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Florida coach Todd Golden was asked for his assessment of Will Richard’s 21-point performance in Saturday’s 87-76 win over Richmond. “My man went nuclear with four shots in a row,” Golden said. Three straight 3-pointers, followed by a three-point play, came in a span of just over two minutes and turned a close game into a relatively easy win for the Gators (6-3). Richard and Florida will aim for a similar outcome Thursday night in

Coming off two resume-building wins at home, No. 7 Marquette has one final tune-up before Big East play as the Golden Eagles host St. Thomas on Thursday night in Milwaukee. After beating then-No. 12 Texas handily by 21 on Dec. 6, Marquette (8-2) followed that up with a 78-59 win over Notre Dame on Saturday night, a game that the Golden Eagles controlled from the jump. Oso Ighodaro led the way with 20 points in

No. 23 Wisconsin will be looking to bounce back from a lopsided loss to a top-ranked foe when it hosts Jacksonville State in a non-conference matchup on Thursday night in Madison, Wis. After recording impressive victories over No. 7 Marquette and Michigan State, the Badgers (7-3) saw their six-game winning streak come to a halt with a 97-73 setback to No. 1 Arizona on Saturday. Wisconsin stayed close early before the Wildcats closed the first

The Boston Celtics will attempt to beat the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers for the second time in three days when the teams meet Thursday. Boston raised its home record to 11-0 with a 120-113 victory over Cleveland on Tuesday. The Celtics trailed by 15 in the first quarter, but pulled away with a 9-0 spurt in the fourth. A pair of Kristaps Porzingis free throws gave the Celtics a 115-106 lead with 3:45 left, and the

Texas Tech scored its biggest win of the final few weeks of the calendar year when star running back Tahj Brooks pledged this week to return in 2024. Now the Red Raiders would like to land one last on-field victory when they oppose Cal on Saturday night in the Independence Bowl at Shreveport, La. Brooks enters the bowl season as the fourth-leading rusher in the nation with 1,443 yards. His presence will improve the chances

Boise State’s reward for winning the Mountain West Conference championship is a matchup against UCLA on Saturday in the LA Bowl at Inglewood, Calif. The Broncos (8-5) rallied from the Nov. 12 firing of head coach Andy Avalos to win the program’s fifth Mountain West title. At the time of Avalos’ firing, the Broncos were 5-5 and in danger of missing the postseason altogether for the first time in a full season since 2001. The

Fresno State finished the regular season with a three-game losing streak that ended its hopes for a potential 10-win season and a more prestigious bowl bid. Now the Bulldogs go into the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday in Albuquerque without their coach for their matchup with New Mexico State. Jeff Tedford announced on Dec. 1 that he was stepping away from the program to address personal health concerns. Assistant head coach and linebackers coach Tim

A surprising playoff-implication Saturday hits Cincinnati when the Bengals host the Minnesota Vikings in a matchup of seven-win teams banking on big things from their backups. The Vikings (7-6) are coming off a win in the lowest-scoring NFL game of the season, a 3-0 victory at Las Vegas. Backup quarterback Nick Mullens replaced Josh Dobbs and led Minnesota on a 13-play, 56-yard drive that ended with a 36-yard Greg Joseph field goal with two minutes

With their red-hot run of success on the road now cooled, the Los Angeles Kings will work on establishing more positives in their own building when they face the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday. The Kings won an NHL-record 11 consecutive games on the road to start a season before finally meeting some resistance, dropping consecutive games in New York. They lost 3-2 in overtime to the Islanders on Saturday, then fell 4-1 to the Rangers

The Pittsburgh Penguins head to Montreal on Wednesday coming off something of a breakthrough game. Now they’ll look to strike while the power play is hot when they play for the second night in a row as they visit the Canadiens. On Tuesday, Pittsburgh not only halted a four-game losing streak (0-2-2) and two-game regulation losing skid with a 4-2 win at home against the Arizona Coyotes, but the Penguins also burst what had been