IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Freshman Ayo Dosunmu scored 13 of his team-high 15 points in the second half, but No. 23 Iowa was on fire from deep to pull away for a 95-71 victory of Illinois Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Iowa freshman Joe Wieskamp matched a career high with 24 points, Isaiah Moss scored a season-high 21 points and Luka Garza added 20 for the Hawkeyes (16-3, 5-3 Big Ten), who shot 68 percent for the game. They hit 12 of their first 14 3-point attempts and 15 overall to blow past the young but talented Fighting Illini (5-13, 1-6).
The Fighting Illini scored 95 points in a rout of Minnesota on Wednesday, only to go seven minutes without scoring a single point in the first half of this one. Such is life for the young Illini, the only team in the Big Ten with underclassmen as their top three scorers.
Sophomore Trent Frazier (12 points), freshman Giorgi Bezhanishvili (11 points) and senior Aaron Jordan (11 points) all scored in double figures for Illinois, who scored 47 second-half points.
Iowa shot 68.4 percent in the first half to jump ahead 39-24. Moss, Jordan Bohannon and Wieskamp then buried consecutive 3s to open the second half, and Moss capped that blistering run with a contested 3 near the Iowa bench to make it a 68-45 game.
Wieskamp and Moss combined to go 10 for 10 on 3s during that stretch.
Iowa nearly broke the school record for 3-point percentage in a game, set 21 years ago at 75 percent against Northwestern, but walk-on Austin Ash missed a 30-footer in garbage time. The Hawkeyes finished 15 of 21 (71.4 percent) beyond the arc.
The Illini forced 15 turnovers, but they also let the Hawkeyes get tons of easy looks on threes.
UP NEXT: Illinois (5-13, 1-6) host Wisconsin in Champaign on Wednesday (8 pm CT on BTN).
