Penn State knocks off Nebraska in overtime

WASHINGTON — With his cousin rapper Flavor Flav cheering loudly from the third row, Shep Garner scored seven of Penn State’s 16 points in overtime Wednesday, leading the Nittany Lions (15-17) to a 76-67 victory over Nebraska (12-19) in the opening game of the first Big Ten Tournament to be held in the nation’s capital.

Penn State never trailed and ended a five-game losing streak.

The 13th-seeded Nittany Lions advanced to face Michigan State in the second round.

Trevon Bluiett scored all 17 of his points in the second half and Xavier kept its hopes for an NCAA Tournament bid alive with a victory over DePaul in the first round of the Big East Tournament. The win was the seventh-seeded Musketeers’ (20-12) second in five days over DePaul (9-23), and it set up a second-round game today against No. 18 Butler, the second seed.

Kimbal Mackenzie scored 18 points to help send Bucknell (26-8) into the NCAA Tournament with a victory over Lehigh (20-12) in the Patriot League final. The Bison are back in the tournament for the first time since 2013 and seem ready to shake up the brackets one more time.

Kansas suspends Jackson for Big 12 tourney opener

Kansas suspended star freshman Josh Jackson for the opening game of the Big 12 Tournament Wednesday after he backed into a parked car and fled the scene, the latest in a string of distracting legal troubles for the top-ranked Jayhawks.

Jackson will miss today’s quarterfinal against eighthseeded TCU, but coach Bill Self said he would be eligible to play in the semifinals if the Jayhawks advance.

Jackson received three traffic citations for the Feb. 2 incident, and Self said the all-Big 12 forward has taken care of the legal fallout. But Jackson didn’t tell Self about any of it until this week.