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Joseph Tugler, Emanuel Sharp help No. 7 Houston hammer Hofstra
Joseph Tugler scored 17 points on 6-of-6 shooting off the bench while Emanuel Sharp made all five of his three-point attempts, leading No. 7 Houston to a wire-to-wire 80-44 victory over visiting Hofstra on Friday night. ,Sharp finished with 16 points and is now 11-of-15 from 3-point range this seaso...
League-best Jets top struggling Penguins
Kyle Connor had an assist and an empty-net goal in the Winnipeg Jets' 4-1 road victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.,Nino Niederreiter, Vladislav Namestnikov, and Gabriel Vilardi also scored for the Jets, who are on a two-game winning streak.,Winnipeg leads the NHL in wins (17) and points ...
Caleb Grill lights up Pacific in Missouri's win
Caleb Grill scored 25 points and made five steals as Missouri routed Pacific 91-56 Friday night in Columbia, Mo.,Tamar Bates added 11 points and Trent Pierce scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds in just 14 minutes for Missouri (4-1).,Coach Dennis Gates used 12 players and 11 of them scored as ...
Nick Dorn pours in 24 as Elon stuns Notre Dame
Nick Dorn scored 24 points and hit the go-ahead basket with 94 seconds left as Elon executed down the stretch in an 84-77 victory over Notre Dame on Friday night in South Bend, Ind.,The Phoenix (3-2) earned their second straight win and never allowed Notre Dame to surge ahead in coach Billy Taylor's...
Short-handed Sixers snap 5-game skid with win over Nets
Jared McCain scored 30 points, Tyrese Maxey added 26, and despite playing without Joel Embiid or Paul George, the Philadelphia 76ers snapped a five-game losing skid on Friday with a 113-98 win over the visiting Brooklyn Nets for their first NBA Cup victory.,The rookie McCain posted his seventh conse...
Louisville shuts down Winthrop in one-sided win
Louisville got 20 points from reserve Reyne Smith as the host Cardinals pulled away from Winthrop 76-61 on Friday.,Two teams that came in averaging more than 82 points a game found themselves in a more defensive-minded contest as Louisville's Pat Kelsey coached against the school he led for nine sea...
Marcus Hill scores 19 points, NC State trounces William & Mary
Marcus Hill scored 19 points as host North Carolina State pulled away from visiting William & Mary to win 81-59 on Friday night in Raleigh, N.C.,Hill shot 7-of-13 from the floor and also had four rebounds, two assists and two steals in the win. NC State (5-0) also got 12 points from Jayden Taylor an...
No. 9 Kentucky uses speed, 3-pointers to throttle Jackson State
Koby Brea scored 22 points as No. 9 Kentucky used a potent fastbreak attack and impressive 3-point shooting to remain undefeated with a 108-59 rout of visiting Jackson State on Friday at the BBN Invitational Lexington, Ky.,The Wildcats (5-0) scored 43 fastbreak points and hit a season-best 17 3-poin...
Texas Tech tops Syracuse for third place at Legends Classic
Darrion Williams scored 20 points, including five straight in a key stretch of the second half, and Texas Tech held on to defeat Syracuse 79-74 in the third-place game of the Legends Classic in New York on Friday night.,JT Toppin finished with 15 points, six rebounds and three blocks and Chance McMi...
No. 22 St. John's rolls to easy win over Virginia
RJ Luis Jr. scored nine of his 18 points during a decisive first-half run for No. 22 St. John's, which cruised to a 80-55 win over Virginia in the consolation game of the Baha Mar Championship in the Bahamas.,Deivon Smith (10 points, 10 rebounds, eight assists) just missed a triple-double for St. Jo...
28-2 run sends Butler to blowout of Merrimack
Pierre Brooks II logged a game-high 23 points and 12 rebounds for Butler, which started the second half with a decisive run to beat Merrimack 78-39 on Friday night in Indianapolis.,Andre Screen had 12 points and nine rebounds while Jahmyl Telfort and Patrick McCaffery put up 11 points apiece for the...
No. 21 Florida drills 16 3-pointers in rout of Southern Illinois
Alijah Martin poured in a game-high 32 points Friday night and made eight 3-pointers, the most by a Florida player since January 2019, as the 21st-ranked Gators drilled visiting Southern Illinois 93-68 in Gainesville, Fla.,Thomas Haugh came off the bench to add 19 points for Florida (6-0), which ent...
Ohio State eclipses 100-point mark to crush Campbell
Freshman John Mobley Jr. set a career high with 23 points as Ohio State used a first-half burst to rout visiting Campbell 104-60 in on Friday in Columbus.,Mobley surpassed his previous best of 16 on a 3-pointer that gave Ohio State a 49-27 lead with 1:20 left in the first half. Having made 11 of 19 ...
Utah pulls away from Utah Tech in bounce-back win
Gabe Madsen scored 19 points to help Utah bounce back from its only loss of the season in an 84-53 home victory over visiting Utah Tech on Friday afternoon in Salt Lake City.,Keanu Dawes contributed 14 points and nine rebounds, Mason Madsen added 12 points and Mike Sharavjamts tallied 10 points, fiv...
Angel Yin leads CME Group Tour Championship; Nelly Korda lurking
Angel Yin carries a two-shot lead into the weekend at the CME Group Tour Championship after posting a 3-under-par 69 on Friday in Naples, Fla.,A $4 million first prize is on the line at the LPGA's season finale at Tiburon Golf Club, where 60 players qualified based on the season-long Race to the CME...
Jamir Watkins scores 19 points to help Florida State dispatch Temple
Jamir Watkins had 19 points and Malique Ewin totaled 15 points to lead Florida State to a 78-69 victory over Temple on Friday night in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off at Uncasville, Conn.,The Seminoles (5-1) won their second in a row following a loss to rival Florida and will next face ...
John Blackwell leads No. 19 Wisconsin past UCF for sixth straight win
John Blackwell scored 17 and John Tonje added 15 to lead the No. 19 Wisconsin Badgers to an 86-70 win over UCF at the Greenbrier Tip-Off in West Virginia.,The Badgers (6-0) also got 14 from Kamari McGee on 5-of-6 shooting from the floor. Nolan Winter scored 13 and grabbed a game-high 10 boards.,Jord...
Tyler Nickel guides Vanderbilt past Seton Hall, into Charleston final
Tyler Nickel matched a career high by scoring 24 points as Vanderbilt constantly found holes in the nation's top-ranked scoring defense and pulled away in the second half for a 76-60 victory over Seton Hall in the semifinals of the Charleston Classic Friday in South Carolina.,Off to their best start...
Capitals, finding their way without Alex Ovechkin, tangle with Devils
The Washington Capitals failed to get their offense untracked in their first game since the team announced superstar captain Alex Ovechkin will be sidelined four to six weeks with a broken left fibula.,The Capitals will look for a better showing on Saturday night when they host the New Jersey Devils...
Max Verstappen chasing fourth straight F1 title in Vegas
Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen enters Saturday's Las Vegas Grand Prix on the verge of clinching his fourth consecutive Formula 1 world championship.,There are various scenarios that will land Verstappen his fourth title on Saturday night, the most basic of which is him simply finishing ahead of La...