LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Darrion Williams scored a career-high 30 points on 12-of-12 shooting, including four of Texas Tech’s 10 3-pointers, and the Red Raiders never trailed in a 79-50 win over sixth-ranked Kansas. Williams also had 11 rebounds. He hit a 3-pointer on the first shot of the game by the 18-6 Red Raiders. Kansas dropped to 19-6, and played its second game in a row without Big 12 leading scorer Kevin McCullar Jr. Jayhawks coach Bill Self was ejected with 5:49 remaining after getting two technical fouls. Nicolas Timberlake and Johnny Furphy each had 13 points for Kansas.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jameer Nelson Jr., Emanuel Miller and Trevian Tennyson all finished with 14 points and TCU breezed to an 81-65 victory over West Virginia. Jamie Dixon notched his 156th victory as coach of the Horned Frogs (17-7, 6-5 Big 12 Conference), moving into a second-place tie with Billy Tubbs (1994-2002) on the school’s all-time list. Buster Brennan won 205 games from 1948-67. Raequan Battle led the Mountaineers (8-16, 3-8) with 21 points.
UNDATED (AP) — Indiana State is ranked for the first time since Larry Bird played in Terre Haute. The Sycamores are on a nine-game winning streak and have one of the nation's best-shooting teams. UConn remained at No. 1 in this week's poll and Purdue held steady at No. 2. No. 3 Houston, No. 4 Marquette and No. 5 Arizona all moved up following losses by Kansas and North Carolina. Iowa State is back in the top 10 for the first time since the 2021-22 season.
UNDATED (AP) — Ohio State has climbed up the women's AP Top 25, moving up to No. 2 this week. The Buckeyes, who were fifth last week, have won 11 straight games and equaled the best ranking in school history. Ohio State’s only losses this season have come to USC, UCLA and Michigan. South Carolina remains a unanimous No. 1 after routing Missouri and then-No. 11 UConn. Stanford moved up three places to No. 3. Iowa dropped to fourth and Texas climbed to fifth.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City will be turning red on Valentine's Day as the Chiefs celebrate their come-from-behind overtime Super Bowl win over the San Francisco 49ers with a parade. School cancellation announcements began just minutes after Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and the Chiefs became the first team since the New England Patriots with Tom Brady two decades ago to successfully defend their title. Parades are becoming commonplace in Kansas City with the Chiefs winning their third Super Bowl in five seasons. But this time, people are wondering if pop superstar Taylor Swift will attend with her boyfriend, Kelce. Swift has a concert in Australia on Friday.
The longest Super Bowl game will also go down as the most-watched program in television history. According to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics, Kansas City’s 25-22 overtime victory over San Francisco averaged 123.4 million viewers across television and streaming platforms. That shattered last year’s mark of 115.1 million for Kansas City’s last-play victory over Philadelphia and is a 7% increase. The game was televised by CBS, Nickelodeon and Univision and streamed on Paramount+ as well as the NFL’s digital platforms. Some of the increase can be attributed to a change in the way viewers are counted, with out-of-home viewers from all 50 states included for the first time.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — This was supposed to be the year the Kansas City Chiefs were beatable. They had holes in their roster, they played poorly midway through the season, they had to go on the road for the playoffs and navigated perhaps the toughest road to the Super Bowl in history. Yet they won anyway. And with their third Lombardi Trophy in four trips over a five-year span, the Chiefs made it difficult to argue that they are anything but a modern NFL dynasty. They are the first repeat Super Bowl champions in two decades, and the first team ever to win consecutive titles as underdogs.
PHOENIX (AP) — Money can buy lots of things, including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a pair of Japanese superstars that set the Los Angeles Dodgers back more than $1 billion. Now the journey begins to see if it’ll buy them a championship. Major League Baseball’s spring training opens for 28 of 30 teams over the next few days, with pitchers and catchers reporting to sites in Arizona and Florida. The Dodgers and San Diego Padres are already in camp, getting a head start because they’ll open the regular season on March 20 in Seoul, South Korea.
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys have settled on a coaching reunion by deciding to bring back Mike Zimmer as defensive coordinator to replace Dan Quinn. Zimmer is rejoining the Cowboys 18 years after serving in the same role with Dallas. He had an eight-year stint as head coach in Minnesota. The Cowboys and Zimmer came to an agreement Monday. The Cowboys had an opening after Quinn accepted the head coaching job in Washington. Mike McCarthy will be the fifth Cowboys coach that Zimmer will work for with Dallas.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former UCLA great DeShaun Foster was named head coach to take over the Bruins' football program after Chip Kelly left to become offensive coordinator at Ohio State. Foster has been a Bruins assistant the past seven years but left last month to become the Las Vegas Raiders' running backs coach. This will be Foster’s first head coaching job after 11 years of being an assistant in college, including 10 at UCLA. He was the running backs coach at Texas Tech in 2016.
MONDAY SCORES
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final Texas Tech 79 (6)Kansas 50
Final (9)Duke 77 Wake Forest 69
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Charlotte 111 Indiana 102
Final Philadelphia 123 Cleveland 121
Final San Antonio 122 Toronto 99
Final Chicago 136 Atlanta 126
Final Milwaukee 112 Denver 95
Final Houston 105 New York 103
Final Dallas 112 Washington 104
Final Golden State 129 Utah 107
Final Minnesota 121 L.A. Clippers 100
Final New Orleans 96 Memphis 87
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final New Jersey 3 Seattle 1
Final N-Y Rangers 2 Calgary 0
Final Philadelphia 5 Arizona 3