Top 25 roundup \ Thursday’s games

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No. 1 North Carolina 91, Evansville 73

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Tyler Hansbrough scored 20 points to break North Carolina’s career scoring record. The reigning national player of the year had nine rebounds for North Carolina (10-0), which shook off a slow start and stretched the lead to double figures shortly after Hansbrough passed Phil Ford for the record midway through the first half. Ford finished his career with 2,290 points in 1978. Hansbrough needed nine points coming in and set the record by muscling in a bank shot over two defenders with 7:41 to go. After the record-setting point, officials briefly stopped the game to allow Ford, coach Roy Williams and athletics director Dick Baddour to present Hansbrough with the game ball. Ty Lawson added 16 points for the Tar Heels. Shy Ely had 23 points for the Purple Aces (7-2).

WOMEN

No. 1 Connecticut 109, Washington 51

CANCUN, Mexico — Tina Charles scored 29 points in a nearly flawless shooting performance, leading Connecticut at the Caribbean Classic. Charles made her first 12 shots and finished 13-of-15 from the field for her second consecutive 20-point game.

No. 11 Tennessee 81, Old Dominion 76

NORFOLK, Va. — Angie Bjorklund matched her career high with 29 points and hit two huge 3-pointers as Tennessee got back to its winning ways by prevailing in a back-and-forth battle with longtime rival Old Dominion. Tennessee (8-2), coming off a 73-59 loss at Texas that knocked it out of the top 10 after a record 211 consecutive weeks there, won for the 13th straight time in the series between two of the schools that first brought women’s college basketball to prominence.

No. 17 Virginia 73, Monmouth 45

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Monica Wright scored a game-high 28 points to lift Virginia. Wright finished 13 of 16 from the field, and forward Lyndra Littles finished with 17 points in her first appearance of the season for the Cavaliers (8-2). Chelsea Shine added 14 points, seven rebounds and four blocks.

No. 25 Georgia Tech 65, Winthrop 27

NASSAU, Bahamas — Alex Montgomery scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Georgia Tech to its fifth straight win. The Yellow Jackets (9-2) limited the Eagles to four points in the first 8:34 of the game at the Bahamas SunSplash Shootout.

Associated Press