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Jan 14, 2019The Philadelphia 76ers will look for a second straight victory when they host the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night.The matchup is spicier because of the recent trade between the teams. The main piece in the trade was All-Star Jimmy Butler going to the Sixers. Minnesota received several players in return, highlighted by forwards Robert Covington and Dario Saric.It will be Butler's first game against his former team.The Timberwolves (21-22) are 17-13 since trading Butler, who is averaging 19.4 points this season.The Sixers (28-16) are coming off a 108-105 road win over the New York Knicks on Sunday, when Ben Simmons had one of the best games of his young career with 20 points, 22 rebounds and nine assists. Simmons wasn't quite able to post his eighth triple-double of the season, but he was incredibly active on both ends of the court."We have to lock down on defense and offensively take care of the ball," Simmons told reporters. "I think that's really it. Everyone really needs to be locked in." Simmons' 22 rebounds were a career high.Simmons, 22, also became the youngest player in Sixers history to post at least 20 points and 20 rebounds in the same game. In November of 1993, 21-year-old Shaquille O'Neal of the Orlando Magic had 24 points and 28 rebounds against the New Jersey Nets."An assist away from an incredible triple-double," Sixers head coach Brett Brown said of Simmons' performance against the Knicks. "The numbers are dominant." For the Sixers, this will be the start a difficult stretch against quality opponents."I'm excited," center Joel Embiid told reporters. "We're going to see how good we are and how good we can become or how bad we are. The next three weeks are going to shape our season." In Minnesota's last game, forward Karl-Anthony Towns had a monstrous performance with 27 points and a career-best 27 rebounds in a 110-106 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday."I just want to be the energy my team needs on a nightly basis," Towns told reporters after securing the most rebounds in a single game by any NBA player this season. "And if they need more, I've got to be able to bring it." Towns was 10 of 23 from the field and blocked four shots during his dominating game. Towns, who talked about being more aggressive before the game, became the fifth player in NBA history to post at least 27 points, 27 rebounds and four blocked shots in a game."Twenty-seven rebounds means you're really playing to win," Minnesota interim head coach Ryan Saunders said."And you're playing meaningful possessions where you understand that this was a win that we needed against a team that we're going to be fighting for for playoff positioning. So for Karl to say that and then come out and do it, that's a big testament to him." Timberwolves point guard Jeff Teague (11.7 points, 8.4 assists per game) suffered an ankle injury late in the first half. He came back briefly in the second half before sitting out. Teague's status for the game against the Sixers was unclear as Monday afternoon.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019PHILADELPHIA Joel Embiid had 31 points and 13 rebounds, and the Philadelphia 76ers scored 83 points in the first half in a 149-107 thrashing of the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night in Jimmy Butler's first game against his former team.The Golden State Warriors were the only team to score more first-half points in a game this season when they dropped 92 on the Chicago Bulls on Oct. 29. The Sixers hit a team-record 21 3-pointers and reached their highest point total in the 22-year history of the Wells Fargo Center.Butler scored 19 points in the first meeting with Minnesota since it sent him to the 76ers in a package deal that brought forwards Robert Covington and Dario Saric in return. Covington and Saric were popular core pieces of Philadelphia's Trust the Process rebuild and both received massive ovations from an appreciative crowd in tribute videos.The Sixers stuffed a season's worth of highlights in the first half. They cut to the hoop with ease for layups and big Ben Simmons dunks. They buried mostly uncontested 3-pointers - 10 of 20 in the half - and even made all 11 free throws.Simmons, who had 20 points and 11 rebounds, flexed and Embiid waved his arms to an adoring crowd after big baskets.The easy part was over.Yes, it was a breeze to thump the Timberwolves but the Sixers are a team still trying to make the Butler-Simmons-Embiid combination a Big 3 instead of a big mystery. The Sixers have a thin bench and are experimenting with rotations to find the right ones that can make them evolve into the Eastern Conference favorites they expected to become this season.''Fighting every single day for the souls and the spirit of the team is maybe the most important thing I can do,'' coach Brett Brown said. ''Maybe it's not at the place you wished it was. But it's also Jan. 15th. It's true. We've got some heavyweights coming in but so be it.'' The Sixers needed the breather against Minnesota. They play their next 12 games against teams with winning records and the Sixers are not quite where Brown wants them as they go toe-to-toe with those heavyweights.''Not to the level that I wished it was,'' Brown said. ''It's not anything that I'm panicking about.'' Sixers rookie general manager Elton Brand hits the Feb. 7 trade deadline with a major mission: strengthen the reserves. Former Sixers Marco Belinelli and Ersan Ilyasova steadied the Sixers last season as mid-season pickups and Brown needs more of that punch for a deep run in the East this season.''We understand we're going to need a little bit more from the bench as time unfolds and the serious side of the season begins,'' Brown said. ''We're all mindful of that and I think Elton is going to do a great job on helping us move forward.'' TIP-INSTimberwolves: Derrick Rose led the Timberwolves with 15 points and Saric had 11 in his return. Covington sat out with a knee injury. Tyus Jones left with an injury in the third quarter.76ers: Signed G Corey Brewer to a 10-day contract. He has career averages of 8.9 points and 2.8 rebounds in 783 games.WHAT A HALFThe team record for points in a first half is 86. The Sixers shot 66 percent (31 of 47) and had 21 assists on 31 baskets.JIMMY JAMButler had voiced his frustration with the state of the Timberwolves and was soon traded to the Sixers. The Sixers need more big games from him to contend.''There are times that I wished he'd shoot more 3s. There are times I wished he'd put this thumbprint deeper into the game,'' Brown said. ''But he plays the game the right way.'' SIR CHARLESSir Charles is ready for his close up.Charles Barkley, the 76ers great whose retired No. 34 hangs in the rafters, is set to play a substitute gym teacher in Wednesday's episode of ''The Goldbergs.'' ''In my gym, we've got two rules. Number one, we NEVER give up. Number two, aliens are real and they walk among us,'' he says in the episode.ZOO HOURSThe 76ers honored broadcaster Marc Zumoff for 25 years as the team broadcaster. Zumoff has called more than 1,800 regular-season and 61 playoff games during his tenure. He was feted with video tributes and replays of some of his top calls. Zumoff's likeness was on the pole pads on the stanchion of each basket.''He needs a trophy for that 10-win season and still showing some level of enthusiasm,'' Brown said.UP NEXTTimberwolves: Host San Antonio on Friday.76ers: Play Thursday at Indiana.---More NBA:?https://apnews.com/tag/NBA and?https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Jan 14, 2019The Phoenix Suns get a second consecutive shot to beat an NBA power, while the Indiana Pacers hope to continue to take advantage of a soft patch in their schedule when the clubs meet Tuesday night in Indianapolis.The Suns open a four-game trip riding the momentum of one of their best wins of the season, a 102-93 stunner at home on Saturday over the top team in the West, the Denver Nuggets.Rookie big man Deandre Ayton labeled the win an eye-opener."We were the aggressors today, not them," he told reporters after the win."We've got to keep doing that. That was a big win against a great team. Opened the league's eyes. Opened our eyes. We know we have it. We've just got to keep doing it and be consistent." Consistency has been a problem for the Suns (11-33). They have gone just 3-7 in the game immediately following their previous 10 wins, with all three victories coming in a four-game winning streak last month that featured a win at Boston.The Suns would like nothing better than to get on a roll this week, but that won't be easy. After the Pacers, they will visit the East's top team, the Toronto Raptors.Suns newcomer Kelly Oubre Jr. surely is well aware of the strength of teams such as the Pacers and Raptors. He played his first three-and-a-half seasons with Washington and already has made five visits in his career to Indiana, including one in December before getting traded. He scored 23 points in that game.Oubre has been a driving force in Phoenix's last two wins, scoring 26 points in each. He might have to carry a similar load Tuesday with high-scoring guard Devin Booker having missed the past three games with a bad back and possibly unavailable all week.Booker had 20 points and Ayton an 18-point, 12-rebound effort in a competitive effort in a 109-104 home loss to the Pacers in November. Myles Turner countered Ayton's double-double with one of his own, contributing 16 points and 13 rebounds to the Indiana win.But the Pacers' top big man has been out of action of late with a sore right shoulder, and although he's probable to return Tuesday, Indiana coach Nate McMillan assured that backup T. J. Leaf will continue to get playing time.McMillan noted at practice Sunday that Leaf, a second-year player out of UCLA, will be part of an expanded, 10-man rotation when Turner returns."He's been playing good basketball for us," the coach said. "We'll continue with that rotation. He's doing a good job for us." Leaf had totaled just 42 points this season until getting a greater opportunity with Turner out. He's chipped in with 23 points in his last three games.He also had a nine-point outing against the Suns last January.The Pacers (28-14) have won eight of their past 11 games, with the three losses coming at the hands of the Raptors (two) and Celtics (one).A convenient schedule has afforded them the opportunity to play Atlanta (twice), Brooklyn, Washington, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and New York in the other eight games.The Pacers will see Philadelphia and Toronto later on a five-game homestand that tips off against the Suns.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019INDIANOLIS Bojan Bogdanovic scored 20 points and the Indiana Pacers cruised to a 131-97 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night.Myles Turner returned for the first time in four games to finish with 18 points and six rebounds. Turner was nursing a sore right shoulder over the last week.Indiana got off to a hot start thanks to Bogdanovic, who scored the Pacers' first 10 points. The Pacers doubled the Suns' total in the first quarter, leading 38-19 at the end of the period.Cory Joseph scored eight of his 10 points in the first quarter, adding to Bogdanovic's hot start. Thaddeus Young scored 10 of his 12 points in the first half and finished the game with seven rebounds.Joseph was one of three Pacers who scored in double figures off the bench. Tyreke Evans scored 20 and Domantas Sabonis finished with 14 and eight rebounds in their usual reserve roles.The Suns made it interesting for a brief moment in the first half. Phoenix pulled within seven points in the second quarter, but Indiana never let the Suns regain momentum long enough for it to matter. The Pacers pulled back ahead once again by double digits, leading 62-51 at halftime, and never looked back. The Pacers led by as many as 37.Indiana limited Devin Booker to eight points in 26 minutes.Rookie Deandre Ayton finished with 14 points and eight rebounds. T. J. Warren led Phoenix with 18 points and Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 16 points off the bench.TIP-INSSuns: Phoenix is 2-5 in January. . With his next appearance, Jamal Crawford will play in his 1,300th NBA game, becoming just the 22nd player to reach the milestone. Crawford did not dress Tuesday night due to a sore right knee.Pacers: Indiana's 38 points in the first quarter tied a season high. . The Pacers outscored the Suns 27-10 on fast-break points. . Seven Pacers scored in double digits. . Indiana scored 58 points off the bench and outscored Phoenix 60-48 in the paint. The Pacers' 37-point lead tied for their largest of the seasonUP NEXTSuns: At Toronto on ThursdayPacers: Host Philadelphia on Thursday
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Jan 14, 2019The upstart Atlanta Hawks get another chance to test one of the NBA's top-tier teams on Tuesday when the Oklahoma City Thunder make their lone visit to town.This is the second game in a four-game homestand for Atlanta and is a quick one-day trip for Oklahoma City, the No. 3 team in the Western Conference.This marks the second meeting between the two clubs this season. Oklahoma City overpowered the Hawks 124-109 on Nov. 30. But that's when Atlanta was really struggling, a period that saw the Hawks lose 10 straight and 14 of 16.The fortunes have changed somewhat for the Hawks, who remain in 12th place in the Eastern Conference, but have won seven of their last 14. The Hawks were competitive in a 133-114 loss to Milwaukee on Sunday, hanging close for three quarters with the same team that beat them by 32 points just nine days earlier.An ongoing problem for the young Hawks has been turnovers. They had 24 against the Bucks, which led to 34 points. They average 18.4 turnovers, 30th in the league."It's a recurring problem, but I'd like to think guys are just trying to make plays," rookie Kevin Huerter said. "We were being a little careless with the ball on some possessions." It was a good sign for Atlanta to see rookie Trae Young post some good scoring numbers. Young drove aggressively to the basket, got to the line 13 times, and scored 28 points against Milwaukee. It was his first 20-point effort since Dec. 29. Young has made a 3-pointer in 11 straight games.Oklahoma City ended its three-game losing streak on Saturday by beating the San Antonio Spurs 122-112. That avenged a road loss to the Spurs just two days earlier.Much of the credit for ending the slump went to guard Dennis Schroder, who scored all 19 of his points in the second half. Schroder played with the Hawks for five seasons -- the last two as the starter -- and was traded in the offseason to make room for Young.Schroder is averaging 15.3 points, 4.4 assists and 3.7 rebounds. But he had been shooting just 32 percent and averaging only 10.4 points since the calendar turned. Schroder, who has never lacked from confidence, said he had to keep playing his game and wait for better results."I just stayed aggressive," he said. "I had a tough stretch of games. My teammates kept giving me confidence. You know, 'Keep shooting, keep being you.' I think I did that (Saturday) in the second half." He even overcame a technical foul. But that fits into the combative style of play that Thunder coach Billy Donovan likes to see from Schroder. Donovan said Schroder plays better when he is upset."I need to learn to be angry like that every time," Schroder said.The Thunder are still playing without guard Alex Abrines, who has missed seven straight games due to personal reasons. Nerlens Noel is on concussion protocol after taking a nasty fall and hitting his head against Minnesota on Jan. 8.The Hawks got forward Taurean Prince back after he missed 18 games with an ankle injury. Prince is on restricted minutes and scored seven points in 11 minutes against the Bucks. Guard Kent Bazemore remains out with an ankle injury and center Dewayne Dedmon sat out the last game with an ongoing left ankle problem.The Thunder are 13-7 all-time against the Hawks in the Oklahoma City era and have won three straight against the Hawks.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019ATLANTA Trae Young had 24 points and 11 assists to win the showdown of past and former Atlanta point guards, leading the Hawks over the Oklahoma City Thunder 142-126 on Tuesday night.Former Hawks point guard Dennis Schroder scored 21 points in his return to Atlanta. Schroder struggled early but had 14 points in the third period when the Thunder outscored the Hawks 41-27 to reclaim the lead.Atlanta was similarly dominant in the second period, outscoring Oklahoma City 45-30 to match its high mark for any quarter this season. After holding a big lead of 15 points, the last time at 70-55, the Hawks led 70-59 at halftime.Led by Schroder and Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City answered strong in the third period. A jumper by Westbrook tied the game at 87-all.Schroder scored the Thunder's final 11 points of the third period, the last six on free throws, for a 100-97 lead.John Collins made 12 of 14 shots from the field and led Atlanta with 26 points. Alex Len had 24 points and 11 rebounds. The Hawks were 18 of 37 on 3-pointers.Westbrook led the Thunder with 31 points and 11 assists. Paul George had 24 points and Jerami Grant added 21.Young, Atlanta's rookie starter, opened the final period with a tying 3-pointer. Young added a three-point play and another basket as the Hawks regained momentum. A jam by Omari Spellman pushed Atlanta's lead to 117-107, and another dunk by Spellman pushed the advantage to 121-109.George sank a 3-pointer with about 90 seconds remaining to cut Atlanta's lead to 132-123, but the Hawks quickly pushed the advantage back to double figures.A steal and reverse jam by DeAndre Bembry iced the win.The Hawks had a ''welcome back'' video tribute for Schroder during a first-quarter timeout. Schroder raised his arm to acknowledge the fans.The Hawks wore new powder blue uniforms with red trim and numbers for the first time. The uniforms were introduced as part of the Hawks' 50-year celebration in Atlanta.TIP-INSThunder: F Nerlens Noel (concussion protocol) ''is doing a little more each day,'' coach Billy Donovan said before the game. ... G Alex Abrines (personal reasons) missed his eighth straight game.Hawks: G Jeremy Lin (flu-like symptoms) was not with the team. F Taurean Prince was limited in his second game back while recovering from similar symptoms. ... G Kent Bazemore (right ankle sprain) and F Dewayne Dedmon (left ankle sprain) did not play. Dedmon may return Saturday against Boston.UP NEXTThunder: Host Lakers on Thursday.Hawks: Host Celtics on Saturday.---More NBA: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Jan 14, 2019The Milwaukee Bucks haven't beaten the Miami Heat in two years and two days -- six straight losses.Milwaukee will get another shot Tuesday night when the Heat (21-20) visits the Bucks (30-12).Maybe this game will be different. After all, Milwaukee last week completed its best first half of a season in 28 years.The Bucks, who are in second place in the Eastern Conference standings, lead the NBA in point differential."I think teams are starting to realize that we're not the same Bucks team that we were when I first got here six years ago," Bucks wing Khrys Middleton told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "We're a totally different team even from last year." Milwaukee is 19-4 on its home court this season, so that should be advantage Bucks ... except for their inability to beat the Heat the past two years.Miami, which is 10-8 on the road, is playing without 2018 All-Star point guard Goran Dragic (knee surgery), and center Hassan Whiteside missed the Heat's previous game due to an unspecified illness. He is questionable for Milwaukee.The Bucks are relatively healthy -- only rookie guard Donte DiVincenzo missed Milwaukee's 133-114 rout of the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday, due to an ankle injury.Bucks point forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, who had missed Milwaukee's previous game due to a left-hip contusion and right-quadriceps soreness, scored a game-high 33 points against Atlanta. He added six rebounds, four assists and three steals in 31 minutes.Miami will be the better rested team on Tuesday. The Heat defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 112-108 on Saturday as forward-turned-point-guard Justise Winslow put up 26 points, seven rebounds and four assists."I love what Justise is doing," Heat veteran Udonis Haslem told the Sun-Sentinel. "I love the edge he plays with." Whiteside, who is averaging 12.7 points and leads Miami in rebounds (12.5) and blocks (2.5), was replaced in the Heat lineup by Bam Adebayo, who had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds against Memphis.Heat shooting guard Josh Richardson nearly had a double-double of his own against Memphis with 14 points and a career-high nine assists.As for the rivalry against the Bucks, Winslow had eight points, six rebounds and five assists the last time Miami played Milwaukee, which was a 94-87 Heat victory on Dec. 22.Antetokounmpo, a top MVP candidate, was held to nine points in that game, although he did have 13 rebounds and three assists.But that loss is just a blip on the overall screen for the Bucks star, who is averaging 26.7 points, 12.6 rebounds and 5.9 assists this season. He is also shooting 64.5 percent on two-pointers.Better yet, he is doing all this in 33.5 minutes per game, which is three minutes less than his average last season.Defensively, Antetokounmpo is ferocious, averaging 1.5 blocks. His 10.2 defensive rebounds per game are on pace to be a career high, and he is holding opposing shooters to just 40.8-percent accuracy, the best mark among all Milwaukee starters.The Bucks support their star with scorers such as Middleton (17.8), Malcolm Brogdon (15.6) and Eric Bledsoe (15.3).--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019MILWAUKEE Giannis Antetokounmpo had 12 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in his fourth triple-double of the season, and the Milwaukee Bucks cruised past the Miami Heat 124-86 on Tuesday night.Eric Bledsoe had 17 points and Malcolm Brogdon added 16 for Milwaukee, which has won 13 of 16 dating to Dec. 14. The Bucks improved to 31-12, second-best in the NBA.Justise Winslow and Hassan Whiteside had 19 points apiece for Miami, which fell to 21-21.Milwaukee used a 12-0 run midway through the second quarter to pull away. The Bucks led by 26 late in the period. Antetokounmpo had five points, eight rebounds and six assists in the first half.The Bucks built a 31-point lead in the third quarter and held a 93-63 advantage heading to the fourth. Milwaukee's lead grew to as many as 38, the final margin, in the fourth as both teams turned to their reserves early.The Bucks had a 13-2 run to close out the first quarter and grab a 30-23 lead despite shooting 39 percent. Whiteside had 10 points in the quarter for Miami.TIP-INSHeat: Started a four-game trip and play 12 of their next 16 on the road. . Whiteside returned to the lineup after missing Saturday's game due to illness. . G Josh Richardson started after not participating in the team's practice on Monday due to the knee tendinitis.Bucks: Signed forward Bonzie Colson to a two-way contract. Colson has spent the 2018-19 season with the Canton Charge of the G league after going undrafted out of Notre Dame. . Brogdon missed just his third free throw in 88 attempts this season. ... All 13 players scored.UP NEXTHeat: Visit Detroit on Friday night.Bucks: At Memphis on Wednesday night, where Milwaukee has won just once since 2009.
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Jan 14, 2019Playing in big games has become the norm for the Golden State Warriors.Not so much for the Denver Nuggets.Tuesday's matchup between the top two teams in the Western Conference is new territory for Denver. Since the start of the 2013-14 season, the Nuggets have been rebuilding and retooling, not competing for titles, but they have arrived this year and are challenging to be the best team in the Western Conference.The winner of Tuesday's game in Denver will sit atop the conference standings. Denver (29-13) has been up there for a while now, but the Warriors (29-14) might yet find another gear in the second half of the season as they pursue a third consecutive NBA championship.They are about to get a new, big piece when DeMarcus Cousins returns this week.The center, who signed a one-year deal in the summer, tore his Achilles almost a year ago. His season debut is projected to come on Friday at the Los Angeles Clippers. Golden State is expecting it will take time for Cousins to get fully immersed and integrated into the offense."We're excited, but it's a little daunting, too," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said in the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's not going to be simple just to plug him in. There's going to be an adjustment period. He knows that, but it's a fun challenge." The Nuggets have a big enough task stopping Golden State's other stars. Guard Steph Curry, a two-time league MVP, hit 11 3-pointers in a 48-point effort to beat Dallas on Sunday, and then there's Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green to worry about.And the Warriors have a revenge factor to use. The Nuggets beat them 100-98 in Denver on Oct. 21 when Juancho Hernangomez blocked Damian Jones' layup at the buzzer.The Nuggets have been playing at a high level lately, especially at home, where they are 18-3 and have won their last 12. The latest was a grind-it-out 116-113 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday, which might have been a perfect tune-up for the Warriors.Denver has its own star power in center Nikola Jokic and guard Jamal Murray. Jokic, averaging team-highs with 19.7 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, had consecutive triple-doubles last week and then clocked in with 40 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists against Portland.With or without Cousins, Golden State will have a tough time handling the Serbian. But the Warriors are best when they force teams to adjust to them, and they come at teams from different angles. One night it could be Curry, the next Durant. When tuned in, Golden State is hard to beat.The Nuggets are ready for the challenge after getting everyone's best this season."As teams give us their best shot because we're No. 1 in the West right now, everybody gives the Warriors their best shot," said Murray, who is averaging 18.5 points. "We just know we have the home court, and we beat them last time here." --Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019DENVER Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson each scored 31 points as the Golden State Warriors, propelled by an NBA-record, 51-point first quarter, regained the top spot in the Western Conference by routing the Denver Nuggets 142-111 on Tuesday night.Golden State cruised to a fifth straight win to move a half-game in front of the Nuggets, who had their 12-game home winning streak snapped.The showdown between the top two teams in the conference proved a little too big for the Nuggets, with Curry and Company putting on a shooting exhibition all night long. The clinic began early with the Warriors erupting for 51 points in the opening quarter, breaking the old mark of 50 held by several teams. The last time it happened was also against Denver when Phoenix scored 50 on Nov. 10, 1990.Golden State shot a blistering 60 percent from the field, had 38 assists and hit 21 3-pointers in leading wire-to-wire. Kevin Durant finished with 27 points and Draymond Green was a plus-41 as he had 13 assists to go with four points.Malik Beasley finished with 22 points for the Nuggets. Big man Nikola Jokic struggled with early foul trouble, finishing with 17 points and eight assists in 23 minutes.Denver knocked off Golden State 100-98 in Denver on Oct. 21 thanks to Juancho Hernangomez blocking a layup at the buzzer. This version of the matchup was never close.And this demonstrates just how dominant the Warriors were in the opening half: Denver scored 60, shooting 49 percent from the floor, and still trailed by 19 at the break.In pregame, the Nuggets deflected the notion this was a big game, but did acknowledge it was an important gauge.''You always want to measure yourself against the best, let's be honest,'' Denver coach Michael Malone said. ''That allows you to truly see where you're at and how much farther you have to go.'' It didn't go well.For the Warriors, the matchup was just business as usual.''It doesn't mean anything until the end of the year,'' Golden State coach Steve Kerr said. ''They all count.'' TIP-INSWarriors: Green was given a technical in the second quarter for arguing a call. ... F Kevon Looney grabbed 12 rebounds.Nuggets: G Gary Harris missed a fifth straight game with tightness in his left hamstring. ... G Jamal Murray scored 21.THE COUSINS COUNTDOWNGolden State center DeMarcus Cousins remains on schedule to make his Warriors debut Friday in Los Angeles against the Clippers. He's been steadily progressing after tearing his left Achilles tendon last January while with New Orleans. Cousins signed a one-year deal with Golden State in the offseason.''When he's healthy, he's one of the more unstoppable big men in the NBA,'' said Malone, who coached Cousins when they were both with Sacramento. ''He'll give them a definite lift.'' RAMS FANKerr is pulling for quarterback Jared Goff - ''a good family friend,'' he said - and the Los Angeles Rams to get to the Super Bowl.''I was a Rams fan growing up,'' Kerr said. ''You're all too young to remember their first L. A. experience. That was my team growing up.'' UP NEXTWarriors: Host New Orleans on Wednesday. The Warriors are 5-1 in the second game of a back-to-back this season.Nuggets: Host Chicago on Thursday. Denver has beaten the Bulls 11 straight times at Pepsi Center.---More NBA: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Jan 14, 2019The Chicago Bulls will try to avoid their longest losing streak in more than a year when they play the fourth game of a five-game road trip Tuesday at the Los Angeles Lakers.The Bulls (10-33) have lost seven straight following a 110-102 loss at the Utah Jazz on Saturday. They haven't lost eight in a row since a 10-game skid from Nov. 19 to Dec. 6, 2017."We have to get that killer mentality," Bulls coach Jim Boylen told reporters following the most recent defeat.The Lakers (23-21) are coming off a loss to the only NBA team that hasn't reached double figures in wins.The Cleveland Cavaliers led nearly the whole game in a 101-95 win at Staples Center on Sunday night, which ended their 12-game losing streak.Making things extra challenging for the Lakers has been the groin injury to LeBron James, who leads the team in scoring (27.3), rebounding (8.3) and assists (7.4). He has missed the past 10 games and won't play against the Bulls. Los Angeles is 3-7 since James was injured against the Golden State Warriors on Christmas Day.The absence of James has certainly slowed Los Angeles in some areas, but the Lakers haven't helped themselves either. One area is at the free throw line. The Lakers came into Sunday last in the NBA in free-throw shooting at 68.6 percent, and then shot 16-for-27 (59.3 percent) against the Cavaliers."We've got to play better. We've got to make shots, we've got to make free throws," Lakers coach Luke Walton said after the loss. "I believe in this group and I believe this group will play better, and we'll start winning some games, but as a team we've got to step up and go out and take some of these games." The Lakers have allowed at least 32 points in the first quarter of five of the past six games, prompting Walton to consider changes to the starting lineup."By the end of the games, we're doing a nice job of stabilizing our defense and getting the stops we need, but we can't just keeping giving up 30 points to start the games," Walton said. "We'll take a look at that and, possibly, make a change before Tuesday." The Bulls have one of the youngest teams in the NBA, including a starting five that ranges in age from 19 to 24. Boylen said he plans to stick with the same lineup moving forward."I think there's some force-feeding going on," he said. "We've got to learn how to win." The most veteran starter for the Bulls is point guard Zach LaVine, who leads Chicago at 23.6 points a game. LaVine, who played one year at UCLA, told reporters he's looking forward to returning to Los Angeles."Haven't played in L. A. in a while," he said. "I'm excited. Hopefully it's sunny out there." LaVine could see time against former UCLA point guard, Lonzo Ball, the second overall draft pick in 2017. Chicago forward Lauri Markkanen was selected five spots behind Ball out of Arizona, another Pac-12 school.--Field Level Media
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Jan 16, 2019LOS ANGELES Lonzo Ball scored 19 points, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope added 17 and the Los Angeles Lakers won for just the fourth time since LeBron James' groin injury, beating the reeling Chicago Bulls 107-100 on Tuesday night.Ball, who also had eight rebounds and six assists, scored 13 points during the second half as Los Angeles was able to break open what was a close game for the first 28 minutes. Brandon Ingram and Kyle Kuzma scored 16 apiece.The game was tied at 48 with 9:24 remaining in the third quarter when the Lakers took control with eight straight points, including back-to-back 3-pointers by Ball. The Bulls got within 72-68 on a 3-pointer by Wayne Seldon, but the Lakers pulled away again with six straight points to end the third and start the fourth.Los Angeles' lead grew to 94-76 with 4:26 remaining in the game before Chicago made a late flurry to get within 103-98 in the final minute.The Lakers are 4-7 since James was injured in a Dec. 25 game at Golden State.Jabari Parker scored 18 points and Lauri Markkanen added 17 for Chicago, which has dropped eight straight.Lakers coach Luke Walton changed his starting lineup, putting Tyson Chandler at center and Caldwell-Pope at guard while moving JaVale McGee and Josh Hart to the bench. Both teams struggled shooting from the floor in the first quarter, but the Lakers held a 19-18 lead, marking the first time in eight games they led after the first 12 minutes.Los Angeles held a 44-43 lead at halftime as the first half saw 22 lead changes and five ties. The Bulls led 30-24 with 7:48 remaining in the second quarter before the Lakers scored seven straight points to take the lead.TIP-INSBulls: Chicago's 8 of 28 from the field in the first quarter was its second-worst opening 12 minutes of the season. It was 8 of 29 in a Dec. 26 loss to Minnesota.Lakers: Kuzma also had 12 rebounds as he recorded his third double-double of the season. ... The Lakers were 2 of 15 on 3-pointers in the first half but 6 of 11 in the second half, which included three from Ball.UP NEXTBulls: Conclude their five-game road trip against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night.Lakers: Travel to Oklahoma City on Thursday night for the second of three meetings against the Thunder.---More NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/-Sports---Follow Joe Reedy at www.twitter.com/joereedy
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Jan 15, 2019PROVIDENCE, R. I. David Duke scored 18 points and Providence cashed in on a season-high 22 Seton Hall turnovers for its first Big East Conference win, 72-63 on Tuesday night to end a three-game skid.Alpha Diallo added 15 points, grabbed eight rebounds and made five assists for Providence (10-7, 1-3), which scored 23 points off of turnovers. Mak Ashton-Langford also dished five assists.Duke bookended a 10-0 run with 3s for a 47-38 Providence lead, but Seton Hall replied with an 11-2 run and tied it at 49 on Quincy McKnight's free throw with 9:05 to play. The Friars led 66-57 with 54 seconds left and the Pirates got no closer than seven from there.Providence led 37-35 at halftime after scoring 10 points on 10 Pirates' turnovers.McKnight scored 16 points, Myles Powell had 12, Michael Nzei 10 for Seton Hall (12-6, 3-3).
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Jan 14, 2019No. 12 Kentucky looks to continue its climb back to the top when the Wildcats travel to Georgia on Tuesday night.Kentucky opened the season at No. 1, but plummeted after a blowout loss to Duke in the first game. The Wildcats sank as low as No. 19 before leaping to No. 12 this week with two consecutive SEC wins.UK (12-3, 2-1 SEC) posted home wins over Texas A&M and Vanderbilt last week. Kentucky lost its only conference road game, a 77-75 defeat at Alabama.Georgia, under first-year coach Tom Crean, has beaten Vanderbilt but suffered blowout losses to SEC frontrunners Tennessee and Auburn. The Bulldogs (9-6, 1-2) have won their only conference home game, and Stegeman Coliseum is sold out for the Kentucky game.The school announced this will be the first of six consecutive home sellouts."I thought there were years where all we did was go to Georgia. I was like, 'Do we ever get them at home?'" Kentucky coach John Calipari said Monday."It's always sold out. Somebody told me it's been sold out since June. It's a date marked on the calendar for the whole town. They're going to be ready to play and you have to be ready. With that being said, all the games are close, tough, hard-fought games. I would expect this to be the same." The teams have one common opponent. Kentucky defeated Vanderbilt 56-47. Georgia knocked off the Commodores 82-63."We've gotten better this week, and we had moments where we showed that today," Crean said after the Auburn loss on Saturday. "But we had moments where we didn't. It is a process we have to continue to learn from." Crean knows the areas in which Georgia must improve against Kentucky."Hustle points," Crean said. "The points off turnovers and the second-chance points." Another challenge for Georgia will be keeping Kentucky off the glass. The Wildcats allow opponents only 28 rebounds per game, winning the board battle by an average of 10 each night."Kentucky brings a whole other level of length and rebounding," Crean said.Kentucky features four dominant big men -- PJ Washington, Reid Travis, EJ Montgomery and Nick Richards."The advantage we have with the number we have, you're not pressured to play great because if you just don't play great, we'll play somebody else and we'll be fine," Calipari said."But you have to perform when they get their minutes and they get in. We can't do it for you and you can't make the excuse, 'Well, if I played more or I didn't play last game.' Don't. Just play." One key player in the game is Kentucky point guard Ashton Hagans, who leads the team in steals. The freshman from Cartersville, Ga., originally committed to Georgia but switched after the school fired coach Mark Fox.Calipari was asked on the SEC coaches teleconference with the media about being able to "flip" Hagans from Georgia to UK."We didn't get him to flip," Calipari said."You changed your coach. It had nothing to do with us. If you didn't change your coach, he would be at Georgia. But you changed your coach and then the family called us and said, 'Would you have an interest?' Yeah, we would. That's how it played out. I'm happy he's with us." For that reason, Calipari expects a tough night in Athens for Hagans."It's a hard game for him to go back," Calipari said. "My guess is that he's going to get mauled by their fans. That's my guess. Then that becomes, does that inspire him? Does that rattle him? None of us know. Let's see." --Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019ATHENS, Ga. Ashton Hagans silenced a hostile crowd by scoring a season-high 23 points, leading No. 12 Kentucky to a 69-49 victory over Georgia on Tuesday night.The Wildcats (13-3, 3-1 Southeastern Conference) pulled away in the second half for their third straight victory.Hagans, a freshman who initially committed to Georgia out of high school but wound up signing with Kentucky, was booed by the sellout crowd at Stegeman Coliseum each time he touched the ball.It sure didn't seem to bother him.The point guard reached double figures for the fifth game in a row, eclipsing the 18 points he scored a week ago against Texas A&M. But the youngster's contribution went much deeper on the stat sheet - he also had five rebounds, four assists and three steals.Hagans' performance was especially galling for a Georgia team that could've had him running the offense. The Bulldogs' point guard, senior Turtle Jackson, managed only two points on 1-of-8 shooting.Georgia (9-7, 1-3) led by five in the opening minutes before going to the locker room down 35-31.Hagans took control after halftime. He knocked down a 3-pointer just ahead of the shot-clock buzzer, darted into the lane to lay one in, and scored off a steal by Tyler Herro to suddenly push the lead into double figures, 42-31.Kentucky steadily pulled away from there.In the closing minutes, as most of the red-clad fans headed for the exits, a sizeable contingent of Wildcat fans chanted, ''Go Big Blue!''Nicolas Claxton led Georgia with 12 points. The Bulldogs shot only 30 percent (17 of 56) from the field.HOMECOMINGHagans played his high school ball about an hour's drive from Athens.The freshman initially committed to play for the Bulldogs and their previous coach, Mark Fox. But Hagans backed off his commitment last February when it became apparent that Fox's job could be in jeopardy. Indeed, Fox was fired after the season and replaced by Tom Crean.Hagans wound up signing with Kentucky - though he remains a Georgia football fan.BIG PICTUREKentucky: Hagans is really taking control of the Wildcats after playing limited minutes early in the season.Georgia: The Bulldogs still have a lot of work to do, especially in the backcourt. The other starting guard, Teshaun Hightower, had only five points.UP NEXTKentucky: The Wildcats begin one of their toughest stretches of the season with a game Saturday at No. 14 Auburn - the first of three straight games against teams ranked in the Top 25.Georgia: The Bulldogs host Florida on Saturday.---Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 His work can be found at https://apnews.com/search/paul%20newberry---For more college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 15, 2019WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Carsen Edwards had 19 points, six assists and five rebounds to lead Purdue to an 89-54 win over Rutgers on Tuesday night.Trevion Williams had 16 points and 13 rebounds and Sasha Stefanovic added 14 points for the Boilermakers (11-6, 4-2 Big Ten Conference) who have won five of their last six.Montez Mathis scored 19 points, Shaq Carter had 10 points and seven rebounds and Geo Baker had 10 points and five rebounds as the Scarlet Knights (8-8, 1-5) played their second straight game without leading scorer and rebounder Eugene Omoruyi. He was out again with a knee injury suffered against Ohio State last week.After a 9-0 run before halftime, Purdue scored nine straight points - two 3-pointers by Ryan Cline and another by Edwards - early in the second half to pull away for good.Cline's 3-pointer with 17:48 remaining put the Boilermakers ahead 49-32, but Purdue led by as many as 40 (83-43) when Aaron Wheeler made two free throws with 4:51 to play.Mathis scored late in the first half to cut Purdue's lead to 31-27, but the Boilers scored nine straight and led 40-27 after a steal and fast-break layup by Edwards with 48 seconds remaining in the half.Purdue led Rutgers 40-30 at halftime.BIG PICTURERutgers: A week after stunning a ranked Ohio State team 64-61, the Scarlet Knights stayed with Purdue for much of the first half. But playing without Omoruyi, who averaged 14.6 points and 7.5 rebounds in the first 14 games, took its toll. Freshman guard Caleb McConnell, however, was back in the lineup after leaving early with an injury at Minnesota.Purdue: The Boilermakers continue to be dominant at home and move to 8-0 in home games this season. They're dominant against Rutgers at home, too. The Boilers have won the last three meetings in West Lafayette against Rutgers by a combined 85 points.UP NEXTRutgers: Hosts Northwestern on Friday.Purdue: Hosts No. 25 Indiana on Saturday.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 15, 2019FORT WORTH, Texas Desmond Bane scored 26 points to lead six TCU players in double figures as the Horned Frogs beat West Virginia 98-67 on Tuesday night, sending the Mountaineers to their first 0-5 conference record in 23 years.TCU (13-3, 2-2 Big 12) got off a slow start shooting, missing seven of its first eight shots, before runs of 13-0 and 11-0 in the first half on way to a 20-point halftime lead.The last time the Mountaineers (8-9, 0-5) lost their first five conference games was in their inaugural Big East season in 1995-96, which was 11 years before Bob Huggins became their coach. This is West Virginia's seventh season in the Big 12, same as TCU.Alex Robinson had 14 points and 10 assists for TCU, whose 31-point margin of victory was its biggest in a Big 12 game since joining the league. It was the most-lopsided Big 12 loss for the Mountaineers, who trailed by as many as 35 points.JD Miller added 13 points for TCU, while Kouat Noi and Lat Mayen each had 12. Kevin Samuel scored 10 points.James Bolden led West Virginia with 15 points, and Wesley Harris had 13.Bane's jumper after his offensive rebound just less than five minutes into the game made it 6-5 and put the Frogs ahead to stay, and their next basket was Bane's putback slam after Miller missed a breakaway layup.BIG PICTUREWest Virginia: The Mountaineers had won 12 of the previous 13 meetings against TCU, but never had a chance in this one after TCU had its first big run. During the last media timeout with 3:58 left, the WVU bench was assessed with a technical foul and the Frogs made four free throws when play resumed. The frustrated Mountaineers had another technical foul after that.TCU: The Frogs played their fourth consecutive game without point guard Jaylen Fisher because of swelling in his right knee, and it's unclear when - or if - he will play again this season. Robinson was solid in that role, like he has been when having to switch to the point, with his double-double that included 10 of TCU's 20 assists.UP NEXTWest Virginia has two home games in three days. The Mountaineers host No. 7 Kansas on Saturday, then play Baylor next Monday night.After its first home game in 10 days, TCU is back on the road for the third time in a four-game stretch on Saturday at Kansas State.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 15, 2019AKRON, Ohio Daniel Utomi and Jimond Ivey scored 12 points each and Akron held off Eastern Michigan 51-49 on Tuesday night despite poor shooting from both teams late.Eastern Michigan (8-9, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) shot 2 of 9 from the floor and had a turnover over the last five minutes while the Zips (10-7, 2-2) missed three field goals and a free throw, and turned the ball over four times.Utomi made a 3-pointer to put the Zips up for good, 46-45, with 6:30 to play. Ivey dunked to stretch the lead to 48-45, then Malik Ellison's layup pulled Eastern Michigan to 48-47 with 4:31 remaining.Paul Jackson's layup for the Eagles capped the scoring with 42 seconds to go. On the next possession, James Thompson IV blocked a shot and grabbed a defensive rebound for Eastern Michigan, but Ty Groce missed a potential-tying layup with five seconds left.Boubacar Toure scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Eastern Michigan. Paul Jackson added 15 points, five assists and four steals. Thompson finished with six points and 11 rebounds.
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Jan 15, 2019BOWLING GREEN, Ohio Justin Turner scored 17 of his 20 points in the first half, Daeqwon Plowden had 19 points and eight rebounds and Bowling Green edged Ball State 79-78 on Tuesday night for its eighth straight victory.Dylan Frye sank a 3-pointer with 3:09 remaining to extend BGSU's lead to 72-66 and he added a free throw with 5.7 seconds left for a 79-75 lead. Tayler Persons answered with a 3-pointer at the buzzer for the final margin.Bowling Green (12-5, 4-0 Mid-American Conference) is 9-0 at home this season for its best start since the 1999-00 Falcons went 12-0.Demajeo Wiggins added 15 rebounds and Frye finished with 10 points for BGSU, which beat Ball State for the ninth time in the last 11 meetingsPersons scored 28 points and grabbed nine rebounds for Ball State (10-7, 1-3). Tahjai Teague added 19 points.
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Jan 15, 2019CINCINNATI Jarron Cumberland scored a career-high 34 points, and Cincinnati blew a 14-point lead and had coach Mick Cronin ejected before rallying for an 82-74 victory over South Florida on Tuesday night.The Bearcats (15-3, 4-1 American Athletic) got their third win in six days. The last two came in overtime, and this one unfolded with their coach gone from the sideline.With 18 minutes left, Cronin got a technical from official Lee Cassell for arguing a foul called on Nysier Brooks. Cronin became enraged and had to be restrained by Brooks, drawing another technical from official Mark Schnur, resulting in his ejection.Cincinnati has won 10 straight games against the Bulls (12-5, 2-3), who suffered their most lopsided loss of the season. South Florida's five losses have come by a total of 19 points. The Bulls were coming off an 82-80 overtime loss at Temple.LaQuincy Rideau scored 15 of his 26 points before fouling out in the second half, when South Florida managed to tie the score twice but couldn't pull ahead.Cumberland hit the big shots to blunt the comeback and finished 9 of 20 from the field and 14 of 16 from the free-throw line. After South Florida tied it for the last time 65-65, Cumberland had a jumper, three free throws and an assist during a 7-2 spurt that put the Bearcats ahead to stay.BIG PICTURESouth Florida: The Bulls are among the best in the country at getting steals, but their carelessness with the ball doomed them. They had 15 turnovers in the first half and 21 overall, setting up 30 of Cincinnati's points.Cincinnati: After back-to-back overtime wins, the Bearcats sweated out another one but came through the tough six-day stretch unbeaten behind Cumberland's big game. The junior scored 19 in the first half.UP NEXTSouth Florida hosts Houston on Saturday.Cincinnati plays at Wichita State on Saturday.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 15, 2019NEW YORK Jordan Goodwin scored 20 points, made six assists and grabbed nine rebounds and Saint Louis held off Fordham 63-60 on Tuesday night to win its fifth straight.Javon Bess hit three 3s for 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Billikens (13-4, 4-0 Atlantic 10 Conference), who never trailed in building a 34-32 halftime lead.Fordham tied it three times in the second half before Antwon Portley made back-to-back 3s to cap a 10-0 run for a 57-52 lead with 4:19 left. Tramaine Isabell Jr.'s 3 and Goodwin's free throw put the Billikens back on top 61-58, but Jalen Cobb's jumper made it a one-point game with 50 seconds to go. Fred Thatch Jr. made two free throws and Fordham missed two 3-point attempts in the final seconds.Both teams shot 39 percent, but Saint Louis outrebounded Fordham 42-29.Cobb scored 12 points, Portley added 11 and Erten Gazi had 10 for Fordham (9-8, 0-4).
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Jan 15, 2019ATHENS, Ohio Jaylin Walker scored 21 points and broke a 3-point record, Philip Whittington had 10 points and 10 rebounds and Kent State pulled away early in the second half to beat Ohio 66-52 on Tuesday night.Walker hit three 3-pointers to become the leading 3-point shooter in Kent State history with 248 makes.Kent State (13-4, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) bounced back from a 95-61 rout at Eastern Michigan in its last outing. Ohio (9-7, 1-3) has lost three of its last four.The Golden Flashes used a 9-0 surge over a five-minute stretch to take a 50-41 lead. Jason Carter's layup with 3:48 left pulled Ohio to 54-48 but they didn't get closer.Jalen Avery added 15 points and Antonio Williams 10 for Kent State.Carter had 11 points, 13 rebounds and four assists to lead the Bobcats, who missed 16 3-pointers and shot just 32 percent (20 of 63). Teyvion Kirk chipped in with 11 points and Antonio Cowart Jr. had 10.
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Jan 14, 2019Three of the SEC's top four scorers will be present Tuesday night when the Arkansas Razorbacks (10-5, 1-2) visit the third-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (14-1, 3-0).Leading the way is Tennessee junior forward Grant Williams, a rugged 6-foot-7, 240-pounder and the reigning SEC Player of the Year. He sits atop the league scoring chart at 18.9 points per game, while also averaging 7.9 rebounds.Williams had 20 points, nine rebounds, four assists, two blocks and two steals on Saturday in a 78-67 win over the Florida Gators. He also shot 8 of 11 from the floor -- much of it against a Gators zone."If we played man-to-man for 40 minutes, Williams might have scored 60," Gators coach Mike White said. "And we might have all fouled out -- including me." Second in scoring in the SEC is Tennessee's Admiral Schofield, a 6-5, 240-pound forward is averaging 17.7 points and 6.3 rebounds. Lindy's magazine has called him the most versatile talent in the SEC.The third big star in the game is 6-11, 235-pound sophomore Daniel Gafford, who is tied for third in the league with a 17.5 scoring average. He is also tied for the league lead in rebounds (9.5) and might be the best draft prospect in the conference.Gafford, who is a projected first-round pick in this year's NBA Draft, has seven double-doubles this season and is coming off a 32-point performance on Saturday against LSU. His dunk with 30 seconds left in regulation sent the game to overtime, but he and the Razorbacks ultimately fell short."He's a great player," LSU coach Will Wade said of Gafford, who made 14 of 19 shots against the Tigers. "I didn't intend on us giving Gafford as many easy shots as we did. We didn't do a good job of stopping him." Tennessee, which has won 10 consecutive games since an overtime loss to Kansas at the Barclays Center in New York, will get its shot at Gafford on Tuesday.The Razorbacks have lost two straight games, but they have played well on the road, going 2-0 with wins over Colorado State and Texas A&M.Then again, Tennessee is 9-0 at home this season.Gafford is supported on the Arkansas roster by 6-5 sophomore wing Mason Jones, who is averaging 14.8 points; 6-5 freshman shooting guard Isaiah Joe, who is averaging 14.1 points; and 6-2 sophomore Jalen Harris, who leads the team with 6.5 assists while averaging 8.8 points.Jones is a transfer from Connors State. Joe was the 2018 Arkansas Gatorade Player of the Year. Harris transferred in from the University of New Mexico.Arkansas' fifth starter is Adrio Bailey, an athletic 6-6 junior forward who averages 6.7 points and 3.9 rebounds.Tennessee's other three starters -- besides Williams and Schofield -- are 6-3 junior point guard Jordan Bone, who is third in the league in assists (6.2) and seventh in free-throw percentage (84.8); 6-5 sophomore wing/France native Yves Pons, who is averaging 3.9 points; and 6-11 senior center Kyle Alexander, who is averaging 10.1 points and 7.9 rebounds.In addition, Tennessee's bench has been crucial to its success this season, led by 6-5 Jordan Bowden, who is averaging 10.1 points, and 6-1 junior guard Lamonte Turner, who is averaging 9.5 points. They combined to score 29 against Florida.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Lamonte' Turner and Jordan Bowden combined to score 40 points off the bench, and No. 3 Tennessee whipped Arkansas 106-87 on Tuesday night for its 11th consecutive victory.Turner scored 21 points and hit 6 of 8 shots. Bowden was 6-of-7 shooting and 5 of 6 from 3-point range en route to 19 points, and Tennessee's bench outscored Arkansas' 50-23.Tennessee last won 11 straight in the 2007-08 season. Tennessee (15-1, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) is off to its fastest start since that 2007-08 campaign, when the Vols won 16 of their first 17.Grant Williams scored 18 points for Tennessee and made all 14 of his free-throw attempts. Admiral Schofield scored all 17 of his points in the second half, and Kyle Alexander added 12 points.Isaiah Joe scored 23 points, Mason Jones had 18, Reggie Chaney 11 and Daniel Gafford 10 for Arkansas (10-6, 1-3).Arkansas' five losses before Tuesday had been decided by a total of 19 points. The Razorbacks' largest margin of defeat all season was six.Yet they never had a chance in this one.The game wasn't even five minutes old when Tennessee started a 14-0 run for a 20-5 margin. Tennessee maintained a double-digit edge the rest of the way.Tennessee built a 55-34 halftime advantage and led by 30 during the second half. Tennessee made 15 of 16 shots during one stretch midway through the game.BIG PICTUREArkansas: Foul trouble prevented Arkansas from ever having a chance. Gafford, the Razorbacks' top scorer and rebounder, played just 20 minutes before fouling out with 4:33 left. Reserve forward Gabe Osabuohien and starting guard Adrio Bailey also fouled out. Osabuohien got his five fouls in only 10 minutes of playing time.Tennessee: The Vols continue to show they have the depth to thrive even when one of their top players isn't contributing much. Schofield entered the night averaging 17.7 points to rank second in the SEC, but he picked up two fouls in the first six minutes of the game and had a scoreless first half. It didn't matter. Tennessee still led 55-34 at halftime. Schofield did score Tennessee's first 14 points of the second half.UP NEXTArkansas visits Mississippi on Saturday.Tennessee hosts Alabama on Saturday.---Follow Steve Megargee at https://twitter.com/stevemegargee---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 15, 2019TOLEDO, Ohio Jaelan Sanford scored 19 points and Toledo beat Miami (Ohio) 71-59 on Tuesday night for its 11th straight win in the series.Toledo's last loss to Miami (Ohio) was a 68-66 setback on Feb. 12, 2011 in coach Tod Kowalczyk's first season at the helm of the Rockets.Luke Knapke added 11 points with seven rebounds and Marreon Jackson had 10 points, six assists and a career-high four steals for Toledo (14-3, 2-2 Mid-American Conference).Toledo went on a 19-2 run to build a 16-point first-half lead, but it was trimmed to 39-30 by the break. Sanford had 15 points for Toledo and Nike Sibande led Miami with 14. Miami got within one point twice in the second half but couldn't get any closer.Sibande scored a season-high 26 points with four 3-pointers for Miami (Ohio) (8-9, 0-4) and Dalonte Brown added 10 points.
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Jan 14, 2019Buffalo coach Nate Oats knows his team will be tough to beat in the Mid-American Conference. He's trying to guard against complacency as the Bulls go through their conference schedule.The No. 16 Bulls led by just four points at halftime against Miami (Ohio) on Saturday before pulling away to an 88-64 victory. He'd like more of a sustained effort when his team travels to Kalamazoo, Mich., to face Western Michigan on Tuesday."We've got to fix some stuff," Oats told the Buffalo News. "Our rebounding is priority No. 1. Our intensity for 40 minutes has to be fixed. If you're immature and people start talking about that and you get a big head, then you get popped."If you're mature and you realize what your ceiling is, you raise (your intensity) and you try to keep getting better. ... I'm hoping our guys are mature. The first 20 minutes (Saturday) made me question that a little bit. The second 20, they bounced back great, so hopefully we get a 40-minute effort at Western." Senior guard Dontay Caruthers provided a spark off the bench with 11 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals."I wasn't happy with the way we started the game. I challenged our guys to go out there and perform for that great crowd and we did that in the second half," Oats said. "I really thought Caruthers set the tone for us and the rest of the guys followed." The Bulls (15-1, 3-0 MAC) got out-rebounded 39-38 but committed just four turnovers, their fewest in over 20 years.Buffalo's offensive execution has often been overwhelming for the opposition. The Bulls are averaging 85.4 points and shooting 46.5 percent from the field.Senior guard Jeremy Harris is the team's second-leading scorer at 15.2 points per game. He's led the team in scoring in the past two games, pumping in a career-high 34 against Toledo, then directing a balanced effort with 17 points against the RedHawks.Senior guard CJ Massinburg, who is scoring a team-best 17.2 points per game, averaged 23 points in two victories over the Broncos last season.Western Michigan is seeking its first conference win. The Broncos (6-10, 0-3) were tied with Toledo with less than four minutes remaining on Saturday. The Rockets finished on a 15-7 run to claim an 85-77 win."They were terrific in the last three minutes," Broncos coach Steve Hawkins said. "They didn't get rattled and our guys did a little bit. Our guys are battling their tails off. It's a play here, a play there, or a call here, a call there. Anything can matter when you're playing MAC games." Sophomore guard Michael Flowers led Western Michigan with 21 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. Senior center Seth Dugan collected his sixth double-double this season with 16 points and 12 rebounds.Among other things, Buffalo will challenge Western Michigan's depth."We have to play more guys in this game," Hawkins said. "If we stick with an eight-man rotation, Buffalo will wear us out." --Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019KALAMAZOO, Mich. Jeremy Harris had 22 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 16 Buffalo held off upset-minded Western Michigan 88-79 on Tuesday night.Nick Perkins added 14 points for the Bulls (16-1, 4-0 Mid-American Conference), who trailed by 11 in the first half and struggled to shake free of WMU until the very end. Buffalo had won its first three MAC games by a combined 70 points.The Bulls led by just four toward the end of this one, but star guard CJ Massinburg - who had been scoreless in the second half - connected from 3-point range to make it 86-79 with under 90 seconds remaining.The Broncos (6-11, 0-4) went on a 15-0 run in the first half and led 33-22, but Buffalo rebounded quickly and led 43-39 at halftime.The Bulls led 69-68 when Perkins and Ronaldo Segu made consecutive 3-pointers. Buffalo pushed the lead to nine, but WMU answered with seven straight points to make it 77-75.Josh Davis scored 24 points for WMU.BIG PICTUREBuffalo: The Bulls were probably due for a closer game, especially on the road, and they committed 14 turnovers, their highest total in six games. But they did not look overly rattled toward the end in their first tight game in a while.WMU: The Broncos weren't afraid to push the pace against Buffalo, and although they gave up the double-digit lead quickly in the first half, they hung tough throughout the second.POLL IMPLICATIONSA win is a win, but this one didn't have much in the way of style points for Buffalo.UP NEXTBuffalo: The Bulls return home to face Eastern Michigan on Friday night. Buffalo beat EMU 74-58 earlier this month.WMU: The Broncos play at Bowling Green on Saturday night.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25---Follow Noah Trister at www. Twitter.com/noahtrister
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Jan 15, 2019CHICAGO Aher Uguak, Cameron Krutwig and Cooper Kaifes each scored 12 points and Loyola-Chicago beat Valparaiso 71-54 on Tuesday night.Loyola-Chicago (11-7, 4-1) rebounded from a 67-48 loss at Evansville in their last outing, and is now tied atop the Missouri Valley Conference standings with the Crusaders (11-7, 4-1), who had its five-game win streak snapped.Clayton Custer, Marques Townes, and Lucas Williamson added 11 points apiece for the Ramblers, who had six in double-figure scoring for the first time since February 3, 2018.Markus Golder made three of Valparaiso's six 3-pointers and finished with 16 points.Kaifes hit a 3-pointer at the end of the first half and the Ramblers led 33-23 and Valparaiso didn't get closer. Uguak scored on a dunk, Williamson added a 3-pointer and 3-point play, sparking a 15-1 run to start the second half.The Ramblers have beaten Valparaiso in four of the last five meetings.
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Jan 15, 2019DEKALB, Ill. Shawn Roundtree hit five 3-pointers and scored 21 points, David DiLeo added 18 points with five 3s, and Central Michigan pulled away late to beat Northern Illinois 78-69 on Tuesday night.A DiLeo 3-pointer capped a 13-2 run for an 11-point lead early in the second half as the Chippewas were 7 of 9 from distance. Levi Bradley's jumper tied it at 63 with 5:53 left, but the Huskies got no closer from there. Rob Montgomery and Roundtree combined for eight in a 10-0 run for a 76-65 lead with 48 seconds left.Montgomery scored 16 points and Kevin McKay added 10 for Central Michigan (14-2, 3-1 Mid-American Conference), which made 13 of 29 3s but was outscored 40-26 in the paint.Bradley scored 27 points, Dante Thorpe added 18 and German had 13 for the Huskies (10-7, 3-1), who saw their three-game win streak end.
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Jan 14, 2019Only one team can claim it has knocked off Virginia in each of the past three seasons.That team is Virginia Tech.Tuesday night, the ninth-ranked Hokies renew their hoops rivalry at No. 4 Virginia as the teams face off in Charlottesville in the highest-ranked matchup in the series history."They were good enough to win the national championship last year and they're good enough to win the national championship this year," Virginia Tech head coach Buzz Williams said about Virginia.Williams' teams have managed to knock off the Cavaliers three seasons in a row by a combined five points, with two of those wins coming in overtime, including a 61-60 triumph over No. 2 Virginia last season in Charlottesville.The loss for the Cavaliers last February was their only home loss. They have started this season 8-0 on their home court."They played us tough down here last season," Virginia head coach Tony Bennett said about the Hokies. "We had a really good game down there and they had a really strong game here. I think they're playing more like that, especially defensively." While Virginia Tech (14-1, 3-0) has been known for its prolific offense under Williams, its defense has been key to one of the best starts in program's history. The No. 9 ranking is the highest in school history.The Hokies are fourth nationally in scoring defense, allowing 57.3 points per game. That's not as good as Virginia (15-0, 3-0), which is once again is dominating on defense, leading the country in fewest points per game allowed (51.2).On Saturday, the Cavaliers held Clemson to 25.9 percent shooting. The Tigers scored just two points through the game's first nine minutes before finishing with just 43 points."If you're sound and your game doesn't change, regardless of the environment, it can allow you, whether you're home or on the road, to stay true to that," Bennett said after his team's win over Clemson. "This team, they don't get outside of themselves." Virginia has won its first three ACC games by an average of 20 points and led by at least 25 points in all three games. Tuesday night's game figures to be more of a challenge.The Hokies squeaked by Georgia Tech by three points in Atlanta last week but started their conference season by winning their first two games by a combined 26 points."I think they have more offensive weapons this year," Williams said of the Cavaliers. "I think they're able to play more personnel groupings." Virginia continues to be led by junior guard Kyle Guy, who averages 15.3 points per game and has made 46 of 100 3-point attempts.The Hokies shoot 42.3 percent from three as a team and will need a similar performance to last season's win over Virginia, when they connected on 11 triples at John Paul Jones Arena.Virginia Tech looks to start 4-0 in the ACC for the first time since it joined the conference.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. De'Andre Hunter scored 21 points and Ty Jerome had 14 and a career-high 12 assists as No. 4 Virginia started fast and routed No. 9 Virginia Tech 81-59 on Tuesday night.Kyle Guy added 15 points for the Cavaliers (16-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who never trailed in the first meeting of the programs in which both were ranked in the top 10. Virginia also remained one of two unbeaten teams in the country along with Michigan, which was idle.Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 19 points and Ahmed Hill 14 to lead Virginia Tech (14-2, 3-1), which was seeking the first 15-1 start in program history. The Hokies also hoped to repeat last year's 61-60 overtime victory at John Paul Jones Arena, but they trailed by double figures after 12 minutes and never got within single digits the rest of the way.Virginia could hardly miss in the first half, making 10 of 14 3-point tries, including one by Kihei Clark at the buzzer to make it 44-22. The Hokies, meanwhile, were just 2 for 9 from deep and shot 35 percent (7-for-20) from the field compared to 68 percent (17-for-25) for the Cavaliers in the half.Virginia finished 13 for 23 from 3-point range and shot 58.5 percent overall (31-for-53).BIG PICTUREVirginia Tech: The Hokies arrived in fourth place nationally having made 42.3 percent from 3-point territory and finished 7 for 21 for the game. Virginia Tech also has improved defensively, but the Cavaliers showed them they still have plenty to work on at the end.Virginia: More than anyone else, Jerome sets the pulse for Virginia when he's playing well because of his fire and toughness. His first basket was a 3-pointer from well beyond the 3-point arc and his first half was near perfect. He hit four 3-pointers and had seven assists, giving him a hand in 11 of 17 baskets in the half. His 12 assists eclipsed his previous best by three (Louisville, Jan. 31, 2018).UP NEXTVirginia Tech: At home against Wake Forest on Saturday.Virginia: At top-ranked Duke on Saturday.---Follow Hank on Twitter: www.twitter.com/hankkurzjr---For more college basketball coverage: http://collegebasketball.ap.org and http://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 14, 2019North Carolina State found answers when dealing with an unexpectedly reduced lineup.Nothing has come smooth for Wake Forest.No. 17 N. C. State could be back to full strength when it meets the Demon Deacons on Tuesday night in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Wake Forest's Lawrence Joel Coliseum."I think we are building something really special here where our guys are learning to fight," N. C. State coach Kevin Keatts said.The Wolfpack (14-2, 2-1) played almost the entire game Saturday against Pittsburgh without starting center Wyatt Walker, who was ejected two minutes into the contest for a flagrant foul. Before halftime, point guard Markell Johnson exited after taking a hard fall on his backside.Eric Lockett, who didn't even play in the previous game (a loss to then-No. 12 North Carolina), was one of the guys who helped come to the rescue with 17 points off the bench. Sophomore forward DJ Funderburk posted career highs with 18 points and nine rebounds."A lot of guys can learn from that," Keatts said."When you think about what we are trying to build here at N. C. State, our fan base is pretty much like Eric Lockett. No one gives up anything, and we work hard for everything we can." Johnson could be back in action for the Wake Forest game."Markell is a little sore," Keatts said Monday. "He'll probably be a game-time decision." Either way, the Wolfpack has learned to cope on the fly."Someone is always going to have to step up for us if we're down," Lockett said. "I feel that it just shows how deep we are as a team." Comebacks have been the norm for N. C. State in ACC play. It trailed by double figures against Miami and North Carolina, wiping out deficits in each of those, although ultimately losing to North Carolina.The Wolfpack had to dig out of a five-point, second-half hole to overcome Pittsburgh."When I was building a roster, I wanted to build a roster that any day someone else could step up and play," Keatts said. "You have got to give all the credit to the players. They stuck in there ... and we finished the game." N. C. State players ought to be aware to be ready for action because Keatts, in most games this season, has used 10 players in the regular rotation. Lockett knows first-hand how vital it is to be locked in."(Keatts) trusted me to put me out there this time," Lockett said. "He believed in me and let me know. I had a chance to show him what I was able to do." Wake Forest (7-8, 0-3) begins a stretch of three consecutive games against ranked teams. After Tuesday, the next two (Virginia Tech, Virginia) are on the road, so it's a difficult time to reverse the trend."We're going to need a lot of contributions across the board from a lot of different guys," coach Danny Manning said.The Demon Deacons expect to see lots of full-court action from N. C. State."They play up-tempo," Manning said. "We have to be able to handle their pressure. ... We have to be able to get into attack mode." Wake Forest lost twice to N. C. State last year by nine- and six-point margins.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. Freshman Jaylen Hoard had 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Wake Forest blew a 22-point lead before recovering in time to top No. 17 North Carolina State 71-67 on Tuesday.Graduate transfer Torry Johnson added 11 points for the Demon Deacons (8-8, 1-3 Atlantic Coast Conference). That included a critical jumper with 1:19 left in a one-point game, along with two free throws with 13.3 seconds left that helped the Demon Deacons (barely) survive a wild night in Winston-Salem.Wake Forest led 42-27 at halftime, and then 51-29 with a flurry out of the break. But the Wolfpack (14-3, 2-2) made a move with 15 straight points to get back in it, and then fought all the way back to tie it at 58 on Devon Daniels' floater with 7:46 left.Torin Dorn had 18 points for N. C. State, while C. J. Bryce added 17 points.BIG PICTUREN. C. State: Point guard Markell Johnson didn't travel with the team after taking a hard fall during a win against Pittsburgh. And the Wolfpack looked out of sorts early by launching a lot of 3-pointers while failing to force the Demon Deacons into turnovers. The Wolfpack looked much sharper in their desperate comeback, but couldn't come up with a play or two more to steal this one.Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons were positioned to celebrate, and then staring down a soul-crushing collapse before finding away to hang on. It was a desperately needed win for Danny Manning's club.UP NEXTN. C. State visits Notre Dame on Saturday.Wake Forest visits No. 9 Virginia Tech on Saturday.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap
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Jan 14, 2019No. 15 Marquette will go for its fourth consecutive win when it visits Georgetown on Tuesday night.The Golden Eagles (14-3, 3-1 Big East) have won 11 of their past 12 games, including a 70-66 win against Seton Hall on Saturday.Markus Howard led Marquette with 26 points, one game after he scored a school-record 53 in an overtime win at Creighton. He is averaging 25.8 points game.Seton Hall turned a 10-point halftime deficit into a 63-62 lead, but Marquette center Theo John pulled down an offensive rebound and was fouled with 2:12 remaining. He hit both free throws to give the Golden Eagles the lead for good and finished with 10 points, 11 rebounds and three blocked shots."It may not have been as artistic as the last game, but it was beautiful all the same," Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "It was an old-fashioned fistfight." Sacar Anim added 14 points for Marquette, which won despite Howard being held scoreless for the final 5:31."Games like Markus had (at Creighton) don't come around very often," forward Sam Hauser, who had four key points down the stretch, said in the Journal Sentinel after the game. "Today he missed some shots that he made last game, which is going to happen. A lot of other guys stepped up." The Golden Eagles improved to 12-0 at home but are 1-2 in true road games.Marquette faces a Georgetown team coming off a 96-90 double-overtime win against visiting Providence on Saturday. The Hoyas tied the game late in regulation and again in overtime before going on to defeat the Friars.Georgetown freshman Mac McClung, playing in his first Big East game after missing four games because of an ankle injury, banked in a 3-pointer from about 30 feet at the regulation buzzer.Then James Akinjo -- named Big East Freshman of the Week on Monday -- made a 3-pointer from the top of the key to tie it at 86 with 3.4 seconds left in the first overtime. McClung's layup put Georgetown ahead to stay late in the second overtime.Jessie Govan led the Hoyas (12-5, 2-2 Big East) with a season-high 33 points and added 14 rebounds. Akinjo added 20 points and McClung finished with 16.On his buzzer beater, McClung took the inbounds pass, dribbled up court and launched."Coach drew it up, and I caught the ball -- I looked back, Jessie was wide open, maybe should have hit him, but I shot it with confidence," McClung told the Washington Post. "Coach always says he loves that in a player, confidence, belief in himself, and that's what I feel about myself." The Hoyas overcame a bad play by Akinjo late in regulation. With 10 seconds left and his team trailing by one, Akinjo went against coach Patrick Ewing's play call, shot a three and missed."I got mad at James at the end of regulation, but he made up for it in overtime, both overtimes," Ewing told the Post. "Freshmen are going to be freshmen, and they're growing up. They're growing up." Marquette won both meetings last season, 74-65 at home and 90-86 in overtime at Georgetown.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019WASHINGTON Sam Hauser scored a career-high 31 points, Theo John tied a career-high with 14 points, and No. 15 Marquette held on to beat Georgetown 74-71 on Tuesday night despite Markus Howard - the nation's fourth leading scorer - playing just three scoreless minutes due to lower back tightness.John blocked Georgetown's James Akinjo's drive with four seconds left as Marquette (15-3, 4-1) won its fourth straight game.Georgetown (12-6, 2-3) was led by Mac McClung with 24 points while Jessie Govan added 14 points and nine rebounds. McClung's desperation 3-point heave from half court was off the mark.Hauser, the team's second leading scorer, picked up with Howard out by scoring 22 of his points in the second half including his basket to break a 70-all tie with less than a minute remaining.Marquette, which trailed by as many as eight, took control midway through the second half after a 14-0 run gave them a 57-51 lead with 10:27 left. The Hoyas went over five minutes without scoring.Howard took two of Marquette's first three shots but went to the sideline early and attempted to stretch out his back but never returned.The nation's fourth leading scorer at 25.8 points per game, Howard had a career-high 53 points at Creighton on Jan. 9 to set a school and Big East scoring record.BIG PICTUREMarquette: The Golden Eagles, who have won four straight conference games for the first time since 2013 when they finished 14-4, will now have to wait to see how long Howard is sidelined.Georgetown: With three freshman in the starting lineup, coach Patrick Ewing's squad is under .500 after five conference games for the third straight season and has lost eight straight games to ranked opponents going back to 2017.UP NEXTMarquette: Returns home on Sunday to face Providence, which has started just 1-3 in conference play.Georgetown: Wraps up a three game homestand by hosting Creighton on Monday.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 14, 2019Ole Miss, picked 14th in its conference back in October, is now ranked 18th in the country.The Rebels (13-2, 3-0 SEC) have made a meteoric rise in their first-year under coach Kermit Davis, who has guided the team to 10 consecutive wins and a first-place in the SEC, where Ole Miss was projected to finish last.The Rebels try to keep their unexpected roll going Tuesday night when they welcome LSU to The Pavilion in Oxford, Miss.Ole Miss catapulted into the rankings as the result of two conference wins against Top 25 teams last week. After spanking No. 14 Auburn 82-67 Wednesday night, it scored an 81-77 victory Saturday at No. 24 Mississippi State.One coach who isn't surprised at how quickly Davis has turned things around is Auburn's Bruce Pearl, who got an up-close look last week."Kermit Davis is one of the best coaches in our country," Pearl said. "They are terrifically offensively efficient. What he has been able to do was give them a little more discipline offensively. They are valuing possessions more." How good have the Rebels been with the ball?They are shooting 49.9 percent from the field, 38.2 percent from 3-point range and 76.1 percent at the foul line. They're averaging 79.8 points per game and have logged assists on more than 57 percent of their buckets.Ole Miss entered the week ranked 15th nationally in field goal percentage and 20th nationally in free throw percentage. It also ranked in the top 50 in 3-point percentage and assists. Its top three scorers are all hitting between 40 and 42 percent from 3-point range, led by Breein Tyree, who averages 17.5 points per game.Davis marveled recently at the team's progress from its August trip to Canada, where they trailed Ottawa 44-17 in the second quarter before rallying for an 85-74 win that capped its tour at 3-1."To see our team make this kind of progress from that game until now is a credit to our guys," he said. "They have totally bought in. When they do that, they are capable of doing great things." LSU (12-3, 2-0) has done some great things as well, including a 94-88 overtime win Saturday at Arkansas, where it survived blowing a 13-point second-half lead and losing two of its eight-man rotation via fouls. A third player, Darius Days, departed with just over six minutes left after suffering a knee injury."Everybody picked everybody up, which is what you have to do on the road," Tigers coach Will Wade said in the Advocate of Baton Rouge. "It's never going to be easy on the road, so I was really proud of the guys for how they responded." LSU got 27 points and seven rebounds in just 26 minutes from Naz Reid, plus 17 points and 11 assists from Tremont Waters. Marlon Taylor added a career-high 21 points, tripling his 6.9 per game average.The Tigers enter the game averaging 82.1 points but have more turnovers (221) than assists (219).--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019OXFORD, Miss. Tremont Waters scored 20 points, Kavell Bigby-Williams had 14 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks, and LSU beat No. 18 Mississippi 83-69 on Tuesday night.LSU (13-3, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) used an early 8-0 run in the second half to take a 48-39 lead. The Tigers maintained a healthy advantage from that point, playing tight defense and forcing several turnovers.Waters also had nine assists, and Skylar Mays scored 14 points. LSU has won six straight.Ole Miss (13-3, 3-1) had its 10-game winning streak snapped. The Rebels hadn't lost since Nov. 24, when they fell 71-57 to Cincinnati. Terence Davis led the Rebels with 21 points and 10 rebounds. K. J. Buffen added 13 points.Neither team played particularly well in the first half, with LSU and Ole Miss both shooting 36 percent from the field. Tyree had 12 points before the break, and the teams went into halftime tied at 31.BIG PICTURELSU: It's another good win for LSU, which has quietly established itself as one of the SEC's elite teams. The Tigers are extremely athletic in the post and should cause problems for plenty of teams around the league.Ole Miss: The Rebels were probably due for some sort of regression and struggled in their return to the national rankings for the first time since 2013. They didn't play very well offensively, and their 16 turnovers were particularly costly. Ole Miss will still take its 3-1 league start, but a big home game against Arkansas looms on Saturday.UP NEXTLSU returns home and hosts South Carolina on Saturday.Ole Miss hosts Arkansas on Saturday.---Follow David Brandt on Twitter: www.twitter.com/davidbrandt---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 14, 2019Roy Williams should have reason to be concerned following his worst home defeat in 16 seasons at North Carolina. Maybe a visit from Notre Dame will help the Tar Heels bounce back.The No. 13 Tar Heels look to rebound Tuesday night when they try for a sixth consecutive victory over the visiting Fighting Irish.North Carolina (12-4, 2-1 in ACC) was on a roll entering the weekend, a winner of four straight with three of those victories by at least 20 points and coming off a 90-82 triumph at then-No. 15 North Carolina State. However, the Tar Heels' momentum came to a crashing halt with an 83-62 defeat to Louisville on Saturday at Chapel Hill."I am at a little bit of a loss, but that's OK," Williams said in his postgame press conference. "It happens in coaching. We have a wonderful group of kids that we have to better prepare, and we have a head coach who is trying but not doing very well." While Williams is admirable in deflecting the blame from his team, the reality is the Tar Heels probably can't afford many more efforts on that level. Against the Cardinals, North Carolina was held to season lows for points, field-goal percentage (34.5) and 3-point shooting (3 of 22, 13.6 percent). Louisville, meanwhile, shot 51.9 percent, made 11 3s and held a 40-31 advantage on the glass. In Monday's AP poll, Louisville was a near-miss in the Top 25."I'm not too concerned about what they eat or anything like that, but basketball is a big concern right now," Williams said of his team.Kenny Williams had a team-high 12 points, while leading scorer Cameron Johnson (15.8 points per game) added 10 and fellow senior star Luke Maye (14.4 ppg) was held to nine. Maye, who did record 11 rebounds for a third straight game, totaled 38 points in the previous two contests."Sometimes when things are going south it is hard to fight," Johnson told North Carolina's official website. "And we just have to do a better job with that." The Tar Heels hope to be better prepared for this fight against Notre Dame (11-5-, 1-2 in ACC), which has lost five straight in the series since winning three in a row over North Carolina in 2015 and into '16.Coach Mike Brey hopes to have team leader T. J. Gibbs (14.7 ppg, 3.9 assists per game) back after the junior guard missed Saturday's 69-66 home win overBoston College due to illness. However, 6-foot-11 forward Juwan Durham, who has started his last four contests, could miss a second consecutive game with an ankle injury.Left with just six scholarship players and stating three true freshmen for the first time in the Brey era, the Irish overcame a 34.4-percent shooting day to edge the Eagles and avoid an 0-3 conference start."You've got to ride through stuff like this, and hang in there," said Brey, whose squad has dealt with various injuries throughout the season. "It was certainly important to get a league win because 0-3 is a heck of a hole."I'm really proud of our team as we're trying to figure this thing out." Junior forward John Mooney had a career-high 27 points and 12 rebounds against Boston College. He's averaged 16.7 points and 12.0 boards in the three ACC games.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019CHEL HILL, N. C. Once Nassir Little got rolling, No. 13 North Carolina didn't have to worry much about yet another home loss.Little scored all 11 of his points in the final 11 minutes, and the Tar Heels beat Notre Dame 75-69 on Tuesday night.''It was just a matter of time,'' Little said. ''Everybody was just waiting for me to do what I do, to help the team be as good as we can be.'' Coby White had 17 points while Luke Maye added 14 points and 10 rebounds and Cameron Johnson finished with 11 points for the Tar Heels (13-4, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference). UNC used a late 12-1 run to bounce back from its most lopsided home loss under Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams.''I got my wish - I wanted to win one ugly,'' Williams said.Prentiss Hubb scored 18 points, John Mooney had 16 points and 19 rebounds, and D. J. Harvey added 15 points for the Fighting Irish (11-6, 1-3). Hubb put Notre Dame up 58-57 with a layup with just under seven minutes remaining, but the Irish missed their next six shots while North Carolina took control.''Everything was just right for us,'' coach Mike Brey said. ''We just needed a few more plays, and we probably needed another scorer.'' White started the key run with a 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down with 6 1/2 minutes to play, and Little, a freshman, ended it with a twisting layup on the break that gave the Tar Heels their first double-figure lead, 69-59, with less than 90 seconds left.The Irish didn't get closer than seven until Hubb's 3 with 4.7 seconds left made it 73-69.BIG PICTURENotre Dame: The Fighting Irish have lost three of four to begin conference play and haven't cracked the 70s in scoring in any of those games. They aren't afraid to pull the trigger from 3-point range - no team in the ACC has taken more of them this season, and roughly half their shots in this one were from beyond the arc - but they didn't quite hit enough of them to pull off the upset: Notre Dame was just 4 of 15 from long range in the second half.North Carolina: The Tar Heels will hear less about that embarrassing 83-62 loss to Louisville. They also haven't lost three straight home ACC games in nearly a decade. Perhaps the most encouraging sign: They had only two turnovers in the second half.STAR WATCHT. J. Gibbs, who averages a team-best 18.5 points for Notre Dame, was held to five points on 1-of-9 shooting in his return after an illness that forced him to miss a game for the first time in his career. ''My trainer said, `You can't play him as usual, 35 minutes, because he's ill,''' Brey said. ''And then I played him 35 minutes, because he was our only option. ... We need to kind of get him back to 100 percent by Saturday.'' PLAY OF THE NIGHTSeventh Woods earned some hustle points for his blocked shot that brought the crowd to its feet with about 12 minutes left. Nate Laszewski was headed for an easy open-court dunk after stealing the ball from Johnson. But Woods raced in to block the attempt at the rim.BATTLE ON THE BOARDSThe ACC's top two rebounders - Maye (10.1 rpg) and Mooney (9.8) - went at it in this one. Those two combined for 29 of the 83 total rebounds in the game.UP NEXTNotre Dame: Plays host to No. 17 North Carolina State on Saturday.North Carolina: Visits Miami on Saturday.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://www.twitter.com/-Top25
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Jan 14, 2019Tenth-ranked Nevada is the marquee team of the Mountain West.But the Wolf Pack aren't one of the two teams sharing first place in the league.Boise State is tied for the top spot with UNLV. The Broncos will aim to remain ahead of Nevada when they host the Wolf Pack on Tuesday night.Nevada is a half-game behind the leaders due to the 85-58 drubbing it took at New Mexico on Jan. 5. The Wolf Pack have rebounded with back-to-back victories over San Jose State and Fresno State.The Wolf Pack shot just 38.5 percent from the field -- including 10 of 37 from 3-point range -- in Saturday's 74-64 road win over Fresno State. But they committed just seven turnovers and had a 27-3 edge in second-chance points."We earned ourselves extra possessions and the 14 extra shots that we got I thought was the difference in the game," Nevada coach Eric Musselman said after the contest.Senior shooting guard Caleb Martin scored 27 points to raise his team-leading average to 19.1, but senior big man Jordan Caroline was the biggest difference-maker.Caroline was moved from power forward to center and he attacked the boards like a dynamo. The 6-foot-7, 230-pound Caroline matched his career high of 16 rebounds to go with 19 points.Caroline has 10 double-doubles this season and 37 in his career. Perhaps calling him "Sweet Caroline" fits as Nevada hits the high notes in those contests by compiling a 35-2 record."Jordan gives us so much," Musselman said of a player averaging 18,4 points and team-high 9.8 rebounds. "We're tinkering with some stuff and we played smaller because they're a smaller team. We felt like we wanted to out-quick them at positions so we downsized." The Wolf Pack are running into a hot Boise State squad that has won its three Mountain West games by an average of 20.3 points.The Broncos rolled to big wins over San Diego State (88-64) and San Jose State (87-64) in their past two outings but are well aware the sledding will be tougher against Nevada."They've got tough kids who know how to win games," Boise State coach Leon Rice said on the school's radio broadcast after Saturday's road win at San Jose State. "We've just got to go out and compete our tails off and let the chips fall." The Broncos lack a bona fide go-to scorer but have four players scoring in double digits in junior guards Justinian Jessup (12.8), RJ Williams (12.7) and Alex Hobbs (10.4) as well as sophomore guard Derrick Alston (10.4). Jessup has made a team-best 43 3-pointers and stands ninth in school history with 183.Hobbs and junior guard Pat Dembley (8.5) scored 18 points apiece against the Spartans. The output was a season high for Dembley, who thinks his club will be up to the task in terms of giving the Wolf Pack a tough battle."We've got to come out playing extremely hard," Dembley said in a postgame radio interview. "We've got to play extremely smart, and we've got to execute everything. There's going to be mistakes, and we've just got to focus on the next play. We can't dwell on nothing." Nevada has won the past four meetings with the Broncos after losing six of the previous seven.--Field Level Media
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Jan 15, 2019BOISE, Idaho Cody Martin hit a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds remaining to help No. 10 Nevada beat Boise State 72-71 on Tuesday night.Boise State (8-9, 3-1) had a chance to win it but Justinian Jessup's long 3-point heave at the buzzer fell short.Nevada seemed to have the game on cruise control early in the second half, never allowing the Broncos to get any closer than seven points, but the Wolf Pack (17-1, 4-1) remained in constant foul trouble. Starters Trey Porter and Caleb Martin were on the bench with four fouls with just over nine minutes remaining in the game.Boise State took its first lead of the second half at 69-68 with 2:10 remaining on two free throws by Alex Hobbs. Cody Martin then tied the game hitting one of two from the line with 1:52 left. Hobbs then answered with a layup 10 seconds later to give the Broncos a 71-69 advantage. Nevada, however, turned up its defensive intensity and stifled two subsequent Boise State possessions, setting up Martin's game winner.Cody Martin finished with 16 points for Nevada, while Jordan Caroline added 15 and grabbed 13 rebounds.Hobbs and Jessup paced Boise State with 19 and 17 points, respectively.BIG PICTURENevada: The Wolf Pack knocked off a Mountain West co-leader for the second straight game on the road as they continue to right the ship after a 27-point loss on the road to New Mexico earlier this month. The hard-fought victory over the Broncos also serves as further proof that Nevada remains the team to beat in the conference.Boise State: The Broncos continue to search for the consistency they need to prove they are serious contenders in the conference this season. Long spells of poor shooting and lackadaisical defense have doomed Boise State this season against stronger competition. And if the Broncos have any aspirations of making noise in the Mountain West, they need to find a better rhythm and quickly.UP NEXTNevada returns home to host Air Force on Saturday.Boise State hosts Fresno State on Saturday.
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Jan 16, 2019SAN DIEGO Jalen McDaniels had 24 points and 11 rebounds while freshman Aguek Arop made a 65-foot shot at the halftime buzzer and Devin Watson made three 3-pointers in the first four minutes of the second half to help San Diego State to a 97-77 victory against New Mexico on Tuesday night.Watson finished with 21 points, freshman Nathan Mensah had 16 and Arop and Jordan Schakel 10 each for SDSU (10-7, 2-2 Mountain West).SDSU's 30 assists were its most in a MWC game, and the 97 points tied for the school's most in a regulation MWC game. Jeremy Hemsley and Matt Mitchell had nine assists apiece.Anthony Mathis scored 21, Vance Jackson 16 and Carlton Bragg 12 for New Mexico (8-9, 2-3).The game's highlight came when Arop stole the ball, took a few steps and launched his three-quarters-court shot, which swished at the buzzer to give the Aztecs a 44-39 halftime lead. He scored 10 points in the first half and Mensah had 12. Mensah scored 10 of the Aztecs' first 17 points in the first five minutes and had 12 of their first 25.The two freshmen combined to go 10 for 10 in the first half.SDSU had a 19-8 lead behind Mensah's opening salvo but New Mexico clawed its way back and trailed just 23-22 after the third 3-pointer in 2 1/2 minutes by Mathis. Mathis had four 3-pointers in scoring 13 points in the first half.Arop's long shot and Watson's 3-point barrage in the opening minutes of the second half gave the Aztecs some breathing room. Watson's third 3-pointer gave SDSU a 53-41 lead.BIG PICTURENew Mexico: The Lobos have lost three straight since opening MWC play with an 85-58 upset of then-No. 5 Nevada at home on Jan. 5. They followed that up by losing at home against UNLV, at Colorado State and then at SDSU.San Diego State: The Aztecs were coming off a 62-48 loss at Air Force in which they cut a 16-point deficit to four points, but couldn't finish the comeback.UP NEXTNew Mexico hosts Wyoming on Saturday.San Diego State is at Fresno State next Tuesday night. Justin Hutson, a former longtime SDSU assistant, is in his first season as the Bulldogs' coach.---More college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/-Top25
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Time: 7:00 PM EST Venue: Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, 43215 / Two teams coming off offensive explosions will look to keep the goals coming when the New Jersey Devils visit the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night. The Devils and Blue Jackets reached season highs in scoring in their most recent games. New Jersey recorded an 8-5 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday, while Columbus hit the seven-goal plateau for the fourth time this season in a 7-5 win over the New York Rangers on Sunday. Thirteen of 18 Columbus skaters had at least one point in the win over the Rangers, which gave the Blue Jackets six wins in their last seven games against Metropolitan Division opponents." It's good to see a lot of guys get on the score sheet (and) feel good about themselves. These are huge points, especially in the Metro," said right wing Cam Atkinson." (We've) played against some of the best teams in the league as of late, and we've found ways to get it done, even if it's not our prettiest. We have to continue to do that leading into the (All-Star) break." The Blue Jackets have dominated the recent history between the clubs, winning 14 of their last 17 games against the Devils. That winning stretch includes two previous meetings this season -- a 2-1 result on Dec. 20, and a 3-0 shutout three days later. Sergei Bobrovsky was in net for both of those games and is probable to start again Tuesday. After missing two games for internal disciplinary reasons, Bobrovsky returned to save 22 of 27 shots against the Rangers. Devils coach John Hynes didn't state whether Keith Kinkaid or rookie MacKenzie Blackwood would be getting the start in Columbus on Tuesday. Blackwood allowed five goals on 37 shots against Chicago and would be starting on consecutive nights for the first time. Kinkaid's previous performance against Columbus could be a factor in Hynes' decision. Kinkaid was the Devils' starting goaltender in the Dec. 23 meeting, getting a quick hook in the second period after allowing all three goals after just 11 shots. New Jersey forward Miles Wood left Monday's game in the third period and didn't return. The Devils didn't have a postgame update on Wood's condition, although he will travel with the team to Columbus. New Jersey figures to have a distinct advantage in power play situations over the Blue Jackets. The Devils entered Monday's action with the second-best penalty kill percentage in the NHL, while Columbus is near the bottom of the standings in power play percentage and power play goals." Guys that have good hockey sense and awareness defensively" is how Hynes described his ideal model of a penalty-killing unit." Sometimes on the penalty kill, you have the structure and you understand what your reads have to be, and there's also an anticipation factor," Hynes said. "We have guys that can anticipate the play, (and) read when there's a breakdown." Artemi Panarin leads the Blue Jackets with 50 points. The winger has been on a roll over his past 11 games, recording 16 points (eight goals, eight assists) in that span.--Field Level Media
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/ COLUMBUS, Ohio Joonas Korpisalo had 29 saves, three Columbus players recorded a goal and an assist and the Blue Jackets beat the New Jersey Devils 4-1 on Tuesday night. Top-liners Artemi Panarin, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Cam Atkinson carried the offensive load, and Boone Jenner also scored as Columbus won its fourth straight. The Blue Jackets have won six of their last eight games and 11 of the last 14 while sparring with Washington and Pittsburgh atop the Metropolitan Division. Korpisalo has started three of the last four games ahead of star Sergei Bobrovsky and won each time. The 24-year-old Finn could soon find himself the team's No.1 goalie as Bobrovsky has refused to sign a contract extension with Columbus and may be traded before the deadline next month. Blake Coleman scored and Keith Kinkaid had 30 saves for the Devils, who saw a two-game winning streak end as they struggle to stay out of the Metro basement. Atkinson tipped in a pass from Dubois 45 seconds in for his team-leading 27th goal to give Columbus the early lead. Less than two minutes later, Josh Anderson, off a faceoff from the right circle, fed Jenner, who beat Kinkaid from the slot. Late in the first, David Savard grabbed a face off and slid a beautiful pass from the left corner to the doorstep, setting up Panarin for an easy tip-in and a 3-0 Columbus lead. Early in the second, Dubois snapped in a shot from the left circle for the Blue Jackets' fourth power-play goal in four games. Coleman redirected a shot by Mirco Mueller late in the second period to make it 4-1. NOTES: Columbus coach John Tortorella coached his 285th game with the team, passing Ken Hitchcock for the franchise record. He is the franchise's leader in wins (156-102-26). ... New Jersey F Miles Wood was out with an undisclosed injury suffered in the game Monday night. ... Panarin, Dubois and Atkinson all have four-game point streaks. ... Coleman has five goals and two assists in the last five games. UP NEXT:New Jersey: At New York Islanders on Thursday. Columbus: Hosts Montreal on Friday.---More NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports---Follow Mitch Stacy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mitchstacy
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Time: 7:00 PM EST Venue: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, 11217 / On Sunday night, the New York Islanders authored a signature win over this season's Stanley Cup favorites. On Monday night, the St. Louis Blues made a statement of their own with a resounding win over last season's Stanley Cup champions. On Tuesday night, the two teams will look to continue building on their recent momentum when the Islanders face the Blues in New York. The Islanders earned one of the most surprising wins of the season Sunday when they routed the NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning 5-1 at Barclays Center. The Blues notched their own stunner Monday night, beating the host Washington Capitals 4-1. By handing the Lightning only their third loss in the past 21 games -- and only their second loss of the season by more than three goals -- the Islanders continued to cement themselves as a legitimate playoff contender. New York, which missed the postseason by 17 points last season and then saw captain John Tavares leave for the Toronto Maple Leafs as a free agent, will enter Tuesday 11-3-0 in its past 14 games and in sole possession of the second Eastern Conference wild-card spot." I think there's certain games, or certain times, during the year where you get an opponent that makes you believe or cements what you're trying to do as a team," Islanders coach Barry Trotz said Sunday night. "And it sort of galvanizes you, or it gives you a more solid foundation." The Blues have strengthened their once-flickering playoff hopes by winning a season-high three consecutive games -- all over teams currently occupying a playoff spot -- and five of their past seven overall. The current streak was bookended by three-goal wins over the Capitals, whom Trotz coached to the Stanley Cup crown last season before resigning when he and the team could not come to terms on a new contract." They're gaining confidence game-to-game here," Blues coach Craig Berube said Monday night. "They feel good about each other and they're working for each other, and that's the key: playing for each other and doing the right things and putting the team first." Islanders No. 1 goalie Robin Lehner is likely to draw the start Tuesday against the Blues, who probably will turn to hot rookie Jordan Binnington on the second game of a back-to-back set after Jake Allen earned the win Monday by making 28 saves against the Capitals. Lehner, who sat Sunday in favor of Thomas Greiss, had his eight-decision winning streak snapped Saturday, when he took the loss after stopping 24 of 26 shots as the Islanders fell to the New York Rangers, 2-1. Binnington has wasted little time in threatening the starting status of Allen, who opened 14 straight games in net for the Blues before Binnington made his first career start Jan. 7 and recorded a shutout in a 3-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. He was only the second St. Louis goalie to notch a shutout in his first NHL start. The win over the Flyers was the first of three victories in as many starts last week for Binnington, who allowed just two goals on 76 shots -- including one goal on 22 shots in his most recent appearance Saturday, when he led the Blues past the Dallas Stars, 3-1. Binnington was selected the NHL's second star of the week on Monday. Lehner is 5-3-1 in nine career appearances against the Blues. Binnington has never faced the Islanders.--Field Level Media
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/ NEW YORK Valtteri Filppula scored 1:37 into overtime and the New York Islanders beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 Tuesday night for their 12th win in 15 games. Jordan Eberle had a goal in the first period for New York, and Robin Lehner stopped 30 shots. David Perron scored the tying goal in the third period for the Blues, and Jordan Binnington - making his fourth straight start and fourth of his career - finished with 23 saves. St. Louis had won three straight and five of its previous seven. On the winner, Filppula jumped on the ice, got a pass from Mathew Barzal and skated in on Binnington before beating him from the right side for his 10th. Perron tied it at 6:07 of the third as he got a pass from Ryan O'Reilly from behind the net, and put it past Lehner for his team-leading 17th. It extended Perron's career-high point streak to 12 games, giving him six goals and 15 assists in the stretch. Trailing 1-0, the Blues picked up their intensity in the second period, outshooting the Islanders 18-7. Lehner, who had won a career-best eight straight before taking the loss in a 2-1 defeat to the New York Rangers on Saturday, was stellar in keeping St. Louis off the scoreboard. He stopped an attempt by O'Reilly from the left side 1 1/2 minutes in and denied Jaden Schwartz in front four minutes later. Lehner then gloved Oskar Sundqvist's shot from the left circle three minutes later and a tip by Schwartz shortly after. Sundqvist was thwarted on consecutive attempts in front with just over eight minutes remaining, and Lehner gloved a shot by Vladimir Tarasenko from between the circles 30 seconds later. Binnington stopped a tip by Islanders rookie Devon Toews with a little more than two minutes to go in the second to keep it a one-goal game. St. Louis, outshot 11-5 in the first period, didn't get its first shot on goal until 7:47 in, when Lehner stopped a tip try by Zach Sanford from between the circles. The Islanders got on the scoreboard about a minute later, seconds after Anders Lee hit a goalpost and the puck ended up in the netting on the outside. After a faceoff to Binnington's left, Eberle got the rebound of Lee's attempt on the right doorstep and lifted it in up high for his 10th of the season and 200th of his career at 8:43. St. Louis coach Craig Berube challenged for goalie interference on the play, but the goal stood after a video review. NOTES: Sundqvist was helped off the ice less than three minutes into the game after he was accidentally hit in the head by an official's elbow. He returned to the ice in the closing minutes of the opening period. ... O'Reilly has 10 assists and 13 points in his last 11 games. ... The Islanders are 6-1-1 in the last eight against the Blues, including a 4-3 win at St. Louis on Jan. 5. ... New York improved to 19-1-3 when leading after two periods. ... Eberle has three goals in his last six games. ... Lee has six assists and eight points in his last seven games. UP NEXTBlues: At Boston on Thursday night to finish a four-game trip. Islanders: Host New Jersey on Thursday night at the Nassau Coliseum.---Follow Vin Cherwoo at www.twitter.com/VinCherwoo---More NHL: www.apnews.com/NHL and www.twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 7:00 PM EST Venue: Madison Square Garden, New York, N. Y., 10001 / Things are looking up for the Carolina Hurricanes after a successful last couple weeks. Things are rapidly deteriorating for the New York Rangers. Now, a pair of Metropolitan Division foes trending in significantly different directions get together Tuesday night when the Hurricanes visit the Rangers looking to end a 15-game losing streak at Madison Square Garden. From Nov. 30-Dec. 29, the Hurricanes endured a 3-8-2 stretch that dropped them 10 points out of the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Starting with a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Dec. 31, Carolina is 7-1-0 in its last eight games and is within striking distance of the second wild-card spot at 22-18-5, good for 49 points. During their month-long skid, the Hurricanes scored 26 goals and lost five games by two goals or less. In the hot streak, Carolina is outscoring opponents by a 32-22 margin while chasing the starting goaltender in four games and getting several goals on deflections." There was a time that we were playing really good hockey, but nothing was going our way," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour told reporters recently. "I give the guys credit, and our leadership group, they're the ones that are continually pushing the message. They're leading by example." "Finally," Carolina right winger Teuvo Teravainen added. "We're doing a lot of things right and maybe that's why we're getting these bounces." Carolina's latest win was Sunday's 6-3 victory over Nashville, highlighted by Sebastian Aho's hat trick with a goal in each period. Aho leads the Hurricanes in goals (21) and assists (30), has 15 goals in his last 18 contests, and is the sixth Finnish-born player to score at least 20 goals in each of his first three seasons. Justin Williams also scored a power-play goal Sunday -- his fifth straight game with a goal. The Rangers, on the other hand, are on a 1-6-0 slide since winning one-goal games in Nashville and St. Louis on Dec. 29 and 31. They are being outscored 34-15 and have held a lead for just 7:32 total during the streak. New York stopped a five-game losing streak with Saturday afternoon's 2-1 win in Brooklyn against the New York Islanders but followed it up with a 7-5 loss at Columbus on Sunday. That result infuriated first-year coach David Quinn, who watched his team lose 47 of 68 faceoffs and be outshot 40-27." You're going to lose hockey games. But you better want to battle somebody. It's just ridiculous," Quinn told reporters. "Three games where we feel good about our effort and our compete (level), and then we come out here and do that? It's a freaking joke." While the Rangers scored five goals for the first time since Dec. 8, they gave up seven or more for the fourth time this season. Three of the goals the Rangers surrendered on Sunday came less than two minutes after New York had scored." We're going to watch this and we're going to learn from this," Quinn said. "We have zero chance if we've got 20 guys in uniform not wanting to compete for pucks and get into people and have a little bit of snarl to your game." Chris Kreider scored one of New York's goals after going a season-high seven games without a tally and Mats Zuccarello scored twice after getting the game-winner Saturday. Those performances were negated by Mika Zibanejad losing 15 of 24 faceoffs and Boo Nieves losing 14 of 16 draws. Sunday's loss is part of a rapid decline that actually began Nov. 23. From Oct. 23-Nov. 21, the Rangers enjoyed a 10-3-1 surge. But starting with a 4-0 loss at Philadelphia, they are 6-12-5 and 1-3-5 at home. New York sits at 18-20-7, giving them 43 points. Alexandar Georgiev played the last two games but Henrik Lundqvist is expected to start in goal Tuesday after getting a breather by backing up in four of the last six contests. Rangers center Kevin Hayes missed his sixth straight game with an upper-body injury and he could be out again Tuesday. Carolina torched the Rangers in the first meeting when 13 players registered a point in its 8-5 home win on Oct. 7. The Hurricanes are seeking their first win against the Rangers in New York since Oct. 29, 2010.--Field Level Media
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/ NEW YORK Mika Zibanejad had two goals and two assists to help the New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-2 on Tuesday night. Pavel Buchnevich and Tony DeAngelo each scored twice and Mats Zuccarello added three assists as the Rangers won for only the second time in eight games. Henrik Lundqvist made 24 saves for his 444th win, one behind Terry Sawchuk for sixth place on the NHL's career list. Saku Maenalanen had two goals and Curtis McElhinney stopped 22 shots but the Hurricanes lost for just the second time since the new year. Zibanejad got his first goal after McElhinney misread a long carom off the end boards. Rangers defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk sent the puck deep from just inside the red line and Chris Kreider controlled the puck a few feet in front of the goalie. McElhinney misjudged the bounce and came out too far, allowing Zibanejad an easy tap-in opportunity at 12:41 of the first period. Zibanejad scored again when Zuccarello delivered a backhand pass from below the goal line at 14:22 to give New York a 3-1 lead. Kreider got his second assist on the play. DeAngelo, skating in his 100th NHL game, opened the scoring when a fluttering wrist shot sailed past McElhinney at 1:16 of the first. Jimmy Vesey and Boo Nieves assisted. Carolina knotted the score at 9:24 when Maenalanen benefited from Brett Howden's turnover. The rookie center struggled to control a pass in his own end and Maenalenen took advantage, scoring his third career goal. Howden skated on the fourth line for the second consecutive game after spending a majority of the season on one New York's top three offensive trios. Maenalenen also redirected Victor Rask's wrist shot at 11:51 of the third period. Justin Faulk assisted on the play. Buchnevich scored the first of two power-play goals at 3:41 of the second when Zibanejad found the Russian all alone at the top of the crease. Zuccarello also had an assist. Buchnevich added his second of the game and ninth this season early in the third period. Zibanejad and Zuccarello assisted on the goal. DeAngelo scored his fourth of the season at 12:55 of the third to extend New York's lead to 6-2. Nieves and Vladislav Namestnikov helped set up the goal. NOTES: Rangers defenseman Ryan Lindgren made his NHL debut. The 20-year-old Minnesota native was acquired at the trade deadline last season from the Boston Bruins as part of a package for recently retired Rick Nash. ... Zuccarello passed Anders Hedberg for the most assists by a Rangers player born and trained outside North America. ... Kevin Hayes missed his seventh straight game with an upper-body injury but skated in a non-contact jersey at the most recent practice. . Rangers defenseman Neal Pionk missed the game due to a lingering lower-body injury. . New York scratched defenseman Brendan Smith. Carolina scratched forward Clark Bishop. UP NEXTHurricanes: Host the Ottawa Senators on Friday. Rangers: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday.---More NHL: www.apnews.com/NHL and www.twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 7:30 PM EST Venue: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI, 48201 / The Anaheim Ducks have gone nearly a month without a victory. They'll try once again to break their long winless streak when they visit Detroit to face the Red Wings on Tuesday. The Ducks are 0-7-4 over their last 11 games, their last victory coming Dec. 17 in Pittsburgh, 4-2. Their latest disappointment came on Sunday, when they dropped a 4-3 overtime decision at Winnipeg." We know the position we're in, but we gained a point in a tough place to play," left wing Andrew Cogliano told the team's website shortly after the loss. "We just have to focus on this road trip. We didn't get two points, but it was a good start for the next four. We played a stronger game defensively." This is one of the best teams in the league," he added. "We should've won the game, but the point is a good start." When the Ducks finally do break their losing streak, Cogliano won't be able to enjoy it. He was dealt on Monday morning to the Dallas Stars for center Devin Shore. The 24-year-old Shore has 29 goals in 209 career games, all with Dallas (23-19-4, 50 points). He has five goals and 12 assists in 42 games this season. As for the Ducks (19-18-9, 47 points), coach Randy Carlyle is under fire but general manager Bob Murray gave him a vote of confidence in a statement issued after the loss to the Jets." While it's not my preference to make comments on this topic during the season, our recent play has led to many questions. Our fans are frustrated, rightfully so, and deserve a response from me," he said. "At this time, I am not considering a coaching change. I am more focused on our players, specifically with who is going to step up in this situation. The way we played (Sunday) was a step in the right direction, but we need much, much more. We have higher expectations for this group, and they should expect more from themselves." The Wings (17-23-7, 41 points) are in a rebuilding phase but they're feeling a little bit better about themselves after a 5-2 win at Minnesota on Saturday. They had lost 13 of their previous 15 games. Left wing Tyler Bertuzzi was the star, collecting his first career hat trick. He had two tip-ins and a backhander in front of the net." That's his bread and butter for sure (going to the net)," coach Jeff Blashill told reporters after the game. "He's a real good defensive player. He's a real good complementary player with the guys like Larks (Dylan Larkin) and Nyqui (Gustav Nyquist) because he can make a play with them, he's got poise with them. He's real good around the net, he knows how to tip pucks, not just a net presence but knows how to tip pucks." Another left wing, Thomas Vanek, scored the other two goals. He didn't have a point in the previous three games." His effort's been great. It's not an effort thing," Blashill said. "At times, I think he's started to squeeze it a little bit too tight. So good for him to shoot the puck. We need him shooting as much as he can." Anaheim recorded a 3-2 shootout victory in the first meeting on Oct. 8.--Field Level Media
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/ DETROIT Gustav Nyquist broke a tie with 4:16 left and Darren Helm scored a little later, lifting the Detroit Red Wings over the Anaheim Ducks 3-1 on Tuesday night to extend their franchise-record losing streak to 12 games. Nyquist lifted his stick at the left side of the net and tipped in Danny DeKeyser's shot from the slot. Helm's goal with 2:33 remaining gave the Red Wings a two-goal cushion, and Anaheim players dropped their heads on the bench with another defeat imminent. John Gibson stopped 22 shots for the Ducks, who haven't won since Dec. 17. Prior to the skid, they had won nine of 10. Anaheim got off to a strong start but couldn't sustain it, even against one of the NHL's worst teams. Detroit won consecutive games for the first time in more than a month. Rickard Rakell deflected a shot past Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard midway through the second period on a power play. Howard finished with 23 saves. Detroit tied it 5:25 into the third when Anthony Mantha scored from the right circle, shooting the puck after it bounced off a cross-ice pass from Andreas Athanasiou. Ducks center Devin Shore, who had a game-high four hits, made his Anaheim debut after being acquired from the Dallas Stars for winger Andrew Cogliano. NOTES: Detroit scratched D Filip Hronek to make room for DeKeyser, who had been out since Dec. 4 with an upper-body injury. Hronek had a goal and four assists in his previous five games. UP NEXTDucks: Play at Minnesota on Thursday, the third stop on a five-game road trip. Red Wings: Play at Calgary on Friday night, starting an 11-game stretch with eight on the road.---More NHL: https://apnews.com/tag/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 7:30 PM EST Venue: Bell Centre, Montreal, PQ, Canada, H3B 5E8 / Nothing seems to have gone as planned for the Florida Panthers this season, including a current five-game road trip that has had mostly agonizing moments. The Panthers (17-19-8) will wrap up the rough roadie Tuesday night in Montreal, where they will try to settle a score from last month when the Canadiens made their annual pre-New Year's visit to South Florida on Dec. 28. With Carey Price placed on the injured reserve the day before, the Canadiens turned to backup Antti Niemi, who had not played in the previous six games. In his previous start on Dec. 11, the 35-year-old Niemi had performed poorly, stopping just 16 of 23 shots by the Minnesota Wild. However, he rebounded in Montreal's 5-3 win over the Panthers, making a number of crucial saves in the final period. That script did not play out like Florida expected, nor have the first four games of the current road trip. The Panthers allowed two short-handed tallies in a disastrous 5-1 loss in Pittsburgh, infuriating Florida coach Bob Boughner, who benched three players from the first power-play unit for most of the final 30 minutes -- All-Star Keith Yandle, top points-scorer Jonathan Huberdeau and leading goal scorer Mike Hoffman. Florida lost 4-3 in Edmonton in a shootout after the Oilers tied the game with eight seconds left in regulation on Thursday. The Panthers then ran out of gas the next night, squandering a two-goal lead in Calgary before again losing 4-3. Sunday's 5-1 defeat in Vancouver left them 0-3-1 on their bad westerly trip. Boughner said the faceoff circle -- Florida lost 54 percent of the draws -- and his best players' poor play were major downfalls. Vancouver scored two late empty-net goals late to blow open a close game." We just couldn't find the next one in a 1-1 game. The faceoff circle was really the difference in the game. We had some guys, especially some of our big guys, who had very average or below-average games," Boughner said. Montreal (25-17-5) will play the second game of a back-to-back when it faces Florida, and with Price starting in Boston against the Bruins on Monday, there's a good chance Niemi could again get the call against the Panthers. In the 746th regular-season meeting between the Original Six teams -- the most by any two clubs against one another -- Jeff Petry's rebound goal on a chest-high swing 15 seconds into overtime gave the Canadiens a 3-2 win and a 2-2 split in the season series. Montreal won for just the second time against Boston in its last 10 (2-5-3). Price was outstanding in making 41 saves for the Canadiens (8-4-0 in last 12), who jumped up to the top wild card spot and are only two points behind the Bruins for third place in the Atlantic Division. Right wing Brendan Gallagher said Montreal is competing with a sense of desperation because of the playoff standings." We're aware (of the standings). It seems like it's that way every night," said Gallagher, who scored Montreal's first goal. "If you win, it's hard to make up ground, but if you lose, you feel like you fall back pretty quickly. Every team in this position right now is pretty desperate and is not letting points slip away." --Field Level Media
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/ MONTREAL Antti Niemi made a career-high 52 saves and the Montreal Canadiens extended their winning streak to three games with a 5-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night. Shea Weber, Phillip Danault, Max Domi, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Brendan Gallagher scored for Montreal in the second of back-to-back games. The Canadiens were coming off a 3-2 overtime victory in Boston on Monday. Mike Hoffman scored in the first period for the Panthers, who have dropped seven consecutive games, their longest skid of the season. Florida's last victory was on Dec. 31, against the Detroit Red Wings. Roberto Luongo was expected to start in goal for Florida, but James Reimer got the nod in a game-time decision. Reimer stopped 23 shots. The Panthers outshot the Canadiens 53-28. Florida had 21 shots in the third period alone. Niemi was solid throughout as he beat his personal 48-save mark set on March 3, 2017, in a 2-1 loss to the Bruins. The Canadiens backup goalie has won his last three starts and improved to 8-4-1 on the season. With Montreal leading 2-1 in the second period, Domi appeared to have snapped his 17-game scoring drought when he scooped the puck across the goal-line following a scramble in the crease. But, the goal was overturned for goaltender interference. Domi, however, scored his 15th of the season at 16:53. It was his first goal since Dec. 9. Hoffman scored a highlight-reel, one-handed goal on a breakaway at 14:11 of the first period, following a bad giveaway by Canadiens center Michael Chaput. Montreal's league-worst power play was successful in the second period, when Weber fired a slap shot past Reimer just 29 seconds after the restart to make it 1-1. The goal was the Canadiens first at home with the man advantage since Dec. 1. Montreal had not scored on its previous 27 power-play opportunities at Bell Centre. Danault gave the Canadiens a 2-1 lead at 10:44 of the second, a no-look backhand shot after Weber's shot bounced off the end boards behind Reimer. After Domi made it 3-1, Kotkaniemi added another for Montreal with 5:38 left in the third period before Gallagher scored into the empty net with 1:36 remaining. Notes: Jordie Benn earned his 100th NHL point in his 439th game. UP NEXTPanthers: Home against Toronto on Friday. Canadiens: At Columbus on Friday.---More NHL: https://apnews.com/tag/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 8:00 PM EST Venue: Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 5S5 / Vegas makes its first trip of the season to Central Division-leading Winnipeg on Tuesday night, though it is doubtful the outcome will be nearly as memorable as the last time the Golden Knights played at Bell MTS Place. Vegas, behind a second-period goal by Winnipeg native Ryan Reaves and a 31-save performance by Marc-Andre Fleury, wrapped up the Western Conference championship and a berth in the Stanley Cup Final with a 2-1 victory back on May 20. The Golden Knights won the final four games of the series to eliminate the Jets in five games. This is the first of three regular-season meetings between the two teams, with the other games scheduled for Feb. 22 and March 21, both in Las Vegas. And it's fair to say that the folks in Winnipeg have had this one circled on their calendars." I think you've got to take it a little bit personally and try and right a few wrongs," Jets center Andrew Copp told reporters after practice on Monday." They kind of took it from us really," forward Mathieu Perreault added. "They've been doing well lately so it should be a very good game. ... What happened last year, there's nothing we can do about it now. This is a new year so hopefully we can match up well with them tomorrow and hopefully get a win." Both teams have 60 points -- good enough to put the Jets (29-14-2) in first place in the Central Division but the third-best mark in the Pacific. The Golden Knights (28-16-4) enter Monday night four points behind first-place Calgary and one point behind San Jose, both of whom have a game in hand. Vegas, 8-1-1 in its last 10 games, had a franchise record seven-game win streak snapped with a 3-2 loss to the Sharks last Thursday but bounced back twice from two-goal deficits to earn a 4-3 overtime win at Chicago on Saturday." It feels good because we battled back," coach Gerard Gallant told the media following the game. "For a lot of that third period, Chicago was playing real well. They hemmed us in a little bit and didn't give us many good chances. ... We found a way to get that big win." Winnipeg, which has the most home wins in the Western Conference (17-6-2), has won four of its last five games and comes in off a 4-3 overtime victory over visiting Anaheim on Sunday night. Bryan Little, scheduled to play in his 800th NHL game on Tuesday night, scored his second consecutive game-winning goal and also extended his point streak to five games. Defenseman Jacob Trouba, who was next to Little hacking away at the loose puck outside the crease before Little knocked it in for his fourth game-winner of the season, said he expects a similar type of contest with the Golden Knights." It'll be the same style of game," Trouba told reporters. "They work hard, they grind. That's a game we're going to have to be comfortable playing. It's a game we can play. It's more of that playoff style and something that suits us. When we play it well, we're pretty good at it." --Field Level Media
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/ WINNIPEG, Manitoba Kyle Connor had two goals and an assist and the Winnipeg Jets extended their unbeaten streak to six games with a 4-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday. Connor scored short-handed and into an empty net. Mathieu Perreault had a goal and Mark Scheifele also scored into an empty net for Winnipeg. Scheifele added an assist and Blake Wheeler contributed a pair. Laurent Brossoit, making his 11th start this season, stopped 43 shots for Winnipeg, which swept a three-game homestand and improved to 5-0-1 in its past six. Brandon Pirri scored and Marc-Andre Fleury made 22 saves for Vegas, which is 8-1-1 in its last 10 games. It was the first meeting between the teams since Vegas beat the Jets in five games in last season's Western Conference final. After a scoreless first period, Winnipeg got goals from Connor and Perreault in a middle period. Vegas outshot the Jets 10-9 in the first period and 26-7 in the second. The Golden Knights went on the power play 36 seconds into the first period and Knights center Jonathan Marchessault hit the crossbar. Brossoit then made a number of big saves, quick glove grabs and a pair of pad saves in succession. At one point in the second period, Vegas was outshooting Winnipeg 17-2, but Connor scored his 17th goal of the season while the Jets were short-handed. Connor got the puck after a turnover and skated in on a breakaway, flipping the puck over Fleury at 5:45. Jets center Bryan Little, playing in his 800th NHL game, picked up an assist and extended his point streak to six games ,with four goals and four assists. Perreault scored an unassisted goal at 16:23 after he got a loose puck and skated across in front of Fleury and sent a backhand shot over his glove. The goal drew jeering chants from the crowd of ''Fleury, Fleury.''Pirri tipped in a point shot by Brayden McNabb to make it 2-1 at 1:03 of the third. Vegas pulled Fleury for the extra attacker with almost 2 1/2 minutes remaining, and Brossoit turned aside a shot during a scramble around the net. Connor then scored into the empty net at 18:47 and Scheifele added his with six seconds remaining. NOTES: The Jets finished 0 for 2 on the power play and the Golden Knights were 0 for 6. ... Vegas forward Alex Tuch had a nine-game point streak (three goals, eight assists) end. UP NEXTGolden Knights: Host Pittsburgh on Saturday. Jets: At Nashville on Thursday.---More NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 8:00 PM EST Venue: Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN, 55102 / A pair of teams with hopes they might be ready to turn a corner will meet Tuesday when the Los Angeles Kings travel to Minnesota to face a Wild team in need of a little defensive fine tuning. After a 7-4 loss Monday at Philadelphia that dropped them to 4-3-0 in 2019, the Wild now will turn around and face a Kings team that thought their time had finally arrived at the tail end of December. The start of January has not been so kind, however. The Kings are just 2-4-0 since New Year's Day, but they are starting a three-game road trip coming off a 5-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday where, after trailing less than six minutes into the game, they took in the second period and finished off a team that had won 10 of its last 11 and was on a six-game road win streak. Behind a solid performance from goaltender Jonathan Quick, who missed time earlier this season after surgery on a torn meniscus, the Kings gave flashes Saturday of their late December play. They closed the calendar year with five victories in six games, with three of those victories coming in overtime. Quick made 38 saves against the Penguins while earning his 301st career victory, tying him with Mike Richter for fourth on the all-time list for a U. S.-born goalie." Being back there for us, it's very comforting because he always gives us a chance and that's what you want from your goaltender," the Kings Anze Kopitar said of Quick after the game, according to NHL.com. "To see him get up there in his individual columns, if you will, it's not surprising. He's obviously a great goaltender and I'm sure he's going to keep on climbing." The Wild will be content on not letting Quick climb that wins list, at least not until he leaves town. But giving up 12 goals in two games, as they have in consecutive defeats to the Flyers and Detroit Red Wings, is not a formula for success. But like the Kings, Minnesota has a recent quality victory it can point to as evidence that a dominating run could be on the way. The Wild's 3-2 victory Thursday over the Winnipeg Jets, one of the top teams in the Western Conference, was a display in getting an early jump on things and then packing it in late. The Wild had a 3-0 lead 38 minutes into the game and then played tight defense from there, not taking a shot on goal the entire third period. Even with the dozen goals they have allowed in two games since Saturday, the Wild still have as many victories this month as they had in all of December when they won just four times in 13 games. Perhaps one good sign is that the last time they gave up seven goals, on Dec. 7 to the Edmonton Oilers, they came back with seven goals of their own in a victory over the Montreal Canadiens." It's up to us to keep (the wins) going," Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said, per NHL.com. "We had such a bad six weeks, though, that it can never be something you get satisfied with. It seems like there's so many teams involved in a (playoff) race, and it's not just two or three. It's every night you're looking at eight teams in the Western Conference involved for those spots. So you can't let up at all. It's going to be like this for the rest of the year I think." Kings center Trevor Lewis is week-to-week with a foot injury, while right wing Jonny Brodzinski is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. Wild center Eric Fehr is day-to-day after a hard neutral-zone check on Jan. 7, while defenseman Matt Dumba is out indefinitely with a ruptured pectoral muscle.--Field Level Media
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/ ST. PAUL, Minn. Jason Zucker scored in a shootout to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. It was Zucker's first career shootout goal in five tries. Zucker was the only shooter from either team to convert. Nino Niederreiter and Eric Staal scored for the Wild, who had lost their previous two games. Ilya Kovalchuck and Jeff Carter scored for the Kings, who came into the game tied with Ottawa for the fewest points in the league. Carter scored with 2 minutes, 30 seconds remaining in the third period to tie the game for the Kings, who fell behind twice only to tie the score. Staal's goal 7:13 into the third period gave the Wild a 2-1 lead until Carter tied it about 10 minutes later. Niederreiter, who was dropped to the fourth line in the first period, scored off a wrist shot at 10:16 of the second period to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead. Niederreiter scored for the second time in three games after a 12-game goal drought. Kovalchuk tied it on a rebound 16:03 into the second. Kovalchuck had gone 10 games without scoring. Minnesota's Ryan Suter threw a shot on goal at 7:13 in the third. It was deflected into an open net by Staal. It was the veteran center's first goal in 10 games. Carter tied it off another rebound. Tyler Toffoli's shot deflected off Adrian Kempe and fell to Carter, who put it away for his 10th goal of the season. Playing for the second consecutive night, Minnesota started backup Alex Stalock in goal in place of All-Star starter Devon Dubnyk, who was pulled during Monday's 7-4 loss at Philadelphia. Stalock made 31 saves Tuesday and stopped all three shootout tries. Jonathan Quick made 40 saves for Los Angeles. NOTES: The Kings had to kill off a 4-on-3 penalty during the overtime period. ... Dubnyk had started 16 of the last 17 games Minnesota. UP NEXTKings: At Dallas Stars on Thursday. Wild: Host Anaheim Ducks on Thursday.---More NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 8:00 PM EST Venue: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN, 37203 / The visiting Washington Capitals and Nashville Predators will have the same goal when meeting Tuesday night -- each wants to snap a two-game losing streak. The usually potent Washington offense hasn't done much during its two-game skid. The Capitals scored just two goals in the past two games, a 2-1 overtime loss to Columbus on Saturday and a 4-1 home defeat against St. Louis on Monday. When these teams last met, on Dec. 31, Nashville rallied for a 6-3 victory over the Capitals. Even though Alex Ovechkin scored his 640th career goal in the St. Louis loss, it was not enough. Ovechkin did, though, move into a tie with Dave Andreychuk for 14th in NHL history in goals scored. That was a power-play goal, so Ovechkin jumped past Brendan Shanahan into sixth place in that category. Ovechkin has scored 238 extra-man goals in his career. Washington's other big milestone against the Blues came when defenseman Brooks Orpik played in his 1,000th career game. Pheonix Copley played in goal Monday after starter Braden Holtby came out of Saturday's game when he was poked around the eye by a Columbus player. He left halfway through that contest and suited up as the back-up against the Blues. It would seem likely that he'll start versus Nashville so that the Copley, a rookie, won't have to play on consecutive nights. Plus, Washington did not call up any other goalies. Washington coach Todd Reirden said Monday morning the team was hoping Holtby, already picked as an All-Star, could be able to go against the Predators. Still, the team would wait and see. Reirden also wants to see his team battle more around the crease for goals on plays in which the puck can be stuffed in from in front and knocked in on a rebound." For the most part, it gets to be a little more blue collar around the blue paint, (and that) is where a lot of goals come, it seems, as (the season) moves along," he said. The Predators last played on Sunday, when Carolina handed them a 6-3 defeat. That ended a seven-game Nashville point streak. The other loss in this brief skid was a 4-3 overtime loss to Columbus last Thursday. Nashville's loss to Carolina ended a six-game road trip. Now, the Predators will play Washington, Winnipeg and Florida in a three-game homestand this week before heading back out on the road again next week. Ryan Johansen tops the Predators with 32 assists and 40 points and has helped Nashville get through a few tough injury stretches to their top line as wingers Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg both missed more than a month with upper-body injuries." Ryan has been really good all year," Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said on NHL.com." He's been productive all year long, and I think it becomes a little bit more challenging when you lose your linemates like that. It didn't matter to him, and he worked to make our team successful and to make players on the ice around him better as well." Nashville also made a move Monday when it traded forward Connor Brickley to the New York Rangers in exchange for forward Cole Schneider. Schneider, 28, was second in points (25) with Hartford of the American Hockey League this year. He has played in six career NHL games.--Field Level Media
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/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. Viktor Arvidsson scored a hat trick on National Hat Day, and the Nashville Predators routed the Washington Capitals 7-2 Tuesday night to snap a two-game skid. Arvidsson scored the opening goal of the game and added two more in the second period for the second hat trick of his career. He has nine goals and two assists in 11 games since returning Dec. 27 from a broken thumb. Nick Bonino scored twice, and Rocco Grimaldi and Calle Jarnkrok each added a goal as 12 players contributed at least one point for the Predators. They set a season high for goals, topping the six they scored Dec. 31 in a win at Washington, the defending Stanley Cup champion. Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Johansen each had two assists, and Juuse Saros made 26 saves for the win. Nicklas Backstrom and T. J. Oshie scored for the Capitals. Braden Holtby dressed for Washington but missed his second consecutive game after being poked in the eye during a loss to Columbus on Saturday. That left Pheonix Copley starting his second game in two nights, and the Capitals have lost three straight. Arvidsson scored on a partial breakaway 3:45 in, beating Copley just below his glove. Bonino finished off a cross-ice pass from Colton Sissons for a 2-0 lead midway through the first. Arvidsson then started a four-goal second, tipping in a shot by P. K. Subban 1:21 into the period. Backstrom pulled Washington to 3-1 at 7:07, and the Capitals appeared to have momentum after hitting a couple of posts and going back on the man advantage when Jarnkrok tripped Oshie. But Arvidsson broke away and slid the puck under Copley's pads for a 4-1 lead that had fans tossing hats onto the ice at 12:08. That wasn't all. Grimaldi finished off his goal with a spinning backhander , and Bonino tipped in his second with 5.8 seconds left in the period to make it 6-1. Jarnkrok padded the lead at 7:56 of the third. NOTES: The Predators have a franchise-record five hat tricks this season, all by different players. Arvidsson joined Filip Forsberg, Sissons, Jarnkrok and Austin Watson. ... Ekholm's assists gave him a career-high 36 points this season. ... Nashville improved to 22-2-1 when scoring first. ... Oshie skated in his 700th career game. UP NEXTCapitals: Host the New York Islanders on Friday night. Predators: Host the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night.---Follow Teresa M. Walker at www.twitter.com/teresamwalker---More NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 8:30 PM EST Venue: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX, 75219 / In acquiring a veteran presence in forward Andrew Cogliano, the Dallas Stars paid a price. Young forward Devin Shore was dealt to the Anaheim Ducks on Monday to bring in Cogliano, 31, who has collected three goals and 11 points in 46 games this season." In acquiring Andrew, we are able to add a conscientious player who brings a veteran-presence to our room," Stars general manager Jim Nill told the media following the trade. "His explosive speed, 200-foot game and iron-man mentality will help our team both on and off the ice." Cogliano is signed through the 2020-21 season with a $3.25 million cap hit. He's expected to be in the lineup when the Stars host the league-leading Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night. Shore, 24, is signed through 2019-20 with a $2.3 million cap hit. He's collected five goals and 17 points in 42 games this season. The Stars (23-19-4, 50 points) are currently third in the Central Division, but have been a middling team for more than a month. Dallas has dropped three of four games, including a disappointing 3-1 defeat at the hands of the St. Louis Blues on Sunday night. The Stars have scored just six goals in their last four games and have scored two or fewer goals in 10 of their last 13 games. Worse yet, head coach Jim Montgomery questioned his team's effort after the St. Louis loss." The last two games have been a real gut punch for me personally because I just don't think I'm able to get across how we're supposed to execute," Montgomery said. "The more important part is - never mind the execution, effort can overcome a lot of mistakes -- but there's not the effort there right now to overcome mistakes." In response, Jason Spezza told the Dallas News, "It falls on the individuals. It's pro hockey. It's not rah-rah, get everybody going. You have to zone in on yourself. You have to create your own routines. You have to do what works best for you. If it's not working, you got to change something and try to make sure you're ready to start." The Stars are in the sites of an ornery Lightning squad. Tampa Bay (35-9-2, 72 points) is coming off a 5-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Sunday, which snapped a three-game winning streak. The loss wasn't what had the Lightning upset. It was the performance, which came on the heels of a couple of substandard victories." There's really no excuse," defenseman Ryan McDonagh told reporters after game. "We've been going over it and working on things in meetings and talking about it amongst ourselves, and maybe we needed to feel what it's like to get kicked in the teeth and not come back. Hopefully it's a lesson learned here and we can realize the way we played the last half of that game for sure was a little bit hungrier for sure, more assertive, and in units of five. That's what we need to do right from the start." --Field Level Media
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/ DALLAS Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 shots for his second shutout in a week, Ondrej Palat and Mikhail Sergachev scored and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 on Tuesday night. Vasilevskiy improved to 10-2-1 since his return from injury, posting his third shutout this season and 15th of his career for the Lightning, who have an NHL-best 74 points. Palat gave Tampa Bay a first-period lead with his seventh goal, sending a shot over the glove of Anton Khudobin on a pass from Steven Stamkos, who got his 29th assist. Khudobin had 19 saves. Sergachev scored a 4-on-4 goal midway through the third period after Dallas captain Jamie Benn canceled out a Tampa Bay penalty for the second time. Benn was called for tripping just 13 seconds after the same penalty against the Lightning's Mathieu Joseph. The Stars were 0 for 6 on the power play, with four of those chances coming in the second period when they trailed 1-0. It was the third straight loss for Dallas. The Lightning protected a 1-0 lead despite playing down a man most of the last half of the second period, when the Stars outshot Tampa Bay 13-2. The first penalty of the game was a double-minor on Victor Hedman for holding and unsportsmanlike conduct about midway through the second. The Stars had a chance for a 5-on-3 when Anthony Cerelli got a tripping penalty, but Benn was called for goalie interference during the delayed penalty, with Dallas skating 6 on 4. The best chance for the Stars on the power play came with 13 seconds left when Alexander Radulov fed Radek Faksa just above the crease for a one-timer that Vasilevskiy corralled. Dallas didn't do much with Tampa Bay's fourth penalty of the second period, an interference call on Nikita Kucherov when he cut in front of Faksa as the Stars forward chased a loose puck into his offensive zone. NOTES: Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant attended, wearing a Stars jersey with his familiar No. 88 for the franchise's career leader in touchdown catches. Bryant called out the starting lineup in the locker room before the game. ... Andrew Cogliano made his Dallas debut a day after a trade that sent Devin Shore to Anaheim. Cogliano, who took Shore's No. 17, had no shots in 12 minutes. ... Kucherov, the NHL points leader with 75 (22 goals, 53 assists), was held scoreless in consecutive games for the third time this season. UP NEXTLightning: Host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday. Stars: Play the third game of a six-game homestand, their longest of the season, Thursday against the LA Kings.---More NHL coverage: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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Time: 10:00 PM EST Venue: SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose, CA, 95113 / Emotion has been running high for the San Jose Sharks, and it's been a good thing. Going into their game at home Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins at SAP Center, San Jose (27-13-7, 61 points) has a season-best six-game winning streak and is 13-2-2 in its past 17 games. The Sharks are coming off a stretch of five games in eight days, including an emotional night celebrating defenseman Brent Burns' 1,000th game, defenseman Erik Karlsson playing against his former club Ottawa, and the franchise reaching 1,000 victories in its history." It gives us a little bit of extra spring," Karlsson said about the boost the milestones gave the tired squad. "These are the days where every team is a little bit tired and everybody's battling through something. We're no different here, but we're doing a good job in finding ways to be successful even though we're not playing our best hockey." We've been coming together more as a team as of lately." The winning streak stems from momentum that has been building." A while back, we were kind of (saying) our game was trending in the right direction," said Joe Pavelski, who leads the Sharks with 26 goals. "We started winning two and three (straight), and lately we've been able to turn three into four or five. If we lose a game, we've bounced right back and won the next couple. It's good to see because there are tough stretches. We went through one early in the year." It definitely took us a little bit to get going. Sometimes that's the case. We had five games in eight days here and against some good teams and some emotional wins and everything that goes along with it." San Jose goaltender Martin Jones has won seven straight starts, one shy of the career high he set in the first eight starts of his career, Dec. 3-21, 2013. Pittsburgh (25-14-6, 56 points) has won 10 of 12 games and 15 of 20 to thrust itself into contention for the Metropolitan Division title, but a nagging problem has plagued the club lately. The Penguins have given up a short-handed goal in back-to-back games -- one Saturday was a turning point in a 5-2 loss at Los Angeles -- and they lead the NHL with 10 allowed. That prompted Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan to lash out following the loss." It can't happen. It just can't happen," he said of his talented power play allowing goals the other way. "We've got to have more diligence. We're not heeding the lessons, and we've got to start (doing that)." Many times, the short-handed opportunities and goals the Penguins have allowed are sparked by turnovers and mistakes by the power-play personnel, including stars Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang." It's not so much what penalty kills are doing to us; it's what we're doing to ourselves," Sullivan said. The Penguins are still winning, though. A lot. One of their hottest players is top-line winger Jake Guentzel, who has five of his 23 goals in the past two games and 10 points in the past six games. He also recently signed a five-year, $30 million contract extension. Guentzel was named the NHL's No. 3 star of the week.--Field Level Media
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/ SAN JOSE, Calif. Tomas Hertl scored three goals and Joe Thornton celebrated his 1,000th game for San Jose by adding another that helped the Sharks win their seventh straight game, 5-2 over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night. Marcus Sorensen also scored and the Sharks improved to 16-3-2 in their past 21 games with a convincing victory over the dangerous Penguins. Martin Jones made 22 saves to tie his career best by winning his eighth straight start. Kris Letang and Derick Brassard scored for the Penguins, who have lost two in a row following a stretch of 10 wins in 11 games. Matt Murray stopped 24 shots but had his career-high nine-game winning streak snapped. Hertl scored twice in the third period to complete his second career hat trick, knocking in a rebound of a point shot from Justin Braun and then adding an empty-netter in the final minute for his 19th goal of the season and 100th of his career. One game after Brent Burns capped his 1,000th career game with a game-winning goal for San Jose, Thornton made the most of his milestone appearance as well by scoring in the second period. After Sorensen drew a delayed penalty, the Sharks set up in the offensive zone. Joe Pavelski fed Thornton in the slot for a one-timer that beat Murray to give him 18 seasons with at least 10 goals. That led to another long ovation for Thornton, who got one in the first period when a tribute for his 1,000th game in San Jose was shown on the videoboard. Brassard scored late for the Penguins after Murray had been pulled, but it wasn't enough as the Sharks restored their three-goal lead with Hertl's empty-netter. The Penguins opened the scoring when Letang finished a brilliant end-to-end rush by skating around Erik Karlsson and beating Jones with a backhand. But the Sharks got most of the chances after that and took control with two quick goals of their own. They tied the game when Karlsson's shot from the top of the circle deflected off Sorensen and into the net. San Jose took the lead with a highlight-reel goal from Hertl, who got the puck in the corner and used his backside to knock down Evgeni Malkin. Hertl then skated toward the middle, deked Jack Johnson and beat Murray to the far side. NOTES: Sharks forward Joonas Donskoi played after missing the final two periods Saturday with an apparent head injury. ... San Jose D Marc-Edouard Vlasic missed his sixth straight game with an undisclosed injury. UP NEXTPenguins: Visit the Arizona Coyotes on Friday. Sharks: At the Coyotes on Wednesday.---More NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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