3/18/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
18 March 2024 Sports
After four overtime periods, Neenah narrowly fell to #1 Arrowhead 99-95.
As time expired in regulation, senior Justin Janssen knocked down a 3-pointer to send the game to overtime. The teams proceeded to tie each other in the next three 4-minute overtime periods, leading to the longest and highest-scoring game in WIAA tournament history. Ultimately the Warhawks’ lead in 4OT proved to be too much for the Rockets to come back from.
“At the end there it comes down to heart and I know all of our guys laid everything they had on the line,” Rockets senior guard Brady Corso said after scoring 30 points. “We were doing it for each other. We fell up short, but I know that everybody in that locker room at the end of that game gave all that they had. I’m so proud of this group of what we accomplished and where we got to.”
“Looking at Neenah with pride, it means everything to me that we got back here again,” Janssen said. “Just being able to represent our city, represent our teammates, represent our coach right here, Coach (Lee) Rabas. Just love being with these guys. Wouldn’t trade it for anything else.”
Damian Lillard and Bobby Portis contributed 31 points each to lead Milwaukee past the Phoenix Suns 140-129 on Sunday.
Antetokounmpo, averaging 30.8 points and 11.2 rebounds, was out with left hamstring soreness and missed just his fourth game of the season.
Khris Middleton added 22 points for Milwaukee in his first game back after missing 16 games with a sprained left ankle and the Bucks finished 24 of 41 from 3-point range, with Portis and Malik Beasley hitting five apiece.
Bradley Beal had 28 points, Grayson Allen had 25 points and Devin Booker scored 23 for Phoenix.
Milwaukee’s 18 first-half 3-pointers matched the NBA record for 3-pointers in the opening half held by the Suns and Utah Jazz.
Portis came off the bench for 25 first-half points, hitting 10 of 13 shots, including 5 of 5 from beyond the arc, in just under 13 minutes.
Allen’s 3-pointer capped an 11-point run that brought the Suns within 93-83 with just over 4 ½ minutes left in the third quarter and Lillard hit a 3-pointer from the edge of the logo just before the buzzer to put Milwaukee up 109-94 entering the final period.
Milwaukee moved 1 ½ games ahead of Cleveland for the second-best record in the East while Phoenix entered in sixth place in the West, a half-game ahead of Sacramento and a game in front of Dallas.
Up Next, The Bucks travel to Boston on Wednesday night.
Marquette and Wisconsin are dancing on the same side of the bracket this March after both teams fell just short of conference titles.
The Golden Eagles, who entered the Big East tournament as the 10th-ranked team in the nation, made their way to the final before falling to 2nd-ranked UConn 73-57 on Saturday. They were chosen as a #2 seed in the South Region, headlined by #1 seed Houston, and will face #15 seed Western Kentucky on Friday, March 22.
A big question going into the tournament will be the availability of star point guard Tyler Kolek, who missed the last six games with an oblique injury.
Wisconsin, still recovering from a 93-87 loss to Illinois in the Big Ten championship game, received the South Region’s #5 seed and a matchup with the #12 seed James Madison, one of four teams to win 30+ games this year. If they win, they’ll face the winner of #4 seed Duke and Vermont, before falling into the path of the #1 seed, if they can overcome Longwood and Nebraska/Texas A&M.
Greg Gard’s group entered conference tournament week at number 21 in the NET Rankings and padded their resume with their win of the season against top seed Purdue.
The Badgers and Golden Eagles would not meet until the regional finals.
The Green Bay Phoenix women received an 11-seed in the NCAA tournament and will play perennial power Tennessee, the 6 seed in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Raleigh, NC.
After winning the Horizon League tournament, the Pheonix are back in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2018.
The teams have met up twice before, with the Lady Vols winning both.
In a return to concrete after three straight spring races on dirt, Hamlin won his second straight race at the 0.533-mile speedway and his fourth overall, second-most among active drivers to Kyle Busch’s eight.
The victory was the 52nd of Hamlin’s career, 13th all-time and his first this season.
But the story was the tires and the mysterious way they behaved in a race that saw the track start to eat through to the cords 45 laps into a green-flag run.
Goodyear brought the same tire that ran without issues in last fall’s night race, but on Sunday, the concrete surface did not take rubber. Instead, marbles accumulated high in the corners, making the top of the track untenable.
Hamlin’s teammate, Martin Truex Jr., passed him for the lead in traffic on Lap 483 but surrendered the top spot to the race winner one lap later, as the teammates worked around slower cars. Truex’s tires started to give up and Hamlin pulled away.
Hamlin led a race-high 163 laps, as the four JGR drivers spent a combined 383 of 500 laps at the front field, with Ty Gibbs leading 137, Truex 54 and Christopher Bell 29.
Brad Keselowski, a three-time winner at the track, finished third and was 7.284 seconds behind Hamlin. Hendrick Motorsports drivers Alex Bowman and Kyle Larson were fourth and fifth, respectively, as only five drivers finished on the lead lap.
John Hunter Nemechek, Chris Buescher, Chase Elliott, Gibbs and Bell came home sixth through 10th, respectively.
The Cup Series makes the shift to its first road course of 2024 as Circuit of The Americas awaits next Sunday.
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