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Top 25 roundup: Ole Miss pulls off late upset of No. 4 Tennessee
Mar 5, 2025; Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Mississippi Rebels guard Matthew Murrell (11) reacts against the Tennessee Volunteers during the second half at The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss. Mandatory Credit: Wesley Hale-Imagn Images Jaemyn Brakefield’s tiebreaking putback with 7.5 seconds left capped a massive second-half performance as Ole Miss stunned No. 4 Tennessee 78-76 on Wednesday in Oxford, Miss.
After Tennessee’s Igor Milicic Jr. converted a four-point play with 40 seconds left to knot it at 76-all, Brakefield, a senior who scored all 19 of his points in the second half, grabbed an offensive rebound and put in the game-winner. Milicic missed a short shot in the lane at the buzzer that would have forced overtime.
The Rebels (21-9, 10-7 Southeastern Conference) got 13 points and 10 rebounds from Dre Davis, plus 13 points from Malik Dia. Matthew Murrell scored 12 as Ole Miss broke a four-game head-to-head losing streak against Tennessee. Ole Miss won its second game in a row after a three-game skid.
The Volunteers (24-6, 11-6) got 17 points from Jordan Gainey and 15 from Chaz Lanier. Felix Okpara had 13 points and seven boards, while Zakai Zeigler totaled eight points and 15 assists.
No. 5 Florida 99, No. 7 Alabama 94
Alex Condon scored a career-best 27 points and collected 10 rebounds and the Gators clinched the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Southeastern Conference tournament with a solid victory over the Crimson Tide at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Walter Clayton Jr. recorded 22 points, eight assists and five rebounds for the Gators (26-4, 13-4 SEC), who won for the 11th time in the past 13 games. Thomas Haugh added 12 points and Alijah Martin had 10 for Florida.
Mark Sears amassed 30 points, six rebounds and five assists in his final home game for the Crimson Tide (23-7, 12-5), who have dropped four of their past six games. Labaron Philon scored 19 points and Clifford Omoruyi added 11 points and seven rebounds for Alabama. Grant Nelson and Aiden Sherrell each had 10 points.
No. 9 Texas Tech 91, Colorado 75
JT Toppin had 30 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Red Raiders over the Buffaloes in Lubbock, Texas.
Chance McMillian added 15 points for Texas Tech (23-7, 14-5 Big 12), which remains in a second-place tie with No. 24 Arizona in the conference. The Red Raiders have won two straight and five of their past seven games.
Sebastian Rancik and Bangot Dak each scored 12 points to lead Colorado (11-19, 2-17), which has lost three consecutive games and four of the past five.
No. 11 Clemson 78, Boston College 69
Jaeden Zackery scored a game-high 21 points and Chase Hunter finished with 18 points to lead the Tigers to a victory over the Eagles in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Zackery, who spent three seasons at Boston College before he transferred to Clemson, shot 7 of 12 from the field. Viktor Lakhin added 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Tigers (25-5, 17-2 ACC), who extended their winning streak to seven games and have won eight straight ACC road games.
Boston College freshman Jayden Hastings made each of his eight field-goal attempts and scored a season-high 18. The Eagles (12-18, 4-15) received 15 points from Elijah Strong and 14 from Dion Brown.
No. 12 Wisconsin 74, Minnesota 67
John Blackwell scored 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Badgers held on for a victory over the Golden Gophers in Minneapolis.
John Tonje added 18 points and pulled down seven rebounds for Wisconsin (23-7, 13-6 Big Ten), which bounced back from a loss against No. 8 Michigan State in its previous game.
Brennan Rigsby scored 18 points on 6-for-10 shooting to lead Minnesota (15-15, 7-12). Lu’Cye Patterson contributed 15 points.
No. 13 Maryland 71, No. 17 Michigan 65
Rodney Rice scored 19 points to lead the Terrapins to a Big Ten win over the Wolverines in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Derik Queen had 17 points and 12 rebounds and Selton Miguel added 17 points for Maryland (23-7, 13-6 Big Ten), which won its fifth road game of the season and stayed in the hunt for a double-bye in next week’s Big Ten tournament.
Vladislav Goldin had 20 points and 15 rebounds and Danny Wolf scored 20 points with eight rebounds for Michigan (22-8, 14-5), which dropped its second straight home game. The Wolverines finish the regular season Sunday at Michigan State.
No. 14 Louisville 85, Cal 68
Terrence Edwards Jr. hit seven 3-pointers and scored a game-high 35 points as the host Cardinals stretched their winning streak to eight games by defeating the Golden Bears.
Edwards made 11 of 19 shots from the field as the Cardinals (24-6, 17-2 ACC) kept pace with Clemson in a tie for second place in the conference, one game behind Duke. Chucky Hepburn and J’Vonne Hadley added 16 points apiece.
Jovan Blacksher Jr. scored 22 points for the Golden Bears (13-17, 6-13), who shot 29.6 percent from the floor.
Oklahoma 96, No. 15 Missouri 84
Jeremiah Fears scored a career-high 31 points, hit 12 of 12 free-throw attempts and dished out five assists to lead the Sooners to an upset of the Tigers in Norman, Okla.
Oklahoma (18-12, 5-12 SEC) snapped its two-game losing streak and boosted its NCAA Tournament resume. Sam Godwin had 12 points in the first half but didn’t play in the second half for the Sooners as he sat at the end of the bench with ice on his right knee. Mohamed Wague chipped in 12 points and Jalon Moore added 11 points and seven rebounds.
Mark Mitchell led Missouri (21-9, 10-7) with 18 points. Caleb Grill scored 16 points and had eight rebounds and Marques Warrick added 10 points for the Tigers, who have lost three of their past four games.
UConn 72, No. 20 Marquette 66
Alex Karaban scored 21 points to lead the Huskies to a victory over the Golden Eagles in Storrs, Conn.
UConn (21-9, 13-6 Big East) moved into third place in the Big East thanks to its tiebreaker over the Golden Eagles. Four other players scored in double figures for the Huskies, with Samson Johnson providing 10 points and 11 rebounds.
David Joplin led Marquette (22-8, 13-6) with 23 points on 7-for-13 shooting. Kam Jones added 21 points.
–Field Level Media
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Sharks beat Oilers to halt five-game slide
Feb 28, 2026; San Jose, California, USA; Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman (18) scores a goal against San Jose Sharks goaltender Yaroslav Askarov (30) during the first period at SAP Center at San Jose. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images Shakir Mukhamadullin scored the game-winner on a slap shot midway through the third period as the San Jose Sharks defeated the visiting Edmonton Oilers 5-4 on Saturday.
Michael Misa had a goal and an assist, and 12 different players recorded points for the Sharks, who ended a five-game losing streak, their second longest of the season.
Connor McDavid, the NHL’s leading scorer, led Edmonton with three assists, while Evan Bouchard had a goal and two assists.
Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring 8:34 into the first period for San Jose. Oilers goaltender Connor Ingam, who made 28 saves, lost his stick on the previous sequence. He thought the puck had been cleared far enough away from his zone to retrieve it, but the Sharks’ Will Smith retrieved it and sent it over to Celebrini for his team-leading 29th of the season.
Misa and Barclay Goodrow also scored in the first period as the Sharks recorded three goals in the opening 20 minutes for the second straight time against Edmonton this season.
Last time, on Jan. 29th, the Oilers would score four unanswered goals, including an equalizer with 59 seconds left by Bouchard and the winner with 1:06 remaining in overtime by Zach Hyman.
Leon Draisaitl scored off an assist from McDavid on the Oilers’ league-leading power play in the first as Edmonton trailed by two goals heading into the second period.
Bouchard tallied his 17th goal of the season to get Edmonton within one in the second period, scoring off assists from McDavid and Mattias Ekholm.
The goal gave Bouchard 20 points in his last 10 games. The last defenseman to do that for the Oilers was legendary Paul Coffey in 1986.
Trent Frederic evened the game at 3 at 2:54 into the third on a wrister from Matt Savoie, who drove the puck all the way up the ice past Sharks goaltender Yaroslav Askarov before feeding the former Boston Bruin for the easy finish.
Askarov made 20 saves for San Jose.
The teams then traded goals, with San Jose first retaking the lead as Alexander Wennberg scored on a wrister less than three minutes after Frederic’s equalizer, with Jake Walman evening the game again for the Oilers less than two minutes after that.
The scoring frenzy concluded with Mukhamadullin’s winner at the 9:27 mark of the third period, after William Eklund found him at the point for the powerful slap shot.
The Oilers have scored 17 goals in three games since coming back from the Olympics but have now lost two of those contests.
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Minnesota United holds off FC Cincinnati in historically cold matchup
Feb 21, 2026; Austin, Texas, USA; Minnesota United forward Kelvin Yeboah (9) stops during the first half against Austin FC at Q2 Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images Kelvin Yeboah scored in the 66th minute and Drake Callender made four saves as Minnesota United presented Cameron Knowles his first victory as head coach with a 1-0 shutout of FC Cincinnati on Saturday afternoon in Saint Paul, Minn.
Roman Celentano finished with four saves for FC Cincinnati (1-1-0, 3 points).
Yeboah, who scored the tying goal in the 90th minute in Minnesota’s season opening 2-2 draw at Austin FC, headed in a rebound of a Tomas Chancalay free kick from the top left edge of the box for the game-winner. Chancalay’s shot caromed off the far right post into the middle of the box where Yeboah drilled in a hard header.
The score was set up when a free kick was awarded after Cincinnati’s Gerardo Valenzuela tripped Joaquin Pereyra just inches outside the penalty box.
Cincinnati, which opened the season with a 2-0 victory over Atlanta United, nearly tied it five minutes later on a curling left-footed shot from the middle of the box by Obinna Nwobodo that was heading for the right corner of the goal, but Callender made a diving one-arm save to knock it wide of the post.
Chancalay had a chance to extend the lead in the 83rd minute when he went in on a breakaway, but Celentano made a leaping two-hand deflection of his left-footed shot from the left side of the box that was ticketed for the top right corner of the goal.
Minnesota United (1-1-0, 4 points) moved into first place in the Western Conference with the win. Star striker James Rodriguez, who won the Golden Boot playing for Colombia in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, dressed but did not make his debut for the Loons.
The temperature at kickoff was 20 degrees with a wind-chill of 11 making it the coldest game played in team history for Cincinnati.
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Shane van Gisbergen charges to victory in NASCAR O'Reilly Series race at COTA
Feb 28, 2026; Austin, Texas, USA; O’Reilly NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series driver Shane Van Gisbergen (9) with the trophy after winning the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Focused Health 250 at Circuit of the Americas. Mandatory Credit: Michael C. Johnson-Imagn Images AUSTIN, Texas — With a bold, brilliant move moments after the final restart of Saturday’s Focused Health 250 at Circuit of the Americas, Shane van Gisbergen once again exhibited his road course supremacy.
Taking the inside line into Turn 1 after the restart with five laps left, van Gisbergen made a four-wide pass for the lead from the sixth position and pulled away to win the fifth NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts race of his career, this time by 0.780 seconds over runner-up Austin Hill.
In a rough-and-tumble event with more than its share of contact, van Gisbergen led five times for 31 laps, including the last five after the decisive move, as then-leader and Stage 2 winner Sam Mayer ran wide in the first corner, clearing the inside lane for the winning pass.
“I was a bit unsure there, starting sixth on the outside,” van Gisbergen said. “I kind of got to the inside, which was good, and nosed in on the 41 (Mayer), and he reacted. When he reacted, I thought no way he’s stopping that, and he kind of pushed everyone wide, which was awesome, and it worked out for us.”
The win was SVG’s first at COTA in his second O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at the track. He is winless in two NASCAR Cup Series starts at the Texas road course.
“I’ve always been fast here but never managed to win,” van Gisbergen said. “So I’m pretty stoked to finally get it done–pretty flawless day.”
Van Gisbergen’s victory was the 10th straight on road courses for JR Motorsports and the 106th for the organization overall.
Austin Hill’s runner-up finish was his third in five starts at the 2.4-mile track.
“I made a lot of mistakes out there today, but that’s going to happen on these road courses,” said Hill, the series points leader through three races. “Stage 2, I was struggling a little bit, just trying to figure out what I needed to be better.”
In a race billed as a matchup between van Gisbergen and pole winner Connor Zilisch, Sammy Smith finished third, followed by Jesse Love and Corey Day, as Zilisch suffered a litany of issues that dropped him to 21st at the end.
After Zilisch led 12 laps during the first stage, the left-rear brake rotor on his No. 1 Chevrolet sheared, and the 19-year-old prodigy quickly dropped through the field. After stopping for repairs to the rear brakes, Zilisch started the final stage in 29th but just as rapidly worked his way forward.
With fewer than three laps left, he had just cleared Day’s No. 17 Chevrolet for fourth, when contact from Day’s car sent Zilisch spinning and damaged his Camaro.
Seventeen-year-old Brent Crews finished sixth in his series debut after taking the lead on the Stage 2 restart. Crews is the first driver under 18 to lead laps in the series since Casey Atwood accomplished the feat in 1998.
William Sawalich, Justin Allgaier, Ross Chastain and Brennan Poole completed the top 10.
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Race — Focused Health 250
Circuit of The Americas
Austin, Texas
Saturday, February 28, 2026
1. (2) Shane van Gisbergen(i), Chevrolet, 65.
2. (3) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 65.
3. (10) Sammy Smith, Chevrolet, 65.
4. (11) Jesse Love, Chevrolet, 65.
5. (12) Corey Day, Chevrolet, 65.
6. (7) Brent Crews, Toyota, 65.
7. (15) William Sawalich, Toyota, 65.
8. (5) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 65.
9. (21) Ross Chastain(i), Chevrolet, 65.
10. (26) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 65.
11. (9) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 65.
12. (14) Taylor Gray, Toyota, 65.
13. (28) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 65.
14. (8) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 65.
15. (4) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 65.
16. (18) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 65.
17. (24) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, 65.
18. (34) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 65.
19. (6) Carson Kvapil, Chevrolet, 65.
20. (32) Patrick Staropoli, Chevrolet, 65.
21. (1) Connor Zilisch(i), Chevrolet, 65.
22. (31) Lavar Scott #, Chevrolet, 65.
23. (16) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 65.
24. (35) Kyle Sieg, Chevrolet, 65.
25. (20) Nick Sanchez, Ford, 65.
26. (27) Dean Thompson, Toyota, 65.
27. (17) Preston Pardus, Chevrolet, 65.
28. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 65.
29. (23) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 65.
30. (29) Parker Retzlaff, Chevrolet, 65.
31. (19) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, 65.
32. (30) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 65.
33. (13) Austin Green, Chevrolet, 65.
34. (33) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, 64.
35. (22) Sage Karam, Toyota, Suspension, 53.
36. (25) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, Suspension, 35.
37. (37) Baltazar Leguizamon, Chevrolet, Accident, 33.
38. (38) Austin J Hill, Chevrolet, Suspension, 7.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 70.411 mph.
Time of Race: 2 Hrs, 12 Mins, 56 Secs. Margin of Victory: .780 Seconds.
Caution Flags: 4 for 12 laps.
Lead Changes: 16 among 8 drivers.
Lap Leaders: S. Gisbergen(i) 1-5;C. Zilisch(i) 6-17;A. Hill 18-21;S. Mayer 22;S. Gisbergen(i) 23;C. Zilisch(i) 24;B. Crews 25-28;S. Gisbergen(i) 29-35;S. Mayer 36;C. Kvapil 37-38;S. Mayer 39-44;S. Gisbergen(i) 45-57;B. Crews 58;N. Sanchez 59;J. Allgaier 60;S. Gisbergen(i) 61-65.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Shane Van Gisbergen(i) 5 times for 31 laps; Connor Zilisch(i) 2 times for 13 laps; Sam Mayer 3 times for 8 laps; Brent Crews 2 times for 5 laps; Austin Hill 1 time for 4 laps; Carson Kvapil 1 time for 2 laps; Justin Allgaier 1 time for 1 lap; Nick Sanchez 1 time for 1 lap.
Stage #1 Top Ten: 21,41,7,20,2,91,17,87,88,9
Stage #2 Top Ten: 41,7,91,2,9,21,8,20,32,39
–By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service. Special to Field Level Media.
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