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No. 6 Marquette will attempt to hand Providence its first home loss when the teams open Big East play on Tuesday night in Rhode Island. The Friars (9-2) improved to 8-0 at home by beating Sacred Heart 78-64 on Saturday. Bryce Hopkins led Providence with 26 points and 12 rebounds in the win. It was his fourth double-double of the season. Hopkins leads Providence in scoring (17.2) and rebounding (8.3). Rich Barron made 4 of

Without the coach and quarterback who helped the Orange reach the postseason, Syracuse stomps forward to face South Florida in the Boca Raton Bowl on Thursday. The Orange (6-6) fired coach Dino Babers last month near the end of his eighth season at Syracuse. His temporary replacement was Nunzio Campanile, who defeated Wake Forest in the regular-season finale to make the Orange bowl-eligible, before the program hired Fran Brown as its next head coach earlier

The Detroit Red Wings rank among the NHL’s highest-scoring teams this season. But their offense has virtually disappeared in the past two games. They’ll try to reverse that trend when they host the Anaheim Ducks on Monday. Detroit, which has lost five of its past six games, dropped a 2-1 decision to Carolina at home on Thursday. The Wings were then shut out at Philadelphia, 1-0, on Saturday. Flyers goaltender Samuel Ersson made 33 saves

Two teams coming off nail-biting victories meet Tuesday night when No. 22 Virginia visits Memphis. Reece Beekman scored the final four points of the game Saturday as the Cavaliers (9-1) edged Northeastern 56-54 and stretched their winning streak to five games. Jaykwon Walton made two free throws with 13 seconds left and the Tigers (8-2) held on for a 79-77 win to hand No. 13 Clemson its first loss of the season Saturday. Virginia and

Jordan Poole continues down the road toward his Golden State Warriors homecoming later in the week when he and the Washington Wizards make the second stop on their West Coast trip Monday night in Sacramento to face the Kings. Poole, who played his first four seasons (266 games) as a member of the NBA’s Pacific Division, struggled in his return to Phoenix on Sunday night, contributing just 14 points to a 112-108 loss to the

The Cleveland Cavaliers will continue a four-game homestand on Monday when they face the visiting Houston Rockets, who are playing the second game of a back-to-back. Houston’s five-game winning streak ended in the first leg of its back-to-back on Sunday. The Rockets fell 128-119 in Milwaukee after giving up 39 points and 11 assists to Damian Lillard and 26 points and 17 rebounds to Giannis Antetokounmpo. The 128 points were the second most the Houston

Marshall had to survive a five-game losing streak in order to clinch bowl eligibility, but the Thundering Herd aren’t through the adversity just yet. The program will turn to redshirt freshman quarterback Cole Pennington when Marshall takes on UTSA in the Frisco Bowl on Tuesday in Frisco, Texas. Marshall (6-6) ended its skid by winning two of its last three games, including a 35-21 triumph over Arkansas State in the regular-season finale, to reach the

The NHL trade deadline is nearly three months away, but the Colorado Avalanche and San Jose Sharks already have been active. Both teams made deals this week, with one adding a player and the other subtracting one. San Jose acquired forward Jack Studnicka from the Vancouver Canucks on Friday, while Colorado traded Tomas Tatar to the Seattle Kraken. Studnicka, 24, is expected to be active when the Sharks visit Denver to play the Avalanche on

The New Jersey Devils couldn’t stop making history on Saturday night. The Anaheim Ducks would like nothing more than to start winning on Sunday night. The Devils will bid to build off a noteworthy evening while the Ducks will look to end a lengthy skid Sunday when the teams meet in Newark, N.J. The Devils are completing a back-to-back set after Jack Hughes notched a hat trick and scored his 100th career goal in Saturday’s

Amid a rough stretch, the Carolina Hurricanes will aim to get back to playing their game when they host the Washington Capitals on Sunday evening in Raleigh, N.C. The Hurricanes, who entered the season among the mix of Stanley Cup contenders, have struggled to string victories together and have won three in a row just once — from Oct. 26-30. Since then, they’ve won consecutive games four times before dropping their next outing. The latest