By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer Perhaps the biggest surprise in this year's 68-team March Madness field is how few there were. Most of the 37 at-large teams expected to make the field did so and most of the bubble teams were left out as expected. No, it didn't make those hopeful of ...
By PATRICK DONNELLY Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Bo Groulx scored twice and the Toronto Maple Leafs held on for a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Sunday night. Morgan Rielly also scored and Matthew Knies added an empty-net goal for Toronto as Minnesota pushed to rally ...
By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Duke's Jon Scheyer rode a perimeter-driven lineup to last year's Final Four. He was willing to adjust when this year's team was hunting for its best form at midseason. Yet the Blue Devils are back in March Madness with a No. 1 seed in the East Region ...
By ANDREW DESTIN AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Bobby McMann had a power-play goal and added an assist in his second game for Seattle, and the Kraken beat the Florida Panthers 6-2 on Sunday night to move into the second wild-card spot in the West. McMann had two goals and an assist in ...
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer UConn edged UCLA as the No. 1 overall seed in women's NCAA Tournament when the bracket was announced Sunday night, Having the top spot in March Madness didn't really matter to Huskies coach Geno Auriemma as he looks to lead the team to another ...
By The Associated Press Let the madness begin! March Madness arrived Sunday evening when the NCAA released its 68-team tournament bracket, sending hundreds of thousands of fans scrambling to study college basketball before filling out their brackets before first-round games begin ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The team that went undefeated in the regular season, racked up more victories than anyone but Duke and Arizona — and fewer losses than any team at all — is anything but your run-of-the-mill basketball behemoth. In fact, Miami (Ohio), despite that 31-1 ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Quentin Grimes scored 14 of his season-high 31 points in the fourth quarter as the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers beat the Portland Trail Blazers 109-103 Sunday night. The Sixers were playing without Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Kelly Oubre Jr. due to injuries. Justin ...
By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Purdue closed the regular season with four losses in six games. It won four games in four days at the Big Ten Tournament. Oscar Cluff, Trey Kaufman-Renn and Braden Smith played a major role in the turnaround. But coach Matt Painter pointed to ...
By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Braden Smith ripped his jersey in frustration because he missed some early shots. His day was far from a loss. Smith found his touch, moved within one assist of the NCAA career record held by Bobby Hurley of Duke and helped No. 18 ...
By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Michigan earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2021 on Sunday and will lead the Big Ten's pursuit of its first national championship in men's basketball since 2000. The Wolverines (31-3) are the third overall seed behind Duke ...
By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Denny Hamlin returned to victory lane at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday for his first win since he lost the NASCAR championship four months ago, and first since the death of his father in a December house fire. "I knew it took a ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Defending national champion Florida's path to another Final Four could include a rematch with Houston, whom it beat in the final a year ago, only this time in a South Region finale that would be played just a short drive from the Cougars' campus. The ...
TORONTO (AP) — Brandon Ingram had a game-high 34 points and the Toronto Raptors defeated the Detroit Pistons 119-108 on Sunday. RJ Barrett added 27 points and six rebounds for Toronto, which has won back-to-back games. The win helped the Raptors hang on to sixth in the Eastern ...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Haydn Fleury scored his first goal in more than two years and added an assist, Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele each had their 31st goal and the Winnipeg Jets edged the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Sunday. Eric Comrie made 29 saves in his career-high 21st start of the ...
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Cooper Flagg scored 27 points, Naji Marshall added 25 and the Dallas Mavericks bounced back from a 33-point loss to Cleveland two days ago to defeat the Cavaliers 130-120 on Sunday afternoon. The Mavericks, who were routed 138-105 on Friday ...
By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John Calipari told his 17th-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks to use the Southeastern Conference Tournament title game to measure where they are before the NCAA Tournament. Nick Pringle disagreed, saying a league championship was on ...
By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 20 points and 10 assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 116-103 on Sunday for their eighth straight win. Gilgeous-Alexander barely extended his record streak of games ...
NICE, France (AP) — Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has won Paris-Nice, a year after crashing out of the weeklong race. The Visma-Lease a Bike leader, who built his success in the mountains earlier in the week, finished second in Sunday's final stage behind Bahrain ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jrue Holiday and Scoot Henderson each scored 25 points, Donovan Clingan had 21 points and 15 rebounds and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 124-114 on Friday night. With Golden State's loss to Minnesota, the Trail Blazers moved within a half-game of the ...