Saturday, February 23, 2019
COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
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No. 21 Iowa 76, Indiana 70
IOWA CITY, IOWA
Jordan Bohannon hit three 3s in overtime, including one with 20.2 seconds left, and 21st-ranked Iowa rallied to beat Indiana in overtime. Tyler Cook had 18 points and Bohannon added 17 for the Hawkeyes (21-6, 10-6 Big Ten) — all of them in the second half and overtime. Bohannon, whose 3 with 28 seconds left in regulation forced overtime, buried another one to put Iowa ahead 68-65 with 2:47 to go. De’Ron Davis answered with a 3-point play, but Bohannon hit a 3 off a loose ball with 2 minutes left to give the Hawkeyes a 71-68 lead. Cook’s free throw with 1:10 left made it a two-possession game, but Morgan responded with a putback. Indiana’s defense forced Bohannon to jack up a 3 at the shot clock buzzer, but the junior calmly knocked it through to complete one of the spectacular stretches of his career. Morgan had 15 and Langford scored 14 points for Indiana (13-14, 4-12), who’ve dropped 12 of 13.
No. 25 Buffalo 80, Kent State 57
AMHERST, N.Y.
Nick Perkins scored a career-high 27 points and No. 25 Buffalo won its 24th consecutive home game beating Kent State. Perkins scored eight points in the final 1:15 of the first half as part of an electrifying 10-0 run in which Buffalo built a 35-27 lead. CJ Massinburg scored 18 for Buffalo (24-3, 12-2 Mid-American Conference) in matching No. 5 Tennessee for the nation’s second-longest home winning streak and before the largest crowd in school history. The announced attendance was 6,688. No. 9 Houston has won 32 straight home games.
WOMEN
Butler 61, No. 11 Marquette 57
MILWAUKEE
Tori Schickel scored six of her 19 points in the fourth quarter as Butler rallied past No. 11 Marquette. Schickel’s layup with 36 seconds to go gave the Bulldogs (20-6, 10-5 Big East Conference) a 59-57 lead and Whitney Jennings made 2 of 4 free throws to cap the scoring. The Golden Eagles (22-5, 13-2) lost for the second time in their last three games.
No. 12 Oregon State 68, USC 61
CORVALLIS, ORE.
Mikayla Pivec had 18 points and eight rebounds and Oregon State used a late run to beat Southern California. Pivec’s jumper with 5:15 left in the fourth quarter sparked a 16-2 run that turned a seven-point deficit into a seven-point lead with 22 seconds to go. Aleah Goodman and Destiny Slocum highlighted the run with back-to-back 3-pointers — Goodman giving the Beavers (22-5, 12-3 Pac-12) the lead for good at 61-59 and Slocum pushing the lead to five with 32 seconds left. Slocum scored 16 points, Joanna Grymek had 13 points and nine rebounds, and Goodman added 11 points for Oregon State. Aliyah Mazyck scored 25 points with five 3-pointers for USC (15-11, 5-10). Kayla Overbeck added 14 points and Asiah Jones had 10. The Trojans scored the first 16 points of the game, but Oregon State recovered by halftime to trail 27-26.
No. 24 Drake 66, Evansville 39
DES MOINES, IOWA
Sara Rhine scored 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds and No. 24 Drake used a big third quarter to pull away from Evansville. The Bulldogs (20-5, 12-1 Missouri Valley Conference) outscored the Purple Aces 25-3 in the third quarter with 10-of-17 shooting while Evansville (3-22, 1-13) was going 1 of 8 with seven turnovers, five coming off steals. Evansville finished with only 13 points in the second half. Brenni Rose added 13 points andSammie Bachrodt 11, with both making three 3-pointers for the Bulldogs, who won their sixth straight game and reached 20 victories for the fifth straight season. It was Drake’s ninth straight win over Evansville. Brooke Bishop scored 10 points and was the only Evansville player in double figures. Evansville trailed by only 28-26 at halftime before Drake’s third-quarter surge.
Associated Press