UM women’s comeback falls short at North Carolina State
Saniya Rivers scored 14 points, Mimi Collins and Camille Hobby each added 11 points and No. 20 North Carolina State beat Miami 71-61 on Thursday night in Raleigh, North Carolina.
N.C. State led by as many as 18 points in the third quarter but Miami started the fourth on a 10-2 run, capped by back-toback three-pointers by Haley Cavinder and Hanna Cavinder, to get within 59-52.
Hobby and Rivers combined to score the next six points and N.C. State led by at least seven points the rest of the way.
The Wolfpack (14-5, 4-4 ACC) held the Hurricanes (12-7, 5-3) to their lowest scoring quarter of the season in the second frame to build a 35-19 halftime advantage. Miami was just 2-of-10 shooting in the second quarter and N.C.
State shot 53% in the half.
Lola Pendande scored 21 points and Haley Cavinder added 15 for Miami, which has the weekend off before playing Boston College on Jan. 26.
Elsewhere: Mike Brey needed only one season to turn Notre Dame from a forgotten program into an NCAA Tournament team. He spent the next 22 seasons chasing the school’s second Final Four appearance, and this season will be his last chance. On Thursday, school officials announced Brey would be stepping down at the end of this season after winning a school-record 481 games and leading the program for a school-record 23 years.
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Boxing: Casino Miami Jai Alai will have the first local boxing show of the year Saturday night when promoter Don King presents a scheduled eightbout card. Heavyweight contender Jonathan Guidry (18-1-2, 10 KOs) will defend his regional title against former world champion Bermane Stiverne
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College football: Longtime NFL defensive back
Patrick Surtain Sr. has landed his first college assistant coaching job. Surtain, a two-time All-Pro who played in the NFL for 11 seasons with the Dolphins and Chiefs, will join the Florida State staff as its defensive backs coach.
Golf: PGA Tour rookie
Davis Thompson played his first six holes in 7 under, including consecutive eagles, and shot a careerlow 10-under 62 at La Quinta, California, to take a two-stroke lead over Jon Rahm and four others after the first round of The American Express. Brooke Henderson enjoyed the opening day of a fresh LPGA season a whole lot more than the tough, waning days of last season. Henderson attacked Lake Nona in Orlando with six birdies for a 5-under 67 to take a one-shot lead over
Nelly Korda at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions.
Soccer: Federico Chiesa scored his first goal for Juventus in more than a year and the Bianconeri beat Silvio Berlusconi’s Monza 2-1 to reach the Italian Cup quarterfinals . ... Real Madrid appeared on the verge of elimination from the Copa del Rey, facing another demoralizing blow just days after losing the Spanish Super Cup final to rival Barcelona in Saudi Arabia. But with three goals in less than 30 minutes, Madrid rallied to overcome a two-goal deficit in the first half and defeated Villarreal 3-2 to advance to the Copa quarterfinals for the second straight season . ... Barcelona advanced with a 5-0 rout of third-division club Ceuta, with Robert Lewandowski scoring twice.
NBA: Milwaukee’s
Giannis Antetokounmpo has passed Brooklyn’s
Kevin Durant for the All-Star Game voting lead among Eastern Conference players, now putting him on track to be a captain for the Feb. 19 game in Salt
Lake City. LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers remains the overall voting leader, with 6,506,682 votes. James has been a captain in all five of the NBA’s previous uses of the format where the leading vote-getters from the Eastern and Western conferences get to pick their rosters from the other selections.