Milan Momcilovic scored 13 of his 20 points after halftime as No. 10 Iowa State poured it on in the second half, running away with an 81-58 win over No. 1 Purdue on Saturday afternoon in West Lafayette, Ind.
Momcilovic recorded his third straight 20-point game and fifth of the season on 8-of-17 shooting. Blake Buchanan added 12 points and nine rebounds, Killyan Toure scored 13 points and Joshua Jefferson paired 11 points with four assists.
The Cyclones (9-0) outscored Purdue 46-27 in the second half, shooting 54.1% for the game and 47.8% from 3-point range (11-of-23). Momcilovic, Toure and Jefferson each made three 3-pointers. It was Iowa State’s fifth all-time win over the AP No. 1 team, three of which have come in the last four seasons.
The Boilermakers (8-1) were led by 11 points and eight assists by Braden Smith, who also committed six turnovers. Oscar Cluff collected 10 points and six boards, and Daniel Jacobsen scored 10. Purdue made just 4 of 18 3-pointers (22.2%) in the loss which snapped its 36-game nonconference home winning streak which dated back to 2019.
No. 2 Arizona 97, Auburn 68
Koa Peat scored 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting and the Wildcats remained unbeaten with an impressive victory over the Tigers in Tucson, Ariz.
Jaden Bradley and Brayden Burries scored 16 points apiece for the Wildcats (8-0), who shot a torrid 61.2% from the field. Ivan Kharchenkov recorded 12 points and eight assists and Anthony Dell’Orso added 11 points for Arizona, which jumped ahead thanks to runs of 12-0 and 15-0 in the first half and put the game away with an 18-2 run to begin the second half.
Tahaad Pettiford scored a career-high 30 points for Auburn (7-3), which lost for the second time in four games. Keyshawn Hall added 13 points for the Tigers, who shot 33.3% from the floor.
No. 3 Michigan 101, Rutgers 60
Morez Johnson Jr. scored 22 points to lead the Wolverines to a win over the Scarlet Knights in a Big Ten contest in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Johnson went 9 of 11 from the field for Michigan (8-0, 1-0), which scored at least 100 points for the third straight game, the first time it has done that since the 1989-90 season. Yaxel Lendeborg had 14 points and eight rebounds, Trey McKenney scored 13 points, and Elliot Cadeau had 11 points and nine assists.
Harun Zrno scored 13 points and Dylan Grant added 11 for Rutgers (5-5, 0-2), which committed 16 turnovers, shot 35.8% from the field (24 of 67), and hit 26.1% (6 of 23) from 3-point range.
No. 4 Duke 66, No. 7 Michigan State 60
Cameron Boozer scored 18 points and grabbed 15 rebounds before fouling out and the Blue Devils relied on late-game defense to pull out a victory against the Spartans at East Lansing, Mich.
Caleb Foster added 12 points and Nikolas Khamenia had 10 points and nine rebounds for Duke (10-0), which shot 38.2% from the field with more than half of its attempts from 3-point range (9-for-29).
Carson Cooper’s 16 points and 16 rebounds led Michigan State (8-1). Jaxon Kohler made four 3-pointers and provided 14 points, while Coen Carr had 10 points. It was the first setback in six home games for the Spartans.
No. 6 Louisville 87, No. 22 Indiana 78
Ryan Conwell returned to his hometown of Indianapolis and scored 21 points to lead the Cardinals to a victory over the Hoosiers in the CareSource Invitational in Indianapolis.
Louisville jumped to a big lead and never looked back. Coming off their first loss, the Cardinals (8-1) made sure that would not happen a second straight time as they scored the game’s first 16 points. Conwell was one of five Cardinals to score in double figures. J’Vonne Hadley had 15 points and Isaac McKneely also finished with 15.
Indiana (7-2) missed its first eight shots from the field. Tucker DeVries led the Hoosiers with 26 points. He was just 5 of 14 from the field but made 12 of 13 from the line. Nick Dorn had 15 points and Lamar Wilkerson finished with 12.
No. 8 Houston 82, Florida State 67
Emanuel Sharp continued his hot start with 27 points to lead the host Cougars to a victory over the Seminoles as part of the Houston Hoops Showdown.
Sharp was 6-of-10 from 3-point range to lead the Cougars (8-1) to their second straight win, both coming against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents. Houston’s defense set the tone early, helping the Cougars jump out to a 15-3 lead. They never trailed in the game.
Robert McCray V led Florida State (5-4), which lost its third game in a row, with 16 points, five assists and four rebounds.
No. 14 Illinois 75, No. 13 Tennessee 62
Tomislav Ivisic and Keaton Wagler scored 16 points apiece to lead the Illini to a victory over the Volunteers in a Music City Madness matchup in Nashville.
Kylan Boswell added 15 and David Mirkovic scored 10. Wagler also provided a team-high eight rebounds and five assists for Illinois (7-2), which used a 15-3 run to take an 11-point lead with less than seven minutes to go after neither team held a three-score lead through the opening 30 minutes.
Ja’Kobi Gillespie paced Tennessee (7-3) with 15 points, five rebounds and five assists. The Volunteers shot a season-low 36.9% from the floor and turned 23 offensive rebounds into 22 second-chance points.
No. 23 St. John’s 63, Ole Miss 58
Zuby Ejiofor scored 15 points and added nine rebounds for the Red Storm, who outlasted the Rebels in a defensive battle in New York.
Bryce Hopkins had eight points while Dylan Darling, Joson Sanon, Oziyah Sellers, Dillon Mitchell and Ian Jackson all had seven points apiece for St. John’s (5-3), which has alternated wins with losses over its last five games.
Malik Dia (18 points, 10 rebounds) posted a double-double while Ilias Kamardine finished with 16 points for Ole Miss (5-4), which has lost four straight. Corey Chest added 10 rebounds.
Washington 84, No. 24 Southern California 76
Hannes Steinbach posted a 24-point, 16-rebound double-double and Desmond Claude scored 22 points against his former team as the Huskies rallied from an 18-point halftime deficit to stun the Trojans in Los Angeles.
Washington (6-3, 1-1 Big Ten Conference) scored the first 13 points of the second half, including 3-pointers by Steinbach, Zoom Diallo and former USC player Wesley Yates III. Yates finished with 16 points in his return to Los Angeles.
An early 13-0 run gave the Trojans (8-1, 1-1) a double-digit lead they maintained most of the way to intermission. Chad Baker-Mazara scored 14 of his team-high 21 points before the break and Jerry Easter II recorded 10 of his 13 points in the first half.
No. 25 Arkansas 82, Fresno State 58
Darius Acuff Jr. had 18 points, eight assists and five rebounds, Meleek Thomas and D.J. Wagner had 12 apiece points and the Razorbacks rolled over the Bulldogs in North Little Rock, Ark.
Karter Knox had 11 for the balanced Razorbacks (7-2), whose only two losses are to ranked opponents Duke and Michigan State. Acuff, Thomas and Knox had three 3-pointers apiece as the Razorbacks made 11 of 30 from distance. D.J. Wagner made two threes.
Wilson Jacques had 12 points and a game-high 14 rebounds and reserve Jac Mani had 12 points for the Bulldogs (6-4), who have lost two straight after a four-game winning streak. Jake Heidbreder, who was averaging 20.0 points a game, had eight points and was 1-of-10 from the field, 0-of-5 from distance.
–Field Level Media
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