“THE SCOREBOARD” INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL FRIDAY SCORES CLASS 4A CROWN POINT CROWN POINT 76 HAMMOND CENTRAL 24 LAKE CENTRAL 51 MUNSTER 48 CHESTERTON VALPARAISO 49 HOBART 39 CHESTERTON 66 MERRILLVILLE 53 MISHAWAKA SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH 87 SOUTH BEND ADAMS 63 SOUTH BEND RILEY 58 PENN 47 ELKHART WARSAW 37 ELKHART 35 NORTHRIDGE 53 GOSHEN 29 FORT WAYNE NORTHROP FORT WAYNE SNIDER 58 CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) 48 FORT WAYNE NORTH 65 FORT WAYNE NORTHROP 63 HUNTINGTON NORTH HOMESTEAD 47 FORT WAYNE SOUTH 41 FORT WAYNE WAYNE 71 HUNTINGTON NORTH 66 LAFAYETTE JEFF HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE) 58 MCCUTCHEON 38 KOKOMO 46 LAFAYETTE JEFF 33 NOBLESVILLE CARMEL 44 NOBLESVILLE 30 FISHERS 75 HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN 65 GREENFIELD-CENTRAL MOUNT VERNON (FORTVILLE) 71 MUNCIE CENTRAL 38 GREENFIELD-CENTRAL 71 ANDERSON 52 INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECH LAWRENCE NORTH 83 NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS) 59 LAWRENCE CENTRAL 58 WARREN CENTRAL 50 PLAINFIELD PIKE 56 PLAINFIELD 53 BROWNSBURG 77 BEN DAVIS 73 MOORESVILLE SOUTHPORT 61 MOORESVILLE 53 DECATUR CENTRAL 54 FRANKLIN CENTRAL 52 MARTINSVILLE TERRE HAUTE NORTH 78 BLOOMINGTON NORTH 39 BLOOMINGTON SOUTH 60 TERRE HAUTE SOUTH 45 COLUMBUS NORTH COLUMBUS NORTH 55 COLUMBUS EAST 43 WHITELAND 58 FRANKLIN 50 SEYMOUR SEYMOUR 45 JEFFERSONVILLE 41 NEW ALBANY 85 BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE 43 EVANSVILLE NORTH CASTLE 50 EVANSVILLE NORTH 43 OT EVANSVILLE HARRISON 48 EVANSVILLE REITZ 39 CLASS 3A GARY WEST EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL 66 HAMMOND NOLL 53 GARY WEST 69 GRIFFITH 59 HANOVER CENTRAL LOWELL 45 RIVER FOREST 32 HANOVER CENTRAL 49 KANKAKEE VALLEY 38 NEW PRAIRIE CULVER ACADEMY 68 NEW PRAIRIE 46 MISHAWAKA MARIAN 81 SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON 44 COLUMBIA CITY COLUMBIA CITY 51 FAIRFIELD 41 NORTHWOOD 40 WAWASEE 24 DEKALB FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK 53 DEKALB 52 OT EAST NOBLE 46 LEO 44 BELLMONT MARION 73 HERITAGE 57 NEW HAVEN 63 BELLMONT 25 LOGANSPORT NORTHWESTERN 64 LOGANSPORT 52 WEST LAFAYETTE 68 PERU 58 NEW CASTLE YORKTOWN 63 CONNERSVILLE 47 DELTA 70 HAMILTON HEIGHTS 61 FRANKFORT BREBEUF JESUIT 76 LEBANON 48 GUERIN CATHOLIC 56 DANVILLE 34 INDIANAPOLIS ATTUCKS INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL 95 INDIANAPOLIS HERRON 25 INDIANAPOLIS ATTUCKS 66 INDIANAPOLIS CHATARD 62 SPEEDWAY CASCADE 60 EDGEWOOD 48 NORTHVIEW 63 INDIANAPOLIS WASHINGTON 53 GREENWOOD GREENWOOD 60 SHELBYVILLE 53 INDIANAPOLIS RONCALLI 52 BEECH GROVE 35 SOUTH DEARBORN BATESVILLE 59 GREENSBURG 54 SOUTH DEARBORN 55 JENNINGS COUNTY 45 MADISON CHARLESTOWN 75 MADISON 49 SILVER CREEK 62 BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL 44 WASHINGTON PRINCETON 70 WASHINGTON 46 JASPER 48 SOUTHRIDGE 40 BOONVILLE EVANSVILLE BOSSE 61 EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL 55 HERITAGE HILLS 51 BOONVILLE 50 CLASS 2A BOONE GROVE GARY LIGHTHOUSE 68 WHEELER 65 GARY 21ST CENTURY 79 HEBRON 34 LAVILLE BREMEN 69 CAREER ACADEMY 48 JIMTOWN 61 KNOX 37 WESTVIEW WESTVIEW 85 CHURUBUSCO 24 LAKELAND 57 PRAIRIE HEIGHTS 41 BLUFFTON BLUFFTON 49 WOODLAN 39 FORT WAYNE LUERS 65 WHITKO 53 DELPHI WESTERN BOONE 71 RENSSELAER CENTRAL 48 BENTON CENTRAL 63 NORTH MONTGOMERY 36 MANCHESTER ROCHESTER 47 WABASH 41 OAK HILL 72 LEWIS CASS 34 ELWOOD SHERIDAN 67 TAYLOR 66 OT LAPEL 79 ELWOOD 23 EASTBROOK BLACKFORD 42 EASTBROOK 35 WAPAHANI 68 MUNCIE BURRIS 34 GREENCASTLE SOUTH PUTNAM 58 NORTH PUTNAM 32 PARKE HERITAGE 85 SOUTH VERMILLION 22 INDIANAPOLIS RITTER UNIVERSITY 62 COVENANT CHRISTIAN 55 INDIANAPOLIS RITTER 66 PARK TUDOR 51 EASTERN HANCOCK INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA 60 KIPP INDY LEGACY 46 TRITON CENTRAL 63 HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 43 HAGERSTOWN CENTERVILLE 85 HAGERSTOWN 57 SHENANDOAH 58 NORTHEASTERN 42 SOUTHWESTERN (HANOVER) AUSTIN 68 SWITZERLAND COUNTY 33 SOUTHWESTERN (HANOVER) 62 SOUTH RIPLEY 52 SALEM PROVIDENCE 57 SALEM 40 PAOLI 77 MITCHELL 36 NORTH KNOX LINTON 54 SOUTH KNOX 48 SULLIVAN 59 WEST VIGO 37 FOREST PARK FOREST PARK 54 SOUTH SPENCER 40 EVANSVILLE MATER DEI 61 NORTH POSEY 45 CLASS 1A KOUTS KOUTS 85 MORGAN TWP. 58 MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 70 WASHINGTON TWP. 65 CASTON TRI-COUNTY 55 WEST CENTRAL 49 OT CASTON 64 DEMOTTE CHRISTIAN 61 CULVER TRITON 61 ARGOS 37 SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS) 47 NORTH JUDSON 46 OT BETHANY CHRISTIAN FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY 67 FREMONT 52 LAKEWOOD PARK 70 BETHANY CHRISTIAN 44 FOUNTAIN CENTRAL LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC 63 COVINGTON 34 NORTH VERMILLION 51 RIVERTON PARKE 29 CLINTON CENTRAL ROSSVILLE 57 CARROLL (FLORA) 37 BETHESDA CHRISTIAN 56 FRONTIER 51 WES-DEL NORTH MIAMI 53 TRI-CENTRAL 43 SOUTHWOOD 66 DALEVILLE 37 CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN UNION CITY 60 UNION (MODOC) 49 MONROE CENTRAL 69 RANDOLPH SOUTHERN 60 INDIANA DEAF ANDERSON PREP 64 PURDUE BROAD RIPPLE 58 LIBERTY CHRISTIAN 70 INDIANAPOLIS TINDLEY 51 INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN EMINENCE 52 PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY 49 2OT GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN 45 INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN 43 TRI TRI 56 WALDRON 44 SOUTH DECATUR 61 EDINBURGH 37 MILAN MILAN 70 TRINITY LUTHERAN 69 2OT HAUSER 65 OLDENBURG ACADEMY 39 WHITE RIVER VALLEY CLOVERDALE 50 SHAKAMAK 49 OT BLOOMFIELD 51 CLAY CITY 28 LOOGOOTEE ORLEANS 56 VINCENNES RIVET 34 BARR-REEVE 63 NORTH DAVIESS 30 BORDEN WEST WASHINGTON 81 LANESVILLE 54 BORDEN 78 SOUTH CENTRAL (ELIZABETH) 60 WOOD MEMORIAL WOOD MEMORIAL 81 TECUMSEH 53 NORTHEAST DUBOIS 59 EVANSVILLE DAY 33 ============================================================== INDIANA BOYS BASKETBALL SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS SATURDAY’S CAPSULES: https://scoreboard.homestead.com/boys/capsSat.htm#load =============================================================== MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES #19 MIAMI OH 110 OHIO 108 OT #18 ST. JOHN’S 72 SETON HALL 65 HAWAII 93 UC RIVERSIDE 74 DRAKE 100 BELMONT 79 CENTRAL ARKANSAS 86 BELLARMINE 73 HIGH POINT 81 GARDNER WEBB 59 NORTHEASTERN 88 NORTH CAROLINA A&T 72 WINTHROP 86 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 81 FLORIDA GULF COAST 77 LIPSCOMB 53 ILLINOIS CHICAGO 92 MURRAY STATE 79 CITADEL 88 CHATTANOOGA 85 AUSTIN PEAY 69 STETSON 60 AKRON 94 NORTHERN ILLINOIS 55 UNC ASHEVILLE 85 LONGWOOD 82 OT MERRIMACK 70 SACRED HEART 48 SOUTHERN MISS 81 TEXAS STATE 77 BOWLING GREEN 77 EASTERN MICHIGAN 69 BALL STATE 85 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 69 TOLEDO 98 BUFFALO 78 KENT STATE 86 WESTERN MICHIGAN 78 VCU 68 DAYTON 62 PENNSYLVANIA 82 BROWN 61 HARVARD 81 COLUMBIA 71 OMAHA 76 SOUTH DAKOTA 62 BRADLEY 90 VALPARAISO 84 2OT UNC GREENSBORO 84 VIRGINIA MILITARY 70 QUEENS 71 W. GEORGIA 63 WEST VIRGINIA 77 CENTRAL FLORIDA 62 TENNESSEE STATE 68 TENNESSEE MARTIN 55 PRESBYTERIAN 91 RADFORD 85 OT FAIRFIELD 74 ST. PETER’S 55 GEORGIA SOUTHERN 94 S. ALABAMA 85 PORTLAND 74 WASHINGTON STATE 68 NORTH DAKOTA 83 DENVER 67 NORTHERN IOWA 74 ILLINOIS STATE 52 SAN DIEGO STATE 89 UNLV 86 MOREHEAD STATE 66 SE. MISSOURI STATE 61 SEATTLE 58 SAN DIEGO 56 =============================================================== WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES #13 DUKE 60 CLEMSON 46 #3 SOUTH CAROLINA 87 #17 KENTUCKY 64 #2 UCLA 78 WASHINGTON 60 #11 OHIO STATE 60 #19 MINNESOTA 55 #6 LSU 112 #7 OKLAHOMA 78 #10 TCU 63 BYU 46 #25 FAIRFIELD 69 SACRED HEART 53 #12 LOUISVILLE 87 SYRACUSE 61 #24 OLE MISS 89 #5 VANDERBILT 78 #9 IOWA 64 ILLINOIS 58 #15 WEST VIRGINIA 67 ARIZONA STATE 54 #16 NORTH CAROLINA 85 VIRGINIA TECH 68 #4 TEXAS 83 ALABAMA 60 #8 MICHIGAN 80 OREGON 58 COLORADO 62 #20 BAYLOR 53 GEORGETOWN 62 BUTLER 58 RHODE ISLAND 71 LOYOLA ILLINOIS 64 CHATTANOOGA 76 FURMAN 65 KANSAS STATE 74 OKLAHOMA STATE 73 PROVIDENCE 69 DEPAUL 55 DAVIDSON 64 ST. JOSEPH’S 59 NOTRE DAME 81 NC STATE 63 WESTERN ILLINOIS 74 SE. MISSOURI STATE 66 WASHINGTON STATE 82 PACIFIC 76 LOUISIANA MONROE 68 OLD DOMINION 67 SOUTH DAKOTA 61 DENVER 15 ST. JOHN’S 53 XAVIER 48 LINDENWOOD 82 SOUTHERN INDIANA 79 GEORGE MASON 87 DAYTON 85 OT SAN FRANCISCO 61 SAN DIEGO 52 LIBERTY 71 DELAWARE 64 RICHMOND 70 LASALLE 51 =============================================================== BIG 10 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE SATURDAY, MARCH 7 – SEMIFINALS GAME 12 | OHIO STATE – UCLA | 2 P.M. ET | BTN GAME 13 | MICHIGAN – IOWA | 4:30 P.M. ET | BTN SUNDAY, MARCH 8 – CHAMPIONSHIP GAME 14 | G12 WINNER VS. G13 WINNER | 2:15 P.M. ET | CBS ============================================================== COLLEGE BASEBALL SCORES COLUMBIA 7 #23 WEST VIRGINIA 4 #6 ARKANSAS 7 STETSON 1 #22 TEXAS A&M 6 OAKLAND 3 LAFAYETTE 11 #13 NORTH CAROLINA STATE 6 #11 GEORGIA 12 QUEENS 2 #21 KENTUCKY 10 CITADEL 5 VIRGINIA 13 #8 NORTH CAROLINA 3 #14 CLEMSON 14 LASALLE 1 #1 UCLA 11 OHIO STATE 1 #5 GEORGIA TECH 16 VIRGINIA TECH 1 #20 FLORIDA STATE 7 NORTHERN KENTUCKY 3 #15 WAKE FOREST 7 STANFORD 4 #16 COASTAL CAROLINA 10 E. CAROLINA 6 (10) #19 TENNESSEE 4 WRIGHT STATE 3 HIGH POINT 7 #9 FLORIDA 2 #4 MISSISSIPPI STATE 9 LIPSCOMB 4 #22 TEXAS A&M 10 OAKLAND 2 #7 AUBURN 10 WINTHROP 0 #10 SOUTHERN MISS 9 N. ALABAMA 4 BOSTON COLLEGE 8 #24 MIAMI 7 (11) #17 TCU 10 TULANE 2 #2 LSU 15 SACRAMENTO STATE 4 #3 TEXAS 14 USC UPSTATE 2 #25 TEXAS SAN ANTONIO 10 NEW MEXICO STATE 2 #18 OREGON STATE 4 XAVIER 2 SANTA CLARA AT OKLAHOMA CANCELLED NOTRE DAME 10 DUKE 4 BUTLER 20 MOREHEAD STATE 5 MOREHEAD STATE 16 BUTLER 6 OREGON 8 PURDUE 7 INDIANA 4 WASHINGTON 2 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 5 NORTHWESTERN 4 NEBRASKA 5 MICHIGAN STATE 4 (10) IOWA 11 LINDENWOOD 6 RUTGERS 6 BRYANT 3 PEPPERDINE 9 MICHIGAN 8 TEXAS TECH 15 PENN STATE 7 TROY 5 MARYLAND 2 MINNESOTA 10 UNLV 0 USC 4 ILLINOIS 0 JACKSONVILLE STATE 3 VALPARAISO 2 WESTERN KENTUCKY 6 INDIANA STATE 5 (10) SOUTHERN INDIANA 5 YOUNGSTOWN STATE 2 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 8 BALL STATE 7 WESTERN MICHIGAN 4 AKRON 3 TOLEDO 5 UMASS 0 MIAMI OHIO 13 EASTERN MICHIGAN 3 STATE 8 BOWLING GREEN 1 OHIO 14 NORTHERN ILLINOIS 7 OLE MISS 7 EVANSVILLE 2 ============================================================== COLLEGE SOFTBALL SCORES #13 MISSISSIPPI STATE 1 NEW MEXICO 0 #18 TEXAS A&M 15 TARLETON 2 #15 GEORGIA 7 #6 ARKANSAS 2 #22 GRAND CANYON 4 NOTRE DAME 2 NOTRE DAME 10 SAN DIEGO 2 #24 PENN STATE 15 RADFORD 4 #5 ALABAMA 5 OLE MISS 3 #13 MISSISSIPPI STATE 3 S. ALABAMA 1 #3 TEXAS TECH 10 HOUSTON 0 #14 ARIZONA 8 BYU 0 TEXAS STATE 3 #18 TEXAS A&M 1 #16 VIRGINIA 7 NORTH CAROLINA 3 #1 TENNESSEE 5 #19 LSU 0 #11 VIRGINIA TECH 7 JAMES MADISON 0 #10 FLORIDA STATE 20 COASTAL CAROLINA 8 #2 TEXAS 4 #23 SOUTH CAROLINA 2 #3 TEXAS TECH 11 HOUSTON 1 #17 OREGON 8 OREGON STATE 3 #24 PENN STATE 8 BOSTON COLLEGE 3 #5 ALABAMA 13 OLE MISS 2 #25 CENTRAL FLORIDA 4 #12 OKLAHOMA STATE 1 UTAH 9 #21 ARIZONA STATE 5 #22 GRAND CANYON 5 SAN DIEGO 2 #20 STANFORD 8 PITTSBURGH 2 #17 OREGON 7 SACRAMENTO STATE 6 #8 UCLA 14 WISCONSIN 5 #18 TEXAS A&M VS. ST. FRANCIS CANCELLED BALL STATE 7 LOUISVILLE 5 BALL STATE 15 BELLARMINE 1 AUSTIN PEAY 7 BUTLER 6 BUTLER 12 WESTERN MICHIGAN 5 BALL STATE 15 BELLARMINE 1 MICHIGAN 7 BRYANT 1 MICHIGAN STATE 10 STETSON 6 MICHIGAN STATE 11 MERCER 2 PURDUE 5 ST. BONAVENTURE 0 OHIO STATE 5 IOWA 2 RUTGERS 6 MARYLAND 5 (12) MINNESOTA 2 INDIANA 0 ILLINOIS 2 LONG ISLAND 1 IOWA 9 OHIO STATE 1 MIAMI OHIO 6 IU INDY 5 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 12 VALPARAISO 0 ILLINOIS STATE 3 EVANSVILLE 2 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 4 VALPARAISO 0 ILLINOIS STATE 6 EVANSVILLE 5 (9) ============================================================== MEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY SCORES NOTRE DAME 4 OHIO STATE 3 OT #11 WISCONSIN 5 #6 PENN STATE 2 #4 WESTERN MICHIGAN 5 COLORADO COLLEGE 2 #2 MICHIGAN STATE 3 MINNESOTA 3 OT #16 MINNESOTA STATE 5 FERRIS STATE 1 #19 ST. THOMAS MINNESOTA 4 LAKE SUPERIOR STATE 3 OT #15 AUGUSTANA 5 BEMIDJI 2 #10 MINNESOTA DULUTH 4 ST. CLOUD STATE 3 OT #7 DENVER 3 MIAMI OHIO 0 ============================================================== MEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL SCORES #6 BYU 3 UC MERCED 0 #18 STANFORD 3 ST. FRANCIS 0 #1 UCLA 3 #5 USC 1 #12 UC SANTA BARBARA 3 #11 UC SAN DIEGO 2 #3 HAWAII 3 #7 PEPPERDINE 1 ================================================================ DIVISION 1 MEN’S LAX SCORES #12 MARYLAND 13 DELAWARE 8 LAFAYETTE 10 #9 ARMY 9 ================================================================= DIVISION 1 WOMEN’S LAX SCORES #10 STONY BROOK 12 #19 DENVER 11 OT #11 MICHIGAN 23 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 3 #14 SYRACUSE 13 VIRGINIA TECH 3 ================================================================= NBA SCORES BOSTON 120 DALLAS 100 MIAMI 128 CHARLOTTE 120 HOUSTON 106 PORTLAND 99 NEW YORK 142 DENVER 103 PHOENIX 118 NEW ORLEANS 116 SAN ANTONIO 116 LA CLIPPERS 112 LA LAKERS 128 INDIANA 117 ================================================================== NBA G-LEAGUE SCORES LONG ISLAND 117 GREENSBORO 115 WESTCHESTER 132 DELAWARE 120 RAPTORS 128 RIO GRANDE VALLEY 120 CLEVELAND 125 WINDY CITY 99 MEXICO CITY 116 WISCONSIN 104 RIP CITY 132 VALLEY 122 SOUTH BAY 131 SANTA CRUZ 110 ================================================================== NHL SCORES FLORIDA 3 DETROIT 1 COLORADO 5 DALLAS 4 VANCOUVER 6 CHICAGO 3 ANAHEIM 6 MONTRÉAL 5 CAROLINA 6 EDMONTON 3 MINNESOTA 4 VEGAS 2 ST. LOUIS 3 SAN JOSE 2 OT ================================================================== MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ST. LOUIS 10 BALTIMORE 2 PHILADELPHIA 14 PITTSBURGH 10 HOUSTON 7 WASHINGTON 1 DETROIT 11 BOSTON 3 TORONTO 9 PITTSBURGH 2 SEATTLE 5 TEXAS 1 SAN FRANCISCO 6 CINCINNATI 3 COLORADO 11 LAS VEGAS 6 CLEVELAND 5 LA ANGELS 3 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 6 ARIZONA 0 MILWAUKEE 6 ARIZONA 2 ATLANTA 4 MINNESOTA 1 NY YANKEES 3 TAMPA BAY 0 MIAMI 2 NY METS 0 LA DODGERS 6 KANSAS CITY 0 SAN DIEGO 3 CHICAGO CUBS 0 ================================================================== WOMEN’S PRO VOLLEYBALL SCORES NO GAMES SCHEDULED ================================================================== MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER NO GAMES SCHEDULED ================================================================= NATIONAL SPORTS NEWS RELEASES MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL NO. 19 MIAMI (OHIO) EDGES OHIO IN OT, COMPLETES PERFECT REGULAR SEASON Eian Elmer scored 32 and grabbed 12 rebounds while Trey Perry added 21 off the bench as No. 19 Miami (Ohio) completed the first undefeated regular season in the 80-year history of the Mid-American Conference with a wild 110-108 overtime win over host Ohio Friday night in Athens, Ohio. Brant Byers chipped in with 15 and Peter Suder added 13 as Miami (31-0, 18-0 MAC) joined Wichita State (2013-14), Kentucky (2014-15) and Gonzaga (2020-21) as the only teams this century to head into their conference tournament with a perfect record. Jackson Paveletzke had a career-high 37 and Javan Simmons added 30 for Ohio (15-16, 9-9), which lost to Miami at home for the first time since a 92-88 triple-overtime setback on Jan. 9, 2011, snapping a string of 14 straight wins over their MAC archrival in Athens. Ajay Sheldon’s 30-foot 3 with 6:18 left in regulation tied the game, 88-88. Miami would take a 93-88 lead before Ohio rallied. Simmons found Aidan Hadaway on a cut to the basket to make it 95-93 in favor of Miami with 3:27 left. Paveletzke drained a rainbow 3 from five feet beyond the arc to make it 97-96 Miami with 2:33 left. Simmons’ dunk with 40.8 seconds remaining finally brought Ohio even at 100-100. Simmons blocked Suder’s drive and the ball went out of bounds with 23.9 seconds left. After video review, possession was awarded to Miami with 12 seconds left on the shot clock. Luke Skaljac’s 3-point shot was short from the right baseline and Ohio grabbed the loose ball with 13 seconds to go. Paveletzke’s floater in the lane just fell off the rim as regulation expired. Paveletzke’s layup 45 seconds into overtime gave Ohio its first lead since midway through the first half before Suder’s layup and free throw on a three-point play put Miami back on top 58 seconds into the frame. After Miami took a 107-104 lead, Paveletzke hit a spinning layup and was fouled with 1:12 remaining. He missed the free throw and Miami clung to a one-point lead. Simmons put Ohio up 108-107 with 22 seconds left on a layup before Suder answered with two free throws 12.6 to put Miami up 109-108. Paveletzke missed a layup with five seconds remaining and Justin Kirby grabbed the rebound to seal the game with 4.7 seconds left. Kirby hit 1 of 2 free throws before Paveletzke’s 3 was off the mark as time expired. Miami claimed a 61-50 lead with just under 17 minutes remaining when Paveletzke led an Ohio charge, aided by Miami’s second technical of the game. Brant Byers was called for the technical with 15:16 left and Paveletzke converted both free throws to draw Ohio within 65-62. Paveletzke then drained a mid-range jumper in the paint to cap a 14-4 run and cut the Miami lead to 65-64 with 15 minutes remaining. But Miami answered with a Perry jumper in the paint to begin a 9-1 RedHawks spurt. Miami built its lead back to 10, 77-67, when the RedHawks were called for their third technical of the game, as Antwone Woolfolk and Ohio’s Simmons exchanged shoves. After Ohio drained 3 of 4 free throws, Sheldon knocked down a 3 to complete the six-point possession and cut Miami’s lead back to four. Moments later, Elmer was called for a flagrant foul and Ohio hit 3 of 4 free throws to cap a nine-point surge in 50 seconds. NO. 18 ST JOHN’S TOPS SETON HALL TO CLINCH SHARE OF BIG EAST TITLE Zuby Ejiofor scored 21 points and withstood foul trouble as No. 18 St John’s clinched at least a share of the Big East regular-season title and the top seed in the conference tournament by outlasting Seton Hall in a physical 72-65 victory Friday night in Newark, N.J. The Red Storm (25-6, 18-2 Big East) clinched at least a share of the regular season title for the second straight season and in consecutive seasons for the second time in program history. Ejiofor scored 12 points in the second half and made 8 of 12 field goals along with 5 of 6 free throws. Bryce Hopkins and Oziyah Sellers added 11 apiece as the Red Storm shot 65.2% in the second half and 50% overall. St. John’s also hit 7 of 20 3s to counter its 59.1% (13-of-22) showing at the free-throw line. Adam Clark led Seton Hall (20-11, 10-10) with 15 points but the Pirates finished 0-4 against St. Johns and UConn with the losses coming by a combined 21 points. AJ Staton-McCray added 11 but shot 4 of 17 and missed 7 of 8 from 3-point territory. The Pirates shot 41.1% and missed 10 of 11 3-point tries after entering the game with a NET rating of 52. Seton Hall clinched the fourth seed in next week’s conference tournament. Ejiofor sat early in the second half when he picked up his third foul but helped the Red Storm withstood a stiff challenge in the final nine minutes. The Red Storm were clinging to a 50-49 lead after Staton-McCray’s layup when Ejiofor returned with 9:28 left. The senior center helped St. John’s gradually surge ahead, hitting a hook shot and a layup on consecutive possessions for a 59-51 lead with 5:47 left. Ejiofor seemingly secured things with a putback for a 66-58 lead with 1:17 left and Seton Hall twice cut the lead to three, on Staton-McCray’s triple with 47 seconds left and Josh Rivera’s tip-in with 20 seconds left. After Staton-McCray missed a 3 with eight seconds left, Ejiofor fouled Najai Hines two seconds later but Hines missed both free throws and Sellers sank two free throws with three seconds left to clinch it. Before the second half, St. John’s missed 10 of 11 shots before Ruben Prey hit a 3 and a layup in the final two minutes to put the Red Storm up 30-27 at halftime while the Pirates did not hit a field goal for the final 4:46 of the half. NORTH CAROLINA STAR CALEB WILSON BREAKS RIGHT THUMB IN PRACTICE AND IS OUT FOR THE SEASON Caleb Wilson appeared close to returning for No. 17 North Carolina from a fracture to his left hand, just in time for the peak of March. Instead, the star freshman and high-end NBA prospect is abruptly done for the season after suffering a new injury. The school announced Friday that Wilson will need surgery after breaking his right thumb in a non-contact drill suffered during Thursday’s practice. The news comes on the eve of a second matchup with No. 1 Duke, less than a week from the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament and roughly two weeks from the start of March Madness. It was a shocking change to Wilson’s trajectory as the Tar Heels’ scoring and rebounding leader inched his way back from the injury suffered in a Feb. 10 loss at Miami. He had been cleared for individual work late last week, and had shed his cast and was focusing on non-contact work like dribbling and shooting. Before Thursday’s practice, coach Hubert Davis said Wilson was increasing his work but had yet to be cleared for 5-on-5 action. Yet, according to the school’s release, Wilson was hurt while dunking later that day. Wilson was averaging 19.8 points and 9.4 rebounds. The team had gone 5-1 in his absence, including a home win against then-ranked Louisville and Tuesday’s win against Clemson in UNC’s home finale. UNC (24-6, 12-5) visits Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday in its last game before the ACC Tournament. The Tar Heels were already locked into the No. 4 seed at next week’s ACC Tournament with a double-round bye into Thursday’s quarterfinals. =================================================================== WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL BIG TEN TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP: OHIO STATE HOLDS OFF MINNESOTA Elsa Lemmila posted a double-double and Jaloni Cambridge capped her 17-point effort with a win-sealing layup in No. 11 Ohio State’s 60-55 quarterfinal defeat of No. 19 Minnesota at the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis. Lemmila had 17 points and 11 rebounds. Cambridge’s clutch bucket with 16 seconds left punctuated a strong all-around game with six assists, five rebounds and three steals. Chance Gray added 13 points in the victory. The fourth-seeded Buckeyes (26-6) forced 21 turnovers to overcome a 44-27 deficit on the glass, which included Sophie Hart’s 19 rebounds to lead the fifth-seeded Gophers (22-8). Hart added 12 points and Grace Grocholski tallied a game-high 18 points. Grocholski also dished four assists, including setting up Mara Braun on a 3-pointer that pulled Minnesota to within 58-55 with 1:32 remaining. Grocholski had a look at a potential game-tying triple with 43 seconds to go, but could not convert. The win sends Ohio State into Saturday’s semifinals to meet No. 1 seed UCLA. No. 2 UCLA 78, Washington 60 Lauren Betts finished with 26 points and eight rebounds and the top-seeded Bruins rode a late run to overwhelm the eighth-seeded Huskies in Friday’s first quarterfinal. UCLA (29-1) clung to a one-point lead with 2:33 remaining in the third quarter before going on a 7-0 tear to close the period. The All-American Betts then went to work, scoring six points in a 13-3 run spanning almost four minutes of the fourth quarter. The two spurts created breathing room after Washington (21-10) put a scare into the Bruins for three quarters-and-change. The Huskies built a 10-point lead in the first half behind hot starts from Avery Howell, who scored a team-high 18 points, and Sayvia Sellers. Sellers scored half of her 10 points early in the second period as Washington extended its advantage to 22-12. UCLA responded when Kiki Rice ripped off seven of her 18 points to fuel a 15-0 Bruins run, giving them a lead they held the rest of the way. BIG EAST TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP: SABOU GUEYE’S CAREER DAY LIFTS PROVIDENCE Sabou Gueye poured in 10 of her career-high 31 points in the fourth quarter to ensure No. 7 seed Providence defeated No. 10 seed DePaul 69-55 in the first round of the Big East women’s basketball tournament on Friday in Uncasville, Conn. Gueye dominated by shooting 15 of 26 from the floor while never reaching the foul line. She added seven rebounds, three assists and two steals to the cause as Providence (15-17) advanced to face second-seeded Villanova in Saturday’s quarterfinals. Gueye scored the last nine points of an 11-0 run in the second quarter, capped with her only 3-pointer, to put the Friars ahead for good. DePaul trailed by as many as 22 points before drawing within 14 late. Gueye sealed the deal with a pair of fastbreak layups. Teneisia Brown put up 14 points and 14 rebounds and Orlagh Gormley added 13 points, seven assists and five boards while shooting 3-for-3 from the arc for Providence. DePaul (8-24) received 13 points from Kate Novik and 10 from Michelle Ojo. Georgetown 62, Butler 58 Laila Jewett scored 19 points and hit four free throws in the final 15 seconds to help the eighth-seeded Hoyas stave off the ninth-seeded Bulldogs. Georgetown (14-16) used an 8-0 run in the third quarter to take the lead for good, though it never led by more than six points. The Hoyas, who got 10 points and seven rebounds from Brianna Scott and 10 points and six boards from Chet Nweke, will face undefeated No. 1 UConn in the quarters. Anna Wypych scored 18 points and Mallory Miller had 15 for Butler (12-19), which gave up 20 turnovers that the Hoyas turned into 21 points. St. John’s 53, Xavier 48 Brooke Moore scored 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter to help the sixth-seeded Red Storm survive an upset bid from the 11th-seeded Musketeers. Sa’Mya Wyatt added 16 points and 12 boards for St. John’s (22-10), which outscored Xavier 18-7 in the fourth quarter. The Red Storm made 7 of 15 fourth-quarter shots (46.7%) while holding the Musketeers to 3-of-17 shooting (17.6%) over the final 10 minutes. St. John’s will face third-seeded Seton Hall on Saturday night. Savannah White had a double-double for Xavier (11-19) with a team-high 11 points and 12 boards, and MacKenzie Givens and Petra Oborilova each tallied 10. BIG 12 TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP: 12TH SEED KANSAS STATE EXTENDS CINDERELLA RUN Tess Heal split two free throws with 1.3 seconds left and No. 12 seed Kansas State impressively rallied for the second straight day while recording a 74-73 victory over fourth-seeded Oklahoma State in the Big 12 women’s tournament quarterfinals Friday at Kansas City, Mo. Jordan Speiser made five 3-pointers while scoring a career-best 21 points for the Wildcats (18-16), who became the lowest seed in tournament history to reach the semifinals, where they will meet top-seeded TCU on Saturday. Nastja Claessens added 15 points for Kansas State, which used a late 9-0 burst to set up the victory one day after scoring the game’s final 21 points in an upset victory over fifth-seeded Texas Tech. Oklahoma State’s Haleigh Timmer buried a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds to tie the score. Teammate Stailee Heard then fouled Heal in the backcourt, approximately 70 feet from the basket, and Heal sank the first before intentionally missing the second and preventing the Cowboys from getting off one last shot. Heard recorded 18 points and eight rebounds and Jadyn Wooten had 16 points for Oklahoma State (23-9). Timmer had 13 points and Amari Whiting added 12 points and 10 rebounds. No. 10 TCU 63, BYU 46 Marta Suarez had 17 points, eight rebounds and three steals and Taylor Bigby added 13 points to help the Horned Frogs register a wire-to-wire win over the ninth-seeded Cougars. Olivia Miles contributed 10 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for TCU (28-4), which made 17 of 18 free-throw attempts. The Horned Frogs had nine blocked shots and eight steals and led by as many as 20 points. Delaney Gibb recorded 17 points, seven rebounds and five assists but was just 6-of-22 shooting for BYU (22-11). The Cougars shot just 27% from the field and were 5 of 28 from 3-point range. SEC TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP: NO. 24 OLE MISS DOMINATES NO. 5 VANDY Latasha Lattimore had 28 points and eight rebounds, Cotie McMahon scored 27 and No. 24 Ole Miss never trailed while defeating No. 5 Vanderbilt 89-78 in the quarterfinals of the SEC women’s tournament Friday night in Greenville, S.C. Tianna Thompson scored 16 for the seventh-seeded Rebels (23-10), who won in decisive fashion for the second consecutive night in the tournament after losing their last four games of the regular season. They beat 15th-seeded Auburn 73-57 on Thursday. Ole Miss, which will face third-seeded Texas in the semifinals Saturday, raced to a 25-6 lead after one quarter, expanded the margin to 49-17 at halftime and never allowed the lead to shrink to single digits in the second half. Mikayla Blakes scored 24 points, Aubrey Galvan had 18 and Sacha Washington added 16 points and eight rebounds before fouling out to lead the second-seeded Commodores (27-4), who lost to the Rebels for the second time this season after falling at home 83-75 on Jan. 30. No. 3 South Carolina 87, No. 17 Kentucky 64 Joyce Edwards scored 21 points, Madina Okot had a double-double and the top-seeded Gamecocks (30-2) rolled past the ninth-seeded Wildcats. Okot finished with 12 points and 13 rebounds, Tessa Johnson scored 15 points and Ta’Niya Latson added 11 for South Carolina, which will face LSU in the semifinals Saturday after winning its 11th consecutive game. Amelia Hassett scored 15 points, Teonni Key had 13 points and eight rebounds, Clara Strack scored 11 and Asia Boone 10 to lead Kentucky (23-10). No. 6 LSU 112, No. 7 Oklahoma 78 MiLaysia Fulwiley had 22 points and eight assists, four teammates scored in double figures and the fourth-seeded Tigers rolled past the fifth-seeded Sooners with their highest point total against an SEC opponent this season. Flau’jae Johnson poured in 21 points, Mikaylah Williams scored 14, Jada Richard had 13 and Bella Hines added 10 for LSU (27-4), which led 45-33 at halftime and 72-49 after three quarters. Aaliyah Chavez scored 20 points and Sahara Williams added 19 points and nine rebounds for Oklahoma (24-7), which had won its last seven games. Center Raegan Beers, who averages 16.0 points and 10.4 rebounds, finished with six points and eight rebounds in 23 minutes before fouling out. No. 4 Texas 83, Alabama 60 Jordan Lee scored 16 points, Madison Booker had 11 points and 10 rebounds and the third-seeded Longhorns took command with a dominant second quarter against the 11th-seeded Crimson Tide. Bryanna Preston added 13 points and Aaliyah Crump had 10 for Texas (29-3), which took a 21-10 lead after one quarter and outscored Alabama 31-9 in the second to open a 33-point halftime lead. The Longhorns will face seventh-seeded Ole Miss in the semifinals Saturday. Ace Austin, Jessica Timmons, Alancia Ramsey and Diana Collins scored eight points each to lead Alabama (23-10), which outscored Texas 41-31 in the second half. ====================================================================== NBA SUNS F DILLON BROOKS ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF DUI Phoenix Suns swingman Dillon Brooks was arrested early Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence in Scottsdale. A police incident report shows Brooks was stopped by Scottsdale Police at roughly 1 a.m. Friday. He was subsequently arrested, taken to jail and released several hours later. “We are aware of the situation involving Dillon Brooks and are gathering more information,” the Phoenix Suns said in a statement. “We have no further comment at this time.” Brooks has not played in Phoenix’s past five games after suffering a broken left hand in a Feb. 21 win over the Orlando Magic. The injury was expected to sideline him for four to six weeks. A six-week absence would see Brooks return to the court in early April. The regular season ends April 12. Brooks, 30, is averaging a career-best 21.2 points and 3.7 rebounds in 50 games (all starts) during his first season with Phoenix. He has career averages of 14.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 542 games (515 starts) for the Memphis Grizzlies (2017-23), Houston Rockets (2023-25) and Suns. NBA ROUNDUP: JAYSON TATUM THRIVES IN RETURN AS CELTICS BEAT MAVS Jayson Tatum had 15 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists in his season debut to help the Boston Celtics defeat the visiting Dallas Mavericks 120-100 on Friday night. Tatum, who was in Boston’s starting lineup and played 27 minutes, appeared in an NBA game for the first time since he tore his right Achilles tendon in Game 4 of last year’s Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks. Boston received 24 points from Jaylen Brown and 20 from Derrick White. Neemias Queta added 16 points and 15 rebounds. The news wasn’t all good for Boston, as Nikola Vucevic left the court in the first quarter with a fractured right ring finger. Klay Thompson made 5 of 11 3-point attempts and scored 19 points as the Mavericks took their sixth loss in a row. Lakers 128, Pacers 117 Luka Doncic recorded 44 points, nine rebounds and three steals in three quarters of action, leading Los Angeles past visiting Indiana. Doncic notched his 10th 40-point effort of the season to break a tie with Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards for the most this season. He also became the fourth different Laker to record 10 or more 40-point games in a season, joining a trio of Hall of Famers — Kobe Bryant (four times), Elgin Baylor (three) and Jerry West (three). Doncic’s scoring was needed on a night in which the Lakers were without LeBron James (elbow, foot) and Deandre Ayton (knee). Pascal Siakam scored 26 points for the Pacers, who lost their eighth straight game. Knicks 142, Nuggets 103 OG Anunoby scored a season-high 34 points, Karl-Anthony Towns added 17 points and 13 rebounds, and New York handed host Denver its worst loss of the season. The Nuggets played the second half without Jamal Murray. The star guard who scored 12 points but rolled his left ankle when he stepped on Nikola Jokic’s foot while backpedaling on defense with 1:05 left in the second quarter. Murray was helped off the court and did not return. Jalen Brunson had just nine points but finished with 15 assists for the Knicks, who used 40-point second quarter to take control. Jokic paced the Nuggets with 38 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Spurs 116, Clippers 112 Victor Wembanyama racked up 27 points, 10 rebounds and four blocked shots while Julian Champagnie added 20 points, 17 of them in the pivotal third quarter, as host San Antonio came back from 25 points down to beat Los Angeles. It was the Spurs’ largest comeback of the season, their third win in a row and their 14th victory in the past 15 games. De’Aaron Fox contributed 19 points and nine assists. Kawhi Leonard led all scorers with 30 points while Brook Lopez added 26 for the Clippers, who had a three-game winning streak end. Rockets 106, Trail Blazers 99 Amen Thompson scored 26 points and fueled a critical fourth-quarter rally that propelled Houston to a victory over visiting Portland. After Alperen Sengun, who scored a game-high 28 points, picked up his fifth foul with 8:29 left to play and the Rockets trailing 89-85, Thompson scored three consecutive baskets to ignite a 15-0 run. Thompson shot 11 of 12 from the floor and added seven rebounds and seven assists. Kevin Durant had 20 points and eight rebounds for Houston, which has won five of the past seven. Jerami Grant paced the Trail Blazers, who have lost three out of four, with 21 points, and Jrue Holiday added 20 points and 10 assists. Heat 128, Hornets 120 Tyler Herro hit eight 3-pointers and scored 33 points as visiting Miami edged Charlotte. Bam Adebayo had 24 points and 12 rebounds as the Heat won their fourth game in a row and improved to 7-2 in the past nine. Jaime Jaquez Jr. racked up 21 points off the bench. The Hornets’ six-game winning streak ended despite 27 points from Kon Knueppel, 22 points and 13 rebounds from Brandon Miller and 21 points from LaMelo Ball. Suns 118, Pelicans 116 Devin Booker scored 32 points, Jalen Green added 25 and host Phoenix nearly squandered a 14-point fourth-quarter lead before holding off New Orleans. Oso Ighodaro had 13 points for the Suns, who made 20 3-pointers in a season-high 58 attempts. Phoenix had lost seven of its previous 11 games overall, swept the four-game season series. Trey Murphy III scored 22 points and had four treys while Zion Williamson and Saddiq Bey scored 19 points each for the Pelicans, who had won five of seven. =================================================================== COLLEGE FOOTBALL FIRED MICHIGAN FOOTBALL COACH SHERRONE MOORE REACHES PLEA DEAL TO RESOLVE HOME INVASION CASE ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pleaded no contest Friday to two misdemeanors in a criminal case that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with his executive assistant. The deal was struck on the same day that a judge planned to hear a challenge to Moore’s arrest in December on three charges, including felony home invasion. Those charges were dropped in exchange for Moore pleading no contest to misdemeanor trespassing and misdemeanor malicious use of a telecom device. “Things have changed,” Judge J. Cedric Simpson said. Moore had confronted the woman with whom he had been having an affair and blamed her for his dismissal, even threatening to kill himself with butter knives in her apartment, authorities said. ___ EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org ================================================================ NFL LT TAYLOR DECKER REQUESTS RELEASE FROM LIONS Left tackle Taylor Decker, the Detroit Lions’ longest-tenured player, requested his release from the team. Decker announced the news over social media on Friday, just a little over a week after he wrote that he intended to return for an 11th NFL season. “Things change,” Decker wrote on Instagram. “145 games started, 3 playoff appearances, 2 division titles, a decade carrying the shield. I fully intended to do it once again, but my time as a Lion is coming to an end. “In the weeks since notifying the team of my return there have been numerous discussions. Many of which were a surprise to me, and we could not find common ground. Therefore I decided to request my release.” On Feb. 24, Decker posted a picture of himself running onto the field and a caption reading, “‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; SEND ME!’ #Year11” The No. 16 overall pick out of Ohio State in the 2016 NFL Draft, Decker started all 140 regular-season games as well as five playoff contests that he played with Detroit. Decker, 32, was a first-time Pro Bowler in 2024. He admitted he had to battle through a shoulder injury last season that severely limited him in practice and made him seriously consider stepping away from the game. REPORTS: BILLS RELEASING VETERAN CB TARON JOHNSON The Buffalo Bills are releasing veteran cornerback Taron Johnson, multiple outlets reported on Friday. Parting ways with Johnson, who turns 30 in July, reportedly will free up $8.67 million in salary cap space. Johnson started 87 games over the past eight seasons with the Bills, including eight of his 13 games in 2025. He has 572 tackles, eight sacks, eight forced fumbles and six interceptions (with two touchdowns) in 113 games. He was a second-team All-Pro selection in 2023. Johnson signed a three-year, $30.75 million extension in March 2024 with $17.82 million in guaranteed money. The Bills drafted Johnson in the fourth round in 2018, the same year they got quarterback Josh Allen with the No. 7 overall pick. PATRIOTS SIGN QB TOMMY DEVITO TO TWO-YEAR, $7M DEAL Backup quarterback Tommy DeVito agreed to a two-year contract with the Patriots worth up to $7.4 million with $2 million in guarantees, his agent told multiple outlets on Friday. DeVito, a restricted free agent, was the No. 3 quarterback on the depth chart in New England behind Drake Maye and Joshua Dobbs in 2025. All three quarterbacks are under contract in 2026. DeVito was claimed when the New York Giants waived him last August as the odd man out in an overhauled quarterback depth chart that opened with Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston and 2025 first-round pick Jaxson Dart. In 12 career NFL games with the Giants, DeVito completed 145 of 222 passes for 1,358 yards. All eight of his career TD passes and three interceptions came during his 2023 season when he made six starts following an injury to Tyrod Taylor. He entered the NFL with the Giants in April 2023, signing an undrafted free agent contract after a productive senior season at Illinois. He played at Syracuse from 2019-2021 and totaled 43 touchdowns and 16 interceptions in 40 career college games. REPORTS: BROWNS RESTRUCTURE DESHAUN WATSON CONTRACT The Cleveland Browns are restructuring the contract of quarterback Deshaun Watson to open up cap space, according to multiple reports Friday. This marks the fourth straight offseason the Browns have restructured Watson’s contract, which drops his cap hit for the 2026 season from $80.7 million to about $45 million and frees up nearly $36 million in cap space. Watson’s original deal with the Browns, signed after being traded from the Houston Texans ahead of the 2022 season, was a five-year deal worth a fully guaranteed $230 million. He will be an unrestricted free agent after this season. Watson has played in just 19 games and thrown 19 TD passes for the Browns due to suspensions and injuries. His record is 9-10. He was suspended 11 games in 2022 for off-field conduct related to sexual misconduct allegations involving more than 20 massage therapists. His 2023 season was cut short by left shoulder surgery and the 2024 season ended abruptly for Watson in Week 7 because of a ruptured Achilles, missing the final 10 games. The 30-year-old missed all of last season recovering from two Achilles surgeries but is expected to compete with Shedeur Sanders for the starting QB position. The Browns also have Dillon Gabriel on the roster at the position. REPORTS: CHARGERS, C TYLER BIADASZ REACH 3-YEAR DEAL Center Tyler Biadasz agreed to a three-year, $30 million contract with the Los Angeles Chargers, multiple outlets reported Friday. Biadasz, 28, was released by the Washington Commanders last month, allowing him to sign a new deal before the new league year opens on Wednesday. He will replace center Bradley Bozeman, who announced his retirement last month. Biadasz made 31 starts from 2024-25 for the Commanders but ended the 2025 season on injured reserve after suffering ankle and knee injuries in a Christmas Day loss to the Dallas Cowboys. A Pro Bowl selection with Dallas in 2022, Biadasz started 84 of his 92 games with the Cowboys (2020-23) and Commanders. He was a fourth-round draft pick by the Cowboys in 2020 out of Wisconsin. REPORT: RAMS RE-SIGNING KAM CURL TO 3-YEAR, $36M DEAL Safety Kam Curl will remain with the Los Angeles Rams, agreeing to a three-year, $36 million deal, NFL Network reported Friday. The contract has a maximum value of $39 million with incentives. This is the second piece of big news for the Los Angeles secondary this week. On Wednesday, ESPN reported that the Rams are acquiring All-Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie from the Kansas City Chiefs in a blockbuster trade that includes the 29th overall pick of the 2026 NFL Draft. The Chiefs reportedly also would receive the Rams’ fifth- and sixth-round selections in that draft as well as a third-round pick in 2027. Curl was a seventh-round draft pick by Washington and didn’t take long to move into a starter’s role. He spent the first four seasons of his career there before signing a two-year, $9 million free-agent deal with the Rams before the 2024 season. He earned his big payday with the Rams after 33 games (all starts) in which he made 201 tackles, intercepted two passes and defended 14 others. He has three sacks, three forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and a touchdown. Overall, he has appeared in 93 games (86 starts) and has 586 tackles, eight sacks, five interceptions, 28 passes defended, four forced fumbles and three recoveries. REPORTS: RAIDERS TO RELEASE QB GENO SMITH Geno Smith is expected to be released by the Raiders before the start of the league year on March 11, when the long-expected vacancy at quarterback in Las Vegas reportedly will become official. The Raiders are projected to use the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft on Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza, but at the NFL Scouting Combine last month, general manager John Spytek appeared to keep the door open for Smith to stick around. He said the Raiders don’t necessarily want a rookie to take the snaps as the starter in Week 1 of the 2026 regular season. Kenny Pickett, Smith’s backup who took over late in the season when he was injured, is a free agent. But releasing Smith after one season as the team’s starter will save the Raiders $8 million in cap space, sparing the automatic guarantee in Smith’s contract that would’ve hit the books March 13. The Raiders would eat $18.5 million in dead money but cutting Smith, who was acquired in March 2025 in a trade from the Seattle Seahawks to be the starter for Pete Carroll. Carroll didn’t last a second season and Smith barely survived the physical beating of playing behind one of the NFL’s worst offensive lines. He threw a league-worst 17 interceptions and passed for 3,025 yards with 15 touchdowns in 15 starts. He was sacked 55 times. Smith, 35, has played for five NFL franchises since being drafted 39th overall by the Jets in 2013. REPORTS: DE DANIELLE HUNTER TO SIGN $40.1M EXTENSION WITH TEXANS The Houston Texans are re-signing defensive end Danielle Hunter to a one-year, $40.1 million contract extension, multiple outlets reported. NFL Network reported Thursday that the contract includes a $30.7 million signing bonus and is for the 2027 season. Last March, the Texans signed him to a one-year, $35.6 million extension for this upcoming season. Hunter, 31, originally signed a two-year, $49 million deal with the Texans in March 2024. A five-time Pro Bowl selection, Hunter spent the first eight seasons of his career with the Minnesota Vikings. In his two campaigns with the Texans, he has 27 sacks — 15 in 2025 — to go with 100 tackles (32 for loss), 45 quarterback hits, four forced fumbles and a fumble recovery. He played in all 17 games each season. Overall, he has appeared in 153 games (124 starts) and has 562 tackles (140 for loss), 15 forced fumbles, five fumble recoveries and two touchdowns. His 114.5 sacks place him sixth among active players. =================================================================== BASEBALL AARON JUDGE SETS TONE AS US POURS IT ON LATE IN WBC OPENER VS. BRAZIL Team captain Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Logan Webb tossed four strong frames Friday night for the United States, which beat Brazil 15-5 in both teams’ World Baseball Classic Pool B opener in Houston. Bobby Witt Jr. led off with a single and stole second as Bryce Harper struck out before Judge, making his WBC debut, hit a 405-foot blast off Bo Takahashi to set the tone for Team USA. Kyle Schwarber scored on a wild pitch in the third and Byron Buxton was plunked with the bases loaded in the fifth before Brice Turang laced a three-run double for the U.S., which is seeking the country’s second WBC title and first since 2017. Roman Anthony had an RBI single in the eighth before Team USA piled on during a seven-run ninth. Anthony and Harper had run-scoring singles, Alex Bregman, Cal Raleigh and Pete Crow-Armstrong drew bases-loaded walks, Raleigh scored on a balk and Turang collected an RBI groundout. Team USA drew 17 walks against nine Brazil pitchers. Turang finished 3-for-6 out of the ninth spot in the order. Lucas Ramirez, the son of former big league slugger Manny Ramirez, hit two homers – including a leadoff blast in the bottom of the first against Webb – for Brazil, which is appearing in the WBC for the second time after going 0-3 in Pool play in 2013. Lucas Rojo had an RBI single in the seventh before former Houston Astros farmhand Victor Mascai hit a two-run homer. Webb, the San Francisco Giants ace, retired the final 12 batters he faced, six by strikeout. Michael Wacha gave up three runs over three innings and Gabe Speier surrendered Ramirez’s second homer before Mason Miller threw a hitless ninth with three strikeouts. Takahashi, a former minor leaguer with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Cincinnati Reds who has spent the last five seasons pitching in Asia, allowed three hits but stranded two in the first. Joseph Contreras, the 17-year-old son of former big league pitcher Jose Contreras, gave up one run over 1 1/3 innings and wriggled out of a bases-loaded jam in impressive fashion in the second, when he got Judge to hit into an inning-ending double play. Both nations are in action again Saturday, when the United States faces Great Britain and Brazil opposes Italy. WBC ROUNDUP: CUBA GOES YARD TWICE TO BEAT PANAMA Yoelkis Gilbert and Yoan Moncada homered in the first three innings to lift Cuba to a 3-1 win over Panama in both teams’ Pool A opener of the World Baseball Classic Friday in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ariel Martinez added two hits for Cuba, which had just two at-bats with runners in scoring position. Johan Camargo plated Panama’s only run with a seventh-inning single. Leonard Bernal (2-for-4) was the team’s only player with multiple hits and scored the run. Livan Moinelo registered the win, tossing 3 2/3 scoreless innings with four strikeouts in his start. Raidel Martinez recorded the save with a 1-2-3 ninth. Logan Allen took the loss for Panama, allowing three runs on five hits in three innings while fanning five. Venezuela 6, Netherlands 2 Willson Contreras’ two-run single highlighted a four-run fifth inning that proved to be the difference for Venezuela against the Netherlands during a Pool D opener in Miami. Javier Sanoja homered for Venezuela, which also got a pair of RBIs from Wilyer Abreu and a pair of runs and a double from leadoff man Ronald Acuna Jr. Ranger Suarez was the winning pitcher, allowing one run on three hits over two innings. Druw Jones, the son of soon-to-be Hall of Famer Andruw Jones, accounted for both of the Dutch RBIs with a run-scoring double and a sacrifice fly. Antwone Kelly was the losing pitcher, allowing two runs and four hits over three innings. Mexico 8, Great Britain 2 Jonathan Aranda hit a homer to spark a late rally that saw Mexico plate seven runs over the final two innings to run away from Great Britain in a Pool B opener in Houston. Aranda had two hits and three RBIs for Mexico, which also got a homer from Nacho Alvarez Jr. and a two-run single from Alek Thomas. Javier Assad (3 2/3 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 2 K) was excellent in his start, but Robert Garcia collected the win with a scoreless seventh inning. Harry Ford sparked the British team with two hits, which included a solo homer in the sixth to forge a 1-1 tie. Trayce Thompson added an RBI double in the ninth. Gary Gill Hill took the loss as he allowed the first two runs in Mexico’s three-run eighth. He struck out, walked two and allowed no hits over 1 2/3 innings. Puerto Rico 5, Colombia 0 Seth Lugo threw four-plus scoreless innings as host Puerto Rico blanked Colombia in a Pool A opener at San Juan. Lugo permitted three hits and two walks while striking out three. Six teammates followed him to the mound, with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Edwin Diaz striking out three in the ninth inning. Eddie Rosario, Martin Maldonado and Willi Castro had run-scoring hits for Puerto Rico. Harold Ramirez went 3-for-4, collecting half of Colombia’s hits. Starter Jose Quintana fired three shutout innings before Adrian Almeida was tagged for five runs (three earned) in 1 1/3 innings. Dominican Republic 12, Nicaragua 3 Junior Caminero broke a sixth-inning tie with a two-run homer, and the Dominicans pulled away for a win over the Nicaraguans in the Pool D opener at Miami. Julio Rodriguez (3-for-5, three RBIs) led off the Dominican Republic’s sixth-run, eighth-inning rally with a home run, and Oneil Cruz added a three-run shot in the frame. Fernando Tatis Jr. added two hits, two walks and three runs for the victors. Ismael Munguia and Cristhian Sandoval each collected two hits for Nicaragua. SPRING TRAINING ROUNDUP: PHILLIES OUTSLUG PIRATES 14-10 Rafael Marchan hit two doubles for four runs in one inning to help a Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates’ split squad 14-10 in a spring-training offensive showcase Friday in Bradenton, Fla. The Phillies dropped a nine-run fourth inning after the Pirates went ahead 3-0 on Ryan O’Hearn’s three-run home run in the third. Marchan plated Philadelphia’s first run, and after Felix Reyes tied the game with a double and two batters drew bases-loaded walks, Marchan hit a three-run double to center. Bryan De La Cruz finished the inning with an RBI double of his own. The Pirates didn’t go quietly, as Yordany De Los Santos, Derek Berg and Omar Alfonzo homered to pull them into a 10-10 tie by the eighth. But De La Cruz scored the go-ahead run on an error in the top of the ninth and Carson DeMartini added cushion with a three-run blast to center. Otto Kemp and Paul McIntosh joined Marchan and De La Cruz with two hits for the Phillies, while Jared Triolo went 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI for the Pirates. Blue Jays 9, Pirates (ss) 2 Nathan Lukes’ two-out grand slam in the fourth inning turned the tide and Toronto took down the visiting Pittsburgh split squad in Dunedin, Fla. Yohendrick Pinango and Edward Micheletti added late home runs to pad the margin for the Blue Jays. Jose Berrios allowed two runs on five hits and struck out three in a four-inning start. The Pirates went in front on Termarr Johnson’s single and Dominic Fletcher’s solo shot before the Jays rallied. Starter Bubba Chandler had one earned run and three walks but struck out five in three innings. Cardinals 10, Orioles 2 Nelson Velazquez and Joshua Baez homered, Yohel Pozo went 2-for-2 with a two-run double and visiting St. Louis beat Baltimore in Sarasota, Fla. Jeremy Rivas and Ivan Herrera, who each had two hits, broke a 1-1 tie with RBI singles in the fifth. Cardinals starter Michael McGreevy struck out four and scattered one run and four hits through four innings for his second win of the spring. Ryan Mountcastle and Willy Vasquez had the RBIs for the Orioles. Chris Bassett allowed one unearned run in his three-inning start, but Albert Suarez was dinged for seven runs on nine hits in 2 2/3 innings of middle relief. Tigers 11, Red Sox 3 Matt Vierling went 3-for-3 with a home run, a double and four RBIs, Jace Jung smacked three RBI singles and host Detroit walloped Boston in Lakeland, Fla. The Tigers scored all 11 of their runs between the fifth and eighth innings, long after Justin Verlander left his start having struck out four and given up two runs in two innings. Kristian Campbell hit a two-run homer in the first for the Red Sox, and Andrews Opata had a solo shot in the ninth. Astros 7, Nationals 1 John Garcia homered and Brice Matthews doubled to bring in two runs apiece for host Houston in a win over Washington in West Palm Beach, Fla. Jose Altuve brought in a run on a double-play grounder for the Astros, who got four strikeouts from starter Mike Burrows in 3 2/3 innings of one-hit, no-run ball. Daylen Lile homered and starter Cade Cavalli fanned six in four innings for the Nationals. ASTROS ALL-STAR SS JEREMY PEÑA UNSURE IF HE WILL BE READY FOR OPENING DAY BECAUSE OF BROKEN FINGER WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Houston Astros All-Star shortstop Jeremy Peña may miss opening day because of the broken finger that caused him to be sidelined for the World Baseball Classic. Peña, who fractured his right ring finger after fielding a hard groundball for the Dominican Republic during a pre-WBC exhibition game on Wednesday, will be evaluated in two weeks. The Astros open on March 26 at home against the Los Angeles Angels. “I feel like the last 48 hours have been very uncertain, but it is what it is,” Peña told reporters Friday. “Injuries are a part of the game. I wish I was out there playing with the guys.” Peña is expected to continue baseball drills over the next week. The 28-year-old was a first-time Allstar last year, when he hit .304 with 17 homers, 62 RBIs, 20 stolen bases and an .840 OPS. “The goal is to try to be ready for opening day,” Peña said. “I don’t know how it’s going to heal. I don’t know what the process is going to be like, but the goal is always to try to join the team for opening day.” =================================================================== NHL NHL ROUNDUP: AVS TIE IT LATE, BEAT STARS IN SO IN HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLE In a battle of the two top teams in the NHL, Valeri Nichushkin forced overtime in the final minute of regulation and then scored in the shootout for the visiting Colorado Avalanche, who ended the Dallas Stars’ 10-game winning streak with a 5-4 victory Friday night. Martin Necas, who had a goal and three assists in regulation, beat Jake Oettinger for the shootout clincher. Nathan MacKinnon added his league-leading 42nd goal and two assists, while Cale Makar finished with a goal and an assist. Scott Wedgewood was flawless in relief, stopping 10 shots and two more in the shootout to secure the Avalanche’s fourth straight win. He took over for Mackenzie Blackwood, who made only seven saves on 11 shots before leaving the game less than two minutes into the second period. Miro Heiskanen, Wyatt Johnston, and Justin Hryckowian each scored a goal and added an assist for Dallas. Jamie Benn also scored, while Jason Robertson and Mavrik Bourque recorded two assists apiece. Jake Oettinger made 25 saves, but his personal winning streak ended at eight. Panthers 3, Red Wings 1 Matthew Tkachuk collected the sixth hat trick of his career as Florida ended a four-game losing streak with a win in Detroit. Tkachuk’s three-goal game was his first since Jan. 9, 2024, against St. Louis. Sergei Bobrovsky, whose name was prominently mentioned in trade rumors but remained with the Panthers through Friday’s deadline, made 28 saves for the win. Alex DeBrincat scored his team-leading 33rd goal for Detroit and John Gibson stopped 20 shots. Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin appeared to injure his leg when he lost his balance while skating into the Florida zone during the third period. He did not return. Canucks 6, Blackhawks 3 Brock Boeser scored the tiebreaker for one of his two third-period goals to help Vancouver snap a seven-game losing streak with a win in Chicago. Jake DeBrusk had a goal and an assist, Drew O’Connor and Teddy Blueger also scored and Max Sasson added an empty-netter for the Canucks, who overcame blowing a 3-1 first-period lead to win for just the third time in 24 games (3-17-4). Ilya Mikheyev and Frank Nazar each recorded a goal with an assist for Chicago, which is mired in a 2-7-3 rut. Vancouver broke a 3-3 tie on a power play 2:40 into the third. Off a rather awkward rebound of Arvid Soderblom’s save of Linus Karlsson’s puck to the net, Boeser was able to bat it home. Ducks 6, Canadiens 5 (SO) Chris Kreider scored the tying goal in the last minute of regulation and had three assists for host Anaheim, which recovered from blowing a 4-2 lead with less than 12 minutes left in the third for a shootout win over Montreal. Cutter Gauthier, Leo Carlsson and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist and Alex Killorn scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of the shootout for the Ducks, who are 7-1-0 in their past eight games. Cole Caufield had two goals and an assist while Lane Hutson had a goal and two assists for the Canadiens, who have lost three of four (1-1-2). Samuel Montembeault stopped 28 shots. Hurricanes 6, Oilers 3 Jackson Blake scored two third-period goals and Carolina prevailed at Edmonton. Nikolaj Ehlers scored his fifth goal in three games and added an assist for the Hurricanes, who have won seven of their last eight. Jordan Martinook, Jordan Staal and Shayne Gostisbehere also scored, K’Andre Miller recorded three assists, and Frederik Andersen made 13 saves. Zach Hyman scored twice and Vasily Podkolzin tallied once for the Oilers, who have lost six of their past eight games. Tristan Jarry turned away 26 shots. Blues 3, Sharks 2 (OT) Robert Thomas scored his second goal of the night in overtime, leading St. Louis past host San Jose to win for a third straight time. Jimmy Snuggerud collected one goal and one assist and Dylan Holloway posted three assists for the Blues, who responded to seeing captain Brayden Schenn and stalwart defenseman Justin Faulk traded away earlier in the day. St. Louis goaltender Jordan Binnington made 23 saves. Macklin Celebrini and Kiefer Sherwood tallied for the Sharks, who saw their three-game winning streak end but still pulled themselves two points back of the Seattle Kraken for the Western Conference’s second wild-card position. San Jose also has one game in hand. Wild 4, Golden Knights 2 Filip Gustavsson made 29 saves and Michael McCarron had a goal and an assist in his Minnesota debut as the Wild won in Las Vegas. Mats Zuccarello, Zach Bogosian and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored goals for Minnesota, which completed a three-game sweep of the regular-season series with the Golden Knights. It was the second straight win overall and eighth in the past 10 games for the Wild. Pavel Dorofeyev scored his 30th goal, the first player in Vegas history to have back-to-back 30-goal seasons, and also had an assist, and Mitch Marner also tallied for Vegas. Akira Schmid finished with 20 saves for the Golden Knights. KRAKEN SIGN CAPTAIN JORDAN EBERLE TO 2-YEAR, $11M EXTENSION Seattle Kraken captain Jordan Eberle agreed to a two-year, $11 million contract extension on Friday. The 35-year-old forward has tallied 42 points (22 goals, 20 assists) in 59 games in his fifth season with the Kraken. His 18:37 average ice time is his highest since the 2014-15 campaign. A two-time All-Star, Eberle has 770 points (330 goals, 440 assists) in 1,119 games across 16 NHL seasons with the Edmonton Oilers (2010-17), New York Islanders (2017-21) and Kraken. The Saskatchewan native was named the Seattle franchise’s second captain on Opening Day of the 2024-25 season. Eberle was in the final season of a two-year, $9.5 million contract. PENGUINS ACQUIRE F ELMER SODERBLOM FROM RED WINGS The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Elmer Soderblom from the Detroit Red Wings on Friday in exchange for a 2026 third-round draft pick. The draft pick originally belonged to the San Jose Sharks. Soderblom, 24, has two goals, one assist and 64 hits in 39 games with the Red Wings this season. The 6-foot-8 Swede is signed through 2026-27 on a contract with an average annual value of $1.125 million. Soderblom has 22 points (11 goals, 11 assists) in 86 career games since Detroit drafted him in the sixth round in 2019. CANES ACQUIRE F NICOLAS DESLAURIERS FROM FLYERS The Carolina Hurricanes acquired rugged forward Nicolas Deslauriers from the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday in exchange for a conditional seventh-round draft pick in 2027. Deslauriers, 35, has one assist and 33 penalty minutes in 24 games this season with the Flyers. “This adds depth and experience to our forward group,” Hurricanes general manager Eric Tulsky said. “Nicolas is a strong, physical player who plays with an edge, factors that become even more important as we get to the postseason.” Deslauriers has recorded 105 points (53 goals, 52 assists) and 794 penalty minutes in 701 games with the Buffalo Sabres (2013-17), Montreal Canadiens (2017-19), Anaheim Ducks (2019-22), Minnesota Wild (2022) and Flyers (2022-26). He was a third-round pick by the Los Angeles Kings in 2009. REPORTS: LIGHTNING ACQUIRE COREY PERRY FROM KINGS The Tampa Bay Lightning acquired forward Corey Perry from the Los Angeles Kings on Friday for a second-round pick, multiple media outlets reported. The pick will come in the 2028 NHL Draft. Perry, 40, recorded 28 points (11 goals, 17 assists) in 50 games this season with the Kings. The 2011 recipient of the Hart Trophy, awarded to the NHL’s Most Valuable Player, is playing on a one-year, $2 million contract with performance bonuses. Perry will be part of the Lightning for the second time in his career. He spent two seasons with Tampa Bay from 2021-23. A 2007 Stanley Cup champion with Anaheim, Perry has totaled 963 points (459 goals, 504 assists) in 1,442 career games with the Ducks, Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Lightning, Chicago Blackhawks, Edmonton Oilers and Kings. Perry was selected by Anaheim with the 28th overall pick of the 2003 NHL Draft. WILD ACQUIRE NICK FOLIGNO FROM BLACKHAWKS, BOBBY BRINK FROM FLYERS The Minnesota Wild acquired forward Nick Foligno from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for future considerations on Friday. The elder Foligno, 38, will join his younger brother, Marcus, 34, in Minnesota. Also on Friday, the Wild landed forward Bobby Brink from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for defenseman David Jiricek. Nick Foligno, who is the current captain of the Blackhawks, has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in 37 games this season. He is playing on the final season of a two-year, $9 million contract before being slated to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the campaign. Nick Foligno has totaled 608 points (250 goals, 358 assists) in 1,270 career games with the Ottawa Senators, Columbus Blue Jackets, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and Blackhawks. Brink, 24, has 26 points (13 goals, 13 assists) in 55 games this season with Philadelphia. The Minnetonka, Minn. native is scheduled to become a restricted free agent this summer. Selected by the Flyers in the second round of the 2019 NHL Draft, Brink has 94 points (36 goals, 58 assists) in 201 career games. Jiricek, 22, has yet to record a point in 25 games this season with the Wild. He has 13 points (two goals, 11 assists) in 84 career games with the Blue Jackets and Wild. He was selected by Columbus with the sixth overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft before being traded to the Wild on Nov. 30, 2024. DUCKS ACQUIRE D JOHN CARLSON FROM CAPS IN LATE-NIGHT TRADE The Anaheim Ducks acquired defenseman John Carlson from the Washington Capitals in a late-night trade. How late? Well, Carlson admitted he was asleep at the time of the trade and didn’t find out until Friday morning, per TSN’s Pierre LeBrun. The Capitals received a conditional first-round pick in either the 2026 or 2027 NHL Draft and a third-round selection in 2027 in the deal. If the Ducks do not qualify for the playoffs, they will have the option to retain the 2026 pick and instead send Washington a first-round pick in 2027. The Capitals are the only team Carlson has played for since being picked by Washington in the first round of the 2008 NHL Draft. “Since joining our organization 17 years ago, John Carlson has exemplified what it means to be a Washington Capital every day,” Capitals general manager Chris Patrick said. “John’s determination, leadership, persistence and skill helped our franchise reach new heights and cemented him as a cornerstone and one of the greatest players in Capitals history. His contributions to our organization and the Washington, D.C., community both on and off the ice have been immeasurable. We are incredibly grateful for everything John has given to our team and wish him and his family nothing but the best moving forward with Anaheim.” Carlson, 36, recorded 46 points (10 goals, 36 assists) and averages 22:52 of ice time in 55 games this season. He is playing in the final season of an eight-year, $64 million contract and is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent this summer. A Stanley Cup champion with Washington, Carlson is the franchise’s all-time leader among defensemen in goals (166), assists (605), points (771), power-play points (273) and games played (1,143). “John Carlson brings leadership, character, a high hockey IQ and a presence to our lineup,” Anaheim general manager Pat Verbeek said. “We are very excited to add a Stanley Cup winner to complement our group and make a big push down the stretch.” ================================================================== NASCAR TYLER REDDICK SEEKS TO MAKE HISTORY IN PHOENIX In the current state of the NASCAR Cup Series with increased competition, what occurred in Austin last weekend was not supposed to happen. And by that, we mean this: Tyler Reddick was surely not going to come to Texas’ Circuit of the Americas and reel off his third straight victory to open 2026. But, as they say, here we are. Now staring at a potential fourth consecutive victory as the series treks westward to Phoenix Raceway on Sunday afternoon, Reddick, his No. 45 Toyota team and 23XI Racing owners Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin cruise into the Arizona desert with more momentum than any driver has experienced at this point in a NASCAR season. Ever. Four in a row right out of the chute. It just doesn’t seem possible, right? However, four straight wins have happened before, granted at later points in a season: eight times by eight different drivers in NASCAR’s modern era. Most recently in 2007, seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson reeled off four straight checkers during his second title-winning season, at Martinsville, Atlanta, Fort Worth and Phoenix. Seven others have done it: Jeff Gordon (1998), Mark Martin (1993), Bill Elliott (1992), Harry Gant (1991), Dale Earnhardt (1987), Darrell Waltrip (1981) and Cale Yarborough (1976). Reddick had to hold off Shane van Gisbergen, the sport’s top road racer, to finish out the run to COTA’s historic checkers. The 30-year-old Corning, Calif., native also likes what he has coming up for the next two weekends at Phoenix and Las Vegas. “When we go to the spring Phoenix race, we’re typically right there,” Reddick said this week. “I’m really excited to see what we have for speed and pace over the next two weekends because we’ve worked really hard to improve things here. “We’ve worked hard to kind of re-think how we get around Phoenix and we’ve just kind of doubled down on the things that we’ve been improving at Vegas, so honestly, I’m very excited to see what kind of pace we have at Phoenix and Vegas as it comes up.” Jordan enjoys victories in threes. As a superstar with the Chicago Bulls, Jordan, who has stock-car racing in his blood via his hometown of Wilmington, N.C., three-peated with NBA titles on two occasions. The hardwood legend feels it’s a new day in Cup racing. “It’s time for change, time for change,” Jordan said Sunday. “Tyler came in with the most pressure. … (Winning) three in a row is the hardest one to win. He kept to his strategy, and the guys put together a great car. “A lot of credit goes to Denny. He’s the mastermind behind finding Tyler and putting together (crew chief) Billy Scott. Look, I just put up the money.” But streak-busters infiltrate the field. Hendrick Motorsports drivers have only one top-five finish so far — Chase Elliott’s fourth at Daytona — but Kyle Larson scored a championship last November with a strong run. Meanwhile, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Toyotas and Team Penske’s Fords have won six of the past seven races outside Phoenix. 23XI Racing has never visited Victory Lane on the slightly banked, one-mile speedway, but Reddick sports two third-place finishes in 2022 and 2023. Four in a row would be an even sweeter showing than the three-win start, but the organization is showing signs of something more savory in the next Arizona race after this Sunday. A succulent championship. ====================================================================== GOLF CHANDLER BLANCHET GROWS LEAD TO 4 AT PUERTO RICO OPEN Rookie Chandler Blanchet is halfway to his first PGA Tour title as he enters the weekend with a four-stroke lead at the Puerto Rico Open at Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Blanchet followed his opening-round 64 with a 5-under-par 67 on Friday to move to 13 under for the event. Gordon Sargent posted a 70, losing ground but remaining alone in second place at 9 under. Ricky Castillo (68), Blades Brown (67), Germany’s Jeremy Paul (67) and Sweden’s Jesper Svensson (69) are tied for third at 8 under. Blanchet sank seven birdies to more than offset his two bogeys. He tops the field in driving accuracy (23 of 28 fairways hit in regulation) and has the fewest putts per green in regulation (1.48). The alternate event opposite the Arnold Palmer Invitational also marks Blanchet’s first made cut of the season after he missed the cut in his first five starts. “The first part of the season, it’s been difficult, for sure,” Blanchet said. “It’s no fun practicing on Saturday and Sunday and not playing and waiting five days (to play again). So will be very happy to play some golf on a Saturday and Sunday this weekend.” Sargent started his round on the back nine and struggled to a 1-over 37 with one bogey and no birdies. A switch flipped for the 22-year-old on the front nine, when he made four birdies against one bogey. Brown has the young Sargent beat by a couple of years. Brown turned professional at 17 and is hunting for his first tour win at 18 years and nine months old, which would make him the second-youngest winner in PGA Tour history. “I’m excited to be playing two more days at the Grand Reserve. And a lot can happen in two days, so I’m excited for the weekend,” Brown said. Amateur John Daly II, son of two-time major champ John Daly, shot a 67 to stay in the hunt in his PGA Tour debut at 7 under par. “It’s awesome,” he said of making the cut. “This place has always been one of my favorites, like I said earlier, to come watch my dad play back in the day, so it’s pretty cool to make it to the weekend.” RICARDO GONZALEZ ON TOP AFTER OPENING ROUND OF PRO FOOTBALL HALL EVENT Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez opened the James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational with an eagle, and he holds a one-shot lead after the first round of the event on Friday in Boca Raton, Fla. Gonzalez shot a 6-under-par 66 at The Old Course at Broken Sound Club. Stewart Cink is one stroke back, with George McNeill and Australian Steve Allan tied for third at 4 under. Greg Chalmers, another Aussie, shares fifth place with Ben Crane and Shane Bertsch at 3-under 69. Eleven players are tied for eighth at 70. Gonzalez began his round on the par-5 10th hole. He reached the green in two and sank the putt for a perfect start. Gonzalez then racked up five birdies before finally making his lone bogey of the day at the par-3 eighth hole. “I feel great because I think is my first time starting the top of the leaderboard and so happy to do that,” said Gonzalez, whose lone PGA Tour Champions win came in 2024 in Morocco. “And especially here on this golf course, very tough in this wind today. I think one of my best day in golf. “Because this course is narrow, have a lot of bunkers, and I need to keep the ball in the fairway. With this wind, it’s very tough, especially on some holes it’s crosswind, tough to (play). And today I hit a very good tee shot all day, (making it much easier) to make good score.” Cink’s steady round featured three birdies on each nine surrounding his lone bogey, at the par-4 ninth hole. Cink, a former Open Championship winner, owns five career senior wins, including the Charles Schwab Cup Championship last fall and the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in January. “This is my first time playing this course, and every day I’ve played it this week it’s been the same wind, the same wind direction,” Cink said. “There’s been very little variance. So we’re getting accustomed to playing this course with this kind of wind direction. Now, if it flipped around and blew the (other) direction, it would be a completely different course, but as it is we’re kind of getting the feel for some of these tee shots and some of the approaches. “Mostly our game plan was good and I hit a lot of solid shots, gave myself some birdie looks, made my share. Probably could have made a few more, but it was a day I’m pretty pleased with overall.” DANIEL BERGER SPEEDS IN FRONT BY 5 AT ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL Daniel Berger opened up a five-shot lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational after a steady round Friday at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, Fla. Berger built on Thursday’s 63 with a 4-under-par 68 to climb to 13 under at the halfway mark of the $20 million signature event. “I feel like I hit ‘em better today and the score wasn’t quite as low,” Berger said. “But yeah, it’s just one of those courses. It’s treacherous. You just got to stay patient and take what the course gives you, and when you have an opportunity, you got to take advantage because there’s not that many of ‘em out there.” Akshay Bhatia posted a 66 to take sole possession of second at 8 under. Also in striking distance are Sahith Theegala (67), Collin Morikawa (71) and Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg (71), who are tied for third at 7 under, and Rickie Fowler, who’s alone in sixth at 6 under after his second consecutive 69. Berger, a former World No. 12 and 2021 Ryder Cup winner, hasn’t won on the PGA Tour since the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He missed 18 months with a back injury and struggled to regain his old form once he returned. On Friday, he rolled in five birdies while limiting himself to one bogey. Berger ranks second this week in strokes gained approaching the green and third in strokes gained putting, and he’s bracing for an even tougher layout over the weekend. “I feel like it’s definitely not going to get easier,” Berger said. “I heard that (Palmer’s grandson) Sam Saunders, who has a big part of the tournament, definitely wants it to play difficult. I think Mr. Palmer would want it to play difficult as well.” Bhatia is the closest to chasing him down after he poured in seven birdies on Friday and saved par from the bunker at the difficult par-4 18th. “I’m just going to keep plodding along,” Bhatia said. “Again, (Berger) could run away with it and I could be playing for second or it could be, you know, a little bit of a challenge. There’s a lot of guys within six shots of the lead, which is not much around Bay Hill.” Among those guys is Fowler, the fan favorite who has won just once on tour this decade and could be nearing a big breakthrough. “(Winning) this would be very high on the list,” Fowler said. “It would be a lot more special being able to get that red sweater from Arnie himself. But, no, this has always been one of my favorite events. … I won a junior event back here in the day, an AJGA event. We’ve had chances and played well here before. But, yeah, this is a special one.” Xander Schauffele (71) and defending champion Russell Henley (69) are tied at 5 under. Rory McIlroy improved on his opening round by four shots, the Northern Irishman’s 68 vaulting him to 4 under and part of a tie for ninth. McIlroy made four birdies on the back nine, starting with an 11 1/2-footer at the 10th, to climb into the top 10. “I played the last 10 holes really, really well,” he said. “Overall really pleased. Played a very sort of controlled, patient round of golf, which you need to do around here.” Scottie Scheffler (71) is at 3 under. This is one of three signature events with a 36-hole cut, and only the top 50 and ties made the weekend. U.S. Open winner J.J. Spaun (3 over), Irishman Shane Lowry (3 over), Australia’s Jason Day (4 over), Patrick Cantlay (4 over) and Keegan Bradley (5 over) are among those in line to miss the cut line of 2 over par. Justin Thomas shot two straight rounds of 79 in his first start of the season following November back surgery. He finished in dead last among 72 players at 14 over. =================================================================== INDIANA SPORTS TEAM RELEASES PACERS BASKETBALL GAME REWIND: PACERS 117, LAKERS 128 The Indiana Pacers continued their road trip out West on Friday as they visited Crypto.com Arena and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Pacers entered the matchup 0-1 on the trip after falling to the Clippers on Wednesday, but the Lakers were on the second night of back-to-back contests. Los Angeles lost to the Denver Nuggets on Thursday before returning to L.A. to host Indiana on Friday. Luka Doncic opened the first quarter with a flurry of 3-pointers that had Indiana in a 10-point hole early. Doncic went on to amass 44 points, and Indiana fell to the Lakers, 128-117. LeBron James was sidelined for the Lakers as he sustained an elbow injury in Denver on Thursday. The Pacers remain without center Ivica Zubac as he rehabs an ankle injury. Doncic was active for Los Angeles, and he made two deep 3-pointers in the early minutes of the first quarter on his way to a 22-point opening frame. Doncic went on to connect on three more 3-pointers before the first quarter buzzer sounded. Jay Huff had a strong start for Indiana as he recorded seven points and four rebounds in his first seven minutes. Andrew Nembhard notched six points along with four first-quarter assists. The Pacers led for much of the first quarter before Doncic erupted from deep, but the Lakers won the first frame, 35-27. A jumper from Nembhard cut Los Angeles’ lead down to five points by the six-minute mark of the second quarter, 48-43. He connected with Obi Toppin on the following possession as he lobbed a pass to the rim that Toppin reverse-dunked down. The Pacers had the lead down to as little as two points before a 5-0 Lakers run extended it back to seven points, 56-49, with three minutes and change remaining before halftime. Los Angeles would head to the locker room up 13 points, 64-51, after closing the half on a 13-2 run. Doncic led all scorers with 29 points, and contributed six rebounds and three assists. Huff led Indiana with 11 points, and Nembhard followed with 10 points and six assists. The Lakers shot 50 percent from the field, and 55 percent from deep. Indiana made just 42 percent of its looks, and just 11 percent of its 3-point attempts through the first half. The Pacers cut the lead back into single digits early in the third quarter as Nembhard hit Huff in rhythm for a 3-pointer. Indiana trailed, 70-63. Pascal Siakam’s third quarter was solid for Indiana – he notched 13 points and four rebounds in the frame – but the Pacers still trailed, 99-80, heading into the fourth. Doncic continued in his groove, and had amassed 44 points, nine rebounds, and five assists ahead of the fourth quarter. Indiana ultimately fell to the Lakers, 128-117. Doncic did not return for the fourth quarter, but led all scorers with 44 points in his 32 minutes. Siakam’s 26 points led the way for Indiana, and Nembhard notched 17 points and eight assists. The Blue and Gold committed just seven turnovers, but couldn’t overcome a cold shooting night. Indiana shot 47 percent from the floor, but made just 23 percent of its looks from 3-point range. The Pacers are back in action on Sunday, March 8, as they head to Portland for a matchup with the Trail Blazers. Inside the Numbers Luka Doncic recorded his fifth straight game of 30+ points against the Pacers. Pascal Siakam recorded his 27th game of 25+ points this season with 26 points against the Lakers. The Pacers committed just seven turnovers – their lowest mark in 14 games. Indiana outscored Los Angeles by nine points during Jarace Walker’s minutes, five points during Micah Potter’s minutes, and two points during Jay Huff’s minutes. You Can Quote Me on That “He’s that good. The run at the end of the first quarter gave them significant separation that we were never able to make up…Great players are just hard to deal with.” – Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle on Luka Doncic “It just takes recognition and attention to detail and focus. These games turn so quickly. I mean, we made a run in this in the second half, got it to seven, then all of a sudden, it’s a five zero run, and it’s back to 12…We’ve just got to be able to sustain attention to detail at both ends.” – Carlisle on Indiana’s defensive attention and lapses “Those guys went in there and executed, did a pretty decent job…These guys are all being evaluated. Every moment, every second that they’re in an NBA game, they’re putting film on their reel.” – Carlisle on the importance of deep rotation players maintaining intensity Stat of the Night Los Angeles connected on 46 percent of its 3-point attempts. Indiana made just 23 percent of its own looks from long range. Noteworthy Indiana is 35-68 against the Lakers all-time. The Lakers will visit the Pacers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Wednesday, March 25 at 7:00 PM ET to conclude their season series. Former Pacers Lance Stephenson and Metta World Peace were in attendance at Friday’s game. Up Next The Pacers travel to Portland for a matchup with the Trail Blazers on Sunday, March 8 at 9:00 PM ET. ===================================================================== INDY FUEL FUEL FALL 1-0 TO WICHITA ON FRIDAY NIGHT FISHERS– The Indy Fuel played host to the Wichita Thunder for the second game in a row after facing them at home on Wednesday night. After the Thunder scored early in the first period, neither team scored again. Wichita took the 1-0 win on Friday. 1ST PERIOD At 3:04, Oliver Tarr took a double minor penalty for high sticking. This gave Indy an early power play opportunity, but the Thunder killed it off. Wichita’s Ryan Finnegan scored the game’s first goal at 7:31 to give them their first lead of the series. Eleven seconds later, they went on the power play after Kaleb Tiessen took a holding penalty. That penalty was killed off, but not too long after that, Wichita took their second double minor penalty for high sticking. This time, it was Nolan Kneen who sat for the Thunder. That penalty was killed off as well. Owen Robinson took the game’s next penalty at 17:32. He was sent to the box for holding but that penalty was killed off too. After one period, the Fuel were outshooting the Thunder, 10-5 despite being down 1-0. 2ND PERIOD Wichita went back on the power play after Terry Broadhurst took a slashing penalty at 5:41, however Indy killed it off. The next penalty of the game came at 15:27 when Lee Lapid was called for slashing. The Thunder killed off that penalty before time expired on the second frame. Through two, Indy was outshooting Wichita, 23-11. 3RD PERIOD Wichita’s Jake Wahlin was called for hooking at 3:58, putting Indy back on the power play, however they could not score. Indy got another power play opportunity at 9:44, when Wichita took a bench minor for too many men, served by Michal Stinil. At 13:53, Indy’s Jesse Tucker took a hooking call, but it was killed off. With about a minute to go in the game, the Fuel pulled Owen Flores from net in favor of the extra attacker. Despite putting pressure on, the Fuel could not score with the advantage and ultimately fell 1-0 despite outshooting Wichita 33-12. These two teams will meet to decide the season series tomorrow night. ====================================================================== INDIANA MEN’S BASKETBALL INDIANA BASKETBALL GAME NOTES – GAME 31 AT OHIO STATE Opening Tip • Indiana University will conclude the regular season with a road trip to Columbus, Ohio, to play at Ohio State on Saturday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m. ET. Gus Johnson (PxP) and Jim Jackson (Analyst) will handle the FOX broadcast. • Ohio State (19-11, 11-8 B1G) is under the direction of third-year head coach Jake Diebler. The Buckeyes have won three-straight home games, which includes ranked wins over Wisconsin (Feb. 17) and Purdue (March 1). • Senior guard Bruce Thornton has averaged 19.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per night. The Fairburn, Ga., native is closing in on the Ohio State career scoring record set by Dennis Hopson (2,096 points) from 1983-97. Thornton will enter Saturday’s senior day game with 2,085 career points. • Sophomore guard John Mobley Jr., who missed three games with a hand injury, has posted 15.8 points per night on a team-high 86 made 3-pointers. He has shot 43.2% from long range. • Junior forward Devin Royal (14.0 points, 5.7 rebounds per game) and senior center Christoph Tilly (11.1, 4.8) each provide double-digit scoring averages. Game Information March 7, 2026 • 5:30 PM ET Value City Arena (19,049) • Columbus, Ohio TV: FOX (Gus Johnson, Jim Jackson) Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, John Herrick) Series History: Indiana leads, 114-88 Last Meeting: IU 66, OSU 60 on March 8, 2025, in Bloomington Series History • The Hoosiers have won 114 times in a storied 202-game series against long-time Big Ten foe Ohio State. The win total is the second most for the Hoosiers against any single opponent, trailing only Northwestern (120). • Indiana has won five-straight contests in the series dating back to the 2022-23 season, which includes road victories on Feb. 6, 2024 (76-73) and on Jan. 17, 2025 (77-76 in OT). Last Time Out • Indiana (18-12 9-10 B1G) returned to the win column with an emphatic 77-47 result against Minnesota on Wednesday, March 4, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers shot 57.4% (31-of-54) from the floor, the fourth-highest field goal percentage of the season. • Senior forward Sam Alexis turned in his best offensive performance of the season with a season-high 23 points to pair with 11 rebounds (4 offensive) and two blocked shots. • Fifth-year senior guard Lamar Wilkerson piled up 16 points, his 11th-straight game with at least 15 points, on 4-of-7 shooting from behind the 3-point line. • Redshirt senior forward Tucker DeVries added 13 points, eight rebounds, and five assists. Junior guard Nick Dorn chipped in 11 points with three made 3-pointers. The Big Man in the Middle • Senior forward Sam Alexis has made 21-straight starts for the Hoosiers. In that stretch, the Florida transfer has averaged 8.1 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks per game. He has shot 65.7% (73-of-106) from the floor. • Over his final five home starts, Alexis averaged 15.8 points on 83.3% (35-of-42) shooting from the floor to go with 6.0 rebounds per game. • Alexis provided 10 rebounds and six blocked shots at Rutgers on Jan. 23, the first 10-rebound, 5-block performance by a Hoosier in a Big Ten road game since Trayce Jackson-Davis (Jan. 25, 2023). • Against Wisconsin on Feb. 7 he became the first IU player since Kel’el Ware (Feb. 27, 2024) to score at least 15 points, grab more than five rebounds, block at least five shots on 90.0% shooting from the floor. • Alexis posted a season-high 23 points, 11 rebounds, and two blocked shots on 81.8% shooting from the floor in a Senior Night win over Minnesota on March 4. He became the first Hoosiers since Kel’el Ware (2x in 2024) to post a 20-10-2 game on 80.0% shooting or better in Big Ten Conference play. IU Single-Season Made 3-Pointers 1. Steve Alford – 107 (1986-87) 2. Lamar Wilkerson – 101 (2025-26) 3. James Blackmon Jr. – 91 (2016-17) IU Single-Season Points (B1G Only) 1. Don Schlundt – 459 (1952-53) 2. Jimmy Rayl – 454 (1961-62) 3. Lamar Wilkerson – 446 (2025-26) 4. Trayce Jackson-Davis – 436 (2022-23) 5. George McGinnis – 418 (1970-71) 6. Alan Henderson – 416 (1994-95) 7. Scott May – 412 (1975-76) 8. Mike Woodson – 405 (1978-79) 9. Steve Alford – 404 (1985-86) 10. Brian Evans – 399 (1995-96) ================================================================== INDIANA SOFTBALL INDIANA DROPS HOME OPENER TO MINNESOTA BLOOMINGTON, Ind. ––– Minnesota edged Indiana in a close and low-scoring affair on Friday (March 6) night at Andy Mohr Field, winning the series opener, 2-0. The loss puts Indiana’s season record to 16-5 on the season and 0-1 in the Big Ten. MINNESOTA 2, INDIANA 0 KEY MOMENTS • The bats were quiet as a pitcher’s duel was engaged throughout nearly the entire game. • Each team only registered one hit in the first two innings, and no runs were scored by either side until the fifth inning. • Indiana’s Brooke Mannon had great control in the circle, throwing one strikeout for each of the innings that she pitched. • Minnesota took the lead in the top of the fifth when Sydney Schwartz hit a home run to left field to go up 1-0. • In the top of the seventh, Minnesota added another run to their count to make it a 2-0 game on a Scarlett Kuhn RBI single up the middle. • Ellie Goins singled to third base in the bottom of the seventh, but the Hoosiers couldn’t generate anymore offense in the last chance to score. NOTABLES • Mannon threw four strikeouts which accounts for her second-highest total on the season. • She only allowed two hits and no runs in 4.0 innings of work. • Madalyn Strader had the first Hoosier hit at Andy Mohr Field of the 2026 season when she laced a single up the middle in the bottom of the second on. UP NEXT Indiana will return to Andy Mohr Field tomorrow (March 7) for a 4 p.m. first pitch against Minnesota in game two of the series. ================================================================== INDIANA BASEBALL NEUBECK DEALS IN BIG TEN OPENER BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Graduate student southpaw Tony Neubeck (W, 1-1) did what a Friday pitcher should do. He gave his team a chance to win the ballgame. The veteran lefty spun six innings of two-run baseball on Friday (March 6) evening at Bart Kaufman Field. He matched a career high with nine strikeouts and walked zero batters enroute to picking up his first win of the year. The Indiana Baseball team (6-7, 1-0 B1G) closed out a 4-2 victory with three spotless innings from the bullpen. After Washington designated hitter Jackson Hotchkiss homered to center field in the fourth inning, Neubeck proceeded to retire the next seven batters in order. Hotchkiss came back around in a tie game in the sixth inning but this time IU’s southpaw struck him out looking. RBIs from freshman second baseman Landen Fry and sophomore outfielder Caleb Koskie gave IU a lead in the bottom of the inning that it would never relinquish. IU’s pitching staff was pristine in the Big Ten opener, striking out 13 total batters without giving up a walk. It’s the first time the Hoosiers haven’t walked a batter on the mound since last year’s Big Ten Tournament contest against Rutgers (May 20, 2025). It’s the first time since March 29, 2024 against Butler that an IU staff has allowed zero walks while striking out more than 10 batters. Graduate student Gavin Seebold put up two scoreless frames with four strikeouts. He touched 95 out of the bullpen and struck out the side in his first inning of work. Junior right-handed pitcher Jackson Yarberry (SV, 2) picked up the save after working around a pair of hits in the ninth. All of IU’s offense was produced by underclassmen on Friday evening. In addition to hits from Fry and Koskie, sophomore outfielder Hogan Denny and redshirt freshman designated hitter Brayden Ricketts provided RBI doubles to keep the Hoosiers in the game. Ricketts extended his hitting streak to nine games in the win. The Hoosiers will look to take the series tomorrow (March 7) afternoon as they send sophomore southpaw Brayton Thomas to the mound. IU is looking for its first series win to begin conference play since sweeping Ohio State at Bart Kaufman Field in 2023. Scoring Recap Bottom First Hogan Denny got IU on the board early with an RBI double to left field to score Ayden Crouse. Indiana 1, Washington 0 Top Second Washington answered right back as Jackson Hotchkiss doubled in the gap to bring home Casen Taggart. Indiana 1, Washington 1 Top Fourth Hotchkiss tagged a solo home run to center field. Washington 2, Indiana 1 Bottom Fifth Brayden Ricketts lined a ball into left-center field to tie the game on an RBI double. Indiana 2, Washington 2 Bottom Sixth Landen Fry stayed patient on a breaking ball over the plate and slapped a double just inside the left field line to score Jake Hanley from first base. Caleb Koskie followed that up by dribbling a single down the right field line for an important insurance run. Indiana 4, Washington 2 Top Hoosier Performers #29 Neubeck, Tony 6.0 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 9 K #40 Seebold, Gavin 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 4 K #17 Koskie, Caleb 2-3, RBI, R Inside the Box Score • Seven IU players had a hit but Caleb Koskie provided the lone multi-hit effort. • IU’s pitching staff scattered just two hits and walked zero batters over nine innings. • Four different IU batters recorded an RBI. Notes to Know • The Hoosiers picked up a win in the Big Ten opener for the first time since 2023. After dropping the first game of conference play in 2024 (vs. Illinois) and 2025 (at Penn State), IU got back on the board to begin the 2026 campaign. IU will go for the series win tomorrow afternoon. It also extends IU’s all-time record against Washington to 3-0. • For the first time since head coach Jeff Mercer’s first season as the skipper, IU recorded at least 10 strikeouts and walked zero batters in a Big Ten game. The Hoosiers picked up 13 punchouts and walked zero batters in the win over Washington. The last time that happened was April 27, 2019 against Minnesota with 16 strikeouts and zero walks. • Graduate student pitcher Gavin Seebold was fantastic again in relief. He provided two scoreless frames and racked up four strikeouts. He still hasn’t given up a run in five appearances and 13.2 innings on the season. He’s tallied 15 strikeouts and walked just six batters. Opposing teams are hitting only .152 against him. • Graduate student left-handed pitcher Tony Neubeck matched a career high with nine strikeouts. In his last two starts, he’s worked 11.1 innings and hasn’t walked a batter. It’s just the third time in his career – and first time since 2022 – that Neubeck has gone six-or-more innings in a start. In all three of those efforts, he’s allowed three-or-fewer earned runs. Up Next IU will look to take the series on Saturday (March 7) afternoon. All three games this weekend will be streamed on B1G+ and will be carried on the Indiana Sports Radio Network via IUHoosiers.com/Audio. ================================================================== INDIANA MEN’S TENNIS INDIANA FALLS TO NO. 26 UCLA, 4-2, IN BIG TEN OPENER BLOOMINGTON, Ind. ––– The Indiana men’s tennis team came up short in its first Big Ten match of the season against the No. 26-ranked UCLA Bruins, 4-2, today at home in the IU Tennis Center. Indiana began the day strong, with Braeden Gelletich and Facundo Yunis cruising to a 6-2 win over UCLA’s Rudy Quan and Bengt Reinhard at No. 3 doubles, while the No. 57-ranked duo of Michael Andre and Matteo Antonescu clinched the doubles point with a 6-4 win over Emon van Loben Sels and Gianluca Ballotta. At No. 1 doubles, Indiana’s No. 33-ranked duo of Sam Landau and Jip van Assendelft left their match unfinished at 6-6. In singles, Aidan Atwood took home a 6-4, 6-4 win in straight sets over Bengt Reinhard. After losing the first set 3-6, Sam Landau battled back and won a hard-fought second set 7-6, with a tight 9-7 tiebreaker. The match was unfinished at 1-1 in the third set. UCLA gained its four points with wins at No. 2, 3, 4, and 5 singles. Indiana won’t have to wait long for their next match, as the Hoosiers will turn their attention to the No. 22 USC Trojans this Sunday at the IU Tennis Center. No. 26 UCLA 4, No. 46 Indiana 2 Singles Results 1. Sam Landau (IND) vs. No. 57 Spencer Johnson (UCLA) 3-6, 7-6 (9-7), 1-1, unfinished 2. No. 104 Rudy Quan (UCLA) def. Jip van Assendelft (IND) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 3. No. 35 Emon van Loben Sels (UCLA) def. Facundo Yunis (IND) 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 4. Aardarsh Tripathi (UCLA) def. Michael Andre (IND) 6-4, 6-2 5. Cassius Chinlund (UCLA) def. Braeden Gelletich (IND) 7-5, 6-2 6. Aidan Atwood (IND) def. Bengt Reinhard (UCLA) 6-4, 6-4 Order of finish: 4, 6, 5, 2 Doubles Results 1. No. 33 Sam Landau/Jip van Assendelft (IND) vs. Spencer Johnson/Aardarsh Tripathi (UCLA) 6-6, unfinished 2. No. 57 Michael Andre/Matteo Antonescu (IND) def. Emon van Loben Sels/Gianluca Ballotta (UCLA) 6-4 3. Braeden Gelletich/Facundo Yunis (IND) def. Rudy Quan/Bengt Reinhard (UCLA) 6-2 Order of finish: 3, 2 ====================================================================== PURDUE MEN’S BASKETBALL #15 PURDUE HOSTS WISCONSIN ON SENIOR DAY GAMEDAY INFORMATION [15 / 14] Purdue (23-7, 13-6) vs. Wisconsin (21-9, 13-6) Saturday, March 7, 2026 | 4 p.m. ET West Lafayette, Ind. | Mackey Arena (14,876) TELEVISION: CBS (Spero Dedes, Jim Spanarkel) RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell) PURDUE’S NUMBERS • Overall: 23-7 | Big Ten: 13-6 • Home: 12-4 | Away: 8-3 | Neutral: 3-0 • Q1: 9-7 | Q2: 3-0 | Q3: 8-0 | Q4: 3-0 • NCAA NET: 9th | KenPom: 7th • Off. Eff.: 2nd | Def. Eff.: 34th • NCAA SOS: 8th | KenPom SOS: 9th THE SCENE SETTER • In what is the final home game for a memorable group of seniors, the No. 15-ranked Purdue Boilermakers host a surging Wisconsin team on Senior Day in Mackey Arena. Purdue is coming off a win at Northwestern and looks to carry some momentum into the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago next week, as well as position for NCAA Tournament seeding, against a Wisconsin team that has won five of its last seven games. • The Boilermakers won’t officially know their Big Ten Tournament seeding until Sunday and could be anywhere from the four to seven seed. THE SERIES • Purdue and Wisconsin will meet for the 192nd time on Saturday afternoon with the Boilermakers owning a 115-76 series advantage. • Wisconsin is 2-1 in its last three trips to Mackey Arena (wins in Jan. 2022, Feb. 2025). • It marks the second meeting of the season as the squads met on Jan. 3, in Madison, an 89-73 Purdue victory. • Since the calendar flipped to the year 2000, Purdue leads the series 23-22, while Wisconsin has outscored Purdue by a 14-point margin (2,974 to 2,958). Over the last 10 meetings, the series is tied at five. • The 16-point win was the first game decided by more than 10 points since Jan. 24, 2020, a 70-51 Purdue victory. • Braden Smith has had double-digit assists against Wisconsin in each of his last four games vs. the Badgers. • Fletcher Loyer is shooting 50.0 / 47.6 / 88.9 for his career against Wisconsin. NEWS AND NOTES • Purdue bounced back from a two-game losing streak on Wednesday night with a 70-66 win over Northwestern. The win gave Purdue a school-record tying seven Big Ten road wins. • Purdue is averaging 81.9 points per game, the second-highest total of the Matt Painter era, behind the 2023-24 team (82.3 PPG) that advanced to the National Championship game. • The Boilermakers are also shooting 50.0 percent from the field, their highest percentage in a season since the 1989-90 season (52.2 percent). • The Boilermakers are on pace to shatter the NCAA record for assist-to-turnover ratio in a season, posting a 2.15 ratio (current record: 2.07 by Gonzaga, 2024-25 season). • Over Purdue’s last four games, each opponent has shot over 51.0 percent from the field. Opponents are shooting 131-of-252 (.520) from the field in the last five games. • Purdue’s nine quad-1 victories are the fifth most nationally behind Arizona (14), Duke (14), Florida (11) and Michigan (11). Purdue is one of six teams nationally without a loss outside Quad 1A (top-tier), joined by Arizona, Duke, Houston, Nebraska and Miami (Ohio). • Purdue continues to play one of America’s toughest schedules, owning the ninth-most difficult schedule in America. In the last three seasons, Purdue’s strength of schedule has ranked 9th (2025-26), 8th (2024-25) and 2nd (2023-24). • A win over Wisconsin would give Purdue 400 Big Ten wins all-time in Mackey Arena. The Boilermakers are 399-114 (.778) in facility history against Big Ten teams. • In Purdue’s 23 wins this season, Purdue is holding opponents to 42.0 percent from the field and 30.4 percent from 3-point range. In Purdue’s seven losses, foes are shooting 51.7 percent from the field and 43.3 percent from long distance. • This will be the final home game for five seniors that have compiled a 56-8 home record. ================================================================== PURDUE SOFTBALL BOILERS WIN HOME OPENER 5-0 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue wins its home opener at Bittinger Stadium 5-0, shutting out the Bonnies of St. Bonaventure to begin the Boilermaker Classic. The Boilers combined for seven hits, while Brianna Fontenot went the distance on the mound, tossing 7.0 innings with three strikeouts. BOILER BITS Offensive Highlights Anna Moore: 2-for-3, RBI, 2B Bella Douglas: 1-for-3, HR, 2 RBI Maura Condon: 1-for-3, RBI Delaney Reefe: 1-for-3, RBI, 2B Pitching Breakdown Brianna Fontenot: (W, 6-3) 7.0 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K, 1 HP, 28 BF Purdue wasted no time jumping on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning. Bella Douglas launched a two-run homer to left field bringing in Ashlynn Campbell. Maura Condon followed later in the inning with a RBI of her own to score Haley Painter. After a quiet second inning, Purdue added to its lead in the third as Anna Moore doubled to left center, once again plating Campbell. The Purdue defense locked it down in the fifth inning, working out of bases loaded to keep the score at 4-0. Purdue put the game away in the sixth, scoring one more run as pinch-runner, Moriah Polar, scored off Delaney Reefe’s RBI double to left center. The Boilers closed out the 5-0 victory to start the tournament on a hot note, before returning for another lone game tomorrow against Northern Illinois. For updates on Purdue Softball, follow the Boilermakers on Twitter (@PurdueSoftball), Instagram (@purduesoftball), and Facebook (Purdue Softball). ===================================================================== PURDUE BASEBALL DIONNE, FLORES HOMER BUT PURDUE’S RALLY COMES UP A RUN SHORT WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Jimmy Dionne connected for a pinch-hit three-run homer in his first at-bat at Alexander Field and Sam Flores hit a two-run blast in the ninth inning, but Purdue Baseball’s rally came up a run short in an 8-7 loss to No. 23 Oregon on Friday in the Big Ten opener. The Boilermakers (8-4, 0-1 Big Ten) trailed 7-1 entering the fourth inning but managed to bring the go-ahead run to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. The game was played in front of a crowd of 1,927 on a 75-degree Friday in Greater Lafayette, setting an attendance record in the home opener at Alexander Field for the second year in a row. Dionne barreled up for a home run into the right field bullpen with Aaron Manias and Jackson Bessette aboard in the sixth inning. Flores followed Westin Boyle’s leadoff triple in the ninth with an opposite-field shot to left center. Flores also connected for a double off the wall in right center for Purdue’s first extra-base hit of the game. Graham Kollen (2 2/3 IP, 2 H, R, 0 BB, 4 K) and Noah Filer (1-2-3 ninth) teamed up for 3 2/3 innings of one-hit relief as the Boilermakers posted five zeros over the final six innings. A two-out grand slam from Burke-Lee Mabeus batting in the in the 8-hole was the big blow in Oregon’s five-run third inning. And a solo homer from 9-hole hitter Jack Brooks in the eighth inning proved to be the game-deciding run. STREAKS EXTENDED • Brandon Rogers: 7-game on-base; 6-game on-base in Big Ten play • Dylan Drake: 6-game on-base • Westin Boyle: 5-game hit • Sam Flores: 5-game hit The Ducks’ three pitchers combined for 17 strikeouts, a total believed to be the most against a Purdue lineup since Penn State also had 17 in May 1998. A passed ball on strike three to Flores in the sixth inning led to a rare four-strikeout frame. The Boilermakers made eight consecutive outs via the strikeout from the fifth through seventh innings and had two more Ks in a 1-2-3 bottom of the eighth. Purdue also tied its season high with 11 strikeouts on the mound. Starter Cole Van Assen fanned six over 5 1/3 innings. He retired seven of eight after the grand slam by Mabeus. Van Assen gave up multiple extra-base hits in an outing for the first time this season and the slam was the first home run he allowed in 2026. Manias singled twice, walked and scored on Dionne’s home run. Manias’ two-out single in the ninth inning extended the game and brought Dylan Drake to the plate as the go-ahead run. The game ended when first baseman Gabe Miranda snared a line drive with game-tying extra-base hit potential had it made it through the infield. CJ Richmond walked and singled in his first two plate appearances to lead off the second and fourth innings. That helped Purdue load the bases and score in both frames – Richmond coming home on a sacrifice fly from Bessette and bases-loaded walk to Brandon Rogers. But Purdue stranded a combined five base runners across the two innings. Bessette’s sac fly with the bases loaded was to the warning track in right field. The Boilermakers dropped their Big Ten opener for the first time since 2016, snapping an eight-game win streak. Purdue also lost its home opener for the first time since 2021, a game that featured – similar to Dionne’s big moment Friday – a ninth-inning grand slam from Cam Thompson in his first at-bat at Alexander Field. Dionne’s long ball was the first pinch-hit homer by a Boilermaker since Keenan Spence connected off the bench in a home win vs. Northwestern in May of last season. Purdue went 145 games without a pinch-hit homer prior to Spence’s blast. The series continues Saturday at 2 p.m. ET. ================================================================== NOTRE DAME WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Hildalgo, Moore help Notre Dame women beat NC State 81-63, advance to ACC Tournament semis DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — Hannah Hidalgo scored 25 points, Iyana Moore added 20 points, nine rebounds and three steals, and No. 5 seed Notre Dame beat fourth-seeded N.C. State 81-63 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament. Notre Dame (22-9), which has won seven in a row and nine of 10, plays top-seeded Duke in the semifinals Saturday. Hildalgo, who also had five rebounds and five assists, has scored at least 25 points in six consecutive games. She made 12 of 20 field goals. Cassandre Prosper scored 13 points for the Irish. N.C. State (20-10) had its three-game win streak snapped. Khamil Pierre had 17 points and 14 rebounds — her 21st double-double this season — for the Wolfpack. Murray State’s Sharnecce Currie-Jelks leads the nation with 23 double-doubles. Moore hit a 3-pointer to open the scoring 48 seconds into the game and Notre Dame led the rest of the way. Moore (17) and Hidalgo (16) combined for 33 first-half points on 13-of-24 (54%) shooting — while the rest of the team made just 2 of 10 from the field — as the Irish took a 40-32 lead into the intermission. Hildalgo converted a three-point play 38 seconds into the third quarter that pushed the lead into double figures for good and sparked a 16-1 run. Prosper, who was scoreless in the first half, scored 11 points in the spurt that gave the Irish a 56-33 lead. Zamareya Jones had 14 points, Qadence Samuels scored 12 and Zoe Brooks 10 for N.C. State. =================================================================== NOTRE DAME MEN’S LAX GAME FIVE PREVIEW: #7/6 OHIO STATE SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The No. 1/1 Fighting Irish will take on No. 6/7 Ohio State in a battle of the unbeatens in Columbus at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 7 at the Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium. The game will be streamed on B1G+. GAME DETAILSLocation: Columbus, Ohio | Ohio State Lacrosse StadiumSchedule: March 7 — 2 p.m. ETStream: B1G+Live Stats: FightingIrish.comTwitter Updates: @NDlacrosseFor a more in-depth look at the matchup – Game Notes: Notre Dame THE OHIO STATE SERIES • Saturday will be the 51st meeting all time between Notre Dame and Ohio State. The Irish lead the all-time series with the Buckeyes, holding a 37-13 advantage in the matchup. • The most recent installment between the two sides came in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last season with the Irish advancing in emphatic fashion by a score of 15-6. • The Irish have won 19 of the last 23 matchups with Ohio State, including the 9-0 shutout at Arlotta Stadium on March 21, 2015, which is the last time the Irish held an opponent scoreless in a game. • Notre Dame is 16-8 when playing Ohio State in Columbus. RESUME BUILDING • Notre Dame has never shied away from playing the top teams in the country and has racked up wins, especially over the last few seasons. • The Fighting Irish are 25-8 against ranked teams since the beginning of the 2023 season. • Fifteen of the 25 wins have come in blowout fashion with the Irish winning by five or more goals. • Furthermore, Notre Dame has faired just as well against the best of the best, posting a record of 18-5 against teams ranked in the top 10 of the USILA poll at the time of the matchup since the beginning of the 2023 season. • The Irish are 2-0 against ranked opposition this season and 1-0 against top-10 teams (Georgetown). GREATEST SHOW ON TURF • Notre Dame boasts the most prolific attack in the country heading into the weekend, averaging 17.75 goals per game which ranks first in the nation. • The Irish also lead the country in points per game with a mark of 28.25 through four contests. • The Fighting Irish are sharing the ball at a high rate, averaging 10.5 assists per game, which ranks second in the nation. • Notre Dame has been ultra-efficient shooting the ball, posting the top mark in the country shooting at a clip of 39.9 percent. • The Irish have reached double-digit goals in 38 of their last 40 games, dating back to the 2023 season. EVERYBODY EATS • The Irish can beat you in a number of ways, as the attack has been very balanced through the first month of the season. • The four attackman rotation has paid early dividends with each having at least 13 points through four games. • Brock Behrman leads the attackmen group in production with 16 points (9G, 7A) followed by Josh Yago with 14 (10G, 4A), Luke Miller’s 14 points (8G, 6A and Teddy Lally with 13 (6G, 7A). • Will Maheras has paced the midfield with 10 points (7G, 3A). Jalen Seymour has added eight (7G, 1A) while Will Angrick (5G, 1A) and Matt Jeffery (4G, 2A) have six points apiece. • Seventeen different players have registered a goal this season and 20 have tallied at least one point during the 2026 season, including 16 with multiple points. INSTANT IMPACT • A number of newcomers to the 2026 squad wasted no time making a first impression in the season opener. • Graduate transfer Josh Yago is tied for second on the team in points with 14 (10G, 4A) after posting back-to-back four-point games to open the season followed by a season-high five-point effort in the win over No. 3 Georgetown which helped the grad student earn ACC Offensive Player of the Week honors. • Teddy Lally already has 13 points on the year off six goals and seven assists. The freshman has recorded multiple in all four games this season. • Aidan Diaz-Matos scored a goal within the first minute of the season opener off a faceoff win and is 31-of-59 at the dot on the year and is tied for the most ground balls on the team with 17. • Junior transfer Tyler Spano has won 29-of-50 faceoffs at the dot in his first four games with the Irish and is tied for the team lead in ground balls with 17. • Miguel Iglesias has made an impact at both ends of the field as a SSDM, scoring a goal in two games while also putting in sound defensive shifts. • Christopher Iuliano has played multiple positions for the Irish, filling in at close defense against Bellarmine and playing LSM for the majority of the season while also registering shifts on the wings for faceoffs. The freshman has six ground balls and three caused turnovers. LOCKDOWN DEFENSE • Preseason All-Americans Will Donovan and Shawn Lyght each return to the defensive unit along with other starting close defenders Will Gallagher and Nate Schwitzenberg. • Notre Dame held Maryland to a season-low eight goals in College Park, which is tied for the Terps lowest scoring output in a home game since the advent of the shot clock in 2019. • Schwitzenberg earned ACC Defensive Player of the Week honors following the ranked road win. • The Irish had their most disruptive performance of the season in the win over No. 3 Georgetown, limiting the Hoyas to just nine goals while recording a season-high 19 caused turnovers. • Lyght finished the contest against Georgetown with a season-high three caused turnovers and two ground balls. • Donovan has been a menace to opposing attacks, recording six caused turnovers and 10 ground balls. • The short-stick defensive midfield unit that consists of Christian Alacqua, Chris Reinhardt, Kyle Bergen and Miguel Iglesias has impressed early this season. LYGHTS OUT • Lyght enters the 2026 campaign as the top defensive player in the country, having been named the USA Lacrosse Preseason Defenseman of the Year. • The junior was selected as the Schmeisser Award co-winner following an incredible sophomore season in 2025. • The defenseman was named ACC Co-Defensive Player of the Year following the 2025 regular season as voted on by the league’s coaches. • Lyght has also been named a USA Lacrosse First Team All-American following the 2025 regular season. • In the win over UNC this season, Lyght held UNC’s prolific attackman Owen Duffy to just one assist on the day, matching his career low for points in a game. • Lyght consistently draws the No. 1 option for the opposing attack throughout the season. • The defenseman held Connor Shellenberger to just one goal between the two matchups during the 2024 season. BACK BETWEEN THE PIPES • Goalie Thomas Ricciardelli returns in goal after earning the starting job in 2025. • Ricciardelli impressed in his debut season, leading the ACC and ranking eighth in the country in both save percentage (.566) and goals against average (9.14). • The shot stopper made 158 saves during the 2025 campaign while allowing 121 goals. • The goalie saved at least 50 percent of shots he faced in 10 of 14 games last season. • In his first NCAA Tournament appearance, Ricciardelli turned in an incredible performance against No. 2 Ohio State, making 15 saves while allowing just six goals for a mark of 71.4 percent. RECORD-BREAKING DAY • The Fighting Irish turned in the best offensive performance in seasons history against Bellarmine on Feb. 17. • Notre Dame scored a program-record 29 goals, surpassing the previous mark of 28 against Mount Union which stood since the 1983 season. • The Irish also set the program record for points in a game with 48 off 29 goals and 19 assists. • Thirteen players combined to score the 29 goals with Brock Behrman, Will Maheras and Jalen Seymour each recording the first hat tricks of their career. • Brock Behrman led the team with seven points off four goals and three assists, all career highs. FROM THE GRIDIRON TO THE LACROSSE FIELD • Two Notre Dame lacrosse players on the 2026 squad also are on the football roster, as Matt Jeffery and Dylan Faison are both dual-sport athletes. • Jeffery was the ACC Freshman of the Year in 2025 after making an impact in the midfield. • Faison was the No. 1 ranked incoming player in the class of 2026 before he reclassified and joined the Irish for this spring semester. • Jeffery has been productive in his sophomore campaign, posting seven points off four goals and three assists. MIDFIELD EXPERIENCE AND DEPTH • While the Irish replaced all three starters at attack from last season, the midfield has plenty of experience returning to the 2026 roster. • Will Angrick, Will Maheras, Matt Jeffery, Fisher Finley, Max Busenkell and Jalen Seymour all saw significant playing time last season. • The six players combined to record 92 points off 56 goals and 36 assists last season over 14 games. • Angrick led the way with 27 points on 15 goals and 12 assists. • Notre Dame’s top two attacking midfield units have combined for 33 points through the first three games, coming from 22 goals and 11 assists. NEW SEASON, NEW FACES • The Irish welcome 17 incoming players to the 2026 roster. • Three players are transfers, as Josh Yago (Air Force), Luke Stickler (Johns Hopkins) and Tyler Spano (Washington & Lee) join from other programs. • Yago was named the ASUN Offensive Player of the Year in 2025 after recording 72 points off 37 goals and 35 assists. • Fourteen players on the 2026 roster are true freshman. CORRIGAN ALL-TIME DI PROGRAM WINS LEADER • With the win over No. 1 Duke on April 10, 2021, Baumer Family Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Kevin Corrigan broke the NCAA record for most wins at a DI program with 311, passing Bob Shillinglaw (Delaware). • Corrigan became just the third coach in NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse history to reach the 300-win mark at a single school with the win over Marquette on April 10, 2019. • Corrigan is one of just four active Division I coaches to reach the 300-win mark in his career. • Corrigan has an overall record of 374-180 in his 40 seasons of coaching. • The head coach is 343-165 in his 38 seasons at Notre Dame. • Corrigan is the longest tenured men’s lacrosse coach at the DI level. ==================================================================== NOTRE DAME MEN’S BASKETBALL REGULAR-SEASON FINALE AT BC THIS SATURDAY CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – It all comes down to Saturday. First and foremost, for Notre Dame (13-17, 4-13), they must win at Boston College (10-20, 3-14). The Fighting Irish will tip off against the Eagles at Noon ET on ESPNU. Then, it’s a waiting game. The Irish will jet home and see what the cards have dealt them, for they need a Pitt loss as well. The Panthers, who hold the head-to-head tiebreaker, tip off at Syracuse at 4:30 p.m. on the CW. Either Notre Dame or Pittsburgh will claim the 15th and final spot of the ACC Tournament and will head to Charlotte for a Tuesday, March 10, affair with the No. 10 seed. Notre Dame and Boston College have already met once this season, back on Jan. 24. The Irish erased a 13-point deficit to record a 68-64 victory, marking their largest comeback of the 2025-26 campaign. The Blue & Gold outscored the Eagles 44-29 in the second half, shooting 50.0 percent from the field. Shrewsberry finished with a game-high 22 points, which still stands as his second-highest scoring output of the season. The junior was 8-17 from the field and 4-6 from the stripe. Shrewsberry hit the biggest shot of the night, draining a three with 1:26 remaining to push the Irish up five. Jalen Haralson recorded 11 of his 17 points in the second half and finished 8-13 overall on the night. Carson Towt reeled in 13 boards, seven offensive, to go along with his six points and two assists. The win gave Notre Dame its third straight in the series against Boston College, a series they now lead 30-17. One of Boston College’s three ACC wins came against Pitt, which means if they were to win on Saturday, coupled with a Pitt loss, they would own the tiebreakers in that 3-team tie (BC, Pitt, ND) and advance to Charlotte. OFFENSE TRENDING The Notre Dame offense has found its footing behind the hot hands of Cole Certa and Jalen Haralson. Over the last 5 games, Cole has averaged a team-best 23.2 ppg on 42.5% shooting. Jalen has played in two games since returning from injury and has balled out in both, totaling 44 points on a combined 11-21 from the field & 22-25 from the free-throw line. Braeden Shrewsberry is riding back-to-back double-figure scoring games, totaling 30 points on 10-22 shooting, 6-13 from three. Also, how about Logan Imes. The junior has reached double figures in 3 of the last 5 games. He is averaging the 4th most points on the team in that 5-game span at 9.4 ppg, shooting 46.2% from the field and 8-19 (42.1%) from three. As a result of everything mentioned above, the Notre Dame offense is averaging 77.4 ppg on 44.4% shooting. CERTA-FIED Cole Certa has been one of the best basketball players in the ACC down the final stretch and we’ll let the stats speak for themselves. Cole had the 4th-highest scoring average amongst ACC players in February: Ebuka Okorie – 25.6 Juke Harris – 22.9 Mikel Brown Jr – 21.1 Cole Certa – 21.0 Cameron Boozer – 20.0 Cole drained 30 total threes in February, which were the most of any ACC player. In fact, his 4.3 threes/game in February ranked 2nd amongst Power Conference players. That number trailed only Texas Tech’s Donovan Atwell’s 4.6. In addition, the Illinois native has produced three 30+ point games since Jan. 27. His three 30-burgers in ACC play trail only Ebuka Okorie’s 4. In fact, Cole owns the 3rd and 5th highest scoring performances in league play with his 37 and 34 points. Lastly, Cole is riding a career best 8 game double-digit scoring streak heading into Saturday’s game. He’s totaled a whopping 164 points (20.5 ppg), shooting 40.5% from the field, 33-83 from three (40.5%), in that span. 30-BURGERS Now let’s take a closer look at those 30+ point performances. On Feb. 14 vs. Georgia Tech, Cole went off for a career high 37 points in the 89-74 win over Georgia Tech. The 37 points tied Matt Farrell for the second most in an ACC game (most in regulation), trailing only Markus Burton’s 43 points in 2OT game against Cal a season ago. Cole drained a career-best seven threes, finishing 7-11. He was 12-20 from the field overall. Certa dropped 21 points in the first half, marking the first time an Irish player has done so since Markus Burton’s 22 at Syracuse on Jan. 18, 2025. Certa also went off for 34 points against No. 17 Virginia, shooting 10-19 from the floor, 5-13 from three and 9-11 from the free-throw line. Certa’s 34 points were the most by a Notre Dame player against an AP-ranked team since Nov. 26, 2008, when Kyle McAlarney scored 39 in a loss to No. 1 UNC. And most recently, Cole lifted the Irish to a 96-90 overtime victory over NC State, recording 32 points. He went 3-3 from beyond the arc in OT and ultimately drained 6-10 from three in the game. JALEN SURGING Jalen has really come into his own down the final stretch. The freshman phenom has produced four 20-point games over his last 7 games played: 20 vs. Virginia, career high 26 at Syracuse, 23 at SMU, then 25 vs. NC State. After missing three games due to an ankle injury, Haralson’s return resulted in one of the program’s best wins in the Coach Shrewsberry era – a 96-90 OT win over NC State. In the 2nd half alone, Haralson scored 20 points on 7-9 shooting, 6-6 from the stripe. He recorded 14 of the team’s final 20 points. He ultimately finished the game with 25 points, one shy of his career best. SHREWSBERRY LEADING FROM THREE Braeden Shrewsberry continues to prove he’s one of the best from deep, ranking 4th in the ACC in three-point shooting percentage at 40.4%. That number also ranks 39th in the country. He’s converting 2.8 made threes per game, which ranks 3rd in the league. Shrewsberry’s sweet spot? The corner three – where he’s draining 46.2%, which is 10.3% above the Division I average. His best performance from beyond the arc came against Evansville when Shrewsberry scored a career-high 26 points behind a career-high 8 three pointers, shooting 80% from three (8-10). His 8 made triples tied for the 7th most in a game all-time in program history. Braeden has drained a career-best 84 made threes on the year. For comparison, he recorded 78 as a freshman and 72 in a shortened sophomore campaign. BRAEDEN CAREER ACCOLADES Speaking of Shrewsberry making it rain, the junior enters Wednesday’s matchup with 234 career made threes. He is now 4 away from moving into the program’s top-10, surpassing Prentiss Hub’s 237. A milestone already achieved – Braeden reached 1,000 career points at SMU on Feb. 10, doing so in 84 games. He became the 69th Notre Dame player all-time to reach the milestone. That number ties Louisville for 3rd most all-time behind Duke (70) & UNC (81). TOWT’S REBOUNDING STATS Towt’s current rebounding rankings: 9.1 rpg ranks 33rd nationally, 4th in the ACC 3.6 offensive rpg – 1st in ACC/17th in country 5.5 defensive rpg – 6th in ACC 1,351 career rebounds – leads all active players His 1,351 career rebounds have pushed him into the top-100 all-time list at #54. 17 more rebounds would put him in the top-50, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. KOEHLER EARNS STARTING ROLE Freshman Brady Koehler produced a career high 17 points at Virginia Tech, pouring in 15 in the 2nd half. Overall, he was 5-7 from the field, plus 2-3 from three & 5-6 from the stripe. Since that performance, Koehler has started in 11 straight. Fast forward to Virginia on Jan. 27 and the freshman impressed in that contest. Koehler was all over the stat sheet, recording his first career double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds (career high). He got it done from the free-throw line where he was a personal best 9-10. He also tied his career high of 4 blocks and set a new high for steals with 3. Against #1 Duke, Koehler scored the team’s first 9 points of the game, before finishing with 14 on 5-9 shooting. Versus Stanford, Koehler scored 8 of the team’s first 9 points and finished with 10. He now averages 7.2 points, 3.8 rebounds, in ACC play on 49.4% shooting, 14-34 (41.2%) from three. NOTRE NOTABLES The Irish are 9 wins away from 2,000 all-time. They would become the eighth program to achieve this feat. Certa is averaging a team-best 16.6 ppg against ranked opposition. Brady Koehler has been excellent in the midrange, where he’s shooting 55.0%. Logan Imes has converted multiple threes in back-to-back games. Cole is 89-98 from the free-throw line. His 90.8% leads all ACC players and would rank 2nd for a season at ND. Steve Vasturia holds the top spot at 91.0%. Jalen leads the team in FT attempts (6.5) and makes (4.4). Since Virginia on Jan. 27, Jalen has raised his FT% from 60.7% to 67.6%. Garrett Sundra is 10 for his last 12 from two-point range. Sir Mohammed thrives in the paint, where he’s shooting 50.0%. NET is at 92 — 2-11 in Quad 1 // 2-5 in Quad 2// 1-0 in Quad 3 / 8-1 in Quad 4. KenPom is at 87 — ORtg ranked 74 at 116.4 — DRtg ranked 125 at 107.1. ===================================================================== NOTRE DAME HOCKEY IRISH SWEEP BUCKEYES WITH OVERTIME WIN COLUMBUS, Ohio — The University of Notre Dame hockey team completed the weekend sweep of the Ohio State Buckeyes with a 4-3 overtime victory in Columbus. The first few minutes saw the Buckeyes outshooting the Irish, 8-2, but the game held scoreless through the two media timeouts. OSU would strike first however, netting a powerplay goal just 16 seconds into their second man-advantage of the night as the Irish were off for a trip. Notre Dame answered before the end of the frame with a powerplay goal of their own when Sutter Muzzatti and Cole Knuble connected with less than 10 seconds left in the first frame to make it a 1-1 contest. An early powerplay opportunity in the second period gave the Irish a chance at the lead after a Buckeye was called for a major infraction just one minute into the stanza. Despite numerous chances, the Irish were unable to convert on the extended man-advantage and play resumed to full strength still knotted, 1-1. The Buckeyes broke the stalemate at 10:13 of the second period when a turnover in their end resulted in an odd-man rush the other way to make it a 2-1 game. Shortly after the Buckeyes goal, the Irish almost had the answer when the fourth line combined for a trio of chances near the crease but were unable to tuck it over the line before being called for a hold at 12:33 of the frame. Notre Dame managed to escape the kill unscathed as they continued to search for the game-tying goal late in the second. Cole Brown almost had Evan Werner on a breakaway with just under five minutes to go in the middle frame but the freshman got tripped up in the neutral zone prior to making the pass and the Buckeyes were sent to the box for two minutes. The Irish could not convert on the man-advantage and returned to full strength trailing by a goal late in the second. A penalty on the Irish with 65 seconds left in the second period sent them to the box for the remainder of the frame. Nicholas Kempf made a series of key saves in the final seconds before his team managed to clear the puck out of harm’s way and send the game into the second intermission, still trailing by one. The Irish managed to kill off the remainder of that second period infraction but were called moments later for interference after a play behind the Irish net. A shot from the Buckeyes in the final seconds of their powerplay bounced off the far post but the Irish were able to kill off the third period penalty early to keep it a one-goal game. After a lengthy offensive zone pressure partway through the third, the Irish were caught on the rush and a shot trickled through the five-hole of Kempf at 7:18 to make it a 3-1 contest. An OSU attacker was tied up with an Irish defender but managed to get the shot off in front of the crease as Notre Dame faced a two-goal deficit for the first time since the first period of Thursday night’s game. The Irish pulled within one off the stick of Carter Slaggert who capitalized on a misplayed puck in front of the Buckeyes’ net at 9:55 of the third. The play was set up by Pano Fimis who chipped the puck out from the end boards before the goalie tried to poke check it out of the way. Slaggert stifled the clearing attempt with a quick wrister into the back of the net. A tripping call on the Buckeyes at 10:59 of the third gave the Irish powerplay another chance to even the tally shortly after the Slaggert goal. The chance was short-lived however as a cross-checking call against Notre Dame gave the two teams 57 seconds of four-on-four play. After the special teams play, Cole Knuble was caught on a breakaway but his attempt was denied at the crease to keep it a one-goal game. With just over a minute to play, the Irish opted for the extra attacker as Kempf headed to the bench. A shot at the buzzer snuck under the Buckeyes’ netminder as time expired and both teams celebrated – the Irish for tying it up and the Buckeyes for the win. A quick review deemed the puck crossed the goal line with 0.1 and the Irish bench celebrated as a “let’s go Irish” chant rang out throughout the Schottenstein Center. In overtime, freshman Pano Fimis was the hero for Notre Dame as he net the game-winner at the 3:16 mark of the three-on-three session. The win marked the team’s third consecutive overtime victory, marking the first time in program history the team has won three straight games in the extra session. UP NEXT The Irish head north to Michigan for the first round of the Big Ten Conference Tournament. The quarterfinals matchup between the Irish and Wolverines will take place Wednesday, March 11 with a 7pm puck drop set inside Yost Ice Arena. New this season, the playoff format will feature a one-game quarterfinal rather than best-of-three as in years past. The semifinals would follow on Saturday, March 14 before the championship game slated for March 21. ===================================================================== NOTRE DAME BASEBALL IRISH DEFEAT BLUE DEVILS IN ACC OPENER DURHAM, N.C. – Notre Dame scored nine two-out runs en route to a 10-4 win at Duke in the ACC opener for the Irish. Jack Radel forced the Blue Devils into stranding a pair of runners in scoring position with his third strikeout of the inning in the bottom half of the first. The junior righty was efficient in the second inning by retiring the side in order on just six pitches with a ground out, a fly out and a three-pitch strikeout looking. The Irish got on the scoreboard in the top of the third. Drew Berkland drilled a one-out double to the right-center gap, and Noah Coy used a single to the outfield to drive in Berkland for the 1-0 lead. Radel, meanwhile, induced a come-back grounder and made the flip over to first in more than enough time to force Duke into stranding a runner in the bottom half of the inning. Radel tacked on two more Ks in the bottom of the fourth and needed just 11 pitches to retire the Blue Devils in order. Drew Berkland doubled the Irish lead with a solo blast in the top of the fifth. Noah Coy drew a walk, and Mark Quatrani made his 100th career hit a memorable one with a two-run home run for a 4-0 Irish advantage. Bino Watters made it three homers in the inning with a solo shot in the next at-bat of the inning for a 5-0 Notre Dame lead. Jayce Lee and Parker Brzustewicz both added singles, and Davis Johnson was hit by a pitch to load the bases. A seeing-eye single by Mason Barth drove in Lee, and the Irish pushed the lead to 6-0. Another three-up, three-down inning by Jack Radel kept the Duke offense at bay through five complete. The Blue Devils used a single to get a runner on base in the bottom of the sixth, but Radel and the Irish defense held strong as Notre Dame held the 6-0 lead through six complete. The Blue Devils got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the seventh, but Jack Radel notched his ninth strikeout of the game before inducing a comeback grounder with a flip over to first to end the inning. The Irish responded in the top of the eighth. Drew Berkland laced a one-out double, and Mark Quatrani delivered a two-out single through the right side to make it a 7-1 score. Bino Watters then drilled a double off the center field fence to plate Quatrani as the Irish went up 8-1. Jayce Lee punched a single up the middle to drive in Watters for a 9-1 Notre Dame lead. Noah Coy made a great play at shortstop, and Parker Brzustewicz held on for the out at first before Mark Quatrani cut down a runner trying to steal as the Irish retired the Blue Devils quickly in the eighth. Jamie Zee hit a line-drive homer with two outs in the top of the ninth as the Irish hit double-digit scoring for the fifth game in-a-row and held a 10-1 lead. Duke plated three runs in the top of the ninth, but a stellar play by Jamie Zee at third ended the game by the 10-4 final score. Drew Berkland went 3-for-4 with a home run and two doubles with three runs. Bino Watters was 3-for-5 at the dish with a home run, two doubles, two RBI and two runs. Mark Quatrani went 2-for-5 with a homer, three RBI and two runs. Jamie Zee added a home run, and Jayce Lee posted a pair of hits with an RBI and a run. Noah Coy added a hit, an RBI and a run while Parker Brzustewicz and Mason Barth each notched a hit. Jack Radel posted another quality start and earned the win after going 7.0 and striking out nine, scattering four hits and allowing just one run. Eli Thurmond went 1.0 on the bump and allowed just one hit. Garrett Snyder closed out the final 1.0 on the hill for the Irish in the win. Notre Dame (8-3) face Duke for the second game of the three-game series on Saturday starting at 1:00 p.m. ET. ================================================================== NOTRE DAME MEN’S TENNIS #16 IRISH SWEEP GEORGIA TECH, 4-0 SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The red-hot No. 16 nationally ranked Notre Dame men’s tennis team continued its great start to the spring 2026 season with a 4-0 sweep over Georgia Tech. How great a start to the season is this, you may ask? By improving to 13-2, Notre Dame Head Coach Ryan Sachire has achieved his best start at the helm of the program (was named head coach in the summer of 2013). The Irish also improved to 3-0 in ACC play. Match Notes: Coach Sachire recently teamed up Sebastian Dominko and Peter Nad in doubles on court one and his decision has been awarded handsomely. They won again tonight, defeating Clement/Schoenmakers, 6-3. Dominko and Nad are now 3-1 as a doubles pair and ranked 52nd in the nation. The doubles point came down to court two, where Perry Gregg and Luis Llorens Saracho gutted out a 7-5 victory over Irwanto/Biagiotti. Gregg/Llorens Saracho move to 2-1 as a pair. Dominko, Gregg and Nad completed the sweep in singles. Though if the match continued, it could have very well been 7-0 Irish. Dominko, now ranked 15th in singles, won first on court one, defeating Christophe Clement, 7-6(2), 6-3. He is now 8-1 in dual singles matches this spring. With Gregg’s straight set victory on court two, the graduate student has now won nine straight. Nad’s straight-set win improved the sophomore’s dual record to 8-2 #16 Notre Dame (13-2, 3-0) – #45 Georgia Tech (8-5, 0-3) DOUBLES – 1, 3, 21. #52 Dominko/Nad (ND) vs. Clement/Schoenmakers (GT), 6-32. Gregg/Llorens Saracho (ND) vs. Irwanto/Biagiotti (GT), 7-53. Carlini/Shokry (GT) def. Becker/Patrick (ND), 6-4 SINGLES – 1, 4, 21. #15 Sebastian Dominko (ND) def. Christophe Clement (GT), 7-6(2), 6-32. #73 Perry Gregg (ND) def. Hidde Schoenmakers (GT), 6-2, 7-53. Giuseppe Cerasuolo (ND) vs. Gianluca Carlini (GT), 6-4, 5-4, unfinished4. Peter Nad (ND) def. Jonathan Irwanto (GT), 6-3, 7-55. Kyran Magimay (ND) vs. Richard Biagiotti (GT), 6-4, 4-4, unfinished6. Luis Llorens Saracho (ND) vs. Elias Shokry (GT), 6-4, 6-6 (2-2), unfinished ==================================================================== BUTLER WOMEN’S BASKETBALL BULLDOGS FALL TO GEORGETOWN 62-58 IN FIRST ROUND OF BIG EAST TOURNAMENT UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Butler fell to the Georgetown Hoyas 62-58 in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. Anna Wypych led Butler with 18 points in the contest. With the loss, Butler finishes the season with a 12-19 record. BULLDOG HIGHLIGHTS Wypych led a duo of Bulldogs in double figures with 19 points on 5-for-9 shooting from the floor. The freshman added two rebounds and an assist to her stat line. Mallory Miller chipped in 15 points on 6-for-17 shooting. Miller added six rebounds, two assists and a steal in the contest. Saniya Jackson led the squad on the glass, pulling down seven rebounds. She also paced the offense, dishing out six assists in the game. Butler shot 19-for-45 (42.2%) from the field and shot 9-for-19 (47.4%) from beyond the arc. BU tallied 16 assists in the game. GEORGETOWN HIGHLIGHTS Laila Jewett led a trio of Hoyas in double figures, pouring in a game-high 19 points on 5-for-12 shooting. Jewett added two rebounds, an assist and two steals to her stat line. Brianna Scott and Chet Nweke rounded out the Hoyas in double figures with 10 points apiece. Scott led Georgetown on the glass, pulling down seven rebounds. Georgetown shot 25-for-68 (36.8%) from the floor and shot 4-for-23 (17.4%) from behind the arc. GU outrebounded Butler 37-31. HOW IT HAPPENED Both sides traded buckets early in the contest as the score was even at 7-7 at the first media timeout. Butler came out of the timeout and went on a 7-2 run behind back-to-back buckets from Miller as the Dawgs held a 14-9 advantage with under two minutes left in the frame. Butler closed the quarter with a 17-11 advantage courtesy of a buzzer-beater 3-pointer from Nevaeh Jackson. Georgetown opened the second on a 7-2 run that was halted by a deep 3-pointer from Wypych. Both sides continued to trade buckets, but another buzzer-beater 3-pointer from Dotsey gave BU the 30-23 advantage heading into the break. The Hoyas opened the second half on a 7-2 run, cutting the Butler advantage to two (32-30). Georgetown was able to take its first lead of the game (36-34) at the 4:30 mark of the third quarter. The Georgetown lead grew to as many as six (42-36), but the Dawgs continued to keep it close with two free throws from Miller and Langham. Georgetown took the narrow 44-42 lead into the final quarter of action. Georgetown put together a 6-2 run to start the fourth as the Hoya lead grew to six once again (50-44). Butler was able to cut the deficit to three with just over three minutes left in the quarter (54-51). The Dawgs were unable to even the score in the final minutes of the contest as Georgetown secured the 62-58 victory at the final whistle. ===================================================================== BUTLER MEN’S BASKETBALL BUTLER HEADS TO CHICAGO FOR SATURDAY’S REGULAR SEASON FINALE WITH DEPAUL The Bulldogs close out the regular season Saturday, making the trek up I-65 to Chicago to face DePaul. This is the second meeting between the teams this season as Butler took an 87-80 win over the Blue Demons Jan. 20 in Indianapolis. Butler Bulldogs (15-15, 6-13 BIG EAST) at DePaul (16-14, 8-11) Saturday, March 7 • 11AM CT Wintrust Arena; Chicago, Ill. Follow Along TV/Stream: FS1 • Jason Ross Jr. & Jordan Taylor Radio/Audio: 93.5 & 107.5FM The Fan, Butler Sports App, SiriusXM 384, Sirius XM App, TuneIn Radio App & ButlerSports.com • @MarkMinner & Nick Gardner (@n_gardner) As Legendary Superfan Bob Swerski Would Say… “Da Notes on Da Match-Up with Da Paul” • Butler has won 12 straight match-ups against the Blue Demons. • DePaul head coach Chris Holtmann (2014-17) and assistant coach LaVall Jordan (2017-22) both previously served as the head coach at Butler. • Thad Matta was the head coach at Butler during Jordan’s 2000-01 senior season. • Depending on Saturday’s conference-wide results, Butler will be either the No. 8, 9 or 10 seed in next week’s BIG EAST Tournament in New York City. • The Bulldogs enter the contest off a 76-59 loss to Creighton Wednesday in Indianapolis. • Butler went to the line a season-low eight times against Creighton. The Bulldogs average 25.3 free throw attempts per game, which ranks 18th nationally. Butler has attempted more free throws than their opponents in 25 of the 30 games this season. • Butler shot a season-worst 16.7 percent (4-24) from three-point range against Creighton. The Bulldogs are only 10-for-48 (20.8 percent) from behind the arc over the last three games; Butler opponents have hit 10 three-pointers in each of those three games. • Michael Ajayi led Butler with 26 points and 13 rebounds against Creighton. Ajayi ranks fifth nationally at 11.1 rebounds per game. He has 17 double-doubles this season, which is eighth in the nation. • Ajayi has led Butler in rebounding in 29 of the team’s 30 games this season. • Ajayi’s 334 rebounds currently rank fourth on Butler’s single-season list; Daryl Mason holds the record at 354 (1972-73). • In addition to leading the league in rebounding, Ajayi ranks fourth in the BIG EAST at 16.4 points per game. He is also among the conference Top 15 in minutes played (first), field goal percentage (sixth), blocked shots (eighth), and assists (13th). • Finley Bizjack enters Saturday’s tip with 982 career points in a Butler uniform. • Bizjack is the BIG EAST’s third-leading scorer at 17.0 points per game. He is second in the BIG EAST in both free throw shooting (89.9 percent) and minutes (33:38 per game; behind only Ajayi). His 2.2 three-pointers per game rank fifth in the conference. • Bizjack has scored 20 or more points in seven of Butler’s BIG EAST games this season, including tying his career-high with 30 points Feb. 4 at Providence. Bizjack has 11 20-point games this season. • Yohan Traore has been the top bench scorer for the Bulldogs in six straight games, averaging 13.0 points per game over that stretch. • Evan Haywood returned to action Wednesday night against Creighton after missing three games with a right thigh injury. • Jackson Keith has played double-digit minutes in six of Butler’s last seven games (and 10 times total this season). • Butler’s 93-89 win at Georgetown Feb. 18 was Thad Matta’s 500th win as a head coach. • Butler has 15 games scoring 80 or more points this season; seven of those games have come in BIG EAST play and Butler is 5-2 in those games (with the only losses at Creighton Dec. 30 and in double-overtime at Providence Feb. 4). • Ten different Bulldogs have scored at least 13 points in at least one game this season. Mr. 500 • In his 21st season as a head coach, Thad Matta earned his 500th career win Feb. 18 at Georgetown. • Matta is the 81st head coach all-time (and just the 18th active) to register 500 career men’s NCAA Division I wins. • Matta’s 486 wins entering the season are tied for seventh-most among coaches in their first 20 seasons as a head coach. • Among active head coaches, Matta entered the 2025-26 season ranked 11th in winning percentage (.701) and 23rd in career wins (486). Dishing On DePaul • DePaul has won four of their last six games. • The Blue Demons already have eight BIG EAST wins this season, one short of tying the program’s BIG EAST high. • CJ Gunn leads four Blue Demons in double figures, averaging 13.5 points per game. • Opponents shoot 35.9 percent from three-point range against DePaul, which is 311th nationally and the highest percentage allowed in the BIG EAST. First Time Around • The Bulldogs shot 56.9 percent from the field in taking an 87-80 win over DePaul Jan. 20 in Indianapolis. • Finley Bizjack led Butler with 24 points. Michael Ajayi posted 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists. • Layden Blocker led DePaul with 20 points. CJ Gunn scored 16 points with 14 of those coming in the first half. • After trailing by six early in the second half, a 15-2 run by Butler turned a 41-35 deficit into a 50-43 lead with 15:43 remaining. Battles with the Blue Demons • The series between the Bulldogs and DePaul dates back to 1939. All but six games between the two teams have come since Butler joined the BIG EAST prior to the 2013-14 season. • Butler has won 12 straight match-ups with DePaul, and 23 of the last 24 in the series. The Series: Butler leads, 24-7 Streak: Butler, W12 In Chicago: Butler leads, 12-4 First Meeting: 1939; Butler, 39-29 (at DU) Last Meeting: Jan. 20, 2026; Butler, 87-80 (at BU) Up Next The BIG EAST Tournament runs March 11-14 in New York City. ================================================================== BUTLER MEN’S TENNIS DAWGS FALL TO IN-STATE FOE IU INDY ON FRIDAY NIGHT The Butler men’s tennis team dropped a tightly contested match to IU Indy on Friday night, 4-3. The loss moves the Dawgs to 3-10 on the season, while the Jaguars advance to 4-10. Butler started off strong, taking the doubles point. At the top of the lineup, the duo of Nicolas Arts and Rahulniket Konakanchi picked up a 6-3 victory at No. 1 doubles, their first of the spring. At No. 2, Riccardo Baldi and Arnesh Singh also picked up their first victory of the spring, winning 6-2 to secure the doubles point for Butler. IU Indy responded by taking four of the six singles points, clinching the victory for the Jaguars. The bottom third of the lineup delivered for Butler, with Rahulniket Konakanchi and Siddhartha Lama taking home wins at No. 5 and No. 6 singles, but the top of the Jaguars lineup proved decisive in the one-point contest. Riccardo Baldi and Nicolas Arts fought valiantly, each taking their matches to three sets but ultimately falling short. The Bulldogs will get a few days off before traveling to Washington, D.C., to face Howard Bison on Thursday, March 12. Match time is still TBA. More information will be made available on butlersports.com IU INDY 4, BUTLER 3 Singles 1. Konnor Gunwall (INDY) def. Ronin Kasday (BUT), 6-3, 6-4 2. Owen Nguyen (INDY) def. Riccardo Baldi (BUT), 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 3. Eli Mercer (INDY) def. Nicolas Arts (BUT), 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 4. Cameron Kryscio (INDY) def. Nicholas Shirley (BUT), 7-6 (4), 6-2 5. Rahulniket Konakanchi (BUT) def. Pumiphat Sukkho (INDY), 6-3, 6-2 6. Siddhartha Lama (BUT) def. Jai Dutta (INDY), 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-4 Doubles 1. Nicolas Arts/Rahulniket Konakanchi (BUT) def. Owen Nguyen/Konnor Gunwall (INDY), 6-3 2. Riccardo Baldi/Arnesh Singh (BUT) def. Eli Mercer/Pumiphat Sukkho (INDY), 6-2 3. Nicholas Balthazor/Aidan William (BUT) vs. Brandon Pham/Jai Dutta (INDY), 5-3, unfinished ==================================================================== BUTLER BASEBALL BULLDOGS SPLIT FRIDAY DOUBLEHEADER WITH MOREHEAD STATE WESTFIELD, Ind. – Butler split Friday’s doubleheader with Morehead State as the Bulldogs took game one 20-5 before dropping game two 16-6. With the split, Butler moves to 4-9 on the season and Morehead State moves to 6-8. Both sides will return to Droplight Grand Park tomorrow for game three of the series. First pitch is set for 2 p.m. on field D5. BULLDOG HIGHLIGHTS: GAME ONE Max Winders was spectacular in game one for Butler tossing a seven-inning complete game. Winders allowed nine hits and five runs while punching out seven en route to a 20-5 victory over the Eagles. David Ayers was sensational at the plate in game one going 4-for-4 at the dish with one double, two homers and eight RBIs. Ayers tied the program record for most RBIs in a single game. Danny Gavin was 2-for-3 with four runs scored and two walks. Matthew Rhoades went 3-for-4 with four runs scored, four RBIs and two homers. Gavin Gilmore was 3-for-4 with three runs scored. Easton Moore tallied a hit. Will White recorded two hits, one of which was a double, two RBIs and a run scored. Charlie Schebler tallied a hit, an RBI and a run scored. Alex Christie was 2-for-3 with an RBI, a double and two runs scored. Logan Baker went 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a run scored. Nine different Bulldogs recorded a hit in the game. HOW IT HAPPENED: GAME ONE Winders delivered a scoreless 1-2-3 inning to begin the game. Gavin got the Butler offense started with a leadoff single, which was immediately followed by a two-run homer off the bat of Rhoades to put BU on the board. A bunt single from Gilmore put Ayers at the plate, who hit his fourth home run of the season to give Butler a 4-0 lead. The Bulldogs would score another run courtesy of an RBI double from Baker to score Christie. Butler took a 5-0 lead heading into the second inning. After another shutout inning from Winders, Ayers hit his second home run of the game, a three-run shot to give Butler an 8-0 advantage through two. Winders continued his dominant start, setting down the MSU batters in order for the third straight inning. Butler built upon its lead with a five-run bottom of the third. With two outs and the bags loaded, Gilmore delivered with an RBI single. In the ensuing at bat, Ayers hit a bases-clearing three RBI double, pushing his total to eight RBIs on the day. White followed him up with an RBI double of his own, stretching the Bulldog lead to 13-0 through three. Following a scoreless fourth inning, MSU got on the board in the top of the fifth with a three-run homer from Griffin Olson. Butler responded with a seven-run inning as the Bulldog lead grew to 17 (20-3). BU recorded six hits in the frame and the final hit of the inning was a two-run blast from Rhoades, marking his second homer of the contest. Morehead State plated two more in the sixth before Butler was able to close the door in a seventh, downing the Eagles 20-5. BULLDOG HIGHLIGHTS: GAME TWO Matthew Rhoades recorded a hit and two runs scored. Gavin Gilmore tallied his second double of the season. Keegan Connors hit his first double of the season. Charlie Schebler and Alex Christie each earned two walks. Logan Baker recorded a hit and a run scored. Logan Crock went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, a double and a homer. HOW IT HAPPENED: GAME TWO Brock Buckley got off to a strong start on the mound, retiring the Eagle hitters in order to begin the game. Morehead State responded with a 1-2-3 inning of their own. After a scoreless second frame, Morehead State struck first in the top of the third, scoring two runs on three hits. Baker notched the first hit of the game for Butler with an infield single, but was stranded on the basepaths. Morehead State led 2-0 through three. The fourth was scoreless for both sides. Morehead State added six runs on four hits in the top of the fifth as the visitors took the 8-0 lead into the bottom half of the inning. Crock belted a three-run homer in the fifth as the Dawgs were able to cut the deficit to five heading into the back half of the contest. Each side scored a run in the sixth as the Bulldog deficit stayed at five heading into the seventh. The Eagles tacked on five more runs in the top of the seventh as the visitor lead stood at 10 (14-4). Butler responded with a two-run double from Connors in the bottom half of the inning but was unable to scratch anymore across. Morehead State added two more in the eighth and the deficit was too much to overcome for the Dawgs as Butler dropped game two of the doubleheader 16-6. UP NEXT The Bulldogs return to action tomorrow for game three of the series with Morehead State. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Droplight Grand Park on field D5. More information will be available on butlersports.com. =================================================================== BUTLER SOFTBALL HALL WINS 350TH AS BUTLER SPLITS ON DAY ONE AT MAYNARD INVITATIONAL CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Butler softball team defeated Western Michigan in the first of five games at the Cathi Maynard Invitational and then lost to the host, Austin Peay, in the second game of the day. The Bulldogs (6-8) never trailed against the Broncos (7-7) winning by the final score of 12-5. The contest vs. the Governors (13-8) was a back-and-forth affair, as the home team scored two in the seventh inning to win by one, 7-6. The victory vs. WMU was Scott Hall’s 350th win as head coach at Butler. He remains the all-time winningest coach in the history of the program. Game 1: Butler 12, WMU 5 (7 innings) Cate Lehner led the game off with a double, and later, with the bases loaded, Makena Alexander hit a sacrifice fly that gave the Dawgs an early lead. The following inning, Hailey Conger singled, allowing Paxton Law to score from second as Butler’s lead increased to 2-0. In the bottom of the second, WMU used a single and a home run to tie the score at two. In the fourth, Kendall Graves smacked a double, and then Paxton Law brought her home on a two-run dinger. Later, Alexander and Alona Boydston each singled in additional runs as the Dawgs built a four-run lead. Before the inning ended, Kieli Ryan cleared the bases with a three-run bomb. When the dust had settled, the Dawgs were up, 9-2. The Broncos closed the gap in the bottom of the fourth, scoring three runs on a single and a double. One inning later, Butler got two back on three hits that included an Alexander double, and then, with an additional unearned run in the sixth, the Dawgs again led by seven, 12-5. Katie Petran (2.0-IP, 2R, 2H, 2BB, K) started in the circle for Butler and lasted through two. Going into the third, Alyx Johnson (1-0) entered and finished the game. She picked up the first win of her career, allowing three runs on four hits with three walks and a strikeout over 5.0 innings. Game 2: Austin Peay 7, Butler 6 (7 innings) In the top of the first inning, with Lehner on third and Kayla Preiss on first, a double steal gave Butler an early, 1-0 lead. In the bottom half, Austin Peay struck back with a two-run home run to take a one-run lead. In the third, with Conger on second and Priess on first, Alexander singled and tied the game at two. In the top of the fourth, singles from Boydston, Erin Clark, and Law produced a pair of Butler runs and gave the Dawgs a 4-2 lead. The Governors took the lead, 5-4, in the bottom of the fifth with a pair of home runs, but Butler battled back in its next at bat. The Bulldogs loaded the bases, and Alexander drew a walk to tie the game at five. Two batters later, Boydston singled in the go-ahead run. In the bottom of the seventh, Austin Peay tied the game at six with a solo home run. After a walk and a single, the Governors walked it off, beating the play at the plate for their seventh run. Maren Berger (4.1-IP, 5R, 4ER, 8H, K) started in the circle for Butler and pitched into the fifth. Kate Murray (2-3) entered in the bottom of the fifth with one runner on, down 4-5. She finished the game and took the loss. Bulldog Bits Law’s home run was a career first. Ryan’s home run was her first this season and the third of her career. Lehner’s double was her first this season and the fifth of her career. The double by Graves was her third this season. Alexander’s double was her third this season and the 15th of her career. Johnson’s win in the circle was her career first. Up Next Butler will remain in Clarksville, Tenn., and play a doubleheader vs. Austin Peay on Saturday. Scheduled start times are 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) and 4:30 p.m. ET (3:30 p.m. CT). ===================================================================== IU INDY MEN’S TENNIS JAGS EARN HARD-FOUGHT WIN OVER BULLDOGS, 4-3 INDIANAPOLIS – The IU Indianapolis men’s tennis team captured a hard-fought 4-3 victory over Butler on Friday (March 6) in Indianapolis, earning the decisive point in singles play to secure the win. After dropping the doubles point, the Jaguars responded with four singles victories to claim the team triumph. At the top of the lineup, Konner Gunwall set the tone with a straight-sets victory at No. 1 singles, defeating Ronin Kasday 6-3, 6-4. Owen Nguyen followed with a gritty three-set comeback at No. 2, rebounding from a first-set setback to outlast Riccardo Baldi 1-6, 6-3, 7-5. Eli Mercer added another key point at No. 3 singles, earning a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 win over Nicolas Arts. Cameron Kryscio clinched a crucial straight-sets decision at No. 4, edging Nicholas Shirley in a first-set tiebreak before pulling away for a 7-6 (5-0), 6-2 victory. Butler claimed wins at No. 5 and No. 6 singles, but the Jaguars’ depth in the middle of the lineup proved decisive in the one-point contest. In doubles action, Butler secured the opening point with wins at No. 1 and No. 2, while the No. 3 match featuring Brandon Pham and Jai Dutta was left unfinished. With the victory, the Jaguars move forward with momentum after earning a tight in-state win over the Bulldogs. IU Indy will next travel to Louisville on Sunday, March 8. =================================================================== IU INDY SOFTBALL IU INDY DROPS FRIDAY GAME AGAINST MIAMI (OHIO), 6-5 RICHMOND, Ky. – IU Indy jumped out to an early lead but couldn’t hold off Miami (Ohio) on Friday evening, falling 6-5 at Gertrude Hood Field. The Jaguars (3-17) plated runs in each of the first three innings and built a 5-2 advantage before the RedHawks rallied late to secure the win. IU Indy struck first in the opening frame when Adeline Blackwell singled, stole second and advanced to third on an error before Molly Kable drove her in with a double to left center. Miami answered with a run of its own in the bottom half to even the score at 1-1. The Jaguars regained control in the second inning. After Kinsey Pfeiffer was hit by a pitch, Kalilah Dela Cruz came on to pinch run and later stole home to put IU Indy ahead. Kable added an RBI single later in the inning to extend the lead to 3-1. IU Indy tacked on two more runs in the third without recording a hit. Pfeiffer was again hit by a pitch and Reese Rosenbaum and Mae Munson drew walks to load the bases. Blackwell and Paige McPhearson each worked RBI walks to push the Jaguars’ lead to 5-2. Miami began chipping away in the fourth with an RBI single to cut the deficit to 5-3. The RedHawks tied the game in the fifth on a sacrifice fly and an RBI single, making it 5-5. In the sixth inning, Danitza Hernandez delivered the decisive blow with a solo home run to left field to give Miami a 6-5 lead. IU Indy threatened in the seventh. Rosenbaum singled to start the inning and the Jaguars later loaded the bases with one out, but Miami escaped the jam to seal the victory. Blackwell and Munson each had two hits to pace the Jaguars’ eight-hit effort, while Kable drove in two runs. Dela Cruz added a stolen base and a run scored in the loss. Callie Dickerson (0-3) went the distance in the circle for IU Indy, allowing six runs on 13 hits over six innings. The Jags will close out the EKU Invitational tomorrow with two games. IU Indy plays Delaware State at 10:00 AM and Eastern Kentucky at 12:30 PM. ====================================================================== BALL STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CARDINALS EYE 25TH WIN IN REGULAR SEASON FINALE AT RIVAL TOLEDO -Ball State enters the regular season finale in second place in the Mid-American Conference, trailing Miami (OH) by just 0.5 games. A win could secure a share of the MAC regular-season title depending on other results. – This is a rematch of the 2025 MAC Championship game, where Ball State defeated Toledo 65-58 to earn an NCAA Tournament berth. The Cardinals also won the first meeting this season, 72-68, on January 7. – The Rockets are playing for their 500th MAC victory in program history during this Senior Day matchup. – The Toledo Rockets lead the all-time women’s basketball series against the Ball State Cardinals with a record of 63–35 as of March 2026. Ball State has won two consecutive games against the Rockets. – Ball State and Toledo first met on Jan. 12, 1981 with Toledo winning that contest, 63-47. The Cardinals’ largest margin of victory versus the Rockets was 75-40 on Jan. 12, 1985. – The Toledo Rockets have locked their position in the upcoming MAC Tournament as the No. 6 seed. – As of March 6, 2026, the Ball State Cardinals are locked into the No. 2 seed for the upcoming MAC Tournament in Cleveland next week. If the tournament were to start today the Cardinals would face No. 7 Bowling Green. – A Cardinal win and a RedHawk loss would make Ball State back-to-back regular season champions for the first time in program history. MAC Tournament Facts: The Cardinals continue to be a staple of March Madness in the MAC, securing their 36th program appearance in the conference tournament. Ball State’s dominance is especially clear over the last quarter-century, having advanced to Cleveland for 24 of the past 26 seasons. With an all-time tournament record of 27–33, the team has fought their way to seven championship games, ultimately crowning their efforts with titles in 2009 and 2025. Under head coach Brady Sallee, the Ball State women’s basketball team has made it to Cleveland for the MAC Tournament 11 times, including reaching the championship game in 2014, 2022, and 2025. The 2025 championship was a historic milestone, marking Sallee’s first conference tournament title in 21 years of head coaching and the program’s first since 2009. International Success: The Cardinals have had plenty of international success under 14th year head coach Brady Sallee. We all remember Nathalie Fontaine the 6-2 guard from Stockholm, Sweden became Ball State’s all-time leading scorer with 2,166 points. The 2016 MAC Player of the Year and AP honorable mention averaged 21.0 points per game and 10.2 rebounds while making over 50 percent of her shots. After Fontaine was Carmen Grande a native from Madrid, Spain who held onto the all-time assists record with 697 until Ally Becki surpassed her last season with 721 and we also cannot forget Thelma Dis Agustsdottir from Keflavik, Iceland who holds the all-time 3-point record with 325 treys. Agustsdottir also competed at the Celsius 3-point championship at the NCAA Tournament. Road Warriors: Under head coach Brady Sallee the Cardinals have played well on the road for the last 14 years under his watch. The Cardinals are 122-78 (.609) from 2012 until present on the road. Ball State’s best season playing away from home was in 2020-21 when the Cardinals posted an 11-2 mark. Ball State is 12-4 this season on the road including neutral site games. Scouting Toledo: – The Toledo Rockets women’s basketball team is in its second season under head coach Ginny Boggess. The program is currently undergoing a transitional phase, integrating seven newcomers into a roster that aims to maintain its status as a Mid-American Conference (MAC) contender. – Kendall Carruthers (Jr., G, #4) is the primary engine of the offense. She leads the team in scoring (11.7 PPG) and assists (2.8 APG) while acting as a three-level scoring threat. – The Rockets roster is currently facing a significant injury crisis as they enter the final stretch of the 2025–26 season. Boggess recently noted that the team is experiencing unprecedented adversity, at one point playing without three regular starters. – A win would give Toledo an 11-4 record at Savage Arena on the season and a 7-2 home mark in MAC games. – Toledo is 33rd in Division I in attendance, averaging 4,020 fans per home game. UT has totaled five crowds above 4,000 fans this season. It’s Almost MAC Tourney Time: – Ball State head coach Brady Sallee owns a 11-11 overall Mid-American Conference Tournament mark. – In the 35 years of the tournament, the top seed has won the title 23 times. In 2016, the Buffalo Bulls became the lowest seed (#8) to ever advance to the tournament championship game and the highest seed to ever win the title. The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds have met 17 times in the championship game, with the top seed winning 15 times. – The last time Ball State was the No. 2 seed in the MAC Tournament was in 2024. That year the Cardinals defeated the seventh-seeded Ohio Bobcats by a score of 77-53 before falling to No. 3 Kent State in the semifinals, 65-50. ==================================================================== BALL STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL CARDINALS TOP CENTRAL MICHIGAN 85-69 FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT WIN TO FINISH SEASON MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State men’s basketball team shot the lights out in the first half and cruised to an 85-69 win over Central Michigan on Friday night at Worthen Arena. The Cardinals went 72.7 percent (16-22) from the field in the opening 20 minutes, making their last 11 field goal attempts of the period, to open up a 42-26 lead at halftime. Seven different Ball State players scored during the stretch that saw a 12-9 edge at the 10:20 mark of the first half expand into the 16-point advantage at the break. Central would get no closer than 13 points for the remainder of the contest. Ball State (12-19, 7-11 Mid-American Conference) won its fourth straight game to wrap up the season and ended up knocking the Chippewas (10-21, 6-12 MAC) out of next week’s MAC Tournament. Davion Hill paced the Cardinals with 25 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals. Kayden Fish (15 points, three rebounds), Devon Barnes (14 points, five assists) and Armoni Zeigler (10 points, seven rebounds, seven assists, two blocks) joined Hill in double figures scoring. Elmore James IV contributed nine points, while Preston Copeland tallied seven points and Mason Jones posted five points, three rebounds and five assists. Barnes, James IV, Cam Denson and Juwan Maxey were honored in a pregame Senior Day ceremony and started the game. The Chippewas collected one more rebound (29-28), and both teams finished the game with 12 turnovers, but Ball State held advantages in points from turnovers (16-7), fast break points (12-4) and bench points (55-10). The 55 points off the bench were the most this season for the Cardinals. Phat Phat Brooks (17 points) and Nathan Claerbaut (16) led CMU in scoring. Central Michigan would’ve clinched a spot in the MAC Tournament with a win since Buffalo lost at Toledo earlier in the night. Ball State shot 58.2 percent (32-55) on field goals including 39.1 percent (9-23) on 3-pointers and made 63.2 percent (12-19) of its free throw attempts. The Chippewas went 51.8 percent (29-56) from the field, 25 percent (3-12) from distance and 53.3 percent (8-15) at the foul line. The Cardinals finished in a tie with Buffalo and UMass for seventh place in the MAC standings but lost the tiebreaker and missed out on the eight-team conference tournament. This was the first time since the 2012-13 season that the Ball State men’s basketball team has won at least its last four games to conclude the regular season. =================================================================== BALL STATE SOFTBALL WHITNEY’S BIG DAY LEADS SOFTBALL TO PAIR OF FRIDAY WINS LOUISVILLE – – When it was all said and done, Ball State senior Ella Whitney has blasted three home runs and a triple, while securing a pitching victory to lead the Cardinals (9-6) to a pair of wins on the opening day of the Cardinal Classic hosted by Louisville. Whitney’s second grand slam in three games gave Ball State an early 5-1 lead as it opened the day with a 15-1 (5) victory over Bellarmine. Whitney would add a solo home run later in the contest, pushing the score to 10-1. She followed with an even more impressive performance in the nightcap, opening the scoring with a two-run triple to right and adding another solo shot in the fourth, helping Ball State fly the #MACtion flag for the second time this season with a 7-5 victory at host Louisville. In addition, she picked up the pitching win versus the UofL Cardinals (15-5), throwing the first 4.1 innings and limiting the hosts to five hits and two runs. Louisville entered the day ranked 26th in the nation with a .351 batting average and received votes in the latest ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25 Poll. Overall, Whitney went 4-for-7 on the day with eight RBIs, four runs scored and a 2.143 slugging percentage. She also drew a walk as a batter, while striking out three Cardinals as a pitcher. While Whitney provided some of the biggest plays, the Cardinals as a squad produced 20 total hits and a .351 average over Friday’s two games. Senior first baseman Lindsey DeRoeck tied for team-high honors with four hits, while freshman second baseman Ayvah Cullen and senior left fielder Ashlee Lovett collected three hits apiece. Ball State also drew 11 more walks and was hit by a pitch three more times to boast a .479 on base percentage for the day. Overall, nine different Cardinals recorded at least one hit Friday, while 13 scored at least one run and eight had at least one RBI. In the circle, junior Brinkley Kita picked up her first complete game win of the season by throwing all five innings versus the Knights (5-15). She held Bellarmine to four hits and one run, while striking out three of the 22 batters she faced. Redshirt junior pitcher Bridie Murphy threw the final 2.2 innings against Louisville, holding the other Cardinals to five hits and three runs, while picking up a pair of strikeouts. Weather permitting, the Ball State softball team is slated for a rematch with Louisville at 9a Saturday morning. GAME 1 SCORING SUMMARY: Ball State 15 – Bellarmine 1 (5) T1 – Bellarmine’s Kendall Gaddie opened the scoring with an RBI single to left center (1-0) B2 – A bases loaded walk to redshirt junior third baseman Skylinn Pogue opened the scoring in what proved to be a nine-run inning for the Cardinals (1-1) B2 – Whitney deposited her second grand slam in three games over the fence in left center (1-5) B2 – Senior right fielder Hayley Urban drove in two more runs with a single to center field (1-7) B2 – Junior shortstop Maia Pietrzak capped the nine-run second with a two-run double to left center (1-9) B3 – Whitney blasted a no doubter over deep over the fence in center field to open a six-run third (1-10) B3 – Sophomore pinch hitter Addison Zimpleman drew a bases loaded walk (1-11) B3 – Urban picked up her third RBI of the game on a ground out to short (1-12) B3 – Senior pinch hitter Jessica Hoffman dropped an RBI single into shallow center field (1-13) B3 – Pogue capped the scoring with a two-run triple to center field (1-15) GAME 2 SCORING SUMMARY: Ball State 7 – Louisville 5 T1 – Whitney opened the scoring with a two-run triple to right field (2-0) T1 – DeRoeck brought Whitney home with a single to right (3-0) T1 – Cullen added an RBI single to center, giving Ball State a four-run edge (4-0) B1 – A bases loaded infield single from Taylor Monroe put Louisville on the scoreboard (4-1) T4 – Whitney’s third home run of the day was another solo shot to center field (5-1) T5 – An error on a grounder to short by Pietrzak helped bring home two more Cardinals (7-1) B5 – Monroe collected her second RBI of the game with a single to right field (7-2) B6 – Bri Despines smashed an RBI double to deep center field (7-3) B6 – Camyrn Lookadoo singled to left, bringing in another run (7-4) B6 – Monroe capped the scoring with a sac fly to right field for her third RBI of the game (7-5) ==================================================================== BALL STATE MEN’S TENNIS CARAGEA CLINCHES VICTORY FOR MEN’S TENNIS IN MAC OPENER AT TOLEDO TOLEDO, Ohio – The Ball State men’s tennis team kicked off Mid-American Conference (MAC) play in dominant fashion, securing a 5-2 road victory over Toledo on Friday afternoon at the Shadow Valley Tennis Club. The Cardinals (6-6, 1-0 MAC) overcame an early deficit after the Rockets (6-6, 0-1 MAC) swept the top two doubles courts to claim the opening point. Despite the slow start in doubles, Ball State responded by winning five of the six singles matches to clinch the conference opener. The Cardinals surged in singles play as Jacks Lancaster set the tone at the No. 1 spot with a straight-set 6-1, 6-3 victory over Poonthong Komolpisut. With the score evened, Ball State’s No. 6 singles player Broc Fletcher turned in a 6-4, 6-1 defeat against Charlie Snow to put the Cardinals ahead of the Rockets, 2-1. Toledo quickly leveled the match at 2-2 with a win at the No. 5 spot, leaving the outcome to three final three-set battles. Drew Hayward reclaimed the lead for Ball State at No. 3, fighting back to defeat Lucas Britez 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Andrei Caragea then clinched the overall victory at No. 2 with a 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 win over Hanamichi Carvajal, while Jeremy Milette added a final fifth point at the No. 4 slot to complete the scoring. The Cardinals will look to carry this momentum into the second half of their opening MAC weekend as they travel to take on the Buffalo Bulls on Sunday, March 8. First serve is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET. ================================================================== BALL STATE BASEBALL SPECTACULAR DAY AT SHEBEK STADIUM DAMPENED BY LATE CHIPS RALLY MUNCIE, Ind. — On a sunny day at Shebek Stadium with the thermometer reaching nearly 80 degrees, Ball State used three home runs to continue extending its lead — until an eighth-inning rally by visiting Central Michigan handed the Chippewas an 8-7 victory in the Mid-American Conference opener for both teams. A first-pitch temperature of 68 degrees was heightened for the game’s 322 spectators, when the Cardinals took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning to complement a welcomed break in East Central Indiana’s rainy, dense fog. Jacob Gillis’ sacrifice fly to left field drove in Brayden Huebner with the game’s first run, and a 1-out single by Ryan Muizelaar plated two more. The Chippewas got on the board to begin the fourth inning, but Huebner doubled to drive in Thomas Kenskey for a 4-1 lead. In the sixth, as the temperature rose nearly 12 degrees, CMU scored another run on a sacrifice fly, but again the Cardinals matched their tally when catcher Max Kalk hit his first homer of the season, to right field. Just like in the sixth, CMU scored a pair of run on Cole Prout’s 2-run blast, but Ball State matched the effort with a pair of home runs — by Huebner and Gillis — to maintain a 7-4 advantage. Huebner proved to the Cardinals’ batting star. He entered the day with just two hits in this season’s early going, but he batted 3-of-3 with a double, a homer, two runs scored and two RBI. Ball State got another yeoman’s effort from Brendan Garza who tossed 6.1 innings and fired six strikeouts before leaving with the lead in the seventh. Reliever John Chambers retired the final two CMU batters in the seventh inning and got a lead-off strikeout to start the eighth, when trouble struck. Logan Keilen singled to start the CMU eighth and Drew Loikits lofted a high fly to deep centerfield. Ball State right fielder Charlie Keller made a play on the ball in front of center fielder Gavin Balius, but muffed the catch and sent both runners to second and third. After a walk to load the bases, a single by Bryson Webb scored two runners to narrow the score to 7-6 and chase Chambers. Following a strikeout by Cardinals’ reliever Zander Bretza, Prout hit a two-run single that cleared the bases and gave CMU its only lead of the contest. The Chippewas and Cardinals resume action Saturday at 1 p.m., with a finale scheduled for Sunday at 1. =================================================================== INDIANA STATE BASEBALL WESTERN KENTUCKY CLAIMS GAME ONE OF THE WEEKEND SERIES WITH EXTRA-INNING WALK-OFF SINGLE BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Parker Coley connected on the walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning as Western Kentucky topped visiting Indiana State in a back-and-forth affair on Friday night at Nick Denes Field, 6-5. Western Kentucky (8-7) went up 5-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning as Lane Arroyos powered a two-run home run over the right field wall to give the Hilltoppers their first lead of the game. Two batters later, Reid Howard connected on an RBI triple down the right field line scoring Manny Alberto to give WKU the two-run lead heading into the ninth. The Sycamores (6-7) rallied back against Western Kentucky relievers Jude Favela and Zach Lyles sparked by Caleb Niehaus’ one-out double to the right center gap. Mason Roell pinch-hit and was hit by a pitch, while Andrew Ortiz beat out an infield single to load the bases, before Emil Estrella drew an RBI walk to cut the deficit down to 5-4. Carter Beck followed with an RBI sacrifice fly to left field with Roell sliding into home ahead of the tag to make it a 5-5 contest. Breyllin Suriel (0-2) struck out the first two batters he faced in the bottom of the ninth and Andrew Ortiz caught the final out of the inning to send the game into extras. The Sycamores were unable to put anyone on the base paths in the top of the 10th inning against WKU reliver Nathan Lawson (1-0). The Hilltoppers rallied in the bottom of the inning with Hayden Robbins drawing a walk and stealing second. After Logan Luckett reached base on a walk, Coley connected on the game-winning RBI single to right center scoring Robbins to close out the contest. Indiana State went ahead early on Caden Miller’s first-inning RBI single, while Emil Estrella connected on a two-run triple down the left field line to put the Sycamores ahead. WKU countered with Camden Ross’ RBI single and Coley scoring on a double play ball to make it a 3-2 game, before the late-inning rallies. Carter Beck and Caleb Niehaus both had two hit games for the Sycamores, while Emil Estrella reached base three times on the night with his triple and a pair of walks to go with three RBIs. Niehaus and Nomar Garcia both doubled in the loss. Suriel took the loss on the mound after going 1.2 innings allowing one hit and one run while walking three and striking out three. Jack Armstrong went 4.0 innings in the start, while Colby Morse was effective in relief going 3.0 innings allowing just two hits and a run while striking out two. Lane Arroyos and Parker Coley combined for four of WKU’s nine hits in the win, with the duo adding both of the Hilltoppers’ extra-base hits in the game. Nathan Lawson went 1.0 innings in recording his first win of the season. Gavin Perry worked 4.0 innings allowing six hits and three runs in the start, while Mick Uebelhor went 3.1 shutout innings in relief with five strikeouts. How They Scored Caden Miller drove in the first Indiana State run in the top of the first inning as Carter Beck came around to score on the RBI base hit to make it a 1-0 Sycamore lead. Camden Ross evened the game in the bottom of the first with an RBI single scoring JP Acosta to tie it up at 1-1. The Sycamores went ahead 3-1 in the top of the fifth as Emil Estrella turned on the ball and connected on a two-run triple down the left field line, scoring both Andrew Ortiz and Nomar Garcia to put Indiana State back in the lead. WKU took one back in the bottom of the inning as Acosta’s double play ball scored Parker Coley to make it a 3-2 game. The Hilltoppers went up 5-3 in the bottom of the eighth with Lane Arroyos connecting on the go-ahead two-run home run to right field, while Reid Howard added an RBI triple down the right field line scoring Manny Alberto to put WKU up by two runs. The Sycamores rallied in the top of the ninth as Caleb Niehaus connected on a one-out double, before Mason Roell (HBP) and Andrew Ortiz (1B) both reached to load the bases. Emil Estrella drew an RBI walk scoring Niehaus, while Carter Beck connected on a sacrifice fly to left field with the throw slightly off-target allowing Roell to slide in safely to even the score at 5-5. WKU connected on the walk-off hit in the bottom of the 10th as Parker Coley drove a single to right center scoring Hayden Robbins to provide the final 6-5 scoring margin. News and Notes Carter Beck extended his on-base streak to 18 consecutive games after reaching base three times in the contest. Emil Estrella recorded his team-leading second triple of the season and first since going for three bases on February 21 against Brown. The Sycamores fell in extra-innings to a walk-off for the second consecutive game following WKU’s win on Friday night. Jack Armstrong made his first start on the mound since May 11, 2025, when he drew the nod in Springfield, Mo. against Missouri State. Up Next Indiana State and Western Kentucky continue the weekend series on Saturday afternoon with first pitch set for 5 p.m. ET at Nick Denes Field. The game will be carried live on 105.5 The Legend. ================================================================== PURDUE FT. WAYNE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL IU INDY ON TAP FOR MASTODONS IN #HLWBB CHAMPIONSHIP SECOND ROUND FORT WAYNE, Ind. – No. 5 seed Purdue Fort Wayne will play No. 7 IU Indianapolis in the Barbasol Horizon League Women’s Basketball Championship on Sunday (March 8) at 1 p.m. in the Coteva Coliseum in Indianapolis.Game Day InformationWho: IU Indianapolis JaguarsWhen: Sunday, March 8 | 1 PMWhere: Indianapolis, Ind. | Corteva ColiseumLive Stats: Sidearm | StatbroadcastWatch: ESPN+Radio: WELT 95.7Championship Central: LinkGame Notes: Purdue Fort Wayne | IU Indy | Horizon League Know Your Foe IU Indianapolis is 14-16 and earned the No. 7 seed in the Barbasol Horizon League Championship thanks to a 9-11 mark in league play. The Jaguars picked up an overtime win at Milwaukee in the regular season finale and beat Northern Kentucky 74-72 in the first round of the championship. Olivia Smith had a team-high 20 points in that game, complemented by four other double-digit scorers. Series History IU Indianapolis leads the series 24-20, but Purdue Fort Wayne has won the last seven. This streak dates back to the only time the two have met in the Horizon League postseason. The Mastodons won that 2023 game 73-69 thanks to a 6-of-7 3-point effort from Audra Emmerson. Chasing 2,000 Jordan Reid needs 15 points to reach 2,000 in her career between Purdue Fort Wayne and Indiana Wesleyan. Rivalry Riches After their win over IU Indy on January 5, the Mastodons extended their winning streak against the Jaguars to seven games. The seven-game winning streak is the longest for the Mastodons in the series dating back to 1980. Over The Last Three… In the Mastodons’ active three-game winning streak, the starting five have all averaged over 7.5 points per game: Alana Nelson (15.7), Jordan Reid (12.7), Lauren Lee (11.3), Lili Krasovec (9.3), Rylee Bess (7.7). Lee and Krasovec are both shooting over 50 percent in that stretch, with Lee also shooting 71.4 percent from 3-point range. As a team, the ‘Dons are shooting 39.3 percent from 3-point range in that time, nearly eight percent better than the season average. Not So Fast! The Mastodons held Milwaukee, Green Bay and Robert Morris to zero fast break points over the last three games It was the first time since the 2019-20 season that the Mastodons held three foes in a row to zero fast break points (Omaha, 2/22/20, Denver, 2/27/20, Oral Roberts, 2/29/20). Defense On Lock Purdue Fort Wayne allowed Robert Morris to shoot just 28.3 percent from the floor on March 4. This is the third time this season that the ‘Dons have held a team under 30 percent this season. Aquinas (21.2) and IU Indy (25.0) were the other two. The 21.2 percent in the Aquinas game was the lowest opponent field goal percentage in the Mastodons’ Division I era. Assists Here! Lauren Lee’s 3.4 assists per game this season ranks fifth in the Mastodons’ Division I history. Her 2.16 assist-to-turnover ratio ranks as the best in the program’s Division I era. Alotta Alana Alana Nelson ranks in the top-70 nationally with a field goal percentage of 50.0. She is also top-100 with 16.4 points per game and 56th in 3-point percentage at 39.3. Even More Alana When Alana Nelson scores 15 or more, the Mastodons are 16-3. The three losses were at Xavier, at Wright State and against Youngstown State. Look at Lee! Lauren Lee finished second in the HL with 4.2 assists per league game. She also had a 2.6 assist-to-turnover ratio in league play, a league-best. Her 2.16 assist-to-turnover for the entire season is second in the league and 31st in the country. 3-Point Threat Rylee Bess has the second-best season-long 3-point percentage by a freshman in program history. Her mark of 39.0 percent (62-of-159) is only bested by Jordan Zuppe (2007-08), who shot 43.3 percent (74-of-171) in her freshman season. At Her Bess(t) Rylee Bess’ 39.0 3-point percentage is the second-best by any freshman in the country this season and 61st nationally among all players. Among freshmen, California Baptist’s Lauren Olsen’s 39.2 percent is the only one better. The Magic Numbers Under head coach Maria Marchesano, the Mastodons are 63-10 when they score 70 points or more, 30-3 when they hit 80, and 13-0 when they reach 90. Career Points Tracker Let’s take a look at the career scoring numbers for the three former NAIA All-Americans on the roster regardless of level. Alana Nelson – 2,777 (482 at Northwood, 1,787 at Spring Arbor, 508 at PFW) Jordan Reid – 1,985 (1,395 at Indiana Wesleyan, 590 at PFW) Lauren Lee – 1,801 (1,630 at Campbellsville, 171 at PFW) Vetting Krasovec Lili Krasovec has 44 free throw makes on her last 52 trips to the charity stripe (84.6 percent) dating back to December 7. Lili Love Lili Krasovec has scored in double-digits 19 times this season after doing so just twice at Boston College. She scored a career-high 24 points against Robert Morris (Jan. 27) after going 11-of-14 from the floor. Lock In Lili Lili Krasovec has scored 15+ points eight times this season. In those games, she was a combined 59-for-89 (66.3 percent) from the floor and 30-of-33 (90.9 percent) from the free throw line. 3-Ball Fun The Mastodons are 5-1 this season when they hit 10 or more 3-pointers this season. Under Maria Marchesano’s leadership, the ‘Dons have had 55 such games with a 43-12 record in those games. I’ll Take That Jordan Reid is averaging 2.2 steals per game, which ranks second-best in the Horizon League. If that average holds for a season-long mark, it would be fifth-best in the program’s Division I era. Inside The Arc? Guaranteed Bucket Lili Krasovec is shooting 58.0 percent from the floor this season (138-for-238), which ranks second-best in Mastodon history for a single season, behind Jazzlyn Linbo’s 58.3 percent from last season. 50-50 Chance The Mastodons shot over 50 percent in five games this season. This ties for the fourth-most games in a season shooting 50 percent or more in the program’s Division I history. The ‘Dons shot over 50 percent in 11 games in 2010-11, 10 games in 2013-14, eight games in 2024-25 and five games in 2023-24. Bench Mob Purdue Fort Wayne’s bench is out-scoring its opponents’ benches 606-519 this season. The Mastodon bench led in bench points in 20 of its 31 games. Phlying Past the Phoenix Purdue Fort Wayne beat Green Bay for the second time in the series history on February 28 with a 71-66 victory on Senior Day. Alana Nelson had a team-high 18 points. The Mastodons forced 24 turnovers, Green Bay’s most of the season, thanks to 13 steals. Five of those steals came from Jordan Reid and four from Lili Krasovec. Last Time Out Purdue Fort Wayne blew out Robert Morris 73-43 in the first round of the Horizon League Championship. Jordan Reid led all scorers with 15 points, and the ‘Dons held RMU to a meager 28.3 percent shooting day. Next Time Up The winner of Sunday’s game will play No. 1 seed Green Bay on Monday (March 9) at noon. ================================================================ EVANSVILLE BASEBALL ACES FALL TO OLE MISS IN DOUBLEHEADER OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Evansville baseball team fell to Ole Miss in a doubleheader on Friday in Oxford, dropping the first game 7-2 and the second game 14-2. Ximi Baftiri (Morris, Ill./Morris) and Reid Haire (Hudson, N.C./Charlotte) provided the offense for Evansville in game one, hitting a pair of solo home runs in the second inning. Kenton Deverman (Dardenne Prairie, Mo./Fort Zumwalt West) pitched 5.1 innings for the Aces, striking out three while allowing four runs. Hunter Elliott got the win for Ole Miss, while Hudson Calhoun took the save. In game two, Trenton Lombardo (Thousand Oaks, Calif./La Salle) and Drew McConnell (Blue Springs, Mo./Blue Springs) led the Aces offensively, picking up a double apiece. Max Hansmann (Elmhurst, Ill./York) struck out four in four innings, but picked up the loss, while Cade Townsend got the win for Ole Miss. HOW IT HAPPENED (Game 1) Evansville grabbed the lead in the second inning, with Haire getting the scoring started with a no-doubt home run to right field before Baftiri snuck a fly ball over the left field wall for his second home run of the week. In the bottom of the third, Ole Miss answered back, plating two runs on four hits to even the score. Evansville threatened in the fourth, as Charlie Longmeier (Seymour, Ind./Seymour) led off the inning with a ground rule double. Following a strikeout, Spike Magill (Highlands Ranch, Colo./Mountain Vista) walked to put two on with one out. However, the runners were left stranded. In the top of the fourth, the Rebels led off the inning with a solo home run to take their first lead of the day. Evansville threatened again in the fifth, with McConnell reaching third following an HBP and Harrison Taubert (Casper, Wyo./Northeast CC) walking and stealing second. The Aces were unable to cash in, though, leaving the runners stranded. Ole Miss added to their lead in the fifth, using another leadoff home run to make it 4-2. Owen Byberg (Barrie, Ontario/Frontier CC) took over for Deverman with one out in the sixth, picking up a strikeout before inducing a ground out to end the inning. Byberg put up another zero in the seventh, but Ole Miss posted a crooked number in the eighth, scoring three insurance runs before retiring the side in order in the ninth to take a 7-2 win. HOW IT HAPPENED (Game 2) Ole Miss scored first in game two, using three first inning singles to plate a run. In the second inning, Hansmann put up a zero punching out two in the process. In the third, the Rebels added a run with a solo home run, but the Evansville right-hander retired the next three to keep it a 2-0 game. However, the Rebels broke the game open in the fourth, scoring six times to open up an 8-0 lead. In the fifth, Ole Miss broke it open even further, scoring five more runs before adding another in the sixth. Evansville got on the board in the seventh, with Lombardo hitting a pinch-hit double and McConnell hitting another double of his own to drive in two. However, the game would end with a 14-2 final in seven innings. UP NEXT Evansville and Ole Miss will wrap up the series on Sunday with game three. First pitch is set for 1:30 PM. ===================================================================== EVANSVILLE SOFTBALL ACES BATTLE IN HOME-OPENING DOUBLEHEADER EVANSVILLE, Ind. – In its home-opening doubleheader against Illinois State, the University of Evansville softball team battled to the finish, dropping both games by just a single run. The opener was a defensive battle with ISU taking a 3-2 win. In the second game, the Redbirds scored five in the first inning, but UE battled back to tie the game at 5-5 before ISU scored the decisive run in the top of the 9th. Game 1 – Illinois State 3, UE 2 A quick start by Illinois State saw them plate two runs on three hits to take the lead. Evansville cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the first. Brooke Voss led off with a walk before advancing to second on a sacrifice by Taylor Howe. With two outs, Morgan Adams singled through the left side to bring in Voss. One inning later, the Aces tied the score. Emma McDonald drew a 2-out walk. After moving to second on a single by Voss, she scored the tying run when Howe singled up the middle. The Redbirds quickly retook the advantage in the third, scoring a run while earning three walks. Kate Ridgway limited the damage as she forced a strikeout to strand the bases loaded. Evansville’s defense kept the deficit at a single run with a big play in the top of the fourth. With a runner on second and two outs, ISU hit a single to right field. The baserunner rounded third, but a laser from Ashtyn Holbrook to Niki Bode recorded the out at home to keep it a 3-2 game. Over the final innings, the Aces picked up a pair of hit but could not push the tying run across the plate as the Redbirds clinched the 3-2 win. Paige McLeod threw six innings allowing two runs to earn the win while Hannah Meshnick earned the save. UE starter Kate Ridgway tossed the complete game allowing three runs on eight hits. Howe registered two of UE’s six hits in the game. The Redbirds had eight hits with Morgan Calhoun picking up three. Game 2 – Illinois State 6, UE 5 (9 innings) It did not take long for the Redbirds to pounce in game two. Up 2-0, Hannah Meshick hit a 3-run home run to left field to make it a 5-0 game in the top of the first. Brooke Voss immediately cut into the deficit. Her leadoff home run to deep center got UE on the board in the bottom of the first. Two more runs scored as UE inched closer in the bottom of the third. Taylor Howe reached on a 1-out walk before consecutive 2-out doubles by Morgan Adams and Niki Bode saw the Aces make it a 5-3 game. Evansville fought back to tie the game in the bottom of the sixth. Bode got things started with a leadoff walk while Jess Willsey followed with a single. Ashtyn Holbrook singled up the middle to bring in pinch runner Keghan Pye. With the bases loaded and two outs, Howe earned a walk to bring in the tying run. The game remained tied until the top of the ninth. ISU put runners on second and third with one out. Voss threw a baserunner out at home to secure the second out, but Bella Atkinson hit the go-ahead double to put the Redbirds back on top. Down to their final three outs, the Aces staged a rally. Maliyah Wilkins was hit by a pitch to open the inning while Dori Brown came in to pinch run. With one out, Niki Bode doubled to put runners on second and third. Unfortunately, the Redbirds picked up the final two outs to take the win. After taking the win in game one, Paige McLeod was the winner of the second contest. She threw the final four frames with one run scoring. Alexis Tucker went the distance after a tough start. Tucker allowed one run on four hits over the final eight innings after ISU scored five in the first. UE had 10 hits in the game with Voss, Adams, and Bose recording two apiece. ================================================================== SOUTHERN INDIANA BASEBALL SCREAMING EAGLES WIN DUEL WITH PENQUINS, 5-2 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Baseball broke up a pitchers’ duel with three runs in the seventh and two in the eighth to defeat Youngstown State, 5-2, Friday evening during the first game of the Holiday Inn Showcase at the USI Baseball Field. USI is 10-4 this season, while YSU goes to 1-11. USI junior right-hander Abdriel Figueroa and YSU’s senior left-hander Braden Gebhardt went toe-to-toe for the first six innings in a old fashion pitcher’s duel. Figuerora blanked YSU on two hits and two walks, while striking out five. Gebhardt allowed three hits and two walks in addition to strikingout four. USI would break up the scoreless deadlock in the bottom of the seventh. USI junior second baseman Zion Stephens pushed the first two runs across with a two-run single before scoring the third run of the game on an attempted double-steal with junior leftfielder Dan DeWees for the 3-0 lead. Stephens and DeWees were the only two Screaming Eagles to post a pair of hits in the series opener. The Screaming Eagles increased the lead to 5-0 in the bottom of the eighth when junior rightfielder Ethan Rothschild scored on an error and senior first baseman Patrick McLellan scored on a sacrifice fly. The Penguins would close the gap in the top of the ninth before graduate right-hander Nathan Anderson closed the door for his third save of the season. The USI winning pitcher in the game was junior right-hander Levin East in relief. East (1-1) threw one inning, allowing a hit and striking out two to earn the victory. Up Next for the Screaming Eagles: USI and YSU continue the Holiday Inn Showcase Saturday at 4 p.m. at the USI Baseball Field. The series concludes Sunday at 1 p.m. ====================================================================== SOUTHERN INDIANA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SCREAMING EAGLES’ OVC TOURNAMENT ENDS IN HISTORIC CLASSIC AGAINST LIONS EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball’s 2026 Ohio Valley Conference Championship Tournament run ended in Friday’s semifinal round at Ford Center, following a historic classic on the court that saw the Screaming Eagles come up just shy against Lindenwood University, 82-79. In a game filled with high drama and breathtaking moments, USI Women’s Basketball (21-10, 14-6 OVC) came up just short of a championship title game appearance after Lindenwood (25-7, 16-4 OVC) made a fourth-quarter charge to seize the semifinal victory. The third-seeded Screaming Eagles led for over 29 minutes, while the second-seeded Lions led for just under eight minutes. Friday’s contest was filled with remarkable performances, with an all-time outing posted by USI senior guard Ali Saunders. Saunders poured in 30 points for her third 30-point game this season, and for the second time against Lindenwood, making Saunders the first Screaming Eagle with at least three 30-point games in a season since Jessica Stuckman during the 2001-02 campaign. The senior shot for 50 percent overall on 10-20 shooting and for over 63 percent on 7-11 shooting from three-point range. The seven made triples are the most in a game for USI since Vanessa Shafford made seven at Western Illinois University on February 24, 2004. On top of the scoring effort, Saunders grabbed four rebounds and, more impressively, dished out a career-high 14 assists. The 14 helpers were the most for USI since Saunders recorded 11 assists and nearly had a triple-double in the Screaming Eagles’ OVC Tournament semifinal win against Eastern Illinois University en route to eventually winning the 2023-24 OVC Tournament Championship title. Plus, the guard tied the program’s single-game assists record on Friday, matching Adrienne Seitz’s 14 assists against Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on February 9, 1999. Between the 30 points scored and 14 assists in the double-double effort, Saunders ended up being involved and impacting 59 of USI’s 79 total points in Friday’s semifinal game. Second in scoring on Friday was junior forward Chloe Gannon, who totaled 18 points for her 16th straight double-figure scoring performance and 26th of the season. Gannon was 9-11 from the floor and grabbed five rebounds with two assists and two blocks. Not too far behind was freshman forward Channah Gannon with 15 points on 7-10 shooting with five boards. The younger Gannon also scored 10 or more in both games of the OVC Tournament. Collectively, USI shot for a season-best 56.4 percent overall (31-55) and fired a season-best 50 percent from long range (11-22), with the 11 made three-pointers tying a season high. The Screaming Eagles were 6-9 from the foul line. USI notched 23 assists, matching a season high, to only 10 turnovers. Lindenwood shot the ball for over 46 percent overall (28-60), making just above 45 percent from outside the arc (14-31). The Lions were 12-15 for 80 percent at the charity stripe. Lindenwood won the rebounding battle by six, 32-26. Four Lions scored in double digits, with two registering over 20 points. Going into Friday’s semifinal, the Screaming Eagles, who were coming off a first-round bye and then a 72-44 win in Thursday’s quarterfinals against No. 7 seed SIUE to advance, were looking to knock off the Lions for the first time this season after Lindenwood swept the regular-season series. Lindenwood was making its tournament debut after earning a double-bye as a top-two seed. The game was a shootout right out of the gates. As both teams exchanged blows in the first few minutes, it was junior guard Shannon Blacher and Saunders who caught fire in the early going. Within the first five minutes, Blacher drained a pair of three-pointers, while Saunders knocked down three. After redshirt sophomore guard Kylee Dennis joined the three-point barrage shortly after the five-minute mark of the opening period to give USI a 20-13 advantage, Saunders added a layup and another trey to push the Screaming Eagles’ lead to 10, 25-15. With the Lions trying to keep pace, Saunders and Dennis connected again from long range. USI wound up with a 33-23 lead through the first 10 minutes of play. The 33 points were the most the Eagles had scored in a single quarter this season, along with the nine made three-pointers, as USI went 9-11 from three in the first quarter, for 81.8 percent. Saunders scored 17 first-quarter points and went 5-5 from three. Ironically, Saunders was the last Screaming Eagle to start at least 5-5 from outside the arc in a game, doing so against the University of Wisconsin in the 2023-24 Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) inside Liberty Arena. Lindenwood started the second quarter once again trying to cut the Eagles’ lead down to single digits. However, USI’s inside game went to work through Chloe Gannon, who scored the Screaming Eagles’ next three made shots through the first four minutes of the second quarter to keep USI’s lead at eight, 39-31. Over the next two minutes, the Lions hit a pair of three-pointers to make it a one-possession game. Then three of the next four makes for the Eagles came from Channah Gannon, increasing USI’s lead back up to seven, 47-40, with 90 seconds left in the first half. Lindenwood pulled within one inside the final minute of the first half, but Saunders cashed in from downtown once again to send the Screaming Eagles into halftime ahead 50-46. Saunders finished with 22 first-half points on Friday, three shy of the team’s season high that she set in December during her career-high 35-point performance against Morehead State University. Additionally, Saunders’ six made three-pointers in the first half on Friday tied a program record for three-point field goals made in a half, matching Shajuan Lindsey (2003), Jamie Truitt (2005), and Aubrey Minix (2013). After a quick three by Lindenwood to start the second half, USI answered with an 8-0 run over two and a half minutes to extend the advantage back up to eight, 58-49. The offensive pace slowed down a bit in the middle of the third quarter. Thanks to a few more made shots by Channah Gannon, USI remained ahead by seven going into the final two minutes of the third quarter. The Screaming Eagles ended up carrying a 65-60 lead to the fourth quarter. The Lions began the fourth frame with a 7-0 run two minutes into the period to jump in front, 67-65. A few minutes later, another trey by Saunders put USI back ahead by one, 70-69, with five and a half minutes to go. With the game tied and under four minutes remaining, Lindenwood reclaimed the lead. The two sides went back and forth, as USI fought to keep the game within a possession going down the stretch. Despite late conversions at the free-throw line by Saunders, the Screaming Eagles ran out of time to get past the one-possession difference, as Lindenwood advanced to face top-seeded Western Illinois in Saturday’s championship game. Following a third consecutive OVC tournament berth and appearance in the semifinal round, USI Women’s Basketball will wait and see if further postseason competition is in the cards for the Screaming Eagles. ================================================================== VALPO MEN’S BASKETBALL VALPO BASKETBALL BATTLES TO THE FINISH, COMES UP JUST SHORT IN DOUBLE OVERTIME LOSS TO BRADLEY In an effort that fittingly encapsulated the spirit of the team this season, the Valparaiso University men’s basketball team came up just short in a 90-84 double overtime loss to Bradley in Friday’s quarterfinal round of Arch Madness, the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The 2025-2026 team was as likeable as it was gritty, reengaging the fan base through both its countless achievements on the court and the team’s personality and dynamic. Valpo gave literal blood, sweat and tears, not to mention a few teeth, this week in St. Louis, but the Braves outlasted the Beacons to punch their ticket to Saturday’s semifinal. In his final collegiate basketball game, fifth-year senior Brody Whitaker (Greencastle, Ind. / Greencastle [University of Indianapolis / Marian]) put together an effort that harkened back memories of John Kiser’s 2020 MVC Tournament in Valpo lore. Whitaker scored 25 points and made five 3s, while freshman JT Pettigrew (Lisle, Ill. / Bolingbrook) was an assist shy of Valpo’s first triple-double since 2006 with 24 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists. How It Happened Whitaker got off to a hot start, drilling two early 3s including one with 15:26 left in the opening half that put the Beacons up 10-7. Valpo led by that score at the first media timeout at the 14:10 mark, with Whitaker scoring eight of the team’s first 10 points. Valpo held a four-point edge at 11-7 with 14:10 left in the half, but the Braves scored the next five points to take a 12-11 lead on a tip-in dunk by Ahmet Jonovic at the 12:07 mark. Valpo freshman Rakim Chaney (Rockford, Ill. / Rockford Auburn) picked up his second foul at the 12:50 mark of the first half. Sophomore Tucker Tornatta (Evansville, Ind. / Reitz Memorial [University Indianapolis) made a dunk to get Valpo within one at 11:06, and later Valpo took a brief 17-16 lead on a second-chance lay-in by Pettigrew before the Braves regained the lead at 18-17 prior to the U8 media timeout. A flurry from sophomore Justus McNair (Joliet, Ill. / Joliet West) helped Valpo get back to even at 25-25 with 3:16 left in the first half. McNair scored six straight Valpo points and six of the game’s eight points in a span of 1:13, with his last jumper squaring the score at 25. Dease hit a 3 at the 1:01 mark of the half to shrink the lead to one, and Valpo went into halftime tied at 31. The Beacons held the Braves to 1-of-9 from 3 in the first half, but Valpo scuffled at the foul line, going 6-of-11. Valpo had an uncharacteristic nine first-half turnovers, but held a 19-13 first-half rebounding advantage. Whitaker made two early shots in the second half, helping Valpo inch out to a lead of 35-33 with his second bucket before the Beacons also held a 37-34 advantage. Bradley’s Montana Wheeler got the foul and the finish as Valpo went into the under-16 media timeout clinging to a 37-36 lead with the Braves shooting one free throw coming out of the timeout. Pettigrew hit a big triple at 13:37 of the second half to put Valpo ahead 42-39, but the Braves responded with a 3 on the other end. The game remained tightly played, and Chaney made a basket prior to the under-12 media timeout to tie the game at 44 with 11:07 remaining. Bradley had a three-point lead and the ball on several occasions, but Valpo got stops and then trimmed it to one on a Dease basket with 9:20 to play. Bradley made two free throws coming out of a timeout with 8:28 to play, stretching the lead to five at 51-46, the first time either team led by more than four points. Pettigrew responded on the other end of the court, cutting the lead to two with a traditional 3-point play. A dunk by Carter Hopoi (Tauranga, New Zealand / Mount Maunganui College NZ) cut the Bradley lead to three at 57-54 with 4:25 to play. The Beacons had a 3-point try that would have tied it with 3:35 on the clock, but it rimmed out, and Bradley took timeout with the lead and the ball with 3:19 on the clock. Bradley’s Alex Huibregtse swished a 3 with 2:26 left to double the Bradley lead to six, the team’s largest of the game, prompting a Valpo timeout. Whitaker hit a big 3 to cut the lead to three with 57 seconds left, then McNair tied the game with a triple with 23 seconds on the clock after Bradley’s Johnson had missed a driving layup. Valpo had one final defensive stand to end regulation, as Johnson’s jumper as time expired was off the mark. Whitaker swished a go-ahead 3 with 48 seconds left in the first overtime to put Valpo ahead 73-70, then Huibregtse responded with a game-tying 3 with 25 seconds to go. Valpo’s layup and tip-in tries were off the mark, and the horn expired ending the first overtime with the game tied at 73. Pettigrew scored the first basket of the second overtime to give Valpo a 75-73 lead. Bradley followed with the next four points. The Braves’ lead was just one at 77-76 with 2:19 left in the second overtime, but then a key 6-0 run lifted the gap to seven. Valpo got back within four on a dunk by Tupuola with 40 seconds to go in 2OT, but that was as close as the Beacons would get. Inside the Game This marked the fourth Valpo game this season that featured a halftime tie, and two of those have come against Bradley. These teams were tied 35-35 at half on Feb. 18 at the ARC. This marked Valpo’s fourth overtime game of the season. During the regular season, the Beacons lost 75-72 at Marquette, won 76-72 at Indiana State and won 70-63 vs. Evansville. This was Valpo’s first double overtime game since Dec. 29, 2024, also against Bradley. These two teams have played double overtime against one another three times since Valpo joined the Missouri Valley Conference. This was Valpo’s second overtime game at Arch Madness and first since March 6, 2020, a 74-73 victory over Loyola. Whitaker scored a game-high 25 points on 9-of-15 shooting and 5-of-8 from 3. Whitaker’s 25 points surpassed his previous season high of 21 from Feb. 15 vs. Indiana State. His five triples matched a career best, reached most recently in the Feb. 15 game against the Sycamores. Whitaker scored in double figures in eight of the final nine games of his collegiate career. Pettigrew notched a double-double of 24 points and 13 rebounds. Pettigrew’s 24 points exceeded his previous career high of 23 on Feb. 9 at Drake. He finished his freshman season with nine consecutive double-figure scoring outputs and 13 straight games with at least five rebounds. Pettigrew also dished out nine assists, finishing one assist away from Valpo’s first triple-double since Urule Igbavboa on Feb. 5, 2007 at Chicago State. Before Pettigrew’s performance on Friday, the last Valpo player to come within even four assists of a triple-double was Ryan Broekhoff on Nov. 20, 2011 vs. Duquesne. Pettigrew became the first player nationally with at least 24 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists in a game against a Division-I opponent this season. The last time any player in the country hit those marks in a contest against a D-I foe was two full years ago, UNC Asheville’s Drew Pember (30-13-10) in an 83-72 overtime victory over Gardner Webb. Pettigrew became the first player nationally to reach those marks in a defeat since UConn’s Jalen Adams on Jan. 3, 2018. Pettigrew became the first Valpo player with a 24-point, 13 rebound game since Cooper Schwieger did so twice last season. Pettigrew became the first known Valpo player with a 24-point, nine-assist game. Previously, the highest known point total for a Valpo player with at least nine assists was Nick Edwards (20 points, 12 assists) on Feb. 21, 2022 vs. Stonehill. The double-double was Pettigrew’s sixth of the season and first since Feb. 12 at Illinois State. The 13 rebounds tied his personal best set on Feb. 12 at Illinois State. Pettigrew’s nine assists outdid his previous season high of six on Feb. 15 vs. Indiana State. McNair scored 12 points, his 13th double-figure scoring output of the season. Valpo committed 19 turnovers on Friday, the team’s most since 21 on Dec. 2, 2025 at Marquette and second most of the season. Valpo had committed 11 or fewer in each of the previous eight games. On the flip side, Valpo had 19 assists on Friday, the team’s most against a Division-I opponent this season. Valpo held Bradley to just 4-of-20 from 3 (20 percent), Valpo’s best 3-point field-goal percentage defense since UNI went 4-of-20 on Jan. 17. The game featured 14 ties and eight lead changes. Pettigrew finished with 223 rebounds this season, the most by a freshman in program history and the 12th-most by a freshman in Missouri Valley Conference history. His 223 rebounds were the second most of any Valpo player in the MVC era, behind Cooper Schwieger’s 266 last season. Pettigrew finished the season with 413 points, the fourth most by a freshman in program history. He surpassed Cooper Schwieger (2023-24, 409) and Larry Dougherty (1984-85, 397) on the program’s freshman scoring list on Friday, finishing behind only All Wright, Lubos Barton and Alec Peters. Four of the top five on the program’s freshman scoring list were recruited to Valpo by Roger Powell. Valpo continued an affinity for close games, as 13 of the team’s final 14 games of the season were decided by single figures. Including the MVC tournament, 20 out of 22 games against MVC opponents were decided by 10 points or fewer. Inside the Season Year 3 of Roger Powell Jr.’s head coaching tenure at Valpo saw the Beacons take a major step forward. After he inherited a rebuilding project that saw the team go 3-17 in league play in Year 1, double its MVC win total to 6-14 in Year 2 and finish Year 2 with an MVC semifinal appearance, the Beacons nearly doubled their league win total again, finishing at 11-9 in Year 3. Valpo finished the 2025-26 season with its highest winning percentage in league play since joining The Valley prior to the 2017-2018 campaign. This marked the program’s first winning season in MVC play. Overall, Valpo won 18 total games including 17 regular-season games in 2025-2026, the program’s highest regular-season win total since its final season in the Horizon League in 2016-2017, Alec Peters’ senior year. From Feb. 15 to Feb. 25, Valpo put together a four-game winning streak, the program’s longest since a five gamer during the 2018-2019 campaign. Valpo tied its longest winning streak in league play since joining the Missouri Valley Conference, matching the 2018-2019 team, which started 4-0 in Valley play. Valpo finished with a winning record, the team’s first since 2019-2020. Valpo went 6-1 in a seven-game stretch late in the regular season, the team’s first stretch of six wins in seven games since joining the MVC. Valpo finished with a 13-4 home record this season, which marked the team’s highest home win total since 2016-17. Valpo finished tied for sixth in the MVC and just one game out of a tie for third in a tightly-packed MVC this season. That came after being picked last in the preseason poll. =================================================================== VALPO SOFTBALL BEACONS DROP MVC-OPENING TWINBILL AT SIU The success at the plate for the Valpo softball team which had carried the Beacons through the early portion of the season was stymied Friday by Southern Illinois, as Valpo was limited to just three hits over a doubleheader sweep by the Salukis, 12-0 and 4-0. How It Happened – Game One Valpo had its best scoring chance in the opener in the top of the first, as Marissa Jackson (Willis, Mich./Huron) dumped a single into shallow left with one out and Mack Gallagher (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East [MSU Moorhead]) drew a four-pitch walk two batters later before a pop-out ended the frame. SIU got the only runs it would need with a pair of two-out hits in the bottom of the first, plating three runs. The Salukis added five runs in the third and four runs in the fourth for the final margin. How It Happened – Game Two Valpo got a runner into scoring position in each of the first three innings, but was unable to convert those runners into runs. Meanwhile, Sydney McDermott (Stout, Ohio/Portsmouth West) was going to work in the circle. After allowing a leadoff single in the first, McDermott struck out three in a row and then struck out the side in the second for six straight punchouts. McDermott escaped the bottom of the third after an error had put two runners in scoring position with one out, inducing a pop-up before recording another strikeout to keep it a scoreless game. A bases-clearing double gave SIU the lead in the bottom of the fourth, and the Salukis added a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth for the final score. Inside the Games Jackson had a hit in each game, while Kim Rodas (San Bernardino, Calif./Cajon) picked up a base knock in the nightcap. Gallagher drew a walk in both games, extending her on-base streak to open the season to 19 consecutive games. Caitlyn Quickle (Leesburg, Ohio/Fairfield Local) started in the circle and took the loss in game one, falling to 1-2 on the year. McDermott took the loss in game two despite striking out eight in four innings of work, pushing her season record to 7-3. Next Up Valpo (9-10, 0-2 MVC) looks for a win in the series finale on Saturday at 1 p.m. The game can be seen live on ESPN+. ==================================================================== IU INDY MEN’S BASKETBALL HOUNDS FEND OFF MINERS’ LATE-GAME COMEBACK ATTEMPT ST. LOUIS— The University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team defeated the Missouri S&T Miners 75-67 in UMSL’s Mark Twain Building in the Great Lakes Valley Conference quarterfinals on Friday night. Shaun Arnold led the Hounds with a team-high 22 points and 15 rebounds for his 10th double-double of the season. The junior’s 15 boards set a new program record for rebounds in a conference tournament game. INS & OUTS The Miners gave the Hounds trouble down the stretch, overcoming what was a 14-point deficit with eight minutes remaining, to just a two-point game with three minutes to go. The Hounds were six for six from the charity stripe in the game’s final minutes to ensure their victory. Missouri S&T struggled from the field in the second half, shooting only 27.89 percent in the final half. The Greyhounds never trailed in the contest, starting the game with a 16-6 run. Tyler Parrish hitting the first dagger of the night to give UIndy the early three-point lead. The Hounds found three more three-pointers from Carmelo Harris and Shaun Arnold, finding back-to-back buckets from beyond the arc. The Hounds led by as many as 12 points in the first half, holding the Miners to 38.71 percent from the field in the opening half. INSIDE THE BOX -Carmelo Harris and Tyler Parrish joined Arnold in the double-digit scoring, recording 18 apiece. -Harris was a perfect six-for-six from the charity stripe in the contest -The Hounds capitalized on their defensive pressure, finding 12 points off turnovers. UP NEXT The Geyhounds return to the GLVC Semifinal match for the first time since 2024, to face the Drury Panthers on Saturday. ===================================================================== UINDY BASEBALL HOUNDS COME UP SHORT AGAINST BEARCATS EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — This Friday, the UIndy baseball team came up short against McKendree in a closely contested matchup, with a final score of 7-6. The Greyhounds scored six runs on eight hits, highlighted by four doubles and three home runs. Aidan Pearson had the start on the mound for the Greyhounds, pitching seven innings while allowing four earned runs. He notched 3 strikeouts on the day, while giving up just one walk. Drake Downing entered in relief, pitching one inning and conceding two earned runs on a pair of Bearcat doubles. Downing was charged with the loss, bringing his season record to 1-3. INS AND OUTS Brayton Bowen put the Greyhounds on the scoreboard first with a solo homer into right field in the third inning. Joey Humphrey followed with a double to left field, and Garrett Rusch’s ground-rule double brought Humphrey home, making it 2-0 for the Greyhounds after three innings. Bowen belted his second long ball of the day in the fourth inning to give the Hounds a 3-0 lead. Maddux Bach added a double and eventually scored on Austin Bode’s single, cushioning the lead to 4-0. McKendree responded with a run, closing the inning with the Greyhounds leading 4-1. Solen Munson expanded the Greyhounds’ lead in the fifth inning with a two-run homer down the right-field line, bringing in Chase Mason who had walked. McKendree added another run, but the Greyhounds maintained a 6-2 edge. McKendree narrowed the gap in the sixth inning with a homer from Gavin Arseneau and another run scored on a groundout, cutting the UIndy lead to 6-4. In the eighth inning, McKendree took advantage of an error and timely hitting to score three runs, overcoming the Greyhounds’ lead to go ahead 7-6. UIndy’s comeback effort was well-fought in the ninth, loading the bases with a pair of walks and a hit-by-pitch. With two outs, Owen Dunn found a crucial flyout off the bat of Solen Munson, clinching a 7-6 win. INSIDE THE BOX – Solen Munson delivered a commendable performance, hitting a home run and collecting two RBIs. – Brayton Bowen powered the offense with two home runs, contributing two runs and two RBIs. – Joey Humphrey added two doubles and scored once in the game. Pearson pitched seven innings, allowing four earned runs while striking out three batters. UP NEXT UIndy will remain in Edwardsville for a double-header against McKendree, with the first pitch set for 1 PM. ======================================================================== UINDY WOMEN’S LAX WOMEN’S LACROSSE EARNS SECOND RANKED WIN OF SEASON AGAINST #21 GRAND VALLEY INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 3 UIndy women’s lacrosse team picked up its second ranked win on the short season on Friday night against No. 21 Grand Valley, 16-12. The Greyhounds had nine different goalscorers tonight, including three with hat tricks; Elle Cimini, Malaena Michielin and Olivia Bladon. Bladon led the charge with four goals and an assist, but once again Michielin stuffed the stat sheet with her third consecutive six point game, three goals and three assists. Dating back to the start of the 2024-25 season, this is the ninth such outing where the Greyhounds have had three players with at least three goals in a game. Along with a strong attacking effort, Hollis Rang had one of the best defensive games of her career with four ground balls and five caused turnovers. She’s only posted four ground balls and five caused turnovers once before against Lewis last season. INS & OUTS Once again the Greyhounds kept its trend going of hot starts, racking up five goals to lead after the first quarter. UIndy has led after every first quarter this season. Megan Ghert got the scoring started with Cimini, Emily Ghazal, Sage Da Silva, and the freshman Margaret Galloway all grabbing one of their own. The second quarter was all Lakers, as they clawed their way back by turning defense into offense, with six UIndy turnovers resulting in six Grand Valley goals. Bladon scored a goal in the middle of the second quarter to put the Hounds back ahead 8-6, but the Lakers’ Ella Boose scored a late goal to make it 8-7 UIndy headed to the break. But the second half adjustments favored the Hounds with the third quarter all UIndy. Similar to the Lakers in the second quarter, the Hounds turned defense into offense in large part to Rang’s defensive presence, causing three turnovers and picking up two ground balls. Cimini snagged two more goals, with Reese Fahlke and Bladon also getting into the third quarter stat sheet to give UIndy a 12-8 lead after three. UIndy tallied three more goals early in the fourth to go ahead by seven, and was able to see the game out over the final eight minutes of action to secure the four-point win over No. 21-ranked Grand Valley. INSIDE THE BOX – The Greyhounds tied its season-high in caused turnovers with 11, a mark it also reached against Tampa. – Michielin had a career-high 11 shots tonight, which is tied for the most in a game for the Greyhounds since 2024 when Mackenzie Winn had 12 against Quincy. – Bladon had 12 draw controls tonight, which is the fourth time in her career she had at least 12. – Along with Rang’s four ground balls, Ella Fornek also had three ground balls of her own. UP NEXT UIndy will head out to Colorado for a two game road trip against Colorado-Colorado Springs on Tuesday Mar. 10, and ranked Regis on Friday Mar. 13. ================================================================== MARIAN MEN’S TRACK MEN’S 4X800M RELAY SETS NEW NAIA RECORD LEADING DAY TWO Gainesville, Fla. – After the second day of the 2026 Indoor National Championships, the Marian men’s track and field team is in first place with a score of 23 points. Markevious Keys led the way in the field, earning All-American Honors in the Weight Throw. On the track, the 4x800m Relay led the way, earning not only an Individual National Championship but a new NAIA record. Owen Myers started the action for the day, finishing 10th in the 3000m race walk and with a time of 13:10.70. Myers hit a new PR in the event, beating his time from yesterday’s race by 40 seconds. Tristan Trevino was next up on the track, finishing fifth in prelims with a time of 4:12.98 and punching an automatic qualifying time for the finals section tomorrow. Continuing action on the track, Eric Materna and Dexter Parker competed in the 600m. Parker finished with a time of 1:20.16, placing 15th overall, while Materna led the way, recording a qualifying time of 1:17.91. Three Knights competed in the 60m prelims, all clocking a time under 6.90. Ricardo Mateo finished in 16th with a time of 6.80, while Jeremiah Brown finished in ninth with a time of 6.75. Will Osafo led the way, qualifying for tomorrow’s finals race with a time of 6.70. Opening up the field portion of the day, Marko Brajovic finished BLANK overall with a mark of 6.96m in the long jump. In the Weight Throw, Markevious Keys finished fourth while earning All-American Honors with his mark of 19.18m. Back on the track, Charles Leedke led the way, finishing first overall in prelims with an automatic qualifying time of 1:51.52. The 4x800m wrapped up the day running a new NAIA Record with a time of 7:27.72. The team of Mason Piatt, Tristan Trevino, Charlie Leedke, and Ben Riehle placed first overall and earned an NAIA Individual National Championship. The Knights will be back in action tomorrow for the final day of the NAIA Indoor National Championships. Tristan Trevino opens up action on the track in the 1-mile finals section starting at 12:25 pm, followed by Eric Materna in the 600m at 1:35 pm. ===================================================================== MARIAN WRESTLING WAGNER, HUGHES EARN NAIA ALL-AMERICAN ON DAY 2 OF NAIA CHAMPIONSHIP Wichita, Kan. – For the first time in program history, the Marian wrestling team will have an individual compete for an NAIA National Championship, as fifth-year senior Logan Wagner earned a pair of victories, upsetting the No. 1 seed in the quarterfinals before dominating the semifinal match to reach the national title round. Marian earned two overall All-Americans on the day as Anthony Hughes guaranteed sixth place or better, as the senior tandem put Marian in ninth place as a team entering the final two sessions. Logan Wagner headlined Marian’s first session of the day on Friday, as the fifth-year senior picked up the team’s lone championship bracket victory, moving to 3-0 at 141 as he upset top-ranked Adrian Ayala of Lindsey Wilson. Wagner won 6-4 in a full-time tiebreaker decision, taking the win after three overtime periods. Wagner’s win earned him NAIA All-American honors and advanced him to the NAIA Semifinals as the top-remaining seed in the weight class. Of Marian’s other remaining wrestlers in the championship bracket, both Anthony Hughes and Anthony Rinehart suffered losses, falling into the consolation brackets. For Hughes, the senior was unable to upset No. 4 Elijah Cater of Grand View, losing by decision 4-1. Hughes is 2-1 entering the consolation bracket. Rinehart also fell to 2-1 in the tournament as he suffered the same fate as his senior teammate, losing in his 174 match to Grand View’s Kris Ketchum by an 11-2 major decision. The Knights had four wrestlers begin the day in the consolation round three, and two of the four Marian wrestlers facing elimination were able to advance to the fourth session. Jeivan Ross stayed alive at 174 as he moved to 3-1, earning his third consolation win as he took down Montana State-Northern’s Orion Thivierge by a 5-4 decision. Tiernan Boots also moved to 3-1, recording his third consolation win as he defeated St. Ambrose’s Georgino Moraga by a 4-2 decision. Boots scored his winning points in the third period to advance to the next round. Landon Bertsch would see his run in the NAIA Championship come to an end in consolation round three, falling by tech fall against Tuvshinjargal Zuunbayan of Missouri Valley in a 21-5 score. Bertsch finished the championship with a 2-2 record. Christian Arberry also saw his time close on Friday afternoon, ending with a 2-2 record as Southern Oregon’s Avant Stephenson won by major decision 11-1. In the fourth session of the weekend, the Knights got a huge team lift from Logan Wagner, as the senior continued to make the most of his final NAIA Championship with a national semifinal victory. Wrestling against Tyler Rhue of Southern Oregon, Wagner did not wait long to strike early, getting a takedown 90 seconds into the first period to take a 3-0 lead. Wagner would allow the escape point, and then began the second period with one after choosing bottom, taking a 4-1 lead. The senior would concede an early escape in the third period, but Rhue was unable to get the Knight to the mat, as Wagner completed his 4-2 win. The Marian senior is the first-ever wrestler in program history to compete for an NAIA National Championship, as his semifinal victory advanced him to the title round on Saturday night. Wagner will wrestle No. 11 Yoshiya Funakoshi of Embry-Riddle in the championship match, which will begin between 8:15 and 8:30 p.m. tomorrow evening. Following Wagner on the mat was Anthony Hughes, who staved off elimination twice on Friday night to earn All-American honors. In his first match, the senior defeated No. 8 Matteo Vargo of the Cumberlands 12-5, as the decision earned his second consecutive NAIA All-American honor. Hughes continued to win on Friday night, following his victory with a commanding 17-2 tech fall win against Braden Ledford of Friends, advancing to the consolation semifinal round. Hughes guaranteed a finish between third and sixth place with his win, and will wrestle twice on Saturday morning, first against Braydon Pacheco of Friends. Hughes will then compete in a rematch against Elijah Cater or Jesse Lewis in the third or fifth place match. Behind the super-seniors, Marian would go 0-3 on Friday night, falling in each of the program’s remaining consolation round four matches. Tiernan Boots was defeated at 149 by a tech fall score of 22-6, ending his first NAIA Championship experience with a 3-2 overall record. Anthony Rinehart lost his bout to Konlin Weaver of Life by a 6-3 decision in the 174 weight class and ended with a 2-2 record in his first NAIA Championship experience, while Jeivan Ross also fell in round four of the consolation bracket, taking a 15-0 tech fall defeat against Shadrick Sloane of Campbellsville. Ross finished his collegiate career with a 3-2 record in the 2026 NAIA Championship. Entering Saturday, the Knights are in ninth place at the NAIA Championship, holding a team score of 47 points. Marian will look to gain ground on Saturday, as Hughes and Wagner wrestle for higher placement in the field. Hughes will compete in both of his matches on Saturday morning, while Wagner wrestles Saturday night. ==================================================================== MARIAN WOMEN’S TRACK KNIGHTS RECORD ONE ALL-AMERICAN HONOR DAY 2 INDOOR NATIONALS Gainesville, Fla. – After the second day of the 2026 Indoor National Championships, the Marian women’s track and field team currently holds 19th place. Nhaydia Watson highlighted the day with her NAIA All-American Honor in the Weight Throw. Katie Woods started the action on the track with her fourth-place performance in the 1-mile prelims, clocking an automatic qualifying time of 4:58.35. In the field, Ozofu Magaji and Nhaydia Watson both competed in the Weight Throw. Magaji finished 15th with a mark of 16.50m. Watson led the way, earning NAIA All-American Honors, finishing seventh with a mark of 17.34m. In the hurdles, Nina Marinkovic finished 15th with a time of 8.83. Emma Edwards followed up in the 400m prelims, finishing sixth overall with a qualifying time of 55.18. Hanna Reuter, Claire Lange, and Holli Reuter were next up on the track in the 600m. Holli finished with a time of 1:35.98, placing 20th, while Lange finished with a time of 1:33.78, placing ninth overall. Hanna led the way, clocking a time of 1:33.56 and finishing in seventh place overall, qualifying for the finals section tomorrow. Wrapping up action for the day were Summer Rempe, Katie Woods, and Gracynn Hinkley in the 1000m prelims. Hinkley finished in ninth with a time of 2:55.18, while Woods automatically qualified with her third-place finish and a time of 2:53.60. Rempe led the way, finishing first overall with a time of 2:51.21, automatically qualifying for tomorrow’s race. Marian is back in action tomorrow for the final day of the NAIA Indoor National Championships. Brooke Coffman opens up action in the field at 11:30 am in the High Jump. On the track, Katie Woods opens up action in the 1-mile at 12:25 pm, followed by Emma Edwards in the 400m at 1:05 pm. ==================================================================== MARIAN MEN’S TENNIS MEN’S TENNIS SERVES UPSET TO NO. 10 SCAD-SAVANNAH Savannah, Ga. – The Marian men’s tennis team closed out spring break with a big 4-2 win over No. 10 SCAD-Savannah. After the win, the Knights move to 8-4 overall and 3-0 in the Crossroads League. James Asworth and Mateo Guerin set the standard for the day, taking the 6-0 win at No. 1 doubles. The Bees fought back, taking a 6-4 win over Marc Soriano and Iyan Cresens, followed by a 6-3 win over Juan Garcia-Tunon and Ben O’Brien. Guerin fought back, tying the match up 1-1 with his 5-2 win by default at No. 2, followed by Garcia-Tunon taking the 2-1 win with his pair of 6-0 wins at No. 5. Marcos Ramos Cabrera followed suit with a 6-4, 6-0 win at No. 4 singles. SCAD-Savannah fought back with a 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 3 over Soriano, but Jan Bartolome sealed the deal with his 6-2, 6-4 win at No. 6. Marian will be back in action on Tuesday, March 17th, as they host No. 7 Holy Cross at the Healthplex at 12:30 pm. ==================================================================== MARIAN SOFTBALL NO. 6 MARIAN SPLITS CROSSROADS LEAGUE OPENER AGAINST MOUNT VERNON Viera, Fla. – The Marian softball team split their Friday doubleheader in the Florida sun, as the Knights lost their Crossroads League opener against Mount Vernon Nazarene, before rebounding in the second act of the twin bill with a win. Marian is 7-2 overall on the season following the split, and 1-1 to begin CL play. Game One | Marian 1-5 Mount Vernon Alayna Tesnar’s strong start to the season came to an abrupt halt in the Knights’ first game Friday afternoon, as the sophomore faced her first dose of adversity with Mount Vernon Nazarene recording four consecutive base hits in the bottom of the first inning, scoring a pair of runs. Tesnar would come back with a scoreless second inning, but in the third, Marian’s undefeated pitcher was roughed again, as she yielded four base hits, seeing the Cougars score two runs. Macy Coan came on in relief in the bottom of the third to try to cut the damage, doing so but not before seeing Mount Vernon rope an RBI single to extend their lead to five runs. Coan would settle in after returning to the circle and shutout the Cougars in her last three innings of work, but the Marian offense was unable to match the performance, failing to score until the sixth inning. The Knights had an opportunity in the top of the third inning to break their shutout, but with two runners in scoring position, Abby Madere came up short in recording an RBI base hit, ending the frame on a groundout. Delaney Rundle’s single in the fourth inning and Alyssa Donaldson’s fifth inning double were both unprotected as the runners got stranded, with the Cougars pitching a shutout through five complete. In the top of the sixth inning, Marian was able to break their scoring drought as Ally Malone scored on an Delaney Rundle’s batted ball, with Rundle picking up the two-out RBI. Marian was unable to keep the rally going in the sixth inning, and in the seventh, Abbey Hofmann landed a two-out single, however, it was not enough, as the Knights went on to fall 5-1. Hofmann went 2-4 in the loss, while Alyssa Donaldson had a double coming off the bench. Alayna Tesnar (4-1) was charged with the loss in the game, allowing nine hits and five runs, all of them earned. Macy Coan pitched 3.2 innings in relief, striking out three batters against three base hits. Game Two | Marian 4-1 Mount Vernon After being shut out through five innings in game one, Marian wasted no time in game two getting on the board as Abbey Hofmann led the game off with a triple. Two batters later, Abby Madere hit a sacrifice fly, bringing in her fellow outfielder to give Marian a 1-0 lead. Marian then plated another run in the third inning, as Madere picked up an RBI single to score Karly Anderson, giving the Knights a 2-0 lead. Lexi Smith got the start in the second game, and was able to start the contest on a strong note, pushing past a lead-off single in the bottom of the first to pitch a scoreless inning, while in the second, Marian turned an inning-ending double play after the Cougars picked up a one-out double. Smith then retired the side in order in the bottom of the third inning, and in the next frame, Karly Anderson picked up an RBI to score Ally Malone after the shortstop reached base with a lead-off walk. Leading 3-0, Smith continued to groove in the circle, retiring the side in order in the fourth inning, while in the fifth the freshman overcame a lead-off walk and single, getting three straight outs to strand a pair of runners. The Knights then scored their final run of the game in the top of the sixth as Mati Hughes plated Malone with an RBI double, putting Marian on top 4-0. Smith would return in the home half and pitched a scoreless inning, while in the seventh, the freshman allowed an unearned run in the process of closing out the team’s 4-1 victory. Smith (2-1) pitched the first complete game of her young career Friday afternoon, allowing four hits and one unearned run in her second victory of the season. Smith saw six total base runners reach the game in the win. At the plate, Abbey Hofmann had two hits and scored two runs, while Abby Madere enjoyed a two-hit, two-RBI outing. Ally Malone scored Marian’s other two runs in the game, getting one hit and drawing one walk. Marian plays on Saturday against Clarke and Lawrence Tech, finishing their Florida games at 10:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. ===================================================================== SMALL INDIANA COLLEGE SPORTS WEB SITES UINDY ATHLETICS: https://athletics.uindy.edu/ MARIAN ATHLETICS: https://muknights.com/ INDIANA WESLEYAN ATHLETICS: https://iwuwildcats.com/ EARLHAM ATHLETICS: https://goearlham.com/ WABASH ATHLETICS: https://sports.wabash.edu/ FRANKLIN ATHLETICS: https://franklingrizzlies.com/ ROSE-HULMAN ATHLETICS: https://athletics.rose-hulman.edu/ ANDERSON ATHLETICS: https://athletics.anderson.edu/landing/index TRINE ATHLETICS: https://trinethunder.com/landing/index BETHEL ATHLETICS: https://bupilots.com/ DEPAUW ATHLETICS: https://depauwtigers.com/ HANOVER ATHLETICS: https://athletics.hanover.edu/ MANCHESTER ATHLETICS: https://muspartans.com/ HUNTINGTON ATHLETICS: https://www.huathletics.com/ OAKLAND CITY ATHLETICS: https://gomightyoaks.com/index.aspx ST. 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