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CHICAGO (AP) — Bruce Thornton scored 17 points and Roddy Gayle Jr. had all nine of his points in the final six minutes to help give 13th-seeded Ohio State to a 73-69 win over fifth-seeded Iowa in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday. Brice Sensabaugh added 16 points, Justice Sueing 14

SEATTLE (AP) — Alex DeBrincat scored the tiebreaking goal with less than three minutes remaining in the third period to give the Ottawa Senators a 5-4 win over the Seattle Kraken. Shane Pinto, Jakob Chychrun, Claude Giroux and Patrick Brown also scored for Ottawa. Mads Sogaard made 29 saves. Jared McCann scored twice and Vince

By CAMERON SALERNO Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Domantas Sabonis had 24 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for his ninth triple-double of the season, helping the Sacramento Kings hold off the New York Knicks 122-117 on Thursday night. The Kings are 7-1 since the NBA All-Star break to reach 39-26. Sabonis iced it,

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Noah Thomasson scored 18 points to lead Niagara to a 71-65 victory over Siena in the quarterfinal round of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament. Thomasson added five rebounds and five assists for the fifth-seeded Purple Eagles (16-14), who will play top-seeded Iona in Friday’s semifinals. Joe Kasperzyk had 16 points

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 21 points, Ryan Nembhard added 17 and No. 24 Creighton defeated Villanova 87-74 at the Big East Tournament in a rematch of last season’s championship game. The third-seeded Bluejays advanced to the semifinals Friday night at Madison Square Garden to

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Adrian Kempe and Phillip Danault each scored twice as the Los Angeles Kings beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 for their fifth straight win. Gabriel Vilardi also added a goal and Anze Kopitar had three assists for the Kings who remain tied with Vegas for the top

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Led by Messiah Thompson’s 27 points, the Alabama A&M Bulldogs defeated the Southern Jaguars 77-63 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament.

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Rookie Ivan Prosvetov stopped 39 shots, Brett Ritchie scored in his Arizona debut and the Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 4-1. The Coyotes recalled Prosvetov from Tucson of the AHL before the game to play in his seventh NHL game, first this season. The Russian

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Freshman Amiya Joyner converted the go-ahead three-point play with 1:30 to play and blocked a potential winning basket with 3.2 seconds left to give East Carolina a 46-44 win over Houston in the American Athletic Conference title game and the Pirates’ third NCAA Tournament berth. It was quite a struggle

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Oumar Ballo scored 24 points and No. 8 Arizona broke away late, beating Stanford 95-84 to reach the Pac-12 Conference Tournament semifinals. Cedric Henderson Jr. had 23 points and Azuolas Tubelis added 20 for the Wildcats, who are 26-6. They will play Arizona State on

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mike Miles and Chuck O’Bannon scored 22 points apiece and No. 22 TCU rolled to an 80-67 victory over No. 12 Kansas State to advance to the semifinals of the Big 12 Tournament. The Horned Frogs had been beaten by the Wildcats in four

FRISCO, Texas — Jordan Walker scored 27 points to lead UAB to an 87-60 romp over Rice in the quarterfinal round of the Conference USA Tournament. Walker buried 7 of 11 shots from 3-point range and all six of his free throws for the third-seeded Blazers (24-8), who have won six straight. UAB advances to

LAS VEGAS — Naje Smith scored six of his 18 points in overtime and No. 2 seed Boise State outlasted seventh-seeded UNLV 87-76 in the quarterfinal round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament. Smith added six rebounds for the Broncos (24-8), who will play the winner of the quarterfinal match-up between No. 3 seed Utah

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Nunge had 23 points and 10 rebounds, Colby Jones scored 22 and No. 15 Xavier needed a late comeback to beat DePaul 89-84 in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals. Souley Boum added 16 points for the second-seeded Musketeers, who trailed by 13 in the

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Tomi Taiwo led a balanced attack with 13 points and 10th-seeded TCU, winner of just one conference game, upended seventh-seeded Kansas 57-52 in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament. Five days after closing the regular season with an 84-61 home loss to Kansas, the Horned Frogs held the

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brook Lopez had 24 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high nine blocks and the Milwaukee Bucks outlasted the short-handed Brooklyn Nets 118-113 on Thursday night. The nine blocks are most by an NBA player this season. Bobby Portis added a season-high 28 points to go along

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Oilers escaped a scare when NHL scoring leader Connor McDavid limped off the ice late in Edmonton’s 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins. He left minutes after Darnell Nurse scored the tiebreaking goal with 4:49 remaining to lead Edmonton to a 3-2 victory. McDavid struggled

By JOHN KREISER Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex Martinez scored 3:09 into overtime to give the Vegas Golden Knights a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning. William Karlsson, Chandler Stephenson and Keegan Kolesa scored for Vegas. Jonathan Quick made 34 saves. Brayden Point scored twice and Nikita Kucherov added a goal for

By DICK SCANLON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Lauri Markkanen scored 31 points, Talen Horton-Tucker added 23 and the Utah Jazz snapped a four-game losing streak with a 131-124 win over the Orlando Magic. Simone Fontecchio scored 17 points for Utah, and rookie Walker Kessler’s 13 points and 10 rebounds included a crucial three-point