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Guyer had success against Youngstown State

Jenna Guyer’s breakthrough season with Green Bay has the fifth-year senior reconsidering her post-college plans. For now, though, she is trying to put off those choices by delaying the end of her college career as much as possible. Guyer has Green Bay back in the NCAA Tournament for a third straight year after scoring 21 points in the Phoenix’s 57-49 Horizon League Tournament championship game victory over Youngstown State. Green Bay (25-8) will try to advance beyond the opening round of the NCAAs for the first time since 2012 on Friday at Minnesota (22-8). “It’s kind of ...

Matta led Buckeyes to title game

INDIANAPOLIS — Longtime college basketball coach Thad Matta announced Monday he is retiring after a career that included 13 NCAA Tournaments and a national title game appearance with Ohio State. Matta spent the past four seasons at Butler, his second stint at the helm of his alma mater. The Bulldogs suffered a season-ending 91-81 loss to Providence in the Big East Tournament. Matta, 58, will remain on staff as a special counselor to President Jim Danko and athletic director Grant Leiendecker. Butler officials said they have begun searching for his successor. “The love my wife, ...

Barkley convinces Vitale to call first NCAA tourney game

Dick Vitale previously declined a standing invitation from CBS and TNT Sports to call an NCAA Tournament game. An assist from Charles Barkley is finally making it happen this year. Vitale and Barkley will call Tuesday night’s second First Four matchup in Dayton, Ohio, between Texas and N.C. State on truTV with Brian Anderson and Jenny Dell. It will be the second game this season that Vitale and Barkley have worked together, after the Indiana-Kentucky game in December. “This is happening because he (Barkley) worked a game on ESPN. Now I’m doing back the favor and giving them a ...

AROUND THE HORN

Flagg turns it around CLEVELAND (AP) — Dallas coach Jason Kidd might make a request to play more home-and-home series against Eastern Conference teams. After a 33-point loss at home to the Cavaliers two nights earlier, the Mavericks bounced back at Cleveland and earned a 130-120 victory Sunday. “We got beat pretty good at home and so to not have to wait too long to play them again while understanding the things that we made mistakes at home we could correct,” Kidd said. “That was our energy and effort, which was probably one of the worst that we had all season. So, as a ...

Miami sneaks into dance

The team that went undefeated in the regular season, racked up more victories than anyone but Duke and Arizona — and fewer losses than any team at all — is anything but your run-of-the-mill basketball behemoth. In fact, Miami (Ohio), despite that 31-1 record and maybe because of a little chip that’s been placed on its shoulder, is one of those plucky underdogs that makes the NCAA Tournament what it is. Welcome to March Madness with a twist. While Duke (32-2) took the overall top seed on Selection Sunday, with Arizona (32-2), Michigan (31-3) and defending champion Florida ...

Zelenskyy says Ukraine is waiting on US and Russia to set the next round of talks

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in comments released Sunday that he was ready for the next round of trilateral peace talks to end Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of Ukraine, but that it was up to Washington and Moscow to agree on where and when to meet. Zelenskyy said the U.S. had proposed hosting the next meeting between American, Ukrainian and Russian negotiating teams, which include U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, but Moscow had refused to send a delegation. “We are waiting for a response from the Americans. Either they ...