Cain, Huskers hand Ohio State 1st loss
Nebraska 63, No. 15 Ohio State 55: Kate Cain brushed up against a rare triple-double and host Nebraska (7-4, 5-3 Big Ten) bumped off Ohio State, halting the Buckeyes (7-1, 3-1) seven-game win streak and dropping them from the undefeated ranks.
Cain scored 22 points, pulled down 12 rebounds and blocked nine shots to lead Nebraska to its third win over a ranked opponent in its last five games.
Whitney Brown hit four 3-pointers and added 14 points for Nebraska, Sam Haiby added 11 points and 10 rebounds for her first career double-double. The Huskers, with second-leading scorer Isabelle Bourne out with an ankle injury, were down to seven players. Six scored on Saturday.
Ohio State entered the game averaging 89.9 points per game and had not scored fewer than 78 points before Saturday. The Buckeyes were just 22 of 81 shooting on Saturday (27%), making 5 of 27 from distance and had just six assists.
Iowa State 75, No. 6 Baylor 71: Ashley Joens scored 14 of her 27 points in the fourth quarter and Iowa State beat Baylor, ending the Lady Bears’ 61-game home court winning streak.
Baylor (8-2, 3-1 Big 12) played for the first time in two weeks because of a pause in the program after coach Kim Mulkey tested positive for COVID-19. The Lady Bears overcame an early 13point deficit, but couldn’t avoid a second consecutive streak-snapping loss to the Cyclones.
Iowa State’s 57-56 home win in the final game last season, when Joens made a free throw with 0.1 seconds left, ended the Lady Bears’ 58-game conference winning streak.
Lexi Donarski finished with 17 points for the Cyclones (9-4, 5-1) and Emily Ryan had 15.
No. 19 DePaul 78, Georgetown 54: Sonya Morris scored 26 points – 18 in the first half – Lexi Held added 15 points and DePaul (8-3, 5-1 Big East) beat host Georgetown (1-3, 1-3).
Morris made a pair of foul shots to give DePaul a 6-4 lead and the Blue Demons never trailed again.
Held buried a 3-pointer with 3:26 left in the first quarter to cap a 17-2 run over a four-minute span and DePaul led 21-6. The Blue Demons ended the quarter with a 27-10 lead. Four-of-nine DePaul field goals in the opening stanza were from behind the 3-point line.
Kelsey Ransom led Georgetown with 13 points and Milan Bolden-Morris 11.
No. 20 Gonzaga 76, San Francisco 52: Kayleigh Truong scored 17 points and Gonzaga (12-2, 7-0 West Coast Conference) rolled to its 11th straight win over host San Francisco (5-8, 1-6) on Saturday.
Freshman Yvonne Ejim added a career-high 10 points for the Bulldogs, who went 8 of 12 from 3-point range, shot 55% overall and never trailed.
Truong, a sophomore who finished one point short of her career high, had 12 points in the first half when Gonzaga doubled up the Dons 38-17.