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CINCINNATI -- With less weight and more quickness, guard Trevon Bluiett is turning into an all-around scorer at the heart of Xaviers offense.Bluiett scored 15 of his 23 points during Xaviers dominant first half, and the seventh-ranked Musketeers remained unbeaten with an 85-55 victory over North Dakota State on Tuesday night.The Musketeers (7-0) opened with a decisive run for the second straight game. Bluiett hit the biggest shots and finished with seven assists and five rebounds. He dropped his weight from 217 to 194 pounds in the offseason to improve his quickness.Im trying not to rely on the 3-ball too much, said Bluiett, who went 3 of 8 from beyond the arc. Live by the 3, die by the 3, and I tried to change that philosophy. Losing weight kind of helped that, too. Ive been able to incorporate things into my game.Sean OMara added 12 points and five rebounds, and Malcolm Bernard had 10 points and eight rebounds.Xavier got up 30-10 during a 64-42 win over Northern Iowa on Saturday, giving up only 12 points in the first half -- the fewest it has allowed in any half since the shot clock was introduced for the 1985-86 season. Against North Dakota State (5-3) , the Musketeers opened with a 30-11 run and were never challenged.The Musketeers finished with 23 assists on 31 field goals.I thought the offense flowed well, we shared the ball a lot, Bernard said. I love the way we played on offense. I thought it was fun, it was exciting.Redshirt freshman Deng Geu scored a career-high 18 for the Bison, who trailed by as many as 36 points. Nobody else scored more than nine.Deng is only eight games into his varsity career, coach David Richman said. He has oodles and oodles of potential, but hes struggled with his confidence. It was good for him to hit that first 3. I thought he played better after that.POLL IMPLICATIONSXavier moved up two spots in this weeks poll to No. 7, where it started the season. The Musketeers have a chance to make their case for another jump with a game at No. 9 Baylor on Saturday.BIG PICTURENorth Dakota State: The Bison are 3-11 against ranked teams, with the wins over No. 13 Wisconsin in 2005-06, No. 9 Marquette in 2006-07, and No. 20 Oklahoma during the 2014 NCAA tournament.Xavier: Sophomore forward Kaiser Gates moved much better in his second game back from surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee. He scored six points and had two rebounds in 14 minutes. Against Northern Iowa, Gates played 11 minutes, missed his only shot and picked up three fouls.His (conditioning) is probably the thing thats going to keep him back from playing more right now, its not his knee, coach Chris Mack said . We just feel like hes building toward being a full-time contributor. He took a better step tonight, a lot better step than against Northern Iowa.FAST STARTSXavier won its first 12 games last year and its first eight games in 2011, the Musketeers best starts during Macks eight seasons.QUIET SUMNERXavier point guard Edmond Sumner played only 12 minutes in the first half and didnt take a shot. He finished with five points and seven assists in 23 minutes, by far his season low.NO 3s ... OR ANYTHING ELSENorth Dakota States A.J. Jacobson was 14 of 18 on 3-points shots heading into the game, so Xavier locked in on him. Jacobson missed both of his shots and failed to score.UP NEXTNorth Dakota State plays at North Carolina A&T on Friday, ending a three-game road swing.Xavier has lost both its games against Baylor -- 69-64 during Macks first season as coach in 2009-10, and 75-70 in the third round of the 2012 NCAA tournament.---More AP college basketball: http://collegebasketball.ap.orgCustom Nike Baseball Jerseys . PETERSBURG, Fla. 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All of the video replays we were shown on TV were inconclusive about whether the puck had entirely crossed the line or not.DOVER, Del. -- Tony Stewart knew he had an uphill battle to advance Sunday to the quarterfinal round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.While he got some of the help he needed to keep him in contention -- both Jamie McMurray (engine) and Kyle Larson (electrical issues and then a penalty for having too many crew members over the wall to correct them) had issues that cost them a chance to advance -- Stewart needed a better car at Dover International Speedway and more help to vie for the championship in his final Cup season.Stewart finished a lap down in 13th in the Citizen Soldier 400, leaving him 11 points behind Austin Dillon for the final spot among the 12 drivers to advance into the quarterfinal round.Stewart, a three-time Cup champion who had missed the first eight races of his final season with a broken back, left the track after the race, not stopping for interviews after the race as he walked and then ran out of the garage area.We were much better than we were yesterday [in practice], Stewart said as he walked. [Im] really proud of our team. We kept making it better all day. That is good as we had.Dillon, who was on the outside looking in prior to the race, used his eighth-placee finish and Larsons difficulties that relegated him to 25th to overcome a five-point deficit to Larson prior to the race.ddddddddddddThe Chip Ganassi Racing cars of Larson and McMurray had their troubles by the midway point of the race, with McMurray falling out with 208 laps left in the 400-lap race. That left it pretty much between Dillon and Stewart for the final spot.We had a fast race car, said Dillon, grandson of team owner Richard Childress. We werent fast in practice [this week]. We didnt panic and just believed in what we had going on at RCR and the people that we had.Larson ended up 12 points behind the cutoff, while McMurray was 32 points out and Chris Buescher was 40 points out.Without too many men over the wall, we probably would have been all right because I was only a lap down, Larson said. Whatever. But, our [car] has been good every week. So, well go out and try to win some races.Even though were not in the next round, we still have a shot at finishing fifth in points. So, were going to try our best to run up as far as we can in points. ' ' '