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Penn State guard Talor Battle dribbles past Wisconsin’s Jordan Taylor in second half of an NCAA basketball game in State College Sunday.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. — Jacob Pullen had 23 points, Dominique Sutton had a double-double and No. 12 Kansas State beat South Dakota 91-69 on Sunday to close out its nonconference schedule on a 10-game winning streak.
Kansas State (13-1) overwhelmed South Dakota from the opening tip and didn’t let up, dishing and dunking its way to the program’s best start since 1958-59, second-best ever.
Pullen hit six 3-pointers, Sutton had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Curtis Kelly chipped in 15 points for the Wildcats, who take their longest winning streak in 16 years into Saturday’s Big 12 opener at Missouri.
South Dakota (6-7) had its first shot blocked into the stands and its second was an airball on an open 3-pointer. It didn’t get a whole lot better after that.
Overmatched at nearly every position, the Coyotes never stood much chance in their second game ever against a ranked opponent, unable to keep Kansas State off the offensive glass, throwing passes to no one, watching helplessly as the Wildcats raced to the other end for one dunk after another.
It wasn’t much of a surprise the way Kansas State has been playing.
While most of the attention in the Big 12 has gone to Kansas and Texas, the top two teams in the country, the Wildcats have put together the best nonconference season in school history.
Deep and athletic, Kansas State tied the 1993-94 team for the most nonconference wins and set a school record for best winning percentage. The Wildcats also tied a team record with their 12th straight win at Bramlage Coliseum — first time in a single season — and have won 23 straight nonconference home games.
This one was over almost before it started.
Kansas State opened the game with a 13-4 run and kept pouring it on. The Wildcats turned 15 South Dakota turnovers into 28 first-half points — two more than the Coyotes had total — and had 17 offensive rebounds, leading to 17 more points.
Kansas State had four players in double figures by halftime to lead 51-26, closing it out with an off-the-backboard alley-oop from Pullen to Kelly that prompted forward Jamar Samuels to ask everyone on press row: “Did you see that?”
It was hard to miss.
Pullen and Sutton were the catalysts; Pullen with the jumpers and drives, Sutton on steals and dunks. They combined to score 26 points to match South Dakota’s total for the half.
Clemente finished with 14 points and eight assists.
Tyler Cain led South Dakota with 18 points and 10 rebounds.
Michigan 73, No. 15 Ohio State 64
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — DeShawn Sims scored 28 points and Manny Harris added 24 to lead the Wolverines.
Sims’ layup with six minutes to play sparked an 11-0 run that gave the Wolverines (7-6, 1-1 Big Ten) the lead for good. He and Harris scored all 11 points during the spurt.
The Buckeyes (10-4, 0-2) led 55-54 after P.J. Hill’s 3-pointer with less than seven minutes to play, but Michigan quickly answered and went on to beat Ohio State for the second time in 11 meetings. Ohio State missed five straight shots while the Wolverines pulled away.
Jon Diebler scored 17 points and William Buford added 16 for the Buckeyes (10-4, 0-2), who lost consecutive games for the first time this season.
Harris, the Big Ten’s scoring leader, converted a 3-point play in the final minute of the first half to give the Wolverines a 34-32 lead at the half.
No. 20 Texas Tech 86, UTEP 78
LUBBOCK, Texas — David Tairu scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half to help Texas Tech hang on after wasting an 11-point second-half lead.
Tech let an 11-point second-half lead turn into a six-point UTEP advantage, but rallied back to remain unbeaten at home.
Derrick Caracter scored 21 points for the Miners (9-3).
Trailing 59-53 with 8:31 left, Tairu sank three 3-pointers in the next two and a half minutes. The last spurred an 8-3 run that put the Red Raiders (12-2) back ahead at 72-70 with less than four minutes to play.
John Roberson led Tech with 18 points, D’walyn Roberts had 15 points and 13 rebounds, and Mike Singletary added 16 points.
The loss snapped UTEP’s four-game winning streak. The Miners have now lost 12 consecutive games to teams ranked in the Top 25 since a Feb. 17, 2001, win over Fresno State.
The Red Raiders made 35 of 46 free throws.
No. 23 Wisconsin 63, Penn St. 46
STATE COLLEGE — Trevon Hughes scored 18 points to lead the Badgers to their sixth straight victory and 11th in a row over Penn State dating to 2003.
Wisconsin (12-2, 2-0 Big Ten), which finished 8 of 19 from long range, built a 15-point lead early in the second half and cruised from there.
Talor Battle had 15, while David Jackson added 13 points and five rebounds for Penn State, which lost its 11th straight to Wisconsin (12-2, 2-0 Big Ten) dating back to 2003.
As usual, the shifty Battle was the Nittany Lions’ top option, but rarely found easy looks with Hughes and fellow guards Jason Bohannon and Jordan Taylor glued to him on defense. Jackson gave Penn State (8-6, 0-2) a spark with scrappy play around the bucket.
The Badgers hit their open looks on the perimeter key spots and finished 8-of-19 from from behind the 3-point arc (42 percent). Five different Badgers hit 3s.
Wisconsin built a 15-point lead early in the second half after Jon Leuer hit an open trey from the right wing to make it 37-22.
The Badgers held a double-digit lead for most of the second half. The Nittany Lions’ best opportunities against were on transition, and Andrew Jones’ free throw after getting fouled on an offensive rebound cut the lead to 49-40 with 10:59 left.
But Tim Jarmusz responded on Wisconsin’s ensuing possession with an open trey from the left wing, and Hughes added another 3 after a good look to extend the lead back to 15 with 9:42 left.