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South Carolina easily handles South Carolina State
Jacobi Wright scored 20 points and Collin Murray-Boyles added 19 to go along with 16 rebounds, lifting host South Carolina to an 86-64 victory over South Carolina State on Friday in Columbia, S.C.,Wright sank four 3-pointers to highlight his performance and help the Gamecocks (1-1) improve to 23-0 a...

NHL roundup: Wild's Kirill Kaprizov extends hot streak
Kirill Kaprizov had two goals and an assist in the Minnesota Wild's 5-2 road win over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.,The Wild are 7-1-1 on the road this season, with a league-leading 15 away points. Kaprizov leads the NHL with 27 points (nine goals, 18 assists). The star forward has three points in ea...

NBA roundup: Cavs rout Warriors for 10-0 start to season
Darius Garland put up 27 points as one of six Cavaliers to score in double figures and host Cleveland pummeled the Golden State Warriors 136-117 on Friday night for its 10th straight win to open the season.,With the victory, Cleveland matched the 12th-best start to a season in NBA history. Golden St...

Top 25 roundup: No. 1 Kansas regroups, edges No. 9 UNC
Hunter Dickinson made a tiebreaking layup with 1:17 left and No. 1 Kansas beat No. 9 North Carolina 92-89 in Lawrence, Kan., on Friday despite blowing a 20-point lead.,The Jayhawks (2-0) recovered in large part due to Dickinson, who played the final 3:28 with four fouls. Dickinson finished with 20 p...

Washington meets Nevada in battle of new arrivals
Washington and Nevada head into their game at Reno, Nev., on Saturday following season-opening wins behind influential players who arrived via the transfer portal.,Great Osobor, formerly of Utah State, had 15 points, 17 rebounds and six steals in Washington's 79-73 win over UC Davis at Seattle on Tu...

Kirill Kaprizov's 3-point night lifts Wild past Ducks
Kirill Kaprizov had two goals and an assist in the Minnesota Wild's 5-2 road win over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.,The Wild are 7-1-1 on the road this season, with a league-leading 15 away points.,Kaprizov leads the NHL with 27 points (nine goals, 18 assists). The star forward has three points in ea...

Jared McCann, Kraken edge Golden Knights in OT
Jared McCann scored the overtime winner as the Seattle Kraken edged the visiting Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 on Friday night.,McCann beat Adin Hill on a breakaway 29 seconds into the extra period for his team-leading seventh goal as the Kraken snapped a four-game losing streak.,Brandon Tanev scored twi...

Nick Martinelli leads Northwestern as it travels to Dayton
With graduation taking care of Northwestern's top scorer from last season and injury sidelining a fellow floor leader, Nick Martinelli sensed an opportunity and seized it.,After sparking the Wildcats with 26 points and 10 rebounds in Monday's season-opening rout of Lehigh, Martinelli hopes to sustai...

Colorado squeaks out 2OT win over Northern Colorado
Elijah Malone scored 27 points, while Javon Ruffin and Julian Hammond III each added 12 as Colorado regrouped for a 90-88 double-overtime victory over visiting Northern Colorado on Friday in Boulder.,Hammond scored five points in the second overtime and Assane Diop finished with 10 rebounds for the ...

Egor Demin scores 20 as BYU defeats UC Riverside
Freshman Egor Demin scored 20 points with seven assists to lead BYU (2-0) to an 86-80 win over UC Riverside (0-2) on Friday night in Provo, Utah.,Keba Keita, a transfer from Utah, compiled a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds, Fousse Traore added 13 points, six rebounds and two blocked shots...

Jaren Jackson Jr.'s 39 points help Grizzles rout Wizards
Jaren Jackson Jr. scored a season-high 39 points to lead the host Memphis Grizzlies - minus injured two-time All-Star guard Ja Morant -- to a 128-104 victory Friday night over the Washington Wizards.,Jackson made 14 of 28 field goal attempts, including 5 of 12 from beyond the arc.,Scotty Pippen Jr.,...

Thunder bounce back from first loss, thrash Rockets
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren scored 29 points each to lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 126-107 win over the visiting Houston Rockets on Friday.,The win was the seventh in eight games for the Thunder, who were coming off their first loss of the season Wednesday in Denver.,The Rockets ...

Missouri pulls away from Howard for first win
Tamar Bates scored 17 points and Mark Mitchell had 16 points and eight rebounds as the Missouri Tigers defeated the Howard Bison 77-62 Friday night in Columbia, Mo.,Anthony Robinson II added 13 points for the Tigers (1-1).,Bates hit 3-of-7 shots from 3-point range. The rest of the Tigers combined to...

TCU uses second-half surge to down Florida Gulf Coast
TCU's Vasean Allette scored 14 points off the bench Friday night as the Horned Frogs used a late second-half surge to beat Florida Gulf Coast 67-51 in Fort Worth, Texas.,Trazarien White and Micah Robinson each had nine points for the Horned Frogs (2-0), who also got eight points and nine rebounds fr...

Rodney Rice gets Maryland rolling past Mount St. Mary's
Rodney Rice poured in a career-high 28 points off the bench on Friday as Maryland routed Mount St. Mary's 86-52 in College Park, Md.,Rice finished 10-of-14 from the field, including 3-of-5 from 3-point range, and grabbed five rebounds. He set his previous career high of 17 points with Virginia Tech ...

Barbra Banda's brace send Pride past Red Stars in NWSL quarters
Barbra Banda scored a pair of breakaway goals in the first half and the Orlando Pride earned a 4-1 victory over the visiting Chicago Red Stars in the first NWSL quarterfinal match.,Marta and Haley McCutcheon also scored goals for the Pride, the top seed in the playoffs who finished the regular seaso...

Kasparas Jakucionis, Illinois put away SIU Edwardsville
Freshman point guard Kasparas Jakucionis stacked up 12 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds as Illinois pulled away for a 90-58 nonconference victory over SIU Edwardsville on Friday night in Champaign, Ill.,Jakucionis, the 18-year-old Lithuanian projected as a potential NBA Draft lottery pick, need...

John Tavares scores twice to fuel Leafs past Red Wings
John Tavares scored two goals and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting Detroit Red Wings 3-1 on Friday night.,Mitch Marner added a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs, who have won the first two of a four-game homestand. Morgan Rielly had two assists.,Toronto goaltender Anthony Stolarz m...

Gamecocks easily handle Bulldogs
Jacobi Wright scored 20 points and Collin Murray-Boyles added 19 to go along with 16 rebounds, lifting host South Carolina to an 86-64 victory over South Carolina State on Friday in Columbia, S.C.,Wright sank four 3-pointers to highlight his performance and help the Gamecocks (1-1) improve to 23-0 a...

UCF fends off visiting Purdue Fort Wayne
UCF's Jordan Ivy-Curry scored five of his game-high 18 points in the final 3:45 Friday as the Knights staved off an upset after pulling off one earlier in the week, beating the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons 75-68 in Orlando.,The Knights (2-0), whose fans stormed the court Monday after a 64-61 shocker ...