College basketball

No. 11 Utah hands St. Joseph’s its first loss

>>Alissa Pili scored a season-high 31 points to reach 20-plus for the fifth straight game and No. 11 Utah used a big fourth quarter to beat Saint Joseph’s 74-48 on Thursday.

Pili took over in the first five minutes of the fourth, making all five of her fieldgoal attempts during a personal 14-2 run for a 6543 lead. She finished 12 of 17 from the field and grabbed seven rebounds for Utah (8-1).

Pili came up just short of tying her career high of 33 points, set in the NCAA Tournament last season.

Kennady Mcqueen scored 11 of Utah’s opening 27 points and didn’t score again. Saint Joseph’s was held to six points in the first quarter and didn’t reach 11 points until Emma Boslet scored with 5:47 left in the second quarter. The Hawks started making just 3 of 19 shots.

Talya Brugler scored 16 points for Saint Joseph’s (8-1), which was attempting to start 9-0 for a second straight season.

NO. 20 FLORIDA STATE 99, JACKSONVILLE 73>>

Makayla Timpson had 19 points and 12 rebounds for her fifth double-double of the season, Ta’niya Latson added 18 points and No. 20 Florida State beat Jacksonville 99-73 on Thursday.

Florida State scored 15 straight points in the first quarter, with scoring from four different players, to go ahead by double figures for good.

Jacksonville scored the first four points of the second quarter to get within 12 — the closest the Dolphins would get the rest of the way — but the Seminoles scored the next nine for a 21-point lead.

Florida State led 50-29 at the break after shooting 60% from the field and holding Jacksonville to 29%. The Seminoles entered ranked 13th nationally with a 28.3% field-goal percentage defense.

Sara Bejedi scored 15 points, Carla Viegas added a season-high 14 and O’mariah Gordon had 12 points and eight assists for Florida State (7-2).