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Kings beat Jazz behind DeMar DeRozan's season-best effort
DeMar DeRozan recorded season highs of 41 points and 11 assists to lead the Sacramento Kings to a 116-111 victory over the visiting Utah Jazz on Sunday night.,Precious Achiuwa added 20 points and 11 rebounds and Killian Hayes had 16 points and eight assists as the Kings won for the fourth time in th...
Turnover-prone Knicks eager for fewer miscues against Jazz
The New York Knicks spent two nights in Los Angeles and struggled with turnovers.,Coming off two of their highest turnover totals all season, the Knicks attempt to avoid a third straight loss Wednesday night when they meet the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City.,New York, which won 16 of 21 before landing ...
Cincinnati beats hapless Utah in first round of Big 12 tourney
Jalen Celestine scored 19 points and Baba Miller added 11 points, 14 rebounds and six assists as ninth-seeded Cincinnati beat hapless, 16th-seeded Utah 73-66 on Tuesday afternoon in a Big 12 Conference tournament first-round game in Kansas City, Mo., ,The Bearcats advance to face eighth-seeded UCF i...
Work to do for Cincinnati at Big 12 tournament, starting vs. Utah
Cincinnati enters this week's Big 12 tournament not knowing exactly how many wins it needs to assure itself of an NCAA Tournament berth.,But the ninth-seeded Bearcats definitely need at least one and will have that opening opportunity when they face No. 16 seed Utah Tuesday afternoon in Kansas City,...
Warriors look to steady form against slumping Jazz
Heading into Monday's clash with the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City, the Golden State Warriors finally had a positive development on the injury front.,Kristaps Porzingis returned to action for the Warriors on Saturday in their 104-97 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder after missing six games due to illn...
Tounde Yessoufou scores 26 as Baylor crushes Utah
Tounde Yessoufou scored 26 points and Cameron Carr added 21 to lift Baylor to a 101-75 Big 12 win over Utah Saturday in Waco, Tex.,The Bears (16-15, 6-12) made 61.5% of their shots from the floor, including 8 of 18 3-pointers.,The Utes (10-21, 2-16) hit 60.4% of their shots from the floor, but turne...
Don't call it a tank-off when sliding Bucks host struggling Jazz
With their postseason aspirations hanging in the balance, the Milwaukee Bucks look to get back on track when they host the Utah Jazz on Saturday night.,The Bucks lost their fourth straight game by at least 18 points on Wednesday night as they fell 131-113 to the Hawks, allowing Atlanta to gain a fiv...
Baylor, Utah try to make best of poor seasons
Baylor coach Scott Drew doesn't have his team where he wants it this season, but that hasn't kept him from admiring other Big 12 teams.,The Bears (15-15, 5-12 Big 12), who are in danger of their first losing season since 2006-07, finish the regular season Saturday when they host Utah (10-20, 2-15) i...
Big 12 tournament roundup: K-State dumps No. 21 Texas Tech with 21-0 run
Nastja Claessens recorded 14 points, eight rebounds and four steals and No. 12 seed Kansas State closed the game with a 21-0 run to post a 58-51 upset of No. 5 seed Texas Tech on Thursday in the second round of the Big 12 tournament at Kansas City.,Taryn Sides scored 13 points and Aniya Foy added 12...
Utah faces plethora of problems in its game as rival Colorado visits
First-year Utah coach Alex Jensen took one look at the stat sheet Saturday after a 73-60 Big 12 Conference loss at Arizona State and found a reason why his team came up short again.,"It's hard to win when you have a 1-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio, especially on the road," Jensen said. "I think it's...
Mammoth aim to continue ascent vs. struggling Blackhawks
The Utah Mammoth, winners of three of their last four games, are battling to remain in a playoff position as they prepare to host the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday afternoon.,The Mammoth, in the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference, defeated the Minnesota Wild 5-2 on Friday in Salt Lake Cit...
Arizona State clutching at tourney hopes, hosts Utah
The Big 12 was widely regarded as one of the toughest conferences entering the season and has proved to contain competition from top to bottom.,On Saturday, Arizona State will host its final unranked matchup of the season, barely clinging onto the tournament bubble and looking for a season sweep aga...
Milan Momcilovic sets 3-point mark as No. 4 Iowa State tops Utah
Joshua Jefferson recorded 21 points and six rebounds, and record-setter Milan Momcilovic added 14 points as No. 4 Iowa State cruised to a 75-59 victory over Utah on Tuesday night in Big 12 play at Salt Lake City.,Jamarion Batemon added 13 points for the Cyclones (24-4, 11-4 Big 12), who have won thr...
Report: Jazz guard Vince Williams Jr. has torn ACL, out for season
Utah Jazz guard Vince Williams Jr. had an MRI exam on Tuesday and was diagnosed with a torn ACL in his left knee, ending his season, ESPN reported.,Williams was injured in a collision with Houston forward Tari Eason early in the second quarter of the host Rockets' 125-105 victory on Monday. Eason re...
No. 4 Iowa State faces struggling Utah amid gauntlet of ranked foes
Big 12 power Iowa State is in the midst of a stretch in which five of six opponents are nationally ranked.,Tuesday's contest against unranked Utah in Salt Lake City is supposed to be the breather.,The No. 4 Cyclones (23-4, 10-4 Big 12) are 2-1 so far on the difficult stretch after succumbing 79-69 t...
No. 6 Iowa State faces struggling Utah amid gauntlet of ranked foes
Big 12 power Iowa State is in the midst of a stretch in which five of six opponents are nationally ranked.,Tuesday's contest against unranked Utah in Salt Lake City is supposed to be the breather.,The No. 6 Cyclones (23-4, 10-4 Big 12) are 2-1 so far on the difficult stretch after succumbing 79-69 t...
UCF's Themus Fulks delivers clutch free throws to edge Utah
Themus Fulks' two free throws broke a 71-all tie with 3.7 seconds left, and UCF held on to win their first-ever visit to Utah by beating the Utes 73-71 on Saturday night in Salt Lake City.,The point guard, who netted a game-high 24 points and had four assists, lifted the Knights (19-7, 8-6 Big 12) t...
Upbeat UCF travels to Utah for key 2-game road swing
UCF coach Johnny Dawkins emphasized to his players about the merits of competing for a full 40 minutes earlier this week, and apparently the Knights were listening.,After an 11-point wire-to-wire home win on Tuesday over TCU, a "Last 4 In" Big 12 Conference bubble rival, the Knights will start an im...
Utah downs West Virginia to snap 15-game road losing streak
Seydou Traore scored 17 points and Terrence Brown and Don McHenry added 16 each as Utah ended a 15-game road losing streak with a 61-56 win over West Virginia on Wednesday in Morgantown, W.Va.,The Utes (10-16, 2-11 Big 12) had not won on the road since topping TCU 73-65 on Jan. 15, 2025. They also e...
After two rousing road comebacks, West Virginia awaits lowly Utah
West Virginia coach Ross Hodges believes his Mountaineers are ready for the stretch run after coming from behind by 14 points to win twice on the road in a 10-day span., ,CBS Bracketology lists the Mountaineers (16-9, 7-5 Big 12) on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament heading into their final six reg...