— UMass 120, Fordham 118, 3OT
Fordham led by 5 in the third overtime.
UMass was 37-57 on foul line, Rams 48-65
Eight players fouled out of this game.
122 foul shots taken were the most in a Division I game since 1996-97.
— Iowa State 74, Kansas 57
Cyclones have won 12 games in a row; their only loss was on November 25.
Iowa State is forcing turnovers 22.3% of time (#18)
Kansas is 5-4 in its last nine games, after a 7-0 start.
Jayhawks are only 13-10 in their last 23 Big X regular season games.
— Butler 82, Seton Hall 77
Bulldogs snap their nine-game losing skid.
Butler shot 65.5% inside the arc.
Seton Hall has lost seven of its last eight games.
— Fort Wayne 120, Wright State 113, 2 OTs
Wright State led by 5 with 0:29 left in the first OT.
Fort Wayne shot 16-33 on the arc, scored 1.32 points/possession.
Fort Wayne was +9 in turnovers (16-7).
— LaSalle 79, Davidson 76
Davidson led by 17 with 4:40 left in first half,
Explorers were 16-23 on foul line, Davidson 6-8.
Deuce Jones played all 40:00, had 23 points, five assists.
— Famous birthdays, January 16:
Glen Walker, 73
Dave Stapleton, 71
Gerald Henderson, 69
Jack McDowell, 59
Don MacLean, 55
Joe Horn, 53
Jack Cust, 46
Albert Pujols, 45
Joe Flacco, 40
Mark Trumbo, 39
Brendan Donovan, 28
Andrew Nembhard, 25
— Chattanooga 83, Wofford 81 OT
Wofford led by 6 with 1:07 left in regulation.
Wofford led 34-14 midway thru the first half.
Chattanooga shot 16-33 on the arc.
— Ill-Chicago 97, Murray State 93, 2 OT
Flames won despite being minus-8 in turnovers (20-12)
Ill-Chicago shot 63.4% inside arc; they led by 12 with 11:19 left.
Murray State is 0-3 in overtime games.
— Virginia Tech 79, NC State 76
Wolfpack led by 12 with 6:08 left to play.
Hokies shot 11-22 on the arc, out-rebounded State 35-24.
NC State was in Final Four last year; they’re 4-8 in last 12 games this year.
— UNLV 65, Utah State 62
Rebels outscored Utah State 12-2 over the final 5:07.
Loss snaps Aggies’ six-game winning streak.
Utah State has a player who is 6 for his last 25 on foul line.
— Upsets of the Night:
George Mason (+7.5) 67, Dayton 59
Mercer (+5.5) 73, Samford 70
UNLV (+4.5) 65, Utah State 62
Duquesne (+4) 73, George Washington 65
Utah (+4) 73, TCU 65
— Texas Longhorns’ QB Quinn Ewers declared for the NFL Draft; he was 21-5 as the Texas QB, led Longhorns to the national semi-finals the last two years. He threw for 3,472 yards this year, with 31 TD’s, 12 INT’s.
— Chicago Bears have already interviewed 11 people for their vacant head coaching job; the Jets have interviewed 10 candidates for their head coaching job.
— When ESPN has Sunday Night Baseball, teams are only allowed to be on five times a year; the Dodgers’ five appearances will all be in the first ten weeks of the season.
— The International Signing Period in baseball started Wednesday; Orioles signed 22 players
— A’s signed an 18-year old Japanese kid for $1,510,500; he plays shortstop and pitches.
Two things are unusual here:
1) Japanese players very rarely skip the NPB completely before they bolt the country.
2) The A’s paid a living human being $1.5M to play baseball; good for them.
— OF Manuel Margot played for the Twins last year; he was 0 for 30 as a pinch-hitter, he hit .263 in his other 285 at-bats.
— Roy Hibbert is a studio analyst for CBS Sports Network; he told a story Tuesday night, about when he was playing and had a rough game, as he walked to the locker room, a disgruntled fan said to him, “I hope you tear your ACL”
Fans can be fickle, for sure.
— Our thoughts go out to Chargers’ coach Jim Harbaugh, who will have a cardiac ablation this offseason. Harbaugh had an issue this season with atrial flutter, a type of arrhythmia that causes the heart to beat at an abnormally high rate.
Harbaugh wore a heart monitor for two weeks during the season.
He will also have a hip replacement during this off-season.
