— Arkansas 105, Texas 85
Razorbacks led 56-34 at halftime.
Darius Acuff scored 28 points, had 13 assists.
Arkansas shot 11-19 on arc, scored 1.33 ppp.
— Florida State 75, Pittsburgh 74
Florida State led by 24 early in 2nd half, hung on for dear life.
Seminoles have quietly won eight of their last 10 games.
Pittsburgh lost seven of its last nine games.
— Colorado State 82, New Mexico 74
February 1st, Colorado State was 12-10.
Since then, Rams have won eight games in a row.
Colorado State shot 13-16 inside the arc.
Lobos slip into a tie for 2nd in MW with San Diego State.
— Purdue 70, Northwestern 66
Northwestern led by 11 late in the first half.
Purdue shot 68% inside arc, had 29-15 edge on boards.
Just second win in last five games for the Boilermakers.
— Famous birthdays, March 5th:
Phil Roof, 85
Joe Scarpati, 83
Rocky Bleier, 80
Kent Tekulve, 79
Michael Irvin, 60
Roman Phifer, 58
Grain Grant, 54
Eva Mendes, 53
Paul Konerko, 50
Wally Szczerbiak, 49
Kyle Schwarber, 33
Bo Bichette, 28
Tanner Bibee, 27
Justin Fields, 27
— College/minor league sports have become a little weird.
There are 16 teams in the SEC; on those 16 teams this season, there is only one senior who started his college career with that team- Shawn Jones at Mississippi State. No one stays in school four years, and if they do, they bolt for greener pa$ture$ at some point.
— College basketball coaching news
Tennessee Tech fired John Pelphrey, who had coached there seven years. Tech hasn’t been to the NCAA’s since 1963; they’re moving up to the Southern Conference next year.
Providence fired Kim English, who is 47-50 in three years with the Friars, 13-26 the last two years in conference games.
— NFL announced that Cardinals-Panthers will be the Hall of Fame Game in August.
— New England Patriots are going to release WR Stefon Diggs next week, saving them $16.8M on the salary cap. Diggs caught 85 passes for 1,013 yards with New England last year, scoring four touchdowns.
— Houston Astros SS Jeremy Pena went for X-rays today on an injured finger; he is meeting with a hand specialist Thursday in West Palm Beach.
Pena is playing for the Dominican Republic in the WBC; Astros lost Jose Altuve with a broken finger in the WBC three years ago.
— Australia 3, Chinese Taipei 0
First game in this year’s World Baseball Classic
Travis Bazzana homered for Australia.
Aussies play Czechia Thursday night at 10:00.
— Word of the Day:
Nefarious- Someone who is evil or immoral, or both.
— St Joe’s 70, Davidson 67
Hawks have won five in a row, 12 of last 15 games.
St Joe’s had 41-27 edge on the boards.
Davidson was only 9-31 on arc, 8-16 on the foul line.
— Miami 77, SMU 69
Hurricanes’ bench outscored SMU’s subs, 27-4.
Miami has won seven of its last eight games.
SMU lost its last three games, giving up 81.7 ppg.
— Horizon tournament:
Favorites won/covered three of the four games.
Only upset: #7-seed Northern Kentucky upset Oakland, 85-84.
— Sun Belt tournament:
James Madison 87, Louisiana 72- Dukes have won seven of their last eight games.
Georgia Southern 88, Old Dominion 84- Eagles play Arkansas State Thursday.
