Four players scored in double figures and No. 13 Purdue clamped down on Iowa during a 78-57 Big Ten Conference win Saturday in Iowa City.

C.J. Cox led the balanced Boilermakers (21-4, 11-3) with 14 points, connecting on four of their 12 3-pointers. Reserve Gicarri Harris also scored 14, while Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn each added 12 points in Purdue’s fourth straight win.

Kaufman-Renn hauled in 12 rebounds, including 11 in the first half, while teammate Braden Smith dished out 12 assists to give him 980 for his career. Smith is 97 assists away from passing Bobby Hurley for the all-time NCAA record.

Bennett Stirtz scored a game-high 19 points for the Hawkeyes (18-7, 8-6), who fell to 0-5 against ranked opponents this season. Stirtz made 7 of 11 field goals but the rest of his teammates hit just 13 of 42.

Purdue owned an 11-point halftime lead and wasted little time expanding it. Loyer converted a three-point play and Smith hit a layup, forcing Iowa coach Ben McCollum to call a timeout just 1:48 into the second half with the Boilermakers up by 16.

Cox and Jack Benter combined to score 11 consecutive points for the Boilermakers, upping the advantage to an insurmountable 58-31 advantage after Benter’s layup with 12 minutes remaining. The margin never got closer than 16 for the game’s remainder.

Each team came into this one looking for a better performance after their midweek contests. Purdue blew a 22-point second-half lead Tuesday night at Nebraska before surviving in overtime, while Iowa saw its six-game winning streak end at Maryland, which was 2-10 in league play before pulling off a 77-70 upset.

Neither team found the range until Harris, a sophomore averaging only 5.0 ppg, gave the Boilermakers a lift. He made the first of three 3-pointers, dunked for a three-point play and canned another 3 to complete a five-point trip that began with a Daniel Jacobsen dunk.

Ahead 15-7 at that point, Purdue upped the advantage as high as 15 later in the half before settling for a 36-25 margin at the break.

–Field Level Media

David Toms put the pedal down Saturday, carding a bogey-free 9-under 63 to take control of the Chubb Classic at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla.

Toms heads into the final round at 14-under 130, three clear of Australia’s Michael Wright, who stayed in the mix with a 4-under 68 to reach 11 under for the tournament.

“Any time you make nine birdies, you obviously rolled the ball well,” Toms said after the round. “That was the key today. Speed was good on the greens. Once you don’t really have to think about the speed, if you can just think about the line and the speed come natural, that’s the way I putted today and it worked really well.”

Despite the three-stroke lead, Toms knows a win on Sunday will need another strong round, as another golfer could make a push up the leaderboard just like he did on Saturday.

“I’ll have to go out and play really good golf again,” Toms said. “I’m sure there is somebody that’s four, five shots back that will play a similar round like I did today, so you got to go out there and make it happen when you can.”

Wright could have been closer to the lead but double-bogeyed the par-4 17th before finishing his round with a birdie on 18.

“We had a little bit of an issue with Darren’s (Clarke) tee shot and I was a little bit rattled,” Wright said of his adventure on the 17th hole. “My emotions were running a little bit high standing over that shot. I unfortunately got — had a 6-iron and cut it a bit too much. I didn’t think it was as bad as it ended up being, but it ended up being just terrible. I had like a stick right behind the ball that I couldn’t move because it would’ve moved the ball.

“… Next thing you know, (I) had a 6 on the card. Really good chip to get it up and down for a 6. Could have made more. Fortunately got that up and down. Then did a good job on the last to make birdie.”

Justin Leonard and Ricardo Gonzalez of Argentina share third at 10 under after matching 68s, giving Sunday plenty of depth behind the leader.

A shot further back, Argentine Angel Cabrera and Steve Flesch are tied for fifth at 9 under, with Flesch’s round punctuated by an eagle on the closing par-5.

Not everyone held their ground. Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, who shared the first-round lead with Wright after eagling two of his last four holes, slid back to a tie for 26th at 3 under after a 76.

–Field Level Media

MILAN, Italy — Dutchman Jens van ‘t Wout struck gold in the men’s 1500 meters short track on Saturday, his second individual title, as the Netherlands continued their strong showing at the Milan Cortina Games.

South Korean reigning champion Hwang Dae-heon came second, while Latvia’s Roberts Kruzbergs won the bronze.

“This race with nine people was like a table of roulette in the casino. And the fact that I can win like this, really fight well. It’s insane,” Van ‘t Wout said.

There were extra skaters in the finals because of reinstatements after crashes in the semi-finals.

Van ‘t Wout said that he had been shown a video of the 2022 final in Beijing, which featured 10 skaters, just before the race to get his tactics right.

“I thought, let’s see what the winner did then. And that was to sit at the front of the race. So that’s what I tried to do,” he added.

The victories are a vindication for the 24-year-old who has a visible scar on his cheek after a skating accident in 2019 that almost caused him to quit the sport.

In the women’s events, Arianna Fontana maintained her quest for an Italian record 14th Olympic medal when she qualified for the quarterfinals of the 1000 meters and made it to the final of the 3000 meters relay with her national team.

“Today it was mission accomplished,” she told reporters.

THIRD GOLD FOR THE NETHERLANDS IN SHORT TRACK

Van ‘t Wout and compatriot Xandra Velzeboer had doubled up on Thursday as she took the women’s 500 meters gold, while he won the men’s 1000 meters crown.

The Dutch skater took the lead with four laps to go on Saturday in the Milan Ice Skating Arena and never gave it up. He skated around the ice draped in the red, white and blue Dutch flag to celebrate after his victory.

After the medal ceremony, he greeted his parents in the crowd.

“Every time I look at my dad, he’s like: how are you doing this? And I’m like: I have no idea,” he said.

The victory by the Dutch skater ended South Korea’s winning streak in Beijing and Pyeongchang.

KRUZBERGS HOPES BRONZE MAKES SHORT TRACK POPULAR IN LATVIA

Latvia’s Kruzbergs, who had not been considered among the favorites, said he was very happy with his bronze medal.

“Hopefully this brings some recognition to the sport itself in Latvia. And this is an incredible achievement. I’m just super happy that the medal is here, you know. I’m extremely, extremely happy that with a knee injury I’m able to get it,” he said.

China’s Sun Long, who won silver in the 1000 meters on Thursday, suffered an injury just below the knee following a collision during the final, and members of his delegation had to help him exit the rink.

–Reuters, special to Field Level Media