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Karl-Anthony Towns drops 39 as Knicks top Heat in NBA Cup action
Karl-Anthony Towns scored 31 of his 39 points in the first half, Landry Shamet had a career-high 36 points off the bench and fellow reserve Josh Hart posted a triple-double Friday night for the host New York Knicks, who beat the Miami Heat 140-132 in NBA Cup East Group C action.,Both teams are 1-1 i...

No. 23 Creighton blows past Maryland Eastern Shore
Blake Harper and Jasen Green each scored 14 points to lead No. 23 Creighton to a 84-45 non-conference win over Maryland Eastern Shore Friday in Omaha, Neb.,Harper also had nine rebounds while Green had five for the Bluejays (2-1). Josh Dix added 10 points.,Justin Monden led the Hawks (1-4) with 13 p...

No. 21 Arkansas emerges with tight victory over Samford
Darius Acuff Jr. scored 20 points and Meleek Thomas added 17 points to lead No. 21 Arkansas to a hard-earned win over Samford on Friday in Fayetteville, Ark.,Acuff made 7 of 13 attempts from the field overall, including 2 of 3 from 3-point range. Thomas shot 5 of 13 from the field in addition to gra...

Sebastian Aho’s late OT goal propels Hurricanes past Canucks
Sebastian Aho's goal with 31 seconds remaining in overtime gave the Carolina Hurricanes a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night in Raleigh, N.C.,Andrei Svechnikov scored two first-period goals and later added an assist and Taylor Hall also found the net for the Hurricanes, who won f...

Franz Wagner nets 25 as Magic finish on 11-0 run to polish off Nets
Franz Wagner sank a pair of late 3-pointers to highlight his 25-point performance, fueling the host Orlando Magic to a 105-98 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday in an NBA Cup game.,Tristan da Silva added 22 points and nine rebounds while starting in place of the injured Paolo Banchero (left gr...

Brock Purdy back under center for 49ers at Cardinals
San Francisco and Arizona are in separate stages of quarterback drama as they prepare to conclude their season series Sunday in Phoenix.,The 49ers (6-4) will have Brock Purdy back under center as they go for a series sweep and push for their fourth playoff appearance in five seasons.,Purdy returned ...

Balanced scoring leads Ole Miss past Cal State Bakersfield
AJ Storr scored 14 points and Ole Miss used a balanced scoring effort to roll past Cal State Bakersfield 82-60 on Friday night in Oxford, Miss., ,Malik Dia and Ilias Kamardine added 10 points each for the Rebels (4-0), who had 11 players score., ,Ole Miss, which turned the ball over just four times,...

Rodney Rice's triple-double helps USC race past Illinois State
Powered by Rodney Rice's triple-double of 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, Southern California came out hot, then held off an Illinois State rally to win 87-67 in the first game of the Hall of Fame Series Los Angeles doubleheader on Friday in Inglewood, Calif.,USC (3-0) overwhelmed Illinois St...

Cameron Boozer goes for 35 as No. 4 Duke trounces Indiana State
Freshman Cameron Boozer scored a career-high 35 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as No. 4 Duke overcame a slow start to earn a 100-61 victory over Indiana State in Durham, N.C.,Caleb Foster added 14 points, Dame Sarr had 10 points and Patrick Ngongba II contributed nine points and eight rebounds for t...

No. 9 Kentucky bounces back with wire-to-wire rout of Eastern Illinois
Mouhamed Dioubate scored 20 points on 8-of-9 shooting and collected 11 rebounds to help No. 9 Kentucky roll to a 99-53 victory over Eastern Illinois on Friday night at Lexington, Ky.,Denzel Aberdeen had 13 points and Otega Oweh added 12 for the Wildcats (3-1), who rebounded from a 96-88 loss to No. ...

Dylan Grant's career-high 28 points lead Rutgers past Lehigh
Dylan Grant had 18 of his career-high 28 points in the first half, and Rutgers held off a mild comeback for an 84-72 victory over Lehigh on Friday in Piscataway, N.J.,Emmanuel Ogbole had 15 of his career-high 16 points in the second half and added 10 rebounds for his first career double-double for t...

Minnesota back in friendly confines of home to battle Green Bay
After losing its first road game, Minnesota is back where it feels most comfortable.,The Golden Gophers (2-1) will return home to face Green Bay (1-3) on Saturday evening in Minneapolis. Minnesota is 2-0 at home, where it posted victories against Gardner-Webb and Alcorn State in its first two games ...

ESPN, YouTube TV announce new deal after 15-day outage
After a 15-day lapse, Disney and ESPN's television programming is returning to YouTube TV.,The two companies announced a new deal was reached Friday after the previous deal expired at 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 30. It restores full coverage of all of Disney's programming to the platform's subscribers, with ...

Justin Thomas to miss start of '26 season after disc surgery
PGA Tour star Justin Thomas announced Friday that he has undergone disc surgery to address back issues, which will cause him to miss the early part of the 2026 season.,A successful microdiscectomy was performed Thursday in New York, per Thomas, alleviating a disc problem that had been causing hip pa...

Steven Alker passes Stewart Cink for lead at season finale
Steven Alker is two rounds away from his third championship in four years as he leads Stewart Cink by one shot at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship after Friday's second round at Phoenix Country Club.,The 54-year-old from New Zealand, who won the Schwab Cup title in 2022 and 2024, entered the week...

Utah measuring incremental improvement as it prepares to host Sam Houston
Utah is showing improved efficiency and more confidence on offense heading into Saturday's clash with Sam Houston in Salt Lake City.,The Utes (3-0) committed a season-low six turnovers in an 87-69 victory over Holy Cross on Monday night. They shot 53.3% from the field and outscored the Crusaders 44-...

Kraken hope to avenge lone regulation home loss vs. Sharks
When the San Jose Sharks were last seen in Seattle, they handed the Kraken their only regulation loss of the season at home.,And it wasn't close.,Macklin Celebrini, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft who leads the team with 26 points (10 goals, 16 assists) through 18 games, had a goal and ...

Slumping Jets look to beat Flames for third time this season
The Winnipeg Jets have one shot to spin some positive into their road trip when they face the Calgary Flames on Saturday.,After a 5-3 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Thursday, the Jets have dropped four of five outings, all in regulation time, during their road trip that concludes in the Stampede City...

Felix Auger-Aliassime joins Jannik Sinner in Nitto ATP Finals semis
After Jannik Sinner finished a clean sweep of the Bjorn Borg Group, Felix Auger-Aliassime punched his ticket to the semifinals of the Nitto ATP Finals with a win over Alexander Zverev on Friday in Turin, Italy.,Auger-Aliassime, the eighth seed in the eight-man season finale, earned his second win of...

Villanova working to incorporate Devin Askew with Duquesne on deck
Devin Askew has battled back from an offseason knee injury and looked sharp as ever in Villanova's 94-60 win over Sacred Heart on Tuesday night.,He scored 27 points in the victory, and now the grad transfer from Long Beach State is looking to stay on a roll when the Wildcats host Duquesne Saturday.,...