The Maine women’s basketball team erased most of an early 16-point deficit but couldn’t complete its comeback Thursday as Tulane held on for a 64-61 win in the championship game of the Tulane Holiday Tournament in New Orleans.
Adrianna Smith scored 23 points and Anne Simon finished with 18 for the Black Bears (7-6). Simon had a chance to tie the game with five seconds left when she was fouled while attempting a 3-pointer, with Tulane leading 63-60. Simon missed the second attempt, however, then intentionally missed the third, and Maine couldn’t grab the rebound.
Karen Whittington led Tulane (7-4) with 19 points.
ST. VINCENT 65, BATES 62: Elsa Daulerio and Sarah Hughes each scored 15 points for Bates (9-2), which nearly overcame an 18-point deficit in the fourth quarter before losing to St. Vincent (6-6) in the Daytona Beach Shootout in Florida.
Morgan Kennedy got seven of her 13 points during a fourth-quarter rally as the Bobcats cut a 59-41 deficit to 63-62. Bates missed a layup that could have tied the game in the closing seconds.
Mya Hicks also reached double figures for the Bobcats with 11 points.
(14) NOTRE DAME 84, WESTERN MICHIGAN 47: Anna DeWolfe of Cumberland hit 5 of 8 3-pointers and finished with 17 points as the Fighting Irish (9-1) downed Western Michigan (5-5) at South Bend, Indiana.
(4) IOWA 98, LOYOLA CHICAGO 69: Caitlin Clark scored 35 points on the way to the 13th triple-double of her career as Iowa (12-1) recovered from a slow start to defeat Loyola Chicago (6-5) at Iowa City, Iowa.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 82, MAINE 74: The Golden Panthers (5-9) pulled ahead with a 10-0 run midway through the second half and defeated the Black Bears (8-6) at Miami.
Maine led 36-35 at halftime, then 45-43 before four consecutive turnovers led to two 3-pointers and two layups by Florida International. The Black Bears didn’t get closer then three points after that.
Peter Filipovity led Maine with 16 points. Ja’Shonte Wright-McLeish and A.J. Lopez added 13 points.
(8) TENNESSEE 65, TARLETON STATE 46: Zakai Zeigler scored 13 points and Santiago Vescovi added 12 as the Vols (9-3) overcame poor shooting in the second half and beat Tarleton State (8-4) at Knoxville, Tennessee.
J.P. Estrella of South Portland was scoreless in two minutes of playing time for Tennessee.
OLD DOMINION: Coach Jeff Jones was hospitalized in Honolulu after suffering a heart attack.
NOTES
ACC: Florida State will hold a Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, and a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press the future of the athletic department and its affiliation with the Atlantic Coast Conference will be discussed.
The board is expected to consider a possible exit strategy that could involve legal action against the ACC and contracts that bind conference members for 12 more years, according to the person, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because the school had not published an agenda for the meeting.
Florida State leaders have made it known they are unhappy with the school’s current situation in the ACC, where revenue distribution lags way behind payouts to schools in the Southeastern and Big Ten conferences. That gap is likely to grow substantially as new media rights deals kick in for the SEC and Big Ten while the ACC is locked into a deal with ESPN that has more than a decade left.
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