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SEATTLE — Shabazz Napier scored 15 of his 20 points in the second half and grabbed six rebounds to lead No. 10 Connecticut to an 82-70 victory over Washington on Sunday.
Fellow guard Ryan Boatright had 16 points and five rebounds and Lasan Kromah scored 14 points for Connecticut (10-1), which fell into a double-digit hole early in its first true road game of the season but controlled the game in the second half.
C.J. Wilcox led Washington (6-5) with 19 points on 6-of-15 shooting and had four assists. Darin Johnson had 13 points for Washington and Mike Anderson, who is from Hartford, Conn., added 10 points.
Wilcox hit two straight 3-pointers to give UW a 31-17 lead with 7 minutes to go in the first half, but those shots seemed to wake up the visiting Huskies.
UConn answered with a 15-2 run, including a stretch of 10 straight points. Connecticut took the lead for the first time since the opening minutes when DeAndre Daniel’s layup made it 39-37 with 1:46 left in the first half, and UConn led 43-39 at halftime.
No. 12 BAYLOR 81
SOUTHERN U. 56
WACO, Texas — Isaiah Austin had 14 points and 10 rebounds as Baylor won its 10th straight home game.
Austin had his first double-double of the season while leading five players in double-figure scoring for the Bears (10-1).
Brady Heslip had 13 points for Baylor, while Cory Jefferson and Rico Gathers both had 12. Kenny Chery had 10 points.
Tre Lynch had 27 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead Southern (3-9).
The Jaguars, who made it to the NCAA tournament last season as the SWAC tournament champions, are 0-4 against Top 25 teams this season. They were coming off a 69-43 loss at top-ranked Arizona on Thursday night.
Jefferson had 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting by halftime, when Baylor led 36-26.
No. 17 IOWA ST. 79
GEORGE MASON 67
HONOLULU — Georges Niang scored 22 points for Iowa State in the first round of the Diamond Head Classic.
The Cyclones (9-0) had their second-lowest scoring game of the season but still managed to extend their winning streak. Iowa State — the top scoring team in the country — was one of 10 undefeated teams in Division I at the start of Sunday.
Melvin Ejim, Iowa State’s leading scorer going into the game, had 14 points and 11 rebounds while DeAndre Kane had 13 points and eight assists.
Patrick Holloway scored 19 points for George Mason (5-5) and Byron Allen had 14.
No. 25 IOWA 85
ARK.-PINE BLUFF 61
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Josh Oglesby scored 13 points in his season debut as Iowa rolled.
The Hawkeyes (11-2) opened their final non-conference game with a 39-5 run. Jarrod Uthoff scored 16 points and Adam Woodbury added 10.
Oglesby missed Iowa’s first 12 games with a broken foot. He made his first four 3-pointers during a 6-minute stretch in the first half.
Tevin Hammond scored 19 points for Pine Bluff (2-9), which lost its ninth straight.
Women
No. 2 DUKE 69
No. 5 KENTUCKY 61
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Tricia Liston scored a season-high 28 points to help No. 2 Duke beat No. 5 Kentucky 69-61 before 23,706 fans at Rupp Arena on Sunday.
Five days after defending champion and No. 1 Connecticut soundly dealt the Blue Devils their first loss, they used their size and length to hand the Wildcats their first defeat before the largest crowd to see a women’s game in Kentucky.
The 6-foot-1 Liston thrived on mismatches to shoot 10 of 19 from the field, including two 3-pointers, falling a point short of her career best. Duke’s 6-3 center, Elizabeth Williams, was 6 of 10 to chip in 17 points and had eight rebounds.
The Blue Devils (12-1) stifled Kentucky (11-1) around the basket, limiting the Wildcats to 25-of-75 shooting (33 percent) and 3 of 15 from long range. Poor free throw shooting also doomed Kentucky, which made just 8 of 19 from the line.
No. 1 UCONN 80
No. 21 CAL 47
NEW YORK — Breanna Stewart matched her career high with 29 points in Connecticut’s victory over California in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden.
Stewart had 10 rebounds for the Huskies (12-0). She had 13 of Connecticut’s first 16 points and finished the half with 21.
UConn led by 20 at halftime and Cal (7-3) could get no closer in the second half.
Brittany Boyd, Cal’s star guard, had nine points. She was 3 for 23 from the field.
No. 4 N. DAME 106
CEN. MICHIGAN 72
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Jewell Loyd had a career-high 30 points and 11 rebounds to help Notre Dame rout Central Michigan for the program’s 800th victory.
Kayla McBride added 18 points for the Irish (10-0), and reserve Michaela Mabrey tied a career high with four 3-pointers to finish with 17. Crystal Bradford led Central Michigan (4-6) with 30 points and 13 rebounds.
