DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Cleanthony Early scored 19 points, Ron Baker added 14 and fifth-ranked Wichita State stayed perfect with a 78-61 win over Drake on Saturday. Nick Wiggins had 11 points for the visiting Shockers (21-0, 8-0 MVC). Wichita State outscored Drake 28-15 to open the second half, turning a relatively close game into a rout.

The Shockers have now won four straight by at least 15 points after an overtime scare at Missouri State two weeks ago. Aaron Hawley had 16 points to lead Drake (11-9, 2-6), which lost for the sixth time in seven games.

CHICAGO (AP) – Milton Doyle scored eight of his 28 points in overtime to lift Loyola of Chicago to a 93-87 overtime victory over Northern Iowa on Saturday. Doyle hit a 3-pointer and was 5 of 6 from the line as Loyola outscored Northern Iowa 17-11 in overtime.  Doyle finished 8 of 11 from the field and made 10 of his 11 free throws attempts.

Loyola of Chicago trailed the entire second half until Christian Thomas made a pair of free throws to tie it at 76 with 18 seconds to play.  With 4 seconds remaining, Deon Mitchell missed a shot and Seth Tuttle missed the putback for Northern Iowa to send the game into overtime.  Thomas finished with 20 points for Loyola of Chicago (8-12, 3-5 Missouri Valley).

Mitchell scored 23 points, and Tuttle added 17 to lead Northern Iowa (10-10, 4-4 Missouri Valley).

AMES, Iowa (AP) – Three straight losses and the distraction caused by the ongoing Bubu Palo saga left No. 16 Iowa State in desperate need of some good news.A close win over a ranked opponent was a good place for the Cyclones to start. Melvin Ejim scored 20 points and Iowa State beat No. 22 Kansas State 81-75 on Saturday to snap a three-game losing streak and get back to .500 in the Big 12.

Georges Niang had 18 points and freshman Matt Thomas matched a career high with 14 for the Cyclones (15-3, 3-3 Big 12), who blew a 12-point halftime lead before putting the game away late in the second half. Freshman Marcus Foster scored 20 points for Kansas State (14-6, 4-3), which lost consecutive games for the first time since November.

Iowa State had opened the season at 14-0, the best start in school history. But losses to Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas had considerably cooled the program’s national buzz and sent it tumbling eight spots in this week’s poll.Then last week, a district court judge ruled that Palo, a reserve guard who averaged 2.8 points a game last season, be reinstated in a move that angered the administration and dominated local headlines.

Palo had been kicked off the team in August in connection with sexual assault charges that were eventually dropped. The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by the Iowa Board of Regents for an immediate stay of that ruling. Palo spent the game on the bench and in uniform, but Hoiberg refused to comment on Palo after the game.

Kansas State was coming off a buzzer-beating loss at Texas, as Jonathan Holmes hit a 3 as time expired for a 67-64 Longhorns’ win on Tuesday.

Evanston, IL (AP) — In early afternoon Top-25 basketball action Saturday, 10th-ranked Iowa beat Northwestern 76-50. Roy Devyn Marble scored 14 points for Iowa, which never trailed in the game. Gabriel Olaseni added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Hawkeyes, who are 16-4. There are two games on the schedule featuring two ranked schools as third-ranked Michigan State is facing No. 21 Michigan, and 16th-ranked Iowa State is hosting No. 22 Kansas State.

Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the game played at Clarinda High School.

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Hawkeye 10:

• Clarinda 36, Atlantic 32
• Glenwood 50, Shenandoah 43
• Kuemper Catholic 58, Denison-Schleswig 39
• Harlan 71, Red Oak 35
• St. Albert 51, Creston 36

Western Iowa:

• Audubon 49, A-H-S-T 48
• IKM-Manning 70, Tri-Center 43
• Missouri Valley 53, Griswold 21
• Riverside 43, Logan-Magnolia 21
• Treynor 62, Underwood 34

Rolling Valley:

• Coon Rapids-Bayard 58, Woodbine 26
• Paton-Churdan 51, CAM 23
• Ar-We-Va 58, Charter Oak-Ute 35
• Boyer Valley 60, West Harrison 27

Others:

• CB Abraham Lincoln 60, CB Thomas Jefferson 19
• Martensdale-St. Marys 50, Southwest Valley 38
• Nodaway Valley 59, Central Decatur 57
• Panorama 48, Guthrie Center 39
• Seymour 58, Orient-Macksburg 40
• Southeast Warren 75, Lenox 52

Corner Conference Tournament
Third Place:  East Mills 60, Heartland Christian 58 (OT)
Championship:  Fremont Mills 39, Stanton 38

Hawkeye 10:

• Atlantic 56, Clarinda 32
• Harlan 67, Red Oak 47
• Kuemper Catholic 62, Denison-Schleswig 37
• Shenandoah 58, Glenwood 57
• St. Albert 64, Creston 57

Western Iowa:

• Griswold 53, Missouri Valley 52
• IKM-Manning 68, Tri-Center 40
• Treynor 45, Underwood 32
• Logan-Magnolia 62, Riverside 42
• A-H-S-T 66, Audubon 41

Rolling Valley:

• Ar-We-Va 82, Charter Oak-Ute 56
• Coon Rapids-Bayard 63, Woodbine 42
• Glidden-Ralston 63, Adair-Casey 52
• Paton-Churdan 54, CAM 34
• Boyer Valley 78, West Harrison 62

Others:

• Bedford 55, Interstate 35 54
• Bondurant Farrar 69, Carroll 59
• Nodaway Valley 67,  Central Decatur 62
• CB Abraham Lincoln 58, CB Thomas Jefferson 41
• Lenox 71, Southeast Warren 33
• Madrid 56, West Central Valley 31
• Martensdale-St. Marys 61, Southwest Valley 39

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa coach Fran McCaffery says avoiding back-to-back losses is a hallmark of a championship team. The Hawkeyes will try to sidestep a potential losing streak Saturday against a Northwestern team on a bit of a roll. No. 10 Iowa (15-4, 4-2 Big Ten) heads back out on the road to face a Wildcats team it pounded 95-67 in Iowa City on Jan.9.

Northwestern (10-10, 3-4) has won three of four since then, while the Hawkeyes are coming off an eight-point loss at 21st-ranked Michigan.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State guard Bubu Palo remains eligible to play for the Cyclones after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in his favor Friday. The state’s highest court denied a request by the Iowa Board of Regents for an immediate stay of a judge’s ruling last week that allowed Palo to return to the team.

Palo was suspended in 2012 after being charged with second-degree sexual assault. The charge was dropped a year ago, and the university’s Office of Judicial Affairs cleared Palo to return to the team. But Palo was found to have violated Iowa State’s student code of conduct by president Steven Leath and kicked off the team on Aug. 30.

Palo is listed on the roster for Saturday’s home game against Kansas State.