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No. 4 Auburn rallies from 18 down, stuns No. 5 Iowa State in final seconds
Johni Broome made a tip-in with 1.2 seconds left to give No. 4 Auburn a come-from-behind, 83-81 victory over No. 5 Iowa State on Monday in the opening round of the Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawaii.,Broome helped set up his game winner with a steal at the other end of the floor. He cleaned up Den...

Dominating first half propels Illinois past Little Rock
Freshman guard Kasparas Jakucionis scored a season-high 21 points and Illinois reeled off 23 straight first-half points to trigger a 92-34 non-conference victory over Little Rock Monday night in Champaign, Ill.,Tomislav Ivisic posted 16 points and 11 rebounds for Illinois (5-1) while Tre White contr...

OG Anunoby, Jalen Brunson set career-highs as Knicks rout Nuggets
OG Anunoby scored a career-high 40 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 30 points and 15 rebounds, and the visiting New York Knicks used a big first half to rout the Denver Nuggets 145-118 on Monday night.,Jalen Brunson had 23 points and a career-high 17 assists and Mikal Bridges paired 14 points with six...

Lamar Jackson, Ravens end Chargers' winning streak
Lamar Jackson accounted for three touchdowns and Derrick Henry rushed for 140 yards on 24 carries to help the Baltimore Ravens record a 30-23 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night in the Harbaugh Bowl at Inglewood, Calif.,Justice Hill added a long scoring run and Rashod Bateman caugh...

No. 22 Xavier stays undefeated with 75-66 win over South Carolina
Zach Freemantle scored 16 points as No. 22 Xavier kept its perfect record intact, holding off South Carolina for a 75-66 victory on Monday night at the Fort Myers Tip-Off in Florida.,Freemantle knocked down 6 of 8 shots and also had nine rebounds, two assists and two blocks for the Musketeers (6-0),...

Sens break out of rut by edging Flames
Drake Batherson and Brady Tkachuk each recorded one goal and one assist and Cole Reinhardt scored his first NHL goal as the host Ottawa Senators snapped a five-game skid with a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Monday.,Adam Gaudette also scored in the win, while Ridly Greig and Jake Sanderson e...

Ja Morant returns, scores 22 to lead Grizzlies past Blazers
Ja Morant returned to the lineup after missing eight games with a right hip injury and scored 22 points with 11 assists to lead the host Memphis Grizzlies to a 123-98 victory Monday night over the Portland Trail Blazers.,Jaren Jackson Jr. added 21 points, six rebounds and three blocks, Santi Aldama ...

Alex Iafallo tallies twice as Jets trounce Wild
Alex Iafallo scored a two goals and the Winnipeg Jets pulled away for a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Wild on Monday night in Saint Paul, Minn.,Nino Niederreiter and Adam Lowry also scored for Winnipeg, which maintained the best record in the NHL with its 18th victory in 22 games to start the season. N...

Dawson Garcia, Minnesota squeeze past Central Michigan
Dawson Garcia scored 22 points and pulled down 11 rebounds as Minnesota held on for a 68-65 win over Central Michigan on Monday night in Minneapolis.,Lu'Cye Patterson finished with 19 points for the Golden Gophers (5-1), who won their third game in a row. Frank Mitchell contributed eight points and ...

Hurricanes stun Stars with 5-goal 3rd period
Martin Necas scored the go-ahead goal on the power play with 2:07 remaining and Sebastian Aho had a goal and three assists as the Carolina Hurricanes scored five times in the third period to rally for a 6-4 victory over the Dallas Stars on Monday night in Raleigh, N.C., ,Necas fired a crossing pass ...

Knights come back from 3-0 deficit, then top Flyers in SO
Jack Eichel scored the lone goal in a shootout on Monday as the Vegas Golden Knights rallied for a 5-4 victory over the host Philadelphia Flyers.,Eichel and Ivan Barbashev each had a goal and an assist in regulation for Vegas, which recovered from an early 3-0 deficit to improve to 3-1-0 on its five...

Elijah Strong’s late trey in OT lifts Boston College past Missouri State
Elijah Strong's 3-pointer with 4.1 seconds left in overtime propelled Boston College to a 76-74 win over Missouri State in Monday's semifinal round game of the Cayman Islands Classic in George Town, Grand Cayman.,Donald Hand Jr. and Fred Payne each scored 18 points while Strong netted eight of his 1...

Closing surge from Kyrie Irving, Mavericks topples Hawks
Kyrie Irving scored 16 of his game-high 32 points in the fourth quarter, helping lead the visiting Dallas Mavericks to a 129-119 win over the Atlanta Hawks.,Jalen Hardy added 23 points while Naji Marshall and Spencer Dinwiddie each scored 22 as the Mavericks won their fifth game in six tries. PJ Was...

Red Wings prolong Islanders' 3rd-period misery in 4-2 comeback win
Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond scored the tying and game-winning goals less than three minutes apart in the third period Monday night for the visiting Detroit Red Wings, who once again came back to beat the New York Islanders 4-2 in Elmont, N.Y.,Simon Edvinsson added an empty-netter with 2.4 seconds...

Karter Knox leads No. 19 Arkansas to rout of UMES
Karter Knox scored 21 points on 8-of-14 shooting and Johnell Davis added 16 points as No. 19 Arkansas beat Maryland-Eastern Shore 109-35 on Monday in Fayetteville, Ark.,Boogie Fland registered six assists and five rebounds for Arkansas to go with 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting. Billy Richmond III and ...

Celtics tie NBA record with 12 3s in quarter, rout Clippers 126-94
Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum led a 51-point second quarter as the Boston Celtics stretched their winning streak to six games by beating the visiting Los Angeles Clippers 126-94 Monday., ,Brown scored 13 points and Tatum added 12 as Boston tied an NBA record by connecting on 12 3-pointers in the sec...

Jaden Ivey, Pistons down Raptors at buzzer
Jaden Ivey made a floater along the baseline as time expired, giving the host Detroit Pistons a 102-100 win over the Toronto Raptors on Monday night.,Ivey finished the contest with 25 points and eight assists as the Pistons ended a three-game slide. Malik Beasley had 14 points, while Jalen Duren sup...

Devils ride Nico Hischier's hat trick to win over Predators
Nico Hischier's natural hat trick in the second period led the New Jersey Devils to a 5-2 win over the Nashville Predators on Monday in Newark, N.J.,It was Hischier's first hat trick in his eight NHL seasons, as the forward ended his 10-game goal drought in epic fashion. Despite the recent scoring s...

Jakob Chychrun's 3-point game carries Caps past Panthers
Defenseman Jakob Chychrun, back in his home region, scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and added two assists while leading the Washington Capitals to a 4-1 win over the Florida Panthers on Monday in Sunrise, Fla.,Washington's Lars Eller scored two goals, as he and teammate,Ivan Miroshniche...

Brandon Hagel racks up 5 assists as Lightning crush Avalanche
Anthony Cirelli scored in his sixth straight game and Brandon Hagel had four of his career-high five assists in Tampa Bay's five-goal first period as the Lightning buried the visiting Colorado Avalanche 8-2 on Monday night.,Cirelli set the NHL's longest goal streak this season with a quick score fro...