— Miami OH 69, Western Michigan 67
Redhawks were down by 9 with 6:38 left in game.
Miami is 29-0, only unbeaten team in country.
Miami was only 15-25 on foul line, was out-rebounded 39-28.
— Akron 92, Kent State 70
Zips shot 14-28 on arc, scored 1.31 ppp.
Akron is 24-5, 15-1 in MAC; they lost 76-73 at Miami January 3rd.
Zips have the #8 eFG% in the country.
— Michigan 84, Illinois 70
Wolverines shot 62.2% inside the arc.
Michigan is 27-2, leads Big 18 by three games.
Illinois lost four of last six games, after starting year 20-3.
— Dayton 68, George Washington 66
Dayton led 19-5 midway thru first half; they’ve won five in a row.
Flyers shot 11-24 on arc, George Washington 6-20
GW out-rebounded Dayton 35-22.
— Canisius 67, Merrimack 62
Canisius was an 8.5-point home underdog.
Merrimack had won 8 in a row; their last two wins were in OT.
Merrimack only played 7 guys; depth could be a problem in MAAC tourney.
— Cornell 72, Yale 69
Cornell pulls upset, moves into 4th place in Ivy League.
Top four teams in Ivy League make their conference tournament.
Yale/Harvard are tied for first place, with two games left.
— Harvard 58, Princeton 56
Princeton led by 17 early in second half.
Harvard has won nine of last 11 games.
Crimson won despite shooting only 6-30 on the arc.
— Famous birthdays, February 28
Bernadette Peters, 78
Mercedes Ruehl, 78
Adrian Dantley, 72
John Turturro, 69
Ickey Woods, 60
Aroldis Chapman, 38
Alex Caruso, 32
Randy Arozarena, 31
Luka Doncic, 27
Lance McCutcheon, 27
— Coastal Carolina 69, James Madison 68
JMU led by seven early in second half.
6-3 senior Beadle scored scored 29 points, grabbed seven rebounds.
Chanticleers finish in a six-way tie for second place in Sun Belt.
— Sun Belt tournament is going to be weird; with six teams tying for second place, the #2-seed and #7-seed will have the same record in league games, but the #2-seed gets a pass into the semi-finals, while the #7-seed has to play three days earlier than that, then keep winning to stay alive. It isn’t a great system.
— Texas State 60, Appalachian State 57
Texas State outscored 9-2 App State over the last 4:14 of the game.
Seventh win in last eight games for the Bobcats.
Brickfest; teams combined to shoot 8-38 on the arc.
— Interesting team to follow is going to be Bethune-Cookman, whose coach is former NBA star Reggie Theus. Bethune-Cookman played a lot of big-time teams in November/December, which probably funds their program/NIL deals- they were 3-10 on New Year’s Day, but they’ve gone 13-3 in the SWAC and are the #1-seed in that league.
Bethune-Cookman played the #6 non-conference schedule in the country. They’re experience team #56; if they win the SWAC tournament, don’t think they’re a 16-seed in March Madness.
— In baseball, Dodgers P Blake Snell hasn’t started throwing off a mound yet, so likely he’ll start the season on the Injured List.
Next couple of weeks will be little chaotic for major league teams, with World Baseball Classic going on, and teams that lose getting back to their big league teams before guys that play on the teams that get to the finals of the WBC.
— Former Jets’ QB Mark Sanchez was the answer to our trivia question the other day; he had an odd career.
First two years in the NFL, Sanchez was 19-12 as a starter in the regular season, going 2-1 in the playoffs both years, when the Jets lost the AFC title game both years. Very promising start to his career, but it didn’t last.
After that, Sanchez was 18-24 as a starter the rest of his career, playing for the Eagles, Dallas and Washington; the Jets haven’t made the playoffs since 2010.
— NFL salary cap next season will be $301M, up $22M from this past season.
