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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – As Ro-
ry McIlroy warmed up for a three-hole
aggregate playoﬀ against J.J. Spaun to
decide The Players Championship, a
tournament volunteer walked over and
said, “Feels like an Irish day, doesn’t it?”
With the wind whipping and the tem-
perature in the 50s, McIlroy acknowl-
edged the similarities, smiled and kept
loosening up. But it wasn’t lost on the
35-year-old son of Holywood, Northern
Ireland, that it was St. Patrick’s Day. He
said he even looked for a green shirt to
wear but hadn’t packed one for the occa-
sion. It’s a day when Irish eyes have
smiled on him before and they would
again as McIlroy won the three-hole ag-
gregate playoﬀ by three strokes.

As PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Mo-
nahan noted, it was the second time
McIlroy had won The Players on St. Pat-
rick’s Day, having done so in 2019. “I
think he had every intention of pushing
this thing into Monday so he could do it
again,” Monahan said.

As McIlroy later pointed out he had
also won the Arnold Palmer Invitational
on the national holiday, “so it’s been a
good luck charm for me.”
The three-hole aggregate playoﬀ was
over quickly as McIlroy avoided mis-
takes. He ripped a 336-yard driver at the
par-5 16th, the /f_irst playoﬀ hole, planted
his second shot to 33 feet and two-put-
ted for birdie to take a one-shot lead
heading to the 130-yard island green.

During his warm-up session, McIlroy
had turned around and hit three-quar-
ter 9 irons to the third green, measuring
the distance with his Trackman to sim-
ulate the conditions he would face at 17,
and it paid oﬀ as he stuck his tee shot
safely on the green and 30 feet from the
hole.
“I have this little three-quarter,
three-quarter shot, I call it. It’s three-
quarter backswing with three-quarter
speed,” he said. “I practiced a ton of
those shots on the range all week, just
knowing that we were going to play in
windy conditions.”
With the amphitheater ringed with
fans, many of whom must have called in
sick or played hooky – McIlroy joked,
“Obviously no one works in Jackson-
ville” – Spaun, hitting second, had gone
to the other side of the range essentially
to do the same thing as McIlroy, but his
8-iron came out pure and /f_lew the green
into the water.
“I hit a great shot. I did what I needed
to do. I couldn’t believe it was long,”
Spaun said. “It just wasn’t my luck of the
gust, I guess.”
Spaun made a triple-bogey 6 and
McIlroy a bogey to take a three-stroke
lead to the /f_inal hole and a bogey was
enough to secure his 28th PGA Tour title
and become the eighth player to win The
Players multiple times. He also joined
an exclusive group consisting of Jack
Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Scottie
Scheﬄer to win multiple majors and
multiple Players titles.

On Sunday, McIlroy roared out of the
gate with a birdie-eagle start to make
his move. Tee times had been moved up
to avoid a forecast of thunderstorms,
but Mother Nature wouldn’t be denied.

After a four-hour suspension of play,
McIlroy birdied the 12th hole to take a
three-stroke lead with six holes to play.

But Spaun, 34, refused to quit, making
tap-in birdies at Nos. 14 and 16 and his
30-foot birdie putt at the 72nd hole
stopped just short of the hole.

Tied at 12-under 276, McIlroy, who
shot 4-under 68, lamented not closing
the door. He said he watched some
of the movie “The Devil Wears Prada”
while eating room service, reset and
came back committed to get the job
done. But not without his share of
nerves. McIlroy said he woke up at
3 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep.
“I was as nervous as I can remember,”
he said.

On paper it was a mismatch between
McIlroy, the four-time major champion
and world No. 2, and Spaun, who had
just one victory in 227 career starts. He
still had scar tissue from blowing the
54-hole lead at the 2022 FedEx St. Jude
Championship.
“I didn’t want to have that feeling of,
not defeat, but just like crawl-into-a-
hole-and-die kind of a feeling because it
was just so embarrassing,” Spaun said.
“I was just afraid to feel embarrassed
again.”
But he leaned into the underdog
mentality, that all the pressure was on
McIlroy, who was expected to win, and
said he believed he could win.

Except during the playoﬀ, he played
as if a spell that had turned Spaun into
Cinderella at the ball for the past four
days at TPC Sawgrass had expired at
midnight on Sunday. He missed the fair-
way and hit his bunker shot heavy at 16,
settling for par, made triple bogey at 17
and played 18 like a 10 handicap to gift-
wrap the victory to a popular champion.

McIlroy said that he could relate to
Spaun’s fear of failure.
“We’ve all had periods where we’ve
felt like that. I’ve had to go through it,” he
said. “Even walking from the 16th green
to the 17th tee today, I could see myself
hitting it in the water, right?” he said.
“That’s something that crosses your
mind, and it’s like, OK, how do I replace
that thought with a better one and visu-
alize and get myself into the moment.

I’ve practiced hard at that, and de/f_inite-
ly getting better at it.
“People say pressure is a privilege,
and it really is. You want to feel like that
on the course. That’s why I spend the
time that I do practicing and trying to
master my craft, that you get yourself in
those positions to see what you’re made
of.”
McIlroy said he’s been inspired by
Scheﬄer, the world No. 1 whose seven
victories last season included a repeat
at The Players.
“I knuckled down,” McIlroy said.

NBC’s Dan Hicks noted during the
trophy ceremony that McIlroy was just
the second player to win the tourna-
ment despite missing more than half the
fairways at TPC Sawgrass.
“Dan, let’s focus on the positives,”
McIlroy cracked.

But it highlighted that McIlroy can
putt and chip well enough and is capa-
ble of escaping from trouble, such as the
pine straw this past week, when his
driver misbehaves.
“I feel like I’m a better player now
than I ever have been, and it’s nice to see
the fruits of my labor paying oﬀ,” he
said.

With a win last month at the AT&T
Pebble Beach Pro-Am, McIlroy has won
twice on U.S. soil in a calendar year for
the /f_irst time before the Masters. How
does he plan to prepare for his latest
pursuit of trying to win the Masters and
complete the career Grand Slam in
April, the only one of the 12 months on
the calendar where he’s never tasted
victory.
“Double down on what I’m doing,” he
said. “Continue to do the same thing.”
It worked for the Northern Irishman
on St. Patrick’s Day, a day he said he
doesn’t traditionally celebrate but he
may consider toasting his latest victory
with some sort of green concoction.
“It’s a pretty big deal in Ireland,” he
said. “I feel like you guys take it to an-
other level here.”
At The Players Championship, McIl-
roy was the one who showed he can take
it to another level without his best stuﬀ.

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From a guy who had won three
straight weeks to a guy who had never
secured a victory.

Christopher Bell’s streak died Sun-
day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and
Josh Berry earned his /f_irst NASCAR Cup
Series win.

Berry took the lead from Daniel Sua-
rez with 13 laps left in the Pennzoil 400.

He held oﬀ Suarez and third-place driv-
er Ryan Preece to take the checkered /f_lag
in the No. 21 Wood Brothers ride.

This is his /f_irst season in that seat.
“Oh, man,” Berry said after his victory
lap. “I don’t even know what to think.

Just awesome. I love this
track. Las Vegas has been
so good to me. I’ve had so
many great moments
here. ... We just battled
and battled and battled.

It was our day. I just can’t
believe it. Such a battle
with Daniel there at the end.”
Only 53 starts into his Cup Series ca-
reer, Berry is already a journeyman.

He made his big-league debut in
2021, running two races as a /f_ill-in for
Spire Motorsports. In 2023, he returned
to the Cup Series as a substitute for
Hendrick Motorsports and, later that
year, Legacy Motor Club.

Finally, in 2024, he earned a full-time
spot at NASCAR’s highest level, replac-
ing Kevin Harvick in the No. 4 car for
Stewart-Haas Racing. During the sea-
son, Stewart-Haas announced plans to
close its doors. So Berry signed with the
Wood Brothers, who were looking to up-
grade from Harrison Burton.

It took the 34-year-old just /f_ive races
with his new organization to /f_ind victory
lane. Berry is the 20th driver to win a
race in a Wood Brothers car. The team
now possesses 101 all-time victories.

Christopher Bell’s winning streak
stops at three
Bell started his bid for a fourth
straight victory in the back of the /f_ield.

Despite qualifying 13th, he received a
penalty because his Joe Gibbs Racing
team made unapproved changes to his
No. 20 Toyota. It swapped the throttle
body. By the end of Stage 1, Bell had
worked his way up to 10th.

In Stage 2, after racing into the top
/f_ive, he encountered a loose left front
tire coming out of his pit box. Before
leaving pit road, he stopped in Chase
Briscoe’s box, and the No. 19 team tight-
ened it for him. That drew a penalty,
sending Bell back to the rear. But if the
wheel would have fallen oﬀ on the track,
he would’ve suﬀered a two-lap penalty.

He ended Stage 2 in 27th and /f_inished
12th.

Jimmie Johnson in 2007 remains the
last driver to rattle oﬀ four in a row.

Contributing: Ken Willis, The Dayto-
na Beach News-Journal
Cup Series driver Josh Berry loves Las Vegas
Chris Vinel
The Daytona Beach News-Journal

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The Michigan State women’s basket-
ball program took a big step Saturday
when they earned their /f_irst NCAA Tour-
nament victory in six years.

The Spartans’ quest to add to that
and take another step was thwarted by
hot-shooting North Carolina State.

No. 7 seed MSU fell into a large early
de/f_icit while having its season come to
an end with an 83-49 loss to the host
and No. 2 seed Wolfpack in an NCAA
Tournament second round contest at
Reynolds Arena.

North Carolina State (28-6) never
trailed while denying the Spartans in
their bid to reach the Sweet 16 for just
the fourth time in program history and
/f_irst since 2009.

The Wolfpack set an NCAA tourna-
ment program record with 15 made 3-
pointers and shot 50% from the /f_ield
while ending MSU’s season.
“ A really tough /f_inish for our season,”
Fralick said. “ A lot of credit to N.C. State.

I thought they played outstanding. We
kind of ran into a buzz saw. They shot
the ball really, really well. What I shared
with the team after is this game isn’t our
season. I think it doesn’t feel great to /f_in-
ish with a game like this, but you know
there’s things that are happening in our
program that we’re really proud of. We
feel like we keep building. We made it a
game further this year.
“I think it was the /f_irst NCAA Tourna-
ment win in the Michigan State program
in six years. (I’m) really proud of our col-
lective season, really proud of our girls
and seniors that we love so much. It’s
hard to have a last game with them.
(They) meant so much to me personally
and to our program. I’m really proud of
our team and the work that we’ve done
over the course of a year.”
Grace VanSlooten recorded a second
straight double-double and had 15
points and 11 rebounds to lead MSU,
which closes the season with a 22-10
record. VanSlooten was the only player
in double-digit scoring for the Spartans,
who were held to a season-low in
points.

North Carolina State used its best 3-
point shooting performance of the sea-
son while knocking oﬀ the Spartans and
earning a return trip to the Sweet 16. The
Wolfpack set a season high for made 3s
while shooting 50% from beyond the arc
in the game. That included hitting /f_ive
3s in each of the /f_irst and second quar-
ters while going 10 of 16 from behind the
3-point arc in the opening half while
owning a 24-point advantage at the
half.

In addition to their hot shooting, the
Wolfpack held the Spartans to a season-
low 23 points in the opening half.
“There was a little bit of frustration,”
VanSlooten said. “Obviously, like coach
said, it’s not the way you want to go out.

All credit to N.C. State. They played a
great game and were knocking down all
their shots. I don’t know, (we were) kind
of speechless. You don’t really know
what to do when a team is doing that.

I’m really happy being here with this
team and happy that we got to a round
of 32.”
Aziaha James had a game-high 26
points and was 10 of 16 from the /f_ield and
hit 6 of 11 from 3-point range for the
Wolfpack, who went 18-0 on their home
court this season.
“We’ve got some veterans that are
very talented and step up when the
lights are the brightest is when they
really step up and play,” North Carolina
State coach Wes Moore said.
“We shot the heck out of (the ball) go-
ing 15 of 30 from 3 and 50% from the
/f_ield. We did a pretty good job of taking
care of (the ball). I know that sounds
funny having 11 turnovers, but with their
press and their pressure and that was
probably the biggest concern coming
into the game.”

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26 points that includes six 3-pointers
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On Sunday afternoon in Columbia,
South Carolina, Indiana Hoosiers guard
Chloe Moore-McNeil dribbled toward
the sideline during the /f_irst half of a
tight March Madness second-round
matchup. South Carolina guard Raven
Johnson, engaged on defense, closely
tracked her every move. Moore-McNeil
eventually trailed oﬀ, passing the ball to
junior guard Shay Ciezki, who was wait-
ing to set up a score.

Ciezki moved quickly and decisively
toward the basket from the elbow, look-
ing to extend No. 9 seed Indiana’s six-
point lead on the No. 1 seed Gamecocks.

As she approached the basket, senior
guard Te-Hina Paopao was in lockstep
until suddenly, she jumped up, still in
stride and blocked Ciezki’s shot at-
tempt.

There it is.

South Carolina’s typically stellar de-
fense awakened from its unusual slum-
ber.

Moments later, forward Sania Feagin
added a layup, and Bree Hall quickly fol-
lowed with a timely 3-point basket. Fea-
gin unleashed another layup, and star
freshman Joyce Edwards drained a pair
of free throws. The Gamecocks were do-
ing what they do best: using their de-
fense to create oﬀense. Still, they found
themselves down 26-25 at halftime, an
eerie too-close-for-comfort feeling that
reeked of a similar 2024 NCAA Tourna-
ment matchup with Indiana during the
Sweet 16.

At the start of the third quarter in that
game, then star center Kamilla Cardoso
and Johnson danced to “Macarena”
shortly before Indiana put up 43 points
in the second half, including a 23-point
third quarter that ate into a massive
lead. The Hoosiers closed the gap, mak-
ing South Carolina sweat until it walked
away with a nail-biting 79-74 win to
keep its undefeated season alive.

No one was dancing on Sunday.

Instead, head coach Dawn Staley im-
plored her team to dig deeper at half-
time. Indiana wouldn’t go quietly. “I’m
proud of our team the way they gutted
up and didn’t /f_linch,” Staley said post-
game. “It wasn’t pretty, but at this time,
it doesn’t have to be. You just have to
score more points.”
That’s the improbability of March
Madness; it doesn’t make logical bas-
ketball sense. It just has to work. With
help from Feagin, who dissected the
Hoosiers’ defense during the third quar-
ter, and a push from forward Chloe Kitts,
South Carolina took over the game and
extended its lead, once again reaching
the Sweet 16 for the /f_ifth consecutive
season after a 64-53 win. The Game-
cocks ended their day with 20 fast-
break points and 18 points from 16 Indi-
ana turnovers.

The question remains: How does
South Carolina not panic after an ugly
game ahead of its Sweet 16 matchup?
“We weren’t really panicked because
we know our /f_irst half wasn’t very good,”
Kitts explained postgame to 107.5 The
Game. “It wasn’t very good because we
weren’t making our shots, our easy lay-
ups – everything like that. So, we just
know we need to calm down ...”
That’s the key: The Gamecocks are
calm in adversity.

It’s how they’ve learned what it takes
to win a championship. As the competi-
tion gets more challenging, South Caro-
lina can’t /f_linch. As teams throw more at
them, the Gamecocks can’t be too small
for the moment. However, the calm isn’t
just the players from year to year or any
speeches that may come when the
Gamecocks need them the most. The
calm is also Staley. It always has been
during her tenure.

Three-time WNBA MVP and four-
time Olympic teammate of Staley’s,
Lisa Leslie, recently dove deeper into
what Staley means to South Carolina’s
program. “South Carolina has been able
to see it was worth it to invest in Dawn
Staley – and how she changed this pro-
gram and the impact she’s had on these
young women,” Leslie explained.

Staley’s impact on her players ex-
tends beyond the baskets that light up
the court or the back-breaking transi-
tion steals that de/f_late opponents. She
allows her players to be them in what-
ever form that may be.
“It’s a day care,” Staley said Sunday.
“Not a board meeting where one person
is talking at a time.”
If South Carolina hoists another tro-
phy in 2025, her players will likely re-
member when everything seemingly
felt heavy and impossible. But there she
was, calm amid unmistakable chaos,
helping the day care run without a hitch.
“I think we created a legacy already,
whether we win this one or not,” Staley
recently shared. “What we’ve done over
the past eight years won’t be done again.

If we win another one, it just adds to our
legacy in the game.”
South Carolina’s defense refuses to panic
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LOS ANGELES – Lauren Betts now
ranks among the legendary UCLA cen-
ters, according to a former Los Angeles
Laker and two-time NBA champion.

After Betts had 30 points and 14 re-
bounds to lead UCLA past Richmond
84-67 in the second round of the Wom-
en’s NCAA Tournament, Betts had
something else: a massive compliment
from Mychal Thompson, who won two
NBA championship rings with the Lak-
ers in 1987 and 1988.

Thompson wrote on X: “UCLA Center
ranking…1)Kareem…2)
Walton…3)Lauren
Betts…’’
Yes, that’s Kareem Ab-
dul-Jabbar, Bill Walton
and Lauren Betts.
“That’s crazy,’’ she
said.

Like Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor
during his time at UCLA) and Walton
before her, the 6-foot-7 Betts was a force
for UCLA near the basket Sunday night
at Pauley Pavilion. She was 14-for-17
from the /f_loor. In addition to her 14 re-
bounds, she had four assists and
showed why he’s a candidate for nation-
al Defensive Player of the Year.

And now trying to lead UCLA (32-2) –
the top overall seed – to the school’s /f_irst
NCAA title in women’s basketball.
“She’s an absolute generational play-
er,” UCLA coach Cori Close said. “She is
not … just a low-post player. I mean,
watch her move out there. The way that
she guarded and switched, and even
when she made some mistakes, the way
that she chased people at 6-7. And she’s
really 6-8, by the way.
“But she’s just an elite player. She has
basketball IQ. She’s incredibly compet-
itive. She aﬀects the game in so many
ways on oﬀense and defense. The list
goes on and on.”
Said Kiki Rice, UCLA ’s star point
guard, was more succinct when asked
about playing with Betts: “It makes life
easy.’’
Now Betts, a junior, is looking for
something Abdul-Jabbar and Walton
won – an NCAA championship.

For the third year in a row, UCLA has
advanced to the Sweet 16, setting up a
matchup with No. 5 seed Mississippi on
Friday.
“Now we’ve got to push the enve-
lope,” Close said.

Betts /f_igures to be at the center of it
all.

NBA champ ranks Lauren Betts among UCLA great centers
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USA TODAY
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