Spartans and Wolverines close out regular season with wins – Monday Morning Sports Update

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NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball
Yesterday
Michigan 75, (23) Ohio State 69
Michigan State 77, Maryland 67

Michigan 75, (23) Ohio State 69 – Jones, Michigan beat No. 23 Ohio State; B10 tourney up next
DeVante’ Jones scored 21 points and Michigan rallied in the second half, wrapping up its up-and-down Big Ten regular season by beating No. 23 Ohio State 75-69. Fill-in coach Phil Martelli guided the Wolverines as coach Juwan Howard finished out his five-game suspension for hitting a Wisconsin assistant in a postgame handshake line. Howard is expected back on the sidelines when the Big Ten conference begins this week. Michigan improved to 17-13. E.J. Liddell recorded his eighth double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds for Ohio State. The Buckeyes are 19-10.

Michigan State 77, Maryland 67 – Izzo passes Knight as Michigan State holds off Maryland
Gabe Brown and Malik Hall led a key second-half surge and Tom Izzo became the all-time Big Ten leader in career wins as Michigan State defeated Maryland 77-67. With his 663rd win at Michigan State, Izzo passed Indiana’s Bob Knight for the most wins at a Big Ten school. Maryland outscored the Spartans 32-15 in the first 12 1/2 minutes of the second half, cutting their 20-point halftime deficit to 61-58. On Senior Day, Brown, a senior co-captain, then stepped up with a personal 7-0 run, Hall, a junior, added seven points of his own and Michigan State led 75-62 with two minutes to go.

Thursday
2022 Big Ten Tournament – Gainbridge Fieldhouse – Indianapolis, IN (seeds in superscript)
#8 Michigan vs. #9 Indiana, 11:30 a.m.                      -winner plays #1 Illinois
#7 Michigan State vs. #10 Maryland, 6:30 p.m.           -winner plays #2 Wisconsin

NHL – National Hockey League
Yesterday
Tampa Bay Lightning 6, Chicago Blackhawks 3

Lightning 6, Blackhawks 3 – Lightning score 3 goals in 32 seconds, beat Blackhawks 6-3
Victor Hedman scored twice, Mikhail Sergachev had a goal and two assists and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-3 on Sunday night. The Lightning came from behind with a five-goal outburst over seven minutes bridging the second and third periods. Hedman, Corey Perry and Sergachev scored Tampa Bay’s last three goals in a 32-second span in the third. Cal Foote and Taylor Raddysh also scored for Tampa Bay. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 24 shots and picked up his league-leading 30th victory of the season. Dylan Strome, Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat scored for Chicago. Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves.

NBA – National Basketball Association
Yesterday
Washington Wizards 133, Indiana Pacers 123

Wizards 133, Pacers 123 – In Wizards debut, Porzingis keys 133-123 win over Pacers
Kristaps Porzingis scored 25 points in his first game for Washington, and the Wizards beat the Indiana Pacers 133-123. Porzingis returned from a right knee bone bruise and played for the first time since the Wizards acquired him from Dallas in a trade last month. It was his first game overall since Jan. 29. He started and made a significant impact despite playing less than half the game. Kyle Kuzma scored 23 points for the Wizards, who took control of the game with a 39-point third quarter. Malcolm Brogdon had 27 for Indiana.

Tonight
Atlanta Hawks at Detroit Pistons, 7:00 p.m.
Chicago Bulls at Philadelphia 76ers, 7:00 p.m.

MLB – MLB reacts angrily to locked-out players, season still off
Major League Baseball reacted angrily to the latest offer by locked-out players when bargaining to end the lockout resumed, accusing the union of backtracking and showing no sign of a breakthrough to get the derailed season back on track. The squabbling sides talked for 95 minutes on the 95th day of the lockout, largely restating their positions. Trying to resolve baseball’s second-longest labor stoppage, the sides remain far apart on luxury tax, minimum salaries and the proposed bonus pool for pre-arbitration eligible players. The union lowered its starting point for the bonus pool by $5 million to $80 million.

NASCAR – Bowman edges Larson in OT in NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas
Alex Bowman beat NASCAR champion Kyle Larson in a door-to-door overtime battle at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that sent Hendrick Motorsports to victory lane for the second consecutive week. Bowman got a shot at the win when a caution with three laps remaining shifted the race from a pair of Joe Gibbs Racing cars to the Hendrick teammates. Las Vegas native Kyle Busch and teammate Martin Truex Jr. were in a lap-by-lap chess match for the win until the 12th caution ended the stirring duel. Then it came down to Bowman and Larson, and Bowman beat him to the checkered flag.

Golf – PGA – Scheffler’s stead 72 gives him Palmer victory
Scottie Scheffler closed with an even-par 72 to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one shot at Bay Hill. Scheffler made key putts to save two unlikely pars, followed with a pair of lag putts. Scheffler now has two PGA Tour titles in the last month, having picked up his first victory at the Phoenix Open. Billy Horschel shot 75 and tied for second with Tyrrell Hatton and Viktor Hovland. Horschel missed a 30-foot birdie try on 18.

Golf – Champions – Goosen gets comfortable win
Retief Goosen earned a four-shot win at the Hoag Classic. Goosen holed out for eagle from a greenside bunker on the short par-4 first hole, birdied the next two and cruised to an 8-under 63.
A stroke behind fellow South African star Ernie Els entering the round, Goosen pulled away quickly at Newport Beach Country Club in breezy but calmer conditions than the players faced Saturday. K.J. Choi was second after a 66 in the PGA Tour Champions event.

Golf – LPGA – Jin Young Ko wins on return to LPGA Tour after 3-month break
World No. 1 Jin Young Ko birdied the 18th hole for a 6-under 66 to win the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Women’s World Championship by two strokes over fellow South Korean player In Gee Chun and Australian Minjee Lee. Ko was making her return to the LPGA Tour after a three-month break. She finished with a 72-hole total of 17-under 271.

AHL – American Hockey League
Yesterday
Milwaukee Admirals 3, Grand Rapids Griffins 2
Chicago Wolves 5, Iowa Wild 3

MHSAA – High School Sports
Friday
Girls Basketball – District Championships
Division 1 at St. Joseph
Mattawan 49, Lakeshore 35

Division 1 at Battle Creek Central
Battle Creek Lakeview 45, Gull Lake 22

Division 2 at Berrien Springs
Dowagiac 42, South Haven 31

Division 2 at Edwardsburg
Edwardsburg 60, Vicksburg 27

Division 2 at Paw Paw
Otsego 60, Paw Paw 58 – OT

Division 3 at Watervliet
Buchanan 44, Watervliet 30

Division 3 at Decatur
Hartford 46, Bloomingdale 34

Division 3 at Schoolcraft
Schoolcraft 46, Kalamazoo Christian 38

Division 4 at Eau Claire
Michigan Lutheran 43, River Valley 23

Division 4 at Martin
Martin 40, Climax-Scotts 21

Division 4 at Athens
Athens 49, Mendon 46

Tonight
Boys Basketball – District Quarterfinals
Division 1 at Portage Northern
St. Joseph vs. Sturgis, 5:30 p.m.                        News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM
Mattawan vs. Portage Northern, 7:00 p.m.

Division 1 at Coldwater
Gull Lake vs. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 5:00 p.m.
Battle Creek Central vs. Battle Creek Lakeview, 7:00 p.m.

Division 2 at South Haven
Coloma vs. South Haven, 7:00 p.m.

Division 2 at Wayland
Hopkins vs. Wayland, 5:30 p.m.
Allegan vs. Hastings, 7:00 p.m.

Division 2 at Constantine
Vicksburg vs. Constantine, 7:00 p.m.

Division 2 at Otsego
Plainwell vs. Otsego, 7:00 p.m.

Division 2 at Marshall
Charlotte vs Eaton Rapids, 5:30 p.m.
Harper Creek vs. Battle Creek Pennfield, 7:00 p.m.

Division 3 at Buchanan
Cassopolis vs. Bridgman, 7:00 p.m.

Division 3 at Bloomingdale
Decatur vs. Bangor, 7:00 p.m.

Division 3 at Kalamazoo Hackett
Kalamazoo Hackett vs. Vermontville Maple Valley, 5:30 p.m.
Delton-Kellogg vs. Galesburg-Augusta, 7:00 p.m.

Division 3 at Bronson
Union City vs. White Pigeon, 5:30 p.m.
Quincy vs. Reading, 7:00 p.m.

Division 4 at River Valley
Michigan Lutheran vs. River Valley, 5:30 p.m.
Countryside Academy vs. Lake Michigan Catholic, 7:00 p.m.

Division 4 at Lawrence
Marcellus vs. Howardsville Christian, 5:30 p.m.
Gobles vs. Kalamazoo Heritage Chr., 7:00 p.m.

Division 4 at Climax-Scotts
Martin vs. Byron Center Zion Christian, 7:00 p.m

Division 4 at Mendon
Tekonsha vs. Athens, 7:00 p.m.