Top 25 women’s roundup: Top-ranked UConn uses big runs to down K-State, 75-58

Katie Lou Samuelson scored 26 points, Napheesa Collier added 22 and top-ranked Connecticut used a big run in each half to knock off Kansas State 75-58 on Sunday in Manhattan, Kansas.

Samuelson made six 3-pointers and Kia Nurse added 13 points for the Huskies (9-0), who ran their winning streak to 84 straight games, six shy of their 90-game stretch from 2008-10. It was also their 27th consecutive road win.

Breanna Lewis had 18 points to lead the Wildcats (9-1), who were off to their best start since 2008.

UConn shot nearly 50 percent from the field (30 of 61) and had a big advantage on the boards, while the Wildcats struggled to deal with the Huskies’ pressure. They turned it over 16 times.

(11) Washington 92, Boise State 66: Kelsey Plum matched her season-high with 44 points and became the Pac-12’s career scoring leader in the Huskies’ (10-1) victory over the Broncos (8-1).

Plum entered the day needing 23 points to break former Stanford star Chiney Ogwumike’s record of 2,737. Plum nearly accomplished the record in the first half, scoring 22 points.

After missing her first two shots of the second half, Plum made a pair of free throws with 8:38 left in the third quarter to set the mark.

The national scoring leader finished 15-of-26 shooting and added nine rebounds for the Huskies. Marijk Vanderschaaf led Boise State with 16 points.

(6) South Carolina 98, Minnesota 58: Kaela Davis scored 22 points, Allisha Gray had 18 and the Gamecocks (7-1) bounced back nicely from its first loss of the season and beat the Gophers (7-4) in Columbia, South Carolina.

The Gamecocks finished with 16 3-pointers, the most in coach Dawn Staley’s nine seasons and second-most in program history behind 17 against Western Carolina in 1994.

Kenisha Bell led Minnesota with 16 points. Carlie Wagner, the Gophers’ leading scorer at 20.7 points a game, missed her first nine shots and finished with six points.

(8) Louisville 68, Western Kentucky 61: Asia Durr scored 16 points, including two key 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, and the Cardinals (8-2) held on to beat the Lady Toppers (5-4) ion Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisville erased a 38-32 halftime deficit with 10 straight points before Jaycee Coe rallied WKU with three consecutive 3s, beginning a back-and-forth stretch that continued into the final quarter. The Cardinals rallied again and went ahead for good at 60-59 on Mariya Moore’s layup with 4:12 left, and Durr added a 3 with 3:33 to go.

Ivy Brown scored 12 points and Tashia Brown had 11 for the Lady Toppers, who had won two in a row.

(9) UCLA 84, Michigan 64: Monique Billings and Jordin Canada each had double-doubles, leading the Bruins (7-1) to the victory over the Wolverines (8-3).

Billings had 19 points and a season-high 16 rebounds, while Canada had 16 points and a career-high 14 assists. Kelli Hayes added 16 points.

The Bruins extended their home winning streak to 18 in a row dating to last season. UCLA has won 22 straight against unranked opponents.

Kysre Gondrezick scored 18 points for Michigan, and Hallie Thome had 15.

(12) Ohio State 89, Canisius 56: Kelsey Mitchell scored 19 points to move into fifth on the school scoring list, and the Buckeyes (8-3) beat the Golden Griffins (2-7) for their third consecutive win.

Mitchell was 9 for 17 from the field and also had six steals. She has 2,019 career points.

Tori McCoy had 17 points and 11 rebounds for her first double-double with Ohio State.

Sara Hinriksdottir scored 14 points for Canisius.

Arizona State 73, (15) Kentucky 71 (OT): Sophie Brunner scored 18 points, including a tiebreaking jumper with 6 seconds left in overtime, to lead the Sun Devils (6-2) in a win over the Wildcats (7-3) in Lexington, Kentucky.

Quinn Dornstauder had 15 points for Arizona State, and Kelsey Moos had 10 rebounds.

Maci Morris scored a career-high 29 points for Kentucky, which has dropped two of three.

The game was played before 13,225 in the Wildcats’ only scheduled appearance this season in Rupp Arena.

(17) Texas 72, Tennessee 67: Freshmen Jada Underwood and Joyner Holmes each made two free throws in the last 10 seconds to help the Longhorns (3-4) hold off the Lady Vols (4-4) in Austin, Texas.

Holmes made two free throws with 10 seconds left, 4 seconds after Alexa Middleton’s 3-pointer pulled the Lady Vols to 68-64. Underwood’s free throws came 6 seconds after Diamond DeShields’ 3 made it 70-67.

Underwood and Brooke McCarty each had 13 points for the Longhorns. Holmes, Lashann Higgs and Kelsey Lang added 12 apiece. Jaime Nared had a career-high 22 points for Tennessee.

(19) Oklahoma 85, Tulsa 68: Maddie Manning came off the bench to score a career-high 24 points and had eight rebounds to lead the Sooners (7-2) past the Golden Hurricane (3-7) in Norman, Oklahoma.

Peyton Little added 15 points and Nancy Mulkey 10 for the Sooners.

Junior college transfer Ebony Parker made six 3-pointers and scored 20 points, both career highs, for the Golden Hurricane.

(22) South Florida 78, Arkansas State 59: Kitija Laksa made four 3-pointers and scored 22 points to lead the Bulls (7-0) in a win over the Red Wolves (1-7).

Maria Jespersen added 14 points for the Bulls.

Akasha Westbrook scored 16 points for the Red Wolves.

Maria Jespersen added 14 points and Laura Ferreira 11 for the Bulls, who were 30-of-58 shooting for 51.7 percent. Tamara Henshaw added 10 rebounds with eight points.

(23) Florida 67, North Carolina A&T 38: Brooke Copeland scored 13 points and the Gators (7-3) outscored the Aggies (1-7) 23-2 in the fourth quarter in Panama City, Florida.

Delicia Washington had 10 points and Ronni Williams and Haley Lorenzen each had 10 rebounds for the Gators. Florida had a 54-38 advantage on the boards and held the Aggies to 23 percent shooting (15 for 66) after a 1-for-14 fourth quarter that included nine misses behind the arc and six turnovers.

Florida scoring leader Eleanna Christinaki quit the team after refusing to accept a suspension. Christinaki and Delicia Washington were suspended for the first half for what coach Amanda Butler called “a little discipline from some behavior that is not becoming of a Gator and not part of our culture.” Washington played the second half.

Dana Brown scored 16 points for the Aggies.

(25) Virginia Tech 98, Bowling Green 51: Samantha Hill made five 3-pointers and scored a career-high 21 points and the Hokies (10-0) beat the Falcons (4-6) in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Chanette Hicks added 17 points for Virginia Tech, Magarity Regan had 13 with 12 rebounds, Sidney Cook had 12 points and 13 rebounds, and Kendyl Brooks had 11 points. The Hokies are 10-0 for the first time since the 2005-06 season.

Carly Santoro led Bowling Green with nine points and seven rebounds.