ST. LOUIS (AP) — Purdue was struggling to put away Miami in the second half of their second-round NCAA Tournament game on Sunday when Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kauffman-Renn combined to score the Boilermakers' next 22 points, helping them to turn a three-point lead into a 79-69 ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee's Brandon Woodruff will be ready to start the season on time, a welcome development for a Brewers rotation lacking experience. The Brewers announced that the two-time All-Star right-hander would start their fifth game of the season, March 31 against the Tampa ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Tom Izzo has turned down multiple opportunities to coach in the NBA, including with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks. When the Los Angeles Lakers were willing to give UConn coach Dan Hurley a $70 million, six-year contract in 2024, Hurley asked Izzo ...

Niagara junior Sydney Swanson was named to the M&O Conference's first team in girls basketball as Crivitz’s Kiya Brand and Coleman’s Ava Kuchta collected top individual honors Conference coaches chose Brand as the M&O’s Most Outstanding Player and Kuchta as the league’s ...

Marian University baseball (6-7, 1-1) fell 2-0 in its Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference opener at Rockford, Illinois, before a convincing 10-4 win to salvage a split on Saturday. Marian junior Carson McLean (3-0) of Iron Mountain earned the win in game two, tossing the final five ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fletcher Loyer scored 24 points, Trey Kaufman-Renn had 19 points and nine rebounds, and No. 2 seed Purdue beat Miami 79-69 on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the Sweet 16 for the third straight time and seventh in the last nine years. In his ...