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AP Sports WriterCam Lard settles into bench role for surging CyclonesBy LUKE MEREDITHAMES, Iowa (AP) This could have been a lost season for Iowa State sophomore Cam Lard, who lost his starting job while serving a one-month suspension to open the year.Lard has instead settled into his new...

UConn's Jalen Adams out 4 to 6 weeks with knee injurySTORRS, Conn. (AP) UConn leading scorer Jalen Adams will be out the next four to six weeks because of a knee injury suffered during the Huskies' loss to Temple on Wednesday.The school announced Friday that an MRI confirmed...

AP College Sports WriterA-10 men's tournament to DC in '22, Brooklyn in 2023, '24By RALPH D. RUSSONEW YORK (AP) The Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball tournament will return to Washington in 2022, and then be back in Brooklyn in 2023 and '24, extending a relationship with Barclays Center...

AP Basketball WriterNo.2 Duke and No. 3 Virginia get high-profile rematchBy JOHN MARSHALLDuke and Virginia played one of the college basketball season's most entertaining, high-level games just two weeks ago.The rematch comes Saturday. No. 2 vs. No. 3, Final Four favorites playing with the ACC lead potentially on the...

AP Sports WriterSophomore Luka Garza on a tear for surging HawkeyesBy LUKE MEREDITHIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Iowa sophomore Luka Garza started this season in recovery after a nine-pound benign cyst was removed from his abdomen.He might end it as one of the best players in the Big Ten.The...

AP Basketball WriterFocus shifts to college basketball with football finishedBy JOHN MARSHALLThe Super Bowl marked the official end of the football season. Now it's time for college basketball's turn in the spotlight.Sports fans crazed with football for five months need something to fill the void, and college basketball is...

AP Basketball WriterNo.2 Duke and No. 3 Virginia get high-profile rematchBy JOHN MARSHALLDuke and Virginia played one of the college basketball season's most entertaining, high-level games just two weeks ago.The rematch comes Saturday. No. 2 vs. No. 3, Final Four favorites playing with the ACC lead potentially on the...

Associated PressJudge dismisses ex-UConn coach Ollie's complaint over firingBy DAVE COLLINSHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Former University of Connecticut men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie has lost a bid to stop the school from unilaterally ending arbitration proceedings related to his firing if he files a racial discrimination complaint against UConn.Federal...

AP Sports WriterWashington's Matisse Thybulle: artist with eye for defenseBy TIM BOOTHSEATTLE (AP) One of Matisse Thybulle's favorite hobbies is photography, and his eye for creativity is not isolated to the viewfinder of a camera or the screen of a phone.It carries over to the basketball court where...

Associated PressJudge dismisses ex-UConn coach Ollie's complaint over firingBy DAVE COLLINSHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Former University of Connecticut men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie has lost a bid to stop the school from unilaterally ending arbitration proceedings related to his firing if he files a racial discrimination complaint against UConn.Federal...

Federal judge dismisses Ollie complaint over firingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A federal judge has dismissed a complaint filed by former University of Connecticut men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie connected to his allegations that his firing was in part racially motivated.Judge Kari Dooley in Bridgeport on Monday rejected Ollie's request...

AP College Sports WriterA-10 men's tournament to DC in '22, Brooklyn in 2023, '24By RALPH D. RUSSONEW YORK (AP) The Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball tournament will return to Washington in 2022, and be back in Brooklyn in 2023 and '24, extending a relationship with Barclays Center that...