DJ Thomas scored 20 points off the bench to help lead West Virginia to a wire-to-wire 87-70 victory over Creighton in the College Basketball Crown semifinals Saturday in Las Vegas.

Treysen Eaglestaff added 16 points and Brenen Lorient scored 15 for West Virginia (20-14), which advances to face former Big 12 rival Oklahoma in the championship on Sunday. Honor Huff had 13 points, while Chance Moore posted a 10-point, 13-rebound double-double in the win.

Josh Dix’s 18 points led Creighton (16-18), which said goodbye to head coach Greg McDermott, who is retiring as the winningest coach in program history. Hudson Greer scored 15 and Jasen Green tallied 14 points and 12 boards for the Bluejays.

West Virginia extended its six-point halftime lead to 11 on Lorient’s 3-pointer and Thomas’ layup with 13:40 remaining.

The margin ballooned to 16 after Harlan Obioha’s three-point play and Thomas’ basket, forcing Creighton’s timeout with 9:06 left. Green had six of Creighton’s ensuing 8-0 run, cutting the Bluejays’ deficit in half.

West Virginia separated itself again though, as Huff’s third triple was followed by Moore’s dunk and Lorient’s layup to extend the Mountaineers’ lead to 79-61 with 3:40 left.

Lorient’s thunderous dunk and Eaglestaff’s layup put West Virginia ahead by 19, sealing the easy win.

Huff drilled a pair of 3-pointers in the opening minutes to help West Virginia take an early 8-0 lead.

The Mountaineers grabbed their first double-digit lead at the 9:15 mark of the opening half, as Thomas and Huff’s layups put them ahead 26-16.

After Thomas’ triple gave West Virginia a 29-17 lead, Dix’s three-point play stamped a 9-0 run to pull the Bluejays within three.

Eaglestaff missed his first three 3-point attempts before drilling an open trey with 1:14 remaining, which gave the Mountaineers a 43-37 halftime edge.

Thomas led all scorers with 12 first-half points, while Greer hit three 3-pointers and had 11 points in the first half for Creighton.

–Field Level Media

Zavier Gozo had a goal and an assist on Saturday afternoon to help Real Salt Lake earn a 3-1 victory over visiting Sporting Kansas City.

Diego Luna and Sergi Solans also scored for Salt Lake (4-1-1, 13 points), which extended its unbeaten streak to five games. Noel Caliskan tallied two assists for Salt Lake, which improved to 3-0 at home. Salt Lake had 22 shot attempts to Kansas City’s five.

Dejan Joveljic scored his team-leading fourth goal of the season for Kansas City (1-4-1, four points), which remains in last place in the Western Conference standings. SKC goalkeeper John Pulskamp made four saves but allowed three goals for the club, which owns the Western Conference’s worst goal differential (minus-8).

After going ahead 1-0 in the opening half, Salt Lake doubled its lead at the 55-minute mark, when Gozo assisted Solans on a right-footed goal in the box. Kansas City answered just four minutes later though, as Joveljic’s fourth goal of the season cut the deficit in half. Justin Reynolds assisted on the shot from the center of the box.

After Kansas City threatened to tie the score on Manu Garcia’s attempt, Salt Lake pushed its cushion back to two on Gozo’s goal in the 82nd minute. Caliskan found Gozo, who fired in a laser from the right of the box.

Salt Lake struck first just four minutes into the match, as Caliskan found Luna, who dribbled to the top of the box and fired in a left-footed shot past the outstretched Pulskamp.

Salt Lake continued to live in Kansas City’s territory, threatening to double its lead with nine shot attempts across the game’s first 25 minutes.

In total, Real Salt Lake tallied 12 first-half shot attempts to Kansas City’s two. Pulskamp made three saves in the first 45-plus minutes.

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Luca Langoni had a pair of goal contributions, keeper Matt Turner made five saves for the clean sheet, and the New England Revolution picked up a 3-0 victory over visiting CF Montreal on Saturday.

Langoni scored in the first half and set up Mamadou Fofana’s first MLS goal as New England (2-3-0, 6 points) remains undefeated at home.

Peyton Miller had the other goal for the Revolution, which improved to 10-6-2 all-time in Foxborough against Montreal.

Montreal (1-5-0, 3 points) has dropped three straight with the loss at New England. Keeper Thomas Gillier made two saves.

Leading 1-0, Fofana doubled the Revolution’s lead in the 77th minute, redirecting a through ball from Langoni past Gillier.

Then, in second half stoppage time, Miller chipped a strike up and over Gillier.

Montreal had a couple of glorious chances for the equalizer early in the second half.

Dawid Bugaj hit the crossbar with his strike from outside the area in the 58th minute, and Hennadii Synchuk forced Turner to make a save with a header off the rebound to keep Montreal off the board.

Langoni opened the scoring in the sixth minute, putting in the rebound off Dor Turgeman’s strike for his first goal of the season. Gillier made the initial save off Turgeman’s strike but was unable to corral the loose ball.

Montreal’s first good chance came six minutes later as Efrain Morales put his header from the center of the area over the woodwork.

Turgeman nearly gave the Revolution a 2-0 lead in the 16th minute but put his strike from the center box off the post.

Then, in the 33rd minute, the header from Montreal’s Brandan Craig was corralled by Turner.

Revolution head coach Marko Mitrovic was sent off with a red card in the 34th minute for coming out of the technical area to dispute the yellow card handed to Will Sands.

Saturday was the first of two meetings between Montreal and New England — the two sides will reconvene north of the border on Aug. 1.

–Field Level Media