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No. 24 San Diego State uses balanced attack to roll past San Diego
Four players scored in double figures to help No. 24 San Diego State pull away in the second half for a 74-57 home win over cross-town rival San Diego on Saturday.,Florida Atlantic transfer Nick Boyd led the Aztecs (6-2) with 17 points, while Miles Byrd and Jared Coleman-Jones each added 13. Freshma...
Dillon Gabriel leads No. 1 Oregon past No. 3 Penn State in Big Ten championship
Dillon Gabriel threw for 283 yards and four touchdowns Saturday night and No. 1 Oregon likely clinched the top seed for the College Football Playoff by beating No. 3 Penn State 45-37 in the Big Ten championship in Indianapolis.,Gabriel completed 22 of 32 passes for the 13-0 Ducks, connecting with Te...
App State hires Dowell Loggains as new coach
Dowell Loggains has been hired as Appalachian State's next football coach, athletic director Doug Gillin announced Saturday.,Loggains was inked to a five-year deal that runs through the 2029 campaign. He is the 23rd coach in program history.,App State will formally introduce him on Monday. ,"We are ...
Bam Adebayo posts 25 points to carry Heat past Suns
Bam Adebayo had game highs with 25 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as the host Miami Heat defeated the Phoenix Suns 121-111 on Saturday night.,Adebayo had 12 of his points in the third quarter, when Miami surged ahead for a lead it never relinquished.,Jimmy Butler had 24 points, including nine...
Jalon Moore scores 19 2nd-half points as No. 21 Oklahoma tops winless Alcorn State
Jalon Moore scored 19 of his 20 points in the second half to help No. 21 Oklahoma break out of an early slumber en route to a 94-78 victory over winless Alcorn State on Saturday night in Norman, Okla.,Moore connected on all eight of his second-half shots and was 8 of 9 overall for the Sooners (9-0)....
First-half burst carries Colorado past Colorado State
Bangot Dak scored 16 points off the bench as host Colorado rolled to a 72-55 win over in-state rival Colorado State on Saturday night in Boulder, Colo.,The Buffaloes (7-2) effectively put the game out of reach early with a 16-0 first-half run and built a double-digit lead they carried the rest of th...
Senators deal Predators their seventh straight loss
Linus Ullmark turned aside 37 of 38 shots on Saturday night in the host Ottawa Senators' 3-1 win over the Nashville Predators, who lost their seventh straight game.,Jacob Bernard-Docker, Claude Giroux, and Nick Cousins scored for the Senators and Tim Stutzle picked up a pair of assists.,Fedor Svechk...
Timberwolves look to complete road sweep of Warriors
The Minnesota Timberwolves seek a repeat performance when they go for a second win in three days over the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco on Sunday night.,In the first game of the back-to-back set, the Timberwolves beat the Warriors 107-90 on the road Friday night. Anthony Edwards finished wi...
No. 6 Iowa State out to keep Jackson State winless
No. 6 Iowa State will go for its fourth win in a row when it hosts Jackson State in a nonconference matchup Sunday evening in Ames, Iowa., ,Iowa State (6-1) is coming off an 81-70 home win against No. 5 Marquette on Wednesday. Five of the Cyclones' six wins have been by double digits, and the team's...
NC State opens ACC play with OT win over Florida State
Marcus Hill scored 23 points and Dontrez Styles exploded for a season-high 21 as North Carolina State pulled away from Florida State in overtime to win 84-74 in their Atlantic Coast Conference opener on Saturday afternoon in Raleigh, N.C.,Styles, who was averaging 8.8 points per game, shot 7-of-13 f...
Sharp-shooting Villanova trounces Temple
Eric Dixon scored 24 points to propel Villanova to a comfortable 94-65 win over Temple on Saturday in a Big 5 Classic game from Philadelphia., ,Dixon came in averaging 25.9 points for the Wildcats (6-4), who entered on the heels of their biggest win of the season ...
Mississippi State set to face lowly Prairie View A&M
Mississippi State is looking for its second straight win as struggling Prairie View A&M heads to Starkville, Miss., for a Sunday afternoon showdown. ,The Bulldogs (7-1) fell out of the AP Top 25 poll this week after an 87-77 setback to Butler last Friday at the Arizona Classic. ,Mississippi State re...
Reports: Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy agrees to restructured deal
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy will be on the sidelines in 2025 after agreeing to a restructured deal with the school, according to multiple reports on Saturday.,The agreement comes one day after Gundy and the school's board of regents were at a standoff. Reports on Friday suggested Gundy was asked...
Balanced Arizona attack overpowers Southern Utah
Reserve Anthony Dell'Orso's 19 points led a balanced scoring effort of seven players in double figures in Arizona's 102-66 victory Saturday over Southern Utah at Tucson, Ariz.,Arizona's bench outscored Southern Utah's reserves 62-13 behind Dell'Orso, KJ Lewis (15 points on 6-of-7 shooting, eight reb...
Early second-half surge carries South Carolina past East Carolina
Jamarii Thomas scored 22 points with seven assists as South Carolina overcame a slow start to earn a 75-68 victory over visiting East Carolina Saturday in Columbia, S.C.,Collin Murray-Boyles supplied 20 points by going 10 of 10 from the floor, and added 10 rebounds, as the Gamecocks (6-3) rallied fr...
No. 15 Arizona State owns Big 12 title game with rout of No. 16 Iowa State
Bo Skattebo rushed for 170 yards and accounted for three touchdowns as No. 15 Arizona State clinched a College Football Playoff spot with a 45-19 rout of No. 16 Iowa State on Saturday in the Big 12 title game at Arlington, Texas.,Skattebo rushed for two scores and also had a receiving touchdown for ...
Rested UCF ready to take on Tarleton State
UCF concludes a two-game stretch against Western Athletic Conference opponents when it hosts Tarleton State on Sunday afternoon.,The Knights (6-2) and Texans (3-7) will play for just the second time. The Texans, who completed reclassification to Division I from Division II in 2020, dropped a 75-49 r...
Rangers, hoping for new starting point with latest win, take on Kraken
Perhaps the trade of captain Jacob Trouba will serve as a wake-up call for the New York Rangers.,The Rangers, who had lost six of their previous seven games, responded with a 4-2 victory Friday night against visiting Pittsburgh.,New York will try to start a winning streak when it plays host to the S...
Huge second half powers Michigan State past Nebraska
Jaden Akins scored a game-high 18 points to lead host Michigan State to an 89-52 win over Nebraska in East Lansing on Saturday in a Big Ten contest.,Akins went 4 of 8 from 3-point range to help lead the attack for the Spartans (8-2, 2-0 Big Ten), who have won three straight and six of their last sev...
Ohio State topples Rutgers to rebound from embarrassing defeat
Devin Royal had a career-high 22 points and Bruce Thornton added 22 points of his own as Ohio State continued its home dominance over Rutgers with an 80-66 victory at Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday.,The Buckeyes (6-3, 1-1 Big Ten) improved to 14-5 against the Scarlet Knights thanks to a 9-0 record at h...