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“THE SCOREBOARD”

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ADAMS CENTRAL	74	LAKEWOOD PARK	53
ANDERSON PREP	73	SOUTHWESTERN (SHELBYVILLE)	43
BEN DAVIS	63	INDIANAPOLIS TECH	51
BENTON CENTRAL	67	LOGANSPORT	63
BETHANY CHRISTIAN	40	FREMONT	35
BLOOMFIELD	54	BARR-REEVE	53
BREBEUF JESUIT	58	INDIANAPOLIS RONCALLI	52
BREMEN	62	CULVER	19
BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL	59	ORLEANS	56
CALUMET	73	HIGHLAND	50
CARROLL (FLORA)	73	EASTERN (GREENTOWN)	50
CENTERVILLE	75	CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN	46
CHESTERTON	52	CULVER ACADEMY	40
CHRISTIAN ACADEMY	69	NORTH HARRISON	53
CHURUBUSCO	55	EASTSIDE	36
CLAY CITY	90	RIVERTON PARKE	38
CLINTON PRAIRIE	76	NORTH NEWTON	17
COLUMBIA CITY	63	FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA	48
CONCORD	56	WESTVIEW	45
COVINGTON	57	CRAWFORDSVILLE	51
COWAN	71	SOUTHERN WELLS	61
DALEVILLE	71	MADISON-GRANT	65	OT
DANVILLE	66	BELIEVE CIRCLE CITY	28
DELPHI	65	FRANKFORT	40
EAST CENTRAL	45	GREENSBURG	29
EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL	66	GRIFFITH	61
EAST NOBLE	57	WAWASEE	43
EASTBROOK	49	SOUTH ADAMS	33
EASTERN HANCOCK	57	HAGERSTOWN	49
ELKHART CHRISTIAN	54	ARGOS	50	OT
EVANSVILLE CENTRAL	57	LINTON	44
EVANSVILLE DAY	63	DUGGER UNION	33
EVANSVILLE HARRISON	67	NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG)	48
EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL	65	WASHINGTON	54
EVANSVILLE REITZ	53	EVANSVILLE BOSSE	52
FAIRFIELD	45	CENTRAL NOBLE	33
FORT WAYNE LUERS	70	CARROLL (FORT WAYNE)	48
FORT WAYNE SNIDER	79	MARION	73
FRANKLIN CENTRAL	65	INDIANAPOLIS CHATARD	41
FRANKLIN	73	JENNINGS COUNTY	72
FRANKTON	64	BLUE RIVER	39
FRONTIER	61	CLINTON CENTRAL	42
GARRETT	70	WEST NOBLE	60
GOSHEN	65	JOHN GLENN	28
GREENCASTLE	66	NORTH MONTGOMERY	50
HAMMOND NOLL	63	BOWMAN ACADEMY	51
HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE)	79	LEBANON	50
HOMESTEAD	62	NORWELL	40
INDIAN CREEK	63	SOUTH PUTNAM	57
INDIANAPOLIS WASHINGTON	49	VICTORY COLLEGE PREP	23
JAY COUNTY	72	BELLMONT	46
JEFFERSONVILLE	62	CASTLE	53
KIPP INDY LEGACY	73	INDIANA MATH & SCIENCE	69
KANKAKEE VALLEY	50	NORTH JUDSON	31
KNIGHTSTOWN	69	SOUTH DECATUR	61
KOKOMO	65	HUNTINGTON NORTH	53
KOUTS	71	TRI-TOWNSHIP	21
LAKE CENTRAL	67	MCCUTCHEON	56
LAKELAND	45	ANGOLA	42
LEWIS CASS	46	LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC	38
MACONAQUAH	82	ROCHESTER	61
MADISON	68	SWITZERLAND COUNTY	54
MANCHESTER	61	MISSISSINEWA	46
MILAN	75	UNION COUNTY	38
MISHAWAKA MARIAN	71	LAPORTE	43
MITCHELL	69	SCOTTSBURG	61
MONROE CENTRAL	79	RANDOLPH SOUTHERN	57
MORRISTOWN	65	ELWOOD	45
MOUNT VERNON (FORTVILLE)	51	YORKTOWN	38
MUNCIE CENTRAL	60	NEW CASTLE	57
MUNSTER	75	WHITING	21
NEW ALBANY	86	BLOOMINGTON NORTH	68
NORTHWOOD	55	ELKHART	20
NORTHEAST DUBOIS	49	EVANSVILLE MATER DEI	45
NORTHEASTERN	56	CONNERSVILLE	42
NORTHRIDGE	52	DEKALB	31
OAK HILL	58	DELTA	50
PAOLI	64	CRAWFORD COUNTY	35
PARK TUDOR	76	PHALEN ACADEMY	47
PARKE HERITAGE	52	TERRE HAUTE SOUTH	49
PENN	48	MERRILLVILLE	47
PERU	79	WABASH	35
PORTAGE	86	HAMMOND MORTON	65
PRAIRIE HEIGHTS	65	HAMILTON	44
PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY	80	INDIANAPOLIS HERRON	59
RISING SUN	75	SHAWE MEMORIAL	39
ROCK CREEK ACADEMY	64	CLARKSVILLE	39
SEEGER	69	NORTH VERMILLION	54
SEYMOUR	57	SILVER CREEK	54
SHERIDAN	67	WALDRON	45
SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH	90	MISHAWAKA	59
SOUTH CENTRAL (ELIZABETH)	83	EASTERN (PEKIN)	81
SOUTH DEARBORN	80	NEW WASHINGTON	61
SOUTH NEWTON	55	ATTICA	52
SOUTH RIPLEY	54	JAC-CEN-DEL	38
SOUTHWOOD	61	BLUFFTON	40
TERRE HAUTE NORTH	62	EVANSVILLE NORTH	53
TIPPECANOE VALLEY	60	SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON	57
TRI-CENTRAL	44	NORTHFIELD	30
TRI-COUNTY	46	PIONEER	40
TRI-WEST	73	INDIANAPOLIS RITTER	66
TRITON CENTRAL	46	SPEEDWAY	44
TRITON	55	KNOX	26
VALPARAISO	50	HAMMOND CENTRAL	41
WAPAHANI	65	SHENANDOAH	45
WASHINGTON TWP.	50	TRINITY GREENLAWN	40
WEST CENTRAL	58	LAKE STATION	54
WEST WASHINGTON	67	SHOALS	52
WHITELAND	68	BEECH GROVE	37
WHITKO	57	LAKELAND CHRISTIAN	37

INDIANA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL STATE FINALS

SESSION 1

9:30 AM ET | PUBLIC GATES OPEN

10:30 AM ET | CLASS 1A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 
LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (25-4) VS. BORDEN (22-5)
PREVIEW | RECAP 

APPROX. 12:45 PM ET | CLASS 2A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
RENSSELAER CENTRAL (26-2) VS. SOUTH KNOX (27-2) 
PREVIEW | RECAP 

FIELDHOUSE CLEARED 

SESSION 2

5 PM ET | PUBLIC GATES OPEN

6 PM ET | CLASS 3A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
NORWELL (22-6) VS. GREENSBURG (27-0) 
PREVIEW | RECAP 

APPROX. 8:15 PM ET | CLASS 4A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 
WARSAW COMMUNITY (26-1) VS. LAWRENCE NORTH (18-8)
PREVIEW | RECAP 

INDIANA BOYS SWIMMING STATE FINALS

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

FRIDAY, FEB. 28, 2025
GATES OPEN AT 4:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM CT
6 PM ET / 5 PM CT | SWIMMING PRELIMINARIES PRELIMS RESULTS 

SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2025
GATES OPEN AT 7:30 AM ET / 6:30 AM CT 
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2025
GATES OPEN AT 7:30 AM ET / 6:30 AM CT 
9 AM ET / 8 AM CT | DIVING PRELIMINARIES, SEMIFINALS | DIVING ORDER
1 PM ET / 12 PM CT | CHAMPIONSHIP/CONSOLATION FINALS IN ALL SWIMMING EVENTS; DIVING FINALS | HEAT SHEETS 

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCOREBOARD

#20 PURDUE 76 UCLA 66

NORTHWESTERN  68 IOWA 57

AKRON 77 KENT STATE 72

UNLV 68 NEVADA 55

EASTERN MICHIGAN 84 CENTRAL 73

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCOREBOARD

NO GAMES SCHEDULED

NBA SCOREBOARD

DENVER 134 DETROIT 119

CLEVELAND 123 BOSTON 116

PORTLAND 121 BROOKLYN 102

OKLAHOMA CITY 135 ATLANTA 119

NEW YORK 114 MEMPHIS 113

CHICAGO 125 TORONTO 115 OT

MIAMI 125 INDIANA 120

PHOENIX 125 NEW ORLEANS 108

UTAH 117 MINNESOTA 116

LA LAKERS 106 LA CLIPPERS 102

NHL SCOREBOARD

TORONTO 3 NY RANGERS 2

DALLAS 6 LOS ANGELES 2

COLORADO 5 MINNESOTA 2

MLB SPRING TRAINING

PHILADELPHIA 7 BOSTON 5

BALTIMORE 13 MINNESOTA 10

HOUSTON 3 ST. LOUIS 2

PITTSBURGH 3 TAMPA BAY 2

TORONTO 10 DETROIT 7

NY METS 7 WASHINGTON 0

ATLANTA 7 MIAMI 2

CHICAGO CUBS 8 TEXAS 8

CLEVELAND 3 COLORADO 1

LAS VEGAS 13 CINCINNATI 1

SAN FRANCISCO 9 MILWAUKEE 2

ARIZONA 6 KANSAS CITY 1

LA ANGELS 3 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2

NY YANKEES 6 TORONTO 3

LA DODGERS 6 LA ANGELS 5

SEATTLE 2 SAN DIEGO 1

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

NO GAMES SCHEDULED

COLLEGE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

#18 MISSISSIPPI STATE 14 RICE 3

#10 VIRGINIA 11 DARTMOUTH 3

#6 GEORGIA 10 FLORIDA GULF COAST 9

#2 LSU 8 KANSAS STATE 5

#4 ARKANSAS 11 CHARLOTTE 10

#17 DUKE 14 NORTHWESTERN 5

#12 WAKE FOREST 3 PRINCETON 1

ORAL ROBERTS 7 #19 DALLAS BAPTIST 6

#5 NORTH CAROLINA 16 STONY BROOK 2

#3 TENNESSEE 5 OKLAHOMA STATE 2

#7 FLORIDA STATE 7 GEORGETOWN 2

#16 OKLAHOMA 9 CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE 0

#24 OLE MISS 9 WRIGHT STATE 1

#21 TROY 11 PENNSYLVANIA 1

#8 FLORIDA 6 MIAMI 2

#25 TCU 5 #22 SOUTHERN MISS 2

#13 CLEMSON 5 SOUTH CAROLINA 3

#20 UC SANTA BARBARA 3 FRESNO STATE 1

#11 OREGON 20 COLUMBIA 11

#9 OREGON STATE 4 BAYLOR 3

#14 VANDERBILT 8 UCLA 3

ARIZONA 3 #1 TEXAS A&M 2

#23 CINCINNATI 5 SAN DIEGO 2

#15 TEXAS 10 WASHINGTON 9

MARYLAND 17 PRINCETON 1

INDIANA 18 MOUNT ST. MARY’S 5

PENN STATE 17 RICHMOND 6

WASHINGTON 7 IOWA 4

AUBURN 13 OHIO STATE 0

COASTAL CAROLINA 10 RUTGERS 0

PURDUE 5 AKRON 0

TEXAS TECH 10 ILLINOIS 6

MICHIGAN STATE 14 HARVARD 1

INDIANA 8 STETSON 1

NEBRASKA 8 SAM HOUSTON 3

MINNESOTA 7 ARIZONA STATE 6

LONG BEACH STATE 6 MICHIGAN 3

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 8 CONNECTICUT 5

OHIO 13 BUTLER 9

MIAMI OHIO 7 NORTHERN KENTUCKY 1

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE 19 PURDUE FORT WAYNE 3

NORTHERN KENTUCKY 19 MIAMI OHIO 18

SOUTHERN INDIANA 8 BOWLING GREEN 7

WESTERN KENTUCKY 9 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 4

NORTHERN ILLINOIS 5 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS EDWARDSVILLE 4

TOLEDO 6 VCU 2

GEORGIA TECH 16 WESTERN MICHIGAN 4

EASTERN MICHIGAN 8 PRESBYTERIAN 2

KENT STATE 7 E. CAROLINA 6

WESTERN KENTUCKY 2 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 0

NORTHERN ILLINOIS 8 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS EDWARDSVILLE 4

BALL STATE 5 N. FLORIDA 1

NOTRE DAME 12 BELMONT 8

VALPARAISO 16 NIAGARA 11

EVANSVILLE 7 MISSOURI 6

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 16 SOUTHERN INDIANA 12

COLLEGE SOFTBALL SCOREBOARD

IDAHO STATE 3 #15 TEXAS TECH 2

#16 NEBRASKA 8 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 5

#22 FLORIDA ATLANTIC 10 MOREHEAD STATE 3

#15 TEXAS TECH 12 PRINCETON 0

#5 LSU 2 UTAH 0

#24 LIBERTY 10 DREXEL 4

#12 OKLAHOMA STATE 1 #16 NEBRASKA 0

#24 LIBERTY 6 GEORGETOWN 0

#22 FLORIDA ATLANTIC 11 NORTHERN KENTUCKY 2

#1 OKLAHOMA 9 MARSHALL 1

#10 FLORIDA STATE 10 FLORIDA GULF COAST 2

#18 VIRGINIA TECH 18 VILLANOVA 2

WEBER STATE 7 #20 SAN DIEGO STATE 6

#9 TENNESSEE 13 DELAWARE STATE 0

#5 LSU 10 NOTRE DAME 0

#14 GEORGIA 5 STETSON 2

#19 MISSISSIPPI STATE 17 ALABAMA STATE 2

#13 ARKANSAS 9 IOWA 0

#23 AUBURN 5 RUTGERS 0

#12 OKLAHOMA STATE 4 MISSOURI 3

#2 TEXAS 9 S. FLORIDA 5

#25 ALABAMA 15 ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM 1

GEORGIA TECH 5 #17 STANFORD 4

#1 OKLAHOMA 9 KANSAS 1

#10 FLORIDA STATE 14 MERCER 0

VILLANOVA 7 #18 VIRGINIA TECH 6

#3 FLORIDA 9 SAMFORD 1

#16 UCLA 16 UTAH 4

#9 TENNESSEE 8 INDIANA STATE 0

NOTRE DAME 5 #20 SAN DIEGO STATE 4

#21 SOUTH CAROLINA 14 #8 DUKE 7

#14 GEORGIA 10 MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY 2

#13 ARKANSAS 12 ILLINOIS 4

#11 OREGON 9 SAN DIEGO 5

#23 AUBURN 10 MCNEESE 6

#19 MISSISSIPPI STATE 6 NEW MEXICO 1

#2 TEXAS 9 ABILENE CHRISTIAN 1

#25 ALABAMA 12 BERMAN 2

#6 UCLA 6 CAL STATE FULLERTON 2

#7 ARIZONA 13 WEBER STATE 3

#4 TEXAS A&M 12 GEORGE WASHINGTON 0

#11 OREGON 9 PORTLAND STATE 1

#7 ARIZONA 12 CAL STATE FULLERTON 1

BETHUNE COOKMAN 2 BUTLER 0

BINGHAMTON 3 BUTLER 2

PENN STATE 18 ROBERT MORRIS 6

INDIANA 22 LAFAYETTE 0

CENTRAL MICHIGAN 4 NORTHWESTERN 2

OHIO STATE 9 STETSON 1

IOWA 8 MISSOURI STATE 0

WISCONSIN 5 CONNECTICUT 1

LOUISIANA 5 RUTGERS 0

PENN STATE 5 RADFORD 3

MICHIGAN 10 QUEENS 2

OHIO STATE 10 MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY 2

ILLINOIS 4 MISSOURI STATE 3

PURDUE 5 CENTRAL ARKANSAS 0

NORTHWESTERN 9 LONGWOOD 1

WISCONSIN 6 COASTAL CAROLINA 4

BELMONT 3 MARYLAND 0

MINNESOTA 3 NORTH DAKOTA STATE 1

MICHIGAN 5 NORTH CAROLINA STATE 3

MARYLAND 8 BELMONT 0

MINNESOTA 7 WAGNER 0

WASHINGTON 8 HOWARD 0

WASHINGTON 8 HAWAII 2

CHATTANOOGA 5 IU INDY 4

GARDNER WEBB 9 IU INDY 1

VALPARAISO 1 GREEN BAY 0

MIDDLE TENNESSEE 4 BALL STATE 3

ILLINOIS STATE 3 BALL STATE 0

TENNESSEE MARK 4 INDIANA STATE 1

EVANSVILLE 4 TENNESSEE TECH 0

ILLINOIS STATE 3 BALL STATE 0

VALPARAISO 1 GREEN BAY 0

MARIST 11 SOUTHERN INDIANA 0

SOUTHERN INDIANA 2 WINTHROP 1

LINDENWOOD 4 VALPARAISO 2

EVANSVILLE 7 KENTUCKY 5

COLLEGE MEN’S LAX SCORES

#4 NORTH CAROLINA 16 #13 PENN 8

#8 PRINCETON 15 #7 DUKE 14

#15 DENVER 18 MARIST 5

COLLEGE WOMEN’S LAX SCORES

#2 NORTH CAROLINA 20 LOUISVILLE 4

#19 DUKE 11 #17 NOTRE DAME 9

COLORADO 12 #21 ARMY 6

YOUNGSTOWN STATE 15 BUTLER 10

COLLEGE HOCKEY SCORES

#15 PENN STATE 4 #2 MINNESOTA 3 OT

#11 MICHIGAN 4 #8 OHIO STATE 3

#3 MICHIGAN STATE 5 NOTRE DAME 2

NATIONAL NEWS RELEASES

COLLEGE BASKETBALL NEWS

NCAA OFFICIAL: TOURNAMENT EXPANSION FOR MEN AND WOMEN UNLIKELY NEXT YEAR

The NCAA has not finalized expansion plans for the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and a decision is unlikely soon, NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt said in a CBS Sports interview.

The tournaments currently have 68 teams. There has been talk of increasing the fields to 72 or 76 teams.

Gavitt said he doesn’t expect a vote in the near future, though a late spring vote could theoretically make a change possible in 2026. He said changes in game operation and travel are among the many things that would need to be accounted for, so it would be unlikely that anything would take effect next year without an imminent vote.

“It’s not taken in a lighthearted way at all because of the success of the tournaments and how important they are to college basketball overall,” Gavitt said. “Expansion, even in a modest level, is complex, more complex than I think than has been recognized and reported, because it is expensive.”

This year’s March Madness will be the 40th men’s bracket since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The women’s bracket increased to 64 teams in 1994.

Gavitt said he isn’t sure whether the field should expand, but he’s more positive about the possibility than he was a few years ago. Name, image and likeness, conference realignment and the transfer portal have changed the dynamics. He said men’s basketball, in particular, might be suited to handle it.

“There’s no sport that is deeper overall and has more parity than men’s college basketball,” he said. “There’s great basketball played at every level in men’s basketball right now. So I think it’s important to keep the tournament contemporary and relevant, based on what is going on in college athletics.”

TREY KAUFMAN-RENN, BRADEN SMITH HELP NO. 20 PURDUE TOP UCLA

On the strength of a torrid 3-point shooting performance and a critical late run, No. 20 Purdue pulled out of a four-game tailspin with a 76-66 win over UCLA on Friday in West Lafayette, Ind.

The Boilermakers (20-9, 12-6 Big Ten) trailed 56-55 before Trey Kaufman-Renn made a pair of free throws with 7:27 remaining. That began a 12-0 onslaught, turning the prospect of a potential fifth straight loss into a win they desperately needed to maintain their pursuit of one of the top four seeds in the upcoming Big Ten tournament.

Kaufman-Renn, who scored a game-high 29 points on 11-of-15 shooting from the floor, followed his go-ahead foul shots with a pair of midrange jumpers. They were the prelude to a deluge from beyond the arc, starting with Camden Heide’s triple on an assist from Fletcher Loyer.

Loyer then hit a corner 3-pointer on an assist from Braden Smith — one of Smith’s eight as he broke the program’s career assist mark. Smith’s historic night also included a career-high-tying six made 3-pointers on 10 attempts.

Smith finished with 23 points and led the Boilermakers on a red-hot 11-of-22 night from beyond the arc. He also contributed to Purdue’s defensive effort with four steals. Kaufman-Renn added three steals and a blocked shot.

Tyler Bilodeau finished with team highs of 15 points and seven rebounds for UCLA. Sebastian Mack came off the bench to score 10 points, and Eric Dailey Jr. finished with nine.

The Bruins (20-9, 11-7) came into the night in a three-way tie with Purdue and Maryland for fourth place in the league. UCLA fell a game behind the Boilermakers and is a half-game behind Maryland, with both Purdue and the Terps now owning the head-to-head wins over the Bruins.

One of Smith’s 3-pointers came after Aday Mara ended UCLA’s scoring drought, pushing the Purdue lead to 12 points with 2:54 remaining.

Smith connected on another 3-pointer from the top of the key less than a minute later, with plenty of time to set up before his swish elicited an eruption from the home fans.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S TOP 25 ROUNDUP: NO. 16 DUKE HANDS NO. 8 UNC FIRST ROAD LOSS

Reigan Richardson sank five 3-pointers and scored 23 points as No. 16 Duke avenged an earlier Atlantic Coast Conference overtime loss by defeating No. 8 North Carolina 68-53 on Thursday at Durham, N.C.

Toby Fournier posted 19 points and 10 rebounds off the bench for Duke (22-7, 13-4 ACC), which outscored the Tar Heels 21-9 in the third quarter.

North Carolina (25-5, 13-4) had been the only Division I women’s team this season without a road loss. Lanie Grant had 17 points to pace the Heels while Indya Nivar and Lexi Donarski both had 10.

North Carolina, which bounced back from a rough start and led 32-31 at halftime, couldn’t overcome 20 turnovers.

The Tar Heels played without starters Reniya Kelly and Alyssa Ustby, who were out with injuries. Kelly’s absence came as a surprise, while Ustby has missed recent games.

No. 5 Connecticut 72, No. 22 Creighton 53

Sarah Strong’s 22 propelled the Huskies as they clinched the Big East regular season crown in Harford, Conn.

Paige Bueckers totaled 15 points, seven assists and seven rebounds for UConn (27-3, 17-0 Big East).

Morgan Maly had 11 points and Molly Mogensen added nine points for Creighton (23-5, 15-2), which had 19 turnovers.

Creighton scored the game’s first eight points, but the Huskies led 11-10 by the end of the first quarter, then outscored the Blue Jays 27-12 in the second to take control.

No. 9 North Carolina State 78, Wake Forest 57

Aziaha James scored 18 of her 21 points in the first half to help the Wolfpack grab a 24-point halftime lead as NC State cruised in its regular-season home finale in Raleigh, N.C.

Zoe Brooks poured in 17 points and Madison Hayes had 14 for the Wolfpack (23-5, 15-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who are unbeaten in 16 home games. The Wolfpack made eight first-half 3-pointers, leading 48-24 at the break and showing no letdown after upending then-No. 1 Notre Dame in double overtime on Sunday.

Reserve Malaya Cowles had 14 points and Elise Williams provided 13 for Wake Forest (9-19, 2-15), which has lost 12 in a row in the series. The Demon Deacons went 4-for-20 on 3-point attempts.

No. 18 Kentucky 82, No. 11 Tennessee 58

Clara Strack’s 23 points and 15 rebounds carried the Wildcats in the Southeastern Conference win in Lexington, Ky.

Teonni Key and Georgia Amoore both scored 18 points for Kentucky (22-5, 11-4 SEC), which led 45-26 at the half. Dazia Lawrence added 13 points for the Wildcats, who outrebounded Tennessee 52-31.

Talaysia Cooper was the only double-figure scorer with 25 points for Tennessee (21-7, 8-7), which shot 31.1 percent from the floor.

No. 13 Oklahoma 89, Florida 65

Payton Verhulst’s 17 points and Raegan Beers’ 16 paced the Sooners to a Southeastern Conference road win in Gainesville, Fla.

Skylar Vann had 13 points for Oklahoma (22-6, 10-5 SEC), while Liz Scott and Sahara Williams both had 11. The Sooners were up 44-32 at halftime and scored at least 20 points in every quarter.

Liv McGill had 14 points to lead Florida (14-15, 5-10), while Ra Shaya Kyle and Alexia Dizeko each had 11.

No. 19 Maryland 74, Indiana 60

Shyanne Sellers had 25 points for the Terrapins, who outscored Indiana 28-21 in the fourth to pull away for the Big Ten Conference win in Bloomington, Ind.

Kaylene Smikle added 16 points for Maryland (22-6, 12-5 Big Ten) and Christina Dalce had 11.

Yarden Garzon’s 18 points led Indiana (17-11, 9-8), and Shay Ciezki finished with 15. The Hoosiers rallied from a 30-20 halftime deficit to close within two in the third quarter before fading.

No. 25 Louisville 78, Clemson 52

Tajianna Roberts racked up 19 points and the Cardinals, who couldn’t hold a lead in their last game, bounced back with an Atlantic Coast Conference home win.

Jayda Curry added 15 points and 10 rebounds while reserve Izela Arenas notched 14 points for Louisville (20-8, 13-4 ACC), which endured fourth-quarter snags in Sunday’s loss to then-No. 9 North Carolina. Louisville led Clemson 31-30 at halftime before pouring it on in the second half, including a 23-6 fourth quarter.

Loyal McQueen had 16 points to pace Clemson (13-15, 6-11), which was 3-for-15 on 3-pointers.

NBA NEWS

NBA ROUNDUP: DONOVAN MITCHELL (41) LEADS CAVS PAST CELTICS

Donovan Mitchell scored 41 points, including 26 in the second half, as the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers extended their winning streak to nine games by beating the Boston Celtics 123-116 Friday night in a matchup of the Eastern Conference’s top teams.

Darius Garland added 20 points for Cleveland, which trailed by 22 points less than five minutes into the game. The Cavaliers have won their last seven road games and own the NBA’s best overall record (49-10).

Jayson Tatum had season highs of 46 points and 16 rebounds, and added nine assists. He made 19 of 37 field-goal attempts and blocked three shots for Boston, which has lost two straight and dropped to 18-11 at home. The Celtics were missing starters Kristaps Porzingis (illness) and Jrue Holiday (hand).

The Celtics also got 37 points from Jaylen Brown, who tied the game at 114-114 on a jump shot with 3:15 to play. Mitchell gave Cleveland a 116-114 lead on a floater that began a 7-0 spurt by the Cavaliers. Mitchell made 13 of 26 field goal attempts and was 10 of 11 from the free-throw line.

Lakers 106, Clippers 102

Luka Doncic scored 31 points and LeBron James added 28 points with 13 rebounds as the Lakers extended their winning streak to five games with a victory over the Clippers.

The Lakers were able to regroup with 29 bench points after losing Austin Reaves to a first-quarter calf injury. Los Angeles already was without starting forward Rui Hachimura, who came away with a left knee strain against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday. Doncic, who was celebrating his 26th birthday, delivered his second-highest scoring game in the seven he has played in a Lakers uniform. An addition at the trade deadline, Doncic has averaged 25.8 points over the past four games.

Ivica Zubac scored 27 points with 16 rebounds and Kawhi Leonard added 21 points for the Clippers, who have lost four of five since the All-Star break. James Harden scored 18 points for the Clippers on 5-of-22 shooting from the floor, including 1 of 10 from 3-point range, and had six turnovers with nine assists.

Nuggets 134, Pistons 119

Jamal Murray poured in 31 points and Michael Porter Jr. supplied 28 points and grabbed nine rebounds as visiting Denver snapped Detroit’s eight-game winning streak.

Nikola Jokic amassed 23 points, 17 rebounds and 15 assists — his NBA-leading 28th triple-double of the season. Christian Braun contributed 23 points for Denver, which won for the 11th time in 13 games. The Nuggets bounced back from a 121-112 road loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night.

Malik Beasley led Detroit with 16 points but shot 6-for-18 from the field. Ausar Thompson had 13 points, five assists and five steals and All-Star Cade Cunningham was held to 11 points on 3-of-12 shooting. The Pistons had not lost since falling to the Eastern Conference-leading Cleveland Cavaliers 118-115 on Feb. 5.

Knicks 114, Grizzlies 113

OG Anunoby made a 3-pointer with 5.3 seconds remaining to lift visiting New York past Memphis.

Ja Morant had an opportunity to win it for the Grizzlies, but his left-handed layup attempt slid off the rim at the buzzer. Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 23 points to go with seven rebounds and six assists, the final assist going to Anunoby on his game-winner. Anunoby finished with 19 points and Miles McBride added 17 for New York, which won for the fifth time in seven games.

Morant paced Memphis with 25 points and Desmond Bane added 24 points and 12 rebounds. Bane scored at least 20 points for the eighth time in 10 games. Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 18 and had seven rebounds. The Grizzlies were hampered by faulty shooting (4-of-31) from beyond the arc.

Jazz 117, Timberwolves 116

John Collins scored 29 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and made a game-winning assist to boost Utah past Minnesota in Salt Lake City.

After a late rally put Minnesota up by one in the waning moments, Collins used a nifty touch pass to set up a Walker Kessler dunk with 9.7 seconds left. The Timberwolves’ Donte DiVincenzo missed a last-second layup attempt.

Naz Reid logged 27 points and 11 rebounds while Jaden McDaniels totaled 20 points and 10 rebounds for Minnesota, which has lost six of the past eight. The Timberwolves played without Anthony Edwards, who was suspended due to technical-foul accumulation.

Heat 125, Pacers 120

Tyler Herro scored a team-high 29 points and dished seven assists, leading host Miami Heat past Indiana.

Miami’s Davion Mitchell snapped a tie by sinking a 3-pointer with 43.8 seconds left. On Indiana’s next possession, the Heat’s Bam Adebayo stole a pass thrown by Tyrese Haliburton, and Herro iced the game with two free throws with 6.5 seconds left.

Indiana’s Pascal Siakam scored a game-high 36 points and set a career high with eight 3-pointers. Myles Turner added 22 points.

Trail Blazers 121, Nets 102

Shaedon Sharpe scored 25 points to lead Portland Trail Blazers to its fourth consecutive victory, a triumph over Brooklyn in New York.

Sharpe made 9 of 14 attempts from the field while also dishing out five assists. Dalano Banton finished with 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting, scoring 16 points in the fourth quarter, and he grabbed a game-high eight rebounds.

Cam Thomas made his return for Brooklyn after missing nearly two months with a hamstring injury. He scored 16 points on 7-of-17 shooting. Nic Claxton added 16 points and five rebounds as the Nets took their third loss in a row.

Thunder 135, Hawks 119

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, while Luguentz Dort and Jalen Williams added 20 points apiece as Oklahoma City beat host Atlanta.

Dort (6-of-11 shooting on 3-pointers) and Williams (4-of-8) played valuable supporting hands for the Thunder, who hit 23 of 50 attempts from downtown. The only negative for Oklahoma City came when Chet Holmgren suffered a left ankle sprain in the first quarter. The 22-year-old center, who missed nearly three months earlier this season with a pelvic fracture, was ruled out when he checked out with 1:43 left in the first half.

Onyeka Okongwu posted 23 points and 13 rebounds for Atlanta, Caris LeVert added 23 points off the bench and Trae Young combined 19 points with 12 assists.

Suns 125, Pelicans 108

Bol Bol scored 25 points and Nick Richards added 19 points and 12 rebounds to help Phoenix record an easy victory over visiting New Orleans in the finale of a two-game set.

Royce O’Neale had 18 points by matching his career best of six 3-pointers for the Suns, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Devin Booker had 17 points and nine assists and Kevin Durant added 17 points, six assists and three steals as Phoenix gained a split of the two games without Bradley Beal (calf) and Grayson Allen (foot).

Yves Missi scored a career-best 24 points on 11-of-14 shooting and Jordan Hawkins also had 24 points for the Pelicans, whose three-game winning streak ended. New Orleans held out Zion Williamson and CJ McCollum for rest on the second end of the back-to-back. Williamson starred Thursday with his first career triple-double as the Pelicans produced a 124-116 victory.

Bulls 125, Raptors 115 (OT)

Coby White scored 24 points and Josh Giddey contributed 19 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds to lift host Chicago over Toronto.

Chicago handed Toronto its third straight loss after outscoring the Raptors 44-25 in the fourth quarter and overtime. Lonzo Ball hit a 3-pointer with 3:27 left in overtime to give the Bulls their first lead since the first quarter. Scottie Barnes responded with a dunk off White’s missed layup, but the Bulls closed the game on a 12-3 run.

Back in the lineup after missing one game due to a left hip contusion, Barnes had 24 points and eight rebounds. Immanuel Quickley added 23 points for the Raptors. Toronto’s Ochai Agbaji suffered a sprained left ankle in the first quarter and didn’t return.

HOCKEY NEWS

NHL ROUNDUP: LOGAN STANKOVEN SCORES TWICE IN STARS’ WIN

Logan Stankoven scored two goals and Roope Hintz had a career-high four assists as the Dallas Stars defeated the visiting Los Angeles Kings 6-2 on Friday night.

Jason Robertson had a goal and two assists, while Sam Steel had a goal and an assist. Thomas Harley contributed two assists and Jake Oettinger made 29 saves for the Stars, who have won four of their last five games.

Warren Foegele and Trevor Moore scored and Darcy Kuemper made 26 saves for the Kings, who have dropped two in a row (0-1-1).

Maple Leafs 3, Rangers 2

Matthew Knies scored the tiebreaking goal with 13:39 left following a misplay behind the net by goaltender Igor Shesterkin as visiting Toronto recorded a victory over New York.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored a power-play goal early in the first period and William Nylander tallied on a fortuitous bounce in the opening minute of the second as the Maple Leafs won their fourth straight game. Toronto is 7-1-0 over the past eight games. Toronto goalie Anthony Stolarz made 33 saves.

Mika Zibanejad scored and assisted on Will Cuylle’s short-handed goal, but the Rangers were unable to win their third straight and remained four points behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the Eastern Conference’s second wild-card spot. Shesterkin stopped 14 shots.

Avalanche 5, Wild 2

Ross Colton had two goals and an assist, Jonathan Drouin and Jack Drury scored 52 seconds apart, and Colorado knocked off Minnesota in Denver.

Valeri Nichushkin also scored, Oliver Kylington contributed two assists and Mackenzie Blackwood turned away 18 shots for Colorado. The Avalanche improved to 2-0 on their six-game homestand and pulled even with the Wild for third place in the Central Division, though Minnesota has a game in hand.

The NHL’s leading scorer, Nathan MacKinnon, had an assist to extend his home point streak to 16 games. Mats Zuccarello and Vinnie Hinostroza had goals and Filip Gustavsson made 25 saves for Minnesota, which has dropped three straight.

RACING NEWS

NEW SURFACE, NEW LAYOUT AND NEW DRIVER AWAIT FIELD IN AUSTIN

NASCAR’s former two-race road course schedule is all grown up and has reached six.

Sunday’s Cup Series race at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA) will be the first of a half-dozen twisting layouts, a demanding, complex track in the wonderfully weird Texas capital of Austin.

A new racing surface, Goodyear tires and course design — shorter without a long straightaway — await the drivers. Using the “National” course for the first time, NASCAR will run the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon.

At 2.3 miles in length, the newer layout for the Cup drivers will have its race extended to 95 laps. Previously on the 3.41-mile design, the race went 68 circuits.

In the first four stops at the serpentine track, NASCAR has seen Chase Elliott, Ross Chastain, Tyler Reddick and William Byron be first to the checkers.

Another new driver, short on experience but not talent or confidence, may be at the front Sunday as Trackhouse Racing’s 18-year-old Connor Zilisch will make his Cup debut in the No. 87 Chevrolet.

A winner in Xfinity and ARCA plus the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring in the LMP2 class, the Charlotte, N.C., native has lofty expectations in the Lone Star State in his first time in the sport’s top series.

While Shane van Gisbergen (+550) and Tyler Reddick (+750) are 1-2 with oddsmakers, Zilisch checks in with the third-best odds (+800).

“I want to try and become the youngest Cup Series winner,” Zilisch said Tuesday. “I don’t feel like there’s anything that tells me that I’m not ready to race on a road course on Sunday.”

Before leaving the first two races completely in the dust, the consensus is that the racing last week at Atlanta Motor Speedway far exceeded that of the kind witnessed in the Daytona 500, a fuel-conservation-oriented Great American Race that got messy as the laps wound down.

On his podcast this week Dale Earnhardt Jr. said the glaring difference in the racing shows that improvements need to be made at sister superspeedways Daytona and Talladega before the series returns to either.

“Watching (the 500) from the drivers’ standpoint, I was thinking, ‘We can do better,’” he said. “We went to Atlanta, and I thought what it could be — what Daytona, what Talladega could be. I don’t love the term ‘drafting tracks,’ … but we don’t run restrictor-plates anymore.”

A four-time Daytona winner including the 2004 and 2014 Daytona 500s, Earnhardt said Adam Stevens, crew chief for Atlanta winner Christopher Bell, had a great idea for preventing a fuel-strategy race.

“He had a great idea on how to get us (to better Daytona racing), which was to get it where they don’t need fuel during the stages — shorten the stage to the length of how far you can go on a tank of gas,” Earnhardt said. “I was wondering if another route for specifically Daytona and Talladega might be to get rid of the cautions at the stage breaks.

“What we saw at Atlanta was as good as it gets. … From the moment they dropped the green flag on the truck race to the (final) caution, it was edge of your seat.”

With Talladega not appearing until late April, NASCAR has some time to get off its seat and figure it out.

GOLF NEWS

JAKE KNAPP STILL LEADS COGNIZANT; LUKE CLANTON CLINCHES TOUR CARD

Jake Knapp followed his opening-round 59 with a far more modest, 1-under-par 70 but birdied his final hole to take a one-stroke lead as play wound down Friday at the Cognizant Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Knapp will head into the weekend at 13-under 129 holding a one-stroke lead over Frenchman Matthieu Pavon (64). On Thursday, Knapp became the 15th player in PGA Tour history to shoot a round below 60.

Knapp’s second round started on the back nine at PGA National Resort’s Champion course, and after a birdie and a bogey, he later made consecutive birdies at Nos. 3 and 4. But a water ball off the tee at the par-4 sixth led to a messy double bogey to bring him back to even for the round.

He wrapped up by holing a 16 1/2-foot birdie putt at the par-4 ninth, his ball curling into the cup from the left side, to break a tie with Pavon.

Doug Ghim shot the best round of the day, an 8-under 63, to join a tie for third at 11 under with Michael Kim (66), Daniel Berger (68) and Sweden’s Jesper Svensson (67)+. Rickie Fowler (68) and 49-year-old former Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson (66) were part of a tie at 10 under.

The feel-good story of the day belonged to Luke Clanton, the top-ranked amateur in the world. By following Thursday’s 67 with a 66, Clanton ensured he would make the cut and earn the 20th and final point necessary for an automatic PGA Tour card via the PGA Tour University accelerated pathway.

The Florida native and member of Florida State’s golf team made four birdies in a row on the front nine to erase a bogey at No. 2. There was an emphatic cheer from his loved ones as he made birdie at the par-5 18th to get to 9 under, well above the projected cut line.

With players still on the course Friday afternoon, the cut line was projected at 4 under par. Notable names who won’t see the weekend included Gary Woodland (2 under), Byeong Hun An of South Korea (even par), Mackenzie Hughes of Canada (1 over) and Brendon Todd (11 over).

INDIANA NEWS RELEASES

INDIANA PACERS

MITCHELL COMES UP CLUTCH, HEAT DIG DEEP TO BEAT PACERS

MIAMI (AP) — Davion Mitchell’s 3-pointer broke a tie with 43.8 seconds left, Tyler Herro scored 29 points and the Miami Heat topped the Indiana Pacers 125-120 on Friday night.

Duncan Robinson scored 20 for Miami, which shot 57% — and has shot 58% in its last two games, tying the seventh-best two-game span in team history. Bam Adebayo scored 18 for Miami.

Pascal Siakam scored 36 for Indiana, while Myles Turner added 22 and Tyrese Haliburton had 19 points and 10 assists. The Pacers made 12 of their first 15 3-pointers, then went 9 for 24 from deep the rest of the way.

Takeaways

Pacers: Indiana led by as many as 28 in an easy win at Miami on Jan. 2, and Pacers coach Rick Carlisle knew Friday would be different. “They’ve got a history of doing things hard here and embracing hard times and difficulty. … This game will be nothing like our last game here. I can promise anybody that,” Carlisle said.

Heat: Andrew Wiggins missed the game with a sprained right ankle, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. — who started in Wiggins’ place — left with 10:34 remaining in the third quarter after going down while handling the ball near midcourt. Jaquez was holding his knee, but the Heat said he turned his right ankle.

Key moment

The Heat went on a 13-0 run spanning nearly four minutes, the final 1:03 of the third quarter and the first 2:54 of the fourth, to turn a one-point deficit into a 104-92 lead.

Key stat

Indiana led 69-68 at the half. In 37 years of Heat basketball, including playoffs, this was only the fifth game where both teams had at least 68 points by intermission.

Up next

Indiana goes home to face Chicago on Sunday. Miami hosts New York on Sunday.

INDIANA SWIMMING

BREASTSTROKE STUNS AS IU LEAD GROWS

MINNEAPOLIS – There is so much to say about No. 2-ranked Indiana’s performance in the 100-yard breaststroke Friday (Feb. 28) night at the 2025 Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships inside the Jane K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota.

Let’s start with this: Indiana swimmers placed first, second, third, fourth and fifth in the 100 breast. The result was worth 138 points in the team race, which Indiana now leads by 282.5 points going into the final day.

Next: Senior Finn Brooks – who told the B1G+ plus crew that he doesn’t regularly participate in IU’s breaststroke practices – became the first swimmer to break the 50-second barrier in a Big Ten Championship meet. His 49.94 meet record makes him the second-fastest swimmer in program history and the second-fastest swimmer this season.

And lastly: prior to this meet, only three Hoosiers had ever swum the 100 breast under 51 seconds. Indiana doubled that number Friday night. Graduate transfer Brian Benzing (50.73) finished second, senior Josh Matheny placed third (50.94), graduate transfer Caspar Corbeau (50.97) was fourth and senior Jassen Yep (51.10) was fifth. The four best times came under the NCAA A standard.

The 100-yard breaststroke was Indiana’s brightest highlight of a glistening third-day team performance. The Hoosiers won three Big Ten titles, set two meet records and captured nine medals Friday night.

Junior Owen McDonald won a Big Ten title for the second consecutive night, leading Indiana’s one-two finish in the 100-yard backstroke – its eighth consecutive championship in the event. McDonald earned his NCAA A cut in 44.38 to win the event by 64 hundredths of a second. Freshman Miroslav Knedla dropped a personal best 45.02 to earn the silver medal. Senior Luke Barr’s 45.10 missed the medal sweep by three hundredths as Northwestern sophomore Stuart Seymour touched right in front of him.

McDonald and Brooks represented the first two legs of Indiana’s 10th consecutive – and 31st overall – championship in the 400-yard medley relay. Indiana became the first program to break the three-minute barrier at a Big Ten Championships, setting the meet record in 2:59.87. All four Hoosiers went the best time for their legs; McDonald led off in 44.74, and Brooks was the only breaststroke split under 51 seconds with a devastating 49.74. Senior Tomer Frankel followed with a 44.76, and junior Matt King anchored in 40.64 – the only split under 41 seconds. Indiana beat second-place Michigan by 2.9 seconds.

Brooks and Frankel both swam three times Friday. On top of the two titles, Brooks also took silver in the 100-yard butterfly with a personal best 44.59 to lead off his night. Frankel followed right behind, touching in 44.74, before also placing 11th in the 200 free with a time of 1:34.34.

“It was a super fun final session tonight,” IU head swimming coach Ray Looze said. “Finn Brooks was amazing, Owen won his second event of the competition, and the 400 medley relay extended our winning streak to 10 years! Wow. One more big day left to go.”

Senior Rafael Miroslaw captured his fourth-career medal in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:32.03. Miroslaw won the title as a freshman in 2022, took silver last season and is a two-time bronze medalist.

For the first time since the 2021 platform diving final, an Indiana Hoosier did not appear in the medals of Friday’s diving event – the 3-meter springboard. Senior Quinn Henninger, Thursday’s 1-meter champion, missed the bronze medal by six-tenths of a point with his score of 421.95. Classmate Carson Tyler, the 2024 3-meter champion, placed fourth with a 405.95, and junior Maxwell Weinrich took seventh on 338.65 points. Still, IU was the only program with three A finalists, who combined with one C finalist to contribute 75 points towards the team race.

“What a close contest,” IU head diving coach Drew Johansen said. “Three in the ‘A’ final was a great showing for IU diving. We took some chances experimenting with new dives tonight that we are going to need at NCAA’s. Carson, Max and Quinn all upped the difficulty to stay on pace with the world standard.

“Only five points separated the top four. The guys finished strong and had a chance to put up 90 or even 100 points on their final dives. We didn’t quite get there today, but I know when they get another chance (NCAA’s) they will be more prepared to deliver because of today’s experience.”

TEAM SCORES

1. Indiana – 1,067

2. Michigan – 784.5

3. Ohio State – 731

4. USC – 588

5. Minnesota – 512.5

6. Wisconsin – 498

7. Northwestern – 473

8. Purdue – 406.5

9. Penn State – 372.5

RESULTS

100 BUTTERFLY

2. Finn Brooks – 44.59 (Big Ten Silver, Career Best, NCAA B Cut)

3. Tomer Frankel – 44.74 (Big Ten Bronze, NCAA B Cut)

400 IM

7. Zalán Sárkány – 3:43.36 (NCAA B Cut)

9. Toby Barnett – 3:41.27 (Career Best, NCAA B Cut)

200 FREESTYLE

3. Rafael Miroslaw – 1:32.03 (Big Ten Bronze, NCAA B Cut)

7. Drew Smiley – 1:34.32 (NCAA B Cut)

11. Tomer Frankel – 1:34.34 (NCAA B Cut)

100 BREASTSTROKE

1. Finn Brooks – 49.94 (Big Ten Champion, Big Ten Championship Record, Career Best, NCAA A Cut)

2. Brian Benzing – 50.73 (Big Ten Silver, Career Best, NCAA A Cut)

3. Josh Matheny – 50.94 (Big Ten Bronze, Career Best, NCAA A Cut)

4. Caspar Corbeau – 50.97 (NCAA A Cut)

5. Jassen Yep – 51.10 (Career Best, NCAA A Cut)

X. Alexei Avakov – 52.44 (NCAA B Cut)

100 BACKSTROKE

1. Owen McDonald – 44.38 (Big Ten Champion, NCAA A Cut)

2. Miroslav Knedla – 45.02 (Big Ten Silver, Career Best, NCAA B Cut)

4. Luke Barr – 45.10 (NCAA B Cut)

13. Gavin Wight – 46.34 (NCAA B Cut)

3-METER

4. Quinn Henninger (NCAA Zone Qualifier)

5. Carson Tyler (NCAA Zone Qualifier)

6. Maxwell Weinrich (NCAA Zone Qualifier)

24. Joshua Sollenberger – 263.10

400 MEDLEY RELAY

1. Owen McDonald, Finn Brooks, Tomer Frankel, Matt King – 2:59.87 (Big Ten Champion, Big Ten Championship Record, NCAA A Cut)

UP NEXT

Indiana looks to shut the door on a fourth consecutive Big Ten Championship on Saturday, the final day of competition. Prelims begin at 11 a.m. ET, setting the stage for the 6 p.m. ET final session.

INDIANA BASEBALL

BATS, BULLPEN SECURE DOUBLEHEADER SWEEP

DELAND, Fla. – The Indiana Baseball team (5-5) got a pair of important wins on Friday (Feb. 28) afternoon in Florida, defeating Mount St. Mary’s 18-5 (F/8) and Stetson 8-1 at Melching Field. The Hoosiers have won five of six after an 0-4 beginning to the season.

IU was tied 4-4 with Mount St. Mary’s through four innings on Friday morning but turned on the gas from there. The Hoosiers outscored both opponents 21-1 over the last 13 innings of baseball and never trailed in either contest. There were four different innings in today’s affairs where IU scored four-or-more runs.

The Hoosiers’ offense came to life with 26 runs and 29 hits over two games. But the IU bullpen was equally impressive. The six relievers that pitched on Friday afternoon combined to throw nine innings while allowing just two runs. Four of those six pitchers were underclassmen.

IU will look to finish off the double against Stetson tomorrow (March 1) afternoon. Graduate student right-handed pitcher Cole Gilley (1-0, 2.64 ERA) will take the bump with a chance to complete the weekend sweep of the Hatters on their home field. This weekend’s final game will be Sunday (March 2) against Mount St. Mary’s.

Game 1: Indiana 18, Mount St. Mary’s 5 (F/8)

Recap – Game 1

11 runs over the final two innings was the key to an impressive win for the Hoosiers in the first game of Friday’s (Feb. 28) doubleheader. The Hoosiers his six home runs including two each from junior outfielder Devin Taylor and redshirt sophomore outfielder Korbyn Dickerson.

Taylor had a five-hit, six-RBI day, both career highs, but it was redshirt sophomore outfielder Ryan Gilbert that stole the headlines. He missed over two years of baseball after batting illness during his freshman year of college. He returned to campus in Bloomington and rejoined the baseball team ahead of the 2025 season.

In Gilbert’s first at-bat of his division one collegiate career, the Cleveland, Ohio native slugged a pinch hit, two-run home run in IU’s 18-5 victory. He was awarded a game ball by head coach Jeff Mercer in IU’s postgame huddle for his continued perseverance.

IU’s bullpen worked the final five innings while allowing just one run. Freshman right-handed pitcher Henry Brummel (W, 1-0) picked up his first career win while sophomore southpaw Ryan Rushing spun two scoreless frames. Freshman right-handed pitcher Trey Telfer threw the final inning in a run-rule shortened affair.

Six different Hoosiers had multi-hit days in the win. Freshman catcher T.J. Schuyler had career bests in hits (2) and RBIs (3). Taylor’s previously mentioned five-hit day was the first for the Hoosiers since Phillip Glasser against Bellarmine (March 11, 2023) two seasons ago.

Friday’s six-home run output marked the fourth time in the Mercer era (since 2019) that IU hit six home runs in a single game. It was the first time it happened since May 12, 2023 (8 – Purdue). Taylor and Dickerson hit back-to-back home runs for the second time this week.

Game 2: Indiana 8, Stetson 1

Recap – Game 2

Behind a brilliant start from graduate student right-handed pitcher Ben Grable (W, 2-0), the Hoosiers picked up a commanding 8-1 win over Stetson on Friday (Feb. 28) evening at Melching Field. He tossed five scoreless frames with a career high six strikeouts to his name.

IU got seven hits from its three through five hitters, including a three-hit contest from freshman first baseman Jake Hanley. He drove in the first run of the game in the second inning and IU never gave up the lead. A two-run single from sophomore second baseman Jasen Oliver broke the game open in the ninth.

Redshirt junior reliever Pete Haas and sophomore right-hander Seth Benes put together two innings out of the bullpen before handing it off to reliable reliever Drew Buhr for the final six outs. Buhr lowered his season earned run average to 1.64 across 11.0 innings of work.

After nine extra-base hits in the first game, IU found a way to win with just one in the second contest. The Hoosiers made Stetson pay for four fielding errors. Timely two-out hitting was the key difference in Friday night’s contest. On the day, IU found 17 hits with runners on base and 13 hits with RBI opportunities.

Inside the Box Score – Game 1

• IU tallied 18 base hits – a season high.

• Six of IU’s nine starters had multi-hit games.

• Devin Taylor had the first five-hit game for IU in two years.

• All 18 runs came on RBIs.

• The Hoosier hitters had an equal number of strikeouts to walks (7-7).

• IU scored at least five runs in three separate innings.

Inside the Box Score – Game 2

• IU’s three, four and five hole hitters combined on seven base hits.

• The pitching staff walked just four batters.

Notes to Know – Both Games

• Freshman first baseman Jake Hanley had five hits on the day (2 – vs. Mount St. Mary’s, 3 – vs. Stetson). He joins Paul Toetz (13 starts – 2021) as the only IU true freshmen with base knocks in each of their first 10+ career starts since 2021. Hanley is second on the team with five multi-hit games.

• Redshirt sophomore center fielder Korbyn Dickerson continued his tremendous start to the season with another pair of multi-hit games. He is riding a seven-game hitting streak (all multi-hit games) and has five home runs, 16 RBIs and 17 runs scored in those seven contests.

• As a team, the Hoosiers have gone seven-straight games with at least 10 hits. It’s the first time the program has had that long of a streak since doing it in nine-consecutive contests in 2015 (Feb. 27 – March 14).

• IU’s bullpen went nine innings while allowing just two runs between the two games. In nine of 10 games this season, the Hoosier pitching staff has allowed six-or-fewer earned runs. In the second game of the doubleheader, Dustin Glant’s pitchers had just four walks. It has had six outings this year with four walks or fewer.

• The Hoosiers pounded six home runs in the win over Mount St. Mary’s. It was the fourth time in the Jeff Mercer era (since 2019) that IU has hit at least six home runs in a single game. It’s the first time doing so since slugging eight in a dominant win over Purdue two years ago (May 12, 2023).

• Junior outfielder Devin Taylor became the eighth player in program history to hit at least 40 home runs. Taylor recorded his seventh career multi-home run game in the victory over Mount St. Mary’s. He also set career highs in hits (5), RBIs (6) and total bases (12) in the game. Taylor is the first member of the 40-home run club at IU since his former teammate Carter Mathison did it last season.

Up Next

IU will meet Stetson again tomorrow afternoon (March 1). First pitch is set for 1:00 p.m. and can be heard on the Indiana Sports Radio Network via IUHoosiers.com/Audio.

INDIANA TRACK

INDIANA TRACK AND FIELD FINISH COMPETITIVE FIRST DAY OF BIG TEN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Indiana track and field concluded the first day of the Big Ten indoor championships at the Fall Creek Pavilion on Friday (February 28) with multiple finishes on the podium and several personal bests on the day.

The day started with the men’s pentathlon, where Garrett Messer would finish the day in sixth (3028 points). He also finished fifth in the 60-meter dash (7.07) and first in the shot put (14.36m/47-1.5).

In the men’s pole vault, Tyler Carrel earned a podium finish, taking second with a mark of 5.45m/17-10.5. Peyton McQuinn also earned a. personal best in the event with a height of 5.00m/16-4.75.

On the track, the Hoosiers saw three qualifiers for Saturday’s finals events. CJ Martin and Veronica Hargrave both qualified for the men’s and women’s 600-meter finals

Trelee Banks-Rose ran the second fastest 200-meter in school history (20.80) to advance to tomorrow’s finals.

Mariah Wehrle made the podium in the women’s 5000 meter race, finishing sixth with a new personal best time (16:15.53).

The Hoosiers had strong showings in the distance medley relays, as both quartets earned podium finishes. The men’s side (Aidan Lord, Daquan Tate, Andrew Mangum, Martin Segurola) took third place (9:36.59), while the women’s quartet (Taylor Fox, Morgan Snow, Nola Somers Glenn, Lily Myers) took eighth (11:24.03).

PURDUE MEN’S BASKETBALL

#20 PURDUE FINDS SPARK IN 76-66 WIN OVER UCLA

[20] Purdue 76, UCLA 66 (Postgame Notes)

No. 20 Purdue snapped a four-game losing streak with a 76-66 win over UCLA at Mackey Arena on Friday night. The win improves Purdue’s record to 20-9 overall and 12-6 in the Big Ten standings.

The win was Purdue’s eighth quad-1 win of the season and 15th combined quad-1 and quad-2 victory, the third most in the country (Auburn – 20; Alabama – 17).

Purdue and Michigan are the only Big Ten teams to sweep the newest members of the Big Ten (Oregon, Washington, UCLA, USC). Purdue won the four games by a combined 46 points.

Purdue has now 71 conference games over the last five seasons, tied for the most in Big Ten history (Indiana, 1974-78).

Purdue’s 112 wins over the last four seasons are the ninth most in Big Ten history.

Purdue’s win was its first over UCLA in 65 seasons, last defeating the Bruins on Dec. 18, 1959. The win snapped an eight-game losing streak to UCLA, the longest-active losing streak against a single opponent.

Purdue has now won at least 12 conference games for the 10th time in the last 11 seasons (since 2014-15). No other Big Ten program has won than seven, 12-win seasons in that time frame.

Purdue shot 51.9 percent from the field, the 12th time in 18 league games that the Boilermakers have shot over 50.0 percent from the field. Purdue made 11-of-22 from long range, the fifth time in conference play that Purdue has made at least 10, 3-pointers.

Purdue was minus-8 in rebound margin (31-23), winning for the first time since Feb. 16, 2021, vs. Michigan State when having a minus-8 rebound margin or worse.

UCLA entered the game sixth in the country in turnover margin (+5.04), but the Boilermakers were plus-5 against UCLA, the Bruins’ lowest margin of the season.

Purdue improved to 12-0 when holding its opponent to 69 or fewer points.

Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Purdue is now 40-3 when having single-digit turnovers.

Braden Smith set the Purdue career assists record with eight more tonight, giving him 696 assists in his career. He became the first player in Big Ten history with two seasons of 250 or more assists.

For the season, Smith now has 465 points, 251 assists, 131 rebounds and 69 steals. He joins Michigan State’s Magic Johnson (1979) as the only players in Big Ten history with a season of at least 450 points, 250 assists, 125 rebounds and 60 steals. Smith has done it in each of the last two seasons.

Smith moved into eighth place on the Big Ten’s career assists list (696).

Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 29 points on 11-of-15 shooting with three rebounds and three steals. He recorded his ninth 20-point game in the last 11 outings.

Fletcher Loyer scored 11 points, going 3-of-5 from long range. When Loyer makes three or more 3-pointers in a game, the Boilermakers are 11-0 this season.

Camden Heide set a new career high with nine rebounds, all coming in the second half (12 minutes).

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 29 points and Braden Smith added 23 to help No. 20 Purdue beat UCLA 76-66 on Friday night and end a four-game losing streak.

Kaufman-Renn shot 11 for 15 from the field and 7 for 10 on free throws. Fletcher Loyer scored 11 points for the Boilermakers (20-9, 12-6 Big Ten).

Tyler Bilodeau had 15 points for the Bruins (20-9, 11-7), and Sebastian Mack scored 10.

Purdue shot 52% from the field while UCLA hit 48% in a game that went back and forth until the final 6 minutes.

Trailing 56-55, Kaufman-Renn scored six consecutive points to put Purdue ahead 61-56 with 5:35 left. Camden Heide and Fletcher Loyer then made 3-pointers to cap a 12-0 run.

Aday Mara hit a turnaround jumper to make it 67-58 and end UCLA’s scoring drought, but Smith helped Purdue to effectively seal it with two 3-pointers.

The Bruins held a 31-23 rebounding edge.

Purdue shot 60% in the first half to take a 37-35 lead at halftime. UCLA made 46% from the field but held a 20-7 edge in rebounds, including 10-1 on the offensive board.

Purdue built a 29-19 lead, only to see it nearly erased by an 8-0 spurt by UCLA. Purdue’s Fletcher Loyer hit a 3 to give Purdue a 32-27 lead, but the Bruins outscored Purdue 8-5 to end the half.

Takeaways

UCLA: The Bruins had the edge in bench scoring at 30-8, but had trouble slowing down Purdue’s top scorers.

Purdue: With his third assist, Smith became Purdue’s all-time assist leader with 691, passing Bruce Parkinson (1973-77). Smith finished with eight assists.

Key moment

With the shot clock winding down, Loyer hit a 3-pointer to give Purdue a 67-56 led. The home crowd erupted and UCLA called a timeout with 3:38 left.

Key stat

Purdue made 11 of 22 3-pointers, including 6 of 10 by Smith. In contrast, UCLA was 5 for 18 from long distance.

PURDUE BASEBALL

ELROD EARNS SILVER MEDAL IN THE PENTATHLON TO LEAD DAY ONE OF BIG TENS

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. –Jalen Elrod earned the pentathlon silver medal to lead Purdue on the podium in day one of Big Tens. The men’s DMR and Payne Turner (5000m) both placed eighth, while three others qualified for event finals. 

Men’s Notes

• Cameron Miller set a new school and Big Ten Indoor Championships meet record with a 20.27 in the 200m prelims. He finished 0.37 seconds ahead of the field that featured two other runners ranked in the top 12 nationally.

• The men’s DMR team of Caleb Williams, Zach Mylenek, Hugh Jacobsmeyer and Kiefer Bell took eighth in 9:45.99. The performance accounted for Purdue’s first point of Big Tens.

• Through the first four heptathlon events, Andreas Hantson sits seventh, while Logan Sandlin is 10th. Hantson won the heptathlon high jump (2.03m / 6-08.00) and Sandlin finished eighth in a personal best 1.88m (6-02.00).

• Cale Ayers finished 11th in the weight throw (20.11m / 65-11.75). It was the second time in his career throwing further than 20 meters.

Women’s Notes

• Elrod took second with a school-record 4,222 points that broke her own record of 4,218 set on Feb. 7. She jumped from fifth to second after she took the victory in the 800m, the final event, in 2:11.70.

• Turney finished eight in the 5000m (16:19.53) after she was 15th with 1000m remaining in the race. She ran the final 200m in 32.30 – the second-fastest 200m split by any runner in the event.

• Alexia Smith earned her way to the 400m finals with a 53.02. It was her second time qualifying for a Big Ten final after she qualified for the outdoor final last season. 

• Zoe Sullivan qualified for the 60m hurdles finals after she won her heat in 8.22. She qualifies for the final in the seventh best prelims time.

• Britannia Johnson qualified for the weight throw finals and finished ninth with a personal-best 20.42m (67-00.00). It was a personal best by 0.97m (3-02.25).

• Nia Wilson (7.35) and Blessing Ogundiran (7.36) both finished top 13 in the 60m.

Next Up

Purdue closes out the Big Ten Indoor Championships on Saturday with the heptathlon starting the day at 10:20 a.m. ET.

NOTRE DAME HOCKEY

HOCKEY DROPS SENIOR NIGHT BATTLE WITH #3/3 SPARTANS

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The Irish hockey program fought hard Friday night but could not rally back from a first period deficit as they fell to third-ranked Michigan State 5-2.

The Irish came out buzzing in the early minutes of Friday’s contest with three senior honorees nearly finding the back of the net in the first 10 minutes. At the first media timeout, the Irish led shots on goal, 7-4.

Shortly after the media timeout, a pair of penalties were called for roughing after the whistle and a skater per side would head to the box. Michigan State capitalized during the four-on-four play to take a 1-0 lead at 11:55 of the opening period.

The Spartans extended their lead at 14:12 of the first after a shot from the point sailed wide, hitting the boards, and taking an awkward bounce back where it hit Say’s skate in the crease and trickled into the net.

Despite holding the edge in shots on goal through the first 20 minutes, the Irish headed to the locker room looking to overcome the two-goal deficit.

The Irish were called for the first penalty kill of the night after a defenseman was sent to the box for hooking just 1:40 into the second period.

After killing off the penalty early in the second stanza, the Irish reclaimed momentum and held the puck deep in their offensive end five minutes into the period before drawing a penalty and heading to their first powerplay opportunity of the night.

On the man-advantage, Hunter Strand rang a shot off the pipe as the senior looked to get the Irish on the board in the waning seconds of the powerplay.

The two teams continued to battle through the middle of the contest before the Irish drew another penalty and were sent back to the powerplay with 5:10 to play in the second. From there, it took Justin Janicke just nine seconds to convert and slice the Spartans’ lead in half. However, Michigan State got it back with 1:55 to play after a shot in front of the net tipped over the glove of Say in the Irish net.

The Irish came out strong in the third period as they looked to rally back from the 3-1 deficit but a deflection by the Spartans beat Say at 8:37 of the frame as they made it a 4-1 game.

The Irish responded moments later as Axel Kumlin net his fifth of the season to make it a 4-2 contest nearly halfway through the contest.

A late tripping call against the Spartans gave the Irish another shot on the powerplay with under five minutes to play and a two-goal deficit to overcome. Although they managed to keep the puck in the offensive end nearly the whole duration of the powerplay, the Irish could not capitalize on the man-advantage and were forced to pull their netminder with 2:43 to play.

The Spartans took advantage of the empty net at the other end of the ice and sealed the game with a late goal for the 5-2 final.

GOALS

• After Danny Nelson won the draw for the Irish to start the powerplay, he fed a pass back to Paul Fischer who stood ready at the blue line. There, Fischer backhanded a pass over to Knuble at the top of the circle who found Nelson again. Nelson’s wrister was blocked in front of the net but Justin Janicke gathered the rebound and lifted it over the blocker of Trey Augustine in the MSU net.
• Axel Kumlin fired a wrist shot on goal at 9:20 of the third period for his fifth tally in an Irish sweater. The junior picked up a pass from Knuble after Nelson won the offensive zone draw at the dot. Kumlin’s shot towards net hit off a Spartan defender before sailing over the goal line.

KEY STATS

• With his 14th goal of the season, Justin Janicke’s second period tally was his seventh on the man-advantage which ranks tied for a team-best. His 14 goals separates him from Danny Nelson for the most on the season.
• With a pair of assists Friday night, Cole Knuble now boasts multiple points in four-consecutive contests and boasts a team-best 35 points.
• Janicke’s second period goal extends his goal- and point-streaks to four and five games, respectively.
• Danny Nelson’s two assists Friday night put him at 13 on the season and he now holds 26 points in his sophomore season. He heads into the regular season finale Saturday on a three-game point-streak.
• Prior to puck drop, the Irish honored 14 members of its senior class, including six seniors, five graduate students, and three student managers.
• The Irish blocked 17 shots on the night with Zach Plucinski and Ryan Helliwell each jumping in front of three shots. With his three on the night, Plucinski now boasts 197 career blocked shots.

UP NEXT

The Irish close out the regular season Saturday night with a 6:05pm puck drop on alumni night. The game inside Compton Family Ice Arena will be Catalina Family Head Hockey Coach Jeff Jackson’s final home game behind the bench at Notre Dame after a legendary 20-year career.

NOTRE DAME BASEBALL

IRISH OUTLAST BRUINS

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The two sides combined for 20 runs, and the Irish came out on top in a 12-8 final at Belmont University on Friday night.

Bino Watters ripped a one-out double to right field in the top of the first inning, and the freshman advanced to third with two outs on a wild pitch. Carson Tinney then crushed a 1-1 pitch well over the left-center field fence to get the Irish on the scoreboard. Dylan Heine, meanwhile, struck out a pair and retired a batter with a ground out to have a three-up, three-down inning for the defense.

The Irish were retired in order in the top of the second, and the Bruins used a two-run home run of their own to knot the game at 2-2. Heine retired the next two batters to end the inning.

DM Jefferson had a lead-off walk and stole second to get into scoring position, and Jared Zimbardo drew a walk to put a pair of runners on base with no one out. Bino Watters added a walk of his own to load the bases for the Irish. Estevan Moreno used a sacrifice fly to drive in Jefferson to put the Irish up. Tinney continued to have a hot bat as the sophomore laced an RBI single through the left side, driving in Zimbardo from second. Parker Brzustewicz added an RBI single through the left side of the infield to plate Watters for a 5-2 lead midway through the second.

Belmont used a ground-rule double in the bottom of the third to get a run on the scoreboard, but Dylan Heine retired the next two batters to close down any other scoring chances for the Bruins. DM Jefferson led off with a walk for the second time in as many plate appearances to start the fourth. Bino Watters drove a double off the wall, and Jefferson came all the way around from first to score. Carson Tinney drew a walk, and Parker Brzustewicz was hit by a pitch to load the bases with two outs. Connor Hincks then delivered a huge blow with a full-count grand slam to center field for a 10-3 lead for the Irish. Nick DeMarco gave Notre Dame back-t0-back home runs with a solo shot to extend the advantage to eight runs.

The Bruins countered with a two-run home run in the bottom half of the fourth. Heine sat down the final two outs of the inning with a pop up to Noah Coy and a ground out to Estevan Moreno to end the fourth. Carson Tinney drew a two-out walk, and Parker Brzustewicz kept the inning alive with a single to put a pair on base. A ground out, however, stopped the scoring chance short for the Irish.

Ricky Reeth came on in relief in the bottom of the fifth and made quick work of the Bruins by retiring Belmont in order. Belmont plated a run in the bottom of the sixth, but a solid play by Jared Zimbardo in right field recorded the third out and forced the home side into stranding a runner on second as the Irish held the 11-6 lead through six complete. Reeth, meanwhile, continued his quality outing and made quick work of Belmont by inducing a 6-4-3 double play to end the seventh inning.

Parker Brzustewicz hit a one-out double, and Brady Gumpf came in to run for the freshman. A pair of outs, however, stopped the Irish from adding to the lead in the top of the eighth.

Belmont used a single and a home run in the bottom of the inning before Reeth recorded a pair of outs with a strikeout and a fly out. Chase Van Ameyde then used two pitches to induce a fly out to end the inning with the Irish up 11-8.

DM Jefferson drew his third walk of the contest, and Jared Zimbardo punched a single into left field to get the Irish going in the top of the ninth.  The double steal by Jefferson and Zimbardo advanced the pair into scoring position. Bino Watters drove in Jefferson with a sacrifice fly to extend the lead to 12-8. Zimbardo tagged up to third on the play, and Estevan Moreno drew a four-pitch walk to put runners on the corners. Carson Tinney drew a walk on a full count to load the bases, but the Irish were unable to add to their lead as the game moved to the bottom of the ninth.

The Bruins hit a lead-off double before Van Ameyde used three pitches to strike out the next batter of the inning. Two batters later, Van Ameyde dialed up another strikeout – this time with a full count – to give the Irish their second out of the ninth. The freshman then closed out the game with his third strikeout of the inning to preserve the 12-8 win.

Dylan Heine went 4.0 on the mound and struck out five in a no-decision effort. Ricky Reeth picked up the win after 3.2 innings of work with three strikeouts. Chase Van Ameyde closed out the final 1.1 and allowed just one hit with no walks and three strikeouts for the Irish while picking up his first career save.

Parker Brzustewicz went 3-for-4 with a double, a run, and an RBI. Bino Watters was 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles, three runs, and two RBI. Carson Tinney added a 2-for-3 effort with a two-run home run, three total RBI, and two runs scored. Connor Hincks blasted a grand slam, and Nick DeMarco belted his first home run of the season with a solo shot. Noah Coy and Jared Zimbardo each added a hit, and DM Jefferson drew three walks and scored three runs.

The Irish (6-1) take on the Bruins on Saturday with the game time set for 1:00 p.m. ET for the second of a three-game series.

NOTRE DAME SOFTBALL

IRISH KNOCK OFF NO. 23 SAN DIEGO STATE

FULLERTON, Calif. – The Notre Dame softball team knocked off 23rd-ranked San Diego State 5-4 on day two of the Judi Garman Classic at Cal State Fullerton. It was the second ranked win this season for the Irish (#15 Missouri), who are now 10-9 on the season.

Notre Dame held off the Aztecs in the seventh inning. Micaela Kastor was brilliant for a second straight night, giving the Irish 6.2 innings of grit in the circle. She finished with seven strikeouts on the day.

With Notre Dame up 3-0, a Rachel Allen 2-run homer in the bottom of the sixth proved to be crucial insurance runs. It was Allen’s second home run of the season.

The Irish split the day after losing to 6th-ranked LSU in game one of the day.

San Diego State Recap

Kastor, coming off a complete game effort in the win over Cal State Fullerton last night, took the ball in game two against the 23rd-ranked Aztecs. After some early traffic on the bases in the early innings, Kastor was able to dance around it, keeping San Diego State off the scoreboard after two.

The Irish struck first in the bottom of the second. Jane Kronenberger led off the inning with a double and advanced to third on a sac bunt by Paige Cowley. Olivia Levitt came up next and smacked one down the right field line to drive home Kronenberger from third for the first run of the game.

Kastor, like she did last night, controlled the pace of the game. The right hander worked around limited traffic and kept the Aztecs uncomfortable in the box. She was through five shutout innings with five strikeouts.

Notre Dame tacked on two more runs in the bottom of the fifth, both coming with two outs. After an Emily Tran double, Mickey Winchell drove her home with a single to center, advancing to second on the throw. One batter later, Addison Amaral notched RBI number 19 with a base hit to right to score Winchell. The Irish led 3-0 after five innings.

San Diego State wouldn’t give in just quite yet. Back-to-back baserunners to leadoff the top of the sixth had the Aztecs threatening. But Kastor would get back-to-back strikeouts and a ground ball to second to keep the shutout alive.

Allen stepped up in the bottom of the sixth and launched her second home run of the year, a two-run homer down the left field line to make it 5-0.

Kastor came back out for the seventh, looking to finish off what she started. She got an early groundout, but then a walk and a single put two on for the Aztecs. Both runners advanced into scoring position on a wild pitch. A sac fly and infield single would score two runs for San Diego State. A two-run homer after that cut the lead to one.

Shannon Becker would take over for Kastor after that, just needing one out. And she got it with a fly ball to Kronenberger in right to secure the victory. For Becker, it was her second save of the season and 13th of her career.

LSU Recap

Playing as the home team, Notre Dame sent its defense out first against 6th-ranked LSU behind starter Alexis Laudenslager, making her third start of the year and first since February 14th. Unfortunately for the graduate student, her afternoon ended after giving up five runs without recording an out against the Tigers. Kami Kamzik came in relief with the bases full and no outs. The Tigers scored three more runs in the inning before Brianne Weiss came in and struckout three to end the frame.

Weiss would come in and slow the Tigers in her best outing yet. The freshman left hander struck out six and threw 4.2 innings of shutout softball after the big first inning.

In the top of the fifth, a 2-run homer by LSU made it 10-0. Weiss’ final line was 5 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 4 BB and 6 SO, a quality outing from the freshman in her home state of California against one of the top teams in the nation.

The game would end in five innings with the 6th-ranked Tigers taking the win.

Notre Dame closes out the Judi Garman Classic and tournament play tomorrow against 10th-ranked Arizona at 11:30 am PT/2:30 pm ET. Live stats will be available for the finale.

NOTRE DAME WOMEN’S LAX

#17 IRISH FALL SHORT AGAINST #21 DUKE

DURHAM, N.C. – The No. 17 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (2-3, 0-2) fell 11-9 to the Duke Blue Devils (3-2, 1-1) on Friday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium.

Kristen Shanahan led the Irish with a hat trick, her third of the season so far, as she finished the day with three goals, one assist, and one draw control.

She was followed by Kathryn Morrissey and Madison Rassas who each recorded two goals a piece. Emma Murphy and Angie Conley each scored one goal for the Irish.

Meghan O’Hare led Notre Dame with eight draw controls, while also finishing with two ground balls and a caused turnover. Goalie Isabel Pithie recorded six saves and a team-best four ground balls.

The Irish won the draw 14-10 and outperformed the Blue Devils in the ground ball and turnover category as Notre Dame recorded 12 and 11 in comparison to Duke’s 11 and 13.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Irish were on the board at 12:52, as Shanahan found the back of the net for the first goal of the day. It was tied up shortly after as Notre Dame turnover led to a Duke fast break to make it an even 1-all.

The Blue Devils took their first lead of the game at 8:35 and followed with another goal just 40 seconds later to take a 3-1 lead.

Shanahan scored her second goal of the day at 1:41 to bring Notre Dame within one heading into the second quarter.

The Blue Devils opened the quarter with their fourth goal of the day at 12:23, knocking down their fifth at 9:17 to take a 5-2 lead over the Irish.

Shanahan broke up the run with her third goal of the day to complete the hat trick and bring the Irish within two at 5-3 with 7:45 remaining in the half.

Duke would send home one last goal of the quarter before Morrissey closed it out with another Irish goal to make it 6-4 at halftime.

Morrissey opened the second half with her second goal of the day just 45 seconds into the period as she brought the Irish within one 6-5 at 14:15.

Duke would extend their lead back to two at 7-5 with 10:28 on the clock, but the Irish weren’t going anywhere as they responded with a pair of goals to tie it up. Rassas sent one home at 8:44 on a pass from Shanahan and Murphy found the back of the net at 5:45 to make it a tied ball game.

At a level 8-8 heading into the fourth period, Duke scored back-to-back goals to take a 10-8 edge with 13:17 remaining.

Rassas knocked down the free position shot for her second goal of the day to bring Notre Dame back within one at 5:59.

Duke, however, responded with a free position goal of their own to make it a two goal game again at 11-9 with 4:31 remaining. Both squads would remain scoreless through the final minutes as Duke would take it home, 11-9.

UP NEXT

The Irish are back in action on Sunday, March 2, as they continue their stint in North Carolina with a game against Elon at 11 a.m. The game is available on LacrosseTV and FloSports.

NOTRE DAME SOFTBALL

IRISH SPLIT DAY ONE OF JUDI GARMAN CLASSIC

FULLERTON, Calif. – The Notre Dame softball team split Thursday’s opening day of the Judi Garman Classic, held at Cal State Fullerton. The Irish beat invite host Cal State Fullerton 5-2 in the nightcap after dropping their first game 7-2 to 4th-ranked UCLA.

Addison Amaral hit two homers on the day, one in each game, and had 5 RBI over the course of Thursday. Her 3-run shot against Cal State Fullerton broke a 1-1 tie early in the game and proved to be the difference maker.

Micaela Kastor pitched a gem on the road, going the distance against Cal State Fullerton. The junior finished with seven strikeouts over seven innings, only allowing two earned runs. It was the second complete game for Kastor this season.

Cal State Fullerton Recap

After a 50-minute delay due to the game prior running long, Tran ripped a leadoff triple into the left center field gap to start off the top of the first. She would come around to score on a passed ball as the Irish struck first 1-0.

Fullerton, coming off a win over No. 6 LSU, would load the bases in the bottom of the first, but starter Micaela Kastor would escape the jam, getting a big strikeout before a weak fly ball to right ended the threat.

Kastor made her team-most eighth start of the night, entering the game with a 4-1 record.

In the bottom of the second, the Titans again put traffic on. With runners at second and third, a ground ball was hit to Anna Holloway at second. She fielded it cleanly and fired it home to Rachel Allen who placed a perfect tag on the runner for the out. The Titans would get one back in the inning however to tie it up at 1-1.

The Irish took the lead back in the top of the third. Amaral, with two runners on, hit a shot out to dead center for her second home run of the day, and third of the season. The three-run homer gave Notre Dame a 4-1 advantage and gave the sophomore shortstop 18 RBI on the year.

The Irish tacked on another next inning, as Sydny Poeck hit her first career long ball, a solo shot out to right center to put another run on the board, 5-1.

Kastor kept dealing in the circle for Notre Dame. She retired nine in a row at one point and had four strikeouts through four.

Emily Tran recorded her third hit of the game in the top of the fifth on a ground ball to left. The senior outfielder crossed home twice in the nightcap and leads the team with 12 runs scored this season.

Kastor continued her dominance. The junior had no issues in the sixth and battled through the bottom of the seventh to secure the win for Notre Dame.

UCLA Recap

Notre Dame got back-to-back singles by Emily Tran and Mickey Winchell to start off the game. After a flyout by Addison Amaral, UCLA starter Jada Cecil got two consecutive swinging strikeouts to end the early threat.

Kami Kamzik made her fifth start of the season and her second start against a ranked team in her career. After a leadoff walk, the sophomore got a groundout and two flyouts to keep the first inning scoreless.

The Bruins struck first with a solo homer to left in the bottom of the second to take a 1-0 lead.

It wouldn’t take long for an Irish counter. Amaral stepped up in the top of the third and hit a two-run homer that nearly cleared the scoreboard in left, scoring Winchell to give the Irish a 2-1 lead. It was Amaral’s second home run of the year and RBI number 14 and 15 this season.

In the bottom of the fourth, UCLA would take the lead on a two-run single with one out to take the lead. After a pitching change, Bruins’ leadoff hitter Jessica Clements hit a two-run homer to right to put UCLA up 5-2. An RBI triple later in the inning gave the Bruins a 6-2 lead after four.

Notre Dame put traffic on to start the fifth. Wichell singled, then advanced to third thanks to a stolen base and a wild pitch. Amaral would walk and swipe a bag herself to put two runners in scoring position with only one out. Next batter up, Kaia Cortes hit a grounder to second that resulted in a long rundown at home, ending with Winchell being tagged out. A swinging strikeout for the final out kept the Irish off the scoreboard.

UCLA would hit a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth for its seventh run. The game ended 7-2 in favor of the fourth-ranked Bruins.

Notre Dame will take on two ranked opponents tomorrow during day two of the Judi Garman Classic. The Irish face No. 6 LSU at 12:00 pm PT/3:00 pm ET before facing No. 23 San Diego State at 2:30 pm PT/5:30 pm ET. Live stats are available for both games.

BUTLER WOMEN’S LAX

SECOND HALF SURGE PUSHES YOUNGSTOWN STATE OVER BUTLER

The Butler women’s lacrosse team dropped the first game of the weekend in Ohio at Youngstown State 15-10.

After beginning the game from behind 2-1, the Bulldogs would fight back scoring six goals unanswered flying out to an early 7-2 lead. Each goal during the streak was scored by a different player, including Elise Latham, who collected a goal and an assist. Both teams would then add a goal heading into halftime to bring the score to 8-3.

The second half was a different story with the Penguins cutting the lead to 10-7 by the end of the third period. Youngstown State continued to apply the pressure regaining the lead at 11-10, and ultimately taking the game 15-10.

Inside the Box Score:

Elise Latham scored a team-high three goals and an assist

Chloe Hall netted her first two goals of her career on two shots

Emma Palmer and Matye Riley each added a goal and an assist

Patricia Lynn and Olivia DiCarlo each contributed a team-high four draw controls

Up Next

The Bulldogs will stick around in Ohio for another game at Akron on Sunday, Mar. 2 beginning at 12 PM.

BUThe Butler women’s lacrosse team dropped the first game of the weekend in Ohio at Youngstown State 15-10.

After beginning the game from behind 2-1, the Bulldogs would fight back scoring six goals unanswered flying out to an early 7-2 lead. Each goal during the streak was scored by a different player, including Elise Latham, who collected a goal and an assist. Both teams would then add a goal heading into halftime to bring the score to 8-3.

The second half was a different story with the Penguins cutting the lead to 10-7 by the end of the third period. Youngstown State continued to apply the pressure regaining the lead at 11-10, and ultimately taking the game 15-10.

Inside the Box Score:

Elise Latham scored a team-high three goals and an assist

Chloe Hall netted her first two goals of her career on two shots

Emma Palmer and Matye Riley each added a goal and an assist

Patricia Lynn and Olivia DiCarlo each contributed a team-high four draw controls

Up Next

The Bulldogs will stick around in Ohio for another game at Akron on Sunday, Mar. 2 beginning at 12 PM.

BUTLER MEN’S BASKETBALL

BULLDOGS HEAD TO PHILLY FOR SATURDAY NOON TIP ON FOX WITH VILLANOVA

The Bulldogs travel to Philadelphia for a Saturday afternoon tip with Villanova. Villanova won the first match-up between the two teams Jan. 1 at Hinkle Fieldhouse by a score of 73-65. Jahmyl Telfort led Butler with 25 points and 10 rebounds in that New Year’s Day loss to Villanova; in three career games against the Wildcats, Telfort is averaging 22 points and 9.3 rebounds per game.

Butler (13-15, 6-11 BIG EAST) at Villanova (17-12, 10-8)

Saturday, March 1 • 12PM

Finneran Pavilion • Philadelphia, Pa.

TV: FOX • Tim Brando & Donny Marshall

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• Butler enters the game off a 76-70 loss to No. 7 St. John’s Wednesday night at Hinkle; it was the eighth game of the season for Butler against a Top 25 team.

• Butler went 4-2 during the month of February.

• Telfort led Butler with 13 points Wednesday against St. John’s; he now has 2,001 career points. Telfort is one of 18 actives players who have spent their entire collegiate careers at Division I schools to surpass 2,000 career points.

• The Bulldogs went 16-for-18 (89 percent) from the free throw line against St. John’s, Butler’s third-best performance of the season. Butler’s season average of 16.3 made free throws is 44th nationally.

• Butler limited St. John’s to 4-for-15 shooting from three-point range Wednesday night. Butler is allowing opponents to shoot only 30.3 percent from three-point range, a defensive effort that leads the BIG EAST and is 29th nationally.

• Butler out-rebounded St. John’s, 39-32, Wednesday. The Bulldogs have only been out-rebounded once in the team’s last 11 games (Butler has eight games in that stretch with a rebounding advantage and there are two games where the teams have tied on the glass).

• The Bulldogs shot a season-worst 22 percent (6-for-27) from three-point range in the loss to St. John’s.

• Butler is shooting 36.8 percent from three-point range on the season, a mark that is 47th nationally. The Bulldogs have seven games this season making at least 10 three-pointers.

• Butler is committing only 13.9 fouls per game, which is the 17th-fewest nationally.

• Butler has led at the half in 11 of the team’s 17 BIG EAST games (and was tied in one of the other six games).

• Butler is 9-0 this season when scoring 80 or more points, including all six of their BIG EAST wins.

• The Bulldogs shot 52 percent from the field in Saturday’s win at DePaul; Butler has shot at least 50 percent from the field in each of its six BIG EAST wins.

• Butler tied a season-low by committing only four turnovers in the win at DePaul.

• Boden Kapke scored 12 points against St. John’s Wednesday night, one shy of his career-high.

• Pierre Brooks II has eight 20-point games on the season, most recently leading Butler with 24 points in Saturday’s win at DePaul.

• Finley Bizjack is shooting 27-for-54 (50 percent) from three-point range over the last 10 games; he is averaging 13.9 points per game during that stretch.

• Telfort handed out six assists at DePaul Saturday, his ninth game this season with five or more assists. He has ten 20-point games this season.

• Kolby King came off the bench to score 11 points and pull down six rebounds against St. John’s; it marked his best scoring performance since 11 points in the Jan. 15 win over Seton Hall.

• Patrick McCaffery has hit multiple three-pointers in 17 games this season.

• The Bulldogs defeated Northwestern and No. 25 Mississippi State in taking the Arizona Tip-Off title over Thanksgiving.

BIG in the BIG EAST

• In BIG EAST games only, Butler offensively ranks second in points scored (75.1 points per game) and second in field goal percentage (making 47.0 percent of attempts from the field).

• On the defensive end, Butler’s three-point percentage defense in BIG EAST games only leads the conference as Bulldog opponents are hitting only 30.4 percent of their attempts from behind the arc.

First Time Around

• Villanova closed the game on a 22-1 run to take a 73-65 win over Butler New Year’s Day at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

• Eric Dixon led the Wildcats with 28 points.

• Jahmyl Telfort paced Butler with 25 points and 10 rebounds. He handed out a game-high six assists.

• Butler uncharacteristically shot only 52 percent from the free throw line (12-23).

• Villanova held a 43-30 rebounding edge, led by Wooga Poplar’s 15 and Enoch Boakye adding 14.

Noting Nova

• Eric Dixon leads the nation at 23.3 points per game; he’s in the Top 10 nationally in both field goals made (214) and attempted (467). His 42.6-percent shooting from behind the arc is 16th nationally.

• The Wildcats are third nationally in three-point percentage (40.2) and their average of 9.7 three-pointers made per game is 31st nationally.

• Villanova is second nationally in free throw percentage (81.4).

The Series with the Wildcats

• The Bulldogs and Villanova first met in the 1996 Puerto Rico Shootout; the other 24 meetings in the series have come since Butler joined the BIG EAST prior to the 2013-14 season.

• Butler’s only win at Villanova came Feb. 22, 2017 when the Bulldogs knocked off No. 2 Villanova, 74-66.

Series: Villanova Leads, 18-7

Streak: Villanova, W2

In Philly: Villanova Leads, 10-1

First Meeting: Nov. 30, 1996; Villanova, 62-54 (Puerto Rico Shootout)

Last Meeting: Jan. 1, 2025; Villanova, 73-65 (at BU)

IU INDY SOFTBALL

JAGUARS DROP BACK-TO-BACK GAMES IN OPENING DAY OF SPRING IN THE SPRINGS

BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – The IU Indy softball team opened up the Spring in the Springs invitational in Boiling Springs, N.C. with a pair of losses. Molly Kable led the way for the Jags on opening day with three hits and two RBI in the two games combined.

In the opening game, IU Indy held a healthy lead before Chattanooga made a late comeback to take game one, 5-4.

The Jags came out swinging in the first inning. Molly Kable got the Jags going with an RBI single down the left field line scoring Morgan Gilbert. Callie Dickerson kept the bats going with a double to right center, scoring Kable from second giving the Jags an early 2-0 lead.

Chattanooga would begin to claw back with a pair of hits in the second, leading to their first run, 2-1. The Mocs would tie the game up in the top of the third inning off a single to center field. IU Indy responded with two runs off a Paige McPhearson fielder’s choice, scoring Kable from third. Callie Dickerson scored the fourth run by stealing home.  IU Indy was held scoreless the rest of the game.

The Mocs then scored a run in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings off a pair of singles leading to a Chattanooga victory. Clara Phariss (L, 0-3) took the loss pitching a full game with three strikeouts.

Game two did not favor the Jags as they fell in six innings, 9-1. IU Indy scored their only run in the first inning off a Kable single that scored Kennedy Cowan. The game went south from there with Gardner-Webb tallying up nine runs on fifteen hits. Gardner-Webb pushed two runs across in the sixth forcing a run rule to end the game.

Lily Roush (L, 1-4) faced 25 batters through four innings before being replaced by Alexa Holman. Holman pitched 1.2 innings before she gave the ball to Isabelle Wagner to close the game.

IU Indy will look to rebound tomorrow, Saturday, March 1 as they face Stony Brook at 12:30 PM and Gardner-Webb at 5:30 PM.

BALL STATE BASEBALL

JOHNSON AND QUINN COMBINE ON THREE-HITTER AS CARDINALS BEAT NORTH FLORIDA

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a game featuring just four extra-base hits, Ball State had three of them, and Gavin Bailus’ two-run triple in the seventh inning was the biggest, as Ball State used strong pitching to win its opening game of a three-game series at North Florida, 5-1.

Bailus’ triple down the right field line plated Brett Griffiths and pinch-runner John Colligan to extend the Cardinals’ lead from 2-1. Ball State scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings, to erase a 1-0 deficit after James Oman’s homer for the Ospreys in the bottom of the second.

The big story for Ball State (5-4), though, was the three-hit pitching of Keegan Johnson (2-0) and Owen Quinn (second save).

Oman’s homer was the only damage absorbed by Johnson, the Cardinals’ starter who worked around six walks. Johnson allowed only three hits and struck out six to register his second win in three outings. Quinn pitched in relief and fired four strong hitless innings, finishing with five strikeouts among just 11 batters faced. The pitcher’s duel resulted in 21 strikeouts for both pitching staffs, in a game that lasted just over two-and-a-half hours.

“What a great team effort!,” exclaimed Ball State field boss Rich Maloney who managed his 993rd career victory. “A lot of guys contributed, and Johnson and Quinn were awfully good.”

The Cardinals got the tying run when Dylan Grego singled, stole second and scored on another single by Nick Husovsky. An inning later, Houston King doubled before using a fly out and ground out to reach home plate for Ball State’s go-ahead run. The Cardinals got insurance in the eighth when Grego knocked his first homer of the season for a 5-1 cushion.

The Cardinals and Ospreys battle again Saturday at 3 p.m., and Sunday at 1. Ball State continues its spring break trip to Florida on Tuesday and Wednesday when the Cardinals visit Florida A&M, in Tallahassee.

BALL STATE SOFTBALL

SOFTBALL DROPS PAIR IN FRIDAY ACTION AT MTSU INVITE

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – – Junior pitcher Ella Whitney blasted a three-run home run in the top of the first to open the scoring Friday at the MTSU Invitational, unfortunately those were the only runs on the day for the Ball State softball team which suffered a 4-3 loss to Middle Tennessee and a 3-0 setback to Illinois State.

In the day’s opener, the Cardinals (7-4) got off to a fast start thanks to Whitney’s three-run blast in the top of the opening inning. Unfortunately, the Blue Raiders (6-11) countered with two in the second and tied the score in the third, before producing a walk-off RBI double in the seventh.

Ball State was never able to find its offensive rhythm in the nightcap loss to the Redbirds (5-10), collecting just four hits in the shutout loss. ISU did all its damage in the fifth, scoring three runs in the frame.

NOTES

– Whitney’s three-run blast in the opening inning vs. MTSU was her second home run in as many at bats, as her final at bat in last Sunday’s 12-1 (5) victory over Albany was a solo home run.

– In the circle, Whitney struck out a season-high six batters versus MTSU, including all three outs in the first inning, including the final out of the frame with bases loaded.

– Redshirt senior catcher McKayla Timmons recorded a hit in both games Friday, extending her streak of reaching base safely to 37 games.

– Senior first baseman Kaitlyn Gibson led the Ball State offense in the nightcap with a pair of hits.

GAME 1: Ball State 3 – Middle Tennessee 4

T1 – Whitney opened the scoring in the tournament with her three-run blast to right-center field (3-0)

B2 – Ava Tepe cut the lead to one with a two-run blast to center field (3-2)

B3 – Ansley Blevins tied the score with an RBI single to center field (3-3)

B7 – Pinch hitter Anyce Harvey ended the game in favor of the hosts with a walk-off RBI double to right center (3-4)

GAME 2: Ball State 0 – Illinois State 3

T5 – Adisyn Hopkins opened the scoring with an RBI single to left field (1-0)

T5 – A bases loaded RBI single by Abby Knight extended the lead to two (2-0)

T5 – Bella Wilkerson capped the scoring with a sac fly to center field (3-0)

UP NEXT

The Ball State softball team will look to rebound versus both teams Saturday, with a 2:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. CT first pitch versus Middle Tennessee and a 5 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. CT rematch versus Illinois State.

UINDY WOMEN’S LAX

UINDY HOSTS DEFENSIVE CLINIC, SURVIVES TOP-25 MATCHUP

INDIANAPOLIS – The seventh-ranked UIndy women’s lacrosse team earned its second top-25 victory of the season on Friday evening, defeating Alabama Huntsville at Key Stadium, 8-6.

Both teams impressed defensively, combining for 22 caused turnovers on 39 total miscues.

Greyhound goalkeeper Ava Graham made nine saves between the pipes, while also recording one ground ball.

 INS & OUTS

It was a defensive clinic all evening, as neither team scored more than three goals in a single quarter. UIndy put a 3-spot up on the scoreboard in the first and fourth periods, with Olivia Bladon and Sage Da Silva each netting a goal in both frames.

Bladon started the night’s scoring less than three minutes into the game, a lead the Hounds would not surrender, although they never led by more than two until the final two minutes of action.

Freshman Kendall Conrad found the back of the cage for back-to-back UIndy goals, while also assisting on the Greyhound’s final score. Conrad entered Friday with just two points in the early going, more than doubling her total against the Chargers.

Graham was not the only Greyhound holding the back line strong, with reigning GLVC Freshman of the Year Amanda Hurry finishing with four caused turnovers and four scoops. Hollis Rang also picked up four ground balls, while Ella Fornek recorded three.

INSIDE THE BOX

– Speaking of Fornek, the junior tallied a pair of points in the win with a goal and an assist.

– The Greyhounds were credited with 10 caused turnovers, spreading the wealth among six different players.

– UIndy upped its season clear success rate to 96.6 percent following a 20-for-21 effort on Friday; meanwhile on the ride, the Hounds held the Chargers to a 68.1 percent clip and have forced a turnover on more than 28 percent of their opponent’s clear attempts this season.

– Four Greyhounds dished out an assist, including Emily Ghazal and Alexa Versaci.

– Graham made at least two saves each quarter, including three in the opening frame.

MORE NOTES

UIndy now leads the all-time series, 3-0 … Alabama Huntsville’s Reagan Flanagan scored a team-high two goals.

UP NEXT

The Greyhounds face another tough test on Sunday morning, welcoming No. 10 Lynn to Key Stadium for an 11 a.m. matchup. It will mark the first-ever meeting between the programs.

UINDY BASEBALL

UINDY BESTED BY GRAND VALLEY IN GAME ONE

NEW PALESTINE, IN – The No. 5 UIndy baseball team fell 31-8 to Grand Valley in the first game of their four game weekend series.

The Lakers used 18 runs in the final two innings to extend the final deficit to 23. This is the first time in program history that UIndy has allowed 30 plus runs in a game.

Friday’s game was moved to New Palestine High School due to field conditions at Greyhound Park.

GAME 1 | UIndy 8, Grand Valley State 31

This one was tied 8-8 after four innings, with a handful of Hounds getting Uindy on the board. Chase Mason, Armen Torosian, Luke Smock, Tré Hondras, Easton Good and Cole Hampton all brought in runs for UIndy in those first four innings.

Chase Mason led the way for UIndy with two RBIs, while the rest of those who recorded an RBI only had one a piece.

But the Lakers used four players who recorded four plus RBIs, to extend the lead in the eighth and ninth innings to a 23 point deficit. The Hounds were forced to make six pitching changes after Diego Cardenas went 3.1 innings. Brady Linkel made his season debut today in the ninth inning.

Grand Valley secured themselves the 31-8 win over UIndy, and the first time since stats were kept for the Lakers in 2015 that the team has scored 30 plus runs in a game.

UP NEXT

UIndy will look to bounce back tomorrow at 2 p.m. on Saturday March 1 when they take on the Lakers again in game two of this weekend’s series.

MARIAN TRACK

WOMEN’S 4X800M RELAY, BROOKE COFFMAN EARN NAIA ALL-AMERICAN HONORS ON SECOND DAY OF NAIA CHAMPIONSHIPS

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Marian women’s track and field team put points on the board Friday, as the Knights earned two NAIA All-American honors on the second day of the NAIA National Championships. The women’s 4x800m relay, along with Brooke Coffman in the high jump, earned All-American status Friday.

The Knights opened their day with Katie Woods running in the mile race, with the junior looking to punch her ticket to the finals. Running in heat one, Woods clocked a time of 5:01.54, earning first place in the heat to qualify for the finals. Woods was one of five Crossroads League athletes to reach the finals, as she won her heat and goes into the All-American race with the top time in the field.

In the weight throw, Ozofu Magaji and Nhaydia Watson finished with top-16 marks on the day. Watson finished 15th overall hitting a top distance of 15.97m, while Magaji finished 16th. Magaji landed two of her three throws, with her best traveling 15.79m.

Nina Marinkovic competed twice on Friday, first running in the 60m hurdles. The pentathlon All-=American finished fourth in her heat with a time of 8.71 seconds, hitting a personal best in the event. Marinkovic finished 13th overall in the hurdles. The Knight later competed in the high jump, where she finished without a scored height, scratching out at 1.60m.

Also competing in the high jump was Brooke Coffman, who entered the competition at 1.65m. Coffman missed on her first try at the height, but recovered on her second to advance in the event. Coffman repeated her formula of clearing on try two at both 1.68m and 1.71m, reaching the top-seven of the event. Coffman would go out at 1.74m as she was unable to clear the height, ending the day in seventh place. Coffman earned NAIA All-American honors from her finish in the event.

Hanna Reuter ran in the 600m race, and in her prelim race she put together a strong finish to her outing, clocking a 1:35.38 to place third in the heat. Reuter set a PR in the event, and finished 12th overall in the field in the 600m. Jovana Milosevic competed in the 200m dash, and in her first individual event of the championship she finished 14th with a time of 25.50 seconds.

Nora Steele shined in the 800m, as the senior left it all on the track in her preliminary race. Steele clocked a personal best time of 2:14.31, winning her heat to advance to the finals. Steele also had the fastest qualifying time of the day. Summer Rempe followed her teammate with a brilliant performance in the 1000m, as she set the Marian school record with a time of 2:52.89. Rempe won her heat in the race, and enters the finals with the second-fastest time from prelims.

The final event of the day for Marian was the women’s 4x800m relay, with the Knights employing the lineup of Gracie Fields, Adrianna Boyd, Nora Steele, and Katie Woods. The group ran strong as they looked to bring home a championship, contending in the top-three throughout the race. On the anchor stretch, Katie Woods brought Marian into second place, where the Knights would finish with an NAIA National Runner-Up effort. Marian’s time of 8:59.66 broke the previous school record by a whopping 12 seconds, and scored Marian eight team points.

After day two, the Knights hold a tie for sixth place with 11 team points. On Saturday, the Knights will look to crack the top-five as they run in the four events on the track, while also competing in one field event.

CHRISTIAN RIOS CAPTURES NAIA WEIGHT THROW CHAMPIONSHIP; MARIAN HOLDS LEAD AFTER TWO DAYS OF COMPETITION

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Marian men’s track and field team headlined day two of the NAIA National Championships, scoring 23 team points while earning their first NAIA Championship of the week to steal the spotlight. Marian’s Christian Rios, a national champion in the discus, won the weight throw national championship, while the Knights additionally earned three more All-American nods.

Markevious Keys set the stage in the weight throw, helping his teammate Christian Rios gain confidence throughout the day as Keys qualified for the finals out of the first flight. Keys hit a top throw of 17.78m to reach the finals. In the second flight, Rios ascended into first place, taking the lead with a 19.64m throw, his best of the season at that point. Rios would add a throw of 19.58m before finals. In the finals flight, Keys recorded a mark of 18.00m, which would hold for the Knight to finish ninth overall.

Rios’ first attempt of the finals came just two throws after Trey Dickey of Doane, who surpassed the Knight by two centimeters. In response, Rios threw beyond 20 meters, hitting a distance of 20.34m. Dickey would challenge with his final throw hitting 20.08m, but it would not reach Rios’ mark, as the Marian senior captured his second career NAIA National Championship.

Owen Myers opened the day for the Knights and became Marian’s first-ever All-American in the race walk, as the sophomore earned an eighth place finish in the finals to earn his first career postseason honor. Myers clocked a time of 14:06.44 as he competed in the event for the second consecutive day, initially scoring a 10th place effort before post race penalty assessment. The top-two runners in the event were eventually disqualified, giving Myers a lift to the podium. Myers scored one team point to Marian’s total, one day after clocking his personal best time.

Marian’s top-billed race of the day came at the end of Friday’s action, as the Knights competed for the 4x800m relay championship with Andrew McDade, Mason Piatt, Benjamin Riehle, and Tristan Trevino competing on the team. The Knights busted the second-fastest time in program history, as the foursome recorded a time of 7:35.57, crossing the line in third place. After official review, Oklahoma City was disqualified from the event for a rules violation, allowing Marian to jump to second and bring home the NAIA National Runner-Up, scoring eight team points.

In the mile race, Charles Leedke earned a qualification for the finals on Saturday, as the Knight finished third in his heat to earn an automatic bid to the All-American race. Leedke clocked a time of 4:15.35, earning him one of the 10 spots in the finals. Leedke used a long kick on the final 80 meters of his race to take third place in his heat.

The men’s 600m group made noise on Friday, with Eric Materna, Olivier Lifrange, and Richard Dube storming through the preliminaries. Materna broke Marian’s school in heat one, as he finished second in the section with a blazing 1:17.24 time. Materna’s time is a new personal best by three seconds, and established Marian’s new record. Olivier Lifrange would win the second heat, setting a PR himself with the second-fastest time in school history, qualifying with the 1:19.42 effort. In heat three, Richard Dube clocked a 1:19.88, scoring a finals qualifying time with his new personal best. The three Knights each recorded a finals qualifying time, and will take three of the final eight seeds in the All-American race on Saturday.

Armani Glass joined the relay, Rios, and Myers on the podium, as he finished fifth in the long jump to record NAIA All-American honors. Glass hit a mark of 7.16m to make the finals, and in the finals the senior hit jumps of 7.21m and 7.31m, with the latter being his second-best indoor mark. Glass scored four team points with his distance, helping Marian capture their team score of 27 after the second day.

The 60m was one of the fastest events of the day, with Jeremiah Brown making a splash as he clocked the eighth place time of 6.76 seconds. Brown tied with Troy Mason of Rio Grande, and forced a run-off to determine who would make the finals. In the placement race, Brown smoked past Mason, clocking a time of 6.63 seconds to reach the finals. Brown’s time in the placement race was the fastest of the day for any competitor. Will Osafo placed 17th in the NAIA Championships with his 6.80 second race, while Ricardo Mateo placed 21st with a time of 6.83 seconds.

In the 800m, both Tristan Trevino and Andrew McDade were seeded in the third of three heats for the event. Trevino won his heat with a late surge pushing him to the front, as he clocked a 1:52.34 time to reach the finals. McDade recorded a 1:54.29 time, just 0.08 off a personal best. McDade finished 17th overall.

Rounding out Marian’s action was Owen Pittman, gave a strong push in the 1000m. Pittman finished third in his heat with a new personal best, but just missed out the finals by two seconds, as his time of 2:28.31 was good for 11th place.

Entering Saturday, Marian is tied for the team score lead with 27 points. The Knights will compete in eight events on Saturday, looking to bring home the NAIA National Championship. Six of the eight events are finals, while two are open field events.

MARIAN BASEBALL

KNIGHTS SPLIT TWIN BILL AGAINST THE COUGARS

Indianapolis, Ind. – The Marian baseball team hosted the Saint Francis Cougars in their home opener for the 2025 season Friday afternoon and evening. The Knights came out with an 8-7 win in game one and fell 3-7 in game two. Marian is now 3-8 overall on the season and 1-1 in the Crossroads League.

Game 1 | Marian 8-7 St. Francis

The Knights got off to a solid start with Davis Enfield throwing a perfect inning striking out all three Cougars in the top of the first. Johnny Roeder got on the plate early with a single to shortstop and was able to cross home after Seth Hogg doubled to left field a couple batters later to allow Marian to take the 1-0 lead. Saint Francis fired back quickly with an RBI scored off of a single to second to draw the first bottleneck of the day in the top of the second.

Both sides tried to break the tie but were to no avail in the bottom of the second and the top of the third. In the top of the third with first and second filled Cole McManus shot a bomb through the right center to score three runs for the Knights to take back the 4-1 lead. The Knights continued to push with Kameron Salazar crossing home plate off of a single from Hogg to extend the lead 5-1 in the bottom of the fifth.

In the top of the sixth inning the Cougars were able to get their footing with four runs scored off of a trio of singles and an advancement off of a wild pitch to take the 6-5 lead over the Knights with three and a half innings left to play. Marian came up short in the bottom of the sixth only recording one hit and two runners left on base. Saint Francis continued to push in the top of the seventh benefiting off of an error by the shortstop to extend their lead once more 7-5. Marian however was able to push back with a pair of runs from Hogg and Roeder scored off of a single to center field from Josh Lamb to bring the game once more to a 7-7 bottleneck with two innings left to go.

After a scoreless inning from the Knights and a pair of scoreless innings from the Cougars, Hector Corona hit a walk off single into right center to allow Eli Kelly to score off of the single and seal the deal and secure the 8-7 win in game one.

Johnny Roeder, Seth Hogg, and Cole McManus all led the team going 4-2 from the plate while Hogg recorded two RBI’s and McManus recorded three. Josh Lamb also recorded two RBI’s in the game.

On the mound Davis Enfield gained the start pitching 5.1 innings and struck out four batters and recorded seven hits and six runs in his 26 batters faced. Eli Loichinger was the next to come in, pitching 1.2 innings and faced eight batters where he recorded one hit and one earned run. Dylan Holmes was the next to enter for Marian pitching 0.2 innings and recorded one strikeout. Justin Johnson also contributed to the win pitching a partial inning six. Jace Stoops took the win pitching 1.1 innings and striking out one batter.

Game 2 | Marian 3-7 St. Francis | 7 Innings

Saint Francis got off to a big start scoring one run off of a ground out in the first inning to take the early lead. The Cougars continued to push their lead with a pair of runs scored off of a double as well as a run scored off of a sacrifice fly in the second inning allowing them to take the early 4-0 lead. Marian was able to push back in the bottom of the third with Cole McManus recording a single into left field which allowed Kameron Salazar to cross home plate and score the run and decrease the margin down to three.

One inning later Salazar was able to record an infield fly which allowed Nathan Pinarski to cross home plate and score another run for Marian to bring the score 4-2. The Cougars showed no signs of stopping benefiting off of a walk with bases loaded to score a run as well as two runs scored off of an error by left field to extend their lead 7-2 in the top of the sixth. Marian made their final push in the bottom of the sixth where Josh Lamb recorded a sacrifice bunt to allow Salazar to score but came up a tad too short in the seventh inning allowing the Cougars to take the 7-3 win in game two.

Kameron Salazar led the team from the plate going 3-5 with two runs while Cole McManus went 1-1 with a RBI. Josh Lamb recorded the second RBI of the game and went 3-1 from the plate. Nathan Pinarski went 2-1 and recorded one run as well.

On the mound Logan Drook gained the start pitching 1.2 innings and facing 12 batters. Mitchell Porter came in as recovery pitching 1.1 innings and recorded one strikeout in his six batters faced. Jayson Cottrell pitched 1.2 innings as well and faced eight batters and recorded one strikeout and gave up no hits or runs. Seth Risley gained his time on the mound pitching one inning and struck out three batters as well as giving up three runs. Carter King closed out the game pitching 1.1 innings and recorded one strikeout in his four batters faced.

The Knights will be back in action on Sunday, March 2nd as they wrap up the four game series with the Cougars. First pitch for game one of the double header is set for 1 p.m..

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“SPORTS EXTRA”

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

March 1

1919 — Newsy Lalonde of the Montreal Canadiens sets a Stanley Cup Playoff record by scoring five goals in a 6-3 win against the visiting Ottawa Senators. The record is matched four times.

1934 — Primo Carnera retains his world heavyweight title with a unanimous 15-round decision over Tommy Laughren in Miami.

1948 — Top-ranked NYU, the nation’s only unbeaten basketball team, is upset by Notre Dame 64-59 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In a game with 17 lead changes, the Fighting Irish hold Dolph Schayes to nine points and Kevin O’Shea scores 18 for Notre Dame.

1955 — Allen Fieldhouse, home of the Kansas Jayhawks, hosts its first basketball game and the Jayhawks beat rival Kansas State 77-66.

1969 — Tuesdee Testa becomes the first female jockey to win a race at a major American Thoroughbred track when she rides Buz On to victory in the third race with at Santa Anita Park.

1973 — Robyn Smith becomes the first woman jockey to win a stakes race when she rides North Sea to victory in the Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct Race Track in New York.

1981 — Calvin Murphy of the Houston Rockets misses a free throw in San Antonio, ending his NBA record consecutive free throw streak at 78.

1983 — Tamara McKinney becomes the first American woman skier to win the overall World Cup championship.

1987 — The Boston Celtics becomes the first NBA franchise to post 2,000 victories when they beat the Detroit Pistons 112-102.

1988 — Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers becomes the NHL’s all-time assist leader, breaking the longtime mark of Gordie Howe. In his ninth season, Gretzky picked up assist No. 1,050 in a game against the Los Angeles Kings.

1991 — Pat Day becomes the sixth jockey in history to earn $100 million in purses when he rides Wild Sierra to a second-place finish in the first race at Oaklawn Park.

1996 — Atlanta’s Lenny Wilkens becomes the first NBA coach to reach 1,000 career victories as the Hawks beat Cleveland 74-68.

1997 – Puerto Rican boxer Héctor Camacho stops Sugar Ray Leonard in 5th round in Atlantic City, NJ to retain IBC middleweight title; only time Leonard’s is KO’ed and sends him into permanent retirement

2000 — With 26-year-old rookie Dean Barker at Black Magic’s helm, New Zealand sails into America’s Cup history, becoming the first country other than the United States to defend the oldest trophy in sports.

2001 — Jackie Stiles of Southwest Missouri State becomes the NCAA career scoring leader in women’s basketball, running her career total to 3,133 points with 30 in Southwest Missouri State’s 94-59 victory over Creighton.

2014 — Jaromir Jagr becomes the seventh player to score 700 NHL goals during New Jersey Devils’ 6-1 victory over the New York Islanders.

2015 — Kiley McKinnon and Mac Bohonnon give the United States its first ever World Cup title double in aerials skiing. McKinnon becomes the first U.S. woman to win the World Cup since Nikki Stone in 1998, while Bohonnon was the first American men’s winner since Jeret “Speedy” Peterson in 2005.

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March 2

1918 — Joe Malone is held scoreless in the Montreal Canadiens’ 5-3 season-ending loss to the Toronto Arenas, but finishes the first NHL season with a League-high 44 goals in 22 games. The 44 goals remains an NHL record that stands until 1944-45, when Maurice Richard scores 50 goals in 50 games.

1921 — Kentucky beats Georgia 20-19 in the Southern Intercollegiate men’s basketball championship game in Atlanta. The 14-team conference does not keep formal regular season standings. It’s college basketball’s first tournament.

1929 — The Chicago Black Hawks score a goal to snap their NHL record eight-game scoreless streak. Chicago scores twice to beat the Montreal Maroons 2-1.

1940 — Seabiscuit, ridden by Red Pollard, wins the Santa Anita Handicap in his final race. Beaten by a nose in both the 1937 and 1938 Santa Anita Handicaps, Seabiscuit beats Kayak II by 1 1-2 lengths to retire as the leading money-winning horse in the world.

1951 — In the first NBA All-Star Game, Ed Macauley of the Celtics scores 20 points to lead the East to a 111-94 victory at Boston Garden.

1951 — St. John’s Bob Zawoluk scores 65 points to lead the Redmen to a 105-61 rout of St. Peters. It’s the first time in its 43-year history that St. John’s scores over 100 points in a game.

1962 — Wilt Chamberlain scores an NBA-record 100 points to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to a 169-147 triumph over the New York Knicks. Chamberlain scores 59 second-half points and 28 points from the free-throw line for records.

1966 — Chicago’s Bobby Hull becomes the first NHL player to have two 50-goal seasons when he scores a third-period goal in the Black Hawks’ 5-4 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.

1969 — Boston’s Phil Esposito becomes the first NHL player to score 100 points in a season, scoring a goal in the Bruins’ 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

1991 — Chris Corchiani of North carolina State becomes first player in NCAA history to hand out 1,000 assists in a career. Corchiani, who has 12 assists in the game, gets the milestone with 1:16 left in the first half on a pass to Rodney Monroe. Wake Forest spoils the day with an 89-84 win.

1991 — Del Ballard Jr. throws the most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history in the finals of the Fair Lanes Open. Ballard, needing seven pins on his last roll to beat Pete Weber, gets none as his ball falls into the gutter. Weber wins 213-207, claiming the $30,000 first prize, while Ballard takes $15,500.

2011 — Pittsburgh overcomes a slow start to clinch at least a share of the Big East regular-season championship with a 66-50 win over South Florida. Pitt coach Jamie Dixon sets an NCAA Division I record for most victories in the first eight seasons of a career with 214 — one more than Everett Case had at North Carolina State and Roy Williams had at Kansas in their first eight years.

2012 — Major League Baseball expands its playoff format to 10 teams, adding a second wild-card in each league. The decision establishes a one-game, wild-card round in each league between the teams with the best records who are not division winners.

2018 — Kristina Vogel of Germany wins a record-tying 11th women’s world cycling title when she takes the individual sprint at the track world championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Vogel ties Anna Meares’ record for most women’s world titles.

2019 – 37-year-old Swiss 20-time Grand Slam tennis champion Roger Federer beats Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 to win his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Championships.

2024 — LeBron James becomes first player in NBA history to score 40,000 regular-season points as his L.A. Lakers slip to a 124-114 defeat to Denver Nuggets in Los Angeles.

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March 3

1920 — The Montreal Canadiens set an NHL record for most goals in a game with a 16-3 rout of the Quebec Bulldogs.

1951 — Temple’s Bill Mlkvy scores an NCAA-record 73 points in a 99-69 rout over Wilkes.

1966 — Buckpasser, ridden by Bill Shoemaker, wins the Flamingo Stakes by a nose. The colt is such a prohibitive favorite among the field of nine the race is declared a non-wagering contest. The race is known as “The Chicken Flamingo.”

1968 — Montreal’s Jean Beliveau becomes the second NHL player to score 1,000 career points with a goal in a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings.

1984 — Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, is elected commissioner of baseball by major league team owners.

1985 — Bill Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win $100 million in career purses after riding Lord at War to victory at the Santa Anita Handicap in Arcadia, Calif.

1985 — Kevin McHale of the Boston Celtics scores a team-record 56 points, making 22 of 28 shots in a 138-129 home victory over Detroit.

1987 — Mike Tyson adds the WBA heavyweight crown to his WBC heavyweight crown with a unanimous 12-round decision over James “Bonecrusher” Smith in Las Vegas.

2000 — Edward Fryatt ties a PGA Tour record with eight consecutive birdies in the second round of the Doral-Ryder Open. Fuzzy Zoeller did it in the 1976 Quad Cities Open, and Bob Goalby in the 1961 St. Petersburg Open.

2001 — A bloodied John Ruiz becomes the first Hispanic heavyweight champion by knocking down Evander Holyfield in the 11th round and earning a unanimous decision for the WBA title.

2012 — Wladimir Klitschko stops France’s Jean-Marc Mormeck in the fourth round to retain the WBA and IBF heavyweight titles. Klitschko is credited with the 50th KO of his career as he improves to 57-3.

2012 — No. 2 Syracuse beats No. 19 Louisville 58-49 to tie the Big East record for victories. The Orange (30-1, 17-1) match Connecticut’s 17 conference wins in 1995-96 and finishes the regular season with 30 wins for the first time in Jim Boeheim’s 36 years as coach.

2014 — LeBron James scores a career-high 61 points, breaking Glen Rice’s franchise record, and the Miami Heat defeat the Charlotte Bobcats 124-107.

2017 — Kyrie Irving scores 43 points, LeBron James has 38 and the Cleveland Cavaliers set the NBA regular-season record with 25 3-pointers in holding off the Atlanta Hawks 135-130.

2018 — Deontay Wilder survives a pummeling from Luis Ortiz, then knocks out the challenger in the 10th round to retain his WBC heavyweight title.

2024 — Iowa’s Caitlin Clark becomes the NCAA Division I all-time career scoring leader, surpassing Pete Maravich’s career total of 3,667. Her 35 points in win over visiting Ohio State brings her total to 3,685 and counting

March 4

1960 — Phil Latrielle of Middlebury scores an NCAA-record 10 goals in a 13-2 victory over Colgate. Latrielle, a three time All-American, would score a record 250 goals in the 85 games of his collegiate ice hockey career.

1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors registers his fifth straight 50-point game with 58 against the New York Knicks and sets a season scoring record with 3,921 points.

1968 — Joe Frazier wins the vacant New York world heavyweight title with an 11th-round TKO of Buster Mathis at Madison Square Garden.

1981 — Guy LaFleur of the Montreal Canadiens scores his 1,000th point with a goal in a 9-3 rout over the Winnipeg Jets.

1990 — Hank Gathers, one of two Division I players to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same season, dies after collapsing during Loyola Marymount’s West Coast Conference tournament game against Portland. He was 23.

2004 — Mianne Bagger makes sports history at the Women’s Australian Open as the first transsexual to play in a pro golf tournament.

2006 — Rafael Nadal ends top-ranked Roger Federer’s 56-match hardcourt winning streak with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory in the final of the Dubai Open.

2011 — Miikka Kiprusoff becomes the first goalie in 25 years to stop two penalty shots in a game and finishes with 37 saves, leading Calgary past Columbus 4-3.

2013 — Gonzaga, the small Northwest school that has delivered big NCAA tournament wins, is on top of The Associated Press’ Top 25 for the first time. Riding the best record in Division I at 29-2, the Bulldogs become the 57th school to be ranked No. 1 since the AP poll began in January 1949.

2013 — Brittney Griner scores a Big 12 single-game record 50 points in her final regular-season game at Baylor and leads the Bears to a 98-50 win over Kansas State.

2015 — Russell Westbrook becomes the first player since Michael Jordan in 1989 to have four consecutive triple-doubles and the first since Jordan that year to have back-to-back triple-doubles with at least 40 points. Westbrook sets career highs with 49 points and 16 rebounds, and adds 10 assists, helping the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Philadelphia 76ers 123-118 in overtime.

2017 — Marit Bjoergen wins world championship gold in the 30-kilometer classical race as Norway completes a sweep of women’s cross-country ski titles at the world championships in Lahti, Finland. Bjoergen takes her record 18th career gold medal and fourth of the championships. No country had won all women’s cross-country gold medals at a single world championships since Russia in 1997, when there were only five events, rather than the current six.

2017 — Austrian Marcel Hirscher stuns the world of Alpine skiing by locking up an unprecedented sixth straight overall World Cup He becomes the first male skier to win six overall titles. Hirscher’s 44th career win also secures him the giant slalom title.

2017 — Napheesa Collier scores 24 points and top-ranked UConn routed Tulsa 105-57 in the American Athletic Conference quarterfinals. The Huskies (30-0) extend their NCAA-record winning streak to 105 games and reach the 30-victory mark for the 12th consecutive season.

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March 5

1924 — Frank Carauna, of Buffalo, N.Y., becomes the first to bowl two straight perfect 300 games. Carauna throws five strikes to open his third game, giving him 29 straight strikes.

1931 — WGL radio broadcasts the first game of the American Basketball League championship series. The Brooklyn Visitations beat the Fort Wayne Hoosiers 14-10 in the first professional basketball game to be broadcast live on radio.

1960 — Carol Heiss wins the ladies title at the World Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver.

1965 — Ernest Terrell wins the world heavyweight title with a unanimous 15-round decision over Eddie Machen in Chicago.

1973 — New York Yankee pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich announce that they’ve swapped wives and children.

1981 — Scott Hamilton wins the men’s title at the World Figure Skating Championships held in Hartford, Conn.

1985 — Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders scores his 50th goal, becoming the first NHL player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons.

2004 — Ottawa and Philadelphia combine for an NHL-record 419 penalty minutes, with the Flyers setting a single-team mark with 213. There are five consecutive brawls in the final two minutes, including one involving both goalies. The previous record for penalty minutes was 406 by the Minnesota North Stars and Boston Bruins in 1981. The Flyers beat the Senators 5-3.

2016 — Makai Mason scores 22 points to lead Yale to a 71-55 victory over Columbia, clinching the Bulldogs’ first NCAA Men’s Tournament bid since 1962. The Bulldogs shared the Ivy championship last year with Harvard, but lost the playoff game with the Crimson. The win ends the second longest NCAA drought of any team that has made the tournament previously.

2016 — Clemson beats Boston College 66-50, completing the Eagles’ winless regular season in Atlantic Coast Conference play. The Eagles (7-24, 0-18) are the first men’s ACC team to go winless in their conference regular-season games since Maryland went 0-14 in 1986-87. Worse, BC’s football team went 0-8 in league play, making the school the first in ACC history to go winless in both sports in the same academic year.

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March 6

1920 — Mickey Roach of Toronto scores five goals to lead the St. Patrick’s to an 11-2 rout of the Quebec Bulldogs.

1964 — Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to ”Muhammad Ali″, calling his former title a “slave name”.

1976 — Dorothy Hamill wins the World Figure Skating Championships in Goteberg, Sweden.

1977 — Montclair State’s Carol Blazejowski scores 52 points against Queens College, setting a new collegiate scoring record (for men or women) in the current Madison Square Garden in New York.

1982 — The San Antonio Spurs and Milwaukee Bucks combine for 337 points in the highest scoring game in NBA history, to that point. The Spurs win, 171-166, in three overtimes.

1983 — The 12-team United States Football League begins its first season with five games.

1984 — Dale Hawerchuck of the Winnipeg Jets sets the NHL record for most assists in one period, with five in the second period of a 7-3 triumph over the Los Angeles Kings.

1988 — Julie Krone becomes the winningest female jockey in history with her 1,205th career victory. Krone rides a filly named Squawter to victory in the ninth race at Aqueduct Racetrack.

1996 — Detroit’s Chris Osgood becomes the third goalie in NHL history to score a goal, firing the puck into an empty net with 11 seconds remaining in the Red Wings’ 4-2 victory over Hartford.

2000 — Shaquille O’Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers scores an NBA season-high 61 points and had 23 rebounds in a 123-103 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.

2001 — George Mason beats North Carolina-Wilmington 35-33 in the second-lowest scoring game in the shot-clock era of NCAA basketball.

2010 — Devin Harris scores 31 points and the New Jersey Nets erased an early 16-point deficit to beat New York 113-93. The Knicks miss all 18 attempts in the most futile 3-point shooting night in league history.

2011 — Lindsey Vonn clinches her third discipline title in three days with a super-G victory to wrap up a memorable weekend of ski racing in Tarvisio, Italy. Vonn took the super-combined and downhill titles the previous two days.

2014 — The Los Angeles Clippers rout the rival Los Angeles Lakers 142-94. It’s the most lopsided victory ever for the Clippers’ franchise and the most one-sided loss in Lakers history.

2015 — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is suspended for nine games, with the school punished for ignoring the “most fundamental core values of the NCAA” for academic, drug and other violations committed primarily by the men’s basketball program. The school is put on probation for five years and the basketball team is forced to vacate 108 wins in which ineligible players participated.

2015 — Shane Walsh scores the winning goal in the fifth overtime to lead UMass to a 4-3 victory over Notre Dame in the longest game in NCAA Division I ice hockey history.

2019 — LeBron James scores his 32,293rd point in the 2nd quarter of a Lakers’ 115-99 loss to Denver in LA to pass Michael Jordan into 4th place on the NBA all-time point scoring list.

NUMBERS IN SPORTS

4 – 9 – 7 – 26

March 1, 1903 – A rule revision was unveiled by the Major League Baseball Rules Committee. The new standard stated that pitcher’s mound must not be more than 15 inches higher in elevation than the baselines or home plate.

March 1, 1910 – National Baseball Commission prohibited giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams. The reasoning as to why has since been lost to time. Sports Casting.com Website shares that the decision was later reversed, as the 1922 New York Giants received rings for their World Series title.

March 1, 1919 – Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Newsy Lalonde, wearing the Number 4 sweater, set an NHL playoff record with 5 goals in the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over Ottawa in NHL Championship Game 3 in Montreal

March 1, 1954 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams, Number 9 fractured his collarbone on the first day of Boston Red Sox spring training. That unexpected injury kept the brilliant slugging left fielder  out of Red Sox lineup through the middle of May that season.

March 1, 1967 – MLB Commissioner William Eckert approved the Baseball Writers Association of America’s plan to name a Cy Young Award recipient from both the National and American Leagues.

March 1, 1969 – New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle, Number 7 announces his retirement due to persistent knee injury. The future hall of Fame nominee finished 18-season career with 536 home runs and .298 batting average, many All-Star selections and was a 3-time American League MVP.

March 1, 1969 – Number 7, Phil Esposito has a goal and assist in Boston Bruins’ 8-5 win over NY Rangers to give him 99 points for the season, breaking the NHL record for most points in a season (97) held by Stan Mikita

March 1, 1970 – Minnesota North Stars coach Charlie Burns becomes the final player/coach in NHL history.  He set this mark when he played in the North Stars’ 8-0 win over Toronto Maple Leafs and wore the jersey Number 9, and in fact he remained in the dual role for the club for the entire final month of the season.

March 1, 1970 – The Boston Bruin’s Bobby Orr, Number 4 became the first defenseman in NHL history to score 25 goals in a season during a 3-1 Boston victory over the visiting St. Louis Blues.

March 1, 1986 – Quebec Nordiques  star, Number 26, Peter Stastny becomes just the second player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons, with an assist in an 8-4 Nordiques’ loss to the visiting Buffalo Sabres

FOOTBALL HISTORY

1893 – Rawlings Brothers’ store was destroyed by an accidental gunpowder explosion.  The store sold some sporting goods but mainly ammo and firearms. This made the Rawlings brothers to go from a brick and mortar store to a catalog company and propelled them into manufacturing sporting equipment including football safety equipment and footballs. 

1883 – Muskegon, Michigan – The brilliant Yale end, Tom Shevlin arrived into this world. Click his name for more info!

1884 – Vince Stevenson the University of Pennsylvania quarterback in the early 1900’s was born. We have more on this Hall of Famer by clicking his name.

1926 – Pete Rozelle attended Compton Junior College and then served as a the University of San Francisco’s Sports Information Director. He later became the General Manager of the Los Angeles Rams. In 1960 after the sudden and unexpected death of NFL Commissioner Bert Bell, Rozelle became the surprise successor to lead the NFL. According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Rozelle’s accomplishments are legendary, and the NFL’s many challenges during his tenure are well documented. Pete guided the League through such items as blockbuster television contracts, the war with the competing American Football League and the resulting merger, the development of the Super Bowl into America’s premier sporting event and even difficult player issues including strikes and threatened strikes. The NFL became stronger and stronger during his tenure. The Pro Football Hall of Fame named Pete Rozelle as an enshrined contributor in 1985 after 30 seasons of service.

1946 – Trenton, New Jersey – The feared defensive end of North Carolina A&T, Elvin Bethea arrived into this world. Bethea was the Houston Oiler third round pick in the 1968 Draft and played for 16 seasons in pro football.  Unofficially, because it was not a stat during his career, Elvin is the franchise’s career sack leader with 105 career QB takedowns behind the line of scrimmage. He was an All-Pro second team four times and played in 8 Pro Bowl games. At the 2003 Enshrinement ceremonies in Canton, Ohio, Elvin Bethea was named for entrance into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

2006 – Camden, New Jersey – The outstanding Nebraska halfback, Mike Rozier was born. The NFF states that Rozier rushed for 973 yards in 1981 as a sophomore and was not the feature back of the offense. The following year he became a consensus All-America as he ran for 1,689 yards, and 15 touchdowns. In 1983 his senior year, Rozier was part of a team that averaged over 50 points per game. Mike’s contributions included a nation leading 2,148 yards on the ground, as he was college football’s top dog with 2,486 all-purpose yards and a 7.8 yards per carry average. He also scored an eye popping 29 touchdowns with 11 games where he exceeded the 100-yard mark in rushing. Mike Rozier’s collegiate gridiron accomplishments are forever remembered as in 2006 they were inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY

1903    The rules committee sets the height of the pitcher mound (box) to a maximum of fifteen inches. In 1969, the maximum elevation will drop to ten inches due to last season’s dominating pitching, which saw batting averages plummet to all-time lows.

1909    The Pirates begin constructing a new ballpark near Schenley Park near the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. The spacious state-of-the-art venue, named a Forbes Field in honor of a pre-Revolutionary British general, will never have a no-hitter thrown in its spacious confines during the sixty-one years the Bucs call the ballpark home, a span of more than 4,700 games.

1947    Father Vincent Powell announces the diocese’s Catholic Youth Organization will no longer participate in the Dodgers’ Knothole Club, stating the church cannot continue to have their youngsters associated with the team’s manager, Leo Durocher. The monsignor, who has been the director of the local CYO since 1940, believes the Brooklyn skipper “represents an example in complete contradiction” to the faith’s moral teachings.

1949    As a ploy to increase their rental income, the Browns evict the Cardinals, their Sportsman’s Park tenants. The Redbirds accuse the owners of breaking the lease, and as the season approaches, it is uncertain where the St. Louis National League team will play its home games.

1954    After surviving two plane crashes serving in Korea, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams breaks his collarbone on the first day of spring training when he stumbles in the outfield fielding a line drive during batting practice. The Boston superstar, who hit .407 in 37 games at the end of the season after flying thirty-nine combat missions as a Marine pilot, will miss the season’s first four weeks.

1961    After leaving the Oval Office six weeks ago, former President Dwight Eisenhower jokes with the Angel players before an intra-squad game. Ike will sit in the dugout with the newly established expansion team during the five-inning scrimmage.

1967    Commissioner William Eckert approves the BBWAA’s plan to select a Cy Young Award recipient from the National League and American League. The honor, initiated in 1956, had been given to just one pitcher in the major leagues each season, a position strongly supported by former commissioner Ford Frick.

1969    “I can’t play anymore. I can’t hit the ball when I need to. I can’t score from second base when I need to.” – MICKEY MANTLE , Yankee legend lamenting on his ability to play the game. Citing “I can’t hit when I need to,” Mickey Mantle announces his retirement, thus ending his fabled Hall of Fame career. The oft-injured Yankee slugger ranks third, behind Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, on the all-time home run list with 536 round-trippers and finishes his 18-year stay in the majors with a .298 batting average.

1987    Charlie Kerfeld and the Astros finally agree on a one-year contract worth $110,037.37 and 37 boxes of orange Jello, planned for use in future pranks. The Houston reliever, who wears number 37, insisted he earned more than right-hander Jim Deshaies, and the reliever’s new deal pays him $37.37 more than his teammate.

1993    Major League Baseball reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner two and a half years after accepting a lifelong ban from involvement in the team’s day-to-day operation. ‘The Boss’ had been exiled from baseball by commissioner Fay Vincent in 1990 for hiring Howie Spira, a known gambler, to snoop into the life of star outfielder Dave Winfield.

1994    Leonard Coleman, MLB’s executive director of market development, is elected the National League president, replacing the retiring Bill White. The position will be eliminated in 1999, making the former banker the last person to hold the position.

1995    In an evening exhibition game, the Angels, using replacement players, beat the Arizona State University Sun Devils squad, 13-5. The Tempe (AZ) contest marks the first time since 1912 that replacement players participate in a major league game and the only time the team has worn big league uniforms.

1999    In the episode “Big Shots” of the Everybody Loves Raymond show, security kicks out fictional Newsday sports writer Ray Barone, played by Ray Romano, from an event honoring the Mets’ 1969 World Series championship team. The guards at Hall Fame lose their patience when the title character, who insists on using his journalist’s credentials to avoid the wait, refuses to get in line with the fans waiting to meet their heroes, including Tug McGraw and Art Shamsky.

2005    Deciding not to file as a free agent at the end of the season, Tim Hudson (12-6, 3.53) agrees to a four-year, $47-million contract extension with his new team, the Braves. The 29-year-old right-hander, acquired in a trade with Oakland in the off-season, grew up near Atlanta and rooted for the local team as a youngster.

2005    The Cubs announce construction for an additional 1,790 bleacher seats at Wrigley Field, which will begin at the season’s end and be ready for Opening Day next year. A deal is reached for the expansion when the team agrees to pay the city $3.1 million before starting the project, contributing the funds for a local school park and a $400,000 traffic signal system near the ballpark.

2009    Insisting there was no wrongdoing on his part, Jim Bowden resigns as the Nationals’ general manager. The Washington GM is part of a federal probe investigating scouts and executives who accepted kickbacks from baseball bonuses intended for players signed in Latin America.

2012    After spending 15 seasons, including serving as the team captain for the past seven, Red Sox backstop Jason Varitek announces his retirement, leaving only Carl Yastrzemski (23), Ted Williams (19), and Jim Rice (16) with longer tenures with the team without playing for another franchise. The venerable catcher, ninth on the all-time franchise list with 1,546 games, is the only major league player to participate in the Little League World Series, the College World Series, the World Series, the Olympics, and the World Baseball Classic.

2012    Yadier Molina signs a five-year extension with the Cardinals worth $75 million, an agreement to keep the Gold Glove catcher with the world champions through 2017. This new contract, which takes effect next season, includes a mutual $15 million option that could add another year to the deal.

2019    Bryce Harper reaches a free-agent deal with the Phillies for 13 years and $330 million, the largest guaranteed contract for a baseball player. The 26-year-old six-time All-Star’s historic agreement eclipses the 13-year, $325 million contract extension Giancarlo Stanton signed with the Marlins in November of 2014, a deal Mike Trout surpasses in a few weeks when the Angels give $426.5 million over 12 years.

TV SPORTS SATURDAY

MLB SPRING TRAINING	TIME ET	TV
Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore	1:05pm	MLBN
San Francisco vs. LA Dodgers	3:05pm	MLBN
NBA REGULAR SEASON	TIME ET	TV
Washington Wizards vs Charlotte Hornets	6:00pm	MNMT FanDuel Sports CHA
Brooklyn Nets vs Detroit Pistons	7:00pm	FanDuel Sports DET YES
San Antonio Spurs vs Memphis Grizzlies	8:00pm	KENS FanDuel Sports MEM
Sacramento Kings vs Houston Rockets	8:00pm	NBCS-CA SCHN
Milwaukee Bucks vs Dallas Mavericks	8:30pm	KFAA FanDuel Sports WI
Golden State Warriors vs Philadelphia 76ers	8:30pm	ABC ESPN+
NHL REGULAR SEASON	TIME ET	TV
Nashville Predators vs New York Islanders	12:30 pm	NHLN MSGSN FanDuel Sports South
Tampa Bay Lightning vs Washington Capitals	12:30pm	ESPN+ FanDuel Sports Sun MNMT
Calgary Flames vs Florida Panthers	3:00pm	NHLN Scripps Sportsnet
Boston Bruins vs Pittsburgh Penguins	3:00pm	ABC ESPN+
Detroit Red Wings vs Columbus Blue Jackets	6:00pm	ESPN+ FanDuel Sports DET FanDuel Sports Ohio
Philadelphia Flyers vs Winnipeg Jets	7:00pm	NHLN NBCS-PHI Sportsnet
Edmonton Oilers vs Carolina Hurricanes	7:00pm	ESPN+ FanDuel Sports South Sportsnet
San Jose Sharks vs Ottawa Senators	7:00pm	ESPN+ Sportsnet NBCS-CA
Montreal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres	7:00pm	NHLN MSG-BUF Sportsnet
Los Angeles Kings vs St. Louis Blues	8:00pm	ESPN+ FanDuel Sports MW KCAL
New Jersey Devils vs Utah Hockey Club	9:00pm	ESPN+ Utah16 MSGSN
Vancouver Canucks vs Seattle Kraken	10:00pm	NHLN KONG Sportsnet
Chicago Blackhawks vs Anaheim Ducks	10:00pm	ESPN+ CHSN Victory+
MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL	TIME ET	TV
UConn at Providence	12:00pm	CBS
Butler at Villanova	12:00pm	FOX
Saint Joseph’s at Fordham	12:00pm	USA
Clemson at Virginia	12:00pm	ESPN
Miami (FL) at North Carolina	12:00pm	ESPN2
Syracuse at Virginia Tech	12:00pm	CW
Maryland at Penn State	12:00pm	BTN
American at Colgate	12:00pm	CBSSN
Auburn at Kentucky	1:00pm	ABC
Arkansas at South Carolina	1:00pm	SECN
LIU at Fairleigh Dickinson	1:00pm	NEC Front Row
Lafayette at Boston University	1:00pm	ESPN+
Lehigh at Army West Point	1:00pm	ESPN+
Chattanooga at VMI	1:00pm	ESPN+
ETSU at The Citadel	1:00pm	ESPN+
Miami (OH) at Ohio	1:00pm	ESPN+
Youngstown State at Northern Kentucky	1:00pm	ESPN+
Vermont at UMBC	1:00pm	ESPN+
Binghamton at UMass Lowell	1:00pm	ESPN+
Texas Tech at Kansas	2:00pm	ESPN/2
Oklahoma at Ole Miss	2:00pm	ESPN/2
Minnesota at Nebraska	2:00pm	BTN
Tulane at Tulsa	2:00pm	ESPNU
Richmond at Dayton	2:00pm	CBSSN
George Mason at Duquesne	2:00pm	ATTSN-PIT
North Carolina A&T at Hofstra	2:00pm	MSG
Monmouth at Drexel	2:00pm	NBCS-PHI
Chicago State at Saint Francis U	2:00pm	NEC Front Row
Bucknell at Holy Cross	2:00pm	ESPN+
Furman at Wofford	2:00pm	ESPN+
Ball State at Bowling Green	2:00pm	ESPN+
Bryant at Maine	2:00pm	ESPN+
UAlbany at NJIT	2:00pm	ESPN+
Jacksonville State at FIU	2:00pm	ESPN+
Charleston Southern at Radford	2:00pm	ESPN+
Gardner-Webb at Presbyterian	2:00pm	ESPN+
Oral Roberts at Omaha	2:00pm	Summit
Northeastern at William & Mary	2:00pm	FloSports
Seton Hall vs. St. John’s	2:15pm	CBS
Wright State vs. IU Indianapolis	2:30pm	ESPN+
NC State at Georgia Tech	3:00pm	ACCN
UCF at TCU	3:00pm	ESPN+
Abilene Christian at UTA	3:00pm	ESPN+
South Dakota State at Denver	3:00pm	Summit
UIW at East Texas A&M	3:15pm	ESPN+
LSU at Mississippi State	3:30pm	SECN
Alabama A&M at Alabama State	3:30pm	HBCU Go
Louisiana Tech at Sam Houston	3:30pm	ESPN+
Alabama at Tennessee	4:00pm	ESPN
Purdue Fort Wayne at Cleveland State	4:00pm	ESPN2
Utah State at Colorado State	4:00pm	FS1
Samford at UNCG	4:00pm	ESPNU
USC at Oregon	4:00pm	BTN
Loyola Chicago at Saint Louis	4:00pm	CBSSN
Hampton at Towson	4:00pm	MNMT
Prairie View A&M at Alcorn State	4:00pm	SWACN
Air Force at New Mexico	4:00pm	MWN
Howard at North Carolina Central	4:00pm	ESPN+
Coppin State at Delaware State	4:00pm	ESPN+
Detroit Mercy at Milwaukee	4:00pm	ESPN+
Brown at Dartmouth	4:00pm	ESPN+
Yale at Harvard	4:00pm	ESPN+
Lindenwood at Tennessee Tech	4:00pm	ESPN+
Loyola Maryland at Navy	4:00pm	ESPN+
Middle Tennessee at UTEP	4:00pm	ESPN+
UNC Asheville at Winthrop	4:00pm	ESPN+
Montana State at Sacramento State	4:00pm	ESPN+
Southern Utah at Utah Valley	4:00pm	ESPN+
Creighton at Xavier	4:30pm	FOX
Cincinnati at Houston	4:30pm	CBS
Texas Southern at Jackson State	4:30pm	SWACN
Le Moyne at Stonehill	4:30pm	NEC Front Row
Little Rock at SIUE	4:30pm	ESPN+
Morehead State at UT Martin	4:30pm	ESPN+
Southeast Missouri at Eastern Illinois	4:30pm	ESPN+
Southern Indiana at Tennessee State	4:30pm	ESPN+
Western Carolina at Mercer	4:30pm	ESPN+
Houston Christian at Northwestern State	4:30pm	ESPN+
Western Michigan at Northern Illinois	4:30pm	ESPN+
Toledo at Buffalo	4:30pm	ESPN+
SMU at Stanford	5:00pm	ACCN
Portland at San Diego	5:00pm	ESPN+
Montana at Portland State	5:00pm	ESPN+
Idaho State at Eastern Washington	5:00pm	ESPN+
Weber State at Idaho	5:00pm	ESPN+
CSU Bakersfield at Cal Poly	5:00pm	ESPN+
North Dakota at South Dakota	5:00pm	Summit
Notre Dame at Wake Forest	5:30pm	CW
Southern at Bethune-Cookman	5:30pm	YouTube
Southeastern Louisiana at A&M-Corpus Christi	5:30pm	ESPN+
New Orleans at UTRGV	5:30pm	ESPN+
Pitt at Louisville	6:00pm	ESPN2
Central Connecticut at Wagner	6:00pm	ESPNU
Missouri at Vanderbilt	6:00pm	SECN
Elon at Stony Brook	6:00pm	CBSSN
Campbell at Charleston	6:00pm	WCBD
Indiana at Washington	6:00pm	Peacock
Rhode Island at UMass	6:00pm	ESPN+
La Salle at George Washington	6:00pm	ESPN+
Penn at Columbia	6:00pm	ESPN+
Nicholls at Stephen F. Austin	6:00pm	ESPN+
Florida State at Duke	7:00pm	ACCN
UAPB at Mississippi Valley State	7:00pm	YouTube
Boise State at Fresno State	7:00pm	MWN
Oakland at Green Bay	7:00pm	ESPN+
McNeese at Lamar	7:00pm	ESPN+
Arizona State at Utah	7:00pm	ESPN+
WKU at NM State	7:00pm	ESPN+
Longwood at USC Upstate	7:00pm	ESPN+
Santa Clara at Pacific	7:00pm	ESPN+
Delaware at UNCW	7:00pm	FloSports
Georgia at Texas	8:00pm	ESPN2
San Diego State at Wyoming	8:00pm	CBSSN
Marquette at Georgetown	8:00pm	Peacock
Oklahoma State at Baylor	8:00pm	ESPN+
UC Santa Barbara at CSUN	8:00pm	ESPN+
Kansas City at St. Thomas	8:00pm	Summit
Texas A&M at Florida	8:30pm	SECN
Arizona at Iowa State	9:00pm	ESPN
Northern Colorado at Northern Arizona	9:00pm	ESPN+
California Baptist at Utah Tech	9:00pm	ESPN+
West Virginia at BYU	10:00pm	ESPN2/U
Boston College at California	10:00pm	ESPN2/U
Oregon State at Saint Mary’s	10:00pm	CBSSN
Washington State at Pepperdine	10:00pm	ESPN+
Grand Canyon at Seattle U	10:00pm	ESPN+
Cal State Fullerton at UC San Diego	10:00pm	ESPN+
Long Beach State at UC Irvine	10:00pm	ESPN+
Gonzaga vs. San Francisco	11:00pm	ESPN
UC Davis at Hawai’i	11:59pm	ESPN+
WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL	TIME ET	TV
Virginia at Johns Hopkins	12:00pm	ESPNU
Maryland at Notre Dame	1:00pm	ACCN
MOTORSPORTS	TIME ET	TV
NASCAR Xfinity Series at Circuit of the Americas	2:30pm	CW
GOLF	TIME ET	TV
DP World Tour: SA Open	5:30am	GOLF
PGA Tour: Cognizant Classic	1:00pm	GOLF
PGA Tour: Cognizant Classic	3:00pm	NBC
LPGA Tour: Women’s World Championship	9:30pm	GOLF
SOCCER	TIME ET	TV
FA Cup: Crystal Palace vs Millwall	7:15am	ESPN+
FA Cup: Preston North End vs Burnley	7:15am	ESPN+
La Liga: Girona vs Celta de Vigo	8:00am	ESPN+ fuboTV
Serie A: Atalanta vs Venezia	9:00am	Paramount+ fuboTV
Bundesliga: Heidenheim vs Borussia M’gladbach	9:30am	ESPN+
Bundesliga: RB Leipzig vs Mainz 05	9:30am	ESPN+
Bundesliga: Bochum vs Hoffenheim	9:30am	ESPN+
Bundesliga: Werder Bremen vs Wolfsburg	9:30am	ESPN+
Bundesliga: St. Pauli vs Borussia Dortmund	9:30am	ESPN+
FA Cup: AFC Bournemouth vs Wolverhampton Wanderers	10:00am	ESPN+
La Liga: Rayo Vallecano vs Sevilla	10:15am	ESPN+ fuboTV
Ligue 1: Saint-Étienne vs Nice	11:00am	Fanatiz beIN Sports
Serie A: Napoli vs Internazionale	12:00pm	Paramount+ fuboTV
La Liga: Real Betis vs Real Madrid	12:30pm	ESPN+ fuboTV
FA Cup: Manchester City vs Plymouth Argyle	12:45pm	ESPN+
Bundesliga: Eintracht Frankfurt vs Bayer Leverkusen	12:30pm	ESPN+
Ligue 1: Lens vs Le Havre	1:00pm	Fanatiz beIN Sports
MLS: Charlotte vs Atlanta United	2:00pm	FOX fuboTV MLS Season Pass
Serie A: Udinese vs Parma	2:45pm	Paramount+ fuboTV
La Liga: Atlético Madrid vs Athletic Club	3:00pm	ESPN+ fuboTV
Ligue 1: PSG vs Lille	3:05pm	Fanatiz beIN Sports
MLS: Real Salt Lake vs Seattle Sounders FC	4:30pm	MLS Season Pass
Liga MX: Necaxa vs Tigres UANL	6:00pm	VIX
MLS: New England vs Columbus Crew	7:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: New York RB vs Nashville SC	7:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: Orlando City SC vs Toronto FC	7:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: Philadelphia Union vs Cincinnati	7:30pm	MLS Season Pass
Liga MX: León vs Tijuana	8:00pm	VIX
Liga MX: América vs Toluca	8:05pm	VIX fuboTV
MLS: Chicago Fire vs DC United	8:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: Minnesota United vs CF Montréal	8:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: Sporting KC vs SJ Earthquakes	8:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: Colorado Rapids vs Dallas	9:30pm	MLS Season Pass
Liga MX: Pumas UNAM vs Guadalajara	10:10pm	VIX
MLS: Los Angeles FC vs New York City	10:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: Portland Timbers vs Austin	10:30pm	MLS Season Pass
MLS: San Diego vs St. Louis City	10:30pm	MLS Season Pass