College Basketball Roundup : Ohio State Defeats Iowa, 102-91, at Columbus

It’s not easy playing on the road in the Big Ten Conference. Just ask Iowa Coach Tom Davis.

No. 16-ranked Ohio State jumped off to a 12-0 lead and never looked back in beating No. 7 Iowa, 102-91, Thursday night at Columbus, Ohio.

The defeat was the second straight for the Hawkeyes, who lost, 90-88, at Minnesota Saturday.

Asked when he last saw a team play with the intensity of Ohio State, Davis said: “Last Saturday at Minnesota.”

Added Davis: “Ohio State was the aggressor tonight. There was a lot of shoving going on and it seemed like we were the shovee a lot.”

Ohio State was coming off a 99-73 loss at Michigan Monday night, and the Buckeyes’ Jay Burson, who had 26 points Thursday night, said that was an incentive against the Hawkeyes.

“Coach (Gary Williams) worked us hard this week,” he said. “Tonight we took the game to them. We wanted to take the ball to the basket every time. We played as well as we can.”

Jerry Francis had 20 points, Perry Carter 17 and Jamaal Brown a career-high 14 for the Buckeyes (13-4, 3-2).

B.J. Armstrong scored 23 points, and Roy Marble, James Moses and Ray Thompson had 16 apiece for the Hawkeyes (13-3, 1-2).

It was the fourth time this season that Ohio State had topped the 100-point mark, tying a school record.

Illinois 75, Northwestern 70--Kenny Battle scored 23 points to lead the No. 2 Illini to a hard-earned victory over the Wildcats at Evanston, Ill.

Jeff Grose kept Northwestern in the game by hitting from 3-point range in the second half. Grose finished with 20 points, including 5 3-pointers.

The Illini are 16-0 and 4-0; Northwestern fell to 7-8 and 0-5.

With top-ranked Duke’s upset loss Wednesday night, the Illini can take over the top spot in the Associated Press poll with a victory over Georgia Tech this weekend.

Indiana 61, Wisconsin 58--Jay Edwards scored 5 of his 27 points in overtime, and the 19th-ranked Hoosiers held on to beat the Badgers at Madison, Wis.

Edwards hit a jump shot, then had a 3-point play to give Indiana a 59-55 lead with 2:20 left in overtime.

Wisconsin’s Danny Jones, whose basket with 10 seconds left in regulation sent the game into overtime, converted a 3-point play with 1:58 to go, cutting the Hoosier lead to 59-58.

Indiana’s Joe Hillman missed a 10-footer with 24 seconds left. After 3 timeouts, Wisconsin’s Willie Simms was called for a charge driving down the lane, and Indiana’s Brian Sloan hit 2 free throws with 6 seconds left to wrap up Indiana’s 11th straight victory.

The Hoosiers (14-4, 4-0) have beaten Wisconsin 18 straight times.

Jones scored 27 points to lead the Badgers (9-5, 1-4).

Temple 76, Penn State 65--Mike Vreeswyk scored 24 points, and Mark Macon added 20 at University Park, Pa., to give the Owls their 32nd consecutive Atlantic 10 Conference win.

The Owls (8-5, 7-0) have beaten Penn State 12 consecutive times.

Penn State (8-6, 4-2) pulled within 59-51 with 5:17 left, but Temple answered with a 10-3 run in the next 6:11 to take command.

Duane Causwell tied his own school record with 10 blocks for Temple.

La Salle 84, Holy Cross 72--Lionel Simmons, the nation’s third-leading scorer with a 27.2 average, scored 34 points to lead the Explorers (12-3, 4-0) to a Metro Atlantic Conference victory at Worcester, Mass. Holy Cross is 9-6 and 2-2.

Texas El Paso 76, San Diego St. 65--Antonio Davis scored 25 points, and Tim Hardaway got 8 of his 22 in a late flurry as the Miners (15-2, 4-1) beat the Aztecs (8-7, 2-3) in a Western Athletic Conference game at San Diego.

Hardaway, who also had 12 assists, keyed a 20-4 spurt that produced a 71-57 lead with 2:04 left.