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Nathan MacKinnon guides Avs to 5-0 win over Red Wings
Nathan MacKinnon scored two goals to become the first player in the NHL with 40, Mackenzie Blackwood turned away 27 shots and the visiting Colorado Avalanche beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-0 on Saturday.,MacKinnon added an assist, while Blackwood delivered his third shutout of the season and the 16th ...
Quinton Byfield's OT goal lifts Kings over Flyers
Quinton Byfield scored at 2:48 of overtime to lift the visiting Los Angeles Kings to a 3-2 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon.,Byfield scored on a one-timer off a pass from Adrian Kempe. Drew Doughty received the secondary assist for his 700th NHL point.,Kempe had two goals an...
Michael Nwoko, LSU escape South Carolina in overtime
Michael Nwoko scored 21 points, Max Mackinnon made a crucial 3-pointer late in overtime and LSU held off South Carolina 92-87 in Southeastern Conference play on Saturday in Columbia, S.C.,Rashad King scored 18, Marquel Sutton had 16 and McKinnon finished with 15 for the Tigers (14-8, 2-7 SEC). Dedan...
Filip Borovicanin sinks game-winner to lift Xavier over DePaul
Filip Borovicanin knocked down a go-ahead, fadeaway jumper as time expired, and Tre Carroll scored 21 points to help Xavier overcome an 18-point, second-half deficit, to win 68-66 over visiting DePaul in Big East play Saturday in Cincinnati, Ohio.,Moments after DePaul's CJ Gunn ended a 15-0 Xavier r...
SEC-leading Texas A&M shreds Georgia from the jump
Rashaun Agee stacked 18 points and 15 rebounds for his 10th double-double and added a career-high seven assists to lead balanced Texas A&M past Georgia 92-77 on Saturday in Athens, Ga.,The Aggies (17-4, 7-1) jumped out to a 22-2 lead and never trailed as they maintained their one-game SEC lead, stre...
Brandon Miller, Hornets escape Spurs, blizzard
Brandon Miller combined a strong start and key late-game offense for 26 points as the Charlotte Hornets defeated the visiting San Antonio Spurs, 111-106, on Saturday afternoon for their sixth consecutive victory.,The game's starting time was moved up three hours to noon because of a winter storm imp...
UCF knocks off No. 11 Texas Tech for second Big 12 upset
Point guard Themus Fulks totaled 21 points and seven assists and hit a key jump shot late to lead UCF to its second win over a Top 25 team with an 88-80 Big 12 victory over No. 11 Texas Tech on Saturday afternoon in Orlando, Fla.,The Knights (17-4, 6-3 Big 12) led the majority of the game and fought...
No. 10 Houston forces 19 turnovers in win over Cincinnati
Milos Uzan scored 16 points, 14 of them in the second half, to lead a balanced attack, and No. 10 Houston's defense dominated throughout in 76-54 win over visiting Cincinnati on Saturday afternoon in a Big 12 Conference clash.,The Cougars (19-2, 7-1 Big 12) pulled away with a mid-first half run, led...
Georgetown clamps down late, takes bite out of Butler
Vincent Iwuchukwu and KJ Lewis scored 17 points each to pace Georgetown to a 77-64 Big East victory over Butler on Saturday at Indianapolis.,Malik Mack added 14 points and six assists as the Hoyas (12-10, 4-7) denied Butler coach Thad Matta his 500th career win.,The Hoyas, who took the lead midway t...
Seton Hall makes another second-half comeback to beat Marquette
Adam Clark had a game-high 19 points and led another Seton Hall second-half surge in a 69-64 win over Marquette Saturday in Newark.,The Pirates (16-6, 6-5 in Big East) trailed by eight points at the half and didn't lead the game until the 14-minute mark of the second. Marquette (8-15, 3-9) was led b...
Balanced attack guides No. 22 Clemson past Pitt
Carter Welling and Nick Davidson each scored 12 points to lead No. 22 Clemson Tigers to a dominant 63-52 Atlantic Coast Conference win over the visiting Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday.,RJ Godfrey chipped in 10 points for Clemson (18-4, 8-1 ACC), which led by 20 points with five minutes to go to sta...
NC State extends best ACC start in 20 years with win over Wake Forest
Paul McNeil Jr. poured in 28 points and Darrion Williams racked up 20 as North Carolina State won its fourth consecutive game to continue its best start in Atlantic Coast Conference play in 20 years by beating host Wake Forest 96-78 on Saturday afternoon in Winston-Salem, N.C.,Ven-Allen Lubin's 12 p...
Cameron Boozer, No. 4 Duke cruise to win over Virginia Tech
Cameron Boozer totaled 24 points, eight rebounds, and five assists, as No. 4 Duke never trailed and extended its winning streak to nine games with a 72-58 victory over host Virginia Tech on Saturday afternoon in Blacksburg, Va.,Duke (20-1, 9-0 ACC) earned its fifth straight double-digit victory by l...
Elena Rybakina rallies, tops Aryna Sabalenka for first Australian Open title
Elena Rybakina rallied from three games down in the third set to defeat Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 and win her first Australian Open on Saturday in Melbourne.,The contest was a rematch of the 2023 final, in which Rybakina, of Kazakhstan, again went up a set but lost the next two as Sabalenka won ...
Two victories extend Heretics' stay at CDL Stage 1 Major
The Miami Heretics stayed alive by registering a pair of wins on Friday in the lower bracket of the Call of Duty League Stage 1 Major in Dallas.,After edging the Toronto KOI in lower-bracket first round, the Heretics swept the Vancouver Surge 3-0 in the lower-bracket second round. The Surge began th...
Spirit register 2 wins, move on in Fissure Universe: Episode 8
Team Spirit won two matches on Friday and advanced to the upper-bracket final at the Fissure Universe: Episode 8 event.,Spirit swept StrongBoys 2-0 in the upper-bracket quarterfinals, then squeezed past Team Liquid 2-1.,Next up for Team Spirt is Aurora Gaming, who downed Team Yandex 2-0 in the other...
Astralis split matches, still advance at IEM Krakow
NRG pulled out a 2-1 win over Astralis in the last upper-bracket second-round match on Friday at the Intel Extreme Masters Krakow's play-in round in Poland.,The result sent NRG to the group stage, where they will be joined by Astralis, who dumped GamerLegion in a lower-bracket second-round match lat...
Egor Demin's 25-point double-double enough for Nets win over Jazz
Egor Demin scored 25 points and collected 10 rebounds to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 109-99 victory over the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City on Friday night.,Cam Thomas added 21 points to help the Nets end a seven-game losing streak. Day'Ron Sharpe chipped in 16 points and nine rebounds, and Danny Wolf ...
Cade Cunningham helps Pistons stave off Warriors rally
Cade Cunningham had 29 points and 11 assists as the Detroit Pistons withstood a fourth-quarter rally to beat the Golden State Warriors 131-124 in San Francisco on Friday.,Jalen Duren added 21 points and 13 rebounds for the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons, who led by as many as 20 early in the thi...
Demin's 25-point double-double enough for Nets win over Jazz
Egor Demin scored 25 points and collected 10 rebounds to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 109-99 victory over the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City on Friday night.,Cam Thomas added 21 points to help the Nets end a seven-game losing streak. Day'ron Sharpe chipped in 16 points and nine rebounds. Danny Wolf adde...