Here is the latest Big Ten Conference sports news from The Associated Press

Published 7:05 am Monday, November 18, 2024

UNDATED (AP) — Oregon remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin. Georgia returned to the top 10 with its win over Tennessee and LSU was unranked for the first time in two years. The unbeaten Ducks are atop the AP Top 25 for the fifth straight week. They received all 62 first-place votes for the third week in a row after scoring their fewest points in 37 games in a 16-13 win over Wisconsin. Ohio State, Texas, Penn State and Indiana rounded out the top five for the second straight week.

SEATTLE (AP) — Great Osobor scored 23 points and finished with a career-high 18 rebounds to help Washington beat UMass Lowell 74-69 in the first meeting between the programs. Tyree Ihenacho, freshman Zoom Diallo and Tyler Harris had 12 points apiece for Washington (3-1). Harris added a career-high five blocks. Yuri Covington scored 19 points and Quinton Mincey had 13 points and 10 rebounds for UML (2-2). Osobor scored four points before Kortright made a layup to cap a 9-2 spurt that gave the Huskies a 69-60 lead with 3:37 to play. Covington converted a three-point play to make it a four-point game with 24 seconds left but Kortright made 1-of-2 free throws before Osobor threw down a dunk to make it 74-67 with 4 seconds remaining.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrej Stojakovic scored 20 points and Jovan Blacksher Jr. 19 and Joshua Ola-Joseph made several plays down the stretch to help California beat Southern California 71-66 in a matchup between former conference rivals in the now-defunct Pac-12. Cal (3-1) and the Trojans played as nonconference opponents for the first time since 1921. The Golden Bears, who have won back-to-back games against USC following 10 consecutive losses against the Trojans, lead the all-time series 138-134. Desmond Claude hit a jumper before Saint Thomas made back-to-back baskets in the paint to give USC (3-1) a 64-63 lead with 6:30 to play but the Trojans made 1 of 10 from the field thereon as Cal scored eight of the final 10 points. Claude finished with 20 points and Thomas added 19.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Keeshawn Barthelemy scored 15 points to lead a balanced attack and Oregon cruised to an 82-61 victory over Troy. Barthelemy made 4 of 6 shots with three 3-pointers and all four of his free throws for the Ducks (4-0). TJ Bamba had 13 points and Nate Bittle scored 12 with eight rebounds and three blocked shots for Oregon. Supreme Cook added 11 points off the bench on 4-for-5 shooting. Brandon Angel scored 10. Myles Rigsby scored 15 on 6-for-12 shooting before fouling out for the Trojans (2-2). Troy shot 12% from 3-point range, missing 22 of 25 attempts.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Mikey Lewis hit two free throws with five seconds left to give Saint Mary’s a three-point lead, Brice Williams missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer to tie and the Gaels earned a 77-74 win over Nebraska in a neutral-site game played in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Lewis hit a jumper and knocked down a 3 with 4:13 left to give Saint Mary’s a double-digit lead, 73-63, but the Cornhuskers clawed back behind four free throws from Williams, a tip-in and 1 of 2 free throws by Berke Buyuktuncel, and a Rollie Worster layup to make it 75-72 with under a minute left. Williams hit two free throws with 6 seconds left to get within one.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cotie McMahon scored 21 points, and Jaloni Cambridge made a jumper and two free throws in the final 12 seconds to help No. 12 Ohio State pull out a 67-63 victory over upset-minded Belmont. The Buckeyes (3-0) trailed 59-50 with 5:21 left to play after Carmyn Harrison had back-to-back baskets and Kendall Holmes hit a 3-pointer in a 9-3 spurt to give the Bruins (2-2) their largest lead. McMahon answered with a layup and Chance Gray had a 3-pointer and a layup in a 10-0 run as the Buckeyes moved in front by a point at the 3-minute mark. Holmes and Emily La Chapell both hit two free throws to tie the game at 63 with 33 seconds left, setting the stage for Cambridge.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Timea Gardiner scored a career-high 25 points, including 15 in the first quarter, and No. 5 UCLA routed Arkansas 101-52. Gardiner, who is an Oregon State transfer, made a career-best seven 3-pointers. Lauren Betts added 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Bruins, who improved to 4-0. The Razorbacks, who fell to 3-2, were led by Izzy Higginbottom with 15 points. The rout was on from the opening tip. UCLA raced to a 15-3 lead, with Gardiner hitting three consecutive 3-pointers. Arkansas got within three before UCLA took off again and the Razorbacks never came that close again.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Chloe Moore-McNeil scored 21 points and Yarden Garzon put up 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Indiana rebounded from back-to-back losses to Harvard and Butler to knock off No. 24 Stanford 79-66. The game was the second of a home-and-home series between the schools that began in the final season of Indiana Hall of Famer and 1975 Indiana graduate Tara VanDerveer’s 38-year career at Stanford.