IWU athletics photo by Marc Featherly

Cody Odegaard fights for a loose ball in Whitewater's win vs. Stevens Point. Photo by Larry Radloff, d3photography.com

Pat Sodemann scored a game-high 20 points, Jordan Nelson added 19 and Mike Marietti came off the bench to add 16 points as Illinois Wesleyan won at No. 1 Augustana 89-84, part of a Wednesday night which saw key matchups all across Division III.

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The Titans (13-4, 5-1 CCIW) took the lead on a jumper by Dylan Overstreet with just under nine minutes left in the game and never trailed again. IWU had a two-possession lead the last five minutes.

The loss snapped a 10-game winning streak by the Vikings, who fell to 15-2, 5-1 in the CCIW.

No. 2 UW-Whitewater jumped out to an 11-2 lead on No. 15 UW-Stevens Point and never looked back as the Warhawks improved to 15-2, 8-0 WIAC with a 59-44 win. Cody Odegaard led the Warhawks with 18 points, while senior wing KJ Evans added 14 points and five rebounds. The Warhawks' only losses this season have come to a scholarship school and Augustana.

Third-ranked St. Thomas also had its biggest conference opponent on the docket tonight, as the Tommies traveled to No. 19 St. Olaf and defeated the Oles 86-77. Grant Sheaffer led the way with a game-high 22 points, 16 of them in the second half. The Oles led for the majority of the first half and into the second half in a back-and-forth game, but Cortez Tillman had a 3-pointer with 4:11 left and Shaeffer hit a jumper to spark a 13-2 run.

No. 5 Marietta remained unbeaten, surviving 86-82 vs. Mount Union. The Purple Raiders had the game tied as late as 5:52 and cut the Pioneers' lead back to 84-82 with 10 seconds left, but Andy Dollman made two free throws a few seconds later to seal the win. Garrett Stephenson scored 17 points and Keith Richardson added another 17 off the bench.

Marcus Badger nailed a 3-pointer with 26 seconds remaining to erase a 66-65 deficit and lift No. 11 Randolph-Macon to a 69-66 victory over sixth-ranked Virginia Wesleyan for its 11th straight win in front of a capacity crowd of 1,554 fans and in front of a regional television audience.

It wasn't a long trip to No. 7 Dickinson for No. 14 Franklin and Marshall, but it was probably a much longer trip back from Carlisle to Lancaster, as the Diplomats took an 81-48 beating at the hands of the Red Devils. Dickinson was 10-for-22 from 3-point range, including five 3-pointers by Brandon Angradi on the way to a team-high 17 points. Gerry Wixted added 14.

Sixteenth-ranked St. Norbert improved to 14-1, 10-0 in the Midwest Conference, playing just seven players in a 67-61 win vs. Carroll. Austin Elliott was the only Green Knight in double figures, scoring 25 for St. Norbert to go with seven assists.

No. 17 North Central snapped a two-game losing streak and returned to its winning ways on the road, defeating Carthage 87-82. The Cardinals shot 18-for-24 from the floor in the second half, led by 20 points from Jayme Moten.

Connor Green scored 10 of his season-high 30 points in overtime to help secure Amherst's comeback win over NESCAC and Little Three archrival Williams 86-76. Green registered 11 rebounds. He was 8-for-10 from the foul line and 5-for-5 in overtime. Swarthmore beat its archrival in overtime as well, as the Garnet edged Haverford 76-75. Chris Bourne scored 20 points and added 12 rebounds.

Millikin defeated Wheaton (Ill.) for the first time since 2001, as TJ Sims scored 19 points to lead the Big Blue to a big win, 86-46. Wheaton had won 25 consecutive meetings between the teams. Brycen Wojta hit the go-ahead shot with 0.1 seconds to go, then knocked the ball away to prevent a miracle as Bethel defeated Gustavus Adolphus 65-64. 

No. 10 Wooster reached triple figures for the second consecutive game, as the Scots rolled over Allegheny 104-73. Wooster remained in a first-place tie in the NCAC with No. 23 Ohio Wesleyan, which defeated Oberlin 86-61.

No. 20 Babson opened the game on a 23-6 run and went on to defeat MIT 61-48. Joey Flannery led four players in double figures with 17 points. It was MIT's first conference loss. Josh Altman came off the bench to light it up for Springfield, scoring 26 points in just 18 minutes, including 6-for-9 shooting from 3-point range. 

George Bugarinovic led four players in double figures with 19 points as No. 24 Johns Hopkins picked up its 11th consecutive win, defeating Washington College 88-73.

Trine held Calvin 30 points below its season average, defeating the Knights 62-47. Calvin was held to 4-for-19 from 3-point range as Trine improved to 11-5, 4-1 MIAA.

Jake Duncan hit a 3-pointer with five seconds left to lift Hampden-Sydney to a 63-61 win vs. Lynchburg. Four days after a double-overtime win, Eastern Mennonite couldn't conjur the magic again as a last-second shot was off the mark as Washington and Lee defeated the Runnin' Royals 76-75. Clayton Murtha scored a game-high 25 points for the Generals.

J.J. Hladik tied the game with seven seconds remaining in regulation and Tommy Soulias scored 10 of his game-high 31 points in the OT as Kean outlasted Montclair State 81-78 in a battle of teams at the bottom of the NJAC.