Illinois cruises past Longwood
Aaron Jordan scored 22 points, Trent Frazier added 20, and Illinois beat Longwood 92- 45 on Wednesday in Champaign.
Michael Finke scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds. He scored 14 of his 19 points in the first half.
Illinois ( 8- 4) finished the half on an 18- 4 run and entered the break with a 26- point lead.
Brad Davison’s free throw with two seconds left lifted Wisconsin to an 81- 80 win against visiting Western Kentucky. Ethan Happ and Brevin Pritzl scored 17 points each for Wisconsin ( 5- 7), which snapped a twogame losing streak.
Jalen Brunson had 22 of his career- high 31 points in Villanova’s dominating first half and Omari Spellman scored 27 to help lead the No. 1 Wildcats to an 87- 67 rout of host Temple.
The University of Louisville filed a counterclaim to former basketball coach Rick Pitino’s lawsuit and is seeking monetary damages from vacated games and bonuses.
NBA George ices win in return
Paul George made a winning return to Indiana, hitting the clinching free throws with 10.7 seconds left in the Thunder’s 10095 victory over the Pacers, who had their four- game win streak halted. Russell Westbrook finished with 10 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists for his ninth tripledouble this season.
Former Thunder guard Victor Oladipo led the Pacers with 19 points.
Celtics forward Gordon Hayward shed his walking boot, less than two months after his gruesome opening- night injury in Cleveland.
The NBA chose Indianapolis to host the 2021 AllStar Game.
MISCELLANEOUS Froome facing suspension
British cyclist Chris Froome failed a doping test during the Spanish Vuelta in September and is facing a suspension ahead of his attempt to win a record- tying fifth Tour de France title next year.
Froome had a concentration of asthma drug salbutamol two times higher than the World Anti- Doping Agency’s permitted levels.
Hall of Fame college football coach Lou Holtz is suing The Daily Beast over an article that claimed he called immigrants “deadbeats” at last year’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland.