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8:55 PM on Friday, March 13

Cameron Boozer had 24 points, 14 rebounds and five assists and No. 1 Duke ran out to a 19-point halftime lead and held on to beat Clemson 73-61 on Friday night to advance to the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship game

8:54 PM on Friday, March 13

Kingston Flemings had 21 points and Chris Cenac Jr. finished with 17 points and 14 rebounds, helping No. 5 Houston dominate No. 14 Kansas 69-47 in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals on Friday night

8:37 PM on Friday, March 13

Donovan Dent had 23 points and 12 assists, Trent Perry scored 22 and UCLA held off No. 8 Michigan State 88-84 in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals despite losing star Tyler Bilodeau to a leg injury

8:34 PM on Friday, March 13

Sixth-ranked UConn and No. 13 St. John’s are ready for the rubber match

8:31 PM on Friday, March 13

Austin Wells’ only swing of the bat put the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic record book and the semifinal round

8:28 PM on Friday, March 13

The Arkansas men and Illinois women sit on top after the opening day of the Division I men’s and women’s indoor track and field championships at Randal Tyson Track Center

8:16 PM on Friday, March 13

Aaron Judge doubled and Pete Crow-Armstrong and Brice Turang each had two hits as the United States beat Canada 5-3 on Friday night to reach the World Baseball Classic semifinals

8:01 PM on Friday, March 13

Robert Thomas scored on a wrist shot with nine seconds left in overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 3-2 come-from-behind win over the Edmonton Oilers

7:59 PM on Friday, March 13

Rookie Peyton Anderson scored her first career goal to spark the Minnesota Frost to a 4-1 victory over the Seattle Torrent in the PWHL

7:51 PM on Friday, March 13

Kevin Durant hit a go-ahead 18-footer with 7.6 seconds left and the Houston Rockets outlasted the New Orleans Pelicans 107-105 on Friday night to move into third place in the crowded Western Conference

7:49 PM on Friday, March 13

Braylon Mullins scored 15 of his 21 points in the first half, Jayden Ross hit a couple of momentum-stunting 3-pointers in the second, and sixth-ranked UConn defeated Georgetown 67-51 to set up a showdown of the top two seeds in the Big East Tournament final

7:25 PM on Friday, March 13

7:06 PM on Friday, March 13

Arizona beats Iowa State 82 to 80 in a Big 12 Tournament semifinal after Jaden Bradley hits a last-second jumper

6:25 PM on Friday, March 13

Arizona’s Jaden Bradley hit a fall-away jumper at the buzzer, sending second-ranked Arizona to an 82-80 victory over No. 7 Iowa State in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals Friday night

6:24 PM on Friday, March 13

Austin Wells hit a walk-off three-run homer in the seventh inning that ended the game under a tournament rout rule, and the Dominican Republic beat South Korea 10-0 to reach the World Baseball Classic semifinals

6:17 PM on Friday, March 13

Ugonna Onyenso scored 17 points on 8-for-9 shooting, Thijs De Ridder and Sam Lewis each scored 16 points and No. 10 Virginia beat Miami 84-62 on Friday to advance to the ACC Tournament championship game for the first time since 2023

6:02 PM on Friday, March 13

Aryna Sabalenka, a two-time runner-up at Indian Wells, will get another shot at winning event after beating Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals

5:43 PM on Friday, March 13

Fletcher Loyer scored 19 points, Braden Smith collected 10 more assists and No. 18 Purdue beat No. 11 Nebraska 74-58 in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals

5:29 PM on Friday, March 13

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6:06 PM on Thursday, March 12

Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NHL season