Dailyn Swain poured in 25 points as Texas pulled away from Missouri 85-68 on Saturday night in Columbia, Mo., for its fourth straight victory.

Matas Vokietaitis scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Longhorns (16-9, 6-5 Southeastern Conference), who outscored the Tigers 52-37 in the second half. Jordan Pope added a total of 15 points as Texas improved its NCAA Tournament credentials.

Mark Mitchell and Jayden Stone each scored 16 points and Anthony Robinson II added 11 for the Tigers (17-8, 7-5), who suffered just their second loss in 15 games at home.

The foul-plagued game was played at a ponderous pace. While Texas made 21 of 23 free throws, Missouri missed 12 of 38 from the line.

The Tigers moved out to an early 12-7 lead spurred by Stone, who hit a 3-point jumper and drove for a dunk, and Mitchell, who scored twice inside.

Simeon Wilcher stopped that run with a 3-pointer for the Longhorns, who eventually pulled ahead 19-18 with 7 minutes left in the first half on Nic Codie’s three-point play in the lane.

The teams exchanged leads for the rest of the half. With 1.9 seconds left, Tramon Mark converted a three-point play in the lane to put Texas up 33-31 at the break.

With Missouri starting center Shawn Phillips Jr. limited to seven minutes in the first half due to foul trouble, Texas grabbed eight offensive rebounds and outscored the Tigers 22-14 in the paint in the first 20 minutes.

Swain hit a short jumper to put Texas up 41-37 with 15:44 left to play, then Nicholas Randall pulled the Tigers even with a pair of dunks.

The Longhorns responded with a 16-6 run, triggered by Mark’s three-point play, to move ahead 57-47 with 10:11 left to play.

Missouri cut its deficit to seven points, but Texas pushed its lead to 67-55 with 7:05 left with Pope and Swain hitting 3-point jumpers on consecutive possessions.

The Tigers got no closer than eight points during the rest of the game. Swain’s 3-point jumper with 2:26 left extended the lead to 80-66 and iced the game.

–Field Level Media

The Mid-American Conference is going far west to add Sacramento State as a football-only member starting with the 2026 season, according to multiple reports on Saturday night.

The MAC presidents, per reports, approved the addition of the California-based Hornets, a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) program from 1993-2025. Sacramento State will pay an $18 million entry fee to the MAC and a $5 million fee to the NCAA to move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level, according to reports.

With this addition, the conference will retain 13 football programs with the exit of Northern Illinois on July 1, which is leaving for the Mountain West Conference and paid a $2 million entry fee.

North Dakota State, an FCS power over the last 15 years with 10 national titles in that span, also is joining the Mountain West, per reports earlier this week.

According to ESPN, North Dakota State will pay roughly a $12 million entrance fee to its new league, as well as $5 million to the NCAA in order to move up to the FBS level. Per standard NCAA arrangement, the NDSU football team will not be eligible for a bowl or College Football Playoff berth until 2028.

Sacramento State is a geographic outlier for the MAC as its first program in the Pacific Time Zone. The other programs — not including Northern Illinois — are in the Eastern Time Zone.

The Hornets went 7-5 in 2025, 5-3 in the Big Sky Conference. They will be the first university on the West Coast to go from FCS to FBS in 57 years, following Fresno and San Diego State in 1969, Yahoo Sports reported.

During the 2026-27 academic season, all Sacramento State teams except football will move to the Big West Conference.

Last June, an NCAA Division I council denied a waiver for Sacramento State to move to FBS in 2026, a goal for the program since 2024. The original hope was to join a reconfigured Pac-12 Conference that was set to return to action in 2026 with five Mountain West Conference programs.

But the Hornets program did not receive an invitation for its football program to join an existing conference. Instead, the Hornets launched a plan to leave the Big Sky Conference for the Big West Conference in all sports but football and have its football team play as an FBS independent in 2026.

When the NCAA nixed that possibility last summer, the school planned on moving forward anyway.

“We still plan to be playing FBS football in 2026,” Sacramento State president Luke Wood posted on X after the NCAA denied the school’s waiver request.

“Sacramento State has met every meaningful benchmark for FBS membership, and we believe our university, our students, and the entire Sacramento region deserve major college football.”

–Field Level Media

Aurora Gaming and FUT Esports provided the match of the day Saturday, needing three maps with an overtime round on Day 1 of the PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 event in Romania.

Along with FUT, MOUZ, Team Vitality and The MongolZ also won 2-1 matches, while FURIA, Team Falcons, Natus Vincere and FaZe Clan swept their openers 2-0.

The 16-team Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event begins with a Swiss style format with Saturday’s winners playing Sunday’s Round 2 high matches and the losers playing in the low matches. In Round 3, the four 2-0 teams pair off, as do the four 0-2 teams, and the eight 1-1 teams make up the mid matches.

Two more rounds follow before the eight-team playoff field is set on Wednesday. All matches are best-of-three. The playoffs, which run Feb. 20-22, are single elimination and best-of-three except for the grand final, which is best-of-five.

The $625,000 prize pool awards $225,000 to the winner and $100,000 to the runner-up.

FUT opened with a 13-6 win on Mirage on Saturday, but Aurora followed with a 16-13 overtime win on Anubis. In the decider, FUT took Overpass 13-6. The other 2-1 results: MOUZ beat PARIVISION, Vitality topped G2 Esports and The MongolZ downed PaiN Gaming.

As for the sweeps: Natus Vincere took care of Astralis, FaZe beat HEROIC, Falcons got by 3DMAX and FURIA topped B8.

Sunday’s PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 matches:

Round 2 High Matches

–Natus Vincere vs. MOUZ

–Team Falcons vs. FaZe Clan

–FURIA vs. FUT Esports

–Team Vitality vs. The MongolZ

Round 2 Low Matches

–3DMAX vs. Astralis

–G2 Esports vs. PARIVISION

–Aurora Gaming vs. paiN Gaming

–B8 vs. Heroic

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 prize pool

1. $225,000

2. $100,000

3. $68,750

4. $43,750

5-8. $25,000

9-11. $15,625

12-14: $9,375

15-16. $6,250

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 standings (match record and round difference)

1. FURIA, 1-0, +5

2. Team Vitality, 1-0, +2

3. Team Falcons, 1-0, +9

4. Natus Vincere, 1-0, +10

5. MOUZ, 1-0, +10

6. FaZe Clan, 1-0, +12

7. The MongolZ, 1-0, +17

8. FUT Esports, 1-0, +11

9. Aurora Gaming, 0-1, -11

10. B8, 0-1, -5

11. G2 Esports, 0-1, -2

12. 3DMAX, 0-1, -9

13. Astralis, 0-1, -10

14. PARIVISION, 0-1, -10

15. HEROIC, 0-1, -12

16. paiN Gaming, 0-1, -17

–Field Level Media