VCU women capture title
BASEBALL
MLB spring training:
1 p.m.: Washington vs. St. Louis, MLBN
4 p.m.: Cincinnati vs. L.A. Angels, MLBN
BASKETBALL
College:
7 p.m.: NCAA women’s selection show, ESPN
8 p.m.: NCAA women’s selection show continues, ESPNU
NBA:
7 p.m.: Milwaukee at Washington, NBCSW
8:15 p.m.: New York at Brooklyn, ESPN 10:35 p.m.: L.A. Lakers at Golden State, ESPN
BOWLING
8 p.m.: PBA’s WSOB Cheetah Championship, FS1
CROSS COUNTRY
12:30 p.m.: NCAA Division I championship meet, ESPNU
HOCKEY
NHL:
4 p.m.: Nashville at Tampa Bay, NHLN
7 p.m.: Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, NBCSN
7 p.m.: Washington at Buffalo, NBCSW-Plus
College:
4 p.m.: National Collegiate Hockey
Conference semifinal, Minnesota Duluth vs. St. Cloud State, CBSSN 4:30 p.m.: Big Ten quarterfinal, Penn State vs. Wisconsin, BTN
8:30 p.m.: Big Ten semifinal, Ohio State-Michigan winner vs. Michigan State-Minnesota winner, BTN
9 p.m.: National Collegiate Hockey Conference semifinal, Denver vs. North Dakota, CBSSN
SKIING Noon:
Freestyle world championships, NBCSN
SOCCER Pro:
3:55 p.m.:
English Premier League: Liverpool at Wolverhampton, NBCSN
College:
Noon: Rutgers-Camden at Penn State, BTN
2 p.m.: Michigan State at Indiana, BTN
SOFTBALL 7 p.m.:
Mississippi State at Mississippi, SECN
TENNIS 6 a.m.:
Men’s Dubai and women’s
St. Petersburg (Russia) and Monterrey tournaments, Tennis Ch.
8 p.m.: Men’s Acapulco and women’s Monterrey tournaments, Tennis Ch.
VOLLEYBALL 4 p.m.:
Athletes Unlimited women’s competition, FS2
WOMEN
Atlantic 10 final
VCU 81, Massachusetts 69
RICHMOND — While their VCU counterparts were falling in the Atlantic 10 tournament final in Dayton, Ohio, the Rams’ women were celebrating on their home floor.
VCU won its first A-10 women’s tournament championship Sunday, securing its first berth in the NCAA tournament since 2009 with a home victory over UMass at Siegel Center. The Rams will learn their NCAA pairing tonight on ESPN.
Tournament Most Outstanding Player Taya Robinson, a senior, scored 19 points and matched a career-high with five 3-pointers.
All-tournament team selection Sarah Te-Biasu also scored 19 points, and the Rams set a season-high with 10 3-point baskets. Senior Tera Reed added 12 points, with 10 of those in the fourth quarter.
UMass’ Sydney Taylor led all scorers with 23 points, 15 in the second half.
Big 12 final
No. 6 Baylor 76,
No. 17 West Virginia 50
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Queen Egbo had 18 points and 11 rebounds as Baylor (25-2) won the Big 12 tournament for the ninth time in 10 years and extended its winning streak to 17 games.
Kirsten Deans scored 15 and Kysre Gondrezick had 13 for West Virginia (21-6).
Atlantic Sun final
No. 24 Fla. Gulf Coast 84, Liberty 62
KENNESAW, Ga. — Kierstan Bell had 30 points, nine rebounds and seven assists as top-seeded FGCU (26-2) cruised past the Flames (19-8) for the Atlantic Sun tournament title.
FGCU didn’t lose to a conference foe all season. Secondseeded Liberty got 25 points and nine rebounds from Emily Lytle.
Big South final
High Pt. 62, Campbell 46
HIGH POINT, N.C. — The Pointers (22-6) earned an NCAA tournament berth behind tournament MVP Jenson Edwards’ 19 points, six rebounds and five assists.
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Men
Big 12 final
No. 13 Texas 91,
No. 12 Oklahoma State 86
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Matt Coleman, a senior from Norfolk, poured in a career-high 30 points as the Longhorns won their first conference tournament championship since 1995.
After getting a free pass through the semifinals when Kansas withdrew due to a positive COVID-19 test, and avoiding mighty Baylor because of its loss to the Cowboys, coach Shaka Smart’s bunch took advantage of the situation Saturday night.
Jericho Simms had a careerbest 21 points to go with 14 rebounds, and the third-seeded Longhorns stayed poised during the tense final minutes to win for the first time in seven trips to the finals.
“This is a gift to everyone, whether they’ve supported us or not,” said Smart, whose future at Texas was in question after last season.
“We’ve earned just a little bit of respect from, well, anybody, you know?” Coleman said. “And not that we’re searching for respect. We knew in each other what we had, what we could do.”
Freshman star Cade Cunningham had 29 points to lead fifthseeded Oklahoma State (20-8).
Pac-12 final
Oregon State 70, No. 23 Colorado 68
LAS VEGAS — Maurice Calloo gave Oregon State an unexpected lift with 15 points as the Beavers won their first conference tournament title.
Oregon State (17-12) opened its first conference title game in 33 years with a flurry of 3-pointers and withstood a late push by Colorado (22-8) to become the first Pac-10⁄12 team to win the conference title after being picked to finish last.
McKinley Wright IV led the Buffaloes with 18 points.
Mountain West final
No. 19 San Diego State 68, Utah State 57
LAS VEGAS — San Diego State had lost the last two Mountain West tournament championship games to Utah State and hadn’t been to the NCAA tournament since 2018.
But Matt Mitchell scored 14 points to lead the Aztecs (23-4) to the title. Neemias Queta led the Aggies (20-8) with 18 points, six rebounds and three blocks.
American semifinal No. 7 Houston 76, Memphis 74
FORT WORTH, Texas — Justin Gorham scored 15 points, including four free throws in the final 27 seconds, as Houston advanced to its third consecutive American Athletic Conference tournament final.
Boogie Ellis had 27 points for Memphis (16-8), but he had a huge turnover with 49 seconds left, falling down with the ball when trying to respond to Gorham’s nifty one-handed reverse layup with just more than a minute left that had put the Cougars up 72-71.
Gorham added two free throws with 27 seconds left, and two more with four seconds left.
Conference USA final N. Texas 61, WKU 57, OT
FRISCO, Texas — Javion Hamlet scored six of his 20 points after regulation, including the go-ahead basket with 13.9 seconds left, and North Texas won the Conference USA tournament over Western Kentucky.
The Mean Green (17-9) earned its first NCAA tournament berth since winning the Sun Belt tournament in 2010.
Jordan Rawls of Western Kentucky (20-7) hit a 3-pointer to open the scoring in OT and there were three lead changes and three ties before Hamlet’s left-handed runner in the lane made it 59-57. Thomas Bell blocked a potential tying layup by Taveion Hollingsworth with four seconds left before James Reese made two free throws to cap the scoring.