Women’s college basketball Saturday’s Top 25 games

No. 3 Notre Dame 80, South Florida 68

SOUTH BEND, IND.

Natalie Novosel scored a career-high 32 points, Devereaux Peters added 17 points and a career-high 18 rebounds, and Notre Dame withstood an upset bid by South Florida to beat the Bulls and clinch a tie for the Big East regular-season title. Skylar Diggins had 18 points for the Irish (27-2, 14-1), who set a school regular-season mark with their 27th victory. But this one was not easy against the scrappy Bulls (15-14, 7-8), who got 18 points apiece from Inga Orekhova and Jasmine Wynne.

No. 2 Stanford 69, Utah 42

STANFORD, CALIF.

Chiney Ogwumike scored 16 points and had 12 rebounds, older sister Nnemkadi Ogwumike added 15 points and five blocks and Stanford beat Utah 69-42 on Saturday, giving coach Tara Vanderveer her 700th career victory with the Cardinal. The Hall of Fame coach is fifth on the all-time coaching list with 852 wins.

No. 4 Connecticut 85, Marquette 45

MILWAUKEE

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis scored a career-high 27 points to lead fourth-ranked Connecticut to an easy victory over Marquette. The Huskies (26-3, 13-2 Big East) have won all seven meetings against Marquette and will face No. 3 Notre Dame on Monday night to try and earn a share of the conference regular season title.

No. 12 Green Bay 78, Butler 53

GREEN BAY, WIS.

Julie Wojta had 27 points and 13 rebounds to help Green Bay earn its 14th straight Horizon League regular season title with a victory over Butler. Green Bay (25-1, 15-1), playing its final home game of the regular season, also got 13 points from Lydia Bauer and 10 from Adrian Ritchie. It was the 33rd straight victory by Green Bay over Butler (12-15, 8-8). Wojta also had six steals and five assists. Mandy McDivitt scored 12 points to lead Butler, and Jenna Cobb scored nine.

No. 15 Georgetown 65, Syracuse 62

SYRACUSE, N.Y.

Sugar Rodgers scored 21 points, including a three-point play in the game’s last minute, and Georgetown used a 5-0 run in the final 39 seconds to sink Syracuse. The Orange held the lead for most of the second half, going up 62-60 on Iasia Hemingway’s jumper with 1:03 to play. But after a Georgetown (22-6, 11-4 Big East) timeout, Rodgers, the Big East’s leading scorer coming in at 19.3 per game, was fouled on the game-tying basket and sank the foul shot for a one-point lead.

No. 16 Louisville 75, No. 21 DePaul 62

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Becky Burke scored 20 points and Louisville defeated DePaul to earn a split in the season series.

No. 20 St. John’s 69, Villanova 49

NEW YORK

Da’Shena Stevens scored 21 points and St. John’s won its seventh consecutive game, defeating Villanova.

No. 24 Rutgers 68, Providence 47

PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Khadijah Rushdan scored 21 points to lead Rutgers past Providence, extending the Scarlet Knights’ winning streak against the Friars to 19 straight.

Associated Press