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Trayce Jackson-Davis had 21 points and 10 rebounds, Xavier Johnson scored 20 points, and No. 10 Indiana beat No. 18 North Carolina 77-65 on Wednesday night in Bloomington, Indiana, in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
The Hoosiers (7-0) produced their most impressive win of the season two days after cracking the top 10 for the first time since 2017 and exactly six years since beating a Tar Heels team that went on to win the national title.
Pete Nance had 15 points and 12 rebounds to lead North Carolina (5-3), the preseason No. 1 that has lost three straight for the first time since the 2019-20 season. Caleb Love scored 13 points.
The Tar Heels were not themselves after playing three games in four days last weekend in Portland, Oregon, and losing this past Sunday to No. 18 Alabama in quadruple overtime.
While some fatigue was evident in North Carolina’s poor shooting, the Hoosiers still put on a defensive performance that would have made former coach Bob Knight proud. One day after Knight watched the Hoosiers practice, the Tar Heels were 8 of 28 from the field in the first half and opened the second half 1 of 7.
The result: Indiana made the final 27½ minutes look relatively easy.
It used a 7-0 first half run to start pulling away. After Puff Johnson briefly halted it with two free throws, the Hoosiers scored six straight to make it 34-24.
North Carolina cut the deficit to 35-29 at the half, but Indiana opened the second with an 11-2 charge to take a 46-31 lead with 15:59 to go, and the Tar Heels couldn’t get closer than seven the rest of the way.
(5) Purdue 79, Florida State 69: In Tallahassee, Florida, Zach Edey scored 25 points on 11-of-14 shooting as the Boilermakers fought off the Seminoles in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Edey recorded his sixth straight game scoring 20 or more for the Boilermakers (7-0).
The 7-foot-4 center helped Purdue keep pace with 15 first-half points as the Boilermakers looked jet-lagged early following weekend wins over Duke and Gonzaga in Portland, Oregon.
Darin Green Jr. scored 16 of his 23 points in the first half for Florida State (1-8), which lost its fourth straight.
(17) Duke 81, (25) Ohio State 72: In Durham, North Carolina, freshman Kyle Filipowski had 16 points, including a key 3-point play with 2:37 left, and the Blue Devils beat the Buckeyes.
Jeremy Roach added 13 points for the Blue Devils (7-2), who had a strong stretch late in the first half to take a 10-point lead into the break. Duke held its lead even as the Buckeyes (5-2) stayed within reach and repeatedly made multiple pushes to climb closer.
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