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No. 24 Auburn 67, No. 15 Ohio State 58

COLUMBUS — Sherell Hobbs scored 21 points, Whitney Boddie had 20 and DeWanna Bonner added 16 Sunday to lead Auburn to win the Buckeye Classic. Hobbs had 13 points in the first half as the Tigers (6-0) built the lead to 16 before the Buckeyes (5-1) rallied to trail 40-30 at the break. Jantel Lavender scored 16 of her 22 points in the second half for Ohio State. The Buckeyes pulled to 63-55 with 3:50 to play, but Boddie put in an uncontested rebound after Trevesha Jackson missed both free throws to put an end to Ohio States comeback bid. Auburn hit 56.3 percent (18 of 32) from the field in the first half but was just eight of 28 in the second. They were able to maintain the lead by making 10 of 17 free throws in the final 20 minutes.

No. 2 Connecticut 74, No. 9 Duke 48

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands — Tina Charles had 13 points and eight rebounds Sunday night to lead Connecticut to the Paradise Jam championship. Maya Moore added 12 points, and Renee Montgomery and Kalana Greene each had 10 for the Huskies, who shot 53 percent from the floor while holding Duke to 36 percent. Connecticut (5-0) took control in the opening minutes, led 40-24 at halftime and put the Blue Devils away in the second half with 11-for-22 shooting. Chante Black led Duke (5-1) with 16 points and three rebounds. Carrem Gay added six points. Both teams ran the floor aggressively, but Connecticut made the Blue Devils pay for their miscues in the first half by scoring 16 points off 11 Duke turnovers.

No. 3 Maryland 79, UCLA 75

LOS ANGELES — Kristi Toliver scored 22 points, including six 3-pointers, and Maryland overcame a 16-point second-half deficit. Marissa Coleman had 20 points, 10 rebounds and four assists to lead Maryland (8-0), which needed a 14-0 run to retake a lead it held the entire first half. Maryland held UCLA to just four points during the final 5:47 of the game.

No. 4 Stanford 63, Temple 54

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands — Candice Wiggins scored 22 points and Stanford rallied from a 19-point deficit. Wiggins scored 13 of her points in the second half and went 4-for-4 from the free-throw line during a 13-0 spurt that put the Cardinal ahead 61-52 with a minute to play. Stanford (5-1), which took third place in the tournament, also got 16 points from Jayne Appel and 13 from Jillian Harmon, who grabbed 10 rebounds. Stanford, which trailed 39-22 at halftime, opened the second period with a 17-0 run, capped by Kayla Pedersen’s reverse layup that gave them a 41-39 lead with 12:45 to play.

No. 5 North Carolina 77, Furman 36

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Freshman Cetera DeGraffenreid scored 16 points to lead North Carolina. Freshman Rebecca Gray added 14 points for the unbeaten Tar Heels (7-0), whose four-game streak of scoring at least 92 points ended. Leading scorer Rashanda McCants did not start because she was late to practice Friday. She finished with eight points and six rebounds.

No. 7 Rutgers 45, No. 6 LSU 43

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Kia Vaughn scored 13 points to help Rutgers hold off LSU in a rematch of last season’s Final Four. Quianna Chaney, who finished with 16 points, missed a 3-pointer with less than a second left for LSU (4-2). Sylvia Fowles finished with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Offense was at a premium with two of the top defensive teams in the country squaring off. The Scarlet Knights shot only 38.6 from the field while LSU made just 36 percent.

No. 13 Baylor 69, No. 12 California 56

WACO, Texas — Jessica Morrow scored 18 points and Angela Tisdale added 16 to lift Baylor. Baylor (5-0) shot 61 percent from the floor after halftime to improve to 53-1 in home nonconference games since Kim Mulkey became coach in 2000. The Lady Bears trailed 32-25 at halftime, but scored 11 straight points early in the second half to take the lead for good. California (4-1) shot just 39 percent from the field and turned the ball over 21 times.

No. 18 DePaul 80, Illinois St. 75

NORMAL, Ill. — Allie Quigley scored 22 points and Natasha Williams added 18 to lead DePaul. Caprice Smith had 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Deirdre Naughton added 15 points for the Blue Demons (4-0). Illinois State (4-1) led by 4 points with 10:15 left in the first half, but the Redbirds went into halftime trailing 41-33. DePaul’s largest lead of the game was by 13 with 12:07 remaining in the game.

No. 21 Texas 59, UAB 49

HONOLULU — Brittainey Raven scored 21 points to help Texas in the fifth-place game of the Rainbow Wahine. Carla Cortijo added 11 points for the Longhorns (4-2), and Ashley Lindsey had 11 rebounds and nine points. The Blazers led by three points during the first half, but the Longhorns rallied to take a 31-28 lead at halftime.

Old Dominion 66, No. 22 Purdue 53

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands — T.J. Jordan scored 17 points to lead Old Dominion in the Paradise Jam. Jordan scored 10 of her points in the second half and had five rebounds for the Lady Monarchs, who also got 11 points and seven rebounds from Shadasia Green. Old Dominion (4-2) took control in the second half with 15 straight points to break a tie and take a 44-29 lead with 9:30 to play. The run, which ended a 13-0 scoring stretch for the Boilermakers, was keyed by a 3-pointer from Jordan and two layups from Tiffany Green.

No. 25 Vanderbilt 62, Iowa St. 53

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lauren Lueders scored a career-high 14 points to help Vanderbilt beat Iowa State in the championship game of the Vanderbilt Thanksgiving Tournament. Tournament MVP Tina Wirth added 10 points and six assists for the Commodores (5-1).

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No. 4 Kansas 76, Arizona 72, OT

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Brandon Rush sneaked along the baseline behind Arizona’s defense, sprang off both legs and threw down an alley-oop, bringing the crowd to its feet and sending vibrations across the floor. Rush left no doubt: he’s back. Rush scored five of his 17 points in overtime, including two dunks on his surgically-repaired knee, helping fourth-ranked Kansas pull out a tough 76-72 victory over Arizona on Sunday night.

No. 9 Washington St. 71, Air Force 62

SPOKANE, Wash. — Derrick Low made six second-half 3-pointers and scored 19 points to help Washington State win in the Cougar Hispanic College Fund Challenge. Taylor Rochestie led all scorers with 22 points and Kyle Weaver added 15 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists for Washington State, which trailed at halftime. Low, who sat out most of the first half after two quick fouls, made 6 of 8 3-pointers for Washington State (6-0), which won all three games in its round-robin tournament. Tim Anderson scored 15 for Air Force (5-2), which lost its second consecutive game. Evan Washington added 14.

No. 13 Duke 78, Eastern Kentucky 43

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke has more than one freshman capable of taking over a game. Freshman Taylor King scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Blue Devils. DeMarcus Nelson had 12 points and Gerald Henderson added 10 for the Blue Devils (6-0), who played their first game on the mainland since winning the Maui Invitational and showed no effects of jet lag. Duke never looked back after a dominant first half in which the Colonels made just 4-of-17 shots and had 18 times.

No. 18 Kansas St. 82, Rider 69

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Andre Gilbert scored 22 and Jacob Pullen added 19 points and five assists as Kansas State held off Rider in the Old Spice Classic. Three people were ejected in the game’s last minute — K-State forward Bill Walker, Rider coach Tommy Dempsey and Broncs leading scorer Jason Thompson. Dempsey was screaming at officials with 43 seconds left, several feet onto the court. Walker and Thompson got tossed 14 seconds later with their own beef. The Wildcats’ Michael Beasley had 13 points and 10 rebounds — his sixth double-double in as many games, but well short of the 30-plus points he had been scoring.

N. Carolina State 69, No. 20 Villanova 68

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Gavin Grant hit two of three free throws with 4 seconds left to lift North Carolina State. Villanova (4-1) seemed to clinch the win when Dante Cunningham tipped in a missed layup with 2.2 seconds remaining, but Cunningham fouled Grant the next trip down. He missed the first one, then drained the other two. Villanova threw a long inbound pass, but it bounced up and off the backboard as time expired. Courtney Fells had 21 points for N.C. State (4-1), while J.J. Hickson and Grant each added 15.

- Associated Press