Basketball Page 402 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
NBA roundup: Rockets beat Bulls for 7th straight win
Jalen Green scored 26 points, Dillon Brooks added 23 and three reserves scored in double figures as the Houston Rockets extended their winning streak to seven games with a 127-117 victory over the visiting Chicago Bulls on Thursday....
Hunter Dickinson helps Kansas hang on to beat Samford
Hunter Dickinson registered 19 points, 20 rebounds and four blocked shots to help Kansas escape an upset bid and post a 93-89 victory over Samford on Thursday night in a Midwest Region first-round game at Salt Lake City....
Devin Booker, Suns handle Hawks for 6th win in 9 games
Devin Booker scored 30 points on 10-of-15 shooting to lead the Phoenix Suns to a 128-115 victory over the visiting Atlanta Hawks on Thursday night....
Isaac Jones scores 20 as Washington State rallies past Drake
Isaac Jones recorded 20 points and 11 rebounds and Isaiah Watts made the go-ahead shot to help Washington State post a 66-61 victory over Drake in an East Region first-round contest on Thursday night at Omaha, Neb....
NC State extends March march, downing Texas Tech
PITTSBURGH — Ben Middlebrooks scored a career-high 21 points, Mohamed Diarra added a career-best 17 points plus 12 rebounds and No. 11 seed North Carolina State continued its surprising March with an 80-67 takedown of No. 6 Texas Tech in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night....
Nuggets knock off Knicks behind Nikola Jokic's triple-double
Nikola Jokic posted another triple-double and Michael Porter Jr. scored a game-high 31 points for the host Denver Nuggets, who continued surging with a 113-100 win over the New York Knicks on Thursday night....
No. 2 Tennessee jumps on top early, slams Saint Peter's
CHARLOTTE — Dalton Knecht poured in 23 points and Tennessee blew out Saint Peter's 83-49 in the NCAA Tournament Midwest Region first-round game Thursday night, preventing the development of another Cinderella postseason for the Peacocks....
Mavericks set franchise dunk mark in win over Jazz
Luka Doncic scored 34 points and Daniel Gafford added 24 in the Dallas Mavericks' 113-97 rout over the visiting Utah Jazz on Thursday night....
Holy Cross crushes UT Martin, earns matchup with Iowa
Senior Cara McCormack scored a career-high 23 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead Holy Cross to a 72-45 victory over UT Martin on Thursday in a Women's NCAA Tournament First Four game at Iowa City....
Rockets race past Bulls for seventh straight win
Jalen Green scored 26 points, Dillon Brooks added 23 while three reserves scored in double figures as the Houston Rockets extended their winning streak to seven games with a 127-117 victory over the visiting Chicago Bulls on Thursday....
Bucks withstand Nets' rally to sweep season series
Damian Lillard had 30 points and 12 assists, Giannis Antetokounmpo added 21 points and nine rebounds, and the Milwaukee Bucks withstood a fourth-quarter rally to beat the visiting Brooklyn Nets 115-108 on Thursday....
Gonzaga lowers boom on McNeese, 86-65
Graham Ike and Anton Watson had double-doubles and hot-shooting No. 5 seed Gonzaga routed No. 12 McNeese 86-65 in the first round of the NCAA Midwest Region on Thursday night in Salt Lake City....
Second-seeded Iowa State cruises past South Dakota State
Milan Momcilovic scored 19 points to help second-seeded Iowa State post an 82-65 victory over South Dakota State in a first-round East Region matchup on Thursday night at Omaha, Neb....
Jack Gohlke sinks 10 treys as Oakland stuns No. 3 Kentucky
PITTSBURGH — Jack Gohlke drilled 10 3-pointers en route to 32 points and DQ Cole buried the final triple of the game to clinch No. 14 seed Oakland's 80-76 upset of No. 3 seed Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday....
Wizards end 5-game skid by beating Kings
Kyle Kuzma scored a game-high 31 points, helping lead the Washington Wizards to a 109-102 win over the visiting Sacramento Kings on Thursday....
Arizona gets past Auburn in women's tourney First Four
Freshman Jada Williams scored 17 points as Arizona beat Auburn 69-59 on Thursday in a Women's NCAA Tournament First Four game at Storrs, Conn....
Paolo Banchero gets triple-double as Magic cool off Pelicans
Paolo Banchero had a triple-double and the surging Orlando Magic cooled off the visiting New Orleans Pelicans 121-106 on Thursday night....
Texas dumps Colorado State amid ugly shooting efforts
CHARLOTTE — Max Abmas and Dylan Disu scored 12 points apiece and Texas overcame its own offensive struggles to control Colorado State 56-44 in the first round of the NCAA Midwest Region on Thursday night....
UConn star Aaliyah Edwards declares for WNBA
UConn forward Aaliyah Edwards declared her intention to enter the 2024 WNBA Draft on Thursday....
Lakers hope to continue offensive surge vs. 76ers
After delivering the kind of offense they showed when they started their revival last month, the Los Angeles Lakers will be in search of similar results when they play host to the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday....