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No. 1 North Carolina 90, Valparaiso 58

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Danny Green matched his career-high with 20 points and sparked the decisive second-half spurt to help North Carolina beat Valparaiso. Tyler Hansbrough had 23 points and 13 rebounds for the Tar Heels (13-0), who got off to a fast start only to see the Crusaders hang around before finally putting the game away with a big second-half run. North Carolina is off to its best start since winning 17 in a row to start the 1997-98 season.

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No. 14 Texas A&M 74, N. Carolina A&T 65

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Takia Starks scored 23 points, including a key pair of back-to-back 3-pointers, to help lead Texas A&M (11-2) over North Carolina A&T. Amber Bland, a graduate of Boardman High, led North Carolina A&T (7-4) with 23 points. Ta’Wuana Cook had 15.

No. 4 North Carolina 88, Liberty 67

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Latoya Pringle scored a career-high 25 points and had 10 rebounds to lead North Carolina past Liberty. North Carolina’s All-American Erlana Larkins scored 15 points before leaving the game due to an injured left hand with 17:24 to play.

No. 2 Stanford 77, Washington 42

STANFORD, Calif. — Jeanette Pohlen scored a career-high 20 points, all in the second half, and Stanford won its ninth straight.

No. 5 Maryland 98, UMBC 56

COLLEGE PARK, MD — Marissa Coleman scored 18 points and Maryland made an ACC-record 17 3-pointers. Carlee Cassidy scored 24 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead UMBC (4-9).

No. 6 Rutgers 70, Temple 34

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Epiphanny Prince scored 20 points to lead Rutgers to a rout after an 18 day break for exams.

No. 8 LSU 73, New Orleans 46

BATON ROUGE, La. — Quianna Chaney scored 14 points and RaShonta LeBlanc 12 to lead LSU past New Orleans.

No. 9 Oklahoma 95, South Carolina 63

NORMAN, Okla. — Freshman Danielle Robinson scored a career-high 20 points to go with six assists and Courtney Paris had 24 rebounds.

No. 10 Baylor 76, Rice 51

WACO, Texas — Angela Tisdale scored 18 points and Baylor survived an early scare to beat Rice. Rachel Allison had 17 points and 10 rebounds for Baylor (10-1). Danielle Wilson scored 11 and blocked five shots and Melissa Jones added 10 points. Kadie Riverin had 16 points for Rice (7-7) and Valery Berezhynska had 13 points and nine rebounds.

No. 11 California 99, Washington State 44

BERKELEY, Calif. — Alexis Gray-Lawson scored 19 points to lead California to an easy win over Washington State. The 55-point win was the largest ever for Cal (11-2, 2-0) in a Pac-10 game, breaking the 35-point margin the Bears recorded against Arizona on Jan. 26, 1987. Alexa Price had a career-high 14 points to lead the Cougars (3-10, 0-2).

No. 23 Old Dominion 80,
No. 20 Vanderbilt 65

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — T.J. Jordan scored 15 points to lead Old Dominion (9-3) past Vanderbilt. Jennifer Risper and Liz Sherwood each scored 16 points to lead Vanderbilt (9-4).

No. 22 George Washington 82,
Pepperdine 68

WASHINGTON — Jessica Adair scored 25 points to lead George Washington past Pepperdine. Sarah-Jo Lawrence added 14 points, five rebounds and four assists for the Colonials (10-3). Jessica Ross scored 17 points for the Waves (5-6).

No. 25 Colorado 91, Jacksonville St. 64

BOULDER, Colo. — Aija Putnina scored 20 points, and Jackie McFarland had 16 points and nine rebounds to lead Colorado (10-2) to its ninth straight win.

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