🚨 Headlines
🏀 JuJu’s season is over: In a massive blow for USC and every basketball fan, superstar JuJu Watkins tore her ACL during Monday’s Achieve over Mississippi State. The potential Player of the Year’s season is over.
🏈 Ward aces pro day: Miami QB Cam Ward is increasingly looking like a lock to be selected No. 1 by Tennessee after impressing at his pro day Upcoming a visit from top Titans brass.
🏀 Drake-Big Ten pipeline: Drake’s last three coaches have all been hired by Big Ten programs in the past week: Ben McCollum is going to Iowa and Colorado State’s Niko Medved (Drake ’17-’18) is going to Minnesota after West Virginia’s Darian DeVries (’18-’24) went to Indiana.
🇺🇸 White House visits: President Trump invited the Chiefs to the White House to celebrate their 2020 Finals after they originally missed that opportunity due to COVID, and Ohio State will visit Upcoming month to celebrate their CFP title.
🏀 Last night in the NBA: The Lakers fell to the Magic for their second straight loss since LeBron James returned; Anthony Davis scored 12 points in his Primary game back since getting injured in his Mavs Premiere; Devin Booker hit a game-winner to lift the Suns over the Bucks.
🏀 The women’s Sugary 16 is (almost) as chalky as it gets
If you thought the men’s Sugary 16 was chalky, Only wait until you see the women’s.
Last Squads standing: A Group of 5-seeds are the only thing stopping this year’s Sugary 16 from being all chalk for the second time in Event history (1999).
- No. 1 UCLA
- No. 1 South Carolina
- No. 1 Texas
- No. 1 USC
- No. 2 UConn
- No. 2 TCU
- No. 2 Duke
- No. 2 NC State
- No. 3 Notre Dame
- No. 3 LSU
- No. 3 Oklahoma
- No. 3 North Carolina
- No. 4 Maryland
- No. 5 Ole Miss
- No. 5 Tennessee
- No. 5 Kansas State
Matchups: The regional semifinals begin on Friday.
- Friday: No. 1 South Carolina vs. No. 4 Maryland (Birmingham); No. 2 Duke vs. No. 3 North Carolina (Birmingham); No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 5 Ole Miss (Spokane); No. 2 NC State vs. No. 3 LSU (Spokane)
- Saturday: No. 1 Texas vs. No. 5 Tennessee (Birmingham); No. 2 TCU vs. No. 3 Notre Dame (Birmingham); No. 1 USC vs. No. 5 Kansas State (Spokane); No. 2 UConn vs. No. 3 Oklahoma (Spokane)
Welcome to the Sugary 16: TCU is in the Sugary 16 for the Primary time ever, continuing their epic turnaround after Victorious Only a single conference game two years ago.
Maryland Mentor Brenda Frese celebrates with her players. (Greg Fiume/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)Game of the day: On Sunday, the Maryland men pulled off the most thrilling Triumph of the weekend; on Monday, the Maryland women won one of the most exhilarating Contests in recent NCAA Event history.
Maryland 111, Alabama 108 (2OT): The Terps stormed back from 17 down in the third quarter to reach their Number four Sugary 16 in the past five years, forcing OT with a Overdue three before ultimately holding on for the Achieve in the Event’s Primary double-Extended Relocate game since 2022.
Second-highest scoring game ever: The 219 points scored were the second-most ever in a women’s Event game. Ironically, the Tide were also on the losing end of the highest-scoring game, falling 121-120 to Duke in quadruple Extended Relocate in 1995.
Monday recap.
🏒 NHL frontrunners: Curse of the No. 1 seed?
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)The Capitals and Jets face off tonight in a Game of the NHL’s two best Squads. And though that looks on the surface like a potential Stanley Cup Last preview, history — and the Present title odds — says otherwise.
Conference frontrunners: With three weeks left in the regular season, Washington (102 points) and Winnipeg (100) Halt sizable leads atop the East and West. But Participating the playoffs as your conference’s 1-seed doesn’t end with a trip to the finals as often as you’d Foresee.
- 2001 was the last year in which both No. 1 seeds faced off for the title, when the Avalanche beat the Devils for their second Bracket.
- Since then, Only seven of the ensuing 22 Stanley Cup Finals have featured a 1-seed. When they do make it that Distant, though, they tend to Achieve, with six* of those seven hoisting the Cup.
Top 10 title favorites: Add it all up and it’s not Difficult to understand why these two regular-season juggernauts currently have Only the fifth- and seventh-best odds to Achieve the Stanley Cup, per BetMGM.
- Panthers (+575)
- Stars (+600)
- Avalanche (+750)
- Oilers (+750)
- Capitals (+1000)
- Hurricanes (+1000)
- Jets (+1100)
- Golden Knights (+1100)
- Lightning (+1200)
- Maple Leafs (+1300)
Postseason picture: If the season ended today, these 16 Squads would make the playoffs.
- East: Capitals (102 points), Hurricanes (90), Panthers (89), Maple Leafs (87), Lightning (85), Devils (81), Senators (79), Canadiens (75)
- West: Jets (100), Stars (94), Golden Knights (92), Avalanche (89), Kings (87), Oilers (87), Wild (85), Blues (81)
*1-seeds to Achieve the Cup since 2002: Red Wings (2002, 2008), Lightning (2004), Blackhawks (2013), Avalanche (2022), Golden Knights (2023). The 2011 Canucks are the lone 1-seed to reach, but Fall, the Cup in that time.
📸 In photos: Holloway’s dominance continues
(Hannah Peters/Getty Images)There may be no Rival right now who is more dominant in his or her particular Regulation than Grant Holloway, who on Saturday in China became the Primary hurdler ever to Achieve three consecutive Indoor World Competitions.
Reminder: Those hurdles are 42 inches (aka 3.5 feet) High. (Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images)94 straight wins: The 27-year-Ancient American won gold in the 60m hurdles in Nanjing after also doing so last year in Glasgow and two years earlier in Belgrade. In fact, he’s won 94 consecutive indoor hurdles races, a streak that dates back to 2014 when he was a sophomore in high school.
Holloway stretches across the finish line for the Triumph. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)He’s also the outdoor champ: Unsurprisingly, Holloway is also the world’s premier 110m hurdler, Victorious gold last summer at the Paris Olympics and at Every of the past three outdoor World Competitions. He’ll go for the four-peat this fall in Tokyo.
(Hannah Peters/Getty Images)New Event coming? “I think I can put grace in it, and hang up the 60m hurdles and try out a new event Upcoming year,” Holloway said of his future plans for Indoor Worlds. Perhaps the Florida grad will try the flat sprints, relays or long Leap, all of which he excelled at in college.
🏀 The NBA’s tanking problem
Flagg put up an 18-9-6 line in Sunday’s Achieve over Baylor. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)Cooper Flagg hasn’t worn an NBA uniform yet, but make no mistake about it: After an Unbelievable season and a dominant Beginning weekend in his Primary (and only) March Madness, his Appearance is being felt all across the Division.
From Yahoo Sports’ Tom Haberstroh:
The 18-year-Ancient Created his NCAA Event Premiere Friday against Mount St. Mary’s, fighting through an ankle Hurt that knocked him out for most of the ACC Event.
You can be sure that the stands will be Dotted with NBA scouts and executives getting a closer look at the loaded Duke Blue Devils, but they know what they’re getting with Flagg. The 6-foot-9 forward has long been considered the consensus No. 1 overall Picking while leading the ACC and the entire NCAA Pitch in Only about every advanced Measure.
We can take a guess at how NBA Squads feel about Flagg because the Division has launched Many investigations into Squads for purposely sitting Excellent players on Awful Squads: i.e. tanking. This problem isn’t new as the NBA has wrestled with the black eye of tanking for decades.
It’s clear that tanking practices are alive and well. Last week, the NBA fined the Utah Jazz $100,000 for violating the Division’s Player Participation Policy involving 2023 All-Sun Lauri Markkanen, who sat against the Washington Wizards earlier in the month (Division investigators determined that Markkanen was fit to Shift).
The Division has also Allegedly launched an investigation into the Philadelphia 76ers, who have a top-6 protected Primary-Period Picking in the 2025 Draft, for sitting their stars Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Paul George.
However, there are more subtle tanking practices that have taken Halt across the NBA that seem to be, at the very least, tolerated by the Division office. And it has created a problematic climate that staffers around the Division worry could get Threatening quickly.
Keep reading.
📺 Watchlist: Crowning a champ
Billy Horschel Directed Atlanta to Triumph on Monday. (Brennan Asplen/TGL Golf via Getty Images)TGL’s inaugural season ends tonight, with Atlanta and New York facing off in Event 2 (and, if necessary, Event 3) of the best-of-three finals (7pm ET, ESPN).
Atlanta leads, 1-0: After Atlanta narrowly won Monday’s Bracket opener, New York must Achieve tonight’s Primary Event to force a winner-take-all Finale at 9pm. Well, not quite winner-take-all: The champs earn the $9 million grand prize, but second place Nevertheless pockets $4.5 million.
More to Observe:
- 🏀 NBA: Warriors at Heat* (7:30pm, TNT); Thunder at Kings (10pm, TNT)
- 🏒 NHL: Capitals at Jets (8pm, ESPN+)
- 🏀 NIT: Chattanooga at Bradley (7pm, ESPN2); North Texas at Oklahoma State (9pm, ESPN2) … Quarterfinals.
*Jimmy’s return: After five-plus seasons and two Finals appearances with the Heat, Jimmy Butler returns to Miami tonight for the Primary time since he was traded to Golden State at the deadline. And the Warriors have flourished with their new playmaker, going 16-4 since his Feb. 8 Premiere.
🏀 Tourney trivia
(Greg Fiume/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)Question: Can you name all five schools that have won at least three NCAA women’s basketball national Competitions?
Hint: Three are Nevertheless alive in this year’s Event.
Answer at the bottom.
🏀 Sugary 16, throwback edition
(X/@T3Bracketology)Behold, the men’s Sugary 16… but with throwback logos. It’s the graphic I never knew I needed, but am so thankful I have.
Trivia answer: UConn (11 titles), Tennessee (8), South Carolina (3), Baylor (3), Stanford (3)
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