Tennessee Grinds Past Notre Dame

Top-ranked Tennessee defeated No. 12 Notre Dame, 62-51, despite shooting 33% from the field and being outscored in the second half Saturday at South Bend, Ind.

The Lady Vols (12-0), who entered the game averaging 83 points, won by outrebounding the Irish, 50-35, and limiting Notre Dame to 31% shooting.

Alexis Hornbuckle had 15 points and eight rebounds, Nicky Anosike added nine points and Candace Parker had eight points and 11 rebounds for the Lady Vols, who led, 29-14, at halftime.

Megan Duffy led Notre Dame (9-2) with 19 points, including eight in the last four minutes. The Lady Vols had a 47-25 lead with 13:09 left, but the Irish cut the deficit to six, at 57-51, with two minutes left. Then Tennessee made five of eight from the free-throw line to hang on for the win before a crowd of 11,418, only the third women’s sellout in Joyce Center history.

“I felt we really battled,” Notre Dame Coach Muffet McGraw said. “I thought we came out and we were a little nervous in the first half. We’re just trying so hard with the crowd.”

Shanna Zolman, the Lady Vols’ top scorer with 17 points per game, was limited to five points on one-for-seven shooting.

No. 5 North Carolina 101, College of Charleston 48 -- Ivory Latta had 14 points in 16 minutes to lead the Tar Heels (13-0) over the Cougars (3-6) at Chapel Hill, N.C.

No. 8 Connecticut 85, Army 46 -- Ann Strother scored 21 points and Barbara Turner had 16 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Huskies (11-1) over the Black Knights (5-7) at Hartford, Conn. Strother had five of Connecticut’s season-high 12 three-pointers to move to 18th on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,386 points.

No. 11 Arizona State 72, Washington State 47 -- Briann January scored 12 points at Tempe, Ariz., in a reserve role to lead the Sun Devils to their ninth consecutive victory. The win streak is the longest for Arizona State (12-1, 3-0 Pac-10) in 10 years under Coach Charlie Turner Thorne. Keisha Moore’s 20 points led the Cougars (6-6, 0-4).

No. 24 Boston College 73, Colgate 54 -- The Eagles (12-2) made eight of their first 11 shots and led, 28-4, in a rout of the Raiders (2-9) at Boston.