The North Platte Knights had to work overtime for their fifth straight victory. In a thriller at McDonald-Belton Gymnasium, the Knights outlasted the Eastern Wyoming Lancers 76-75. A 9-0 run in the extra session gave the Knights the lead for good after the two teams had fought a see-saw battle all night. Aboubacar Casse led the Knights with a double-double – 17 points and 10 rebounds. The Knights are 17-4 overall and continue to lead the South sub-region with a 7-2 mark. In the women’s half of the doubleheader, the Lady Knights led the Lady Lancers by five with four minutes to play, but the lead slipped away and the Lady Knights fell 67-62. The loss spoiled a huge game from DaVontaye Merritt, who scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. The Lady Knights fall to 12-9 with the loss. The Knights and Lady Knights are back in action with home games Saturday night. The women host Northeast, and the men host Western Nebraska.

The final wrestling dual at the fabled NU Coliseum is held tonight as the 13th-ranked Husker wrestling team hosts Michigan State. The Huskers are 9-4 in dual action and 3-3 in Big Ten meets after losing to top-ranked Penn State on Sunday. Tonight they face a Spartan team that is 4-9 overall and 1-5 in the conference. The Coliseum has been the home of Husker wrestling for over 80 years. It gives way to a remodeled Devaney Center next year. Tonight’s dual starts at 7 PM.

A big night from Jordan Hooper led the Husker women’s basketball team to their first road win over Ohio State since 1990. Hooper scored 28 points and snagged seven rebounds to pace the Huskers in their 62-53 triumph over the Buckeyes. Among her game high points tally were five three-pointers and six straight points in the late stages that moved a seven-point Husker lead into double figures. Lindsey Moore added 11 points and Emily Cady chipped in 10 for the Huskers, who shot 44 percent as a team. Rachel Theriot just missed double figures, scoring nine points off the bench. The win moves the Big Red to 15-6 overall. They finish the first half of the Big Ten season with a 5-3 record. Nebraska is back in action on Sunday. They return to the Devaney Center to take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

Nebraska and Iowa want to continue playing their yearly football rivalry on Black Friday. The two schools will make a request to the Big Ten Conference, which will discuss the matter at their administrative meetings later this month. The first two meetings were played on the Friday before Thanksgiving, but the 2013 and 2014 games are presently scheduled for Saturdays. The request from both schools is to change those dates and commit to Friday as the set day for the game each year.

UNDATED (AP) — The Grizzlies have sent swingman Rudy Gay and backup center Hamed Haddadi to the Raptors for point guard Jose Calderon and forward Ed Davis. Calderon was then shipped to the Pistons for Austin Daye and Tayshaun Prince. Gay is averaging 17.2 points and 5.9 rebounds this season and is due $37 million for the next two seasons.

SCOTTSDALE, Az. (AP) — Professional golfer Vijay Singh says a Sports Illustrated report about his purchase of deer-antler spray is correct but says he had no idea it contained a substance banned by the PGA Tour’s Anti-Doping Policy. The same article says Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis asked the same company for help while recovering from a torn triceps. The Ravens linebacker says that isn’t true.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — An NHL official tells The Associated Press that prospective owner Greg Jamison is unlikely to complete a deal to buy the team from the league before a lease agreement with the City of Glendale expires on Thursday. The official says that, barring a last-minute change, the former CEO of the San Jose Sharks won’t have the money or investors in place to meet the deadline. Last year, Jamison and Glendale officials reached a 20-year, $324 million lease deal that was reworked in November.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels and reliever Kevin Jepsen have agreed to a one-year contract worth $1,181,250, avoiding arbitration. The hard-throwing right-hander returned to an important role in the Halo’s bullpen last year after missing much of the 2011 season with a knee injury. He went 3-2 with a 3.02 ERA.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky isn’t getting the new trial he asked for. He’d argued that his lawyers weren’t given enough time to prepare for the proceeding that ended with a 45-count guilty verdict. Judge John Cleland issued a 27-page order saying Sandusky’s lawyers conceded that their post-trial review turned up no material that would have changed their trial strategy.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Indiana 98 Detroit 79
Philadelphia 92 Washington 84
New York 113 Orlando 97
Boston 99 Sacramento 81
Atlanta 93 Toronto 92
Chicago 104 Milwaukee 88
L-A Clippers 96 Minnesota 90
Miami 105 Brooklyn 85
San Antonio 102 Charlotte 78
Denver 118 Houston 110
Utah 104 New Orleans 99
Phoenix 92 L-A Lakers 86

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Ottawa 5 Montreal 1
Minnesota 3 Chicago 2 (SO Minnesota 2-1)
Edmonton 2 Phoenix 1 (OT)
Vancouver 3 Colorado 0

TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
( 1) Michigan 68 Northwestern 46
( 3) Indiana 97 Purdue 60
( 4) Florida 75 South Carolina 36
( 5) Duke 75 Wake Forest 70
Stanford 76 (10) Oregon 52
(14) Miami 73 Virginia Tech 64
LSU 73 (17) Missouri 70
(18) Kansas St. 83 Texas 57
(20) New Mexico 63 Wyoming 59
(21) Creighton 91 Missouri St. 77
(24) Cincinnati 62 Rutgers 54

The North Platte Knights and Lady Knights are back on their home floor tonight, as they host Eastern Wyoming College. For the Lady Knights, it’s their first home game of 2013, as they played their first seven games of the new year on the road. They’re hoping that home cooking will prove theraputic, as the Lady Knights have scuffled to a 3-4 record in January and have lost two straight. The visiting Lady Lancers are 12-7 on the season. In the men’s game, the Knights are shooting for a fifth straight win, and fourth in a row in Region IX South sub-region play. The Knights lead the Sub-region with a 6-2 record. The Lancers are in a large group sitting a game back of the Knights at 5-3. The women’s game gets underway at 5:30 with the men to follow at 7:30. ESPN Radio 1410 will have all the action from McDonald-Belton Gymnasium, starting at 5:15.

The Husker women’s basketball team hopes to end the first half of the Big Ten conference schedule on a high note. They visit Columbus to face the struggling Ohio State Buckeyes tonight, their first game in a week. The Huskers are coming off back-to-back conference wins, topping Minnesota and then-ranked Michigan State last week, and are over the .500 mark in the league with a 4-3 record. They are 14-6 overall. The Buckeyes are just 11-9 and 1-6 in Big Ten play, with injuries having derailed a promising season. Two of the top scorers in the Big Ten face off tonight – Nebraska’s Jordan Hooper and Ohio State’s Tayler Hill, who leads the league in points per game. The Huskers are 4-4 all time against the Buckeyes but 1-3 in Columbus, with their last win there coming in 1990. Tipoff of tonight’s game is scheduled for 7:30.

Make it five straight wins for the Denver Nuggets, who topped the Houston Rockets 118-1110 at Pepsi Center last night. Trailing entering the fourth quarter, the Nuggets came out on an 18-2 run that gave them a 13 point lead. The Rockets never led again. Danilo Gallinari led the Nuggets with 27 points. The Nuggets improve to 29-18 and are now 18-3 at home this season. They host New Orleans Friday night.

Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried is headed to All-Star Weekend. Faried is one of nine second-year players selected to play for the Sophomores team against a team of rookies in the Rising Stars Challenge, which takes place Friday, February 15. Faried came into last night’s game averaging 11.8 points and 9.7 rebounds per game. He has compiled 19 double-doubles on the season.