Derrick Walton Jr. scored 25 points and Moritz Wagner had 11 points and 10 rebounds Sunday to lead Michigan past Indiana 75-63 in Bloomington, Ind.
The Wolverines (16-9, 6-6 Big Ten) won their second straight and just their 14th all-time win in Bloomington.
De’Ron Davis finished with 13 points to lead the Hoosiers (15-11, 5-7). Josh Newkirk and Juwan Morgan each had 11 for Indiana, which has lost three in a row.
The Hoosiers never really had a chance, though. They trailed the entire game and only made one serious challenge after trailing 35-25 at halftime — when James Blackmon Jr.’s 3-pointer with 13:38 to go got Indiana within 41-35.
But Michigan answered by making its next seven shots to make it 56-43 with 8:29 left, and Indiana couldn’t get closer than eight the rest of the way.
The Hoosiers struggled right from the start, giving up the first five points of the game and then allowing Michigan to seize control with first-half spurts of 8-2 and 10-2. Indiana missed its first nine 3-pionters, too.
D.J. Wilson added 13 points for Michigan as Walton topped the 20-point mark for the fifth consecutive game — Michigan’s longest streak since Nik Stauskas also did it in five straight games during 2013-14.
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No. 7 Notre Dame 90, Georgia Tech 69
Marina Mabrey scored 25 points Sunday to lead No. 7 Notre Dame to its seventh straight win, 90-69 over Georgia Tech in South Bend, Ind.
After missing her first two shots, Mabrey knocked down 11 of her next 12 to finish two points away from her career high.
Brianna Turner added 21 points and nine rebounds and Arike Ogunbowale had 18 points and 10 boards for the Irish (23-3, 11-1 ACC) who swept the season series with the Yellow Jackets.
Francesca Pan tied her career-high of four 3-pointers and scored 24 points to lead Georgia Tech (14-11, 3-9), which has lost seven of eight. Imani Tilford chipped in 15 points.
Reigning ACC player of the week Zaire O’Neil came in averaging more than 20 points over Tech’s last three games, including a career-high 28 last time out against North Carolina State. But O’Neil found the going much tougher down low against the taller Turner and finished with just nine points. Turner blocked five shots.
O’Neil played almost none of the first quarter, but the Jackets still went up by five early on. That’s when the Irish went on a run, just like in their first matchup. It was a 23-2 spurt last month that put the Irish in control, and an 18-3 burst this time around that got their lead into double digits in the second quarter.
Tech cut the Irish advantage to five on a pair of Tilford free throws early in the second half, but Mabrey scored six during a 14-4 Notre Dame run that pushed it back to 15.
After the Yellow Jackets got within single digits one more time early in the fourth quarter, Lindsay Allen responded with a three-point play and a 3-point field goal as Notre Dame scored nine straight to go up by 18 with six minutes left. Allen finished with 12 points.
Notre Dame was assessed an administrative technical foul at the start of the game after entering its starting lineup incorrectly. Katarina Vuckovic hit one of two free throws before the game’s opening tip.
Both teams were decked out in pink for the annual Pink Zone game to raise funds for breast cancer research. The Irish also celebrated the 20th reunion of the program’s first Final Four team from 1997.
No. 18 DePaul 92, Butler 62
Brooke Schulte scored 23 points with 11 rebounds, five assists and three steals and No. 18 Butler cruised to its sixth-straight win on Sunday, 92-62 over Butler in Indianapolis.
Amarah Coleman added 18 points and Chante Stonewall had a career-high 15 off the bench for the Blue Demons (22-5, 14-1), who have won 16 of their last 17.
Schulte, Jacqui Grant, Coleman and Lauren Prochaska had 3-pointers in a 16-0 run in the first quarter that gave the Blue Demons a 25-14 lead. Tanita Allen had a pair of 3-pointers and Kelly Campbell had one in a 17-2 run in the second quarter and the lead was 47-25 at the break.
DePaul finished 13 of 33 from long range, 22 assists and a 45-35 rebounding advantage as Schulte had her seventh double-double.
Sydney Shelton had seven 3-pointers and 23 points, both career highs, for Butler (5-20, 2-12), which lost 100-69 in the first meeting and has lost nine straight.
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