SPRINGFIELD, Mo—Earl Peterson and Ben Richardson scored 12 points apiece as Loyola held on in the face of a second-half rally to beat Missouri State 53-50 on Wednesday night, snapping a five-game slide.Montel James added 10 points and led with six rebounds for the Ramblers (14-9, 4-7 Missouri Valley Conference) who hit 20 of 50 (40 percent) from the field overall and 7 of 7 from the free-throw line.Loyola dominated the first period and led 31-19 at the break. But Missouri State rallied in the second half, outscoring the Ramblers 31-22 in the period before ultimately falling short. The Bears (9-14, 3-8) finished 22 of 51 from the field overall including just 2 of 14 from beyond the arc.Gavin Thurman led Missouri State with 15 points. Camyn Boone added 13 points and seven rebounds.

ST. PAUL—Devan Dubnyk stopped 24 shots in his third shoutout since joining Minnesota in mid-January, leading the Wild to their fourth straight win, 3-0 over the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night.Mikko Koivu, Jason Zucker and Mikael Granlund each scored for the Wild. Since being acquired by Minnesota in a trade with Arizona, Dubnyk is 6-1 with a 1.57 goals against average. He has four shutouts overall this season.The Blackhawks, fourth in the Western Conference, spent the previous two days in Las Vegas and were outshot 43-24. They’ve been shut out in their last two and haven’t won consecutive games in over a month.Coming off three straight road wins on a Western Canadian trip, Koivu flipped in a backhander at 7:45 of the first period to keep the Wild rolling on their return home.Marco Scandella’s cross-ice pass set up Zucker on a breakaway for his 18th goal of the season midway through the first period.After the Wild dominated play throughout the second, they finally netted the third goal on Granlund’s one-timer from between the circles at 14:12 that zipped past Corey Crawford.Crawford had beat Minnesota twice this season before Tuesday, stopping 78 of 81 shots.After winning seven of their first eight at home to start the season, the Wild fell apart in December and January. They had won just four of their previous 15 at the Xcel Energy Center before Tuesday.Minnesota has won four straight in regulation for the first time since late March of 2013, and plays four of its next five at home as it tries to climb back into the playoff picture.

NOTES—Blackhawks enforcer Daniel Carcillo was eligible to return from a six-game suspension, but did not play. . Minnesota placed RW Justin Fontaine on injured reserve and recalled C Jordan Schroeder from AHL Iowa. . The Hawks have’nt scored since Patrick Kane’s goal at 13:25 of the third period vs. Anaheim on Jan. 30, a span of 126 minutes, 35 seconds.

CHAMPAIGN—Kendrick Nunn scored 21 points and Malcolm Hill added 15 to help Illinois survive a late rally against struggling Rutgers, 66-54 on Tuesday.Illinois led by as many as 17, but Rutgers closed to within eight at 62-54 with 2:36 to play on a 3-pointer by Kadeem Jack.With the Scarlet Knights forced to foul, Nunn hit a pair of free throws with 53 seconds left to open the lead back to a safe 10, 64-54.Ahmad Starks added 13 points off the bench and Leron Black had 12 for Illinois (15-8, 5-5 Big Ten).Rutgers has now lost seven straight.Jack led Rutgers (10-14, 2-9) with 17 points and nine rebounds. Myles Mack added 16 points and six rebounds.Rutgers’ Bishop Daniels fouled out with 53 seconds to play.

LINCOLN—Nebraska followed its two worst shooting performances against Big Ten opponents with its best one in four seasons, and Terran Petteway was there to lead the way.Petteway scored 28 points and the Cornhuskers shot 62.8 percent from the floor in a 76-60 victory over Northwestern on Tuesday night.Petteway, the conference’s No. 3 scorer, came out of the shell he was in the previous two games. He was 1 for 11 while scoring seven points in a loss to Michigan, and he took a season-low eight shots while scoring 10 in a loss to Minnesota.He was back to his old self against the Wildcats, going 8 for 16 and making five 3-pointers.Petteway made his first four 3-pointers, including three in a 1:21 span that got the Huskers out to a 21-13 lead.Petteway went without a field goal for almost 19 minutes spanning the halves but finished his big night with a 3-pointer and breakaway dunk in the final minute.Walter Pitchford added 14 points and Shavon Shields had 11 points and a career-high seven assists for the Huskers (13-9, 5-5 Big Ten), who snapped their two-game losing streak.Northwestern (10-12, 1-8), which lost its eighth straight, got 16 points from Alex Olah, 12 from Scottie Lindsey and 11 from Vic Law.The Huskers’ accuracy was their best since they shot 63 percent against Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2010-11. Nebraska also shot a season-best 47.6 percent on 3-pointers against the Wildcats.The Huskers were coming off horrid road losses to Michigan and Minnesota. They shot a combined 33.6 percent in those two games, committed a season-high 20 turnovers against Michigan and scored a season-low 42 points against Minnesota.The Huskers, down 41-40 early in the second half, scored 17 straight points to go up 57-41. David Rivers had six points during the run and Petteway scored five in a row. The Wildcats went scoreless for 6 1/2 minutes and without a field goal for almost eight.

”I didn’t think it was so much what we didn’t do,” Wildcats coach Chris Collins said. ”Obviously, Nebraska hadn’t been shooting the ball well. For those guys to come out and shoot the ball the way they did… When they’re shooting the ball like that, because their defense is good, they can beat anybody in this league, especially on their home floor.”

Wildcats’ season scoring leaders Tre Demps and Bryant McIntosh combined for 10 points after totaling 36 in Saturday’s loss to Purdue. …Terran Petteway defended Demps and Benny Parker guarded McIntosh most of the game.

NOTES—The Huskers have won seven of eight games against Northwestern since 1975. Nebraska has held opponents to 37.5 percent shooting in their first six Big Ten home games…..Collins said the eight-game losing streak is wearing on his team. The setback to Nebraska was only the third of the Wildcats’ nine Big Ten losses decided by more than seven points….”We’re a little beat down, no question about it,” Collins said. ”We had a stretch of five games as gut-wrenching as you can have. We are what we are. We have one win. To me, I feel we should have four or five.”….NU visits Wisconsin on Saturday.