Tom Izzo apologizes to players for tough start to schedule

King McClure scored all 15 of his points in the second half and Baylor rallied to beat 10th-ranked Louisville 66-63 after trailing by as many as 22 points late in the first half.

No. 24 Michigan State (4-3) built an 18-point lead with 11:52 remaining, but Wichita State cut its deficit to one point with 4:12 left in the third-place game against Wichita State (5-2) in the Battle 4 Atlantis. Right now, the Bears are clearly the second best team in the Big Ten.

“We were moving the ball and really playing well I thought through the first half, and we quit doing that”, Izzo said of the game.

Freshman Miles Bridges scored 15 points for the Spartans, who shot 39 percent after halftime — including 1 for 10 on 3-pointers — in a demanding opening month of the schedule that has them crisscrossing the country.

Hogg also grabbed 10 rebounds for his first career double-double, and scored the final five points for the Aggies.

Bashir Ahmed scored nine of his 13 points in an early run for the Red Storm, while Yankuba Sima added 12 points and tied for a team-high with seven rebounds on the evening.

Tim Williams had 19 points and 11 rebounds and Elijah Brown scored 16 points for the Lobos (3-1), who fell to 6-17 all-time against ACC teams. The game airs at 2:30 on ESPN. We came back and started chipping away and saw the lead go down. Jaylen Johnson added 10 points, the only front-court player for Louisville to reach double-digits.

“It takes a team to win, especially on the last day when you’ve got exhausted legs”, Drew said after Friday’s win. He was impressed with his team’s ability to learn a new defense in a workout that was less than an hour Thanksgiving morning.

“So you’ve got to give them experience and see what they can do when the lights come on”. It’s my fault. I saw they were tired.

“I liked the way we fought back”, Motley said. So it’s my fault we lost this championship.

THE Baylor Bears have put pollsters on notice – this team warrants national recognition and is primed for a tournament run in March.

Derrius Guice (L) of the LSU Tigers fends off Larry Pryor of the Texas A&M Aggies during their college football game at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, Thursday. Dayton will have the chance to get some quality wins in the upcoming Wooden Legacy and Richmond will play Maryland in Brooklyn on Friday. “But it is what it is and we will go play the game”. “We did a lot of lobs to the bigs and it changed the whole momentum of the game”. TIP-INS1. The winner will take on the victor of Michigan State and St. John’s on Thursday. 2. 4 Oregon. The Cardinals could slide a bit.

LSU continued to have turnover problems with several unforced passes that led to 18 turnovers, 14 VCU steals and 19 Ram points off turnovers.

“We just wanted to confuse them as much as possible”, Mitchell said, “and we did that very well”. The Cardinals shot 29.7 percent and needed overtime to beat a methodical Old Dominion team 68-62 Wednesday night.