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Garza reaches 2,000 points as Iowa tops Michigan State 84-78 No. 2 Baylor stays unbeaten, dispatches No. 6 Texas AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 3, (AP): Davion Mitchell scored 27 points and No. 2 Baylor used a big run to pull away NHL Results/Standings for an 83-69 victory over sixth-ranked Texas. Baylor (17-0, 9-0 Big 12) has won WASHINGTON, Feb 3, (AP): Results and every game this season by at least eight standings from the NHL games on Tues- points. Texas (11-4, 5-3) was within day. six points late before Baylor pulled Dallas 6 Columbus 3 away behind open 3-pointers from Montreal 5 Vancouver 3 Winnipeg 3 Calgary 2 Adam Flagler and Mitchell. St Louis 4 Arizona 3 Andrew Jones scored a career-high Carolina 4 Chicago SO 3 25 points for the Longhorns, who Colorado 2 Minnesota 1 Anaheim 3 Los Angeles 1 were back to full strength after going Edmonton 4 Ottawa 2 without two starters and coach Shaka East Division Smart in a loss to Oklahoma last week GP W L OT Pts GF GA because of COVID-19. Texas also had Philadelphia 10 7 2 1 15 35 31 Washington 10 6 1 3 15 38 34 two games postponed and another can- Boston 9 6 1 2 14 30 20 celed. Pittsburgh 10 5 4 1 11 30 37 Baylor has won 10 of its last 11 New Jersey 9 4 3 2 10 23 26 Buffalo 10 4 4 2 10 30 32 against Texas. The Bears matched the NY Islanders 9 3 4 2 8 19 24 best start in school history and took a NY Rangers 9 3 4 2 8 25 26 three-game lead in the Big 12 stand- Central Division ings. GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 7 6 1 0 12 22 13 Iowa 84, Michigan State 78 Florida 6 5 0 1 11 22 16 In Iowa City, Iowa, Luka Garza Dallas 7 5 1 1 11 29 17 Tampa Bay 7 5 1 1 11 24 16 scored 27 points to reach another mile- Columbus 11 4 4 3 11 27 34 stone and Iowa beat Michigan State. Chicago 11 3 4 4 10 29 35 Garza, the nation’s leading scorer, Nashville 9 4 5 0 8 22 29 Detroit 10 2 6 2 6 20 35 became the second 2,000-point scorer West Division in program history. Garza, who has GP W L OT Pts GF GA 2,009 points, is 107 points behind all- St Louis 10 7 2 1 15 36 32 time leading scorer Roy Marble. Colorado 11 7 3 1 15 38 24 Minnesota 11 6 5 0 12 30 30 Jack Nunge fi nished with 12 points. Vegas 7 5 1 1 11 23 17 Joe Toussaint had 10. The Hawkeyes Anaheim 11 4 5 2 10 19 28 (13-4, 7-3 Big Ten) had 39 bench Los Angeles 9 3 4 2 8 26 29 Arizona 9 3 5 1 7 23 26 points. San Jose 8 3 5 0 6 22 31 North Division Columbus Blue Jackets’ Max Domi, (right), shoots on Dallas Stars’ Jake Oettinger, (left), as Roope Hintz defends during the second period of an NHL Aaron Henry led Michigan State GP W L OT Pts GF GA hockey game, on Feb 2, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP) (8-7, 2-7) with 24 points. Joshua Lang- Montreal 10 7 1 2 16 44 27 Toronto 10 7 2 1 15 33 29 ford had 15 points. Joey Hauser scored Winnipeg 10 6 3 1 13 35 31 10. Edmonton 12 6 6 0 12 42 43 Vancouver 13 6 7 0 12 45 48 Mississippi 52, Tennessee 50 Calgary 9 4 4 1 9 26 23 In Oxford, Miss., Devontae Shuler Ottawa 10 1 8 1 3 24 48 scored 15 points and fueled a second- Note: Two points for a win one point for half rally as Mississippi beat Tennes- overtime loss. The top four teams in each Pavelski tallies twice as division will qualify for playoffs under this see, the Rebels’ fi rst win over a ranked season’s temporary realignment. team in more than two years. two free throws with 6.4 seconds re- BASKETBALL maining and finished with 18 points as West Virginia held on to beat Ole Miss (9-8, 4-6 Southeastern Iowa State. Stars beat Blue Jackets Conference) rallied from an 11-point Sherman was 5 of 7 from the fl oor fi rst-half defi cit and then withstood a and made 7 of 8 shots from the line to late challenge by the Volunteers (12-4, lead the Mountaineers (12-5, 5-3 Big 8-4) to stop a two-game skid. 12). Backes, Deslauriers send Ducks past Kings 3-1 in Freeway Faceoff Trailing by fi ve points in the fi nal Solomon Young returned after miss- minute, Tennessee cut it to 51-49 on ing two games due to COVID-related Keon Johnson’s 3-pointer with 42 issues and scored 15 points. Tyler Har- COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb 3, stopped 29 of 31 shots for his second seconds left. Shuler worked the clock ris also scored 15 points for Iowa State win of the season. Calgary’s David (AP): Joe Pavelski had two Rittich turned away 25 of 28 shots. down but missed on a drive, and John- (2-10, 0-7). goals and an assist, rookie son grabbed an offensive rebound and Wisconsin 72, Penn State 56 Hurricanes 4, Blackhawks 3 was fouled. In Madison, Wisconsin, freshman Jake Oettinger made 23 In Chicago, Andrei Svechnikov He missed the fi rst free throw with Jonathan Davis scored a career-high saves and the Dallas Stars scored in regulation and again in the 3.5 seconds left but made the second 17 points and Wisconsin routed Penn beat the Columbus Blue shootout, and the Hurricanes beat the to make it 51-50. The Vols quickly State. Blackhawks. fouled Robert Allen, who made 1 of 2 Brad Davison added 13 points Jackets 6-3. Warren Foegele had a goal and an foul shots. for the Badgers (14-5, 8-4 Big Ten), Pavelski, a 15-year NHL vet- assist in his return to the lineup, help- Yves Pons led the Vols with 13 whose 13-game winning streak over eran, was in the right place at the ing Carolina win for the sixth time in points. the Nittany Lions ended with an 81-71 right time to tip in a pair of long its fi rst seven games. Vincent Tro- Illinois 75, Indiana 71, OT loss at Penn State on Saturday. Micah check also scored, and captain Jordan shots by John Klingberg, and then Staal had two assists. In Bloomington, Ill., Trent Frazier Potter added 12 points and eight re- delivered the pass that set up Jamie scored Illinois’ fi nal 10 points in regu- bounds. Svechnikov had the only success- lation, and the Fighting Illini gave up Myreon Jones scored 14 points and Benn’s second-period goal as the ful attempt in the shootout, closing only one basket in overtime to outlast John Harrar added 10 for Penn State Stars snapped a two-game skid. out the victory after James Reimer Indiana. (6-8, 3-7). Pavelski has a team-leading seven turned away Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Frazier finished with 19 points goals and 13 points for the Stars, who Kane and Dylan Strome for Chicago. Kansas 74, Kansas St. 51 improved to 5-1-1 after being forced to Kane, Strome and Phillipp Kurashev and Kofi Cockburn had 16 points In Lawrence, Kansas, Christian and 10 rebounds for Illinois (12-5, delay the start of the season due to a scored in regulation for the Black- Braun hit four 3-pointers and scored COVID-19 outbreak. hawks, and Kevin Lankinen made 38 8-3 Big Ten), which won its third 18 points, half of them during an 18-3 straight overall and snapped a seven- saves. DeBrincat and Dominik Kuba- charge midway through the second lik each had two assists. game losing streak on the Hoosiers’ half, and Kansas rolled past Kansas ICE HOCKEY home court. State. Blues 4, Coyotes 3 Trayce Jackson-Davis had 19 points In St. Louis, Ryan O’Reilly and David McCormack also had 18 Denis Gurianov, Radek Faksa and and 14 rebounds for the Hoosiers (9-8, points and Ochai Agbaji added 15 for Vince Dunn scored to lead the Blues to 4-6), who have dropped two straight. Alexander Radulov also scored for a win over the Coyotes. the Jayhawks (12-6, 6-4 Big 12), who Dallas. Benn picked up two assists. Race Thompson had 18 points and had lost four of their previous fi ve Jordan Binnington made 30 saves eight rebounds. games. Ducks 3, Kings 1 and St. Louis earned its fourth straight Illinois hadn’t won at Assembly Kansas improved to 200-94 against In Los Angeles, Danton Heinen win. Hall since 2010. and David Backes scored, and the Justin Faulk and Mike Hoffman also the Wildcats (5-14, 1-9), the most wins Los Angeles Kings center Jeff Carter (77) defends against Anaheim Ducks W. Virginia 76, Iowa St. 72 by any Division I school over another Ducks snapped a three-game losing scored for the Blues, who outshot Ari- streak with a victory over the Kings defenseman Cam Fowler (4) during the second period of an NHL hockey In Ames, Iowa, Taz Sherman hit in men’s college hoops. The Jayhawks game, on Feb 2, in Los Angeles. (AP) zona 31-22 after being outshot 11-1 in have won 15 consecutive games in the first Freeway Faceoff of the the fi rst 11 minutes of the game. against their longtime rivals in Allen season. kar had an assist for the Avalanche, in the North Division. Eight of Tof- Darcy Kuemper made 28 saves for Fieldhouse. John Gibson made 20 saves and who have earned fi ve of a possible foli’s nine goals this season have come Arizona, which has not won consecu- Nicolas Deslauriers had an empty- Mike McGuirl scored 10 points for six points in the third of four straight against the Canucks. tive games this season. net goal for the Ducks, who got only Kansas State, but was just 3 of 10 from games against the Wild. Toffoli added an assist on Jeff Pet- Christian Dvorak had two goals and their fourth victory of the season in the Nick Schmaltz added a score for the the fi eld and 1 for 6 from beyond the Kirill Kaprizov scored and Cam ry’s empty-net goal. arc. Nijel Pack followed his 26-point 152nd edition of this Southern Califor- Coyotes. nia rivalry. Talbot had 29 saves for Minnesota. Montreal forward Nick Suzuki outburst against Texas A&M with 10 Colorado leading scorer and first- had two assists. Weber had an assist Oilers 4, Senators 2 points. Arthur Kaliyev scored a goal in In Edmonton, Alberta, Jesse Pulju- the 19-year-old’s NHL debut for the line center Nathan MacKinnon is on Toffoli’s second goal, giving the Maryland 61, Purdue 60 out with a lower-body injury that 35-year-old defenseman seven points jarvi scored two goals and the Oilers In College Park, Md., Eric Ayala Kings, who have lost two straight. Cal beat the Senators to complete a sweep Petersen stopped 40 shots in a strong will keep him sidelined week-to- (two goals, fi ve assists) in 10 games made two free throws with three sec- week, the team said earlier Tuesday. this season. of the teams’ two-game set. onds left, and Maryland scored the performance for Los Angeles. It was the fi rst time in more than One year and one day after the last MacKinnon was hurt Sunday against Jets 3, Flames 2 fi nal six points to rally past Purdue, ru- the Wild and it adds to an already two years that Puljujarvi scored in the ining the Boilermakers’ season debut matchup between these struggling ri- In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Nikolaj NHL. vals, they picked up right where they long list of players who have been Ehlers’ fi rst-period goal was the even- in the Top 25. injured. Darnell Nurse and Leon Draisaitl Aaron Wiggins had 18 points and left off with a fi ght between Kurtis tual game-winner and the Jets held on also scored for Edmonton. Connor 11 rebounds for Maryland (10-8, 4-7) MacDermid and Deslauriers off the Canadiens 5, Canucks 3 for a win over the Flames in the second McDavid and Tyson Barrie each had a and Ayala scored 16. The Terps went 8 opening faceoff. In Montreal, Tyler Toffoli and Josh game of a three-game set. pair of assists. for 13 from beyond the arc in the sec- Avalanche 2, Wild 1 Anderson each scored twice, and the Trevor Lewis and Derek Forbort Cedric Paquette scored in the second Texas forward Greg Brown (right), ond half after going 1 for 12 from long In Denver, Philipp Grubauer Canadiens celebrated captain Shea also scored for Winnipeg, which lost period and rookie Tim Stutzle added a scores over Baylor forward Jona- range over the fi rst 20 minutes. stopped 27 shots to lead the short- Weber’s 1,000th game with a win over to Calgary in a shootout a night earlier. late goal for the struggling Senators, than Tchamwa Tchatchoua (23) Trevion Williams had 23 points and handed Avalanche to a win over the the Canucks. Matthew Tkachuk scored twice for who dipped to 1-8-1. during the second half of an NCAA 11 rebounds for the Boilermakers (12- Wild. The Canadiens swept a two-game Calgary. Mikko Koskinen had 23 saves for college basketball game, on Feb 2, 7, 7-5), whose three-game road win- Logan O’Connor and Valeri set with Vancouver and moved a point Both clubs played their backup the Edmonton. Ottawa’s Marcus Hog- in Austin, Texas. (AP) ning streak ended. Nichushkin scored, and Cale Ma- ahead of idle Toronto into fi rst place goalies. Winnipeg’s Laurent Brossoit berg stopped 21 of 25 shots. Osaka advances in Gippsland Trophy Townsend scores 18 points Serena keeps rolling in tuneup for No. 19 Gonzaga women beat MELBOURNE, Feb 3, (AP): It’s a garian rallied in the second set and saved making her revival. rare thing for to play three match points before Williams fi n- Italy and Russia were the fi rst teams BYU for 15th straight victory a tournament the week leading into ished it off with a powerful service return to reach the ATP Cup semifi nals. SPOKANE, Washington, Feb 3, a pair of 3s. Truong, who had 17 one of the tennis Grand Slams. forcing an error. Fabio Fognini beat Benoit Paire 6-1, assists in the last two games in- Now that she’s at Melbourne Park, Williams was later asked when was 7-6 (2) before Matteo Berrettini de- (AP): Jill Townsend scored 18 she’s making the most of the Yarra the last time she played a warmup tour- feated Gael Monfi ls 6-4, 6-2 to clinch points, Kayleigh Truong added 11 cluding a career-high nine against Valley Classic to prepare for next nament so close to a major. Italy’s win over France. Italy now has and No. 19 Gonzaga held off BYU Saint Mary’s week’s Australian Open. The U.S. Open, last year, was her two wins from two starts in Group C. for a 63-56 victory for its 15th on Saturday, The 23-time major champion short answer. Then she elaborated. Daniil Medvedev secured Russia’s straight win. had one of the beat Tsvetana Pironkova 6-1, 6-4 on win over Japan when he beat Kei Ni- Bulldogs’ nine Wednesday to advance to the quarterfi - TENNIS shikori 6-2, 6-4. Russia is on top of BASKETBALL assists. nals. She’s still on track for a semifi nal Group D with wins over Argentina and Paisley match against top-ranked Ash Barty. Japan. Johnson Hard- Williams had a tough win over Williams won her last major title In Wednesday’s other matches, Pironkova in last year’s U.S. Open at the , when Germany opened with a win over Can- The Bulldogs (16-2, 11-0 West ing scored 17 quarterfi nals, and then withdrew from she was pregnant with her daughter, ada, with Jan-Lennard Struff down- Coast Conference) entered the points to lead their scheduled second-round match at Olympia. She’s still chasing Margaret ing Milos Raonic 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) and fourth quarter with a 10-point BYU (9-3, the because of an Achil- Court’s all-time record of 24 Grand United States’ Serena Williams Alexander Zverev holding off Denis lead before BYU tied it at 54 on 5-2). Gonzales makes a return to Bul- Townsend les injury. Slam singles titles. garia’s Tsvetana Pironkova during Shapovalov 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (4). Shaylee Gonzales’ 3-pointer with had 12 points. That injury kept Williams out of Barty looked like the top-ranked a tuneup event ahead of the Aus- U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka 1:54 remaining. Cierra Walker Gonzaga outscored the Cougars competitive tennis until last week. She player in the fi rst set, then struggled for tralian Open tennis championships advanced in the Gippsland Trophy, but answered with consecutive 3s be- 20-9 in the second quarter and led played her opening matches in Austra- a while in a 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 win over No. in Melbourne, Australia, on Feb 3. needed three sets after a slow start. tween between a BYU turnover to 34-22 at halftime. lia in a long-sleeve top. 52-ranked Marie Bouzkova. (AP) Osaka had a fi rst-round bye and But it was warmer Wednesday, and Barty will play Shelby Rogers in the dropped only four games en route to help Gonzaga pull away. BYU hosts Pepperdine on Williams came out hot. She won the fi rst quarterfi nals. Sofi a Kenin fended off Jessica Pegula her second-round win, so a 3-6, 6-3, Walker fi nished with nine points Thursday. Gonzaga plays at set in 28 minutes and made Pironkova On the bottom half of the draw, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 in a spirited comeback. 6-1 win over No. 371-ranked Katie on three 3-pointers. Townsend was home against San Francisco on struggle for almost every point. The Bul- defending Australian Open champion Kenin was a set and trailed 4-1 before Boulter was a change of pace. 6-of-13 shooting and made a made Feb. 11.