LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kara Dunn had 25 points, 11 rebounds and five assists, and Southern California defeated No. 8 Iowa 81-69 on Thursday night, snapping the Hawkeyes’ eight-game winning streak and handing them their first Big Ten loss of the season.<\/p>\n
Jazzy Davidson added 21 points and eight assists, and Londynn Jones had 17 points for USC (12-9, 4-6 Big Ten). It was just the Trojans’ fourth win over a ranked opponent this season in eight such games. They had lost two in a row overall and six of seven previously.<\/p>\n
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Journey Houston had 16 points and eight rebounds off the bench for Iowa (18-3, 9-1), which last lost against No. 1 UConn on Dec. 20. The Hawkeyes never led against the Trojans.<\/p>\n
USC led by 18 points in the second quarter before Taylor Stremlow hit back-to-back 3-pointers to cut Iowa’s deficit to 43-37 at halftime. The Trojans outscored the Hawkeyes 28-13 in the first quarter, closing with a 16-3 run, including 13 straight points. Dunn had nine points in the spurt.<\/p>\n
USC dominated the third after Iowa got within three on Houston’s layup off Stremlow’s steal and behind-the-back pass. From there, the Trojans ended the period on an 18-2 run to go into the fourth ahead, 70-51. They ran off 11 straight points, getting two 3-pointers from Jones and eight points by Kennedy Smith.<\/p>\n
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Davidson’s 3-pointer opened the fourth and gave USC its largest lead of 22 points.<\/p>\n
USC starting forward Vivian Iwuchukwu went down on the baseline with 7:50 remaining in the game. She was helped to the locker room after hardly being able to put any weight on her leg.<\/p>\n
Iowa freshman Addie Deal, who is from nearby Irvine, California, made her first career start. She went scoreless on 0-of-2 shooting, with three rebounds and three turnovers in 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
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Iowa: Visits No. 2 UCLA on Sunday.<\/p>\n
USC: Hosts Rutgers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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Beth Harris, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kara Dunn had 25 points, 11 rebounds and five assists, and Southern California defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,76446,34270,30250,69221,30252,54952,1009,76448,76449,76447,1092,76450,3533],"class_list":["post-156083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-hawkeyes","tag-iowa","tag-jazzy-davidson","tag-kara-dunn","tag-kennedy-smith","tag-londynn-jones","tag-southern-california","tag-straight-points","tag-taylor-stremlow","tag-the-trojans","tag-ucla","tag-uconn","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}