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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — They were two of the biggest shots of the year, but they didn’t fall into Murray State’s net.

And although those last shots, one in regulation to tie and the other in overtime to win for Bel-mont, were daggers, much of Murray State’s undoing was on its shoulders.

The Racers fell 70-68 in over-time to Belmont on Saturday in the Ohio Valley Conference cham-pionship game at Municipal Audi-torium, missing out on their only chance at an NCAA tournament bid. The Racers (21-10) commit-ted 26 turnovers and were also foiled by a late miscommunica-tion with the referees.

“We just weren’t able to close the game, that was the bottom line,” Racers coach Steve Prohm said. “A minute to go, we had ev-erything in our favor. I really have to go back and look at the last minute. You don’t want to point fi ngers. It was a physical game, and credit Belmont for fi guring out a way to get it to the fi rst over-

time.”The Bruins (26-6) will receive

the league’s automatic berth into the NCAA tournament, but the postseason future is uncertain for the Racers. The Racers do not qualify for an automatic NIT bid, but could still be invited to it or another lesser postseason tourna-ment.

With the score tied at 68 in the overtime period, Isaiah Canaan dribbled the ball off his foot for a backcourt violation, giving the Bruins the ball back with 25.1 sec-onds remaining. Belmont guard Kerron Johnson hit a jumper with 1.2 to go for the fi nal score and the Racers weren’t able to get a fi nal shot off on the inbounds play.

The Racers led by 10 points with 15 minutes to go in regulation, but watched as the Bruins tied it back at 38 with 12 minutes to go on la-yups.

MSU led 62-58 after two free throws from Racers freshman Jeffery Moss, but the Racers gave up a fl oater to Ian Clark with 36 seconds left. Racers forward Ed Daniel missed both free throws with 20 seconds to go and John-

son, who was named the tourna-ment MVP, hit a jumper with 6.2 seconds left to tie the score amid a clock controversy.

The clock stopped showing 9.6 seconds in regulation although the Racers were already run-ning down the court. The offi cials stopped the game to watch the replay and recorded the elapsed time when the clock stopped to when the ball was thrown in-bounds and touched again, ac-cording to a statement released by Curtis Shaw, OVC coordinator of men’s basketball offi ciating.

The offi cials put 6.2 seconds back on the clock. During the lengthy delay, Prohm contends he was told the Racers would have the ball on sideline of their half of the court, but the offi cials put it on the sideline near Belmont’s bench at the end of the delay.

Prohm elected not to call a timeout, and Latreze Mushatt re-ceived the inbounds on the hastily called play and missed his 3-point attempt to force overtime.

“I didn’t listen correctly,”

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LOUISVILLE — Peyton Siva and Gorgui Dieng added another ma-jor achievement to their impres-sive legacy at Louisville.

Siva and Dieng, who helped the Cardinals win the Big East tournament and advance to the Final Four last season, played key roles Saturday in a 73-57 victory over No. 24 Notre Dame that gave Louisville a share of the regular-season conference title.

Dieng had 20 points, 11 re-bounds and fi ve blocks, and Siva posted 13 points and fi ve assists in his fi nal home game for the Car-dinals (26-5, 14-4 Big East), who fi nished tied for fi rst place with Georgetown and Marquette.

Louisville receives a bye into Thursday’s quarterfi nals at the Big East tournament, where coach Rick Pitino’s team will de-fend its 2012 championship.

Dieng and Siva were honored before the game as part of Lou-isville’s senior day festivities. Di-eng, a junior center from Senegal, is expected to enter the NBA draft after the season.

Siva’s brother and sister drove for two days from Seattle, joining more than 30 family members on hand for the celebration. Siva’s father, a regular at Louisville games, kneeled at midcourt and kissed the Cardinals logo follow-ing the pregame ceremony.

“It really was a storybook end-ing for the two guys playing to-night,” Pitino said.

Siva’s family inundated him and his teammates with candy-fi lled leis following the game, a nod to their Samoan heritage. He called the gathering, many watch-ing him in person at Louisville for the fi rst time, his favorite moment ever.

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LAS VEGAS — Maybe Denny Hamlin can channel his fury over his $25,000 fi ne from NASCAR into a fast fi nish at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Hamlin got docked for his pes-simistic comments about the new Gen-6 car, and his anger over the decision overshadowed the week leading up to NASCAR’s third race in an already interesting sea-son.

While Hamlin stewed and refused to pay the fi ne, most drivers think Sunday is their fi rst real chance to test their new rides on the intermedi-ate tracks they’re

built to race.The Vegas race is a bit too early

in the season for gambling, how-ever. While most teams are still brimming with optimism after

the fi rst two races of the season at Daytona and Phoenix, some driv-ers think it’s not too early to start worrying about the overall stand-ings.

“It’s so important to get that momentum and the points base established,” Clint Bowyer said. “We’ve already seen teams strug-gle the very fi rst two races and get themselves behind.”

Brad Keselowski was awarded the Vegas pole after rain scrubbed Friday’s qualifying session, put-

ting him in prime position for his fi rst top-10 fi nish in Vegas.

“The way our car has been run-ning the last two weeks, and off of what I saw in practice, I feel like we’re in position to hopefully keep (fi rst place) for a very long time in this race, and hopefully close it out,” Keselowski said.

After coming in third in Phoe-nix, Hamlin clearly knows what he’s doing in the new car, despite

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LEXINGTON — Kentucky faces a diffi cult road toward an NCAA tournament bid, but the Wildcats rallied past No. 11 Florida 61-57 Saturday to help their cause with the committee.

The Gators looked ready to hand a fi nal blow to the Wildcats’ postseason hopes after a 19-5 run provided a 57-50 lead with 7½ minutes remaining. Kentucky re-sponded by scoring the fi nal 11 points of the game, boosting the Wildcats’ NCAA prospects.

The defending national cham-pions (21-10, 12-6) need at least another win in next week’s South-eastern Conference tournament to solidify their tournament chances, but beating Florida clinched the No. 2 seed.

“They swam like heck,” said Kentucky coach John Calipari, who used terms such as “sink or swim” and “do or die” to describe his team’s chances on Friday. “In the last seven minutes, when it was in doubt, they swam like heck. When you’re going to drown, you want to die, don’t swim. If you want to live, the life raft is over there, you’ve got to swim to it.

“As a matter of fact, it’s kind of breezing away from you, so you’re going to have to swim real hard, and they did.”

Kentucky’s win ended a two-game losing streak and increased the prospect that the Wildcats needed to win the SEC tourna-ment in Nashville to secure a bid. The Wildcats came away with their second win against a Top-25 opponent — they also beat then-No. 16 Mississippi — and followed up another quality win against Missouri two weeks ago.

Julius Mays’ two free throws with 9.4 seconds remaining capped Kentucky’s comeback, a fi tting end for the fi fth-year senior transfer playing his fi nal regular season game for the Wildcats. He fi nished with 13 points.

“I have had big moments in my college career, but that one was probably my biggest one be-cause we needed that win more than anything to keep our hopes alive,” said Mays, honored before the game along with senior guard Twany Beckham. “I told coach when we went into that timeout that I wanted the ball. He didn’t

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Kentucky’s Julius Mays (34) celebrates a 3-point shot near team-mate Ryan Harrow during the first half of Saturday’s Southeastern Conference game against Florida at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Mays hit a pair of free throws to finish off Kentucky’s 61-57 upset of Florida.

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Murray State guard Stacy Wilson drives against the duress of Bel-mont guard Kerron Johnson Saturday in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship game at Municipal Auditorium in Nash-ville, Tenn. Murray State lost 70-68 in overtime.

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draw the play the way I ran it, but I wanted that ball and I wanted to shoot those free throws.”

Archie Goodwin’s nine sec-ond-half points set the stage for Kentucky’s rally. With the Wild-cats trailing 57-50, the freshman scored fi ve straight points and Ryan Harrow (13 points) added two free throws to tie the game.

“I knew from the get-go that we were going to be able to do that,” Goodwin said. “When we played against Missouri, we were down

10 at one point and we came back and won the game. It was just an-other one of those type moments where we got down, but we just had to fi ght and withstand that run. And we did.”

Freshman center Willie Cau-ley-Stein, playing with four fouls, followed by taking a charge from Erik Murphy with 3:15 left. He added a free throw 12 seconds later for the lead and grabbed a key rebound with 53 seconds left leading to a free throw by Good-win before Mays sealed it at the foul line.

Alex Poythress added nine points and 12 rebounds and Cau-ley-Stein had eight boards and six points after a scoreless fi rst half.

Murphy’s 17 points led Florida (24-6, 14-4), which missed its fi nal 11 shots and was 22 of 55 overall from the fi eld (40 per-cent).

“Everybody had some good shots that they could have made and we just missed them,” Mur-phy said. “They stopped us, played defense and caused some misses. That’s what happens.”

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Kentucky 61, No. 11 Florida 57

FLORIDA (24-6)Boynton 4-10 0-0 9, Rosario 2-6 2-2

6, Young 5-11 0-0 10, Wilbekin 2-8 2-2 7, Murphy 6-11 2-2 17, Yeguete 1-2 2-4 4, Frazier II 0-1 0-0 0, Prather 2-6 0-0 4. Totals 22-55 8-10 57.

KENTUCKY (21-10)Goodwin 5-13 6-12 16, Harrow 5-12

2-2 13, Cauley-Stein 2-5 2-4 6, Poythress 4-7 1-2 9, Mays 4-10 2-2 13, Hood 0-0 0-0 0, Polson 2-2 0-0 4, Wiltjer 0-7 0-0 0. Totals 22-56 13-22 61.

Halftime–Tied 31-31. 3-Point Goals–Florida 5-14 (Murphy 3-6, Boynton 1-3, Wilbekin 1-4, Frazier II 0-1), Kentucky 4-17 (Mays 3-9, Harrow 1-1, Poythress 0-1, Goodwin 0-3, Wiltjer 0-3). Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Florida 34 (Mur-phy 11), Kentucky 40 (Poythress 12). Assists–Florida 8 (Rosario 3), Kentucky 10 (Harrow, Mays, Polson, Poythress 2). Total Fouls–Florida 19, Kentucky 13. A–24,294.

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“They kept covering me with these leis and I kept telling them I can’t see or breathe,” Siva said. “It’s part of our tradition — they did it my senior night in high school. My teammates stole all of them and ate all the candy already. Hopeful-ly they don’t have a stomach ache tomorrow.”

Siva ranks second in school history in assists (631) and is fi ve steals shy of breaking the Louisville re-cord. Pitino couldn’t intro-duce his point guard before the game, only mentioning his name to avoid emotions overtaking him.

After the win he called Siva “the most unbelievable young man to ever put on our uniform.”

When Louisville played at Notre Dame a month ago it took fi ve overtimes before the Fighting Irish won 104-

101 in the longest regular-season game in Big East history.

In fact, fi ve of the last six and six of the past eight matchups between the schools went to over-time before Louisville took charge on Saturday.

Pitino set a goal for his team to close the season with seven straight wins following the Notre Dame marathon.

His team completed the task Saturday and will face the winner of the St. John’s-Villanova game on Thurs-day in the Big East quarter-fi nals.

Garrick Sherman led Notre Dame (23-8, 11-7) with 14 points. The Fighting Irish will play Wednesday in the conference tourna-ment at Madison Square Garden.

Louisville shot 67 percent (16 of 24) for its best fi rst half of the season.

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Prohm said in the postgame press conference, choosing to accept rather than defl ect blame. “And looking back, should have just got the ball across halfcourt and called timeout and run one of our last-second plays. I had something set up for the sideline. I made a poor decision, a late-game situa-tion, so pin that on me.”

The Racers committed four turnovers in the over-time period, and gave up 27 points on turnovers. Belmont also outscored the Racers in the paint 48-18.

Canaan may have fi nished with six turnovers, but was a rebound away from a triple double, scoring 22 points, dishing out 10 assists and tallying nine rebounds to make the All-Tournament team. Teammate Stacy Wil-son also was named to the All-Tournament team, fi n-ishing with a game-high 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting, hitting fi ve 3-pointers.

In the semifi nal win over Eastern Kentucky on Friday, Canaan scored his 2,000th career point and after Satur-day, has scored 2,050 points in his four-year career, good for fi fth-all time for a Racer.

Other than turnovers, the Racers did just about everything right. They out-rebounded the Bruins 33-23, shot 53 percent from the fi eld (81 percent in the sec-ond half alone) and dished out 18 assists. They got to the line 15 times to make 10, although the misses seemed to be in critical spots.

“It’s tough just losing, pe-riod,” Canaan said. “We hate losing as a team and to lose in the championship game, it was real tough.”

Four Bruins scored in double fi gures, led by 18 points from J.J. Mann.

“I’m proud of our guys,” Prohm said. “The most dis-appointing thing is that you weren’t able for these six seniors to keep playing and get to where we wanted to go because they represented

this program, and they rep-resented this conference and they represented our university at the highest lev-el that they’ve probably seen in this conference for a long, long time.”

Call Dusty Luthy Shull, a Sun sports writer, at 270-575-8662 or follow @Du-styLuthyShull on Twitter.

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LOUISVILLE — The banged-up 13th-ranked Louisville Cardinals begin the postseason Sunday not playing their best basket-ball.

Louisville (23-7, 11-5 Big East) lost three of its fi nal six regular season games to fi nish fourth in the confer-ence. That earned a double bye into the tournament quarterfi nals, where the Cardinals will face either fi fth-seeded St. Johns or Seton Hall at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.

Second-ranked Notre Dame, the regular season champion that dealt Louis-ville its worst loss this year, is the likely opponent if the Cardinals reach Monday’s semifi nal. Third-ranked Connecticut is the favor-ite on the other side of the bracket.

Cardinals coach Jeff Walz and his players know they need a fl awless stretch to win the Big East title.

No matter how the Car-dinals fare in Hartford, they will have home court advantage in the NCAA tournament as hosts for the

fi rst and second rounds on March 24 and 26.

While most coaches have a clear understanding of their teams at this point in the season, Walz doesn’t.

“We have what we have, and that’s uncertainty,” he said.

Injuries have been the culprit this season as Lou-isville lost three players, while senior forward Mo-nique Reid is a game-by-game decision with a bone bruise in her left knee. With the double bye assured, Reid sat out Monday’s 68-57 loss at No. 24 Syracuse in the regular season fi nale to rest for the tournament.

The missing players — guard Tia Gibbs, forward Asia Taylor and center Shawnta’ Dyer — and limit-ed minutes from former all-conference selection Reid have forced others into larger roles and left little margin for mistakes.

“Right now, we just don’t have much room for error,” Walz said.

Junior Antonita Slaugh-ter started all 16 Big East contests, averaging 13.3 points a game and sharing

the team lead for rebounds (88) in conference play. The 6-foot-1 guard was named second team All-Big East on Thursday, joining guard Shoni Schimmel, a fi rst-team selection.

“We’ve never looked back or felt sorry for ourselves,” Slaughter said. “We’ve just come together with the team that we had.”

Walz said he has stressed one-on-one defense and creating transition oppor-tunities in Louisville’s fi nal practices before the tourna-ment.

The Cardinals’ main question is who they will face.

A St. John’s win over Se-ton Hall, which beat Cincin-nati 60-55 in Friday’s open-ing round, would set up a rematch of one of Louis-ville’s closest victories. The Cardinals survived the Red Storm 57-54 at home on Jan. 27 by scoring eight un-answered late in the game.

Louisville isn’t looking past the Big East, but ap-preciates knowing where it will play in the NCAA tour-nament and the advantag-es of hosting.

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DULUTH, Ga. — Jennifer O’Neill sank 3-pointers on each end of a 15-0 run early in the second half that gave Kentucky the lead, and the Wildcats rolled past Geor-gia 60-38 on Saturday night to earn a spot in the SEC tournament championship game.

DeNesh Stallworth had 18 points for No. 7 Ken-tucky (27-4), which will face No. 19 Texas A&M in Sun-day night’s fi nal. The Wild-cats, who lost to Tennessee in the 2010 and 2011 cham-

pionship games, will play for their fi rst championship since 1982.

Jasmine Hassell led No. 12 Georgia (25-6) with 17 points. Georgia, which made only 22.2 percent of its shots (14 of 63), led 24-19 at halftime and stretched the lead to seven points be-fore Kentucky took control with its 15-0 run.

The Wildcats closed with a 13-0 run as Georgia didn’t score in the fi nal 6 minutes.

A’dia Mathies had 11 points as Kentucky’s second scorer in double fi gures. O’Neill had nine points.

The Lady Bulldogs strug-gled against Kentucky’s defense, which led the SEC in steals and blocked shots. Anne Marie Armstrong made only one of 13 shots, Tiaria Griffi n was 1 of 10 and Jasmine James was 4 of 14 for nine points.

Each team had shooting problems in the fi rst half. Georgia shot only 8 of 34 shots (23.5 percent) from the fi eld. Kentucky was 7 of 27 (25.9 percent) as it had diffi culty passing to Stall-worth and Samarie Walker inside.

Hassell, who had 13

points in the fi rst half, had the fi rst points of the sec-ond half to stretch the Lady Bulldogs’ lead to seven points. Georgia didn’t score again for almost 6 minutes.

O’Neill had 3-pointers on each end of the 15-0 run that gave the Wildcats a 34-26 lead. Jasmine James’ shot off the glass for Geor-gia ended the long run.

Texas A&M 66, Tennessee 62

Courtney Williams’ jumper with 33 seconds re-maining gave No. 19 Texas

A&M the lead and the Ag-gies held on to beat ninth-ranked Tennessee 66-62 in the Southeastern confer-ence semifi nals Saturday, ending the Lady Vols’ bid for a fourth straight cham-pionship.

Courtney Walker had 18 points to lead four scorers in double fi gures for Texas A&M (23-9), which will face either Kentucky or Georgia today for the championship.

Taber Spani had a ca-reer-high 33 points for top-seeded Tennessee (24-7), the SEC’s regular-season champion. The Aggies, the

No. 4 seed, are playing in their fi rst SEC tournament.

Spani’s last basket tied the game at 62 before Wil-liams gave the Aggies the lead following a Tennessee timeout with only her sec-ond basket of the game.

Kamiko Williams’ driv-ing attempt for the Lady Vols bounced off the rim and Walker made two free throws with 6 seconds re-maining to pad the lead.

Following a long miss by Tennessee’s Ariel Massen-gale, the Aggies converged at midcourt for a brief cel-ebration.

Kentucky women beat Georgia to reach SEC finalBY CHARLES ODUM

Associated Press

With two outs in the top of the seventh inning, John Ramey hit a bases-loaded double Saturday into the left center gap that scored two runs and broke a 3-all tie in Murray’s 4-3 victory over Paducah Tilghman in high school baseball.

John Lollar pitched a complete game for the win, and Jacob Underhill took the loss for the Tornado.

–––Murray 010 200 2 5 7 3Paducah Tilghman 101 100 0 3 7 5

Lollar and Elder; Underhill and Farley.WP: Lollar (1-0). LP: Underhill (0-1)2B: M-Ramey. 3B: none. HR: none. Top

hitters: M-Alderson 2-4; T-Armstrong 2-4, Farley 2-4. Records: Murray 1-0, Tilghman 1-1

Fulton County 11, 11, Fort Campbell 6, 7 — At Hickman, Fulton County equaled their win total for 2012 in a season- opening

double-header sweep of Fort Campbell on Saturday. In eight plate appearances, Matthew Bodon scored seven runs, four in the fi rst game and three in the sec-ond, off just one hit for the Pilots.

Javin West picked up the win in the fi rst game and Ryne Choate in the second, both throwing complete games.

–––Fort Campbell 001 023 0 6 6 4Fulton County 201 602 x 11 7 3

Riggs, Nelson (5) and Lee; West and Eakes.

WP: West (1-0). LP: Riggs (0-1)2B: FC-Hampton, FtC-Hix. 3B: none. HR:

FtC-Hix. Records: FC 1-0; FtC 0-1–––

Ft. Campbell 140 020 0 7 10 3Fulton County 303 005 x 11 7 4

Bolen, Reeves (4) and Lee; Choate and Russell.

WP: Choate (1-0). LP: Bolen (0-1)2B: none. 3B: none. HR: FtC-Goulette.

Top hitters: FtC-Goulettte 2-4, Lee 2-4, Kix 2-3. Records: FC 2-0, FtC 0-2.

Ramey’s late doublesecures win for Tigers

Staff report

LEXINGTON — Domi-nique Hawkins scored 30 points, including 23 in the second half, and Madison Central came back to beat Hopkinsville 60-56 on Saturday in a semifi nal of the Kentucky boys Sweet 16 state basketball tourna-ment.

Hawkins, who struggled in the fi rst half like he did in Friday’s quarterfi nal, was 16 of 18 from the free-

throw line in the second half to bring the Indians (31-5) back from a defi cit as large as 12 points with 1:34 left in the third quar-ter to one win away from their fi rst state champion-ship.

The 6-foot-1 senior is averaging 28.7 points per game in three Sweet 16 games. He dazzled the Rupp Arena crowd for the third straight game in which Kentucky coach

John Calipari sat courtside to watch him.

Jordan Majors scored 31 points for the Tigers (33-5), who used their athleti-cism in the fi rst half to sti-fl e Hawkins and Madison Central.

Louisville Ballard beat Montgomery County 59-55 in the second semifi -nal. Ballard plays Madison Central today for the state championship in Lexing-ton’s Rupp Arena.

Madison Central defeats Hopkinsville in semifinals

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Belmont 70,

Murray State 68MURRAY ST. (21-10)Wilson 9-12 0-1 23, Daniel 4-6 0-3 8,

Canaan 6-18 8-8 22, Garrett 1-1 0-0 2, Fields 2-4 0-1 6, Mushatt 1-2 0-0 2, Ford 0-0 0-0 0, Moss 1-2 2-2 5. Totals 24-45 10-15 68.

BELMONT (26-6)Jenkins 3-3 0-2 6, Johnson 4-9 4-4

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WASHINGTON — George-town emphatically ended its Big East rivalry against Syracuse, wrapping up the regular-season title by hold-ing the Orange to the lowest scoring output of their time in the conference.

On an afternoon that Otto Porter Jr. didn’t make a fi eld goal until the second half, No. 5 Georgetown used stifl ing defense to close its rivalry against No. 17 Syra-cuse with a 61-39 victory Saturday.

Porter fi nished with 10 points, but the national player of the year candi-date contributed in plenty of other ways, as usual, with eight rebounds and seven assists.

Markel Starks scored 19, and freshman D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera had 15 points, fi ve rebounds and fi ve as-sists for the Hoyas (24-5, 14-4), who will be the No. 1 seed at the Big East tour-nament next week in New York.

Syracuse (23-8, 11-7), which had been hoping for a double-bye in the tourna-ment, was led by Michael Carter-Williams’ 17 points.

But the Orange shot only 32 percent from the fi eld, including 1 for 11 on 3-point tries.

When the game ended, fans stormed the court — even though the favorite won — and it took a while to clear them away so George-town could have a brief cer-emony celebrating its title in the last year of the league as it’s currently constituted. The Hoyas have won 12 of their last 13 games, includ-ing two wins against Syra-cuse; Porter scored 33 in a victory at the Carrier Dome on Feb. 23. It’s the Hoyas’ fi rst two-game sweep of a season series over the Or-ange since 2001-02.

This regular-season fi nale was the schools’ 89th meet-ing overall (Syracuse leads 48-41) — but the last time they will face each other as rivals in the Big East. Syracuse is heading to the Atlantic Coast Conference, and Georgetown is part of a group of seven schools splitting away to form a basketball-centric league that will get to keep the Big East name.

Among the announced attendance of 20,972 — the

largest crowd at a George-town home game — were members of Georgetown’s past who helped turned games against Syracuse into events.

Baylor 81, No. 4 Kansas 58

WACO, Texas — Pierre Jackson had 28 points and 10 assists as Baylor fi nished the regular season with a victory over Kansas to keep the fourth-ranked Jay-hawks from the outright Big 12 regular-season title.

Cory Jefferson added 25 points for Baylor (18-13, 9-9 Big 12), combining his usu-al powerful dunks with his fi rst three career 3-pointers.

Even after their worst loss in seven years, Kansas (26-5, 14-4) will still be the No. 1 seed for next week’s conference tournament in Kansas City, and now has at least a share of the last nine Big 12 regular-season titles. The Jayhawks had won the previous four outright, but have to share this one with rival Kansas State, which also lost Saturday.

Ben McLemore had 23 points for Kansas, whose only lead came when the freshman made a layup only 5 seconds into the game.

No. 6 Miami 62,Clemson 49

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Down to its third try and

last chance, Miami came through.

Kenny Kadji scored a season-high 23 points to help the sixth-ranked Hur-ricanes win the Atlantic Coast Conference champi-onship outright by beating Clemson.

Kadji also grabbed 12 re-bounds and Miami (24-6, 15-3 Atlantic Coast Con-ference) clinched its fi rst outright men’s basketball league title after being foiled in consecutive losses to Duke and Georgia Tech. The Hurricanes tied the school record for victories set in 2001-02, when they went 24-8, and improved to 14-1 at home in their regu-lar-season fi nale.

The league champion-ship is the second for the Hurricanes Clemson (13-17, 5-13) has lost six consecu-tive games and nine of its past 10.

No. 13 Oklahoma State 76, No. 9 Kansas State 70

STILLWATER, Okla. — Le’Bryan Nash scored 24 points, Marcus Smart add-ed 21 and No. 13 Oklahoma State hurt No. 9 Kansas State’s chances to win the Big 12 championship by beating the Wildcats 76-70 on Saturday.

The Wildcats (25-6, 14-4 Big 12) came into the day tied with rival Kansas for the conference lead, but

were left needing the Jay-hawks to lose on the road at Baylor to come away with their fi rst conference title since 1977 in the Big Eight.

K-State led by as much as nine in the second half and was up 61-57 following Rod-ney McGruder’s three-point play with 4:45 remaining. The Cowboys (23-7, 13-5) didn’t allow another fi eld goal for more than 4 min-utes and hit 13 straight free throws during crunch time to come away with the win.

McGruder led the Wild-cats with 22 points, making six of his 15 shots.

No. 15 Marquette 69,St. John’s 67

NEW YORK — Vander Blue’s driving shot fell through the rim as the over-time buzzer sounded, giving No. 15 Marquette a victory over St. John’s at Madison Square Garden, and a share of the Big East regular sea-son championship, their fi rst title since joining the conference in 2005-06.

Blue had 16 points, in-cluding four of Marquette’s six in overtime, for the Gold-en Eagles (23-7, 14-4 Big East), who fi nished second in the Big East last season and were picked seventh in the preseason conference poll in November. This was their fourth straight win and sixth in seven games and the Golden Eagles get a bye to the quarterfi nals on

Thursday.No. 5 Georgetown

clinched its share of the Big East title with a 61-39 win over No. 17 Syracuse earlier Saturday. No. 8 Louisville had a chance to make it a three-way with a later start against No. 24 Notre Dame.

St. John’s closed regula-tion on a 12-2 run, some-thing most people didn’t see coming as the Red Storm (16-14, 8-10), who lost their fourth straight and sixth of seven, struggled offensively except for the closing run.

Jamal Branch tied the game at 63 with a coast-to-coast layup with 27 sec-onds left, capping the big run. Marquette ran a play as the clock wound down and turned the ball over in front of its bench but all St. John’s could get off was a miss from midcourt.

Jamil Wilson had 14 points and eight rebounds for Marquette.

No. 16 Saint Louis 78, La Salle 54

ST. LOUIS — Dwayne Evans had 16 points and 17 rebounds and No. 16 Saint Louis hit 17 of its 20 shots in a pull-away second half, clinching a share of the At-lantic 10 title with a victory over La Salle.

Kwamain Mitchell had 19 points and six assists on Se-nior Day for Saint Louis (24-6, 13-3 A-10), which won its fi rst conference title since 1970-71 in the Missouri Val-ley. Rob Loe matched his career best with 20 points, hitting all seven shots and the Billikens shot 58 per-cent overall, one game after shooting a season-worst 30 percent in an overtime loss at Xavier.

Saint Louis has won 12 of 13 and can take the title out-right if VCU loses at Temple on Sunday. Tyrone Garland had 15 points off the bench for La Salle (21-8, 11-5).

Utah 72No. 19 Oregon 62,

SALT LAKE CITY — Ja-son Washburn had 20 points and 13 rebounds, and Jarred DuBois added 15 points and several key baskets down the stretch to propel Utah past No. 19 Oregon.

Jordan Loveridge and Brandon Taylor chipped in

14 points apiece for the Utes (13-17, 5-13), who won con-secutive Pac-12 games for the fi rst time since joining the league. It also marked the fi rst time Utah beat a ranked Pac-12 opponent in league play.

E.J. Singler had 21 points and seven rebounds to lead Oregon (23-8, 12-6), which fi nished in a second-place tie behind UCLA for the Pac-12 regular-season championship.

The Ducks trailed from start to fi nish and often made things easy for Utah, which dominated inside. The Utes held a 31-28 edge on the boards and a 34-21 advantage on points in the paint. They also forced the Ducks to commit 15 turn-overs and scored 21 points off those miscues.

No. 18 Arizona 73, Arizona State 58

TUCSON, Ariz. — Nick Johnson scored 17 points, Solomon Hill added 12 in his fi nal home game and No. 18 Arizona earned a fi rst-round bye in next week’s Pac-12 tournament with a rout over rival Ari-zona State.

A late-season slide left Arizona (24-6, 12-6 Pac-12) needing a win or some help to avoid playing next Wednesday in the confer-ence tournament. The Wild-cats took care of it them-selves, building a 15-point lead in the fi rst half and answering a big second-half run by the Sun Devils with one of their own.

No. 25 Memphis 86, UAB 71

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Joe Jackson had 17 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds to help No. 25 Memphis complete an undefeated season in Conference USA with a victory over UAB.

Chris Crawford led Mem-phis scorers with 20 points, hitting 5 of 10 shots beyond the arc, while Geron John-son had 19 points.

Senior D.J. Stephens, playing in his last home game, fi nished with 13 points and eight rebounds as Memphis (27-4, 16-0 C-USA) won its third straight and 21st in the last 22.

Jackson also had six steals in the game.

Georgetown clinches Big East title beating SyracuseAssociated Press

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It began on the last day of December, when Michigan State showed up at Min-nesota’s Williams Arena on a six-game winning streak and left with a 13-point loss.

Along the way, Tyler Griffey slipped past Indi-ana, Ben Brust stunned Michigan and Trey Burke stole the show against Michigan State.

Indiana can clinch an out-right championship today with a win at Michigan, but if the Wolverines prevail, as many as four teams could share the title.

It will be a fi tting con-clusion after the Big Ten’s heavyweights went through 2½ months of emotional peaks and valleys to reach this last day.

“Do I refl ect on how for-

tunate I am to coach at this level against these type of players? Yes. It’s an op-portunity that every coach would like to have,” Michi-gan coach John Beilein said. “I do try to take a moment in the games, and just look up at the top of the stadium and see how it’s packed to the last row.”

The Big Ten had three teams in the AP’s preseason top fi ve. Now there are four

in the top 14 — and 14th-ranked Ohio State has a chance to move up after beating No. 2 Indiana on Tuesday night.

Despite that loss, the Hoosiers still lead the league by a game over Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State. That means the Spartans and Buckeyes are both in an unusual situ-ation: They need to hope Michigan wins.

4 teams alive for Big Ten crownBY NOAH TRISTER

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LAS VEGAS — Sam Hor-nish Jr. didn’t know the name of Saturday’s race until he went to the drivers’ meeting for the Sam’s Town 300.

“That’s a pretty good one for me to win,” he thought to himself. “Already got my name on the trophy.”

Hornish survived two restarts in the fi nal 15 laps and held off Kyle Busch to win the Nationwide Series race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Hornish led 114 laps in his second career Nationwide victory, but needed a strong fi nish to outrun Busch, the hometown driver who won the Nationwide race last week in Phoenix.

Hornish credited the win to his dominant car, all the more impressive since the drivers got almost no prac-tice on the 1.5-mile tri-oval due to Friday’s rain.

“You dream about having cars like this,” Hornish said. “I think I used more energy celebrating than I did actu-ally driving the car today.”

Hornish and Busch both

went aggressively after the fi nal restart with seven laps to go, with Busch briefl y nudging ahead before Hor-nish reclaimed the lead with fi ve laps left. Hornish got clear of Busch and fi nished comfortably in a caution-fi lled race.

With his third top-10 fi n-ish in three races this sea-son, Hornish moved atop

the points race and gave owner Roger Penske his fi rst victory at Las Vegas in any NASCAR series — and Penske’s fi rst win since moving from Dodge to Ford in the offseason.

Hornish also snapped a 36-race winless streak in his Ford in his 69th Nation-wide race overall.

Hornish hadn’t won since

November 2011 at Phoenix. His crew chief, Greg Erwin, won his fi rst Nationwide race.

Pole sitter Brian Vickers fi nished third, with Trevor Bayne fourth — despite an early brush against the wall — and Elliott Sadler fi fth. Travis Pastrana came in 10th, four spots ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Hornish holds off Busch in stretchBY GREG BEACHAM

Associated Press

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DORAL, Fla. — Tiger Woods hit a tee shot that got stuck in a palm tree. That’s about the only thing that went wrong for him Saturday in the Cadillac Champi-onship.

Woods made seven more birdies on the Blue Mon-ster, the last one from 15 feet on the 18th hole for a 5-under 67. That gave him a four-shot lead over Graeme McDowell, and put Woods in great position to win a World Golf Championship for the first time since 2009.

McDowell was six shots behind with three holes to play when he chipped in for eagle on the 16th and closed with a two-putt par from 85 feet.

Woods has a 39-2 record when he has the outright lead going into the final round.

Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker were five shots behind.

Woods stretches his lead on Blue Monster

— Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera says this will be his final season.

Rivera made the announcement Saturday at the team’s spring training complex. There was word this week that he will retire after the season, and he made it official at a news conference.

The 43-year-old Rivera holds the career saves re-cord with 608 and has helped the Yankees win five World Series titles. He is regarded as the greatest closer of all time, whether he’s throwing his cut fast-ball in the regular season or postseason.

Rivera missed most of last year after tearing his right knee while shagging flyballs during batting prac-tice in early May.

Yankees Rivera says this is final season

— Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers have re-leased linebacker James Harrison after the team and the hard-hitting defensive star who played on two Super Bowl champions failed to agree on a new con-tract.

The Steelers made the announcement Saturday.Pittsburgh general manager Kevin Colbert said in a

statement that “James has been an integral part of our success during his years in Pittsburgh and has helped us win two Lombardi trophies during that time. We appreciate all of his efforts and wish him the best.”

Harrison was voted AP’s NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2008 after setting a team record with 16 sacks.

Steelers release LB Harrison in cap move

— Associated Press

his worries about the car’s development. But so does Jimmie Johnson, the four-time Las Vegas champion who followed up his Day-tona 500 victory with a sec-ond-place fi nish last week.

“One-one would be domi-nant,” said Johnson, the only active driver averag-ing a top-10 fi nish in Vegas. “One-two is competitive.”

There’s no shortage of star power in Las Vegas. Defending champion Tony Stewart could use a strong

effort after a slow start in the fi rst two races, while Danica Patrick will start 37th.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will hope to continue two solid streaks: Two top-fi ve fi nish-es already this season and 10 straight top-10 fi nishes on 1.5-mile tracks.

Last week’s race in Phoe-nix got mixed reviews, with many drivers and fans bored by the single-fi le rac-ing and relative lack of pass-ing action.

But several drivers found the race compelling and competitive, particularly

since they’re still fi guring out what their new cars can do — and Vegas’ bump-fi lled tri-oval should maximize the Gen-6 car’s strengths.

“A fast, high-banked, 1.5-mile track with some real challenges — that’s what competitors love,” Jeff Gor-don said. “They love a good challenge. The competition always seems to come out here.”

The teams learned plenty from a lengthy practice ses-sion Thursday, and most ex-pect to use that knowledge Sunday.

Kyle Busch also gathered valuable knowledge with a second-place fi nish in Sat-urday’s Nationwide Series race on the sprawling track on the north side of his des-ert hometown.

Busch has trepidation about the bumpy, sun-baked track, but he’s hoping for better results after his strong Nationwide effort.

“I think it helps, feeling like you have a good car ver-sus struggling, being 30th or something like that, not looking forward to the day,” Busch said.

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NEW YORK — Who killed J.R.?

That’s the mystery pro-pelling “Dallas” through the rest of its second season as a TNT revival.

And that question hangs heavy in the upcoming epi-sode (airing Monday at 8 p.m. CDT), which confi rms the sad truth every viewer knew was coming: glorious scoundrel J.R. Ewing has died, after decades of living-on-the-edge infamy dating back at least to 1980, when he was gunned down in his offi ce and left for dead, with “Who shot J.R.?” the ques-tion on every viewer’s lips for months afterward.

J.R.’s fate was sealed this time by the intrusion of re-ality. In November, Larry Hagman died of cancer at 81. And when he died, he took J.R. with him.

So the new episode — surely the fi rst without Hag-man’s deliciously vile pres-ence — stands as a fi tting tribute both to him and to J.R., complete with a wake and a funeral for the rascal-ly oil baron. Even the oh-so-familiar theme music is re-arranged from its quickstep tempo to a dirge. The mes-sage of this episode, titled “J.R.’s Masterpiece”: J.R. is gone but not forgotten.

Last Monday’s episode featured the last, brief ap-pearances by a visibly frail Hagman. There were three isolated scenes with J.R., who for reasons unknown had gone missing from Dal-las. But the action mostly swirled among the other characters as they squab-bled over Ewing Energies, which has pitted cousins

John Ross (played by Josh Henderson) and Christo-pher (Jesse Metcalfe) in a battle for its control.

In his fi nal scene, near the end of the hour, J.R. was glimpsed at an undisclosed location on the phone with John Ross.

“Don’t you worry, son, I’ve got a plan,” J.R. told him. “It’s gonna be my masterpiece. Because you shouldn’t have to pay for my sins.”

“What do you mean?” asked John Ross, struck by J.R.’s rare show of tender-ness.

“Just remember, I’m proud of you,” said J.R., as John Ross’ eyes moistened. “You’re my son, from tip to tail.”

But at that moment, John Ross heard gunshots. He

screamed into the phone, “Dad! Dad!”

Who shot J.R.?“I need to know who

killed my father, and why!” snaps John Ross in the new episode.

Sue Ellen, his mother and J.R.’s long-suffering ex-wife (played by Linda Gray), hoists a Dallas directory and reminds him, “Half the people in this phone book wanted to.”

Yes, J.R. had legions of enemies with scores to set-tle. But who among them did the deed? And why did J.R.’s time run out, in all places, in a room at a Mexi-can fl ophouse?

His memorial takes place at the Dallas Petroleum Club, where high-powered mourners fl ock to bid him farewell.

‘Dallas’ funeral for JR honors Larry Hagman

BY FRAZIER MOOREAssocaited Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Plans to remake the 1981 cult hor-ror fi lm “Evil Dead” may have brought some initial skepticism, but with the original fi lmmakers behind the scenes and a fresh-faced director and cast to inject youthful enthusiasm, the South by Southwest festival crowd welcomed the reboot with open arms.

Sam Raimi, who direct-ed the original, and Bruce Campbell, who starred in it, produced the new “Evil Dead.” Fede Alvarez, a Uru-guayan directing his fi rst feature-length fi lm, oversaw a small cast with Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Lou Taylor Pucci and Elizabeth Blackmore.

The fi lm reimagines the plot of the fi rst Evil Dead but replaced the original fi ve college students on va-cation with fi ve high school friends reuniting to help

one of them kick a drug ad-diction. When they fi nd the “Book of the Dead” in their cabin, a demon emerges to possess the students one by one until only one remains.

Gone is the iconic hero Ash, played by Campbell, with Alvarez taking a more ensemble approach that gives Levy and Fernandez equal time.

The mix of fi re-hose blood spray, psychological terror and black humor, though, remain true to the campy original that boiled the horror movie genre down to its essence. Robert Tapert, who produced the original and the remake, said Evil Dead was intend-ed for drive-in movies and crowded theaters, but most fans only discovered it on VHS or DVD years later.

“You need to see this with other people, where you can yell and scream. There needs to be a party atmo-sphere,” he said, in explain-

ing his desire to update it. Festival-goers at South by Southwest played right along, cheering, screaming and laughing in all of the right places.

Alvarez said Campbell recruited him to take on the project after years or rumors that he, Raimi and Tapert were planning to re-make the low-budget, indie masterpiece that launched their careers. Alvarez in-sisted on making the fi lm without computer gener-ated images, instead taking 70 nights to fi lm it using many of the old-school spe-cial effects that Raimi used 30 years ago.

“A good movie is about showing real stuff, if you see something fake you wake up from the movie dream,” he said. “The other rea-son was to make the movie timeless. Today’s CGI looks great, but fi ve years from now, you say, ‘God, what was I thinking?’”

‘Evil Dead’ remake plays at AustinBY CHRIS TOMLINSON

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A funeral scene for J.R. Ewing, played by Larry Hagman, is part os the episode of ‘Dallas’ airing Monday at 8 p.m. on TNT. Hagman died of cancer at 81 the day after Thanksgiving.

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NEW YORK — They par-tied like it was 1999 — the audience and the musi-cians — at a Prince tribute concert at Carnegie Hall.

More than 20 per-formers, including Elvis Costello, The Roots and the Waterboys, paid trib-ute to the pop icon in a two-hour-plus concert Thursday night. They all joined together onstage to close the show with “1999.”

Singer D’Angelo took the lead while putting his arm around Bettye LaVette, Chris Rock and Costello clapped hands side-by-side, and comedi-an-actress-singers Maya Rudolph and Sandra Ber-nhard danced in a silly manner — all while the crowd cheered on.

Many of the performers got into character as they sang signature Prince tunes. Soul singer Bilal was wild on “Sister,” sing-ing in various tones like a mad man and thrilling the crowd. Bernhard, in her leather pants, shim-mery shirt and shiny shoes, impressed on “Lit-tle Red Corvette” as she skipped around onstage and belted high notes. And singer-songwriter Kat Edmonson captured the audience with “The Beautiful Ones,” standing still and singing with only a pianist onstage.

It was one of the only times The Roots weren’t backing up other per-formers throughout the concert, which raised $100,000 for music edu-cation programs.

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson jammed on the drums and even took

photos of a pregnant Ru-dolph when she danced with one hand on her bel-ly and the other stroking her hair.

Rudolph, who sings Prince covers under the moniker PRINCEss with Gretchen Lieberum, screeched on “Darling Nikki” and didn’t slow down while performing choreography in heels.

Few words were said to the audience, though Rock thanked the crowd “for coming” toward the end of the show.

He impersonated Prince, too, when reciting the lyrics to “If I Was Your Girlfriend” with sass. Comedian-actor Fred Armisen took on many roles: He recited lyrics from “Let’s Go Crazy,” played the drums while the Blind Boys of Ala-bama sang “The Cross” and offered light vocals during “It’s Going to Be a Beautiful Night” along-side D’Angelo.

Most of the musicians wore black onstage, though LaVette rocked a purple blazer while sing-ing “Kiss.” Other per-formers included Eric Leeds, Nina Persson and Talib Kweli. Wendy Mel-voin of the Revolution played guitar throughout the night, while St. Paul Peterson and Susannah Melvoin — dancing wild-ly in a white suit — per-formed “High Fashion/Mutiny.”

Husband-and-wife Citi-zen Cope and Alice Smith sang a duet version of “Pop Life” and Booker T. Jones was joined by singer Diane Birch and members of the Young Audiences New York Youth Choir for “Raspberry Beret.”

Artists pay tribute to pop icon Prince

BY MESFIN FEKADUAssociated Press

NEW YORK — Tiffani Thiessen is probably best known for her role as Kelly Kapowski on “Saved by the Bell,” but the actress says she had no idea at that time how popular the teenage sitcom was.

“I mean, I was so young. I was 15 when I started that show,” Thiessen, now 39, said in a recent interview.

“I remember Mark-Paul (Gosselaar) and I touring the (United) States and go-ing overseas. ... That was the fi rst time that I realized what an impact that show had when 5,000, 6,000, 10,000 kids were showing up to these malls and these places where we would sit there for hours and do au-tograph signings and pic-tures and stuff,” she said.

“That’s when I was really

like, ‘Where am I? What is this?’ Kids wanted my empty cup of water and, you know, things like that. It was strange. I had to con-stantly remind myself that what I was doing was a job and I enjoyed my job and I was going back to school and do homework like all these other kids who were sitting here.”

“Saved by the Bell,” which also starred Mario Lopez

and Dustin Diamond, aired from 1989 to 1993.

The show now airs in syndication and remains a part of the pop culture zeitgeist. Jimmy Fallon tried — unsuccessfully — to rally the cast for a reunion in 2009. (They did pose for a People magazine cover.) Justin Bieber wore a T-shirt with the likeness of Kelly Kapowski to the MuchMu-sic Awards in 2011.

Thiessen thankful she missed TMZ eraBY ALICIA RANCILIO

Associated Press

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Actor Chris Rock performs at ‘The Music of Prince’ trib-ute concert Thursday at Carnegie Hall in New York.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean rapper PSY says he’ll unveil his much-awaited follow-up to “Gangnam Style” next month and celebrate it with a huge concert in Seoul.

PSY made the announce-ment Friday on YouTube, where his “Gangnam Style” video has a record 1.39 bil-lion views.

PSY said he’ll release the new single on April 13 and hold a concert at a soccer

stadium that evening. He’s dubbed the concert “Hap-pening” and says it will be broadcast live on YouTube.

The rapper, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, has been on a worldwide tour since his viral video made a global splash in July, with its catchy tune and much-imitated horse-rid-ing dance. He recently re-leased a “Gangnam Style” remix and performed at the inauguration ceremo-ny for South Korea’s new president.

PSY to unveil awaited follow-up in April

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