LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kevin McCullar Jr. had 19 points, Hunter Dickinson added 15 points and 20 rebounds and No. 14 Kansas snapped a two-game skid with a 90-68 blowout of Kansas State on Tuesday night. The Jayhawks also got 18 points from Nick Timberlake and 16 from KJ Adams Jr. in avenging a loss to the Wildcats last month. Kansas beat its rival for the 18th consecutive time at Allen Fieldhouse, and it won its 40th straight game on senior night, a run that stretches back to the 1983-84 season. Will McNair had 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats, but leading scorers Tylor Perry and Cam Carter were almost completely shut down.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Le’Tre Darthard scored a season-high 18 points and his two free throws with 13.3 seconds left in overtime help carry Oklahoma to its 20th win of the season in a 74-71 victory over Cincinnati. Freshman reserve Jizzle James scored 16 points for Cincinnati. After Darthard's final free throws, following a Cincinnati timeout, the Bearcats drove the length of the floor to set up a shot for Simas Lukosius who came off a screen for a deep 3-pointer that bounced off the rim and time expired. Darthard's 3 with 15 seconds left in regulation gave Oklahoma a 67-66 lead.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Pop Isaacs scored 19 points, Darrion Williams added 18 and Texas Tech jumped out early and cruised past Oklahoma State 75-58. Williams and Isaacs each shot 5 of 6 from the field with a pair of 3s and scored 12 points each to help Texas Tech build a 38-17 halftime advantage. Oklahoma State shot just 21% (6 of 28) and missed 13 of 14 from long range before the break. Eric Dailey Jr. scored 12 points and John-Michael Wright had 11 to lead Oklahoma State (12-18, 4-13), which has lost four straight.
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Oklahoma senior Skylar Vann and Texas freshman Madison Booker are co-players of the year in the Big 12. When the women's basketball awards were announced Tuesday, Booker became the first Big 12 freshman to be a player of the year. The 6-foot-1 forward is averaging 16.5 points and 4.9 assists a game. Vann, a 6-foot senior forward, ranks in the league’s top 10 with 15.0 points and 7.2 rebounds a game for the regular-season champion Sooners. Oklahoma’s Jennie Baranczyk is coach of the year.
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — The Dartmouth men's basketball team has voted to unionize, taking an unprecedented step toward forming the first-ever labor union for college athletes. In a campus election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, the players voted 13-2 to join Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents some Dartmouth workers. The school can still appeal to the NLRB and the federal courts. That could delay negotiations over a collective bargaining agreement until long after the current members of the basketball team have graduated.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Dean Wade made five 3-pointers and scored 20 points in the fourth quarter, and Cleveland won a replay review in the final second to stun Boston 105-104, ending the NBA-leading Celtics’ winning streak at 11 games. With NFL star Travis Kelce urging on Cleveland’s crowd from a courtside seat, the Cavs overcame a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter. Wade scored a career-high 23 points and his putback dunk with 19.1 seconds left put the Cavs ahead 105-104. He personally outscored the Celtics 20-17 in the fourth. Cleveland held on when officials overturned foul call on a last-second jumper by Jayson Tatum, who scored 26 points for Boston.
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Kelce brothers showed up for their own giveaway. No, Taylor Swift wasn’t with them. Cleveland-born Travis and Jason Kelce were both in attendance Tuesday night as the Cavaliers paid tribute to the NFL stars with a souvenir bobblehead depicting them in Cavs jerseys and holding basketballs. During the first timeout in the opening quarter, the Cavs presented Jason, who retired from the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday after 13 seasons, with a framed No. 62 jersey. Travis Kelce, a star tight end with Kansas City Chiefs and Swift’s boyfriend, proudly held his brother’s jersey above his head as the crowd roared. Swift is on tour in Singapore.
UNDATED (AP) — West Virginia football coach Neal Brown has agreed to a one-year contract extension that includes a $400,000 pay cut over the next three years. Brown will be paid $4 million in each of the next two seasons. That's a reduction of $100,000 in 2024 and $200,000 in 2025 from a previous contract signed in 2021. His extension is through the 2027 season. While the agreement does not mention changes to a salary pool from his original contract, Brown says his top priority was retaining and rewarding his assistant coaches and support staff. West Virginia is coming off a 9-4 season after being picked to finish last in the Big 12.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oakland Athletics and their design teams released renderings Tuesday of the club’s planned $1.5 billion stadium in Las Vegas that show five overlapping layers with a similar look to the famous Sydney Opera House. The A’s hope to move into that 33,000-seat domed stadium in 2028. A glass window beyond the outfield provides an outdoor feel with views of the Las Vegas Strip. Also included is an 18,000-square-foot video board, which would be the largest in Major League Baseball, and layered roof resembling the Sydney Opera House.
UNDATED (AP) — Three big-name starting pitchers are dealing with injuries that could cause them to miss the beginning of the regular season — and potentially more. Houston’s Justin Verlander, St. Louis’ Sonny Gray and Boston’s Lucas Giolito are all ailing at spring training. Verlander will start the season on the injured list after being slowed by inflammation in his shoulder. Gray has a hamstring strain that caused him to leave his Grapefruit League start on Monday. And Giolito reported discomfort in his pitching elbow following a start last week when he was roughed up.
TUESDAY SCORES
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (3)Purdue 77 (12)Illinois 71
Final (7)North Carolina 84 Notre Dame 51
Final (13)Auburn 101 Missouri 74
Final (14)Kansas 90 Kansas St. 68
Final Florida 105 (16)Alabama 87
Final UNLV 62 (21)San Diego St. 58
Final (24)South Florida 85 Tulane 72
Final (25)Dayton 100 Saint Louis 83
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Final Miami 2 Houston 0
Final St. Louis 5 Minnesota 4
Final Baltimore 3 Philadelphia 2
Final Atlanta 3 Detroit 0
Final Pittsburgh 6 Toronto 5
Final N.Y. Mets 5 N.Y. Yankees 4
Final Kansas City 4 Chicago Cubs 0
Final L.A. Angels 4 L.A. Dodgers 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Boston 7 Tampa Bay 4
Final Cleveland 4 Seattle 1
Final Texas 10 Seattle 9
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Arizona 5 San Diego 3
Final San Francisco 13 Milwaukee 8
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Orlando 101 Charlotte 89
Final New Orleans 139 Toronto 98
Final Atlanta 116 New York 100
Final Miami 118 Detroit 110
Final Cleveland 105 Boston 104
Final Brooklyn 112 Philadelphia 107
Final Houston 114 San Antonio 101
Final Indiana 137 Dallas 120
Final OT Phoenix 117 Denver 107
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Pittsburgh 5 Columbus 3
Final Florida 5 New Jersey 3
Final N-Y Islanders 4 St. Louis 2
Final OT Edmonton 2 Boston 1
Final Seattle 4 Winnipeg 3
Final OT Montreal 4 Nashville 3
Final Chicago 5 Arizona 2
Final OT Vancouver 2 Los Angeles 1