— Gonzaga 88, San Francisco 77
USF hasn’t won in Spokane since 1989- they play there every year.
Gonzaga has won its last 31 games against the Dons.
Ryan Nembhard had 18 points, 12 assists for the Zags.
— Maryland 83, Nebraska 75
Maryland has won six of its last seven games.
Terrapins shot 63.2% inside the arc.
Loss snaps Nebraska’s four-game winning streak.
— South Alabama 91, Marshall 82 OT
Marshall was 14-48 on the arc, 16-29 inside arc.
South Alabama was 27-33 on foul line, Marshall 8-11
10-3 Arkansas State leads the Sun Belt; there are four teams tied for second place, a game behind them. Sun Belt conference tournament is going to be excellent.
— NC-Wilmington 86, Charleston 66
UNCW has won nine games in a row, is 21-5.
Seahawks out-rebounded Charleston, 43-27
UNCW shot 61.4% inside the arc.
— Early returns on the Jimmy Butler trade:
Warriors 105, Rockets 98- Golden State is 3-1 since acquiring Butler.
Mavericks 118, Heat 113- Miami is 0-4 since trading Butler.
— Famous birthdays, February 14th:
Dave Dravecky, 69
Jim Kelly, 65
Meg Tilly, 65
Drew Bledsoe, 53
Richard Hamilton, 47
Derek Norris, 36
Nick Pivetta, 32
Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 23
Nolan Schanuel, 23
— Talk about a euphemism; New Jersey Jets have told QB Aaron Rodgers they’re “going to move in a different direction at quarterback” which is nice way of saying they’re telling Rodgers to take a hike, after two disappointing years, where the Jets went 12-22, with Rodgers going 6-13 in his starts, while banking $75M.
Will Rodgers retire? He is 41; would another team want him? This will be one of the off season’s more interesting sub-plots.
— Former Detroit Lions HC Matt Patricia is going to be the new defensive coordinator at Ohio State; he was 13-29-1 as coach of the Lions, after they had gone 36-28 under his predecessor, Jim Caldwell. Lions are 39-28-1 since Patricia left Detroit.
— It rained in Las Vegas Thursday, first time it rained there in 214 days.
— Upsets of the Night:
Portland (+13.5) 84, Oregon State 72
North Carolina A&T (+12.5) 60, Elon 59
Pacific (+11.5) 83, LMU 58
Denver (+8.5) 68, North Dakota 64
Tennessee-Martin (+5.5) 76, SIU-Edwardsville 71
Kennesaw State (+4.5) 69, Louisiana Tech 47
— Tex-Arlington 82, Cal Baptist 79, OT
Cal Baptist led by 17 with 13:34 left in the game.
Tex-Arlington was 24-43 on foul line, Lancers were 7-8
Raysean Seamster was 10-18 on foul line, by himself.
— Cal-Davis 75, Cal-Riverside 74
Aggies were 22-27 on foul line, Riverside was 5-9
Riverside led by 10 late in first half.
Davis outscored Riverside 5-0 in the last 1:27 of the game.
— Cal-Irvine 62, Cal-Santa Barbara 60
Anteaters scored on a lob pass on an out-of-bounds under play with 0:00.6 left.
Irvine stays tied with Cal-San Diego stop the Big West.
Loss snaps the Gauchos’ three-game winning streak.
— South Dakota State 98, Omaha 85
Jackrabbits shot 10-20 on arc, scored 1.34 points/possession.
Only second loss in last 13 games for Omaha.
10-2 Omaha leads 9-2 St Thomas, 9-3 Jackrabbits atop the Summit standings.
— North Dakota State 94, Oral Roberts 88 OT
On TV, they said it was 21 below zero in Fargo Thursday; good grief.
ORU is 1-7 in its last eight games; they lost despite going 13-24 on the arc.
North Dakota State has the #2 eFG% in the country; they’re also the worst team in the country at forcing turnovers.
