Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
UNDATED (AP) — The polar vortex couldn’t stop college basketball in the Midwest. Despite the deep freeze, a dozen men’s games and four women’s games in major conferences went on as scheduled as temperatures approached or broke records.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Lindell Wigginton scored a season-high 28 points off the bench and 20th-ranked Iowa State cruised past West Virginia 93-68, its fourth win in five games. Marial Shayok scored 18 points for the surging Cyclones (16-5, 5-3 Big 12), who shot 26 of 40 inside the 3-point line and 29 of 32 from the free throw line.
CHICAGO (AP) — Cameron Krutwig hit his first 3-pointer of the season for a five-point lead with 48 seconds left and Loyola-Chicago held off Northern Iowa 61-60 for its seventh straight home win. Krutwig made a hook shot in the lane for a 57-55 lead and he blocked a shot under the basket at the other end.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shamorie Ponds scored 26 points and St. John’s had its best shooting game of the season while forcing Creighton into its worst shooting game, rolling to an 83-67 win. Mustapha Heron added 17 points and LJ Figueroa 15 for the Red Storm (16-5, 4-5 Big East Conference), who snapped a two-game skid.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Jared Harper scored 16 points while Chuma Okeke and Bryce Brown each had 14 to help Auburn snap a three-game losing streak with a 92-58 rout of Missouri. Auburn used a dominant second half to end the slide that sent the team tumbling out of the Top 25 following a six-week run in the Top 10.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Samajae Haynes-Jones scored 17 points and hit a dramatic layup with a second remaining to lift Wichita State to an 85-83 victory over SMU. SMU’s Jimmy Whitt Jr. hit a step-back 10-footer to tie the game at 83 with 19 seconds to go.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are planning more than $10 million in upgrades to Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs announced that the renovations will include a “modernization” of the Arrowvision scoreboard, along with waterproofing and new seats _ with cup holders _ in the stadium’s upper deck. The work could begin next week. The Kansas City Star reports the Chiefs are paying for the work but can ask in the future to be reimbursed by the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority.