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By MITCH STACY, AP Sports Writer DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Paul Atkinson Jr. was in the right place at the right time for Notre Dame as the clock wound down in the second overtime period against relentless Rutgers. Atkinson rebounded a missed shot by Blake Wesley and put back a layup with 1.4 seconds left to give the Irish an 89-87 win in a wild First Four game and put them into a first-round West Region contest on Friday in San Diego. “Well, let me start by saying Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone here,”Hey Dudes  Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said. “And you notice that Paul's shot went in at 12:02 (EST) on St. Patrick's Day, so maybe there was a little bit of karma there.” Atkinson, a graduate transfer from Yale and former Ivy League Player of the Year, capp...

By JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Klay Thompson has been waiting for his shot to start falling consistently, and he certainly found a groove for Golden State against defending champion Milwaukee. He didn't force it, and plans to build on this as he keeps learning during his comeback season. Grinning, he said he wanted to score 40 points, it just sounds better, but 38 was great. Thompson's total was a season best and he raised his right arm in triumph to ignite the home crowd while leading the Warriors past the Bucks, 122-109 on Saturday night. “I was eager for a night like this,” Thompson said, “Steve Madden Shoes but a mid-season shooting slump it's not going to kill my ego, I'm still going to go out there and compete.” Thomp...

By JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona clanged shots, threw weak passes, watched UCLA build what seemed to be an insurmountable lead. Then the Wildcats found a gear few teams have — maybe no other team has. Now they're Pac-12 champions, a likely No. 1 seed on Selection Sunday and among the favorites to win the national championship. Not bad for a team in its first season under a new coach. Bennedict Mathurin scored 27 points and No. 2 Arizona used a massive second-half run to beat No. 13 UCLA 84-76 on Saturday night, winning the Pac-12 Tournament in coach Tommy Lloyd's first season. “These games are long and we're a team that makes runs,” Lloyd said. “Hoka One One I'm always like, ‘Hang in there, hang in there, we could be a...

By RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the second straight Saturday night, Duke failed to deliver Coach K a send-off victory. This time it was Virginia Tech playing party pooper. Hunter Cattoor scored a career-high 31 points and the seventh-seeded Hokies won the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament for the first time, beating Duke 82-67 to deny Mike Krzyzewski a league title in his final season. Virginia Tech (23-12) came to Brooklyn in need of a run to make the NCAA Tournament, and then was staring at elimination Wednesday night when Darius Maddox Hokas Shoes hit a go-ahead 3-pointer at the buzzer to beat Clemson in overtime. Virginia Tech coach Mike Young said the Hokies were “luckier than hell” after that game. A...

By JOHN CARUCCI, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The DNA for Dylan McDermott to reinvent the modern-day gangster began at childhood and carried through to his struggling young actor days, when the “Law and Order: Organized Crime” star says he was “surrounded by the ilk” of unsavory types. McDermott, who grew up in New York, waited tables and tended bar, often serving local mobsters, where he observed their capricious behavior, he says. And when he Thorogood Boots  was younger, he had an even closer relationship. “My mother’s boyfriend was a bank robber when I was growing up,” McDermott told The Associated Press. “They all end up either dead or in prison. So, there’s no good stories there. He got his end, and it was not — not good.” (His parents spl...

By GLENN GAMBOA, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Melissa Etheridge says the star-studded Love Rocks NYC benefit, the annual concert for the nonprofit God’s Love We Deliver, is exactly the kind of fundraiser she wanted to join. “I’ve wanted to be involved in this wonderful, wonderful project that has just done so much for so many for so many years,” the Grammy-winning “I’m the Only One” rocker said. This year’s Love Rocks, which takes place at The Beacon Theatre in Manhattan on Thursday night, boasts enormous star power – including headliners Etheridge, Keith Richards, with his “other” band The X-Pensive Winos, Mavis Staples, and others, as well as hosts Birdies Shoes including Kiefer Sutherland and Mario Cantone. But for Karen Pearl, God’s Love We Deliver’s pr...