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CLEVELAND — MVP candidate Kevin Durant finished with 35 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 102-95 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena. Durant, the forward who is the league’s leading scorer at 31.9 points per game, scored 25 of more points for the […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Guard Shabazz Napier scored nine of his team-high 24 points in overtime as No. 7-seeded Connecticut outlasted No. 10 seed St. Joseph’s 89-81 Thursday night in an East Region NCAA Tournament second-round game at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo. The Huskies (27-8) advanced to the third round, where they will meet […]
MILWAUKEE – Guard Nik Stauskas sank three 3-pointers and surpassed the 1,000-point threshold for his career to lead No. 2-seeded Michigan in a 57-40 victory over No. 15 seed Wofford Thursday in a second-round Midwest Regional NCAA tournament game at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Stauskas led Michigan with 15 points. Forward Glenn Robinson III […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Senior forward Adreian Payne poured in a career-high 41 points Thursday afternoon to lead fourth-seeded Michigan State to a 93-78 win over 13th-seeded Delaware in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Payne sank 10 of 15 shots from the field, including four of five from 3-point range, and went 17-for-17 at […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Gators did not allow history to be made in their first game of the 2014 NCAA Tournament, but there were a few moments in the second half when the Albany Great Danes had people wondering whether a No. 16 seed could beat a No. 1. The answer was no. Florida’s […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Senior forward Adreian Payne poured in a career-high 41 points Thursday afternoon to lead fourth-seeded Michigan State to a 93-78 win over 13th-seeded Delaware in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Payne sank 10 of 15 shots from the field, including four of five from 3-point range, and went 17-for-17 at […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Forwards Dorian Finney-Smith and Casey Prather scored 16 points apiece as top-seeded Florida avoided an upset with a strong finish, defeating 16th-seeded Albany 67-55 Thursday in an NCAA Tournament second-round game at the Amway Center. Guard Scottie Wilbekin added 10 points for Florida, which needed a 3-pointer from Wilbekin and 3-of-4 shooting […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Harvard, which once went 66 years between NCAA Tournament appearances, waited just one year between upset victories in the event. The Crimson, seeded 12th in the West Regional, knocked off fifth-seeded Cincinnati 61-57 Thursday in second-round action at the Spokane Arena. Last year, Harvard was seeded 14th when the Ivy League squad […]
MILWAUKEE — It was a happy homecoming for Elgin Cook, who scored a season-high 23 points as Oregon beat BYU 87-68 on Thursday afternoon in an NCAA Tournament second-round West Regional game at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Cook, a Milwaukee native who was a City Conference player of the year as a junior at […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Guard Trevor Cooney scored 18 points, making 4-of-8 shots from 3-point range, as third-seeded Syracuse pummeled 14th-seeded Western Michigan, 77-53, on Thursday in the NCAA Tournament second round at First Niagara Center. The Orange (28-5) advance to a third-round game on Saturday against 11th-seeded Dayton, which upset sixth-seeded, Ohio State, 60-59 in […]
