“THE SCOREBOARD”
INDIANA BOYS REGIONAL PAIRINGS
NORTHERN HOSTS
MICHIGAN CITY
CLASS 3A | 1 PM CT | EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL (19-8) VS. HANOVER CENTRAL (15-11)
CLASS 4A | 4 PM CT | PORTAGE (20-5) VS. CROWN POINT (21-2)
LOGANSPORT
CLASS 2A | 4 PM ET | MANCHESTER (22-2) VS. TIPTON (19-6)
CLASS 4A | 7 PM ET | HOMESTEAD (21-5) VS. CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) (11-15)
SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON
CLASS 3A | 1 PM ET | SOUTH BEND SAINT JOSEPH (23-3) VS. COLUMBIA CITY (17-9)
CLASS 4A | 4 PM ET | SOUTH BEND RILEY (21-4) VS. WARSAW COMMUNITY (25-4)
NEW CASTLE
CLASS 1A | 4 PM ET | DALEVILLE (9-15) VS. MONROE CENTRAL (18-6)
CLASS 3A | 7 PM ET | DELTA (16-7) VS. FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK CHRISTIAN (24-3)
NORTH JUDSON-SAN PIERRE
CLASS 1A | 1 PM CT | KOUTS (22-4) VS. TRI-COUNTY (14-11)
CLASS 2A | 4 PM CT | FORT WAYNE BISHOP LUERS (21-6) VS. GARY 21ST CENTURY (19-6)
LAPEL
CLASS 2A | 4 PM ET | WESTERN BOONE (11-14) VS. WAPAHANI (25-1)
CLASS 3A | 7 PM ET | MACONAQUAH (20-5) VS. MARION (14-11)
TRITON
CLASS 1A | 1 PM ET | TRITON (22-4) VS. LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN (7-16)
CLASS 2A | 4 PM ET | JIMTOWN (15-10) VS. WESTVIEW (18-7)
FRANKFORT
CLASS 1A | 4 PM ET | CLINTON PRAIRIE (23-2) VS. LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (12-14)
CLASS 4A | 7 PM ET | FISHERS (27-0) VS. HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE) (19-6)
SOUTHERN HOSTS
SOUTHPORT
CLASS 4A | 1 PM ET | MT. VERNON (FORTVILLE) (20-) VS. BROWNSBURG (13-12)
CLASS 4A | 4 PM ET | MOORESVILLE (14-11) VS. LAWRENCE NORTH (20-6)
SEYMOUR
CLASS 1A | 4 PM ET | CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (18-8) VS. ORLEANS (21-4)
CLASS 2A | 7 PM ET | SOUTH RIPLEY (23-1) VS. FOREST PARK (18-6)
LEBANON
CLASS 2A | 1 PM ET | TRITON CENTRAL (16-9) VS. UNIVERSITY (17-9)
CLASS 3A | 4 PM ET | INDIANAPOLIS CRISPUS ATTUCKS (19-6) VS. NORTHVIEW (24-2)
WASHINGTON
CLASS 3A | 4 PM ET | BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL (23-2) VS. EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL (18-6)
CLASS 4A | 7 PM ET | TERRE HAUTE NORTH VIGO (20-5) VS. WHITELAND COMMUNITY (15-11)
GREENFIELD-CENTRAL
CLASS 1A | 1 PM ET | NORTH DECATUR (14-13) VS. LIBERTY CHRISTIAN (17-8)
CLASS 3A | 4 PM ET | GUERIN CATHOLIC (23-4) VS. NEW PALESTINE (24-3)
SOUTHRIDGE
CLASS 3A | 4 PM ET | JENNINGS COUNTY (12-14) VS. PRINCETON COMMUNITY (23-2)
CLASS 4A | 7 PM ET | JEFFERSONVILLE (20-5) VS. EVANSVILLE HARRISON (17-7)
MARTINSVILLE
CLASS 1A | 1 PM ET | INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN (8-15) VS. HAUSER (23-3)
CLASS 2A | 4 PM ET | PARKE HERITAGE (23-4) VS. CENTERVILLE (20-7)
LOOGOOTEE
CLASS 1A | 4 PM ET | NORTHEAST DUBOIS (16-9) VS. CLAY CITY (24-1)
CLASS 2A | 7 PM ET | LINTON-STOCKTON (20-6) VS. PROVIDENCE (17-4)
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
OREGON 72 INDIANA 59
DUKE 78 GEORGIA TECH 70
ST. JOHN 78 BUTLER 57
BYU 96 IOWA STATE 92
MARQUETTE 89 XAVIER 87
WISCONSIN 70 NORTHWESTERN 63
HOUSTON 77 COLORADO 68
TEXAS 94 TEXAS A&M 89 2OT
ILLINOIS 106 IOWA 94
TEXAS TECH 76 BAYLOR 74
LOUISVILLE 75 STANFORD 73
MISSOURI 85 MISSISSIPPI STATE 73
PURDUE 76 USC 71
CLEMSON 57 SMU 54
KENTUCKY 85 OKLAHOMA 84
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
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INDIANA COLLEGE BASEBALL
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INDIANA COLLEGE SOFTBALL
PURDUE FORT WAYNE 6 IU INDY 4
INDIANA MEN’S COLLEGE LAX
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INDIANA WOMEN’S COLLEGE LAX
NOTRE DAME 15 CALIFORNIA 8
NBA SCOREBOARD
WASHINGTON 129 DETROIT 125
MILWAUKEE 126 LA LAKERS 106
CHICAGO 116 BROOKLYN 110
ORLANDO 113 NEW ORLEANS 93
GOLDEN STATE 130 SACRAMENTO 104
NHL SCOREBOARD
PITTSBURGH 5 ST. LOUIS 3
VEGAS 4 COLUMBUS 0
OTTAWA 6 BOSTON 3
PHILADELPHIA 4 TAMPA BAY 3
FLORIDA 3 TORONTO 2
NEW JERSEY 3 EDMONTON 2
NY RANGERS 3 MINNESOTA 2
SAN JOSE 4 CHICAGO 2
LOS ANGELES 3 WASHINGTON 0
MLB SCOREBOARD
PHILADELPHIA 16 ATLANTA 9
ST. LOUIS 1 HOUSTON 1
MINNESOTA 15 PITTSBURGH 3
NY YANKEES 8 DETROIT 6
TAMPA BAY 14 WASHINGTON 4
TORONTO 6 BALTIMORE 4
BOSTON 3 NY METS 2
HOUSTON 10 MIAMI 5
TEXAS 7 SAN FRANCISCO 3
LAS VEGAS 12 CINCINNATI 1
COLORADO 6 CLEVELAND 4
KANSAS CITY 6 SAN DIEGO 5
MILWAUKEE 9 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3
MLS SCOREBOARD
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TOP NATIONAL HEADLINES
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
BIG TEN TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP
Trey Kaufman-Renn matched his career high of 30 points and sixth-seeded Purdue avoided the upset with a 76-71 victory over 14th-seeded Southern California on Thursday night in Big Ten tournament second-round play in Indianapolis.
Fletcher Loyer scored 14 points and Braden Smith added 12 points and nine assists for No. 20 Purdue (22-10), which scored the game’s final five points.
The Boilermakers will face third-seeded Michigan in the quarterfinals on Friday.
Desmond Claude scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half for the Trojans (16-17). Wesley Yates III added 13 points, and Matt Knowling and Rashau Agee added 11 points apiece.
No. 18 Wisconsin 70, Northwestern 63
John Tonje scored 18 points, including 12 in the second half, as the fifth-seeded Badgers held off the 13th-seeded Wildcats to earn a Friday semifinal matchup against fourth-seeded UCLA.
Nolan Winter also had 18 points for Wisconsin (24-8), which forced 14 turnovers that led to 17 points.
Nick Martinelli led Northwestern (17-16) with 22 points, while KJ Windham finished with 14 points and five assists.
No. 23 Oregon 72, Indiana 59
Jackson Shelstad had 18 points to lead the eighth-seeded Ducks to a second-round win over the ninth-seeded Hoosiers.
TJ Bamba scored 17 points for Oregon (24-8). The Ducks held Indiana scoreless for more than four minutes late in the game, allowing the conference newcomer to turn a two-point lead into a 65-56 advantage. Next up for Oregon is top-seeded Michigan State.
Malik Reneau paced Indiana (19-13) with 19 points, while Trey Galloway added 15 points and nine assists.
No. 24 Illinois 106, Iowa 94
Kylan Boswell had 24, Tre White scored 22 and Will Riley added 21 as the seventh-seeded Fighting Illini picked up the win over the 15th-seeded Hawkeyes.
Tomislav Ivisic finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for Illinois (21-11), which became just the second team to score at least 100 points in a Big Ten tournament game. The Illini will face second-seeded Maryland on Friday.
Payton Sandfort matched his career high with 30 points for Iowa (17-16) and also hit eight 3-pointers to tie a Big Ten tourney record. Josh Dix scored 21 points for the Hawkeyes.
SEC TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP
Otega Oweh drove the length of the court and avoided three defenders to convert the winning layup with half a second left as sixth-seeded Kentucky escaped with a wild 85-84 victory over 14th-seeded Oklahoma on Thursday night to reach the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament in Nashville.
Oweh scored 27 points and Koby Brea added 22 points for the No. 15 Wildcats (22-10), who will play third-seeded Alabama on Friday night.
Oweh’s winning basket came after the Sooners (20-13) ripped off a frantic 19-6 run to take a one-point lead on Jeremiah Fears’ driving hoop with 5.6 seconds left. The Sooners took advantage of the absence of stellar Kentucky defender Lamont Butler (left shoulder) during their impressive rally.
Fears scored 28 points while Kobe Elvis and Jalon Moore scored 12 points apiece for Oklahoma, which might have to sweat it out on Selection Sunday for an NCAA Tournament bid.
Ole Miss 83, Arkansas 80
The Rebels’ Sean Pedula drilled a 3-pointer with just over a second remaining to lift eighth-seeded Ole Miss past the ninth-seeded Razorbacks.
With the Rebels down by three and 20 seconds left, Ole Miss’ Dre Davis hit a layup and was fouled. He made the free throw to even the score 80-80, setting up Pedulla’s heroics.
Malik Dia had 19 points to lead Ole Miss (22-10), which will face top-seeded Auburn on Friday in the quarterfinals. Jonas Aido paced Arkansas (20-13) with 17 points, and Trevon Brazile finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Texas 94, No. 14 Texas A&M 89 (2 OT)
Tre Johnson scored 20 points and Tramon Mark added 15 as Texas helped its NCAA Tournament hopes with a double-overtime win against the Aggies.
Texas won the game on five free throws in the final 37 seconds of the second OT, including two from Jordan Pope with 13 seconds left. Texas A&M missed six shots and a free throw in the final two minutes. Kadin Shedrick scored 14 points and Pope added 13 as the Longhorns (19-14) advanced to face fourth-seeded Tennessee in the quarterfinals.
Wade Taylor IV scored 29 points, while Manny Obaseki added 17 for Texas A&M (22-10). Andersson Garcia scored 13 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, while Henry Coleman III totaled 10 points and 13 rebounds.
No. 21 Missouri 85, Mississippi State 73
Tamar Bates had 25 points as the seventh-seeded Tigers held the 10th-seeded Bulldogs to without a field goal for over four minutes down the stretch en route to the second-round win.
Mississippi State (21-12) led 68-67 with 4:52 to play before Missouri (22-10) clamped down and used a 12-2 run to take control.
Tony Perkins scored 20 points for the Tigers, who will face second-seeded Florida in the quarterfinals. Josh Hubbard led the Bulldogs with 24 points, and KeShawn Murphy added 18.
BIG 12 TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP
JT Toppin produced 26 points and 10 rebounds as No. 9 Texas Tech did just enough to hold on for a 76-74 win over Baylor in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Conference tournament on Thursday in Kansas City, Mo.
The Red Raiders (25-7) missed their final 10 shots from the floor and 13 of their last 14, going the final 7:26 without a field goal. Texas Tech shot just 19.4 percent from the floor after halftime, leaving the door open for seventh-seeded Baylor (19-14).
Texas Tech missed two free throws with 5.8 seconds remaining, but Baylor’s VJ Edgecombe had his running 3-point attempt at the buzzer clang off the rim and away. As a result, the Red Raiders earned a semifinal matchup with Arizona.
Darrion Williams added 14 points for Texas Tech. Norchad Omier paced Baylor with 29 points and 15 boards, and Edgecombe scored 11 points.
No. 2 Houston 77, Colorado 68
Emanuel Sharp had 19 points, Milos Uzan and LJ Cryer each added 14, and the top-seeded Cougars advanced to the Friday semifinals with the win over the 16th-seeded Buffaloes.
Joseph Tugler scored 10 points for Houston (28-4), which will face fourth-seeded BYU in the semis.
Andrej Jakimovski led Colorado (14-20) with 25 points and eight rebounds, while Bangot Dak contributed 10 points.
No. 17 BYU 96, No. 12 Iowa State 92
Richie Saunders recorded 23 points and five assists and Fousseyni Traore added 15 points to help the Cougars beat the Cyclones to reach the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament.
Trevin Knell made all four of his 3-point attempts while scoring 14 points as fourth-seeded BYU (24-8) won its ninth straight game.
Curtis Jones sank a career-best seven treys and scored 31 points for the fifth-seeded Cyclones (24-9). Milan Momcilovic added 18 points for Iowa State, which lost to the Cougars for the second time in 10 days.
Arizona 88, Kansas 77
Henri Veesaar and KJ Lewis had 19 points apiece off the bench as the third-seeded Wildcats put away the sixth-seeded Jayhawks to move on to the Big 12 semifinals.
Trey Townsend added 16 and Caleb Love had 11 for Arizona (21-11), which shot 53.4 percent from the floor and amassed a 46-20 edge on points in the paint.
Zeke Mayo had 20 points to lead Kansas (21-12). Hunter Dickinson and Dajuan Harris chipped in with 19 and 16 points, respectively.
ACC TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP
Chucky Hepburn had 20 points, none bigger than a midrange jumper at the buzzer that lifted No. 13 Louisville to a 75-73 win over Stanford in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament quarterfinals on Thursday in Charlotte, N.C.
Hepburn collected a loose-ball offensive rebound and quickly released the 10-footer from the left elbow, his 14th and 15th points of the second half that helped the second-seeded Cardinals (26-6) complete their comeback after trailing by 15 points in the second half.
Louisville will face No. 3 Clemson in Friday semifinals. Terrence Edwards Jr. had 25 points for the Cardinals, who have now won 10 straight.
Oziyah Sellers paced Stanford (20-13) with 22 points, while Maxime Raynaud added 17.
No. 1 Duke 78, Georgia Tech 70
Kon Knueppel erupted for a career-high 28 points to lead the No. 1 seed Blue Devils to a quarterfinal win over the No. 8 Yellow Jackets — a victory clouded by the loss of Cooper Flagg, who left in the first half with a left ankle injury.
Knueppel added eight assists for Duke (29-3), which rallied from a 14-point deficit in the first half, using a 19-2 run spanning the halftime break. Isaiah Evans and Khaman Maluach each had 14 points for the Blue Devils, who will face No. 5 North Carolina in Friday’s semifinals.
Duncan Powell paced Georgia Tech (17-16) with 24 points, while Baye Ndongo added 15. Lance Terry scored 12 for the Yellow Jackets.
North Carolina 68, Wake Forest 59
RJ Davis scored 23 points and connected on key 3-point shots as the Tar Heels fended off the Demon Deacons.
Ven-Allen Lubin and Seth Trimble added 10 points apiece for North Carolina (22-12), which won for the second day in a row and avenged a one-point road loss to Wake from the regular season.
Hunter Sallis poured in 25 points and Tre’Von Spillers racked up 10 points for Wake Forest (21-11), which shot 33.9 percent and missed 11 of its last 12 shots. The Demon Deacons shot 2-for-22 from the 3-point arc.
Clemson 57, SMU 54
The third-seeded Tigers took a shaky first step in pursuit of their first ACC title as Chase Hunter scored 21 points in beating the sixth-seeded Mustangs in Charlotte.
Jaeden Zackery added 11 points and three steals as the Tigers (27-5) held the Mustangs without a field goal over the final 6:14 to advance to Friday’s semifinals. Clemson will face second-seeded Louisville in a matchup of teams riding winning streaks of nine and 10 games.
Matt Cross scored 13 points for SMU (23-10), which is unlikely to gain an NCAA Tournament bid as it entered Thursday in the No. 44 slot in the NET rankings.
BIG EAST TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP
Creighton rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final minutes of regulation, then outlasted DePaul in two overtimes to earn an 85-81 win in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament in New York on Thursday.
Ryan Kalkbrenner had 32 points for the second-seeded Bluejays (23-9), including a go-ahead shot with just over two minutes left in the second overtime. Fedor Zugic added 13 points for Creighton, which will face third-seeded UConn in the semifinals on Thursday.
Layden Blocker had 25 to lead the 10th-seeded Blue Demons (14-19). Isaiah Rivera scored 17, and CJ Gunn contributed 14.
The Bluejays led 72-64 with under two minutes left in the first overtime before the Blue Demons forced the second extra session with a 9-1 run.
St. John’s 78, Butler 57
RJ Luis Jr scored 20 points as top-seeded St. John’s used big runs in both halves to boot Butler in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.
The sixth-ranked Red Storm (28-4) won their sixth straight, advanced to the semifinals for the second straight season and will face Marquette in the first semifinal on Friday. Kadary Richmond and Aaron Scott each added 15 points.
After never trailing in its opening-round win over Providence, Butler (14-19) never recovered from an early deficit. Patrick McCaffery led the Bulldogs with 16 points, but Jahmyl Telfort was held to 11 and Pierre Brooks II was limited to five on 1-of-10 shooting.
No. 25 Marquette 89, Xavier 87
Kam Jones scored 28 points, including the go-ahead basket with 1:16 remaining, as the Golden Eagles rallied past the Musketeers in the Big East quarterfinals.
Chase Ross and Stevie Mitchell added 16 points apiece for the fifth-seeded Golden Eagles (23-9), who advanced to the semifinals for the third straight season. David Joplin chipped in 14 points for Marquette, which shot 61.3 percent in the second half and 48.5 percent overall.
Ryan Conwell scored a career-high 38 points by hitting 13 of 18 shots and seven 3-pointers, but fourth-seeded Xavier (21-11) had a seven-game winning streak end. Zach Freemantle added 15 points for Xavier, which shot 52.6 percent.
UConn 73, Villanova 56
Alex Karaban scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half and hit two clutch 3-pointers as the third-seeded Huskies pulled away from the sixth-seeded Wildcats in the Big East quarterfinals.
Liam McNeeley added 12 points for two-time defending champion UConn, which ended on a 22-5 run over the final 7:31. The Huskies (23-9) won their fifth straight, shooting 65 percent in the second half and 57.8 percent overall.
Villanova’s Wooga Poplar tied a career high with 25 points on 10-of-15 shooting. The Wildcats (19-14) shot just 20.8 percent (5-of-24) in the second half and 31.9 percent overall.
NBA NEWS
NBA ROUNDUP
Stephen Curry became the first player in NBA history to make 4,000 career 3-pointers on Thursday as the Golden State Warriors extended their winning streak to a season-best six games with a 130-104 victory over the Sacramento Kings in San Francisco.
A day before his 37th birthday, Curry needed two 3-pointers to reach the milestone, and he accomplished the feat in the third quarter.
Draymond Green had a season-high 23 points for Golden State, which led wire-to-wire. The Warriors had eight players score in double figures, including Jonathan Kuminga, who put up 18 in his return after missing 31 games with an ankle injury.
DeMar DeRozan recorded 23 points and seven assists to lead Sacramento, which dropped its third straight. Keon Ellis had 18 points.
Bucks 126, Lakers 106
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 24 points and added 12 rebounds and nine assists to lead Milwaukee over visiting Los Angeles.
Three other Bucks scored more than 20 points to help Milwaukee end its three-game skid. Brook Lopez scored 23, Kevin Porter Jr. had 22 off the bench and Damian Lillard tallied 22 points and 10 assists.
Luka Doncic shined for Los Angeles, which lost its third in a row, posting 45 points on 14-for-27 shooting to go along with 11 rebounds. Austin Reaves added 28 points.
Bulls 116, Nets 110
Coby White scored 31 points as Chicago earned a fourth straight win, overcoming a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat visiting Brooklyn.
The Bulls’ Kevin Huerter added 18 points, including the go-ahead putback that broke a 101-101 tie with 3:54 left. Chicago’s Tre Jones also contributed 18 to go along with six rebounds and six assists in place of Josh Giddey (ankle).
Cam Thomas amassed 24 points and 10 assists for the Nets, who lost for the ninth time in 10 games. Tyrese Martin added 19 points, and Nic Claxton collected 18 points and 14 rebounds.
Wizards 129, Pistons 125
Alex Sarr led seven Washington players in double figures with 19 points and the visiting Wizards avenged a 20-point loss to Detroit two nights earlier.
Justin Champagnie and Jordan Poole each had 17 points, while Khris Middleton and Bub Carrington supplied 16 apiece for Washington, which ended a two-game skid.
Cade Cunningham carried Detroit with 38 points and 10 assists. Jalen Duren added 18 points with 14 rebounds as the Pistons’ two-game winning streak ended.
Magic 113, Pelicans 93
Paolo Banchero had 34 points and 11 rebounds, Franz Wagner scored 27 and visiting Orlando routed New Orleans.
The Magic, who had lost six of their previous seven games, built a 30-point halftime lead and coasted to their seventh consecutive victory against the Pelicans.
New Orleans shot 44.3 percent overall and 28 percent on 3-point attempts. Zion Williamson had 20 points and eight boards, while Trey Murphy III added 17 points.
NHL NEWS
NHL ROUND-UP
Darcy Kuemper made 21 saves for the Los Angeles Kings in a 3-0 win against the visiting Washington Capitals on Thursday night.
It was the 34th career shutout and third of the season for Kuemper, who was traded to the Kings from Washington last June in exchange for forward Pierre-Luc Dubois.
Quinton Byfield scored for the fifth straight game, Kevin Fiala had a goal and an assist and Warren Foegele also scored for the Kings, who moved past the Edmonton Oilers for second place in the Pacific Division thanks to their fourth straight win.
Charlie Lindgren made 24 saves for the Capitals, who had won five in a row.
Panthers 3, Maple Leafs 2
Sam Bennett scored two power-play goals as visiting Florida defeated Toronto.
Niko Mikkola also scored for the Panthers. Sam Reinhart and Mackie Samoskevich each added two assists, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 shots.
John Tavares and Max Domi scored for the Maple Leafs, and Anthony Stolarz made 22 saves.
Senators 6, Bruins 3
Two goals and an assist from Drake Batherson led Ottawa over visiting Boston.
Ottawa opened a 4-1 lead after one period and never looked back, ensuring its fifth straight win and a seven-game point streak (6-0-1). Ridly Greig and Shane Pinto each added a goal and an assist, Tyler Kleven and Claude Giroux also scored, and Linus Ullmark made 22 saves.
Casey Mittelstadt, David Pastrnak and Marat Khusnutdinov each scored for Boston, which had a two-game win streak end. Jeremy Swayman allowed four goals on 15 shots before Joonas Korpisalo and saved 14 of 15 shots after the first period.
Flyers 4, Lightning 3 (SO)
Owen Tippett scored the decisive shootout goal as Philadelphia topped Tampa Bay to pick up a badly needed home victory.
Bobby Brink had two goals and an assist in regulation for Philadelphia, and Ryan Poehling added a goal and an assist. Samuel Ersson made 17 saves before stopping four of the Lightning’s five shootout attempts.
Jonas Johansson made 26 saves for Tampa Bay, which fell to 0-2-1 in its past three games. Ex-Flyer Cam Atkinson, Gage Goncalves and Zemgus Girgensons scored regulation goals for the Lightning.
Penguins 5, Blues 3
Rickard Rakell and Bryan Rust each had a goal with an assist while Tristan Jarry made 33 saves as host Pittsburgh topped St. Louis for a third straight win.
Conor Timmins and Connor Dewar each scored his first goal with Pittsburgh, while Ryan Graves also notched his first of the season. Rakell posted his first 30-goal season since 2017-18 with an empty-netter.
Jordan Binnington allowed four goals on 19 shots before being pulled in the third for the Blues, who took just their third regulation loss in the past 14 games. Zack Bolduc, Dylan Holloway and Alexey Toropchenko scored.
Devils 3, Oilers 2
Defenseman Simon Nemec scored his first goal of the season to snap a third-period tie, fueling New Jersey over Edmonton in Newark, N.J.
New Jersey’s Jesper Bratt collected a goal and two assists for the second straight game, and defenseman Brett Pesce added one goal and one assist. Jake Allen made 31 saves for the Devils, who have won three in a row.
Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl scored his NHL-leading 47th goal midway through the second period to extend his career-high point streak to 16 games (12 goals, 12 assists). Defenseman Evan Bouchard also tallied and Connor McDavid notched two assists. Stuart Skinner turned aside 19 shots for the Oilers, who have lost eight of their past 11 games.
Golden Knights 4, Blue Jackets 0
Adin Hill made 27 saves while posting his fourth shutout of the season and the 11th of his career in Vegas’ win at Columbus.
Nicolas Roy and Brandon Saad had a goal and an assist each and Pavel Dorofeyev and Alex Pietrangelo also provided goals for the Golden Knights, who had lost their previous two games. Tomas Hertl added two assists.
Elvis Merzlikins stopped 25 shots for the Blue Jackets, who have lost four of their past five.
Rangers 3, Wild 2 (OT)
Braden Schneider scored at the 1:51 mark of overtime to lift New York over Minnesota in Saint Paul, Minn.
Vincent Trocheck and Jonny Brodzinski also scored for New York, which snapped a four-game losing streak (0-2-2). Igor Shesterkin turned aside 26 of 28 shots.
Marcus Johansson and Frederick Gaudreau scored one goal apiece for Minnesota, which is 1-2-1 in the past four games. Filip Gustavsson allowed three goals on 31 shots.
Sharks 4, Blackhawks 2
Collin Graf scored two goals and Will Smith had a goal and an assist in San Jose’s win over visiting Chicago.
Tyler Toffoli added an empty-net goal for the Sharks, who ended a three-game losing streak overall and a five-game skid on home ice. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 24 of 26 shots.
Frank Nazar and Ilya Mikheyev scored and Spencer Knight made 21 saves as the Blackhawks fell to 0-2-1 on their four-game road trip. Connor Bedard was issued a 10-minute misconduct penalty for verbal abuse of officials midway through the third period.
BASEBALL NEWS
MLB ROUND-UP
Kyle Schwarber and Trea Turner each hit home runs as the Philadelphia Phillies won a 16-9 slugfest over the visiting Atlanta Braves in spring training action Thursday at Clearwater, Fla.
Bryson Stott and Max Kepler also hit home runs for the Phillies, while left-hander Cristopher Sanchez (1-0) picked up the win by allowing one run on three hits with five strikeouts over four innings.
The Phillies had a 9-1 lead after three innings in an early stretch that included Turner’s first home run of the spring and the first from Schwarber, a three-run shot in the second.
Conner Capel drove in a pair of runs for the Braves, while Cody Milligan also had two RBIs off the bench. Atlanta right-hander Anderson Pilar (0-1) was rocked for seven runs on four hits with three walks while recording just three outs.
Astros 10, Marlins 5
Cesar Salazar hit a grand slam and drove in five runs while Brendan Rodgers had a three-run double among his two hits and finished with four RBIs as visiting Houston got past Miami at Jupiter, Fla.
Rodgers’ three-run double and Salazar’s grand slam came in an eight-run first inning for the Astros. Houston right-hander Ronel Blanco (1-1) was far from sharp, allowing five runs (four earned) on seven hits over 3 2/3 innings.
Eric Wagaman hit a home run and Jesus Sanchez had two hits with an RBI for the Marlins, who saw Edward Cabrera and Joseph Bierman combine to give up the Astros’ eight first-inning runs. Cabrera (0-2) gave up three runs without recording an out.
Red Sox 3, Mets 2
David Hamilton opened the game with a home run and had two hits and left-hander Sean Newcomb (1-0) went three scoreless innings as visiting Boston defeated New York at Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Romy Gonzalez also had two hits for the Red Sox while scoring the deciding run when he stole third base and came home on an error by catcher Chris Williams.
Nick Roselli’s single in the eighth inning brought home two runs for the Mets, who saw starter David Peterson (1-1) last 3 2/3 innings with one of his two runs unearned after an error by Brett Baty.
Blue Jays 6, Orioles 4
Daulton Varsho hit a home run and drove in three runs, while Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had two hits with an RBI as Toronto defeated visiting Baltimore at Dunedin, Fla.
Varsho’s home run came in a four-run fifth inning when Guerrero and Bo Bichette added RBI singles. Left-handed swingman Ryan Yarbrough (2-0) went two perfect innings for Toronto.
Nick Gordon and Vimael Machin each had RBI doubles for the Orioles, while left-hander Cade Povich (1-1) was roughed up for five runs on eight hits over 4 2/3 innings.
Yankees 8, Tigers 6
Jasson Dominguez and Paul Goldschmidt each hit home runs as New York scored seven runs over the fourth and fifth innings and held on for the victory over host Detroit at Lakeland, Fla.
Goldschmidt had two hits with four RBIs and left-hander Max Fried (1-0) gave up one run on four hits with no walks and three strikeouts.
Gleyber Torres had a home run among his two hits for the Tigers against his former team, while right-hander Jackson Jobe (1-1) gave up three runs (two earned) over 3 2/3 innings with three strikeouts.
Twins 15, Pirates 3
Jose Miranda had three hits with four RBIs and Edouard Julien added three hits with three RBIs as visiting Minnesota turned a nine-run sixth inning into the victory over Pittsburgh at Fort Myers, Fla.
DaShawn Keirsey Jr. had two hits with two RBIs for the Twins, while starter Bailey Ober (2-0) allowed three hits over five scoreless innings.
Darick Hall and Matt Gorski each hit ninth-inning home runs for the Pirates, while right-hander Jared Jones (0-1) gave up one run over 4 1/3 innings with four strikeouts.
Rays 14, Nationals 4
Coco Montes hit a grand slam and Brandon Lowe added a home run as Tampa Bay scored five runs in the fourth inning and seven in the fifth to rout visiting Washington at Port Charlotte, Fla.
Taylor Walls had a three-run double for the Rays, while Shane Baz (1-0) picked up the win despite giving up four runs on five hits over 4 1/3 innings.
James Wood and CJ Abrams each hit home runs for the Nationals for an early 4-0 lead before the game got away. Washington left-hander DJ Herz opened by allowing one run over three innings, before right-hander Brad Lord (0-1) was roughed up for eight runs on seven hits and two walks over two-thirds of an inning.
Cardinals 1, Astros 1
Lars Nootbaar had an RBI triple and left-hander Steven Matz gave up one run over 4 2/3 innings as visiting St. Louis played Houston’s split squad to the tie at West Palm Beach, Fla.
Yordan Alvarez had an RBI single and right-hander Spencer Arrighetti gave up one run over three innings for the Astros.
Right-hander AJ Blubaugh went three scoreless innings in relief for Houston, while Kyle Leahy went two scoreless innings in relief for St. Louis.
Royals 6, Padres 5
Joey Weimer started a four-run rally in the ninth inning with a three-run homer and Kansas City scored the game-winning run on an error to slip past visiting San Diego at Surprise, Ariz.
Harold Castro had two hits while starter Daniel Lynch IV gave up three runs on five hits over a four-inning start.
Mason McCoy hit a home run and Luis Arraez had two hits with two RBIs for San Diego, who leaned into two pitchers for the majority of the game. Right-handers Yu Darvish and Stephen Kolek each gave up one run over four innings.
Rockies 6, Guardians 4
Jacob Stallings hit two home runs and drove in four runs while Jordan Beck added a homer as Colorado held on to defeat visiting Cleveland at Scottsdale, Ariz.
Nick Martini had three hits, while top pitching prospect Chase Dollander (1-2) gave up two hits over four scoreless innings.
Dom Nunez hit a two-run home run in the ninth inning after Jhonkensy Noel had a two-run single as the Guardians’ late rally fell short. Luis Ortiz (0-3) gave up four runs over 3 2/3 innings.
Rangers 7, Giants 3
Adolis Garcia and Alejandro Osuna each hit home runs and starter Patrick Murphy went three scoreless innings as visiting Texas defeated San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz.
Wyatt Langford and Nick Ahmed each had two hits for the Rangers, who overcame a 2-1 deficit with six runs over the final five innings.
Patrick Bailey had a two-run double for the Giants, while starter Robbie Ray gave up two runs on three hits with eight strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings.
Athletics 12, Reds 1
The visiting A’s got their offense going late and could not stop with 11 runs in the ninth inning to roll past Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz.
Alejo Lopez, Jhonny Pereda and Jared Dickey each delivered run-scoring doubles in the ninth for the A’s, who received a strong 5 1/3 innings from left-hander JP Sears (one run on four hits, three strikeouts).
Jeimer Candelario had an RBI single for the Reds, who were otherwise held in check on offense with five hits. Left-hander Nick Lodolo had six strikeouts over four scoreless innings.
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INDIANA MEN’S BASKETBALL
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jackson Shelstad had 18 points and TJ Bamba scored 17 to help No. 23 Oregon pull away late for a 72-59 victory over Indiana in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday.
The Ducks (24-8) head into Friday’s quarterfinal round against No. 7 Michigan State, the Big Ten regular-season champs, riding an eight-game winning streak.
Indiana (19-13) lost to Oregon for the second time in nine days and now must wait until Sunday to see if it makes the 68-team NCAA Tournament field.
Malik Reneau scored 19 points to lead the Hoosiers, while Trey Galloway added 15 points and nine assists.
Oregon took control by scoring the final 10 points of the first half, giving it a 37-29 lead and sealed the victory with a late 9-0 run to take a 65-56 lead. Indiana couldn’t recover from either spurt.
Takeaways
Indiana: The Hoosiers may have done enough to make the tourney field. The question is whether they’ll avoid a First Four game in Dayton, Ohio. They have no control over that now.
Oregon: The Ducks didn’t earn a lot of style points, but they did advance to Friday’s quarterfinal round — and in March, that’s all that matters.
Key moment
After the Hoosiers cut the deficit to 56-54 with 7:32 to play, Indiana was held scoreless for the next 5:28.
Key stat
Indiana was 5 of 10 at the free-throw line and Oregon made eight 3-pointers compared with only four for the Hoosiers.
Up next
Oregon will try to get even with the Spartans after losing 86-74 in East Lansing, Michigan, on Feb. 8.
PURDUE MEN’S BASKETBALL
#20 Purdue 76, USC 71 (Postgame Notes)
No. 20-ranked and sixth-seeded Purdue advanced to Friday’s Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals with a 76-71 win over USC on Thursday night.
The win improved Purdue’s record to 22-10 overall. The win was Purdue’s ninth victory in its last 11 games in Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Purdue improved to 1-0 all-time in the tournament’s second round. The Boilermakers will carry a 10-9 record in the quarterfinals into Friday’s tilt with Michigan.
Purdue has won seven of its last nine games in the Big Ten Tournament, dating to the 2022 tournament here in Indianapolis.
The win was Purdue’s 16th quad-1 or quad-2 victory, tied for the sixth most in the country.
Purdue has now won 114 games in the last four seasons (since 2021-22), tied for the seventh most by a senior class in Big Ten history. A win over Michigan would tie the class for the fourth-most victories by a class in league history.
Purdue went 9-of-23 from 3-point range, and is now 69-of-161 (.429) from 3-point range in the last seven games.
Purdue had nine turnovers in the first half, but just one in the second half.
Purdue’s bench had 19 points, going 7-of-15 from the field and 5-of-10 from 3-point range with three turnovers.
Trey Kaufman-Renn tied a career high with 30 points and had seven rebounds and two assists. Kaufman-Renn is now 21st on the single-season points scored list with 642 points.
Kaufman-Renn is now averaging 20.1 points per game on the season.
Braden Smith scored 12 points with nine assists, three rebounds and a steal. Smith now has 518 points, 281 assists, 148 rebounds and 73 steals. He needs two rebounds and two steals to become the second player in NCAA history (Georgia Tech’s Kenny Anderson, 1989-90) to have at least 500 points, 275 assists, 150 rebounds and 75 steals in a season.
Smith has 726 assists in his career, needing just five assists to move into the top five in career assists by a Big Ten player. His 726 assists are the seventh most by a player in NCAA history through the end of his junior season.
Kaufman-Renn and Smith are the first Purdue teammates to each have at least two 30-point games in the same season.
Camden Heide had nine points (3-of-3 from 3-point range) with a career-high 11 rebounds in 30 minutes of action.
INDIANAPOLIS — Trey Kaufman-Renn matched a career high with 30 points, including the go-ahead free throws with 28 seconds left, and No. 20 Purdue scored the final five points to beat Southern California 76-71 on Thursday night in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament.
The sixth-seeded Boilermakers (22-10) trailed by 10 points in the first half, but they tied it by halftime and emerged from a back-and-forth second half thanks largely to Kaufman-Renn, who finished 12 of 20 from the field and 6 of 11 from the free-throw line.
Purdue advanced to face No. 22 and second-seeded Michigan in Friday’s quarterfinals. The teams split this season, with each winning at home.
With USC (16-17) trailing by three in the closing seconds, Desmond Claude turned the ball over before the Trojans could attempt a tying 3-pointer. Big Ten Player of the Year Braden Smith made two free throws to finish the scoring with 3.6 seconds remaining. Smith had 12 points on 3-of-10 shooting and nine assists.
Claude led the Trojans with 18 points. Wesley Yates added 13.
Takeaways
USC: The Trojans have the athletic skill and length to match up with most teams and pushed Purdue despite having played a double-overtime game the night before. On talent alone, this team should get an NIT bid.
Purdue: Despite struggling to defend taller, quicker players in the backcourt, the Boilermakers did just enough in the final moments. They had lost five of their previous seven.
Key moment
Kaufman-Renn made a layup with 5:14 left to tie the game at 67-all, and Purdue never trailed gain.
BUTLER MEN’S BASKETBALL
Top-seeded St. John’s posted a 78-57 win over Butler Thursday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the BIG EAST Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
With the win, the Red Storm (28-4) advance to Friday’s semifinals and will meet either Marquette or Xavier. St. John’s is ranked No. 5 and No. 6, respectively, in this week’s national polls.
Butler is 14-19 on the season.
OF NOTE:
After Butler cut the Red Storm lead to eight (39-31) with 18:16 remaining in the contest, St. John’s scored 14 of the next 15 points to take a commanding 53-32 advantage with 13:59 to play.
BIG EAST Player of the Year RJ Luis Jr. led St. John’s with 20 points; Kadary Richmond and Aaron Scott each scored 15.
Butler was led Patrick McCaffery, who hit four three-pointers on his way to 16 points; Jahmyl Telfort scored 11 points, while Finley Bizjack added 10 points.
The St. John’s defense held Butler to 35-percent shooting and forced 15 turnovers. The Red Storm converted those turnovers into 24 points.
St. John’s shot 47 percent from the field and had 44 points in the paint.
St. John’s held a 44-35 rebounding advantage, led by eight from Richmond.
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“SPORTS EXTRA”
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
1954 Hank Aaron, filling in for Bobby Thomson, who broke his ankle yesterday, starts his first game wearing a Braves uniform. The 20-year-old from Mobile (AL) makes such an impression the club offers him a major league contract after he collects three hits, including a home run, in the spring training game against the Red Sox.
1961 The Mets lure former Yankee general manager George Weiss out of retirement to become the club’s first president, reportedly offering the four-time The Sporting News Executive of the Year a five-year deal at $100,000 annually. During the 67-year-old New Haven native’s five years in the post, the expansion team will compile a record of 260–547 (.322), finishing last four times.
1993 The Reds announce the prohibition of team president Marge Schott’s Saint Bernard from accessing the Riverfront Stadium field for the season. The mandate to ban Schottzie 02 comes from the MLB Executive Council, which has received numerous complaints from the players about dogs running on the field.
1995 The players’ union makes it clear that if the owners use replacement players during regular-season games and the results count, the strike will continue. The NLRB also announced that the board is considering charging MLB owners with two counts of unfair labor practices.
2003 Cablevision, maintaining its “long-standing philosophy,” of allowing customers to choose to receive paid programming, agrees to a one-year interim deal to offer YES Network to New York Yankees fans for a fee, ending a bitter and costly yearlong feud. The arrangement makes YES a premium channel instead of a basic cable channel, dropping the new network’s previous mandate to make every subscriber pay for it regardless of the viewer’s choice.
2003 Baseball suspends Montreal outfielder Vladimir Guerrero for three regular-season games and Marlin starter Brad Penny for five after igniting an exhibition game bench-clearing brawl earlier in the week. After being hit in the chest, the Expo All-Star, with a bat in his left hand, swings his right fist around Florida catcher Matt Treanor, trying to restrain him, missing the starting pitcher, who retaliated with a punch that also missed its mark.
2003 “Must be in the front row!”- BOB UECKER, a quip from beer commercials that have become a famous cry in ballparks nationwide. Bob Uecker, the Brewers’ TV/radio play-by-play announcer, is chosen for induction into the broadcasters’ wing of the Hall of Fame as the Ford C. Frick Award recipient. The 68-year-old former backup catcher, a member of Milwaukee’s broadcast crew since 1971, is best known for the humor he has brought to the game through his starring role in the cult movie Major League and the Miller Lite beer commercials.
2003 Dependent on passing a physical, free agent Kenny Lofton agrees to a one-year pact to play with the Pirates this season. The 35-year-old leadoff man would likely start in center, moving Brian Giles to left with left fielder Reggie Sanders going to right field.
2006 Avoiding a trial scheduled to begin on Opening Day, Major League Baseball settles a lawsuit with an Atlanta-based company claiming it owned the trademark rights to Washington Nationals. MLB sued Bygone Sports LLC, asking the court to declare that the trademark for the name Nationals does not belong to the company because its sole purpose in filing the September 2002 trademark application was to capitalize on the renaming of the team that recently shifted from Montreal to Washington.
2006 Terry Francona agrees to a two-year contract extension, keeping the skipper at the helm through 2008. The Red Sox manager replaced Grady Little in December 2003 and promptly brought Boston to its first World Championship in 86 years.
2006 Washington, D.C. officials unveil the design for the Nationals’ new home, scheduled to be opened in 2008. The glass-and-steel 41,000-seat ballpark will feature pale stone chosen to complement the nation’s capital’s familiar skyline.
2008 The Padres’ new left-hander starter, Randy Wolf, struggles in a 6-2 spring training exhibition loss to the Brewers in Peoria, Arizona. The pitcher’s brother, Jim, is little help as the home plate umpire, an occurrence not allowed during a regular-season game and marking the only time it has ever happened when the San Diego hurler gives up three runs in four innings.
TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
March 18
1945 — Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a season during a 4-2 triumph over the Boston Bruins in the final game of the season.
1950 — CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship.
1953 — Don Schlundt scores 30 points to lead Indiana to a 69-68 victory over Kansas for the NCAA basketball championship.
1990 — Jeff Fryer’s 41 points leads Loyola Marymount to a 149-115 victory over defending national champion Michigan in the highest-scoring game in NCAA tournament history.
1993 — Santa Clara beats Arizona 64-61 to become the second 15th-seeded team to win a first-round game in the NCAA tournament.
1995 — Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement.
2001 — Indiana’s Reggie Miller becomes the first player in NBA history to accumulate 2,000 3-pointers after hitting four in a 101-95 win over Sacramento.
2008 — The Houston Rockets’ 22-game winning streak comes to an end. Kevin Garnett scores 22 points and Paul Pierce adds 20 as the Celtics beat the Rockets 94-74, stopping Houston’s remarkable run.
2009 — New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur breaks Patrick Roy’s NHL record for career wins by a goaltender. Brodeur records his 552nd win in a 3-2 decision over the Chicago Blackhawks.
2013 — LeBron James and the Miami Heat escape Boston with their 23rd win in a row, the second longest win streak in NBA history. James scores 37 points and makes the go-ahead basket with 10.5 seconds left in Miami’s 105-103 victory.
2015 — Lindsey Vonn wins the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time, winning the last race in the discipline at the World Cup finals in Meribel, France.
2016 — Middle Tennessee State sends a big shock through the men’s NCAA Tournament, topping second-seeded Michigan State 90-81 in the first round. Middle Tennessee never trails the Spartans (29-6) in one of the biggest upsets since the tournament began seeding teams in 1985.
2016 — Thomas Walkup scores 33 points and 14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin takes down West Virginia’s full-court pressure with some of its own in-your-face defense, pulling off a 70-56 first-round upset of the third-seeded Mountaineers in the NCAA Tournament.
2017 — Kalani Brown scores 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelms much smaller Texas Southern 119-30, the most lopsided women’s NCAA Tournament game. The 89-point margin breaks the previous record 74-point win by Tennessee over North Carolina A&T (111-37) in 1994. Baylor’s 119 points are the most scored in regulation of a women’s NCAA Tournament game, surpassing the previous record 116.
2017 — Texas A&M pulls off the biggest comeback in women’s NCAA Tournament history, rallying from a 21-point deficit for a 63-61 victory over Penn to close out the first round of the NCAAs. The fifth-seeded Aggies finish the game on a 25-1 run to beat the 12th-seeded Quakers.
2018 — Tennessee loses for the first time at home in women’s NCAA Tournament history. Marie Gulich has 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead sixth-seed Oregon State to a 66-59 win. The third-seeded Lady Vols had been 57-0 at home, with most of those victories coming under late Hall of Fame coach Pat Summitt.
2019 — 40-year old Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki overtakes Wilt Chamberlain to go 6th with 31,424 points on the NBA scorers’ list; Mavs suffer 129-125 OT loss to New Orleans Pelicans.
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March 19
1942 — The Thoroughbred Racing Associations of the United States is formed, with John C. Clark president.
1950 — Babe Didrikson Zaharias shoots a record 298 and beats Clair Doran by eight strokes to capture the U.S. Women’s Open.
1950 — The Rochester Royals win their 15th consecutive game, 97-66 over the Baltimore Bullets to set an NBA record for consecutive victories to close a season.
1955 — San Francisco wins the NCAA basketball championship with a 77-63 victory over La Salle.
1955 — Dick Ricketts and Si Green combine for 56 points to lead Duquesne to a 70-58 triumph over Dayton in the NIT championship.
1956 — The Minneapolis Lakers defeat the St. Louis Hawks 133-75 for the biggest rout in NBA playoff history.
1960 — Ohio State wins the NCAA basketball title with a 75-55 victory against California.
1960 — Mach Herndon’s 26 points leads Bradley to a 88-72 triumph over Providence for the NIT title. Lenny Wilkens scores 25 points for the Friars.
1966 — Texas Western, starting five black players, wins the NCAA basketball championship with a 72-65 upset of all-white Kentucky.
1966 — BYU beats New York University 97-84 for the NIT championship.
1972 — The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women holds its first basketball championship and Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48.
1972 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Golden State Warriors 162-99 for the most lopsided victory in NBA history.
1987 — Bonnie Blair skates ladies’ world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
1994 — Hartford’s Brian Propp reaches the 1,000-point mark with a goal in a 5-3 win over Philadelphia.
1995 — Chicago’s Michael Jordan returns from his 17-month retirement. Wearing No. 45, he shoots 7-of-28 from the field and scores 19 points in the Bulls’ 103-96 overtime loss at Indiana.
1998 — The U.S. women’s soccer team sustains the worst loss in its 13-year history, falling 4-1 to reigning World Cup champion Norway in the Algarve Cup.
2006 — Tennessee’s Candace Parker is the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game, jamming one-handed on a breakaway 6:12 into the second-seeded Lady Vols’ 102-54 victory against an Army team that was making its NCAA tournament debut.
2011 — Duke gives coach Mike Krzyzewski his 900th career victory, a 73-71 win over Michigan, and the Blue Devils advance to the round of 16 for the 12th time in 14 years.
2014 — Chris Eversley scores 19 points to help Cal Poly become the first team in 59 years with 19 losses to win an NCAA Tournament game, beating Texas Southern 81-69 on in the First Four.
2015 — Lindsey Vonn wins the final super-G of the season and with it her 19th crystal globe trophy — equaling the record of Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.
2015 — R.J. Hunter’s 3-pointer with 2.7 seconds remaining caps a comeback from a 12-point deficit and lifts 14th-seeded Georgia State over third-seeded Baylor 57-56 in the NCAA Tournament.
2015 — William Lee scores the last four points for 14th-seeded UAB in its 60-59 upset of Iowa State.
2019 — Houston Rockets guard James Harden becomes first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 opponents in a single season with 31 in a 121-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks.
2022 — LeBron James moves past Karl Malone (36,909) into second on NBA’s all-time scoring list with 38 points in LA Lakers’ 127-119 loss to Washington Wizards.
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March 20
1897 — Yale beats Penn 32-10 in New Haven, Conn., in the first men’s intercollegiate basketball game.
1918 — The Toronto Arenas (who would become the Maple Leafs) are the first NHL team to play in the Stanley Cup Final. Toronto’s Reg Noble scores two goals with an assist in the first period of a 5-3 win over Vancouver of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association.
1939 — In a game of unbeaten teams, Long Island U. defeats Loyola of Chicago 44-32 to win the National Invitation Tournament title.
1954 — In the first televised NCAA championship game, La Salle defeats Bradley 92-76 and sets a record for most points in the title game.
1965 — Gail Goodrich’s 42 points lead UCLA to a 91-80 victory over Michigan in the NCAA basketball championship.
1965 — St. John’s sends Joe Lapchick out a winner, as the Redmen beat Villanova 55-51 to win their fifth National Invitation Tournament championship.
1965 — Bill Bradley scores 58 points to lead Princeton to a 118-82 rout of Wichita State in the NCAA third-place game. UCLA beats Michigan 91-80 to win its second National championship.
1968 — Dave Bing of the Detroit Pistons finishes the season with a league-leading 27.1 average, becoming the first guard in 20 years to lead the NBA in scoring.
1969 — Less than two months after she becomes the first woman to ride in a pari-mutuel race in America, Diane Crump rides her first winner at Gulfstream Park.
1976 — Boston’s John Havlicek becomes the first NBA player to score more than 1,000 points per season for 14 consecutive years.
1988 — Mike Tyson knocks out Tony Tubbs in the second round to retain his world heavyweight title in Tokyo.
2005 — Liz Johnson becomes the first woman to advance to the championship match of a Professional Bowlers Association tour event, but loses by 27 pins to Tommy Jones in the final of the PBA Banquet Open.
2005 — LeBron James, 20, becomes the youngest player to score 50 points in an NBA game, when he scores 56 in the Cavaliers’ 105-98 loss to the Raptors.
2006 — Japan beats Cuba 10-6 in the title game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic.
2010 — Northern Iowa pulls off one of the biggest NCAA upsets in years by knocking No. 1 overall seed Kansas with a 69-67 win. Ali Farokhmanesh buries an open 3-pointer with the shot clock still in the 30s to give the Panthers a four-point lead with 35 seconds left.
2014 — Bernard Tomic loses the shortest completed ATP match on record, lasting only 28 minutes at the Sony Open in his first tournament since having surgery on both hips. Ending a two-month layoff, Tomic wins just 13 points and loses to Jarkko Nieminen 6-0, 6-1. It’s the quickest match since the ATP started keeping such records in 1991.
2020 — After 20 years with the New England Patriots, six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady officially agrees to move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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| Liga MX: Necaxa vs León | 9:00pm | VIX |
| Liga MX: Querétaro vs Mazatlán | 9:00pm | VIX |
| Liga MX: Puebla vs Toluca | 11:05pm | VIX |
TV SPORTS SATURDAY
| NBA REGULAR SEASON | TIME ET | TV |
| Boston Celtics vs Brooklyn Nets | 6:00 pm | YES NBCS-BOS |
| Oklahoma City Thunder vs Detroit Pistons | 7:00pm | FanDuel Sports DET FanDuel Sports OKC |
| Chicago Bulls vs Houston Rockets | 8:00pm | CHSN SCHN |
| Indiana Pacers vs Milwaukee Bucks | 8:00pm | FanDuel Sports WIS FanDuel Sports IND |
| Miami Heat vs Memphis Grizzlies | 8:00 PM | FanDuel Sports MEM FanDuel Sports Sun |
| New Orleans Pelicans vs San Antonio Spurs | 8:30pm | GCSN KENS |
| New York Knicks vs Golden State Warriors | 8:30pm | ABC ESPN+ |
| Washington Wizards vs Denver Nuggets | 9:00pm | MNMT ALT |
| NHL REGULAR SEASON | TIME ET | TV |
| Vegas Golden Knights vs Buffalo Sabres | 12:30pm | ESPN+ Scripps MSG-BUF |
| New Jersey Devils vs Pittsburgh Penguins | 3:00pm | ABC ESPN+ |
| Washington Capitals vs San Jose Sharks | 5:00pm | ESPN+ MNMT NBCS-CA |
| Tampa Bay Lightning vs Boston Bruins | 7:00pm | ESPN+ NESN FanDuel Sports Sun |
| New York Rangers vs Columbus Blue Jackets | 7:00pm | ESPN+ MSG FanDuel Sports Ohio |
| Carolina Hurricanes vs Philadelphia Flyers | 7:00pm | ESPN+ NBCS-PHI FanDuel Sports South |
| Ottawa Senators vs Toronto Maple Leafs | 7:00pm | ESPN+ Sportsnet |
| Nashville Predators vs Los Angeles Kings | 8:00pm | ESPN+ KCAL Fanduel Sports South |
| St. Louis Blues vs Minnesota Wild | 8:00pm | ESPN+ Fanduel Sports North Fanduel Sports South |
| Chicago Blackhawks vs Vancouver Canucks | 10:00pm | ESPN+ CHSN Sportsnet |
| MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL | TIME ET | TV |
| America East Championship | 11:00am | ESPN2 |
| Ivy League Semifinal | 11:00am | ESPNU |
| Big Ten Semifinal | 1:00pm | CBS |
| SEC Semifinal | 1:00pm | ESPN |
| MEAC Championship | 1:00pm | ESPN2 |
| Atlantic 10 Semifinal | 1:00pm | CBSSN |
| Ivy League Semifinal | 2:00pm | ESPNews |
| SEC Semifinal | 3:00pm | ESPN |
| American Semifinal | 3:00pm | ESPN2 |
| Big Ten Semifinal | 3:30pm | CBS |
| Atlantic 10 Semifinal | 3:30pm | CBSSN |
| American Semifinal | 5:30pm | ESPN2 |
| Mountain West Championship | 6:00pm | CBS |
| Georgetown at DePaul | 6:00pm | ESPN |
| Big 12 Championship | 6:30pm | FOX |
| Big East Championship | 2:00pm | SECN |
| MAAC Championship | 7:30pm | ESPN |
| MAC Championship | 7:40pm | ESPN2 |
| ACC Championship | 8:30pm | ESPN |
| Conference USA Championship | 8:30pm | CBSSN |
| SWAC Championship | 9:30pm | ESPNU |
| Big West Championship | 9:40pm | ESPN2 |
| WAC Championship | 11:40pm | ESPN2 |
| MOTORSPORTS | TIME ET | TV |
| Xfinity: The LiUNA! | 4:30pm | CW |
| GOLF | TIME ET | TV |
| PGA Tour: The Players Championship | 2:00pm | NBC |
| RUGBY | TIME ET | TV |
| Six Nations: Italy vs. Ireland | 12:00pm | NBC |
| SOCCER | TIME ET | TV |
| EPL: Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City | 7:30am | USA Peacock fuboTV |
| La Liga: Real Valladolid vs Celta de Vigo | 8:00am | ESPN+ fuboTV |
| Serie A: Monza vs Parma | 9:00am | Paramount+ fuboTV |
| Serie A: Udinese vs Hellas Verona | 9:00am | Paramount+ fuboTV |
| Bundesliga: Augsburg vs Wolfsburg | 9:30am | ESPN+ |
| Bundesliga: Mainz 05 vs Freiburg | 9:30am | ESPN+ |
| Bundesliga: Werder Bremen vs Borussia M’gladbach | 9:30am | ESPN+ |
| Bundesliga: Union Berlin vs Bayern München | 9:30am | ESPN+ |
| EPL: Everton vs West Ham United | 10:00am | USA Peacock fuboTV |
| EPL: Ipswich Town vs Nottingham Forest | 10:00am | Peacock |
| EPL: Manchester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion | 10:00am | Peacock |
| EPL: Southampton vs Wolverhampton Wanderers | 10:00am | Peacock |
| La Liga: Mallorca vs Espanyol | 10:15am | ESPN+ fuboTV |
| Ligue 1: Nantes vs Lille | 11:00am | Fanatiz beIN Sports |
| Serie A: Milan vs Como | 12:00pm | Paramount+ fuboTV |
| La Liga: Villarreal vs Real Madrid | 12:30pm | ESPN+ fuboTV |
| EPL: AFC Bournemouth vs Brentford | 12:30pm | USA Peacock |
| Bundesliga: RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund | 12:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Ligue 1: Angers SCO vs Monaco | 1:00pm | Fanatiz beIN Sports |
| MLS: New York RB vs Orlando City SC | 2:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| MLS: Toronto FC vs Chicago Fire | 2:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| Serie A: Torino vs Empoli | 2:45pm | Paramount+ fuboTV |
| La Liga: Girona vs Valencia | 3:00pm | ESPN+ fuboTV |
| Ligue 1: Lens vs Rennes | 3:05pm | Fanatiz beIN Sports |
| MLS: Los Angeles FC vs Austin | 3:45pm | FOX MLS Season Pass |
| NWSL: Kansas City Current vs Portland Thorns | 12:45pm | ABC ESPN+ |
| Liga MX: Tigres UANL vs Santos Laguna | 6:00pm | fuboTV |
| MLS: Charlotte vs Cincinnati | 7:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| MLS: DC United vs CF Montréal | 7:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| MLS: New York City vs New England | 7:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| NWSL: Utah Royals vs Bay FC | 7:30pm | Tubi ION |
| Liga MX: Cruz Azul vs Atlético San Luis | 8:00pm | VIX |
| Liga MX: Juárez vs Guadalajara | 8:00pm | fuboTV |
| MLS: Sporting KC vs Minnesota United | 8:25pm | FS1 MLS Season Pass |
| MLS: Dallas vs Vancouver Whitecaps | 8:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| MLS: Houston Dynamo vs Real Salt Lake | 8:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| MLS: St. Louis City vs Seattle Sounders FC | 8:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| NWSL: Seattle Reign vs NJ/NY Gotham FC | 10:00pm | Tubi ION |
| Liga MX: Atlas vs América | 10:05pm | VIX |
| MLS: San Diego vs Columbus Crew | 10:30pm | MLS Season Pass |
| MLS: SJ Earthquakes vs Colorado Rapids | 10:30pm | MLS Season Pass |