TAMPA, Fla. (KWTX) Chloe Jackson hit the game-winning layup with 3.9 seconds left, and the Baylor Lady Bears held off the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 82-81 in the NCAA Tournament championship game.
Source: Baylor Athletics
Lauren Cox left the game late in the third quarter because of a knee injury, but Baylor (37-1) held on for the school's third-ever championship.
Cox, the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, had eight points, eight rebounds and three blocks in the game at the time of her exit.
Jackson led Baylor with a season-high 26 points, while Kalani Brown had a double-double with 20 points and 13 rebounds,
Arike Ogunbowale scored a game-high 31 points for the Irish.
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Michigan State's Cassius Winston, left, and Matt McQuaid react after the team's 61-51 loss to Texas Tech. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Hundreds of disappointed Michigan State basketball fans triggered mayhem in the streets of East Lansing after the Spartans' 61-51 loss to Texas Tech in Saturday night's national semifinal, hurling bottles and tearing down street signs, according to local police.
The East Lansing Police Department said in a statement Sunday that the crowd congregated at a downtown intersection immediately after the game. Approximately 30 minutes later, the fans moved to another intersection where they started blocking traffic and throwing glass bottles into the air. Officials estimated the crowd at being between 1,200 and 1,500 people at its peak.
The department said 23 arrests were made Saturday evening, all but one for misdemeanor offenses. The department also said fire crews responded to 10 small fires across the city, which "consisted of small pieces of furniture and there were no significantly sized crowds gathered around these fires."
Two street signs and a police van also were damaged.
Michigan State students and fans have a history of unruly behavior after important basketball games. In 1999, following a Final Four loss to Duke, thousands of students and fans rioted outside the campus, triggering hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and leading to 132 arrests. Smaller disturbances followed a loss to North Carolina in the 2005 Final Four, as well as after the school's football team won the Big Ten championship in 2013.
Police in Lubbock, Texas, also were busy Saturday night as fans celebrating Texas Tech's win poured into the streets around that school's campus, shutting down traffic and lighting fires.
Videos and photos showed at least one fire burning in a street and a flipped car.
"Don't burn down Lubbock before we get back," Red Raiders guard Matt Mooney said Sunday before practice ahead of Monday night's national championship game against Virginia. "I know it was crazy out there. Just be safe."
The city of Lubbock said in a statement that hundreds of fans gathered near campus and "engaged in extremely dangerous, and disappointing, behavior that included vandalizing property."
The Cincinnati Reds' Yasiel Puig was one of five players ejected after a benches-clearing incident in the top of the fourth inning of Sunday's game at PNC Park.
Pirates starter Chris Archer threw a 93 mph fastball behind Reds first baseman Derek Dietrich's back to spark the incident. Dietrich had homered in the second inning and had stared at his blast before circling the bases, apparently angering Archer.
Warnings were issued to both teams, but Bell came onto the field to argue with home plate umpire Jeff Kellogg that Archer should have been ejected. Players from both teams then began to push one another.
After the situation seemed to settle down, Puig charged toward Pirates pitcher Trevor Williams at home plate and had to be restrained, reigniting the incident. Puig grabbed Pirates bench coach Tom Prince in a headlock.
Dietrich's 436-foot drive to right-center gave the Reds a 2-1 lead. Dietrich dropped his bat and stood in the batter's box and watched the ball clear the fence atop the Clemente Wall and bounce into the Allegheny River.
Matt Kemp replaced Puig, and Archer was allowed to remain in the game. The Reds led 3-2 at the time, but the Pirates scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 4-3 lead.
Unlike Auburn fans, those supporting the Red Raiders had a pretty good reason to celebrate on Saturday night. Texas Tech converted its first men’s Final Four appearance in program history into its first NCAA Tournament final appearance. As a result students on campus gathered all around Lubbock, Tex. and maybe had a bit too much fun enjoying their team’s success.
For starters, here’s a crowd gathered around some dudes jumping up and down on a car while a guy who climbed a lamp post beats the ever-living shit out of a street light.
Speaking of cars here’s one of the many that fell victim to being flipped over on Broadway St.:
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It’s not as if the students would leave immediately after those cars were flipped. Once they were upside-down, the cars became platforms that could be used to dance on and blast country trap sensation “Old Town Road” from a portable speaker.
As you can probably imagine, it’s quite difficult to get around places when your main form of transportation gets flipped into oblivion thanks to some batshit college kids. The good news is that Lubbock is one of the many cities where you can rent a Lime scooter to get from place to place with relative ease. The bad news is that they’ve all been set on fire.
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In fact, fire seemed to be a bit of a theme that evening:
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Things quickly came to a halt when police arrived in riot gear with batons, police shields and, according to KCBD 11, tear gas. Once cops were done using the military-grade dispersion tactics, they blocked the street to prevent anyone from entering as they tried to get kids to leave the area.
As of writing this post, there have been no injuries or arrests reported. This appears to be the opposite of what happened in East Lansing, Mich. According to the Lansing State Journal, 23 arrests—22 misdemeanors and one felony(!)–were made from students angrily rioting over their team’s loss to Texas Tech. They also burned couches and were reportedly hit with tear gas. Oh, and there was this too:
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Buffalo Sabres have fired coach Phil Housley following two underperforming seasons, and after the team extended its franchise-worst playoff drought to an eighth consecutive year.
The team made the move Sunday, a day after the Sabres closed their season with a 7-1 win at Detroit. The Sabres finished 13th in the Eastern Conference standings and joined the 2016-17 Philadelphia Flyers in becoming the second NHL team to miss the playoffs in the same season in which they won at least 10 straight games.
The 55-year-old Housley is a Hall of Fame defenseman who spent his first eight NHL seasons playing in Buffalo but failed to restore any semblance of success to a franchise that hasn't won a playoff round since reaching the East finals in 2007.
Housley's firing comes after the Sabres endured a lengthy collapse over the final four months.
They went 2-7-1 in their final 10 games and were 16-33-8 since enjoying a franchise-record-matching 10-game winning streak that ended in late November.
The officials at last night’s Auburn-Virginia Final Four game missed a pretty big call and caused a controversial ending to a game that deserved a lot better, as college refs are wont to do. With less than a second remaining, Auburn’s Samir Doughty committed a worst-case-scenario error and fouled Kyle Guy, one of the best free throw shooters in the country, on his likely game-winning three-point attempt. It was a call that surprised many given the old belief that officials need to “swallow their whistles” in the final moments of the game so that the players can be the ones to decide it at the expense of some extra physicality. Guy would go on to hit all three of his free throws to give his team the 63-62 win and a trip to the final.
But, despite the cries of many, it was the correct call to make. No, the real controversy wasn’t discovered until shortly after the game ended. Upon second review of the play right before Virginia’s inbounds, it appeared that Virginia’s Ty Jerome had lost the handle of the ball off his own leg, recovered it and then continued to dribble as if nothing happened. That typically gets called as a double-dribble, but the officials didn’t do anything about it. In fact, not even the players or coaches that had some of the best views of the game didn’t appear to know it happened.
Take the interview between CBS’ Tracy Wolfson and Guy, for example. Wolfson asked Guy about the “controversial call” at the end, but that was in reference to the shot and he only mentioned Jerome’s trust in him when talking about the inbounds pass.
I was open for a split second. Ty had confidence in me. Controversial or not, it doesn’t matter. We got the win. I’ve never been part of something that’s controversial. I just can’t even express how I feel right now.
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Even on the Tigers’ side, the only controversy they noticed was on the shooting foul itself.
“I thought the game was over and then I saw somebody’s hand up with a whistle,” [Auburn assistant coach] Steve Pearl said. “I was like, ‘They called a foul and they’re sending one of the best free-throw shooters in the country, if not the best, to the line.’ Obviously, a really tough way for the game to end.”
“It seemed like the ref wasn’t about to [make] the call [on Guy’s shot],” Doughty said. “I can’t tell you what was going on in the ref’s mind. I’m pretty sure they’re going to make the best decision to their ability. I can’t really speak what was going on in their mind and what it was so late.”
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Only Bruce Pearl really touched on the double-dribble and that’s because Wolfson brought it up to him right after the game—who, like the rest of us, likely had the benefit of the slow-motion replay making rounds after the game.
As for how it got missed, CBS’ Gene Steratore offered up the idea that the ball bounced in an “unusual” way that doesn’t normally happen when it bounces off of the back of somebody’s leg.
It’s a plausible theory, but it doesn’t excuse missing a call when you’re right next to the action as an official who was deemed qualified enough to be in the Final Four. Double-dribbles aren’t supposed to be subject to debate, that’s “supposed” to be left for things like reach-ins and shooting fouls.
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Still, the idea that an atypical bounce tricked an official into allowing a player to set up a game-winning shot for his team—or the resulting correctly-called foul in this case—is about as March-y as you can get with an ending (for better or worse).
