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9:36 PM on Saturday, February 14

Malik Thomas and Sam Lewis each scored 13 points and No. 15 Virginia beat Ohio State 70-66 on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena in the Nashville Hoops Showdown

8:18 PM on Saturday, February 14

JT Toppin scored eight of his 31 points in a dominant overtime performance and No. 16 Texas Tech sent No. 1 Arizona to its second straight loss, shocking the Wildcats 78-75 on Saturday

8:04 PM on Saturday, February 14

Josh Hubbard scored 32 points and Mississippi State ended a three-game skid by beating Ole Miss 90-78

8:03 PM on Saturday, February 14

No. 16 Texas Tech beats No. 1 Arizona 78-75 in overtime for the Wildcats' second straight loss after 23-0 start

7:42 PM on Saturday, February 14

Honor Huff scored 21 points as West Virginia mounted a comeback from a 14-point second half deficit to beat UCF 74-67 on Saturday

7:35 PM on Saturday, February 14

UConn, UCLA, South Carolina and Vanderbilt would be the No. 1 seeds in the women’s NCAA Tournament if it began now

7:30 PM on Saturday, February 14

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has called on the WNBA and its players’ association to increase their urgency to get a labor deal done in time for the new season to begin as scheduled in early May

7:30 PM on Saturday, February 14

Nate Ament scored 22 points, including nine of Tennessee’s last 11 points, and the Volunteers defeated LSU 73-63

7:03 PM on Saturday, February 14

Akshay Bhatia goes into the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with a two-shot lead

6:49 PM on Saturday, February 14

Australia has won the New Zealand leg of the SailGP series, though racing was overshadowed by a crash involving New Zealand and France which left a sailor from each team seriously injured

6:22 PM on Saturday, February 14

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6:01 PM on Saturday, February 14

Malik Reneau powers Miami to a 77-76 comeback win over North Carolina State after the Hurricanes close the game on an 8-0 run

5:54 PM on Saturday, February 14

Rob Wright III scored a career-high 39 points and No. 22 BYU beat Colorado 90-86 in overtime

5:53 PM on Saturday, February 14

Madison St. Rose led with 15 points and seven rebounds and No. 24 Princeton rode a big second half to defeat Cornell, 59-38 on Saturday

4:40 PM on Saturday, February 14

Two fans who raised a flag of Greenland as the United States played Denmark in men’s hockey at the Winter Olympics say they did so as a gesture of European support for the island and for Denmark

4:10 PM on Saturday, February 14

Jens van ’t Wout of the Netherlands has won his second gold medal in short track speedskating at the Milan Cortina Olympics

3:09 PM on Saturday, February 14

The NBA is trying its fourth All-Star Game format in four years this weekend as it attempts again to answer one of the bigger existential questions in professional basketball

2:50 PM on Saturday, February 14

Dylan Darling had 23 points and eight rebounds and No. 17 St. John’s scored eight straight points after a fracas that resulted in six ejections to take the lead and earn its 11th straight victory, a 79-69 win over Providence

2:19 PM on Saturday, February 14

Seven players were ejected from Saturday’s game between No. 17 St. John’s and Providence after a fracas resulting from a hard foul by Friars forward Duncan Powell on Bryce Hopkins sent the Red Storm star crashing to the ground

11:43 AM on Saturday, February 14

Keshad Johnson of the Miami Heat has won the NBA Slam Dunk contest after beating San Antonio rookie Carter Bryant in the final