Butler Serves Loss to No. 21 Ball State

Butler was undefeated and unranked before Wednesday night. That combination might be changing.

Rylan Hainje scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds at Muncie, Ind., as the Bulldogs upset No. 21 Ball State, 75-66, and extended their winning streak to 11 games.

“The only thing we tell our players is it’s who’s the best on any given night,” Butler Coach Todd Lickliter said. “We have an opportunity to play teams on any given night and that’s the only thing we worry about.”

The Bulldogs are 11-0 for the first time in 110 seasons of basketball.

Ball State (6-3) entered the game with a national ranking, but Butler came in as one of eight undefeated teams in the nation and proved why it was better.

The Bulldogs limited the Cardinals to five-of-13 shooting from three-point range and made 12 of 26 themselves.

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No. 6 Oklahoma State 62, Missouri Kansas City 50--Maurice Baker scored 22 points as the Cowboys (11-0) withstood a second-half rally at Kansas City, Mo.

No. 13 Stanford 87, Portland State 63--Casey Jacobsen scored 19 of his 24 points in the second half as the Cardinal (6-1) won the Stanford Invitational at Palo Alto.

No. 14 Marquette 100, Arkansas Pine Bluff 49--Oluoma Nnamaka scored 17 points at Milwaukee as the Golden Eagles improved to 10-0 by routing the 0-10 Golden Lions.

No. 17 Michigan State 78, Oakland 50--Marcus Taylor had 17 points and four assists at East Lansing, Mich., as the Spartans (8-3) extended the nation’s longest home winning streak to 52 games.

No. 20 Wake Forest 89, St. Francis, Pa. 60--Josh Howard scored 17 of his 21 points in the first half at Winston-Salem, N.C., as the Demon Deacons (8-2) won their sixth in a row at home.

OTHER GAMES

David Boyden scored 19 points at Bowling Green, Ky., as Western Kentucky (8-2) defeated Creighton, 95-61. The loss was the worst in eight years for the Bluejays (5-3).... Donatas Zavackas made eight free throws in the final 1:03 as Pittsburgh (10-1), off to its best start in 11 seasons, defeated Ohio State, 62-55, at Columbus, Ohio.... Marcus Melvin scored seven of his 17 points in the final 7:48 of play to help North Carolina State (9-2) to a 70-50 victory against Charleston Southern (3-6) at Raleigh, N.C.

Minnesota claims former coach Clem Haskins was involved in academic fraud about seven years earlier than previously known. The university is suing Haskins to recover the $1.5 million it paid to buy out his contract.