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South Carolina, Ohio State, Stanford and UCLA would be the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament if it began now.

INDIANAPOLIS — Every prospect arrives at the NFL Scouting Combine thinking about the future.

Iowa star Caitlin Clark, who is on the verge of becoming the all-time NCAA scoring leader in college basketball, announced Thursday she will leave the Hawkeyes after this season and enter the WNBA draft.

COLUMBUS — Jamison Battle scored a season-high 32 points, Roddy Gayle Jr. had 16 points and 10 rebounds and short-handed Ohio State beat Nebraska 78-69 on Thursday night.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Teuvo Teravainen scored the game’s first goal less than a minute into the second period, Spencer Martin stopped 20 shots against his former team and the Carolina Hurricanes rolled to a 4-2 win over the struggling Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.

OTTAWA — The district tournament is a familiar place for Lauryn Auchmuty and the Columbus Grove Bulldogs.

ELIDA — Lyv Lindeman might be hobbled, but she’s still Lyv Lindeman.

OTTAWA — Ottoville’s history of postseason success makes them a hard team to bet against at tournament time.

ELIDA — Ottawa-Glandorf slowed way down, but it still got to the same destination, the district championship game.

MILLER CITY – Liberty-Benton took the lead late in the first quarter of a 51-25 win against Bath in a Division II girls basketball district semifinal on Thursday night and never looked back.