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Chicago Sun-Times
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Iowa edges Illinois behind Perkins’ career-high 32 points

Iowa guard Tony Perkins scored 25 of his career-high 32 points in the second half Saturday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. (Joseph Cress/AP)

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Tony Perkins scored 25 of his career-high 32 points in the second half and Iowa edged Illinois 81-79 on Saturday to snap a five-game losing streak to the Fighting Illini.

Perkins shot 8 of 11 from the floor and missed just one of 16 free-throw attempts, all of them coming in the second half. Kris Murray added 19 points and Filip Rebraca 13 for Iowa (15-8, 7-5 Big Ten), which won its third straight and seventh of its last nine.

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