NASHVILLE—Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist, and the Blackhawks beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 Tuesday night for their franchise-record 12th straight win.The Hawks tied the Florida Panthers’ recent streak for the longest this season in the NHL. The Blackhawks have four games left before the All-Star break to chase the NHL record of 17 straight wins by the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins.Rookie forward Richard Panik had a goal and an assist, Artem Anisimov also scored and Artemi Panarin added two assists for the Hawks. Andrew Desjardins scored into an empty net.Corey Crawford won his ninth straight as the Blackhawks took the season series 3-1 with a game remaining against their Central Division rivals.Ryan Ellis scored for Nashville, which has lost six of seven.The Blackhawks tied the team mark Sunday with a 5-2 win over Montreal, matching their 11 straight victories during the 2012-13 season, they came into Nashville for the first of a three-game road swing with plenty of fans making the trip, and the Blackhawks sent them home happy after their sixth straight road victory.The Blackhawks also scored the first goal for a 10th straight game when Anisimov pushed a backhander past a diving Pekka Rinne with 21.2 seconds left in the first period.Panik made it 2-0 early in the second with a wrister from the edge of the right circle. Nashville beat Crawford 15 seconds later on a slap shot by Ellis, but Kane took off on a breakaway and beat Rinne with a backhander a minute later for a 3-1 lead.Rinne, who started after backup Carter Hutton shut out Minnesota on Saturday night, gave up three goals on the first 13 shots he faced. The All-Star goalie and three-time Vezina Trophy finalist is 1-5-1 in his past seven starts.The Predators couldn’t get the puck past Crawford after Ellis’ goal. They went 0 for 3 with the man advantage, including two power plays in the third. Craig Smith hit a post in the first, and Crawford saved a shot by Smith in the third off his right toe. NOTES—The Blackhawks have scored the first goal in 11 of its past 12 games and improved to 29-3-2 when scoring first. … Panik has scored a goal in two straight games. … Kane had his 20th multipoint game this season. … Nashville is 4-13-4 this season when allowing the first goal. …The Hawks improved to 11-1-1 when scoring three goals.

COLLEGE PARK—Diamond Stone made a pivotal three-point play with 1:13 left in overtime and No. 7 Maryland squeezed past Northwestern 62-56 on Tuesday night.The Terrapins (17-2, 6-1 Big Ten) shot 44 percent and were outrebounded 41-31 by the scrappy, hustling Wildcats (15-5, 3-4).But Trimble came up big in overtime, opening the scoring with a three-point play and getting assists on two baskets, including the layup by Stone that put Maryland ahead 58-55.Stone finished with 11 points and Robert Carter Jr. added 10. Despite struggling mightily in this one – giving up 16 offensive rebounds and collecting only four – the Terrapins swept the season series after beating the Wildcats 72-59 on Jan. 2.Aaron Falzon scored 13 points for the Wildcats before fouling out with 3:36 left in overtime. Bryant McIntosh had 12 points on 5-for-18 shooting.Thanks to its domination on the offensive glass, Northwestern took 17 more shots than Maryland and made two more baskets (23-21). But the Terrapins outscored the Wildcats 16-5 at the free throw line.Northwestern opened the second half by missing six of seven shots from the field to fall behind 39-31.Maryland then went 4 minutes without a point, and a runner in the lane by McIntosh made it 39-38. Minutes later, Tre Demps capped the 12-2 run with a jumper for a 45-43 lead with 7:41 remaining.The Terrapins went ahead 48-47 on a 3-pointer by Jake Layman with 4:43 left – the final basket by either team until overtime.Regulation ended with Trimble firing a shot that, appropriately, clanged off the rim.Maryland trailed for the majority of the first half before using a late 10-0 run to take a 31-29 halftime lead.Northwestern controlled the boards in the opening minutes and got eight points from Dererk Pardon in going up 16-9.The Terrapins answered with an 8-2 run, but successive 3s by Scottie Lindsey and Falzon restored the seven-point cushion.It was 27-21 before Maryland center Damonte Dodd scored on a follow and Jared Nickens added a three-point play. Trimble followed with a 3 to give Maryland its first lead.Northwestern: The Wildcats lost on the road for the first time this season. They were 4-0, their best start since 1930-31. … A victory would have given Northwestern a 16-4 record, best after 20 games in school history. … Coming off a four-turnover game against Penn State, the Wildcats committed 12 against Maryland. … McIntosh had four assists. He was averaging 7.3 per game, fifth in the nation.Maryland: In the first matchup between the teams, Trimble reached season highs in rebounds (8), 3-pointers (5) and minutes (38). … The game drew 17,144 fans, just short of a sellout. … Maryland leads the series 4-1, its only loss coming in 1958.NU is at.#25 Indiana on Saturday.

BLOOMINGTON—Kevin ”Yogi” Ferrell tried to stick to his normal routine Tuesday.Those around him refused.On a night No. 25 Indiana broke its own conference record for most 3-pointers in a Big Ten game and topped 100 points against a league foe for the first time in nearly four years, Ferrell was the center of attention.The senior point guard scored 16 points, made five 3s and finished with nine assists to break Michael Lewis’ school record while leading the Hoosiers to a 103-69 rout over Illinois.

”They (teammates) want Yogi to succeed because they know that Yogi is going to find them,” coach Tom Crean said. ”He sets the tone defensively, he sets the tone offensively.”

Especially in a game he didn’t want to be all about him.The Hoosiers (16-3, 6-0) had four players score in double figures, buckled down defensively and made 19 of 36 3-point attempts, breaking their own game school record (18) set last year against Minnesota. It is tied for the most by any Division I team this season.Troy Williams had a team-best 21 points and five assists and Max Bielfeldt finished with 16 points and eight rebounds as Indiana won its 11th straight.But with so many wanting to celebrate Ferrell’s milestones, the spotlight would not go away.The sellout crowd roared with approval when Ferrell delivered a nifty, no-look pass to Bielfeldt for a layup that gave Indiana a 19-11 lead with 11:19 left in the first half and Ferrell his 546th career assist, one more than Lewis.Behind the bench, Ferrell’s father kept count flashing signs each time his son notched another assist. The end came at 553.And when Crean pulled Ferrell for the final time, with 4:25 left, the coach grabbed his senior guard’s hand and raised it like Ferrell had just won the heavyweight champion.

”I didn’t know he was going to do that.” Ferrell said with a hearty laugh. ”But that was pretty special.”

Illinois (9-10, 1-5) was led by Malcolm Hill with 20 points and Kendrick Nunn with 10.But this one got away in a hurry.Indiana closed out the first half on a 20-4 run to take a 42-25 lead and opened the second half by making five of its first six shots to seal it.

Patrick Kane had a big grin on his face as he skated around the back of the net to congratulate Artemi Panarin on his nifty pass in the third period.Lots of smiles for the Blackhawks these days.The Blackhawks matched a franchise record with their 11th straight victory, using two goals from Jonathan Toews to beat the slumping Montreal Canadiens 5-2 on Sunday.

”Every night’s a little bit different, but net-net I think we’re playing responsible, playing the score, playing the time, and got some momentum,” coach Joel Quenneville said.

Marian Hossa had an empty-net goal and two assists, and Kane had a goal and an assist. Richard Panik scored his first goal of the season, and Corey Crawford, a Montreal native, made 27 saves while improving to 5-0-2 in seven career starts against his hometown team.The Blackhawks (31-13-4) also won 11 straight from Feb. 15 to March 6, 2013, and then went on to the second of three Stanley Cup titles in the past six seasons. The defending NHL champions, who won 2-1 at Montreal on Thursday, go for 12 in a row at Nashville on Tuesday night.

”In 2013, we had an unbelievable stretch, but right now, definitely it’s another one,” Hossa said. ”It’s another new chapter and it’s just nice to see everybody contributing in a different way. Overall, it’s a winning attitude, so it’s nice to see.”

Montreal (23-19-4) has lost four in a row and five of six. The Canadiens also dropped to 6-15-2 since star goaltender Carey Price was shelved by a lower-body injury in November.

”We’re going to get out of this,” forward Brendan Gallagher said. ”It’s taken longer than we would have liked, but we’re going to get out of this. The only way we’re going to do that is sticking together as a group. Tonight we weren’t good enough.”

Lars Eller and Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal, and Ben Scrivens made 28 stops in his first start since Jan. 5 at Philadelphia. Scrivens, who was acquired in a Dec. 28 trade with Edmonton, is winless in three starts on the season.The Canadiens were coming off a 4-3 overtime loss at St. Louis on Saturday.

”It wasn’t the performance we were looking for after such a hard-fought, emotional game last night,” Pacioretty said.

Pacioretty’s power-play goal at 10:22 of the third got the Canadiens within one, but Kane responded for the Blackhawks just 71 seconds later. Kane got a great pass from Panarin and scored on a one-timer for his NHL-best 29th goal.

”Great play by him. It’s a safe play, too,” Kane said. ”He chips it in, beats his guy to the puck, and throws a great pass over between the guy’s legs and pretty much in that situation, you’re just trying to get it on net and surprise the goalie.”

Kane, who also leads the league with 40 assists, has eight goals and 11 assists in the last 11 games.Toews gave the Hawks a 2-1 lead with his 18th goal at 13:38 of the second, punching it home from in front of the net. The captain made the most of a fortunate carom right to him with 1:21 to go in the period, bringing the puck out from behind the net and beating Scrivens with a backhander.Toews has 10 goals and eight assists in his last 16 games.

”You know what, we just played, first of all, the Stanley Cup champion, they looked better than last year,” Montreal coach Michel Therrien said. ”They played with a lot of confidence. They’re capable of making plays in tight. They’re got some really, really quality hockey players. They’re tough to play against.”

NOTES—Erik Gustafsson returned after missing two games with an injury. He assisted on Panik’s goal. … The Blackhawks improved to 28-3-2 when they score the first goal of the game. … Canadiens RW Dale Weise played in his 300th NHL game. … The Hawks reassigned slumping forward Bryan Bickell to Rockford of the American Hockey League. The 29-year-old Bickell has no goals and two assists in 23 games with the Blackhawks this season.

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ROSEMONT—Isaiah Zierden hit eight 3-pointers and scored 31 points, both career highs, and Creighton beat DePaul 91-80 on Sunday.Zierden was 9 of 12 from the field for the Bluejays (13-6, 4-2 Big East). They shot 53 percent and made half their 26 3-point attempts.Maurice Watson Jr. had 17 points and six assists, and James Milliken added a career-high 14 points.Myke Henry was 10 of 12 and scored 21 points for DePaul (6-12, 0-6), but fouled out at the 2:14 mark with the Blue Demons trailing 78-73. Zierden made a pair of free throws and Milliken scored five straight points for a 10-point lead with 1:19 left.Eli Cain also scored 21 points, and Tommy Hamilton IV had 13 points and eight rebounds for DePaul. The Blue Demons shot 54 percent, though only 32 percent from the arc, and committed 18 turnovers.Creighton has won three of its last four games.

EVANSTON—Brandon Taylor scored 19 points and Donovon Jack had 14 as Penn State beat Northwestern 71-62.Payton Banks added 10 for the Nittany Lions, who shot 9 for 21 from 3-point range.Tre Demps had 22 points and Bryant McIntosh and Dererk Pardon added 12 apiece for Northwestern. The Wildcats shot 39 percent from the field and saw their postseason hopes take a hit with a loss to a team in the bottom half of the Big Ten standings. Northwestern (15-4, 3-3) has never reached the NCAA tournament.The Nittany Lions (11-8, 2-4) had lost four of five and were coming off losses to No. 4 Michigan State and No. 24 Purdue. Penn State entered the game shooting 29.6 percent on 3-pointers, last in the conference. ”The 3s we hit were very big,” Taylor said. ”That’s something we’ve been working on, getting in the gym and working on shooting.” Meanwhile, the Wildcats shot 3 of 26 from beyond the arc against the zone.Northwestern had won two straight and 12 of 14. The Wildcats entered the game making 9.1 3-pointers per game on average and are 8-0 when making 10 or more shots from beyond the arc. ”We weren’t very aggressive,” Northwestern coach Chris Collins said. ”When you continue to play like that your defense disintegrates.” Jack completed a 3-point play with 15:23 left for a 38-27 Penn State lead. Shep Garner and Taylor each nailed a 3 to extend the lead to 48-31.Demps then hit Northwestern’s first 3-pointer with 10:21 remaining to snap the Wildcats’ 0-for-17 skid from beyond the arc. But Jordan Dickerson answered on the other end with a dunk to keep Penn State ahead 50-34. Jack hit a layup to give the Nittany Lions their largest lead at 18.Northwestern went on an 8-0 run to pull within nine before Penn State made 14 of 18 free throws.McIntosh was held under his team-leading 16.1 points per game. He shot 6-of-15 from the field. Demps shot 9 of 20. ”We’ve shot a lot more poorly at home,” Collins said. ”I don’t know if the guys are overanxious or putting a little bit of extra pressure on themselves. I feel like we shoot more freely on the road.” NOTES—Alex Olah (foot) returned to action Saturday after missing six straight games. He finished with five points and two rebounds in seven minutes. Collins said Olah had no minutes restriction, but he wanted to see Olah play 10 minutes….The Nittany Lions led the all-time series against Northwestern 29-16 and 13-10 in Evanston….McIntosh scored 28 points in the Wildcats’ last game, a 70-65 victory over Wisconsin. . Northwestern was outrebounded 42-34. The Wildcats had outrebounded 10 of its previous 11 opponents….NU is at No. 3 Maryland on Tuesday

CHAMPAIGN—On offense Saturday, Andrew White III started slowly. He hit just one shot from the field in the first half and went to the locker room with six points.But he also had a half dozen rebounds – something to build on.White finished with 21 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Cornhuskers (11-8, 3-3 Big Ten) by Illinois, 78-67.

”I think mainly what got me going was getting on offensive rebounds,” White said. ”My rebounding on both ends was what sparked my offensive game.

The win was Nebraska’s third in four games.Illinois (10-9, 3-3) has lost four of its last five and continued to miss injured big men Mike Thorne Jr. and Leron Black.Both are out for the season and, without them, the Illini have struggled on the boards and to create any sort of inside offense. On Saturday, that left the Illini to launch 3-pointers, 37 of them in all, 62 percent of their 59 shots. They made just 11.Illinois coach John Groce said his team should never have taken that many long-range shots.

”No. Shot selection was awful,” he said. ”It was terrible.”

Glynn Watson Jr. scored 17 for Nebraska while Tai Webster added 16 and Shavon Shields 14.Nebraska used a 17-2 run to go up by 10 points late in the first half and never trailed over the game’s final 28 minutes.Malcolm Hill led Illinois with 17 points and seven assists. Kendrick Nunn added 15 points.With 14:05 left in the game and Illinois trying to claw its way back, White drained a 3-pointer that pushed Nebraska out to a 51-39 lead, matching the Cornhuskers’ largest lead of the game to that point.Nebraska outrebounded the Illini 42-24.The absence of Thorne and Black has left the Illini short on big bodies, and their disadvantage on the boards has been glaring most of the season. Opponents have outrebounded Illinois 659-569 on the season.

”I felt like we had to win the paint to win the game,” Nebraska coach Tim Miles said ”Because Thorne’s hurt, they don’t have a rim protector like (former Illinois center Nnanna) Egwu in the old days.”

Illinois’ frustration was obvious Saturday against a Cornhusker team that started no one taller than 6-foot-7.

”I hate to say,” said 6-10 forward Michael Finke, the tallest player on the Illinois roster. ”That’s inexcusable.”

He finished with three rebounds and 11 points, nine of them on 3-pointers.Illinois had closed the Nebraska lead to eight points on a 3-pointer by Nunn with six minutes to play and breathed life into what had been a mostly grumbling crowd.But at the other end, Nebraska used a pair of offensive boards to turn a pair of misses into a pair of third-chance points from White that pushed the lead back to 10 at 67-57 and quieted the State Farm Center.Nebraska went on a 17-2 run late in the first half that turned the game, opening up a double-digit lead in what had been a tight, back-and-forth contest.A pair of free throws from Webster put the Huskers up 33-23 with 4:05 left in the half.Illinois’ answer at the other was a quick, baseline 3-point attempt by Nunn that missed the basket by at least 3 feet.

CEDAR FALLS–Montel James came off the Loyola bench to score 14 points and grab 12 rebounds, sparking the Ramblers to their first conference win this season at Northern Iowa, a 51-41 comeback victory Saturday.The win snaps the Panthers’ four-game win streak and their five-game win streak in Cedar Falls.Down 22-19 at intermission, the Ramblers (8-10, 1-5 Missouri Valley) opened the second half on a 9-2 run that vaulted them into the lead, 28-24. Northern Iowa managed to tie the game several times, but Ben Richardson hit back-to-back treys to push the Ramblers ahead, 44-38, then knocked down a jumper to spark a 7-1 run to close the game out.Milton Doyle added 12 points and Richardson contributed 10.Jeremy Morgan scored 15 points as Northern Iowa (10-9, 2-4) struggled from the floor, hitting just 13 of 48 shots, including 7 of 24 from beyond the three-point arc.

Matt Tiby scored 23 points and Akeem Springs added 17 as UW-Milwaukee forced seven early turnovers while defeating UIC 87-62 on Saturday.Jordan Johnson added 10 points along with 12 assists for Milwaukee, which made 24 assists on 31 field goals. The Panthers shot 31 of 64 (48 percent).UWM (13-6, 4-2 Horizon) has won 15 of the last 17 meetings with UIC (2-14, 0-5). Milwaukee rebounded after a loss to league-leading Valparaiso last week and remains in a three-team cluster behind Valparaiso and Green Bay.UIC finished the game with 12 turnovers after committing seven against Milwaukee’s press in the first half. The Panthers scored 13 points off turnovers.Paris Burns led the Flames with a season-high 19 points on 7-for-9 shooting, and Dikembe Dixson added 13.The Flames are 0-14 against Division 1 teams.

DURHAM—Bonzie Colson scored a career-high 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Notre Dame upset No. 9 Duke 95-91 on Saturday.Demetrius Jackson added 24 points and Steve Vasturia finished with 22 to help the Fighting Irish (12-5, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) win their second straight and beat the Blue Devils for the fourth time in five tries.Freshman Luke Kennard had a season-best 30 points and Brandon Ingram added 25 for the Blue Devils (14-4, 3-2), who have lost two straight for the first time this season.Grayson Allen finished with 18 points, and he put Duke up 89-88 with two free throws with 47.2 seconds left. Colson then converted a key three-point play with 35.8 seconds remaining to give Notre Dame the lead for good.Matt Jones missed a 3-pointer that would have tied it with about 20 seconds left and Jackson made it 93-89 with two free throws with 12.8 seconds remaining.Duke gave itself a chance after Marshall Plumlee dunked to make it a two-point game Jackson missed the front end of a 1-and-1 with 4 seconds left. But Zach Auguste grabbed the rebound, then hit two free throws with 1.7 seconds left to ice it.Colson, a sophomore, has scored 17 or more points four times in his career – and two of those have come against Duke. He matched a then-career-high with 17 last year in the Irish’s 10-point victory over the Blue Devils in the ACC Tournament semifinals.Notre Dame took an 86-80 lead with 3 minutes left on Rex Pflueger‘s 3-pointer with the shot clock buzzer sounding.Kennard hit two free throws before Allen swished a 3 in front of the Duke bench to make it a one-point game with just under 2 minutes left. After Jackson lost the ball out of bounds for the Irish, Allen hit a short jumper in the paint to put the Blue Devils up 87-86.Jackson then hit a jumper over Allen with 1 minute left to restore the Irish’s one-point lead.Coach Mike Brey is the only one of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s assistants to beat him. He’s done it three times in the last 12 months….This was Duke’s first home loss in just over a year, since Miami’s win on Jan. 13, 2015. … The Blue Devils lost for the first time this season when scoring at least 79 points. They were 14-0 when scoring that many points, and 0-3 when failing to reach the 79-point mark.