1/2/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
2 January 2024 Sports
Tyrese Haliburton had 26 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds, and the Indiana Pacers beat Giannis Antetokounmpo and Milwaukee 122-113 on Monday, stopping the Bucks’ 15-game home winning streak.
Bennedict Mathurin added 25 points and a career-high 13 rebounds for Indiana, and Isaiah Jackson had 18 points and nine assists. T.J. McConnell scored 12 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter and also had nine assists.
Mathurin, Jackson and McConnell helped the Pacers outscore the Bucks 70-16 in bench points. That enabled the Pacers to win on a night when they shot just 5 of 35 from 3-point range.
Antetokounmpo had 30 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists for his 38th career triple-double, and third this season. The two-time MVP is averaging 46.3 points, 13.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists in four meetings with Indiana this season, but the Bucks are 1-3 in those games.
Brook Lopez and Khris Middleton each scored 21 points for the Bucks. Damian Lillard had 13 points while shooting 3 of 16 overall and 1 of 9 from 3-point range.
The victory for Indiana marked the first of two matchups in a three-day stretch in a series that has turned into a pretty spirited rivalry this season.
The Bucks and Pacers meet again Wednesday at Indiana in their last matchup of the regular season.
Garrett Nussmeier threw for 395 yards and three touchdowns, helping 13th-ranked LSU launch its post-Jayden Daniels era with a come-from-behind 35-31 victory over Wisconsin in the ReliaQuest Bowl on Monday.
Stepping in to make his first college start after Daniels — the 2023 Heisman Trophy winner — opted out to begin preparing for the NFL draft, Nussmeier completed 31 of 45 passes. He tossed TD passes of 14 yards to Chris Hilton Jr. and 38 and 4 yards to Brian Thomas Jr., whose second touchdown put LSU ahead with 3:08 remaining.
Nussmeier rallied the Tigers (10-3) from a 14-point second-half deficit to overshadow a stellar performance by Wisconsin’s Tanner Mordecai, who threw for a season-high 378 yards and three TDs for the Badgers (7-6), who played without star running back Braelon Allen.
Nussmeier, who turns 22 in February, had appeared in 17 games over three years at LSU, including five this season while Daniels was compiling dazzling statistics — 3,812 yards and 40 TDs passing, 1,134 yards and 10 TDs rushing — on the way to winning the Heisman.
The Tigers started slowly — trailing 14-0 after one quarter, 21-14 at halftime and 31-28 heading into the fourth quarter.
Nussmeier set up the winning touchdown with completions of 37 yards to Kyren Lacy and 43 yards to Hilton. Thomas finished with eight catches for 98 yards, while Lacy had six receptions for 97 yards for the Tigers.
Mordecai, a sixth-year senior playing his final college game, finished 27 of 40 passes without an interception for the Badgers, who rolled up more than 500 yards of total offense despite playing without Allen, who opted out of the bowl game because he’s declaring for the NFL.
Mordecai threw for 7,152 yards and 72 touchdowns in two seasons at SMU before transferring to Wisconsin, where his arrival — along with the addition of multiple transfer receiver and Air Raid disciple Phil Longo as offensive coordinator — created expectations that the Badgers were on the verge of abandoning their traditional staid run-oriented offense and would throw the ball more.
But Mordecai, who missed three games with a broken throwing hand, threw for just six touchdowns during the regular season.
In the Rose Bowl, number one ranked Michigan beat fifth ranked Alabama 27-20 in overtime. In the Sugar Bowl number two Washington beat number 3 Texas 37-31. In the Sugar Bowl number 8 Oregon beat 18th ranked Libery 45 to 6 and in the Citrus Bowl number 25 Tennessee shutout number 20 Iowa 35-0.
Jordan Love threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score to put the Green Bay Packers in control of a spot in the playoffs with a 33-10 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night.
Aaron Jones rushed for 120 yards and Jayden Reed had two touchdown catches for the Packers (8-8), who can get the NFC’s last wild-card spot by beating Chicago at home next week. They moved above the cut when Seattle lost earlier in the day.
Love went 24 for 33 for 256 yards in what might have been the finest game in his first season as the Packers’ starter in the post-Aaron Rodgers era.
The Vikings (7-9) benched another turnover-prone quarterback after an interception and a fumble by Jaren Hall in the first half were converted into touchdowns by the Packers. Nick Mullens took over for Hall for the second half, the fifth time the Vikings have switched quarterbacks since Kirk Cousins tore his Achilles tendon in the fourth quarter of a 24-10 win at Green Bay on Oct. 29.
Detroit clinched the NFC North by beating Minnesota here last week, marking just the second time in 13 seasons the division wasn’t won by either the Packers or the Vikings, but a prime-time game between these border-state rivals always generates plenty of energy in the stadium.
On the injury front, Preston Smith and RB A.J. Dillon (neck) left with injuries in the third quarter. LB Isaiah McDuffie (concussion) was carted off in the second quarter when he collided with Lukas Van Ness and Colby Wooden during a sack. McDuffie started in place of De’Vondre Campbell (neck), who missed his second consecutive game.
Boys and Girls Basketball Schedule 1/2/2024
Boys:
Laconia at Winneconne
New London at Pulaski
West De Pere at Ashwaubenon
Shawano at D.C. Everest
Wautoma at Lomira
Saint Mary’s Springs at Oakfield
Lourdes Academy at North Fond du Lac
Appleton East at Appleton West
Oshkosh North at Kimberly
Kaukauna at Oshkosh West
Fond du Lac at Appleton North
Neenah at Hortonville
Clintonville at Waupaca
Little Chute at Luxemburg-Casco
Wrightstown at Oconto Falls
Denmark at Marinette
Mauston at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau
Princeton/Green Lake at Central Wisconsin Christian
Fall River at Horicon
Waterloo at Dodgeland
Rio at Palmyra-Eagle
Girls:
Kewaskum at Lomira
Berlin at Omro
Winneconne at New London
Luxemburg-Casco at West De Pere
Waupaca at Shawano
Wrightstown at Seymour
Appleton East at Appleton West
Hortonville at Neenah
Kimberly at Oshkosh North
Fond du Lac at Appleton North
Shiocton at Denmark
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau at Mauston
Randolph at Westfield
Tigerton at Nekoosa
Black River Falls at Wisconsin Dells
Princeton/Green Lake at Central Wisconsin Christian
Dodgeland at Lourdes Academy
Pardeeville at Waterloo
Rio at Palmyra-Eagle
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