— Michigan 91, Arizona 73
Wolverines led 26-10 early; it was 48-32 at halftime.
Michigan has scored 90+ points in all five NCAA Tourney games.
Early line on the national title game is Michigan, -7.5
— UConn 71, Illinois 62
Huskies outscored Illinois 16-7 over last 6:11 of the first half.
Illinois made 6 of 26 shots behind the arc.
UConn is in national title game for third time in four years.
— Last 11 times a #1-seed played a non-#1-seed in the national title game, the #1-seed won 10 times, only exception being when Villanova beat North Carolina in 2016.
— Oklahoma 82, Baylor 69
Sooners advance to the finals of the Crown tournament in Las Vegas
Baylor led 52-51 with 11:41 left in the game.
Xzayvier Brown scored 21 points, had 6 rebounds, 6 assists.
— West Virginia 87, Creighton 70
West Virginia shot 63.9% inside arc, scored 1.29 ppp
DJ Thomas scored 20 points in 21:00 off the bench.
West Virginia-Oklahoma is the final of the Crown tourney Sunday
— Famous birthdays, April 5th:
Michael Moriarty, 85
Oliver Luck, 66
Dale Hatcher, 63
Cris Carpenter, 61
Tony Banks, 53
Ike Hilliard, 50
Marc Bulger, 49
Stephen Jackson, 48
Justin Holiday, 37
Tetairoa McMillan, 23
— NHL’s Buffalo Sabres made the playoffs for the first time in 15 years; it is not that hard to make NHL playoffs, lot of teams do, but 2011 was last time Buffalo made it, so congrats to them.
— Reds 2, Rangers 0
Rhett Lowder gave up three hits in 6 IP, gets his first win since 2024.
Reds scored twice in the first inning, only runs of the game.
Texas only had one runner reach second base.
— Diamondbacks 2, Braves 1
Arizona’s only runs scored on a throwing error in the second inning.
Mike Soroka threw five IP, getting his second win of the season.
Arizona’s bullpen threw four perfect innings.
— Brewers 5-2, Royals 2-8
Garrett Mitchell knocked in five runs in the opener.
Royals scored six runs in 6th inning in nightcap, breaking 2-2 tie.
Milwaukee is off to a 6-2 start.
— White Sox 6, Blue Jays 3
Munetaka Murakami put Chicago ahead with his 4th homer of the year.
Both teams used an opener in this game.
— Movie of the Day: Hustle (2022)- A basketball scout discovers a phenomenal player while watching games on a playground in Spain; all he has to do is convince his bosses that the player is the scout’s ticket back into the NBA.
Adam Sandler is the scout, Queen Latifah is his wife, Robert Duvall has a cameo as the owner of the NBA team who dies suddenly, leaving his son in charge- the son doesn’t like the scout.
The basketball scenes are really well done; there are a lot of NBA players in this movie.
— Pirates 3, Orioles 2
Nick Yorke had a walk-off single for Pittsburgh.
Orioles led 2-1 after seven innings.
Pirates are off to a 5-3 start.
— Padres 3, Red Sox 2
Ramon Laureano had the game-winning hit in the ninth inning.
Cold day; was 43 degrees in Fenway, with 24 mph winds.
Red Sox are off to a slow start, losing six of first eight games.
— New York 9, Marlins 6
Marlins led 4-0 in the fifth inning.
Giancarlo Stanton knocked in the go-ahead runs in the 8th inning.
Xavier Edwards had three hits for the Marlins, is hitting. 467.
— Dodgers 10, Nationals 5
Freddie Freeman had four RBI in his first two at-bats.
Dodgers scored 23 runs in first two game of this series.
Andy Pages is hitting .500 (15 for 30) for Los Angeles.
