NCAA will no longer use RPI
The NCAA is ditching the RPI for its own evaluation tool to select teams for the NCAA basketball tournament.
The NCAA Evaluation Tool will rely on game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency and quality of wins and losses.
NET will be used for the 2018-19 season by the committee that selects schools and seeds the tournament.
The NCAA has used the RPI since 1981 to help the NCAA tournament selection committee pick at-large teams, seeding and bracketing teams each March.
San Diego State basketball coach coach Brian Dutcher signed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at the school through the 202223 season.
The winner-take-all match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson is on.
WarnerMedia says it has secured the rights for a pay-per-view event. It will be 18 holes between Woods and Mickelson held Thanksgiving weekend at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas. The winner will receive $9 million.
Li Na, who could become the first player from Asia elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is one of eight Grand Slam title winners who are candidates for the class of 2019, a list that includes Goran Ivanisevic, Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Conchita Martinez.
A former South American soccer official convicted on corruption charges in the sprawling FIFA bribery scandal was sentenced in federal court in New York to four years in prison.
Jose Maria Marin, a former president of Brazil’s soccer federation, also was ordered to forfeit $3.3 million and pay a $1.2-million fine in connection with his participation in a scheme to accept bribes in exchange for the media and marketing rights to various soccer tournaments, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
UCLA senior defender Hailie Mace, who scored in her international debut last April, was named to the 23-player U.S. women’s soccer team for two friendlies with Chile. — Kevin Baxter
A federal appeals court has upheld disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s 60-year prison sentence for possessing child pornography and destroying evidence.
Lawyers for Venus Williams must hire an expert to examine an iPhone that was in the tennis star’s SUV at the time of a deadly car crash last year, a judge ruled.
Ottawa Senators assistant general manager Randy Lee resigned amid charges of harassment stemming from an incident at the NHL scouting combine in May . ... Philadelphia Flyers center Sean Couturier is out four weeks after injuring his knee for the second time in five months. General manager Ron Hextall said that Couturier was injured Aug. 10 during an offseason exhibition game.
Honolulu defeated Staten Island, N.Y., 10-0 in five innings to clinch a spot in the U.S. championship game in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.