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Fifth-ranked Wisconsin routs Illinois

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Frank Kaminsky started hot for Wisconsin, then Bronson Koenig and Nigel Hayes finished off Illinois.

Kaminsky had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and the fifth-ranked Badgers won 68-49 Sunday in Madison to clinch the best start in school history.

Kaminsky hit eight of his first nine shots on his way to 17 first-half points, but was then held scoreless for more than 16 minutes. But Koenig and Hayes combined to score 23 points in the second half as Wisconsin (11-1 Big Ten, 23-2) put the game away.

“Our guys really don’t go out there and say, ‘OK, let’s make sure Frank gets his X number of points and then we’ll go get ours,”‘ coach Bo Ryan said. “We took what they gave us. That’s all we ever do.”

Koenig finished with 15 points, and Hayes added 14.

Illinois (7-6, 17-9) started the game hot, and four 3-pointers in just more than three minutes infuriated Ryan. Wisconsin responded by clamping down on defense.

The Illini then missed seven of their last eight shots in the half, and the Badgers sandwiched a 20-4 run around halftime. Illinois got no closer than nine points the rest of the way.

“It just goes to show you that we can beat you in a lot of different ways,” Kaminsky said.

No. 7 Arizona 86, Washington State 59: Brandon Ashley, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Kaleb Tarczewski each scored 17 points as Arizona routed Washington State, 86-59.

T.J. McConnell added 14 points for Arizona (10-2 Pacific 12, 22-3), which plays WSU only once this season. The Wildcats led by 34 points after the first half.

No. 13 Northern Iowa 68, Missouri State 57: Seth Tuttle scored 22 points and No. 13 Northern Iowa matched its season-high with 12 3-pointers to beat Missouri State 68-57.

The Panthers (13-1 Missouri Valley Conference, 24-2) shot 57 percent from the field (16 of 28) in the first-half, including nine of 14 from 3-point range. Northern Iowa had 14 assists and led 42-20 at the half. The lead stretched to 49-23 with 17:40 to go before Missouri State made a late push.

BC-Miami postponed: The Miami, Fla., at Boston College basketball game scheduled for Sunday night has been postponed due snow and travel conditions.

The game will be made up today.

Boston College announced the cancellations on its website.

“Our top priority is to ensure the safety of our players, students, fans and the game personnel,” BC athletic director Brad Bates said in a statement. “We appreciate everyone’s patience and cooperation.”

About 12-16 inches of snow fell in the area overnight into Sunday morning.In golf

Lee Janzen birdied his final hole to get into a playoff, then beat Bart Bryant to win the ACE Group Classic in Naples, Fla., Sunday.

Janzen forced the playoff with an 8-foot putt on No. 18. He then watched Bryant put his approach into the water on the extra hole. Janzen put his second shot on the green, two-putted and won the Champions Tour event at TwinEagles Golf Club.

Bryant stormed into contention with a 10-under-par 62 on the final day, tying a course record.

Colin Montgomerie entered the day at 12 under with a one-shot lead. He opened with a birdie but then alternated birdies and bogeys on the 10th through 13th. He also bogeyed the last hole to fall into fifth place.

The Westminster College men’s swimming and diving program earned its sixth Presidents’ Athletic Conference title Saturday at the PAC Championships in Grove City.

The Titans totaled 827.5 points over the three-day event. Grove City finished second with 582.5 points, followed by Saint Vincent (524), Washington & Jefferson (478) and Bethany (139).

The Grove City women’s team won its seventh straight PAC championship by rallying past Westminster.

Grove City finished with 808.5 points while Westminster had 802. Grove City trailed Westminster by as many as 23 points Saturday and won its conference-leading 13th title after winning the night’s final event, the 400 freestyle relay.

W&J finished in third place with 446 points. Saint Vincent was fourth followed by Chatham and Bethany.

W&J senior Jennifer Suder won her third straight PAC Women’s Diver of the Year award and sophomore Josh Vasko collected his second straight PAC Men’s Diver of the Year award. The Presidents’ Vic Galati was named the conference’s Diving Coach of the Year in both the men’s and women’s divisions.

Vasko repeated as the PAC one-meter springboard champion with a finals score of 434.95 to push W&J’s string of conference title winners in the event to five straight. His preliminary round score of 451.70 surpassed his Longnecker Invitational record set last season as well as the Longnecker Pool record. Vasko qualified for the NCAA Division III Regional Diving Championships.

Suder won her third-straight PAC title in the three-meter dive with an NCAA qualifying score of 493.85 in the finals.

Jessica Sweitzer won the 100 freestyle in 52.45, besting the field by .28.

W&J broke a six-year old school record in the men’s 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:25.72. Sophomore Nick Willison began the relay with a time of 21.24 in his 50-yard split, breaking the oldest standing W&J men’s swimming and diving record. It had stood since Scott McIntyre’s 21.45 in 1986, nearly a decade before Willison was born. Willison was joined by Chris Ratliff, Kevin Dunigan and Ben Henrichs.

Alexandra Martinez broke the school record in the 100 butterfly (58.68) to finish third, besting the mark of Kaitlyn Orstein in 2006 by eight-hundredths of a second. Kevin Dunnigan shattered the school mark in the 100 breaststroke (57.41), more than a second-and-a-half faster than Jacob Breymaier, who set the mark in 2003. Dunigan’s time was also good for second place.

Willison set the W&J record in the 200 backstroke (1:53.00) in the preliminaries. Ratliff established the Presidents’ record in the 100 freestyle (47.19) in the preliminaries and then broke it again with his 46.85 in the finals, which was good for fourth place. Kevin Dunigan bested his own school record in the 200 breaststroke by nearly two seconds with his fourth-place time of 2:08.15. In the the men’s 400 freestyle relay of Willison, Dunigan, Mike Magdic and Ratliff broke their school record set last season by touching the wall in 3:09.30.

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