UC Santa Barbara Wins, Extends Streak to Six

Lindsay Taylor scored 16 points and Brandy Richardson grabbed 10 rebounds as No. 18 UC Santa Barbara beat host Cal State Northridge, 77-43, Thursday night for its sixth straight win.

Santa Barbara (12-2, 5-0 Big West Conference) led, 42-17, at halftime and was never seriously challenged in the second half.

Ofa Tulikihihifo and Brezya Rhodes scored 17 points apiece for Northridge (1-14, 1-3).

UC Santa Barbara got off to an unusually slow start and led 8-6 at the 14:01 mark. But the Gauchos went on a 24-4 run to go up, 32-10, with 5:31 remaining in the half.

Northridge went stretches of 5:24 and 3:32 without scoring in the second half.

OTHER GAMES

No. 22 Arizona (11-4, 5-2 Pacific 10 Conference) held on to beat USC (6-11, 1-5), 79-76, at Tucson.... UCLA (11-4, 6-0 Pac-10) beat Arizona State (10-5, 3-4), 60-58, at Tempe, Ariz.... No. 6 Stanford (5-0, 13-1) beat Washington State (0-6, 0-14), 85-56, at Palo Alto for its 26th consecutive Pac-10 victory.... No. 1 Duke (16-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) struggled to beat Wake Forest (10-5, 1-4), 71-61, at Durham, N.C.... No. 2 Louisiana State (15-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) cruised to a 82-39 victory over Kentucky (8-6, 1-1) at Baton Rouge, La.... No. 5 Tennessee (13-3, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) beat Alabama (10-5, 0-2) in an 88-45 rout at Tuscaloosa, Ala.... Candace Sutton scored 15 points as No. 8 North Carolina (15-1, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) won its 12th straight with a 77-55 victory over Clemson (10-5, 2-2) at Clemson, S.C.... No. 9 Purdue (14-2, 3-1 Big Ten) beat No. 13 Penn State (13-4, 4-1), 73-66, at West Lafayette, Ind.... No. 10 Arkansas (15-2, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) earned a 84-45 victory over Florida (8-7, 0-3) at Fayetteville, Ark.... No. 11 Louisiana Tech (11-2, 4-0 Western Athletic Conference) beat Nevada (7-8, 0-5), 83-54, at Reno.... Top scorer Jocelyn Penn had 27 points as No. 14 South Carolina (14-2, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) beat No. 17 Vanderbilt (10-5, 0-2) 66-57 at Nashville.