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TOP 25 MEN’S BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

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No. 1 Auburn 74, Georgia 72

Wendell Green Jr. made a tie-breaking layup with four seconds remaining and No. 1 Auburn got past Georgia 74-72 Saturday, extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 19 games.

Auburn (22-1, 10-0 Southeaste­rn Conference) was tested in the second half by last-place Georgia (6-17, 1-9).

Following Green’s go-ahead layup, Georgia’s Aaron Cook missed a long jumper. A drive by Cook had given Georgia a 72-70 lead before K.D. Johnson tied the game with a layup.

Johnson led Auburn with 20 points and Green added 19.

Kario Oquendo led Georgia with 25 points.

No. 4 Purdue 82, Michigan 76

Jaden Ivey scored 23 points and Trevion Williams added 19 as Purdue snapped a five-game losing streak to Michigan and became the first team to reach 1,000 Big Ten wins.

Williams came off the bench to hit 7 of 8 shots for the Boilermake­rs (20-3, 9-3 Big Ten).

Hunter Dickinson led the Wolverines (11-9, 5-5) with 28 points.

No. 7 Arizona 72, No. 19 USC 63

Azuolas Tubelis scored 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Kerr Kriisa added 13 points for the Wildcats.

Arizona (19-2, 9-1 Pac-12) also defeated No. 3 UCLA 76-66 on Thursday.

Isaiah Mobley led the Trojans (19-4, 9-4) with 15 points.

No. 10 Kansas 83, No. 8 Baylor 59

Christian Braun and Ochai Agbaji each scored 18 points as Kansas held on to the top spot in the Big 12 Conference race.

The Jayhawks (19-3, 8-1) led by as many as 34 points late in the game.

Jalen Wilson scored 15 for Kansas.

Adam Flagler had 16 points for Baylor (19-4, 7-3) and Kendall Brown added 12.

No. 9 Duke 87, North Carolina 67

Freshman A.J. Griffin scored a season-high 27 points in retiring Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final visit to Chapel Hill.

The Blue Devils rolled to a 31-8 lead and shot 58%.

The win allowed Duke (19-3, 9-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) to send Krzyzewski off with a 17th and final victory in the Smith Center, where he coached against the Tar Heels in its opening game in January 1986.

Brady Manek scored 21 points to lead the Tar Heels (16-7, 8-4).

No. 11 Wisconsin 51, Penn State 49

Tyler Wahl made a tie-breaking layup with 30.5 seconds left to help extend Wisconsin’s home winning streak in the series to 21.

After Myles Dread’s layup with 51 seconds remaining capped a 9-0 run to tie the game for Penn State (9-10, 4-7 Big Ten), Wahl’s basket put Wisconsin back ahead.

Wisconsin (18-4, 9-3) still had two fouls to give and used both of them over the next 24 seconds. With 6.1 seconds left, Penn State’s Jalen Pickett threw an inbounds pass to Dread, whose deep 3-point attempt bounced off the back rim.

Steven Crowl had 13 points and a career-high five assists for Wisconsin.

Rutgers 84, No. 13 Michigan State 63

Paul Mulcahy had his first-career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 12 assists and Ron Harper Jr. added 17 points to key the rout.

Dean Reiber added a career-high 12 points and Caleb McConnell had 11 points, nine rebounds and four steals for

the Scarlet Knights (13-9, 7-5 Big Ten).

Michigan State (17-4, 8-3) was led by Gabe Brown with 20 points, five rebounds and a steal.

No. 14 Texas Tech 60, West Virginia 53

Bryson Williams scored 15 points and Terrence Shannon sparked a second-half comeback for Texas Tech, which won for the second time in six road games.

Davion Warren added 11 points for the Red Raiders (18-5, 7-3 Big 12).

Jalen Bridges scored 16 points for West Virginia (13-9, 2-7), which has lost seven straight, tied for the worst under coach Bob Huggins.

No. 18 Illinois 74, Indiana 57

Trent Frazier scored 23 points and Kofi Cockburn added 17 points and eight rebounds as Illinois (17-5, 10-2 Big Ten) surged to its fourth straight win.

Indiana (16-6, 7-5) was led by Race Thompson with 13 points and six rebounds.

DePaul 69, No. 21 Xavier 65

Courvoisie­r McCauley scored 21 points and Jalen Terry had 13 as short-handed DePaul snapped a four-game losing streak.

Javan Johnson scored 12 points and David Jones had 10 for DePaul (11-10, 2-9 Big East).

Paul Scruggs led the Musketeers (16-6, 6-5) with 21 points.

No. 23 Texas 63, No. 20 Iowa State 41

Marcus Carr and Andrew Jones each scored 14 points as Texas used a barrage of 3-pointers in the opening minutes of the second half to pull away.

Courtney Ramey added 10 points for the Longhorns (17-6, 6-4 Big 12).

Izaiah Brockingto­n scored 12 for Iowa State (16-7, 3-7).

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