No. 23 West Virginia upset by Creighton

Agnew leads way in Cancun, 82-75

Jaylyn Agnew scored a career-high 34 points with six 3-pointers, Tatum Rembao had 19 points, nine rebounds and 10 assists, and Creighton beat women’s No. 23 West Virginia 82-75 on Thursday in the Cancun Challenge.

Agnew scored 23 points in the first half to help Creighton take a 43-41 lead at the break, and she finished 13 of 19 from the field, including 6 of 11 3-pointers. She entered averaging 18.2 points per game with scoring games of 23, 25 and 26 points.

Olivia Elger added 17 points, including four 3-pointers, for Creighton (5-1).

Tynice Martin led West Virginia (4-1) with 19 points, nine rebounds and four assists. Kirsten Deans scored 14 points and Kysre Gondrezick had 12. The Mountaineers play New Mexico on Friday.

Michigan

Eli Brooks and his Michigan teammates kept rolling off screens, whipping the ball past defenders and burying shots with ease against a flummoxed highly ranked opponent. “Share the game,” first-year coach Juwan Howard calls it. The plan is working perfectly, too, for these new-look Wolverines — who took down sixth-ranked North Carolina to give Howard his first marquee win. Brooks matched his career high with 24 points and Michigan ran off 19 unanswered points in the second half to score a big upset, beating the Tar Heels, 73-64, to reach the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game. Michigan will face No. 8 Gonzaga Friday in the title game. Gonzaga beat No. 11 Oregon, 7372, in overtime in the second semifinal.

Isaiah Livers added 12 points for the Wolverines (6-0), who led by five early in the second half before exploding for a huge run that turned the matchup into an unexpected rout. Then the Wolverines held on durtng the Tar Heels’ frantic rally in the final 8 minutes. Freshman Cole Anthony had 22 points and seven rebounds to lead UNC (5-1), which shot 43%.

Iowa

Jordan Bohannon had 20 points and six assists, Luka Garza added 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Iowa held off No. 12 Texas Tech, 72-61, in the third round of the Las Vegas Invitational. Iowa (5-1) will play in the championship game Friday night against San Diego State or Creighton.

Joe Wieskamp had 16 points and six rebounds for the Hawkeyes, and CJ Fredrick scored 10. His 3-pointer off a broken play as the shot clock expired put Iowa up 6459 with 1:29 left. He followed that up with two free throws with 1:07 remaining to put it away. Chris Clarke had 11 points and 10 rebounds off the bench for Texas Tech (5-1), which lost Big 12 leading scorer Jahmi’us Ramsey to a leg injury with 10:06 to play.

Arkansas Pine-Bluff

Arkansas-Pine Bluff women’s basketball player Sierra’Li Wade died following a shooting in her hometown. Liz Chapman, a corporal in the Arkansas Department of Public Safety, said in a release that the shooting occurred Monday in Henry Augustus Johnson Park in Lake Village, Arkansas. Police in southeast Arkansas have identified a suspect in a drive-by shooting that killed Wade and injured her brother. Lake Village Police Chief Percy Wilburn says authorities are searching for 41-year-old Octavius Easterling in connection with Monday’s shooting death of Wade.