THE HOT CORNER

1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Joe Williams, who coached Artis Gilmore and tiny Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA Tournament championship game against mighty UCLA, died Saturday. He was 88. Williams, who also coached at Furman and Florida State, died in Enterprise, Mississippi. Led by the 7-foot-2 Gilmore and unranked to start the season, JU beat Western Kentucky, Iowa, Kentucky and St. Bonaventure on their way to the championship game.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Arizona 2

State has hired Natasha Adair as its next women’s basketball coach. The school announced Sunday the former Delaware coach will replace Charli Turner Thorne, who retired earlier this month. A former player at South Florida, Adair spent the past five seasons at Delaware, where she went 95-58 with consecutive 20win seasons.

CYCLING: Sergio Higuita of

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Colombia won the Catalonia Volta after protecting his lead over Richard Carapaz on Sunday’s seventh and final stage in Barcelona. … Biniam Girmay produced the biggest win of his career by outsprinting his breakaway companions in the one-day Gent-wevelgem classic race on Sunday in Belgium.

AUTO RACING: AJ Allmendinger 4 and Kaulig Racing scored their first victory of the season Saturday in the Xfinity Series race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. It was Allmendinger’s first win through six races this season, and the first for Kaulig. Austin Hill finished second for Richard Childress Racing to give Chevrolet a 1-2 sweep.

PRO HOCKEY: The Toronto Maple 5

Leafs signed forward Nicholas Abruzzese to a two-year, entrylevel contract Saturday. Abruzzese had nine goals and 24 assists in 28 games this season for Harvard. He had a goal and three assists in four games in the Beijing Olympics.