MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kofi Cockburn scored 19 points and No. 5 Illinois topped No. 23 Wisconsin 74-69, completing its first sweep of the regular-season series since 2005. Wisconsin’s D’Mitrik Trice scored 19 points in the final 2:12. Wisconsin trailed by 13 with less than three minutes left but got within one on Trice’s 3-pointer with 6.7 seconds remaining. Trice finished with 29 points. Illinois played without All-American candidate Ayo Dosunmu, who missed a second straight game after breaking his nose during a loss at Michigan State.
Also in college basketball:
— Cameron Krutwig had 20 points and No. 21 Loyola scored the final eight points of overtime, rallying past Southern Illinois 65-58 on Saturday night to clinch the Missouri Valley Conference title. The Ramblers closed the regular season by winning 14 of 15 games. Loyola has won at least a share of the conference title in three of the last four years. Lucas Williamson scored 13 points and Braden Norris added 12 as the Ramblers extended their home winning streak to 22 games, the nation’s fifth-longest active streak. Lance Jones led Southern Illinois with 30 points on 11-for-17 shooting, including 5 for 8 on 3-pointers.
— Chudier Bile scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to carry Georgetown to a 68-60 win over DePaul. Jamorko Pickett had 14 points for Georgetown. Dante Harris also scored 14 points and had five assists. Charlie Moore led the Blue Demons with 22 points, making four 3-pointers. Ray Salnave added 11 points on 2 of 8 shooting. DePaul was 22 of 57 from the field (39%) and 9 of 10 at the line.
— Kansas fell out of The Associated Press men’s basketball poll just a few weeks ago following three straight losses. On Saturday, the 17th-ranked Jayhawks ended Baylor’s bid for a perfect regular season. David McCormack scored 20 points and the Jayhawks pulled away in the second half of a 71-58 victory over the second-ranked Bears. Marcus Garrett chipped in 13 points and seven rebounds for Kansas, which led by three at intermission before improving to 18-8. MaCio Teague (MAY’-see-oh teeg) had a team-high 16 points and Davion Mitchell added 13 for Baylor, which scored a season low for points.
— Top-ranked Gonzaga is now the lone unbeaten team in Division I at 24-0 after Corey Kispert furnished 24 points in the Bulldogs’ team-record 51st straight home win, 86-59 against Loyola Marymount. The Zags had five players score in double-figures, with Drew Timme (TIH’-mee) contributing 16 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
— Franz Wagner matched his season high for the second straight game as he delivered 21 points in third-ranked Michigan’s seventh straight win, 73-57 at Indiana. Isaiah Livers furnished 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Wolverines, who went on first-half runs of 10-0 and 10-3 to take a 42-29 lead.
— Jaden Shackleford scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half as sixth-ranked Alabama fought off Mississippi State, 64-59 to clinch its first SEC regular-season championship since 2002. Jahvon Quinerly (jah-VAHN’ KWIHN’-ur-lee) added 19 points off the bench for Alabama, including 15 before halftime to help the Tide snap out of a cold shooting start.
— Oklahoma State pulled out a 94-90 triumph over seventh-ranked Oklahoma as freshman star Cade Cunningham furnished 10 of his season-high 40 points in overtime. Bryce Williams and Avery Anderson III each scored 15 points for the Cowboys in their fourth straight win and the Sooner’s second consecutive loss.
— Sean McNeil scored 16 points and 10th-ranked West Virginia used a pair of big second-half runs to thump Kansas State, 65-43. Derek Culver added 11 points for the Mountaineers, who scored the first seven points of the second half and 17 straight later in the game.
— Freshman backup Walker Kessler contributed 14 of his season-high 20 points in the second half to send North Carolina to a 78-70 upset of No. 11 Florida State. The Tar Heels trailed by 16 late in the opening half before giving head coach Roy Williams his 900th career victory.
— Paul Scruggs scored 23 points and Xavier bolstered its NCAA Tournament hopes with a 77-69 victory over No. 13 Creighton. Zach Freemantle added 17 points and 10 boards for his fifth straight double-double, helping the Musketeers improve to 13-5.
— Mac McClung had 16 points and 18th-ranked Texas Tech opened the second half with a 19-6 run to turn a tie game into a 68-59 win against No. 14 Texas. Terrence Shannon Jr. had 11 points for the Red Raiders, while Santos-Silva, Kyler Edwards and Kevin McCullar each had 10.
— No. 16 Virginia Tech ripped Wake Forest, 84-46 as Keve Aluma scored 23 points and Tyrece Radford had 15 in the Hokies’ largest margin of victory ever in an ACC game. Aluma hit 9 of 11 from the floor, including a career-high five 3-pointers.
— Alphonso Plummer nailed five 3-pointers while scoring 19 points in leading Utah past No. 19 Southern California, 71-61. Timmy Allen added 15 points and eight assists as the Utes handed the Trojans their third loss in four games.
— Justin Smith had 19 points and 10 rebounds in helping No. 20 Arkansas beat Cameron Thomas and LSU, 83-75. Thomas scored 25 points on 11 of 19 shooting after entering the day as the nation’s No. 4 scorer.
— Matt Mitchell and Jordan Schakel combined for six free throws in the final ninth seconds of 22nd-ranked San Diego State’s 10th win in a row, 62-58 over Boise State. Schakel finished with 17 points, and Mitchell had eight points, eight rebounds and four steals.
— No. 25 Tennessee can expect to fall out of the AP poll after Allen Flanigan scored a season-high 23 points and had seven rebounds to lead Auburn to a 77-72 victory over the Vols. Devan Cambridge matched his season-high with 15 points and Jamal Johnson scored 14 to help the Tigers snap a three-game skid.
In women’s basketball:
— Lexi Held scored 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting and No. 24 DePaul regained its shooting touch with a 75-49 win over Providence to end a two-game losing streak. Mary Baskerville and Alyssa Geary scored 12 points apiece for Providence. Held was 5 of 7, DeJa Church 4 of 5 and Darrione Rogers 3 of 5 from 3-point range as DePaul went 16 of 29 behind the arc (55%), its second-best long-distance shooting performance of the season. In their two-game skid the Blue Demons were a combined 9 of 42 (21%)
