DETROIT -- Top-ranked North Carolina was impressive in what it hopes will be the first of three games at Ford Field.

Tyler Hansbrough scored the first basket of both halves and finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds, leading the Tar Heels to a 98-63 rout of No. 13 Michigan State on Wednesday night.

The Tar Heels (8-0) took control with an 11-3 run late in the first half, led by 14 points at halftime, then built a 30-plus cushion at the home of the Detroit Lions and the 2009 Final Four.

Barring injuries or an upset, the first unanimous preseason No. 1 team in The Associated Press poll seems destined for a return trip to the Motor City.

The Spartans (4-2) started the season ranked sixth, but lost a lot of luster with an 18-point loss to Maryland last week.

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Texas Tech 72, Wichita State 69: LUBBOCK -- A 3-pointer by Texas Tech's Mike Singletary with 4.2 seconds left on the clock gave the Red Raiders a 72-69 victory over Wichita State Wednesday night.

Wichita St.'s (3-4) Clevin Hannah had 24 points while A.J. Hawkins had 18.

Tech (7-1) gained the advantage early with a 43-26 lead heading into halftime, the largest of the game. The advantage was soon erased as Wichita St. opened the second half on a 12-3 run, marking the first time Tech's lead was at single digits since the six-minute mark in the first half.

Singletary scored the final five points for Tech, including the late 3-pointer to put Tech up by three with 4.2 seconds left.

Alan Voskuil and John Roberson had 20 point apiece on the night.

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Iowa State 71, Northern Iowa 66 (OT): CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Craig Brackins set season highs with 32 points and 16 rebounds and Iowa State beat Northern Iowa 71-66 in overtime on Tuesday night, snapping a 10-game road losing streak.

Diante Garrett added 17 points for the Cyclones (5-1), who blew a late lead in regulation before holding Northern Iowa (4-3) to just four points in OT.

Garrett drove through the lane for a layup and hit a free throw that put the Cyclones up 68-66 with 47.8 seconds left. Northern Iowa's Kerwin Dunham, whose 3 at the end of regulation sent the game into overtime, then lost the ball out of bounds -- and Adam Koch missed a 3 with 14 seconds left that would tied the game.

A turnaround jumper from Brackins and two Garrett free throws gave Iowa State a 61-56 lead with 1:28 to go in the second half. But Dunham's open 3 from the corner tied the game at 62 with 6.1 seconds left in regulation.

Adam Koch and Kwadzo Ahelegbe each had 18 points to lead Northern Iowa, which shot 6-of-32 from 3-point range.

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No. 10 Tennessee 87, UNC-Asheville 69: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tyler Smith had the first triple-double in school history, helping No. 10 Tennessee romp to an 87-69 win over UNC-Asheville on Wednesday night.

Smith finished with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, helping the Vols give coach Bruce Pearl career victory No. 400.

Smith, a 6-foot-7 junior forward, got his 10th assist on Scotty Hopson's 3-pointer with 7:47 left. A minute later, Smith got a standing ovation when the feat was announced to the crowd.

Pearl, in his fourth season at Tennessee and 17th overall, joined some legendary company by winning his 400th after coaching 509 games. Only Adolph Rupp, Clair Bee, Jerry Tarkanian, Roy Williams and Henry Iba reached the 400-victory plateau in fewer games.

Tennessee (6-1) still had to shake off a sluggish start before its usual up-tempo offense and high-pressure defense provided some breathing room against the Bulldogs (3-4).

Reid Augst and John Williams finished with 14 points apiece for UNC-Asheville.

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No. 3 Pittsburgh 78, Duquesne 51: PITTSBURGH -- Sam Young scored 23 points and DeJuan Blair had 14 points and 17 rebounds to help the Panthers overcome a sluggish start and beat their city rival.

Jermaine Dixon scored 12 points as the Panthers improved to 8-0 for the seventh consecutive season, using runs of 9-0 and 11-2 to begin pulling away after the Dukes (4-2) led 20-19 with seven minutes left in the first half.

Duquesne, one of the nation's youngest teams with eight freshmen, has lost consecutive games to current top 5 teams. Duquesne lost 95-72 to now-No. 4 Duke on Friday.

Damian Saunders scored 15 points, but the Dukes shot only 36.4 percent (20-of-55), including 7-of-29 (24.1 percent) from 3-point range. They were worse still at the foul line, 4-of-12.

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No. 14 Xavier 81, Auburn 74: CINCINNATI -- B.J. Raymond scored a career-high 32 points and the Musketeers remained undefeated in Sean Miller's 100th as coach.

Xavier (7-0) matched the third-best start in its history and the best since 1996-97, when it won its first 10 for the school record. Raymond and the rest of the Musketeers kept it going by firing away from outside against the Tigers (3-4).

Frankie Sullivan scored a career-high 23 points and helped Auburn cut a 22-point deficit to 60-51 with 6:55 left in the game. Raymond blunted the comeback by making back-to-back 3-pointers, giving him a career-high seven in nine attempts.

Xavier went 13-of-23 from behind the arc and shot 53.5 percent from the field, but its 22 turnovers and 22-of-36 shooting on free throws allowed Auburn to keep it close.

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No. 15 Wake Forest 83, Indiana 58: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- James Johnson scored 15 of his 21 points in the first half, and the Demon Decons overcame a sloppy start in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

L.D. Williams added 16 points for Wake Forest (7-0), which continued its best start since 2003, when the Demon Deacons opened with 11 straight wins.

Indiana native Jeff Teague scored all 14 of his points after halftime and freshman Al-Farouq Aminu finished with 12 for Wake Forest, which shot 61.5 percent in pushing its record in the made-for-TV conference clash to 5-0 at home and 8-1 overall.

The Atlantic Coast Conference's stingiest defense held the rebuilding Hoosiers (4-3) to 37.7 percent shooting and forced them into a season-high 26 turnovers -- the fifth time that first-year coach Tom Crean's freshman-laden team has turned it over at least 20 times.

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No. 16 Syracuse 88, Cornell 78: SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Jonny Flynn had 24 points, Paul Harris added 21 points and nine rebounds and the Orange rallied to their 31st straight win over the Big Red.

Cornell (4-4), playing its fifth straight road game, hasn't beaten Syracuse in 40 years, but staged a game fight behind a career-high 33 points from Ryan Wittman.

Syracuse (8-0) has displayed a penchant for poor play at the start of nearly every game, having rallied twice from 13 down to win, and this night was no exception. The Orange trailed the entire first half, finally using a 12-0 run in the second half to take a 67-57 lead.

Consecutive 3-pointers by Wittman, his eighth and ninth of the game, brought the Big Red back within 70-65 less than 2 minutes later, but they never got closer.

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Kentucky 103, Lamar 61: LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Patrick Patterson scored a career-high 31 points and Jodie Meeks added 19 and six assists as Kentucky rolled by Lamar 103-61 on Wednesday night.

DeAndre Liggins, playing in his first home game since clashing with coach Billy Gillispie during last week's Las Vegas Invitational, added 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists for the Wildcats (5-2). Kentucky shot 64 percent from the floor while overpowering the Cardinals to win its fifth straight.

The Wildcats played most of the game without Ramon Harris, was taken to a local hospital for tests after colliding with teammate Michael Porter in the first half.

Coy Custer and Kenny Dawkins led Lamar (5-1) with 11 points apiece, but the Cardinals had trouble slowing Kentucky down. The Wildcats outscored Lamar 46-24 in the paint and had a 20-2 advantage in fastbreak points.

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WOMEN

No. 6 Oklahoma 69, Creighton 49: NORMAN, Okla. -- All-America center Courtney Paris needed a late surge to record her 99th straight double-double with 11 points and 16 rebounds, and No. 6 Oklahoma overcame a lethargic effort to beat Creighton.

Chevelle Herring scored 16 points and Megan Neuvirth added 15 points to lead Creighton, which stuck around until the Sooners put the game away with a late 12-0 surge.

Ashley Paris, Courtney's twin sister, added 15 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double of her own. Carlee Roethlisberger scored 10 points off the bench and point guard Danielle Robinson had 10 assists for the Sooners (5-2).

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Ankle surgery to knock NU's Griffin out for year: LINCOLN, Neb. -- Two-time All-Big 12 forward Kelsey Griffin of Nebraska will undergo surgery on her injured left ankle and be out for the season.

Coach Connie Yori said Griffin will have surgery Thursday. The senior from Eagle River, Alaska, was injured in August and has missed the first seven games.

Griffin started the first 74 games of her career and helped lead the Huskers to the NCAA tournament in 2007 and 2008.

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No. 1 UConn 96, Holy Cross 37: STORRS, Conn. -- Freshman Caroline Doty scored 11 points and extended her school-record streak of made 3-pointers to 10 to lead top-ranked Connecticut to a 96-37 win over Holy Cross, its fifth straight game scoring at least 90 points.

Doty hit all three of her attempts from behind the arc. She made six in a row in Sunday's 106-78 win over No. 6 Oklahoma. The national record is 14 straight, set by Portland's Deanna Lansing in 1996.

Doty was one of six Huskies in double figures. Tahirah Williams, went 7-of-8 from the field and scored a career-high 17 to lead Connecticut. Tina Charles, Renee Montgomery and Maya Moore each had 13. Kaili McLaren added 10.

Moore played a career-low 12 minutes, and no starter played more than 20.

Briana McFadden, who scored her first points with 9:24 left, led Holy Cross (1-6) with 10.

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No. 2 North Carolina 72, No. 18 Ohio State 63: COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Jessica Breland scored 29 points, and second-ranked North Carolina held No. 18 Ohio State scoreless for more than nine minutes of the second half for a win in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

Breland, averaging 13.5 points a game, had 21 in the opening half as the Tar Heels (9-0) opened a 41-37 lead. Cetera DeGraffenreid added 14 points and six assists and Rashanda McCants had 10 points for North Carolina, which improved to 21-9 against the Big Ten and evened its record against the Buckeyes at 3-3.

The Tar Heels sealed the outcome with a 17-0 second-half run.

Jantel Lavender had 27 points and 13 rebounds for the Buckeyes (6-2), who led 52-49 with 11:56 left before missing their next 12 shots from the field with six turnovers.

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No. 14 Auburn 95, Carolina A&T 74: AUBURN, Ala. -- Dewanna Bonner had 26 points and 11 rebounds, leading No. 14 Auburn in a 95-74 victory over North Carolina A&T on Wednesday night.

Auburn (8-0) led 45-42 at halftime, before outscoring the Aggies (3-3) 50-32 in the second half.

Brittany Taylor-James led the Aggies with 18 points and nine rebounds.

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Georgia Tech 70, No. 21 Michigan St. 57: ATLANTA -- Alex Montgomery scored 20 points to lead Georgia Tech in an upset of No. 21 Michigan State.

The Yellow Jackets (6-2) overcame a 12-point deficit to win the first half of a doubleheader in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge. The Georgia Tech men lost to Penn State 85-83 in the second game.

Michigan State (6-2) got to 52-50 on Brittney Thomas' layup with 5:19 remaining, but Tech pulled away down the stretch.

Aisha Jefferson led the Spartans with 14 points.

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No. 24 Pittsburgh 66, Duquesne 47: PITTSBURGH -- Kate Popovec scored 15 points and didn't miss a field-goal attempt, Shavonte Zellous had 13 and No. 24 Pittsburgh opened the second half with a decisive run to beat city opponent Duquesne.

The Panthers (5-1) stretched a 27-23 lead at halftime into a 42-27 advantage with a 15-4 run. Keri Pryor scored 18 points for Duquesne (6-2), which was held to 29.1 percent shooting (16-of-55).

Popovec, who was 7-of-7 from the floor but missed one of two free throws, had 12 rebounds.

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