Huskies Extend Streak

Diana Taurasi scored 14 points during a decisive 30-4 run as top-ranked Connecticut (25-0, 12-0 Big East) extended its women’s NCAA-record winning streak to 64 games with a 81-60 victory over Miami (14-9, 6-6) Wednesday night at Coral Gables, Fla. The Huskies hold the women’s record for consecutive wins and is 24 victories shy of tying the men’s record of 88 set by UCLA from 1971-74.

In other games:

Megan Mahoney scored 21 points as No. 5 Kansas State (24-2, 11-1 Big 12) held off a late rally to beat Missouri (13-10, 7-5), 66-56 at Columbia, Mo.... No. 8 Texas Tech’s Marsha Sharp won her 500th game, becoming only the 22nd NCAA Division I women’s coach to reach that mark, as the Raiders (21-3, 10-2 Big 12) beat Oklahoma (15-10, 6-6) at Lubbock, Texas.... No. 10 Texas (18-5, 11-1 Big 12) ran its home record to 13-0 with a 75-55 victory over Colorado (18-5, 8-4.... No. 20 Villanova (19-4, 9-3 Big East) went on an 11-2 run in the final five minutes to clinch a 51-37 win over Georgetown (14-9, 5-7).... No. 21 Wisconsin Green Bay (21-3, 12-1 Horizon League) beat Youngstown State (5-18, 2-10), 85-64 at Youngstown, Ohio.... No. 22 Rutgers (17-5, 10-2 Big East) beat St. John’s (8-16, 2-11), 69-38, at New York.... No. 24 Boston College (17-6, 9-3 Big East) defeated Seton Hall (12-11, 6-7), 68-58, at South Orange, N.J.