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No. 1 Villanova 89, No. 10 Xavier 65

Villanova turned the anticipated Big East game of the year into a romp by the time some fans were still taking their seats.

Phil Booth hit five 3s and scored a career high 21 points while Jalen Brunson had 17 to lead the Wildcats to a win over Xavier on Wednesday night.

"We still have to get better," coach Jay Wright said.

Hard to say where after Villanova's latest lopsided victory.

The Wildcats (15-1, 3-1 Big East) returned to the top spot of the poll and dominated like a team that won't lose its grip on that rank anytime soon.

Booth and Brunson opened the game with 3s and the Wildcats played every bit as worthy as their ranking as they raced to a 22-9 lead. Booth hit three 3s in the first half and Brunson was solid both from long range and in attacking the basket to make it 40-28 at the break.

The Wildcats took a 13-point lead in the half on the play of the game: Donte DiVincenzo stole the ball and fed to Eric Paschal just before halfcourt. Paschal passed to Booth who put some extra arc on a lob and the 6-foot-9 Paschal slammed it home to rock the rim and bring the crowd to its feet.

Brunson, who made The Associated Press preseason All-America team, hit a pair of 3s and had five assists and just one turnover running the offense.

"You peel his face off, you'll probably have wires coming out of it," Xavier coach Chris Mack said. "I think they're led by the best point guard in college basketball."

Booth was just as sharp and has finally rounded into form after missing almost all of last season with a knee injury.

"I felt well probably about (Dec. 5) Gonzaga, getting the rhythm of the game," he said.

"It looked good tonight, man," Wright chimed in.

The Wildcats' annual defeat at Butler had no impact on a program that has been humming along, collecting Big East titles and the 2016 national championship. Villanova hasn't lost more than five games in a season since 2012-13 and it's hard to find two or three more losses on the schedule, much less anything that would send the Wildcats into a tailspin.

"It's hard for any player when you're winning to still focus on getting better," Wright said.

The Wildcats are getting better. They needed just a week to reclaim its lost No. 1 ranking in the AP Top 25. The Wildcats returned to the top after an upset-filled week that rattled the poll.

With the shakeup at the top of the poll in the wake of losses by No. 1 Michigan State and No. 2 Duke, Xavier (15-3, 3-2) might have been able to make this game a 1-2 matchup had it defeated Providence. The Musketeers instead had their 10-game winning streak snapped in an 81-72 loss to the Friars and slid to 10th.

They couldn't bounce back in Philly.

Trevon Bluiett (19.4 points) and J.P Macura (13.1 points) were awful in the first half and could not stop Nova from dominating. The duo went 3-for-11 from the floor, hit just one 3 and Xavier was generally overwhelmed, like so many Big East teams here before them.

"They do it to a lot of teams," Mack said.

Mikal Bridges hit Villanova's ninth 3 midway through the second half to make it 66-48 and squash the Musketeers for good.

Kerem Kanter led Xavier with 16 points.

The Wildcats had been roughed up defensively of late, allowing at least 85 points in three straight games (2-1). They allowed 100 (101) for the first time this season against Butler and 85 and 90 in wins over DePaul and Marquette. But they held Xavier to 34 percent shooting in the first half and never let it mount a rally in the second. The 65 points allowed were the fewest since they gave up 53 to Saint Joseph's on Dec. 2.

"We just kind of lost it," Wright said. "You just can't say, 'we're going to play defense now,' when you haven't done it for three weeks."

No. 4 Michigan State 76, Rutgers 72 (OT)

Miles Bridges may be one of the most unselfish stars in college basketball.

Tom Izzo wants him to change, hoping he’ll choose to be more aggressive with the ball.

Bridges ended his scoreless start with 7:43 left in regulation and finished with just 11 points to barely help Michigan State bounce back from a loss with an overtime victory over Rutgers.

“He has to be more selfish,” Izzo said.

The Spartans (16-2, 4-1 Big Ten) were coming off a lopsided loss at Ohio State and the setback seemed to have lingering effects for the team and their sophomore star.

“We just couldn’t get anything going,” Bridges said. “They made it tough for us.”

Bridges missed his first five shots and one of two free throws with 8 seconds left with a chance to give Michigan State the lead. The preseason All-America player opened overtime with a 3-pointer, but ended up with as many turnovers (3) as made shots on 10 attempts and appeared to be frustrated throughout the game.

“We tried to do a good job of limiting his touches,” Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell said. “But he’s a real good player and they have a lot of weapons.”

The Scarlet Knights (11-7, 1-4) took a one-point lead on Corey Sanders’ step-back jumper with 1 minute left and Bridges stepped out of bounds on the ensuing possession, giving them the ball back with 41.3 seconds left. Sanders missed a long jumper with 16 seconds left.

Bridges was fouled with 8 seconds left, but made only the second free throw to tie the game.

With a chance to win, Sanders missed a shot near the top of the key with a second left in regulation. Sanders made a game-tying floater with 1:21 left in overtime, falling to the court with a cramp in his left calf. He returned to make a layup to pull Rutgers within two with 9 seconds left, but Cassius Winston sealed the win with two free throws to put the Spartans ahead by six.

Sanders scored 22 points and Deshawn Freeman had 15 for the Scarlet Knights, who had four players foul out.

“We try to prove every night we’re capable of playing the team we’re up against and I think tonight we proved that,” Sanders said. “It wasn’t the result we wanted, but we played hard.”

Michigan State’s Nick Ward had 17 points, Jaren Jackson scored 16 while Winston and Joshua Langford scored 12 points apiece.

“They pose a lot of problems,” Pikiell said. “You can’t just hone in one of them.”

No. 7 Duke 87, Pittsburgh 52

Marvin Bagley III scored 16 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and Duke had little trouble bouncing back from a loss to North Carolina State by drilling overmatched Pittsburgh.

Bagley also blocked a shot while recording his 13th double-double of the season, one shy of the Duke freshman record shared by Jabari Parker and Gene Banks.

The Blue Devils (14-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) never trailed and needed less than 17 minutes to build a 30-point lead. Trevon Duval and Gary Trent Jr. scored 14 apiece and Grayson Allen added 11 points, four rebounds and four assists for Duke.

Four days removed from a 96-85 loss to the Wolfpack that left head coach Mike Krzyzewski fuming about his team’s “frantic” play, the Blue Devils responded by shutting down the freshmen-laden Panthers.

Duke limited Pitt (8-9, 0-4) to 13 points in the first 17 minutes and just 24 in the opening half, the second-fewest the Blue Devils have given up in a half this season.

Jared Wilson-Frame led the Panthers with 17 points but Pitt shot just 33 percent (17 for 51) and committed 15 turnovers in all, 10 coming during a first half in which the Panthers were overwhelmed at just about every turn.

Louisville 73, No. 23 Florida State 69

Deng Adel scored 16 points and Louisville rallied from a 13-point halftime deficit to defeat Florida State and snap the Seminoles’ 28-game home winning streak.

Ray Spalding added 15 points for the Cardinals (12-4, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who made six 3-pointers in the second half. Ryan McMahon, who scored 11 points, had three 3-pointers in the final 20 minutes, including one that gave the Cardinals the lead and another with 59 seconds remaining that pushed the lead to 71-66.

Louisville trailed 45-32 at halftime but steadily stormed back as the Seminoles missed five of their first six from the field in the second half and committed six turnovers in the first 6 minutes. A 3-pointer by Adel with 9:04 remaining tied it at 55 before the Cardinals took their first lead with 4:55 left on a 3 by McMahon.

Terance Mann tied a career high with 25 points and Braian Angola added 18 for Florida State (12-4, 1-3), which blew a 17-point, first-half lead. It is Florida State’s first loss at home since an 86-80 loss to Georgia Tech on Feb. 17, 2016.

Florida State scored the first nine points and was up 11-2 before the Cardinals scored nine straight points to tie. Things would remain close for most of the half until the Seminoles went on a 16-2 run to take a 45-28 lead with 1:36 remaining. The Cards would score the final four points of the first half to trail 45-32 at halftime.

Women

TCU 79, No. 7 Texas 77

Kianna Ray made two free throws with 6 seconds left and TCU beat a Top 10 team for the first time in more than eight years, upsetting Texas.

Ray was fouled by Ariel Atkins on a drive to the basket. That came after Atkins tied the game, and the second time in the final 38 seconds the two traded baskets. Atkins had made a short runner in the lane before Ray’s open 3-pointer put Frogs up 77-75.

A final desperation 3 by Lashann Higgs was way off the mark as the game ended.

Jordan Moore led TCU (11-5, 2-3 Big 12) with 19 points, and Ray had 17. Toree Thompson had 13 points and Amy Okonkwo had 12.

Atkins had 25 points, and Higgs 18 for the Longhorns (13-2, 4-1). They had won six straight.

TCU had lost its last 13 games against ranked teams, and hadn’t beaten a Top 10 team since a 56-54 home victory over No. 10 Texas A&M on Dec. 12, 2009.

No. 15 West Virginia 74, Kansas 54

Naomi Davenport hit four 3-pointers and finished with 22 points and Teana Muldrow had 19 points, nine rebounds, two blocks and two steals for West Virginia.

Katrina Pardee added 15 points for West Virginia (15-2, 3-2 Big 12). The Mountaineers have won five in a row against Kansas (11-5, 2-3).

Kylee Kopatich led Kansas with 17 points.

Purdue 47, No. 21 Rutgers 33

Ae’Rianna Harris scored 13 points, and Purdue held Rutgers to 10 points in the first half and ended the Scarlet Knights’ 11-game winning streak.

Andreona Keys added 10 points for the Boilermakers (11-7, 2-2 Big Ten) to help spoil Rutgers’ first appearance in the Top 25 since March 2015.

The highlight for Rutgers (16-3, 4-1) was the last basket of the first half, scored by Tyler Scaife at the 4:36 mark that pushed the fifth-year senior into the 2,000-point club.

No. 23 Michigan 84, Indiana 79

Katelynn Flaherty and Hailey Brown scored 23 points apiece for Michigan.

Flaherty scored 10 points in the fourth quarter, including the last six Michigan points in the final 46 seconds. Brown, a freshman, had a career scoring total. She was 10 of 12 from the field.

Nichole Munger added 16 points for the Wolverines (14-4, 3-2 Big Ten). Bendu Yeaney and Tyra Buss had 18 points apiece for the Hoosiers (8-10, 1-4).