaylen Clark added 16 points and three steals for the Bruins (20-4, 11-2), who lead the conference in scoring defense.

Loyola Marymount 78, No. 15 Saint Mary’s 74 (OT):

Cam Shelton scored 31 points as the host Lions (17-9, 7-5 WCC) upset the Gaels (21-5, 10-1). Saint Mary’s led for most of the game, but LMU tied it and sent to overtime on a Shelton layup with two seconds left.

No. 16 Gonzaga 99, San Francisco 81:

Rasir Bolton had 23 points and six assists, Drew Timme scored 21 and Gonzaga beat visiting San Francisco.

Gonzaga (20-5, 9-2 West Coast Conference) extended its streak of seasons with at least 20 wins to 26, bouncing back from last weekend’s overtime loss at No. 15 Saint Mary’s.

Khalil Shabazz led San Francisco (15-12, 4-8) with 25 points and Tyrell Roberts added 16.

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Santa Clara 80, USD 75: Marcellus Earlington scored 22 points but his performance wasn’t enough as the visiting Toreros (11-15, 4-8 WCC) fell to the Broncos (18-8, 6-5), who were led by Brandin Podziemski’s 20 points.