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Louisville earns first ACC win with victory over Florida State
Reyne Smith scored a season-high 27 points for the Louisville Cardinals, who shot their way to their first Atlantic Coast Conference victory of the season Saturday with a 90-76 win over the host Florida State Seminoles in Tallahassee, Fla.,Playing against one of the nation's stingiest perimeter-defe...

No. 25 Clemson uses balanced effort to top Wake Forest
Chase Hunter was one of five players to score in double figures for No. 25 Clemson in a 73-62 victory over visiting Wake Forest on Saturday afternoon.,Hunter finished with 16 points and went 4 of 6 from 3-point range to lead the Tigers (10-3, 2-0 ACC) to a bounce-back victory after consecutive overt...

Chiefs knock off Texans in matchup of division leaders
Patrick Mahomes passed for 260 yards and accounted for two touchdowns as the Kansas City Chiefs moved closer to securing the top seed in the AFC playoffs with a 27-19 victory over the visiting Houston Texans on Saturday.,Mahomes appeared unfazed by the high right ankle sprain that sidelined him in t...

No. 20 Michigan State's bench leads Spartans over FAU
Coen Carr came off the bench to score 17 points and pull down eight rebounds to lead No. 20 Michigan State to an 86-69 win over Florida Atlantic in East Lansing on Saturday.,Jeremy Fears and Jaden Akins each added 13 points, and Jaxon Kohler had 12 rebounds for Michigan State (10-2), which has won e...

Predators recover in OT to defeat Kings
Nick Blankenburg scored at 1:03 of overtime, and the Nashville Predators recovered for a 3-2 win against the visiting Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.,Filip Forsberg won a puck battle and took it to the right circle before feeding the defenseman, who was at the goal line to sweep in a backhand, with g...

No. 15 Houston rolls past Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 87-51
Emanuel Sharp scored 18 points and LJ Cryer added 17 to lead No. 15 Houston to a blowout victory over Texas A&M Corpus Christi 87-51 at home on Saturday. ,Cryer was 5 of 7 from three point-range, while Sharp went 3 of 6 from the field and 9 of 9 from the free-throw line. ,Terrance Arceneaux made his...

Dawson Garcia's double-double leads Minnesota over Fairleigh Dickinson
Dawson Garcia scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Minnesota pulled away for a 74-60 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis.,Mike Mitchell Jr. added 18 points for Minnesota (7-5), which bounced back from a pair of losses in its past two games. Femi Odukale scored ...

No. 6 seed Penn State advances in CFP with easy win over SMU
Dominic DeLuca and Tony Rojas returned interceptions for touchdowns and No. 6 seed Penn State advanced in the College Football Playoff with an easy 38-10 victory over No. 11 seed SMU on Saturday afternoon at University Park, Pa.,DeLuca also had another interception as the Nittany Lions (12-2) built ...

Texas Tech explodes early, makes quick work of Lamar
Texas Tech blew open a close game Saturday with an extended run early in the first half and never looked back, walloping visiting Lamar 101-57 in the nonconference matchup in Lubbock, Texas.,With the score knotted 7-7 after Lamar's Ja'Sean Jackson nailed a 3-pointer at the 16:54 mark of the first ha...

Pittsburgh's sharp shooting overwhelms Sam Houston
Zack Austin and Ishmael Leggett each collected 23 points and five rebounds to fuel host Pittsburgh to a 110-78 victory over Sam Houston on Saturday afternoon.,Both players made 8 of 12 shots from the floor, however Austin sank five 3-pointers to highlight a sizzling shooting display.,They weren't al...

Hot-shooting Mississippi State topples No. 21 Memphis
Riley Kugel came off the bench to score 19 points and lead hot-shooting Mississippi State to a 79-66 road win over No. 21 Memphis on Saturday.,It's the first road win for Mississippi State against a ranked opponent since 2010, a span of 22 games.,The Bulldogs shot 50 percent, 9 of 18, from 3-point r...

Streaking SMU's big offensive showing beats Boston College
Matt Cross tossed in a team-high 20 points and SMU extended its winning streak to six games by beating host Boston College 103-77 on Saturday in an Atlantic Coast Conference game in Chestnut Hill, Mass.,Cross, who was born in nearby Beverly, Mass., made 7 of 9 field-goal attempts, including each of ...

Indiana prevails despite being pushed by Chattanooga
Malik Reneau and Mackenzie Mgbako each scored 14 points Saturday as Indiana stopped visiting Chattanooga 74-65 in a nonconference game in Bloomington, Ind.,The Hoosiers (9-3) canned 50 percent of their shots from the field and earned a 37-29 advantage on the boards, which was enough to offset 5-of-2...

Caden Pierce's late shot lifts Princeton over Rutgers
Caden Pierce made the game-winning hook shot with five seconds left and Princeton stunned Rutgers 83-82 in a back-and-forth rivalry contest Saturday afternoon in Newark, N.J.,Pierce finished with 21 points and 14 rebounds and Xaivian Lee added 21 points, 11 assists and six rebounds as the duo carrie...

Alex Karaban, No. 11 UConn hold off Butler
Alex Karaban scored 21 and Liam McNeeley added 17 to help No. 11 UConn avoid the upset on the road at Butler 78-74 on Saturday in Indianapolis.,The Huskies (10-3) won their sixth straight.,The Bulldogs (7-6) got within two in the final minutes, but two consecutive 3-pointers from Karaban gave UConn ...

David Joplin's career outing helps No. 9 Marquette get past Xavier
David Joplin scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half and reached a career milestone to lead the No. 9 Marquette Golden Eagles to a 72-70 win over the host Xavier Musketeers in a Big East contest Saturday in Cincinnati.,All-American guard Kam Jones had 20 points, including seven clutch points i...

Erik Reynolds II, Saint Joseph's too strong for Virginia Tech
Erik Reynolds II supplied 25 points to guide host Saint Joseph's to an 82-62 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday in a Holiday Hoopfest matchup in Philadelphia.,The Hawks (8-4) shot a sizzling 15-of-32 from 3-point range, led by strong efforts from Reynolds (5-of-11), Derek Simpson (4-of-8) and An...

Selton Miguel, Maryland rout Syracuse
Selton Miguel drilled a career-high six 3-pointers, fellow transfer Ja'Kobi Gillespie logged his first-career double-double and Maryland steamrolled Syracuse 87-60 on Saturday at the Gotham Classic in New York City.,Miguel, a South Florida transfer, shot 8 of 11 from the field and finished with 24 p...

No. 5 Duke wins sixth straight with rout of Georgia Tech
Kon Knueppel paired 18 points with five assists, helping guide the visiting No. 5 Duke Blue Devils to an 82-56 rout of Georgia Tech in Atlantic Coast Conference play Saturday in Atlanta.,Khaman Maluach added 15 points and eight rebounds, while Cooper Flagg -- on his 18th birthday -- scored 13 points...

Yanic Konan Niederhauser fuels Penn State past Drexel
Yanic Konan Niederhauser scored 18 points to guide visiting Penn State to a 75-64 win over Drexel in a Saturday matinee from Philadelphia. ,Konan Niederhauser also had six rebounds and three blocks, while Ace Baldwin Jr. chipped in 15 points and six assists for the Nittany Lions (10-2). ,Nick Kern a...