B4 NBA EASTERN Boston 16 Toronto 11 Detroit 11 Washington 10 Cleveland 10 Philadelphia 9 New York 9 Indiana 10 Milwaukee 8 Orlando 8 Miami 7 Charlotte 7 Brooklyn 6 Chicago 3 Atlanta 3 WESTERN Houston 13 Golden State 13 San Antonio 11 Minnesota 10 Portland 10 Denver 10 New Orleans 9 Memphis 7 Oklahoma City 7 L.A. Lakers 7 Utah 7 Phoenix 7 L.A. Clippers 5 Sacramento 4 Dallas 3 CONFERENCE Pct GB 2 .889 5 .688 4 6 .647 7 .588 7 .588 7 .563 6 7 .563 6 8 .556 6 8 .500 7 9 .471 9 .438 8 9 .438 8 10 .375 9 11 .214 11 14 .176 CONFERENCE Pct GB 4 .765 4 .765 6 .647 2 7 .588 3 7 .588 3 7 .588 3 8 .529 4 9 .438 9 .438 10 .412 6 11 .389 11 .389 11 .313 13 .235 9 15 .167 Tuesday Chicago at L.A. Lakers, late Tosday Brooklyn at Cleveland, 7 Portland at Philadelphia, 7 Washington at Charlotte, 7 Boston at Miami, 7:30 L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 7:30 Toronto at New York, 7:30 Dallas at Memphis, 8 Denver at Houston, 8 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 8 Criando at Minnesota, 8 San Antonio at New Orleans, 8 Chicago at Utah, 9 Milwaukee at Phoenix, 9 L.A.
Lakers at Sacramento, 10:30 Thursday No games scheduled. cleveland.com top Gilmour opens the 2017-18 Top 25. The Lancers, now in year, return three starters, Bohn and senior center Naz 1. GILMOUR Coming up: Saturday vs. Huber Wayne; Sunday vs.
Centerville 2. WADSWORTH Coming up: Saturday vs. No. 3. SOLON Coming up: Saturday vs.
West at Lakota West 4. ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY Coming up: Wednesday vs. Dec. 2 vs.
Cleveland Heights 5. BEREA-MIDPARK Coming up: Wednesday vs. Dec. 2 vs. North Olmsted 6.
STOW Coming up: Sunday at GlenOak; day vs. Magnificat 7. ST. VINCENT-ST. MARY Coming up: Saturday vs.
pewa; Wednesday at Twinsburg 8. ELYRIA CATHOLIC Coming up: Dec. 5 at Valley 9. LAUREL Coming up: Nov. 30 vs.
Villa Joseph CAVALIERS FROM BI "Yeah, I hear about that all the time." Lue said. "I played with Michael Jordan when he was 39 he played 37 minutes a night. Karl Malone was 37, played 38 minutes a night, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Kobe. Everybody's built different. If you're one of the greats, sometimes MEYER FROM B1 The John Cooper years at Ohio State were like the Plagues of Egypt Desmond Howard, a Clevelander from Villa Angela-St.
Joseph High School, striking the Heisman pose after a touchdown punt return in 1990; Biakubutukan canyons opening in the line for the Michigan running back in 1995; Shawn Springs' slip in 1996; the replica Heisman pose begun after another touchdown punt return by another Ohioan playing for Michigan, Charles Woodson of Cavaliers vs. Brooklyn Nets L10 Str 10-0 W-16 7-3 W-4 6-4 L-1 3 6-4 7-3 W-1 W-5 7-3 W-1 6-4 W-1 5-5 W-4 4-6 L-2 3-7 L-5 5-5 L-1 4-6 W-2 3-7 L-1 2-8 L-1 2-8 L-2 LI0 Str 8-2 W-2 9-1 W-2 7-3 W-2 6-4 L-2 6-4 W-2 7-3 W-1 6-4 W-1 2-8 L-5 4-6 L-2 4-6 W-1 2-8 L-1 3-7 W-2 1-9 L-9 3-7 1-2 2-8 L-1 Home Away Conf 7-1 9-1 10-2 6-1 5-4 5-2 7-2 4-4 6-5 5-4 5-3 6-3 4-4 6-3 8-5 3-3 6-4 3-3 8-3 1-4 4-5 4-3 6-5 6-4 5-4 3-4 4-6 4-4 4-5 4-5 3-5 4-4 4-5 6-2 1-7 3-6 4-4 2-6 3-4 2-4 1-7 3-5 1-5 2-9 1-10 Home Away Conf 4-3 9-1 7-2 6-2 7-2 6-2 8-2 3-4 5-2 5-2 5-5 8-3 7-4 3-3 8-4 7-2 3-5 4-4 4-4 5-4 5-5 4-5 3-4 7-5 5-2 2-7 2-8 5-5 2-5 4-5 6-4 1-7 5-5 4-7 3-4 4-7 3-5 2-6 5-5 3-4 1-9 3-6 2-9 1-6 1-11 Friday Portland at Brooklyn, 12 New York at Atlanta, 7:30 Orlando at Boston, 7:30 Charlotte at Cleveland, 8 Detroit at Oklahoma City, 8 Miami at Minnesota, 8 Toronto at Indiana, 8 Memphis at Denver, 9 New Orleans at Phoenix, 9 Chicago at Golden State, 10:30 Monday Charlotte 118, Minnesota 102 Cleveland 116, Detroit 88 Indiana 105, Orlando 97 Philadelphia 107, Utah 86 New York 107, L.A. Clippers 85 New Orleans 114, Okla. City 107 Portland 100, Memphis 92 Washington 99, Milwaukee 88 Boston 110, Dallas 102, OT San Antonio 96. Atlanta 85 Denver 114, Sacramento 98 girls basketball poll girls basketball season as the No.
Division I after winning the including junior guard Annika Hillmon. 10. BRUSH Heights Coming up: Lakota West Heights, Dec. 4 Christian 16 Lakewood 11. Eastlake North 12.
Archbishop Clermont 13. Olmsted Falls 14. Strongsville 15. Chardon 16. Lakewood No.
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Cornerstone at ChipWatch list: Bedford, Brunswick, Forge Garrettsvile, East, Nordonia, Angela St. Revere, Southeast, Wellington you've got to play, sometimes you get rest like tonight." James said after Monday's win: "You make so much a big thing about my minutes. It's not a huge issue when we can get a win like this, everybody benefits from it. Not just me. Everybody." After a win last week over Charlotte, James said in response to Green's comments: "We want to get those minutes down for Fremont, in 1997.
Defeat, plus the inane declaration by former OSU president E. Gordon Gee that a 13-13 tie in 1992 was "one of our greatest wins ever," led to bitterness that did not abate until Ohio State's Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer reversed the course of the rivalry. Oh, what vengeance it was: The only option play Ohio State ran all season, a pitch-out from Michigan-born quarterback Craig Krenzel to Maurice Hall, winning the 2002 game; Ted Ginn Jr's long touchdown catch while lined up as a tight end on a quickcount, short-yardage play from The Plain When: 7 p.m. Fox Sports Ohio; WTAM AM, WMMS WLFM Last meeting: The Nets won, 112-107, on Oct. 25 in Brooklyn.
Cavs minute: After they lost in Brooklyn and coughed up 17 3-pointers, coach Tyronn Lue delivered one of his all-time one liners. "We're running around here worrying about getting the Brooklyn pick, they might want our pick." The Cavs own the Nets' first-round pick in 2018 LeBron James posted his first triple double of the season against the Nets, with 29 points, 10 rebounds, and 13 assists. He needs two more 3-pointers to become the 26th NBA player with 1,500 career 3s The Cavs are 7-2 since Nov. 3 and have scored 110 or more points in eight of the nine games The Cavs' bench scored 53 points against the Nets. Dwyane Wade didn't play that night.
Nets minute: At 6-10, Brooklyn is 13th in the East and headed for the lottery D'Angelo Russell had knee surgery last week and is out indefinitely. He's averaging 20.9 points in 12 games. Center Trevor Booker (left ankle sprain) is questionable With Russell out, the Nets' leading scorer is Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (14.3 points per game) Brooklyn, for all its injuries (Jeremy Lin is out for the year) and poor record, can score. The Nets are fourth in the league in scoring (110.6 ppg), three-tenths of a point behind the Cavs Brooklyn trimmed a 28- point deficit to five in the fourth quarter against the Warriors Sunday before falling, 118-111. It was the most recent time the Nets played, so they're rested.
Joe Vardon 1 team in cleveland.com's DIII state championship last Corcoran, senior guard Sarah Saturday vs. Cleveland at No. 25 Cornerstone Hoban Christian Aurora, Barberton, Bay, Cleveland Heights, Hathaway Brown, Lutheran Orange, Ravenna, Walsh Jesuit, Dealer sure. But as of right now, we've had two point guards out and we've had some different lineup changes, so, I've had to play more minutes than I would like, and more minutes than my teammates would like me to have." This isn't likely a clash between Lue and James over workload, but rather a plea to reporters to stop asking him about it. Lue did indeed play with a power formation in 2006; Tyvis Powell jumping Devin Gardner's 2-point conversion pass in 2013; J.T.
Barrett and The Spot last year. Just as quarterback Tippy Dye's success against Michigan in the 1930s with three straight wins eventually begat Troy Smith's 3-0 record, Smith's glory begat Barrett's chance to be an Ohio State-first 4-0 on Saturday. Meyer, like Woody Hayes, won't even mention the M-word. The Wolverines are "The Team Up North" or "the rivals." Every letter on signage at the athletic center named for cleveland.com Wednesday, November 22, 2017 College basketball roundup UCLA WISCONSI 34 CHARLIE RIEDEL I ASSOCIATED PRESS UCLA's Aaron Holiday (3) puts up a shot during the second half of the Bruins' 72-70 win over Wisconsin on Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. Golden Flashes fall at home to Southeastern Louisiana From staff, wire reports used a dominant first half control, then roared down to roll into the champion- the right side of the lane past Eddy Polanco completed ship game of the Cayman Is- Badgers star Ethan Happ a four-point play in the final lands Classic with a win over and scooped up the winning minutes to give Southeastern the Spiders (1-3) in George basket.
Louisiana the lead, and the Town, Cayman Islands. Lions held on to upset host Baldwin Wallace 78, Alfred Kent State, 70-66, on Tues- No. 14 Minnesota 100, State 51: Jay Battle scored day night. Alabama 47: Jor- 13 points, Cam Kuhn (VerPolanco was fouled drill- dan Murphy had his fifth milion) scored 12 and Miing a 3-pointer with 1:43 straight double double with chael Quiring (Brunswick) remaining. He sank the free 20 points and 10 rebounds scored 11 to lead the Yellow throw to give Southeastern as the Golden Gophers (5-0) Jackets (2-1) to a rout of the Louisiana (2-3) a 64-62 lead.
defeated the visiting Bull- Pioneers (1-2) in Berea. Polanco nailed another trey dogs (0-4). for a 67-64 advantage with Denison 74, Case Western 1:05 left. He followed that No. 18 Texas 98, Reserve 69: Ignas Masiulowith two free throws to seal Penn State 87: Robert nis led the Spartans (0-3) the win for the Lions, who Williams had 21 points and with 18 points as Case fell had lost three straight before 10 rebounds to lead the Ag- to the visiting Big Red (3-1).
handing the Golden Flashes gies (4-0) to a win over the (3-1) their first loss. Nittany Lions (5-1) in the La Roche 101, Hiram 83: The Flashes' Jaylin championship game of the Kelvin Jones' (Brookside) Walker, who had 26 points, Progressive Legends Classic double double of 14 points made two free throws to give in New York. and 10 rebounds wasn't Kent State a 62-60 advan- enough as the Terriers (0-2) tage before Polanco hit his No. 19 Louisville 84, lost to the Redhawks (2-1) in lead-changing trey. Kent's Southern Illinois 42: Jor- Pittsburgh.
Adonis De La Rosa added 10 dan Nwora came off the points and had six rebounds. bench to score a career -high Women 18 points, Deng Adel had No. 3 Kansas 114, Texas 16 points and the Cardinals No. 15 Maryland 111, HowSouthern 71: Svi Mykhail- (3-0) coasted past the visit- ard 49: Stephanie Jones iuk scored 21 points, Udoka ing Salukis (2-1). and Brianna Fraser scored Azubuike added 20 and the 24 points apiece and Blair Jayhawks (4-0) cruised to a No.
23 UCLA 72, Wiscon- Watson had 18, all career resounding victory over the sin 70: Aaron Holiday got a highs, and the Terrapins visiting Tigers (0-5). scooping layup to drop just (3-2) coasted to a win over before the final buzzer, cap- the Bison (0-4) in College No. 6 Wichita State 80, ping an impressive one-man Park, Maryland. Marquette 66: Landry show down the stretch and Shamet scored 19 points, giving the Bruins (4-1) a vic- Oberlin 57, Hiram 52: Olivia Connor Frankamp added 13 tory over the Badgers (2-3) Canning scored a team-high and the Shockers (4-0) rode in the third-place game of 14 points and had a gametheir second-half defense the Hall of Fame Classic i in high 15 rebounds to lead the into the Maui Invitational Kansas City, Missouri. Yeowomen (2-1, 1-0 North title game with a victory The Bruins trailed, 65-59, Coast Athletic Conference) over the Golden Eagles (2-2) with about 4 minutes left, past the visiting Terriers in Lahaina, Hawaii.
The but Holiday knocked down (1-4, 0-1). Allison Vannoy Shockers shot 54 percent to two 3-pointers and con- (Crestwood) led Hiram with earn a spot in today's cham- verted two free throws to 16 points. pionship game against No. spur the comeback. Wiscon13 Notre Dame or LSU.
sin tied it 70-all when Khalil Kenyon 55, John Carroll Iverson made the second 48: Nicole Heffington (MenNo. 12 Cincinnati 75, Rich- of two foul shots with 31.5 tor) led the Blue Streaks mond 48: Cane Broome led seconds left, but that was (1-2) with 12 points and 12 a balanced attacked with 13 enough time for UCLA. rebounds in the loss to the points, Jacob Evans added Holiday got the ball at the Ladies (3-1) in Gambier, 12 and the Bearcats (5-0) top of the key, briefly lost Ohio. Jordan in Washington for the final two seasons of Jordan's illustrious career, and in those two seasons (2001- 03) Jordan averaged 34.9 and 37.0 minutes per game, respectively. Jordan was 39 when he retired after that final season.
But James has already passed Jordan in regular-season minutes, and needs just three to pass Shaquille O'Neal (41,918 minutes) for 24th in NBA Hayes gets X'd out this week with scarlet tape. It's as if the 13th letter of the alphabet were a jinx. Meyer, like Hayes, admits that the Buckeyes practice for Michigan during the season. Cooper never believed that was true. Michigan's Jim Harbaugh "guaranteed" a victory in The Game in the Horseshoe in 1986 with the Rose Bowl berth on the line and delivered it.
An Ohio State graduate assistant in 1987, summoned to an emergency meeting of the coaching staff the week of The Game, Meyer entered a tomblike room with older men bury- history. Factoring in playoffs, James has played 51,043 minutes. Jordan played 48,485 in both the regular season and playoffs over 15 seasons, but he retired twice before he even joined the Wizards. This is James' 15th season. Abdul-Jabbar is indeed the NBA's all -time leader in minutes played (57,446 during the regular season), followed by Malone ing their heads in their arms on the conference table, fighting back tears at news that coach Farle Bruce had been fired.
Days later, Meyer opened the door to the tunnel at the Big House before The Game and there stood Schembechler, arms crossed on chest, face a thundercloud, ready to lead the Wolverines down it to the field. After Ohio State won, with the Buckeyes donning "Earle" headbands and hoisting their coach on their shoulders for a victory ride, Schembechler was waiting to congratulate his old rival. Maybe the College Football Playoff has downsized some Zizic returns: The Cavaliers recalled rookie center Ante Zizic from the Canton Charge on Tuesday, where he played Monday night. Zizic scored 14 points and collected 16 rebounds in 28 minutes of a Charge loss to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants. Zizic will rejoin the Cavs for their home game tonight against the Brooklyn Nets.
He was with the Charge for just the one game. rivalry games. Meyer had to learn about traditional rivals at earlier coaching stops at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. But Michigan-Ohio State is not that way. "This rivalry is not a oneweek deal.
I learned that from Woody Hayes, Earle Bruce, and Jim Tressel. It's in our DNA," Meyer said. As a boy, The Game's playby-play would be on loudspeakers in stores in Meyer's hometown of Ashtabula, vying for shoppers' attention with Christmas carols a reason to give thanks, a gift of the season..
