CHAMPAIGN—Ben Brust scored 20 points and Wisconsin overcame a ragged start on Sunday to beat Illinois 74-68.The Badgers (15-7, 6-3 Big Ten) shot under 30 percent for most of the first half and combined with the Illini to score 14 points in the game’s first eight minutes.Wisconsin eventually started making shots and Illinois (15-8, 2-7) didn’t until it was too late. The Illini closed the gap late but trailed by 15 with 5:13 to play.Frank Kaminsky added 19 for the Badgers and Ryan Evans scored 15. The win keeps the Badgers in fifth place in the Big Ten.Illinois was led by Joseph Bertrand’s 17 points. Four other Illini scored in double figures. The Illini have lost seven of nine and have fallen to 10th in the conference.

CALGARY—Blackhawks goalie Ray Emery turned in a performance that left everyone talking and had the Calgary Flames shaking their heads in disbelief.Emery made a career-high 45 saves, and the Blackhawks – on a shootout goal by Patrick Kane – beat the Flames 3-2 on Saturday night.

“That was criminal,” Joel Quenneville said. “They’ve got to call the cops after that performance. [Emery] stole two points. He was spectacular.

And that was just the capper. Both teams scored in the final minute of regulation to push the game into overtime.The teams were scoreless through two periods before Calgary outshot Chicago 24-6 in the third. The Flames appeared set to hand the Blackhawks their first regulation loss when Jay Bouwmeester scored with 35 seconds remaining to put Calgary ahead 2-1.However, the Hawks pulled Emery for an extra skater and, in a furious scramble around the net in the final seconds, Marian Hossa pounced on the puck and fired it over fallen goalie Miikka Kiprusoff with just 2.3 seconds remaining.In the shootout, Kane scored on a backhanded deke – after misses by Calgary’s Alex Tanguay and Jiri Hudler – to put the game in Emery’s hands. He then denied Roman Cervenka to win it for the Blackhawks in thrilling fashion.

“We did a good job of managing the flurries that they came at us in, and we got goals at the end when we needed them,” Emery said. “We didn’t quit even though they got one with 30 seconds left. We battled right to the end, got one with two seconds left and got one in the shootout.

The Blackhawks (7-0-2) have gone to a shootout in each of their first three games of a season-high, six-game road trip, but this was the first one they won. Dennis Wideman also scored for Calgary (1-3-2). The Flames will begin a three-game road trip on Tuesday in Detroit.Despite starting the season with five of their first six games at home, the Flames are last in the Western Conference standings.Desperate for a victory, Calgary turned in its best period of the season in the third. Glencross was right in the middle of the Flames’ offense, with five shots in the frame as well as several other great chances that didn’t result in shots.The Blackhawks opened the scoring at 4:08 when Kane fired in a rebound after Patrick Sharp hit the post. Calgary tied it at 13:23 on Wideman’s power-play goal.The Hawks entered Saturday as one of three teams without a regulation loss. New Jersey was beaten by Pittsburgh in regulation on Saturday, and San Jose lost in a shootout.Kiprusoff made his sixth straight start after the 36-year-old Finn gave up an uncharacteristic 19 goals in his first five. That left him with a gaudy 3.76 goals-against average and .854 save percentage.

NOTES—Tanguay earned his 500th career assist….Going back to last season, Calgary’s Jarome Iginla has gone nine games without a goal. He has only one in 17 games…..Dave Bolland (lower body) didn’t play after getting hurt Friday in Vancouver…..Calgary D Cory Sarich was a healthy scratch for the first time…..    The game’s only fight featured Tim Jackman and Brandon Bollig in the first period. The Flames entered the night as the only NHL team without a fight.

ATLANTA—Luol Deng had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and the short-handed Bulls used their stifling defense to shut down the Atlanta Hawks in a 93-76 victory on Saturday night.Playing without injured starters Kirk Hinrich, Joakim Noah and Carlos Boozer, the Bulls still dominated near the basket and got a lift from the frenetic play of Nate Robinson. The Bulls used only eight players for the second straight night, but it was more than enough for an impressive road win.Taj Gibson had 19 points and a career high with 19 rebounds. Jimmy Butler added another double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Robinson went 4 for 6 from 3-point range and finished with 20 points.Josh Smith led Atlanta with 19 points and 13 rebounds but he scored only three points in the second half. Jeff Teague scored 16, and Al Horford had 14 points and 12 rebounds.Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said Hinrich had a procedure in Chicago on Saturday to have an infection cleaned out of his right elbow. Hinrich is expected to miss about a week.Noah was held out with plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Boozer participated in pregame wamups but was not in uniform due to a right hamstring injury.The lack of depth didn’t hurt Chicago’s defense. The Bulls, who held Atlanta to 20 first-half points in a 97-58 win on Jan. 14 in the United Center, again frustrated the Hawks.Atlanta made only 6 of 19 3-point attempts and shot 39.2 percent from the field overall.The Hawks also were less than full strength. Guard Devin Harris was in uniform but did not play due to a sore left foot. Backup center Zaza Pachulia was held out with a sore right Achilles.Atlanta had a scare when Teague left in the first quarter with a right hip contusion. He returned in the second quarter and started the second half.The Hawks led 44-43 at halftime, thanks to a jam by Smith following a DeShawn Stevenson steal. The Bulls scored the first eight points of the third and closed the period with six unanswered points to lead 69-60 entering the final period.Marco Belinelli’s jumper pushed the Bulls’ lead to double figures for the first time at 72-62. Deng’s 3-pointer ran the lead to 11, prompting Hawks coach Larry Drew to call a timeout with 7:41 remaining.The Bulls continued to pull away with 3s by Deng and Butler after the timeout.

NOTES—Hawks G Anthony Morrow made his first appearance since Dec. 28. He had been out with a sore lower back. … The Hawks signed G Jannero Pargo to a second 10-day contract. Pargo missed each of his six shots from the field, including four 3-pointers. … DeShawn Stevenson, the fill-in starter for Harris, scored only two points while making one of six shots. … The Bulls had a 53-45 edge in rebounds.

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Marlin Mason scored a career-high 22 points and Junior Lomomba added 13 to lead Cleveland State to a 77-66 win against UIC on Saturday night.Charlie Lee added 11 points and Bryn Forbes 10 for the Vikings (11-12, 3-6 Horizon League), who have won 12 consecutive games between the schools.Gary Talton had 16 points and Daniel Barnes 14 for the Flames (14-9, 5-5), who shot just 37.5 percent (18 of 48) from the floor and were outrebounded 38-24.Cleveland State took permanent control with a 12-0 run in which UIC went scoreless for 5:53. Lee’s 3-pointer ignited the surge, and Devon Long added five points.Long’s three-point play with 13:58 remaining gave the Vikings a 46-28 lead, and the Flames got no closer than seven points the rest of the way.Mason was 8 of 12 from the field and added six rebounds. Lee finished with 10 assists.

NORMAL—Tyler Brown scored 16 points and Jackie Carmichael had 15 points and 11 rebounds as Illinois State recorded its most lopsided victory ever over Southern Illinois, 83-47 on Saturday.The 36-point margin of victory was the largest in the 143-game series between the two schools, and the fourth-worst loss in Southern Illinois history.The Redbirds (13-10, 4-7 Missouri Valley), who also beat Southern Illinois 70-56 on Jan. 20, made 28 of 35 free throws in Saturday’s rematch and limited the Salukis to 30.5 percent shooting.Desmar Jackson scored 14 points and Anthony Beane Jr. had 10 for Southern Illinois (8-14, 1-10), which has lost six in a row.ISU took control early, building a double-digit lead in the first five minutes.The Salukis pulled within 52-40 on Beane’s 3-pointer with 13 minutes left in the game, but were outscored 31-7 the rest of the way.

DEKALB—Julius Brown scored 20 points and Toledo used a late rally to pull ahead and hold off Northern Illinois for a 69-64 victory Saturday afternoon.Brown was 6 of 12 from the field, including three 3-pointers. Matt Smith added 14, and conference scoring leader Rian Pearson had 12, for the Rockets (9-10, 5-3 Mid-American).Abdel Nader recorded his second consecutive double-double for the Huskies (5-15, 3-5) with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Aksel Bolin chipped in 18 points and six boards.Toledo led for most of the game but saw Northern Illinois go ahead 58-55 on Nader’s 3-pointer with 4:17 to play. Pearson hit a free throw, then converted a three-point play after he was fouled on a layup, and Nathan Boothe hit two free throws to put the Rockets up by three.The Huskies pulled within 64-62 on Bolin’s layup with 32 seconds left but could get no closer.

OMAHA—No. 21 Creighton certainly didn’t look like the nation’s best 3-point shooting team in the first half against Bradley.Coach Greg McDermott implored his players to try first to score inside after halftime, and that strategy swung the momentum the Bluejays’ way and led to a 75-58 victory Saturday.The Bluejays trailed by three points at half after launching 21 of their first 29 shots from 3-point range and connecting on seven.Creighton scored its first four baskets of the second half in the paint to turn a 30-27 deficit into a 35-30 lead.Doug McDermott scored 25 points.The Braves closed within a point twice before Creighton went on a decisive 12-0 run, with McDermott scoring the last nine points.The Bluejays (20-3, 9-2 Missouri Valley Conference), who have won 15 straight over Bradley at home, hit the 20-win mark for the 14th time in 15 seasons. Bradley (13-10, 5-6) lost its fifth straight road game and eighth in a row against a ranked opponent.McDermott and Jahenns Manigat made 3s to start the game and get the Bluejays out to a quick lead. But the they suddenly went cold from beyond the arc, and the Braves were able to stay close. Tyshon Pickett scored five of his 11 points during a 9-2 run that gave Bradley its three-point lead at the break.Manigat found McDermott alone underneath for an easy two points before Echenique hit a short left-handed hook to start Creighton’s 8-0 flurry to start the second half. After the Bluejays missed a couple 3s, Echenique took an entry pass for a third-chance bucket. Then Grant Gibbs threaded the ball into the lane to McDermott, who converted for an easy basket.Austin Chatman, who had 16 points, drilled a 3-pointer after Bradley had closed to 53-48. Then McDermott went to work, hitting a 3, a layup and four straight free throws to make it 65-48 with 5 minutes to play.The Bluejays shot 69.2 percent after half and finished with a 33-24 advantage on the boards after outrebounding the Braves 18-4 the final 20 minutes.Echenique had eight of his 10 points in the second half, and he blocked three shots.Walt Lemon Jr. added 15 points and Tyshon Pickett 11 for the Braves.The Bluejays, shooting a nation-leading 45 percent on 3s coming into the game, made 15 of 28 from long range against Missouri State on Wednesday. Greg McDermott said he didn’t want his shooters to shut down when they started struggling Saturday.The Bluejays didn’t hesitate to shoot more 3s once they took control. Wragge and Chatman hit a couple in a row before McDermott struck from long range to start his 9-0 run that all but finished off the Braves.Creighton wore jerseys with pink trim and pink shoes as part of its third annual Creighton vs. Cancer Pink Out, and the first 14,000 fans received pink T-shirts. A jersey auction raised $24,444, with $5,002 bid for McDermott’s No. 3.

INDIANAPOLIS—Ceola Clark III scored 17 points and Western Illinois beat IUPUI 68-59 on Saturday.Terell Parks had 11 points and 10 rebounds as the Leathernecks (17-5, 9-2 Summit League) handed IUPUI its ninth consecutive loss.Western Illinois led 36-30 at halftime and maintained the lead the rest of the way, though the Leathernecks didn’t lead by double figures until the final two minutes.Donovan Gibbs led the Jaguars (6-19, 1-10) with 18 points. Mitchell Patton scored 13, Sean Esposito scored 12 and Greg Rice had 10 points and seven rebounds for IUPUI.WIU won the first meeting in Macomb, Ill., 57-53 in overtime on Jan. 5.

ROSEMONT—Jack Cooley scored 26 points and grabbed 16 rebounds as Notre Dame beat DePaul 79-71 in overtime on Saturday.The senior posted his 14th double-double of the season and his fifth straight game with 10 or more boards as the Fighting Irish (18-4, 6-4 Big East) won for the fourth time in five games.All five DePaul starters reached double figures in points, but the Blue Demons suffered their sixth straight loss,and second straight in OT, despite a gritty second-half comeback.Eric Atkins scored the first five points of the extra period for Notre Dame and finished with 16 points.Brandon Young led the Blue Demons (10-11, 1-7) with 15 points. Cleveland Melvin added 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Alec Brown scored 25 points on 10-of-14 shooting, and Wisconsin-Green Bay rode a late 10-0 run to 73-65 victory over Loyola on Saturday afternoon.Sultan Muhammad added 14 points for the Phoenix (12-11, 6-4 Horizon League), and Jordan Fouse had eight points and 13 rebounds. Green Bay shot 58 percent from the field, including 6 of 13 from 3-point range.Ben Averkamp scored 17 points and Christian Thomas chipped in 16 for the Ramblers (13-9, 3-6). Jordan Hicks had 15 points, including three 3-pointers – one of which gave Loyola a 55-50 lead with 6:40 to play. But UWGB scored the next 10 points: Muhammad had a trey and a layup, Brown hit a jumper and Cole Stefan capped the run with a 3-pointer with 3:33 left.Devon Turk’s 3-pointer pulled Loyola within 66-62 with 39 seconds left, but the Ramblers could get no closer.