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Yahoo
06-04-2025
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- Yahoo
Sunday Headlines: Houston beats Duke and Jaland Lowe Commits Edition
Matt Cashore-Imagn Images If you stayed up and watched the end of the Houston-Duke Final Four game, you were treated to the lovely sight of an all-time Duke collapse. The Blue Devils led by 7 with 1:40 left in the game but fell apart down the stretch, and Houston advanced to tomorrow's championship game. Advertisement Duke controlled much of the second half and led by as many as 14, but made key mistakes down the stretch with turnovers and missed free throws to allow Houston to make the comeback. It was an all-time collapse for the Blue Devils and now we get a really interesting matchup for the championship between Florida and Houston. Walter Clayton Jr. is quietly having an all-time great tournament run after scoring 34 in the win over Auburn, but Houston's defense is one of the best in the country. In Kentucky Wildcats news, the Cats picked up another transfer portal commitment yesterday, as Pittsburgh point guard Jaland Lowe announced he plans to transfer to Kentucky. Advertisement The 6'3 point guard just finished his sophomore season at Pitt, where he averaged just under 17 points per game to go along with 4 rebounds, 5.5 assists, and almost 2 steals per game. He was named All-ACC Third Team this past season. As a freshman at Pittsburgh, Lowe took over starting duties midway through the season. During that stretch, Lowe shot around 40 percent from three. As a full-season starter in his sophomore season, that number dipped to under 27 percent. Lowe's shooting percentage his freshman season, coupled with an expected increase in talent around him, a role that would expect a lower usage rate, and Lowe's good free-throw percentage (almost 88 percent over the last two seasons), and there's some optimism that Lowe could shoot the ball better than his sophomore season would indicate. Advertisement Lowe figures to be the starting point guard for the Wildcats next season, although incoming freshman point guard Acaden Lewis will compete for minutes as well. Kentucky now has two portal commitments. Kentucky likely still will look for another wing and at least one more front court player — possibly 2. The wheels of the transfer portal keep on turning... Tweet of the Day Time to end the Cooper Flagg >>> Anthony Davis freshman season talk. Headlines What is Kentucky getting in Jaland Lowe? - KSR A good look at Kentucky's newest PG. No football spring game - Herald Leader But fans are invited to a practice this coming Saturday. Advertisement UK Baseball drops series to Ole Miss - Cats Pause That was a tough one. UK Softball loses tough one to Auburn - UK Athletics Sydney Langdon has another good pitching performance. Houston win included questionable foul call - Yahoo Probably wasn't a foul, but Duke had plenty of opportunities to put them away. UCONN-South Carolina meeting is next chapter in great rivalry - Andscape Should be a good one today. 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame class announced - ESPN A great group. Ovechkin ties Gretzky's goal record; could break it today - Bleacher Report Will he do it today? Terron Armstead retires from NFL - NBC Sports Advertisement He finishes his career as a 5-time Pro Bowler. House settlement continues to loom - CBS Sports A final ruling isn't expected tomorrow. More from
USA Today
06-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Joseph Tugler injury update: Houston F turns ankle, returns to game vs. Duke
Hear this story Houston basketball's Joseph Tugler suffered an apparent ankle injury early in the Cougars' Final Four matchup with Duke on Saturday in San Antonio. Tugler, one of 10 finalists for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year this season, was shown working out his ankle on the sideline's training bike after tweaking his ankle. Tugler was attempting to deny a pass to Duke's Khaman Maluach before coming down awkwardly on his ankle. The 6-foot-8 forward is averaging 5.5 points with 5.9 rebounds per game this season, but his averages don't show his impact on the floor. Tugler would be quite the loss for Houston, given his defensive versatility and expected impact on Cooper Flagg, the Naismith and Wooden Award winner this season. Tugler has started 32 of Houston's 39 games this season. He later returned to the court midway through the first half, but his effectiveness will be covered closely throughout the rest of the game after the tweak. Here's what to know of Tugler's injury on Saturday: Joseph Tugler injury update Tugler landed awkwardly on his ankle in the first half of Houston-Duke in the Final Four on Saturday. He stayed on the sideline and was shown working through the ailment on the training bike. The 6-foot-8 forward attempted to deny a pass to Maluach early in the first half but twisted his ankle as he landed on the court. It's seemingly good news he never went to the locker room, however. Tugler later reentered the game with 11:51 left in the first half, but it'll be interesting to see if the ankle tweak limits the star defender's impact at all.
Fox Sports
04-04-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Florida duo, Houston's White juggle tasks as Final Four assistants set to lead their own programs
Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Florida assistant coaches John Andrzejek and Kevin Hovde are racking up the hours before the Final Four. So is Houston assistant Quannas White ahead of Saturday's national semifinals at the Alamodome. Yet all three are doing more than fine-tuning scouting reports or breaking down video of their opponents. There's also work — fit carefully into an already-stuffed schedule — to get started on running their own programs. Andrzejek is headed to Campbell, Hovde to Columbia and White to Louisiana-Lafayette in hirings that have already been announced. That means taking calls to interview staff or talk to recruits while riding out the rest of their current teams' title pushes, including taking the practice court in the Alamodome on Friday ahead of the Florida-Auburn and Houston-Duke semifinals on Saturday. 'I didn't second-guess this at all,' White said. 'There was no thought in my mind that said now that you've become a head coach, you need to get down there immediately. This is a family to me and families stick together and see things through.' The programs where they've spent multiple seasons are two wins from winning a national championship, which would be the first for Florida since the 2006 and 2007 repeat, and the first ever for Houston — the program best known for the 'Phi Slama Jama' glory days of the 1980s that twice brought the program to the title game. There's the emotional pull to stay with their teams to the end, bitter or glorious. Awkward timing The thrill of this week's Final Four conflicts with a key time for the programs the coaches are taking over. The transfer portal is open, with players already jumping in to move on from their current schools. So it's a fertile time for coaches looking to reshape rosters for next season, meaning any time away from those new programs is time lost. Another team in the Final Four, Duke, had a staffer face that same conundrum. Jai Lucas, who was the team's defensive coordinator, left the Blue Devils after the regular-season finale at North Carolina to take over at Miami. That's meant the Blue Devils having to shuffle responsibilities, with assistant Emanuel Dildy noting that coach Jon Scheyer — who called the timing 'not ideal' — has been diving even more into some of the scouting work. 'It's really been the same as always: just next man up,' Duke guard Sion James said. 'Same as when players get hurt. ... And our coaches are the exact same way, we've got coaches who are ready to step up whenever their number is called since then.' For the holdovers still with their teams in San Antonio, there's a bit more room to wait by going to a mid-major that can only benefit from the promotion that will come with Saturday's games and maybe a trip to the title game Monday night. 'The further we go, the better our sales pitch gets, the better our brand is for Campbell,' Andrzejek said. "I think kids are already really excited to play for a coach who has coached in the Final Four. And I know they'd be even more excited to play for a coach who's a national champion.' The new jobs White, 44, is the only one of the three who has already had an introductory news conference at his new school. He's taking over a Sun Belt program that reached March Madness just two years ago. The 32-year-old Andrzejek and the 36-year-old Hovde will be introduced next week. Andrzejek is taking over a Coastal Athletic Association program in North Carolina with a single NCAA Tournament bid in its history (1992). Hovde, 36, is taking over the New York City-based Ivy League program with three NCAA bids but none since 1968. The key for Andrzejek, Hovde and White has been simple: adaptability. 'I just spent a lot of time on the phone, to be honest,' said Hovde, who at least has two assistant coaches in the hiring process at Columbia. Calls, visits and recruiting Hovde jumped at the chance after the Gators beat two-time reigning national champion UConn in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to catch a flight for a daylong visit to Columbia. He had individual meetings with current players to build rapport with them, then rejoined Florida ahead of its trip to San Francisco for West Region games. 'They're awesome,' Hovde said of the Columbia players. 'They're Florida Gator fans now, text me after every game.' Andrzejek hasn't been able to do official visits because he's otherwise been with the Gators in Gainesville. He's hired Landry Kosmalski, a former coach at Division III Swarthmore, to give him another set of hands in Buies Creek. 'I won't lie to you: it's a lot of nights going on four hours' sleep, trying to do both,' Andrzejek said. 'It's not neatly compartmentalized. It'd be nice to say, 'All right, from 9 to 4, I work on Florida. From 4 to 10, I work on Campbell.' It doesn't really work that way.' As for White, he has hired three assistants and even managed to sneak away for a quick visit to Louisiana for recruiting this week. 'Had a kid on a visit who committed, thank God,' White said. 'So right after the visit was over, I flew back (Wednesday), got with the team, practiced and drove up here and started preparing.' Still, his work with the Cougars takes priority for a few more days, at least. 'Even when I was down at Lafayette,' White said, 'I was watching film on Duke.' ___ AP March Madness bracket: and coverage: Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. recommended
