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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer Few expected Benfica to make much of a run in the Champions League when it began its campaign in the third qualifying round in August. The Portuguese team was coming off a poor season by its standards and expectations were low. But now the traditional club is in great

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cameron Gooden scored 22 points and Frank Staine scored 18 points and Utah Tech surprised Stephen F. Austin 80-76 in overtime in a Western Athletic Conference Tournament opener. Dancell Leter threw down a dunk to start the extra session and Utah Tech led for the remainder. Latrell Jossell scored 17 points

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Brantly Stevenson scored 28 points and Cal Poly erupted in the second half and went on to beat Long Beach State 88-68 in an opening-round contest in the Big West Conference Tournament. Long Beach State led 40-35 at halftime before Cal Poly unleashed a 53-point second half and cruised to the

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — RaeQuan Battle scored 17 points and his dunk off a lob from Darius Brown II with 1.6 seconds left in the second overtime lifted Montana State past Weber State 60-58in a Big Sky Conference semifinal matchup. Battle then blocked Steven Verplancken Jr.’s shot attempt as time expired. Dillon Jones scored 18

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Patrick Gardner scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Marist controlled from the start beating Manhattan 61-50 in an opening round contest of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament. After a 36-17 Marist lead in the first half, Manhattan closed within four on two occasions — 48-44 and 50-46

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis had 30 points and 22 rebounds, Dennis Schröder added 17 points and nine assists, and the Los Angeles Lakers moved into ninth place in the Western Conference with a 112-103 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies. Rui Hachimura and Austin Reaves scored 17 points

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Jared McCann scored his fifth goal in the past five games, Daniel Sprong scored for the first time since Jan. 17, and the Seattle Kraken beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Tuesday night for their fifth straight win. Back home after sweeping a four-game road trip,

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Demarcus Sharp scored 31 points and distributed nine assists and Northwestern State beat New Orleans 74-70 in Southland Conference semifinal tournament contest. Jamond Vincent’s three-point play with 5:49 left brought New Orleans to a 62-all tie, but Isaac Haney countered with a 3-pointer 16 seconds late and the Demons stayed

By The Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. — Led by Antavion Collum’s 16 points, the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners defeated the CSU Northridge Matadors 51-47 in a Big West Conference Tournament opener.

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Gonzaga’s players heard the criticisms this wasn’t the same Bulldogs team that has been among the nation’s elite in recent years, and they even struggled themselves to live up to the program’s enormous expectations. “There were numerous days where I was not fun to be

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 33 points, Josh Giddey had the seventh triple-double of his career and third of the season, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Golden State Warriors 137-128. Giddey finished with 17 points, a career-high 17 assists and 11 rebounds as the Thunder

DALLAS (AP) — Kyrie Irving hit a clutch 3-pointer and scored 17 of his 33 points in the fourth quarter, and Luka Doncic added 29 points and 10 rebounds as the Dallas Mavericks beat the short-handed Utah Jazz 120-116. Utah trailed 118-115 with 3.7 seconds to play when Talen Horton-Tucker was fouled and sent to

By TYLER MASON Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Tyler Toffoli scored in the sudden death round of the shootout to send the Calgary Flames to a 1-0 win over the Minnesota Wild. Toffoli beat Wild goalie Filip Gustavsson five-hole to end Tuesday’s game, which nearly ended in overtime. Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon appeared

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Cale Makar and Valeri Nichushkin each had a goal and three assists to help the Colorado Avalanche snap a three-game slide with a 6-0 rout of the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night. Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Denis Malgin and Artturi Lehkonen also got into the

MONTREAL (AP) — Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of the shootout, and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-3. Brent Burns and Teuvo Teraivainen also scored in the tiebreaker for the Hurricanes, and Rem Pitlick and Nick Suzuki tallied for the Canadiens. Jaccob Slavin, Brady Skjei and

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Max Abmas scored 26 points and distributed 11 assists and Oral Roberts overwhelmed North Dakota State 92-58 in the Summit League Tournament championship game clinching an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. Reserve Patrick Mwamba’s 17 points in 13 minutes before intermission and his six field goals (three from 3-point