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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Chance McMillian scored 22 points, Darrion Williams added 20 and Texas Tech defeated DePaul 76-62 on Wednesday night in the Big 12-Big East Battle. Texas Tech (7-1) opened the second half with a 21-7 run. After leading by one point at halftime, the Red Raiders led 59-44 at the under 12

SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — Austin Green had 15 points in Texas State’s 97-49 victory against Arlington Baptist on Wednesday night. Green shot 5 of 6 from the field and 5 for 8 from the line for the Bobcats (6-3). Tylan Pope scored 14 points while shooting 5 of 10 from the field and 4

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Hunter Jack Madden scored 24 points as Abilene Christian beat New Mexico State 78-70 on Wednesday night. Madden shot 6 for 10 (5 for 8 from 3-point range) and 7 of 7 from the free-throw line for the Wildcats (6-3). Quion Williams scored 20 points and added eight rebounds. Leonardo

AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Tex (AP) — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark clearly expressed his displeasure about the College Football Playoff rankings while insisting Wednesday that his conference’s champion should get a first-round bye over any Group of Five champion. Arizona State and Iowa State, the 10-2 teams that will play in the Big

Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Liam McNeeley scored 17 points and No. 25 UConn came back from an early deficit to beat No. 15 Baylor 76-72 on Wednesday night in the Big 12-Big East Battle. Solo Ball made two late free throws and finished with 11 points as the Huskies iced the game from

AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Hailey Van Lith scored 16 points, Sedona Prince added 14 and ninth-ranked TCU overwhelmed Florida Atlantic 78-42 on Wednesday night, giving the Horned Frogs a victory in their first game ever as a top 10 team. TCU (9-0) led throughout after scoring the game’s first 14 points,

TCU stayed mostly home in the Lone Star State for what so far is the largest and best signing class in the Big 12. At the start of the early signing period Wednesday, TCU announced 29 signees, with 20 of the 25 high school signees being from Texas. That class included a league-high matching six

AP Baseball Writers PHOENIX (AP) — National League Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes was elected to the players’ association eight-man executive subcommittee on Wednesday just six months after his big league debut as three players were dropped who had advocated for the ouster of union deputy executive director Bruce Meyer. Jack Flaherty, Ian Happ

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — No. 25 Memphis and West Virginia will meet for the first time in the Frisco Bowl. Bowl officials on Wednesday announced the matchup for the game scheduled for Dec. 17 in Frisco, Texas. Memphis (10-2) has its second straight 10-win season under coach Ryan Silverfield. The Tigers, who finished tied for

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL and the NFL players association upheld Houston linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair’s three-game suspension without pay for repeated violations of player safety rules following his violent hit to the head of Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence, who sustained a concussion and is now on injured reserve. Hearing officer Ramon Foster, jointly appointed by

AP Sports Writers CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami wants things reconsidered. So does South Carolina. The Big 12 is puzzled. And Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin turned toward social media to ask the College Football Playoff committee a question. “You guys actually meet for days and come up with these rankings??” Kiffin wrote. The fallout

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing and dismembering three people whose bodies were found in a burning dumpster in Fort Worth in 2021. The Tarrant County jury found Jason Thornburg, 44, guilty of capital murder last month in the deaths of David Lueras, 42,

Texas and Georgia are battling for recruiting supremacy before duking it out for a Southeastern Conference title. Alabama, which also appears to be headed to the playoffs, is right behind them. The two Atlanta-bound and presumably playoff-bound SEC powers are leading the way in recruiting league-wide and nationally during the early signing period that started

ALPINE, Texas (AP) — Three U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Cavazos, Texas, have been arrested on human smuggling charges, U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas said Thursday Soldiers Emilio Mendoza Lopez, Angel Palma, 20, and Enrique Jauregui, 25, were arrested after a vehicle allegedly driven by Palma and carrying Mendoza Lopez,

AP Sports Writer CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Miami’s poor finish may have cost it a chance at the Atlantic Coast Conference title. It did not, however, cost the Hurricanes with college prospects as they finished atop the league Wednesday at the start of the early signing period. Miami lost to Georgia Tech and Syracuse over

AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — There were times when Eric Dickerson said SMU should just shut down its football program for good in the aftermath of becoming the only school ever given the NCAA’s so-called death penalty. “I really meant it because it became an embarrassment,” Dickerson said this week, recalling a 95-21 loss

AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Pederson has no problem with how his team reacted to the illegal hit on quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who was placed on injured reserve. Pederson said he was “a little surprised” that Houston coach DeMeco Ryans blamed Jacksonville’s sideline for escalating the brawl and

AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina will hire TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati as its new AD, a person with knowledge of the decision said Wednesday. The university’s Board of Trustees scheduled a meeting for Thursday, when Donati’s hiring will become official, the person said. The person spoke to The Associated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech is hiring Houston defensive coordinator Shiel Wood for the same position as the Red Raiders begin retooling a unit that finished 15th in the 16-team Big 12 in the regular season. The addition of Wood was announced Wednesday, three days after the firing of defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter and

The Texas Tribune Texas’ grid operator warned that the state should prepare for extreme cold this winter but said the state’s main power grid is better equipped than in previous years to withstand a powerful winter storm. At a board meeting on Tuesday, officials from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said that while winter

AP Sports Writer The arrival of the early signing period Wednesday offered a stark reminder for college football fans. If recruiting rankings offer any accurate gauge in the era of the transfer portal, those teams competing for College Football Playoff berths now should keep contending for years to come. Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Oregon and Ohio

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin needs hip surgery and will be out four to six months, jeopardizing the season for the 32-year-old now dealing with the second major hip injury of his career. Seguin will have a procedure to repair an impingement and the labrum in his left hip, the team

MORAGA, Calif. (AP) — Augustas Marciulionis scored 23 points and Mitchell Saxen added five points in the overtime as Saint Mary’s (CA) beat UTSA 82-74 on Tuesday. Marciulionis also contributed eight assists and three steals for the Gaels (8-1). Saxen scored 15 points while shooting 6 of 9 from the field and 3 for 5

AP Sports Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Domantas Sabonis scored 27 points and Sacramento made 15 straight shots from the field to beat Houston 120-111 on Tuesday night and deny the Rockets the top seed in the NBA Cup quarterfinals. The shooting spree by the Kings turned an eight-point deficit late in the second quarter

AP National Writer Athletic directors at Iowa State and SMU are in a turf war over the latest College Football Playoff rankings, leading to a “stay off my lawn” moment on social media. The background: SMU, at 11-1 and riding a nine-game winning streak into the Atlantic Coast Conference title game, was slotted at No.

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 29 points and the Phoenix Suns weathered the loss of Kevin Durant to an ankle injury to beat the San Antonio Spurs 104-93 on Tuesday night. Durant left the game with 3:51 to play in the second quarter and did not return. He headed to the locker

DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic had 37 points and 12 rebounds, Spencer Dinwiddie and P.J. Washington Jr. hit clutch 3-pointers in the final two minutes, and the Dallas Mavericks overcame a 15-point deficit to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 121-116 on Tuesday night and advance to the NBA Cup quarterfinals. The Mavericks needed a win and

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Wade Taylor IV scored 15 points and Pharrel Payne and Henry Coleman III each added 10 as No. 22 Texas A&M beat Wake Forest 57-44 on Tuesday night. Hunter Sallis led Wake Forest with a game-high 19 points, and Davin Cosby added 11 points. Texas A&M (7-2) shot 39% from

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Bubu Benjamin’s 29 points helped Tarleton State defeat Dallas Christian 90-50 on Tuesday night. Benjamin also had three steals for the Texans (3-7). Ronnie Harrison Jr. added 13 points while shooting 4 of 4 from the field and 5 for 10 from the free-throw line, grabbed seven rebounds and had four

AP Basketball Writer Milwaukee and New York are back in the NBA Cup quarterfinals, just like they were a year ago. The other six remaining Cup contenders — Oklahoma City, Golden State, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Orlando — are heading there for the first time. Group play in the NBA Cup is over and next