UM women dominate Florida State in paint

The Miami women’s basketball team used an electric second-half performance to beat in-state rival Florida State on Sunday, scoring a season-best 48 points in the paint for a 68-53 win at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables.

Four Hurricanes scored in double-figures, paced by junior Naomi Mbandu, who finished the afternoon with 16 points. The Tarbes, France, native shot 7 of 11 from the field and added seven rebounds and four assists to her stat line.

Seniors Taylor Mason (15), Endia Banks (12) and

Kelsey Marshall (12) were others who scored in double figures for the Canes (8-7, 5-7 ACC).

With the win, head coach

Katie Meier reached the 300-win mark at UM.

“It was a great team effort,” Meier said. “They earned it and worked hard and stayed faithful. I’m really proud that we came out against a big rival, didn’t panic and trusted each other.”

Redshirt junior Destiny Harden dominated the boards for the Canes, hauling in 12 rebounds for her third-career double-digit rebounding effort.

FSU (6-5, 5-5) was held to a season-low in points.

ETC.

Men’s college basketball:

● Jermaine Samuels scored a career-high 32 points to lead host No. 3 Villanova to an 84-74 victory over Georgetown. Jeremiah Robinson-Earl added 14 points and Collin Gillespie had 12 for the Wildcats (12-2, 7-1 Big East), who rebounded from Wednesday’s loss at St. John’s. Jahvon Blair scored 18 points and Qudus Wahab had 17 for Georgetown (5-9, 3-6) . ... Armaan Franklin made a 15-footer with 1.8 seconds left, giving host Indiana a 67-65 victory and a season sweep of No. 8 Iowa. Franklin finished with four points as the Hoosiers (10-8, 5-6 Big Ten) ended a two-game losing streak.

Luka Garza scored 16 of his 18 points for Iowa (13-6, 7-5) in the second half, including 12 straight during the closing minutes . ... Ben Krikke scored 15 points and host Valparaiso (7-12, 4-6 Missouri Valley) handed No. 25 Drake (18-1, 9-1) its first loss of the season with a 74-57 romp. The defeat by the Bulldogs (18-1, 9-1 Missouri Valley) left No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 Baylor as the only remaining major college teams still undefeated this season. A day after Valparaiso (7-12, 4-6) squandered a double-digit lead in the second half and lost to Drake 80-77, the Crusaders pulled away for just their second victory over a ranked opponent since beating Mississippi in the 1998 NCAA tournament.

Soccer: Super sub Lionel Messi scored one goal and set up another to help Barcelona earn a thrilling

3-2 win at Real Betis in the Spanish league. Zlatan Ibrahimovic took his tally to more than 500 club goals as he scored twice to help AC Milan beat Crotone 4-0 and move back top of the Serie A standings . ... Manchester City dismantled Liverpool, aided by Alisson Becker’s uncharacteristic goalkeeping blunders, to win 4-1 and inflict the Premier League champions’ third successive loss at the former fortress of Anfield.

... Canada forward Jonathan David scored both goals as Lille won 2-0 at struggling Nantes to top the French league. Lille restored its two-point lead over Lyon.

Winter sports: Germany’s ● Francesco Friedrich

rolled to a seventh consecutive world two-man bobsled championship, teaming with brakeman Alexander Schueller to win gold overfellow Germans Johannes Lochner and Eric Franke

by 2.05 seconds at Altenberg, Germany . ... Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger

ended this season in her usual spot, atop the women’s luge world after clinching her eighth World Cup overall championship with a 13th-place finish in the season finale in St. Moritz, Switzerland . ... Nico Gleirscher of Austria won the final men’s World Cup luge race of the season, holding off Germans Max Langenhan and Felix

Loch for the victory at St. Moritz, Switzerland.