College basketball roundup
Devon Hall scored a career-best 25 points and No. 3 Virginia pushed its winning streak to eight with a 68-51 victory over North Carolina State on Sunday night.
Kyle Guy added 17 points for the Cavaliers (16-1, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). Virginia has won 11 straight regular-season meetings against the Wolfpack.
Torin Dorn scored 16 points to lead N.C. State (12-6, 2-3), which arrived with a 3-0 record against ranked teams. The Wolfpack has beaten the No. 2 team twice – Arizona on Nov. 22 and Duke on Jan. 6 – and was coming off a 78-77 victory against No. 19 Clemson.
N.C. State scoring leader Allerik Freeman (15.2 points per game) did not score in 29 minutes, missing all five of his shots from the field.
Virginia led 30-20 at the break and quickly built its margin to 37-20 in the opening minutes after halftime. The lead grew as high as 21.
Indiana 66, Northwestern 46: Robert Johnson scored 17 points and Juwan Morgan scored all eight points in the second half to lead the Indiana Hoosiers past Northwestern 66-46.
Indiana (11-7, 4-2 Big Ten) took advantage of an 18-0 spurt in the second half to win its third straight.
Vic Law and Isiah Brown each had nine points to lead the Wildcats (11-8, 2-4), who have lost three of four. And this loss may have been the worst yet.
Northwestern shot 26.8 percent from the field, barely avoiding a season low, and was outplayed in virtually every facet.
The Hoosiers, meanwhile, fought through the loss of Morgan to foul trouble for almost the entire first half. When he returned in the second half, it didn’t take the Hoosiers long to start pulling away.
Davidson 75, Fordham 45: Jon Axel Gudmundsson scored 18 points, Kellan Grady added 14, and the pair combined for seven of Davidson’s 15 3-pointers in a 75-45 victory over Fordham.
Davidson had 25 assists on 28 field goals as the Wildcats shot 52.8 percent, including 15 of 26 from distance. The Wildcats entered leading the country in assist-turnover ratio (1.89) and had just five miscues against the Rams.
Oskar Michelsen scored 13 points and Peyton Aldridge 11 for Davidson (9-7, 4-1 Atlantic 10), which has won four straight games. KiShawn Pritchett had nine assists and Aldridge seven rebounds.