Virginia’s defense shuts down Louisville

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Malcolm Brogdon scored 15 points for No. 3 Virginia, which put on a first-half defensive clinic and then withstood a furious rally for a 52-47 victory against No. 9 Louisville Saturday night in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Cavaliers (21-1, 9-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) held the Cardinals (19-4, 7-3) without a point for the last 10 1/2 minutes of the first half in taking a 24-13 lead.

After the game, Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett announced top scorer Justin Anderson, injured in the first half, will miss 4-6 weeks with a broken finger on his shooting hand.

• Unbeaten Kentucky fights off Florida: Aaron Harrison scored 23 points, Karl-Anthony Towns added 19 and top-ranked Kentucky (23-0, 10-0 Southeastern Conference) remained unbeaten with a 68-61 victory over Florida (12-11, 5-5) in Gainesville, Florida.

Kentucky shot 21 of 22 from the free-throw line. Florida was 7 for 14.

Florida led by nine in the first half and used a 6-0 run to go up 44-42 midway through the second.

• Duke routs Notre Dame: Justise Winslow had 19 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 4 Duke (20-3, 7-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) used a huge early run to rout No. 10 Notre Dame (21-4, 9-3) 90-60 in Durham, North Carolina.

Fellow freshman Jahlil Okafor added 20 points and 10 rebounds. Matt Jones had a career-high 17 points for the Blue Devils.

• Oklahoma State stuns No. 8 Kansas: Le’Bryan Nash scored 18 points to help Oklahoma State (16-7, 6-5 Big 12) upset No. 8 Kansas (19-4, 8-2) 67-62 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

• Philly University coach earns 1,000th win: Philadelphia University coach Herb Magee has become the second NCAA men’s basketball coach to win 1,000 games.

Magee hit the milestone with the Rams’ 80-60 win over Post. He has won all 1,000 games over 48 seasons at the private Division II university in Philadelphia.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is the only Division I men’s coach to win 1,000 games

Davis injured in Bulls rout of Pelicans

NBA: After Pelicans All-Star Anthony Davis hurt his right shoulder on a hard, awkward fall on an alley-oop dunk, Pau Gasol and the Chicago Bulls pulled away for a 107-72 victory over host New Orleans.

Gasol had 20 points and 15 rebounds for Chicago, which snapped a three-game skid. Derrick Rose added 20 points for the Bulls, who went on a 40-11 run after Davis went out.

• Blazers drop seventh straight road game: Dirk Nowitzki capped a late rally with a 3-pointer that forced overtime and finished with 25 points as Dallas beat Portland 111-101.

The Trail Blazers lost their seventh straight road game by blowing an 11-point lead in the last 2 minutes of regulation.

Damian Lillard scored 26 points and LaMarcus Aldridge had 25 for the Blazers.

• Warriors defeat Knicks: Draymond Green had 20 points and 13 rebounds, and Golden State beat New York 106-92 to give Steve Kerr a win in his first game coaching in the arena he nearly called home.

Kerr picked the Warriors over the Knicks during the offseason, and the difference is 30 victories as the teams near the All-Star break.

Stephen Curry scored 22 points and Klay Thompson had 16 on a night neither shot well.

Rask stops 39 shots as Bruins win again

NHL: Loui Eriksson scored the go-ahead goal with 7:34 left in the third period and Tuukka Rask stopped 39 shots to lift the surging Boston Bruins over the visiting New York Islanders 2-1 for their ninth win in 12 games.

• Kings snap Lighting’s win streak: Justin Williams had two goals and the Los Angeles Kings got a rare road win, beating the Lightning 4-2 and snapping Tampa Bay’s franchise-record 10-game home winning streak.

Ferris grad contending at Torrey Pines

GOLF: J.B. Holmes birdied all but one of the par 5s at Torrey Pines for a 4-under 68 and joined Harris English at the top of a crowded leaderboard in the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego.

Ferris grad Alex Prugh shot a 3-under 69 and now sits two strokes behind the leaders.

• Three tied atop Championship leaderboard: Bart Bryant holed out from 195 yards on the par-5 18th hole for the first double eagle on the Champions Tour since 2010, giving him a share of the second-round lead in the Allianz Championship at Broken Sound in Boca Raton, Florida.

Former Pullman resident Kirk Triplett was tied for 32nd, seven strokes behind the lead after shooting even par.

Venus, Serena give U.S. lead in Fed Cup

TENNIS: The Williams sisters gave the United States a 2-0 lead over Argentina in their Fed Cup World Group II tie in Buenos Aires.

Venus defeated Paula Ormaechea 6-3, 6-2, in the first match, and Serena, the newly crowned Australian Open champion, won over Maria Irigoyen 7-5, 6-0.

Today, Serena gets the first chance to clinch the first-round tie in the reverse singles.

• Gasquet to face Janowicz for Open Sud de France title: Two-time champion and local favorite Richard Gasquet will take on big serving Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in the final of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, France.

The Frenchman, who won in 2006 and 2013, defeated his Davis Cup teammate Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday in a rematch of last year’s final.

Lagat finishes second in Indoor Grand Prix

MISCELLANY: Jenny Simpson broke the U.S. women’s two-mile indoor record in the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, a year after she miscounted the laps and had nothing left for the final 200 meters.

The 23-year-old Simpson finished in 9 minutes, 18.3 seconds to break the mark of 9:23.38 set by Regina Jacobs in 2002.

American Bernard Lagat, a WSU alum, who just turned 40, finished second in the 3,000 meters behind Ethiopia’s Dejen Gebremeskal, but his time of 7:48.33 smashed the masters (men over 40, women over 35) world record of 8:01.44.

• Dortmund remains undefeated with win: Dortmund rallied to hold off Firing Line by a head and win the $150,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita, a key West Coast prep race on the Kentucky Derby trail.

The victory kept Dortmund undefeated at 4-0 for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. The colt earned 10 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby.

• Kearney wins World Cup moguls event: Hannah Kearney won the women’s World Cup moguls event in Val St. Come, Quebec to take the top spot in the women’s standings.

Kearney, from Norwich, Vermont, is retiring at the end of the season.