College Basketball
Kentucky moved into the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press college basketball poll, replacing Duke, which dropped to sixth following its final-seconds loss to Kansas in the Champions Classic.
The Wildcats (4-0), who also beat then-No. 13 Michigan State in the Champions Classic, received 42 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel in the poll released Monday. Kentucky was ranked No. 1 for two weeks last season.
Defending national champion Villanova (5-0) moved up one spot to second with 21 No. 1 votes following a four-win week that included one at then-No. 15 Purdue.
NEW YORK – Notre Dame and UConn sit first and second in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll.
The two perennial basketball powers each received 16 first place votes from the 33-member national media panel Monday. The Irish remain the No. 1 team in the poll while the Huskies moved up one spot after beating then-No. 2 Baylor last Thursday.
South Carolina garnered the other first place vote and is third in the Top 25. Louisville and Baylor are next in the poll.
NEW YORK – Bonzie Colson had 22 points and 12 rebounds for his fifth career double-double, and Notre Dame held off Colorado 89-83 on Monday night in the semifinals of the Legends Classic at Barclays Center.
The Fighting Irish (4-0) will play the winner-Northwestern for the title Tuesday.
The Buffaloes (3-1) trailed by 15 points at halftime and were able to get as close as four points twice in the final minute but Notre Dame went 14 for 14 from the free throw line over the final 1:33 to keep Colorado at bay.
Xavier Johnson scored 23 points, Derrick White had 20 points and nine assists and George King added 17 points and 13 points for Colorado.
Golf
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Mackenzie Hughes holed an 18-foot par putt from off the green Monday morning to win the RSM Classic and become the first rookie in 20 years to go wire-to-wire for his first PGA Tour victory.
The Canadian came up clutch in the frigid conditions.
All four players who had to return for the third extra playoff hole missed the green at the par-3 17th. Hughes was in the toughest spot, and his pitch up a slope didn’t even reach the green. But he made the putt, slamming his first in celebration knowing that it at least kept him in the playoff.
Then, he watched Blayne Barber, Henrik Norlander and Camilo Villegas all miss par putts from 10 feet or closer.
Skiing
OBERHOFEN, Switzerland – The International Ski Federation rescheduled the men’s World Cup super-G, downhill and giant slalom, which were canceled in Beaver Creek because of unseasonably warm weather.
The races will now take place Dec. 2-4 in Val d’Isere, France.
ZILLERTAL, Austria – World championships silver medalist Fritz Dopfer’s season is over after the German skier broke his left leg in a training crash.
The German ski federation says Dopfer underwent surgery on Sunday hours after fracturing his tibia and fibula bones in Zillertal.
The 29-year-old Dopfer, who took slalom silver at the 2015 worlds in Colorado, will miss the next worlds in February in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Associated Press
