Crawford leads No. 15 Indiana; Mich. falls

Jordan Crawford's three-game suspension made him hungrier Saturday.

He wanted to beat Kentucky, outdo his brother, Joe, and show his Indiana teammates what they had been missing since late November.

With Indiana's starting guards sitting out and his parents watching from behind the Indiana bench, Crawford delivered a masterpiece. The freshman scored 20 points in his first career start and led the 15th-ranked Hoosiers to a 70-51 rout over border rival Kentucky on Saturday in Bloomington, Ind.

"I was more motivated about just getting back out there," Crawford said. "I didn't want to make this a 1-on-1 battle. My team had three good wins without me, and I wanted to get them one."

Crawford did just that in one of the Hoosiers' biggest rivalries.

With his nifty ball-handling, crisp passes, impressive shooting and solid defense, Crawford turned the battle of the brothers into a lopsided affair.

Friends and family took the cue.

Crawford's parents, clad in mixed Indiana and Kentucky gear behind the Hoosiers' bench, laughed when officials separated the brothers during a shoving incident early in the game and were amused when fans chanted "Jordan's better" several times throughout the game.

But it was more about what Kentucky didn't do.

Kentucky shot poorly, turned the ball over too much and had two starters foul out in the first 10:02 of the second half. Even Joe Crawford, who joined Kentucky's 1,000-point club last week, couldn't get his team righted.

Patrick Patterson led the Wildcats (4-3) with 15 points in a second straight loss to a traditional power. Kentucky lost to No. 1 North Carolina last week, and for only the third time in the last 14 games of this passionate series.

"They whipped us in every aspect and they did it with a short-handed team," Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie said. "We're not happy about that."

The Hoosiers (8-1) have won 23 straight home games, and coach Kelvin Sampson is 21-0 at Assembly Hall since taking over as Indiana's coach last season.

This victory, however, deviated from the Hoosiers' usual script.

Freshman Eric Gordon, the nation's second-leading scorer entering the week, was a late scratch because of a bruised lower back. Sophomore Armon Bassett missed the game because of a suspension for violating team rules, and Sampson said afterward he hasn't yet decided whether Bassett's suspension will be for more games.

Worse yet was losing senior forward D.J. White for most of the last 10 minutes of the first half because of foul trouble. White finished with 16 points and 13 rebounds, joining the Hoosiers' 1,000-point club.

If Kentucky thought those absences would make it easy, the Wildcats discounted the impact Jordan Crawford could have.

"It was time for him (Jordan) to step up and get it going," Joe Crawford Sr. said at halftime, wearing an Indiana hat and a Kentucky sweat shirt.

The younger brother pestered Kentucky by jumping into the passing lanes, knocking balls away and getting Kentucky's Ramel Bradley into early foul trouble. Offensively, he was even better. He hit a 3-pointer over his older brother, drove confidently to the basket and routinely found open teammates.

By game's end, the younger brother had the upper hand in the 1-on-1 game, 20-10.

But that wasn't the toughest part for the Kentucky senior to accept.

"We've got to figure out what the problem is," Joe Crawford said. "I'm just kind of hurt right now. The most frustrating thing about it was us just not fighting. It's hard to go down like that when we're not making any runs or just not fighting at any time."

Indiana took control midway through the first half with a 15-5 run that expanded the lead to 29-15 with 6:11 left in the first half.

Kentucky closed to 31-23 when Joe Crawford stole the ball from his brother and drove in for a layup. But Jordan Crawford made three of four free throws in the final 90 seconds, during a five-point flurry that gave Indiana a 37-25 halftime lead.

The second half was all Hoosiers.

Duke 95, Michigan 67: Taylor King scored 18 points, and fellow freshman Nolan Smith added a career-high 17 for host No. 6 Duke (9-0) in a win over Michigan (3-6).

Gerald Henderson had 12 points, and DeMarcus Nelson and Jon Scheyer added 10 apiece for the Blue Devils, who took control with a 14-0 run in the first half.

Duke opened with 9 straight victories for the third time in four years, won its NCAA-best 56th straight nonconference home game and improved to 3-0 against the Big Ten by sending the shorthanded Wolverines to their sixth loss in seven games.

DeShawn Sims had 12 points for Michigan.

Marquette 81, Wisconsin 76: Dominic James scored 20 points, and No. 11 Marquette (6-1) ended Wisconsin's 28-home game winning streak.

With the win, Marquette put a halt to Wisconsin's recent dominance in the state's biggest basketball rivalry and ended the Badgers' home streak that was the third-longest in Division I. Wisconsin (6-2) had won seven of the previous nine meetings between the schools and had not lost at home to Marquette since 1997.

Brian Butch scored 17 points and Trevon Hughes 16 for the Badgers, who are 97-6 at the Kohl Center under coach Bo Ryan.

Iowa St. 56, Iowa 47: Jiri Hubalek scored 15 points, Rahshon Clark added 14, and host Iowa State (4-4) beat Iowa (6-5), snapping a five-game losing streak against instate opponents.

Iowa junior guard Tony Freeman, who scored 15 points in his season debut Wednesday against Northern Iowa, sat out with a sore foot. Freeman missed the first nine games with the injury, and Iowa missed his offense. The Hawkeyes shot just 32 percent from the floor.

Missouri 73, Purdue 63: Leo Lyons had 13 points and 10 rebounds, leading a second-half charge after Missouri (6-3) squandered an 11-point lead and helping the host Tigers break away from young Purdue (5-2).

Reserves Keon Lawrence and J.T. Tiller had 11 points apiece for Missouri, which has a 16-game winning streak at home against non-conference opponents dating to 2005-06. E'Twaun Moore had 15 points and Keaton Grant 13 for Purdue.

Penn St. 89, Seton Hall 86 (OT): Freshman Talor Battle scored a career-high 14 points, including 9 in overtime, as host Penn State (4-4) overcame a 15-point deficit to beat Seton Hall (7-2).

The Nittany Lions didn't take their first lead until overtime, when Battle hit a 3-pointer just one second into the five-minute period. He followed with another trey on the next possession and a layup immediately after that to give Penn State an 83-77 advantage.

Minnesota 91, Colorado St. 74: Dan Coleman scored 22 points, and Blake Hoffarber came off the bench for a career-high 21 to lead host Minnesota (6-1) over Colorado State (5-4).

Coleman surpassed 1,000 points in his four-year career and pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds. Spencer Tollackson made 6 of 8 field-goal attempts and finished with 16 points for the Gophers.