Dai Dai Ames overcame foul trouble to pour in a season-best 29 points, and Cal overcame a lull early in the second half to outfinish visiting Georgia Tech 90-85 in an Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball game in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday night.

Milos Ilic capped an 11-point performance with four clutch free throws. John Camden chipped in with 15 points, Chris Bell 14 and Justin Pippen 13 to complement seven rebounds and a team-high six assists for the Golden Bears (17-6, 5-5 ACC), who won for the fourth time in their last five games.

Baye Ndongo flirted with a triple-double for Georgia Tech (11-12, 2-8) before fouling out with 10 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists.

Fresh off a road win at Miami (Fla.), Cal led 43-29 at halftime on the strength of eight 3-pointers and went up 46-31 in the first minute of the second period after a deep hoop by Ames before the Yellow Jackets rallied.

Kam Craft dropped in a layup and went outside for a pair of 3-pointers, setting the stage for a Davi Remagen 11-footer that produced a 49-all tie at the 15:12 mark. Georgia Tech was just 2-for-17 from deep in the first half.

Another 3-pointer by Craft had the visitors even at 59-all before Cal held the upper hand over the final 10 minutes.

After back-to-back 3-pointers and a layup by Akai Fleming had pulled Georgia Tech within 80-77 with still 1:10 remaining, the Golden Bears pulled away at the free-throw line, featuring a 4-for-4 run by Ilic.

The Golden Bears finished 28-for-39 at the line, outscoring the visitors by 21 points from the stripe.

Ilic was Cal’s leading rebounder with nine, just missing what would have been his first double-double of the season.

Fleming came off the bench to pace the Yellow Jackets with 19 points, shooting 3-for-6 from deep. Chas Kelley III aided the visitors’ cause with 15 points, while Craft and Jaeden Mustaf had 14 apiece for Georgia Tech, which lost for the seventh time in its last eight outings.

–Field Level Media

The Orlando Magic have traded point guard Tyus Jones and two second-round picks to the Charlotte Hornets for cash considerations, according to ESPN.

The cash considerations given by the Hornets will help the Magic avoid the luxury tax, who added two second-round picks to the deal for Charlotte to take on Jones’ capital.

The trade now gives Charlotte 11 first-round picks and 14 second-round picks over the next 7 years.

Jones averaged 3.0 points, 1.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game this season, only starting eight games for Orlando, who acquired him as a free agent on June 30 on a one-year, $7 million deal.

Charlotte, who acquired guard Coby White earlier this morning, adds another veteran to the rotation.

Jones was drafted in the first round of the 2015 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, but played his first games for the Minnesota Timberwolves. He signed a 3-year, $28 million deal with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2019, where he spent another four seasons.

He followed with stints in Washington (2023-24) and Phoenix (2024-25) where he his greatest volume of action, starting 124 games over two seasons. He has just 102 starts over his other nine seasons.

Jones’ best performance for Orlando this season came on Dec. 23 against the Portland Trail Blazers, where he tallied 16 points, seven assists and four rebounds.

–Field Level Media

Matt Boldy scored a hat trick in the first period and set up Jared Spurgeon’s game-winning goal as the Minnesota Wild pulled off a crazy 6-5 overtime victory against the host Nashville Predators on Wednesday night.

The clock was winding down when Boldy set up Spurgeon with a cross-ice pass to beat Juuse Saros with 46 seconds remaining in OT for the 6-5 final.

Quinn Hughes had two assists, and Filip Gustavsson made 30 saves for the Wild, who have won five in a row heading into the Olympic break.

Roman Josi and Filip Forsberg each had a goal and an assist, and Steven Stamkos and Ryan O’Reilly each had three-point nights for the Predators, who defeated the St. Louis Blues 6-5 their last time out. Saros made 38 saves.

Boldy gave Minnesota an early 1-0 lead at 1:49 of the first period. The Wild won the faceoff in their defensive zone, and Zach Bogosian passed the puck up to Boldy, who skated above the Nashville defense to score on a wrist shot.

Boldy added to his tally with a backhand tip shot on the power play, giving the Wild a 2-0 advantage at 3:39.

Forsberg got Nashville on the board 2-1 with a wrist shot past Gustavsson on the power play.

On a fluke play in front of Nashville’s net, Nick Blankenburg lost possession of the puck, and Boldy quickly backhanded it past Saros to give the Wild a 3-1 lead at 12:58.

Stamkos buried his own power-play goal to make the score 3-2 at 16:45, and Eric Haula tied the game 3-3 on a wrist shot at 18:21.

Luke Evangalista gave the Predators their first lead of the game 41 seconds into the second period. Stamkos set him up for a wrist shot to make the score 4-3.

Yakov Trenin tied the game back up 4-4 at 16:06 when he skated in front of Roman Josi for a back-handed tap-in up close.

Vladimir Tarasenko scored on a wrist shot to make it 5-4 Wild at 15:14 of the third period, but Josi scored on the following faceoff to tie it 5-5 34 seconds later, setting the table for overtime.

–Field Level Media