LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kevin McCullar scored 15 of his 21 points in the second half as No. 3 Kansas beat No. 9 Oklahoma 78-66 on Saturday. The Jayhawks extended their winning streak over the Sooners to six games. Hunter Dickinson led Kansas with 24 points and 14 rebounds. KJ Adams had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Oklahoma lost its second straight game. The Sooners were led by Javian McCollum with 17 points. Milos Usan added 15 and Otego Oteh had 12.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Joe Touissant scored 12 points and had a go-ahead three-point play with 30 seconds remaining to rally Texas Tech over Kansas State 60-59, running the Red Raiders’ win streak to nine. Texas Tech (14-2, 3-0 Big 12 Conference) trailed from the 3:51 mark of the first half until Toussaint’s clutch play gave the Red Raiders’ their 10th straight home win over the Wildcats (12-4, 2-1). Kerwin Walton sank a 3-pointer to give Texas Tech a 22-13 lead with 7:10 left in the first half. Tylor Perry buried four 3-pointers, Arthur Kaluma and Cam Carter each hit one in a 20-0 run and Kansas State took a 33-22 lead into halftime.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Ayoka Lee had 21 points and 10 rebounds while becoming Kansas State’s career leader in blocked shots, and the No. 12 Wildcats rallied for a 61-58 victory over No. 10 Texas. The victory snapped an eight-game losing streak to the Longhorns. Serena Sundell added 12 points and Jaelyn Glenn had 10 as the Wildcats improved to 17-1 overall and 5-0 in the Big 12 with their 11th straight win overall. Madison Booker scored 23 points and Aaliyah Moore had 15 for the Longhorns. Shaylee Gonzales had a 3-pointer from the wing blocked with less than 10 seconds to go, allowing the Wildcats to run out the clock.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP )– The Kansas Jayhawks outscored Oklahoma State 25-12 in the fourth quarter to overcome an 11-point second half deficit and claim a 70-64 victory on Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas picked up its second home win of the week, improving to 9-7 on the year and 2-3 in Big 12 play, while Oklahoma State fell to 10-6 (3-2 Big 12) on the year. The win also makes KU 7-1 this season at Allen Fieldhouse. Four Jayhawks scored in double figures, with Kansas being led by freshman S’Mya Nichols, who scored 17 points, while Holly Kersgieter added 16.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Emanuel Miller’s layup with six seconds left gave TCU a 68-67 victory over No. 2 Houston on Saturday, the Cougars’ second straight loss. The Cougars (14-2, 1-2 Big 12) fell to an unranked team for the second time this week. They lost for the first time this season at Iowa State on Tuesday. TCU (13-3, 2-1) earned its second straight victory over a top-10 team, three days after knocking off No. 9 Oklahoma on Wednesday. The Frogs, who have been receiving votes in the Top 25 poll for the last two weeks, could crack the rankings for the first time this season on Monday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Aly Khalifa scored 17 points and No. 18 BYU held off UCF 63-58 for its first Big 12 win since joining the conference. Trevin Knell had 14 points for BYU, and Spencer Johnson finished with 12. Knell made four 3-pointers and Khalifa had three as the Cougars went 9 for 26 from deep. UCF wasted a strong performance by Ibrahima Diallo, who finished with 11 points, 19 rebounds and two blocked shots. Darius Johnson scored 18 points on 6-for-18 shooting, and Jaylin Sellers finished with 13 points.
WACO, Texas (AP) — Freshman Ja’Kobe Walter scored all 14 of his points in the second half to lift No. 14 Baylor to a 62-59 win over Cincinnati on Saturday night to stay atop the Big 12 standings with a 3-0 record. Baylor withstood a 24-point performance by Cincinnati’s Dan Skillings Jr. and Day Day Thomas added 15. Langston Love contributed 14 points for Baylor and RayJ Dennis collected 11 points and nine assists.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia built a double-digit lead and held on to beat No. 25 Texas 76-73 Saturday night. Pat Suemnick, making just his second start, set career highs of 16 points and six rebounds for the Mountaineers. Kerr Kriisa and RaeQuan Battle added 14 points apiece and Quinn Slazinski had 13 points. West Virginia broke a three-game losing streak. Max Abmas scored 19 of his season-high 32 points in the final five minutes. But Texas, which trailed by 11 points, couldn't get any closer than three down the stretch. Dylan Disu, who had scored a career-high 33 points Tuesday against Cincinnati, fouled out with 2:16 remaining and finished with 18 points.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark had 30 points and 11 assists, and Molly Davis added 18 points as No. 3 Iowa took sole possession of the Big Ten Conference lead with an 84-57 win over No. 14 Indiana on Saturday night. Iowa (17-1, 6-0 Big Ten) extended its winning streak to 14 games while snapping the 13-game winning streak of the Hoosiers (14-2, 5-1). Clark, the nation’s leading scorer at 31 points per game, didn’t need any last-second shots like the buzzer-beating 3-pointer that defeated the Hoosiers in last year’s regular-season finale. Instead, she shook off a slow start to record her 52nd career double-double. The Hawkeyes fed off a crowd of 13,000 fans who showed up on a night when travel wasn’t recommended throughout most of the state because of blizzard-like conditions.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for 262 yards and a touchdown, leading the Chiefs to a 26-7 rout of the Dolphins in the fourth-coldest game in NFL history Saturday night. It was so cold that Mahomes had his helmet shattered on a helmet-to-helmet hit. Rashee Rice and Isiah Pacheco had TDs for the Chiefs, and Harrison Butker was perfect on four field-goal attempts. The Dolphins' Tyreek Hill had a 53-yard TD catch in his return to Kansas City, but that was just about all the offense for one of the NFL's highest-scoring teams. Miami still has not won a playoff game Dec. 30, 2000.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had his helmet shattered on a hit from Miami Dolphins safety DeShon Elliott during Saturday night’s frigid AFC wild-card playoff game. With a game-time temperature of minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit, the game was the fourth-coldest in NFL history. It was unclear whether the temperature made the shell of Mahomes’ helmet more brittle than usual. Regardless, the reigning league MVP was left with a fist-sized chunk of plastic missing from just above his left eye after the clash of helmets on a 13-yard scramble deep in Dolphins territory.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins played the fourth-coldest game in NFL history Saturday night. The temperature at kickoff was minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history. The wind chill was minus-27. The previous record at Arrowhead was 1 degree, set in 1983 against Denver and matched in 2016 against Tennessee. The wild-card playoff game between the Chiefs and Dolphins became only the fifth postseason game ever played in subzero temperatures. The coldest game in league history remains minus-13 for the 1967 NFL championship, when the Packers beat the Cowboys at Lambeau Field in a game that came to be known as the Ice Bowl.
HOUSTON (AP) — Rookie C.J. Stroud threw for 274 yards and three touchdowns and the Houston Texans returned two interceptions by Joe Flacco for touchdowns to trounce the Cleveland Browns 45-14 in a wild-card playoff game. The second overall pick in the draft last April became the youngest quarterback to win a playoff game. He threw for 236 yards and three touchdowns before halftime as the Texans built a 24-14 lead. The defense took over after that with Steven Nelson and Christian Harris returning interceptions for touchdowns on consecutive drives in the third quarter to extend the lead to 38-14.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A potentially dangerous snowstorm in the Buffalo region led the NFL to push back the Bills’ wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers from Sunday to Monday. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the NFL said Saturday they made the change in the interest of public safety. Up to 2 feet of snow was projected to fall on the Buffalo region over a 24-hour period. Heavy snow began falling Saturday, accompanied by strong wind, and the Bills posted a video of whiteout conditions at Highmark Stadium. The game will now be played at 4:30 p.m. Monday instead of 1 p.m. Sunday.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Kalen DeBoer is embracing the chance to replace Nick Saban at Alabama. DeBoer said after he was introduced as the Crimson Tide's coach on Saturday that Saban will have “100 percent access” to his program. DeBoer says Saban wants the Crimson Tide's success to continue and “his legendary status will never be questioned.” Saban stood a few feet away from DeBoer as the new coach made his introductory comments. The 72-year-old former coach won six national titles in 17 seasons at Alabama. DeBoer just took Washington to the national title game and says he “really wanted” the Alabama job, but he added it “wasn't easy” to leave the Huskies.
SEATTLE (AP) — In five days, Washington went from the precipice of its first national title in more than three decades to a football program in shambles. The Huskies lost the championship game to Michigan. Their head coach left to take the job at Alabama replacing Nick Saban. And their roster is likely to be decimated, with many players headed to the NFL draft and others likely bound for the transfer portal. What could be viewed as a devastating week for Washington came to a conclusion when Kalen DeBoer left to take the head job at Alabama. DeBoer left behind a program facing an uncertain future and major challenges headed to the Big Ten next season.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood has birdied the 18th to win the Dubai Invitational by one stroke from Rory McIlroy, who made bogey at the last after driving into the water. McIlroy led by one heading to the 18th tee but pulled his drive and saw it take a big bounce into the water. Fleetwood followed that with a drive into the middle of the fairway and sent his approach to 16 feet. That was well inside McIlroy after the world No. 2 took a drop. McIlroy missed his winding putt and Fleetwood made his to shoot 67 for 19-under 265 overall. It secured him a first win since the Nedbank Golf Challenge in November 2022.
SATURDAY SCORES
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Final Houston 45 Cleveland 14
Final Kansas City 26 Miami 7
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (1)Purdue 95 Penn St. 78
Final TCU 68 (2)Houston 67
Final (3)Kansas 78 (9)Oklahoma 66
Final (5)Tennessee 85 Georgia 79
Final Texas A&M 97 (6)Kentucky 92
Final (7)North Carolina 103 Syracuse 67
Final Washington St. 73 (8)Arizona 70
Final (11)Duke 84 Georgia Tech 79
Final (14)Baylor 62 Cincinnati 59
Final (15)Wisconsin 71 Northwestern 63
Final (16)Auburn 93 LSU 78
Final (18)BYU 63 UCF 58
Final New Mexico 88 (19)San Diego St. 70
Final (20)Utah St. 87 UNLV 86
Final (21)Clemson 89 Boston College 78
Final (22)Creighton 66 St. John's 65
Final West Virginia 76 (25)Texas 73
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Boston 145 Houston 113
Final Washington 127 Atlanta 99
Final New York 106 Memphis 94
Final Milwaukee 129 Golden State 118
Final Oklahoma City 112 Orlando 100
Final Chicago 122 San Antonio 116
Final New Orleans 118 Dallas 108
Final Utah 132 L.A. Lakers 125
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Washington 3 N-Y Rangers 2
Final Ottawa 5 San Jose 4
Final Vancouver 1 Buffalo 0
Final New Jersey 4 Florida 1
Final Seattle 7 Columbus 4
Final Tampa Bay 5 Anaheim 1
Final Colorado 5 Toronto 3
Final OT Carolina 3 Pittsburgh 2
Final Detroit 5 Los Angeles 3
Final Philadelphia 2 Winnipeg 0
Final OT Edmonton 2 Montreal 1
Final Nashville 3 N-Y Islanders 1
Final Dallas 3 Chicago 1
Final OT Boston 4 St. Louis 3
Final Arizona 6 Minnesota 0