Missouri women stun No. 1 South Carolina
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Lauren Hansen made a driving layup with 0.1 seconds left and Missouri stunned No. 1 South Carolina 70-69 in overtime Thursday night in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.
The Tigers (12-2) overcame the absence of scoring leader Aijha Blackwell and four other players to beat a No. 1 team for the first time in program history. It marked only the seventh time an unranked team has beaten the topranked team.
South Carolina (12-1) was coming off its biggest comeback in school history, overcoming an 18-point deficit to beat No. 2 Stanford last Tuesday. On Thursday night, the Tigers always had an answer when the Gamecocks cut it close.
Hansen and Hayley Frank each scored 21 points, LaDazhia Williams added 12, and Mama Dembele had 11. The Gamecocks trailed by as many as six in final three minutes of regulation.
Aliyah Boston scored 17 points for South Carolina. Kamilla Cardoso added 14, and Zia Cooke had 10.
The last time the Gamecocks lost a regular-season SEC game against an unranked team was to Missouri back in 2017.
No. 3 Louisville routs Boston College: Emily Engstler scored 14 points and Louisville beat Boston College 79-49 in the host Cardinals’ Atlantic Coast Conference opener.
No. 7 Tennessee tops Alabama: Jordan Walker scored 16 points, Tamari Key added 13 points and 11
rebounds and Tennessee downed Alabama 62-44 in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams at Knoxville, Tenn.
No. 19 LSU holds off No. 13 Georgia: Khayla Pointer scored 21 points, including two 3-pointers down the stretch, and LSU held off Georgia 68-62 after blowing a 16-point third-quarter lead in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams at Athens, Ga.
Faustine Aifuwa added 17 points for LSU (13-1). The Tigers won their 12th straight, their longest streak since winning 14 in a row in the 2007-08 season. Que Morrison had career highs of 26 points and 10 rebounds for Georgia (11-2).
Flagg carries Sam Houston past Lamar: Savion Flagg scored 22 points and Demarkus Lampley added 20 as the Sam Houston men defeated Lamar 75-64 in the Western Athletic Conference opener forboth teams at Huntsville.
Lincoln Smith scored a career-high 20 points for the Cardinals (2-12), whose losing streak stretched to five games.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Dodge named coach of the year
After finishing his coaching career with an unbeaten season and a state football championship, Austin Westlake’s Todd Dodge was named coach of the year by the National High School Coaches Association.
Dodge’s Chaparrals earned a state Class 6A championship three consecutive years and went 45-1 over that span.
NHL
Wild’s Evason gets extension
The Minnesota Wild signed coach Dean Evason and his staff to multiyear contract extensions.
Assistant coaches Darby Hendrickson, Brett McLean and Bob Woods, goaltending coach Frederic Chabot and video coaches T.J. Jindra and Jonas Plumb also were extended.