Purdue gets rare win over Indiana
No. 5 UCLA survived a scare from Arizona State.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- David Teague scored a career-high 32 points as Purdue beat No. 24 Indiana 81-68 Thursday night to snap a five-game losing streak in the intrastate rivalry.
Teague made 11 of 18 field goals, including 6-for-8 from 3-point range. He also grabbed seven rebounds.
Carl Landry added 22 points and 11 rebounds and Tarrance Crump added 13 points for Purdue (17-9, 6-6 Big Ten).
D.J. White scored 20 points, Armon Bassett scored 16 and Roderick Wilmont added 15 for Indiana (17-7, 7-4).
Purdue improved to 14-1 at home and boosted its NCAA Tournament hopes with its second win over a ranked team this season. The Boilermakers shot 50 percent from the field and outrebounded the Hoosiers 32-28.
Indiana won the last meeting 85-58 on Jan. 10 in Bloomington. The Hoosiers had won eight of the previous 10 games in the series.
The game was moved from Wednesday to Thursday because of wintry weather in Indiana.
Purdue led 34-32 at halftime, but Indiana took a 50-48 lead on a 3-pointer by Bassett with 13:15 to go.
A bad Indiana pass and a scramble led to an uncontested layup by Teague, then Gordon Watt's steal and layup gave the Boilermakers a 55-52 lead. A bucket and a 3-point play by Landry, followed by a 3-pointer by Teague, pushed Purdue's lead to 63-54 with 7:29 left. Purdue led by at least six points the rest of the way.
The tension on the court became evident when White went for a rebound with 8:27 left in the first half. Purdue's Chris Kramer tied him up and it led to a skirmish that got the sellout crowd more involved.
No. 5 UCLA 67, Arizona St 61
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arron Afflalo scored 24 points, Darren Collison added 18 and UCLA rallied from a 10-point deficit. Trailing 49-39 with 10:24 to play, the Bruins took command with an 18-2 run, with Darren Collison hitting three 3-pointers and Afflalo another to put UCLA ahead 57-51.
Arizona State pulled to 63-61 on Serge Angounou's 3-pointer with 16 seconds left, but Afflalo hit two free throws and Josh Shipp added two more to ice the win.
Afflalo has scored in double figures in 24 straight games, the longest active streak in the Pac-10.
UCLA (22-3, 11-2 Pac-10) bounced back from a 70-65 loss at West Virginia on Saturday, and the Bruins remained atop the Pac-10, a half-game ahead of No. 10 Washington State.
Jeff Pendergraph scored 14 points and Alan Morill added 11 for Arizona State (6-20, 0-14), which lost its school-record 15th straight game. UCLA has beaten Arizona State six straight times.
Afflalo scored 13 consecutive points -- nine on 3-pointers -- midway through the first half. He finished the half with 15 points, but only two other Bruins scored as UCLA seemed baffled by Arizona State's tenacious zone defense.
The Sun Devils went on a 7-0 run to take a 21-17 lead on Pendergraph's 3-point play with 10:10 to go. After trailing for much of the half, UCLA scored the final four points on a basket by Afflalo and a fullcourt drive by Collison, who laid the ball in at the buzzer to send the Bruins into the locker room with a 34-31 lead.
The Sun Devils took a 49-39 lead, and the Wells Fargo Arena crowd of 8,071 was howling for the upset. But UCLA answered with the 18-2 run, with Collison hitting three 3-pointers and Afflalo another.
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