Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday 1/26/21
26 January 2021 Sports
Sports for January 26th
Gonzaga, Baylor and Villanova remained atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll Monday, while ninth-ranked Alabama climbed to its highest ranking in 14 years.
Mark Few’s Bulldogs earned 61 of 64 first-place votes in the latest Top 25, while Scott Drew’s Bears claimed the other three. Those two teams have been 1-2 in all 10 polls this season.
Villanova remained third followed by Michigan, with the Wolverines cracking the top five for a second straight season under Juwan Howard after being unranked earlier in the year. Michigan’s rise comes after the school announced a two-week pause in all sports activities due to concerns about a new COVID-19 variant that transmits at a higher rate.
The rest of the top 10 included No. 5 Texas, followed by Houston, Iowa, Virginia, Alabama and Texas Tech.
No. 14 Wisconsin fell four spots out of the top 10.
No. 16 Florida State, No. 24 Oklahoma and No. 25 Louisville were additions to this week’s poll, though the Seminoles and Cardinals have been ranked previously this season. Clemson, Oregon and Connecticut fell out of the rankings.
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are discussing the possibility of holding an All-Star Game in early March — with Atlanta emerging as the likely site, sources tell ESPN. The traditional All-Star Weekend — previously scheduled for Indianapolis in February — was canceled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but sources tell ESPN there are ongoing talks with the league and union about a March 7 game in Atlanta that would be a far-scaled-down version of the typical All-Star Weekend festivities, sources said. NBPA president Chris Paul of the Phoenix Suns has been a proponent of the idea, which would include the showcasing and benefiting of historically Black colleges and universities and COVID-19 relief funds, sources said. Both the Atlanta Hawks‘ State Farm Arena and Atlanta-based HBCU campus gyms are under consideration to house a potential game, sources said.
The Green Bay Packers signed LB Tipa Galeai (tee-puh nah-lee-eye), LB De’Jon Harris
(DEE-jhan), G Zack Johnson, TE Isaac Nauta (NAW-tuh), DL Willington Previlon
(PREV-ih-lahn), DL Anthony Rush, CB Stanford Samuels, RB Mike Weber, RB Dexter
Williams and P Ryan Winslow. The transactions were announced Monday by General
Manager Brian Gutekunst.
All of the players spent time on the Packers’ practice squad this season.
Spring training for the Milwaukee Brewers may be uncertain. Officals say the COVID rate for Maricopa County, where the Brewers play their games, has one of the highest infection rates right now in the country. It’s not known what the approach will be going forward and how spring training may be impacted.
Boys Basketball (Mon.)
Waupun 67, Ripon 60-Austin Wiese led the Warriors with 20 points, Carson Bresser had 12 and Brady Navis chipped in with 11. Garrett Jennings led the Tigers with 19 points while Riley Brooks added 16.
Boys Basketball (Tues.)
Porgate at Wautoma-Tipoff around 7:00 on FM 102.3, WAUH, The Bug.
Winneconne at Iola-Scandinavia
Mayville at Laconia
Lomira at Saint Mary’s Springs
North Fond du Lac at Omro
Winnebago Lutheran at Kewaskum
Oshkosh North at Appleton East
Princeton/Green Lake at Westfield
Wisconsin Dells at Black River Falls
Mauston at Richland Center
Montello at Nekoosa
Lourdes Academy at Central Wisconsin Chrisitan
Heritage Christian at Valley Christian
Waterloo at Markesan
Girls Basketball (Mon.)
Princeton/Green Lake 53, Ripon 39.
Saint Mary’s Springs 58, New Holstein 37
Poynette 63, Wautoma 38
Girls Basketball (Tues.)
Kewaskum at Ripon-Tipoff at 7:15 on AM 1600/93.1 FM, WRPN.
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Berlin
Plymouth at Waupun
Winneconne at Campbellsport
Laconia at Shiocton
Omro at Winnebago Lutheran
Wautoma at Mauston
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