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Ohio State regains shooting form, knocks off USC
Bruce Thornton and Micah Parrish scored 20 points apiece and Ohio State snapped a three-game losing streak with an 87-82 victory over Southern California on Wednesday night in Big Ten play at Los Angeles.,John Mobley Jr. had 18 points and Devin Royal tallied 13 for the Buckeyes (16-13, 8-10 Big Ten)...
Conor Garland sends Canucks to OT win over Kings
Conor Garland scored his second goal of the game with 34 seconds left in overtime to lift the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.,Garland scored with a wrist shot from the left circle off the rush after the Canucks had killed a penalty and both t...
Japan stops USWNT's reign in SheBelieves Cup
Toko Koga scored the go-ahead goal in the 50th minute to help Japan defeat the U.S. women's national team 2-1 in San Diego on Wednesday to end the Americans' five-year reign as SheBelieves Cup champions.,Japan won its first title.,Yuka Momiki gave Japan the lead in the second minute before Ally Sent...
Valeri Nichushkin returns as Avalanche dump Devils
Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists as the Colorado Avalanche beat the New Jersey Devils 5-1 in Denver on Wednesday night.,Artturi Lehkonen, Casey Mittelstadt and Logan O'Connor also scored for Colorado, which ended a two-game skid. Martin Necas had three assists, Cale Makar contributed two ...
Rockets put Spurs in hole early, cruise to victory
Amen Thompson and Jalen Green combined for 46 points and the Houston Rockets rode a scorching first quarter to a 118-106 victory over the visiting San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday.,Thompson posted 25 points on 12-of-15 shooting with nine rebounds and five assists. Green tallied 21 points and seven boa...
No. 25 BYU hits 17 treys in victory over Arizona State
Richie Saunders had 26 points on six made 3-pointers in No. 25 BYU's 91-81 victory Wednesday over Arizona State in a Big 12 game at Tempe, Ariz.,Saunders, who had a career-high 30 points in BYU's win over Arizona State in Provo, Utah, on Dec. 31, led a shooting effort by the Cougars Wednesday night ...
Zvonimir Ivisic leads Arkansas past Texas in OT
Zvonimir Ivisic scored 18 points, including seven in overtime, as short-handed Arkansas outlasted struggling Texas 86-81 on Wednesday in Fayetteville, Ark.,The Razorbacks (17-11, 6-9 Southeastern Conference) led by 14 points with 10 minutes to play before Texas cut the margin to 66-63 on a 3-pointer...
No. 7 St. John's edges Butler, closes in on Big East title
RJ Luis Jr. scored 24 points to lead No. 7 St. John's to a 76-70 win over Butler in Indianapolis, clinching at least a share of the Big East regular-season title for the first time since 1992.,Luis shot 9-for-16 from the field for St. John's (25-4, 16-2 Big East). Zuby Ejiofor added 12 points and Ka...
Otega Oweh's late layup lifts No. 17 Kentucky over Oklahoma
Otega Oweh flipped in the game-winning layup with six seconds left to give No. 17 Kentucky a hard-fought 83-82 win over Oklahoma on Wednesday in its first-ever game at Norman, Okla.,Oweh, who played the previous two seasons with the Sooners, scored a career-high 28 points and pulled down six rebound...
Maxime Raynaud's 23 points help Stanford defeat Boston College
Maxime Raynaud had 16 of his game-high 23 points in a runaway first half, Oziyah Sellers added 18 and the host Stanford Cardinal rolled to a 78-60 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball victory over Boston College on Wednesday night.,Raynaud completed a double-double with a game-high 10 rebounds...
Kings kick off road trip with victory over Jazz
Keegan Murray scored 26 points to lead seven Sacramento players in double figures as the Kings blasted the Utah Jazz 118-101 on Wednesday in Salt Lake City.,Zach LaVine added 22 points and eight rebounds, DeMar DeRozan had 19 points and eight assists and Jonas Valanciunas contributed 15 points and s...
Virginia ends two-game skid by dumping Wake Forest
Isaac McKneely scored 27 points and Virginia led most of the way in a surprising 83-75 Atlantic Coast Conference victory against Wake Forest on Wednesday night at Winston-Salem, N.C.,Dai Dai Ames notched 14 points, Andrew Rohde provided 13 points and reserve Jacob Cofie added 12 points for Virginia ...
Caleb Love's 3-point shooting helps No. 22 Arizona top Utah
Caleb Love hit six 3-pointers and scored 23 points to help No. 22 Arizona cruise to a 83-66 victory over Utah on Wednesday night in Tucson, Ariz.,Tobe Awaka (10 rebounds and two blocks), Henri Veesaar (seven boards) and Jaden Bradley each scored 12 points as the Wildcats (19-9, 13-4 Big 12) bounced ...
Eric Dixon leads Villanova's rally past Seton Hall
Eric Dixon scored 25 of his 32 points in the second half and Villanova kept its faint NCAA Tournament hopes alive by charging back to beat host Seton Hall 59-54 on Wednesday in Newark, N.J.,Villanova (17-12, 10-8 Big East) ended the first half on a nine-minute field-goal drought before flipping the ...
DePaul still proves no match for Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton
Ryan Kalkbrenner collected 25 points and 13 rebounds as Creighton continued its dominance of DePaul with a 75-65 victory on Wednesday night in Omaha, Neb.,Kalkbrenner made 12 of 17 shots from the floor for the Bluejays (20-8, 13-4 Big East), who recorded their 22nd consecutive win over the Blue Demo...
Oumar Ballo powers Indiana to victory over Penn State
Oumar Ballo scored 20 points and pulled down 12 rebounds for Indiana, which finished strong for an 83-78 win over Penn State on Wednesday in Bloomington, Ind.,Trey Galloway added 16 points on 6-for-11 shooting, including 4-for-5 success from 3-point range, for Indiana (17-11, 8-9 Big Ten). Mackenzie...
No. 18 Memphis fends off stubborn effort by Rice
Dain Dainja had game highs of 25 points and 10 rebounds as No. 18 Memphis pulled away in the last two minutes for an 84-72 American Athletic Conference win over visiting Rice on Wednesday night.,PJ Haggerty added 21 points and five assists for the Tigers (23-5, 13-2 AAC), while Nicholas Jourdain con...
James Harden's strong second half pushes Clippers past Bulls
James Harden scored 30 points and Amir Coffey added 20 to lead six players in double figures and lift the visiting Los Angeles Clippers to a 122-117 victory against the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.,Kawhi Leonard scored 17 points for the Clippers and Derrick Jones Jr. had 16 as Los Angeles stopped a t...
Thunder escape 18-point deficit, race past Nets
Chet Holmgren scored nine of his 22 points in the fourth quarter for the Oklahoma City Thunder, who rallied from an 18-point deficit and pulled away for a 129-121 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday in New York.,Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 27 points but was on the bench for ...
CONCACAF Champions Cup: FC Cincinnati advance easily
Kevin Denkey scored on a brilliant through ball in the 19th minute to give FC Cincinnati a 1-1 draw against visiting Motagua, completing the hosts' 5-2 aggregate win in the first round of the CONCACAF Champions Cup.,FC Cincinnati won the first leg of the two-game, total-goal series 4-1 in Honduras l...