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WESTERN CONFERENCE
Pacific W LOLPtsGFGA
Edmonton 13 6 2 28 67 56
Arizona 11 7 2 24 58 49
Vancouver 10 7 3 23 65 54
Calgary 10 8 3 23 60 61
Vegas 9 8 3 21 59 61
DUCKS 9 9 2 20 53 58
San Jose 9 10 1 19 59 70
KINGS 7 11 1 15 49 69
Central W LOLPtsGFGA
St. Louis 12 3 5 29 61 57
Colorado 11 6 2 24 68 55
Winnipeg 11 8 1 23 55 61
Dallas 10 8 2 22 50 48
Nashville 9 6 3 21 68 59
Chicago 7 7 4 18 50 56
Minnesota 7 11 1 15 50 65
Note: Overtime or shootout lossesworth one point.EASTERN CONFERENCE
Metropolitan W LOLPtsGFGA
Washington 14 3 4 32 81 65
N.Y. Islanders 13 3 1 27 54 39
Carolina 11 7 1 23 66 56
Philadelphia 10 6 3 23 58 56
Pittsburgh 10 7 2 22 61 49
N.Y. Rangers 8 7 2 18 57 62
Columbus 7 8 4 18 45 63
New Jersey 6 8 4 16 46 66
Atlantic W LOLPtsGFGA
Boston 12 3 4 28 68 50
Montreal 11 5 3 25 69 58
Florida 9 5 5 23 70 71
Toronto 9 8 4 22 70 71
Buffalo 9 6 3 21 54 53
Tampa Bay 9 5 2 20 61 55
Ottawa 8 10 1 17 53 62
Detroit 7 12 2 16 48 78NHL STANDINGS
RESULTS
AT NEW JERSEY 2
PITTBURGH 1
Mackenzie Blackwood made 38 saves and Travis Zajac
and Blake Coleman scored for the Devils.BOSTON 4
AT TORONTO 2
Brad Marchand scored twice in the third and Zdeno Chara
scored unassisted as the Bruins ended an 0-2-2 slide.AT COLUMBUS 3
ST. LOUIS 2 (OT)
Zach Werenski scored a power-play goal, his third goal in
as many games, 3:34 into overtime for Columbus.MONTREAL 5
AT WASHINGTON 2
Carey Price made 25 saves and Montreal responded to a
big hit by Alex Ovechkin with four goals in the second.AT OT TAWA 2
PHILADELPHIA 1
Filip Chlapik scored with 2:51 left, Anders Nilsson made
26 saves and Ottawa killed a late four-minute penalty.TODAY’S GAMES
DUCKS at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Vegas at KINGS, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Calgary at Arizona, 1 p.m.
Dallas at Edmonton, 1 p.m. Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Ottawa at Buffalo, 4 p.m. New York Rangers at Florida, 4 p.m.
New York Islanders at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Toronto at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.
Washington at Boston, 4 p.m. New Jersey at Montreal, 4 p.m.
Chicago at Nashville, 5 p.m. Colorado at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Detroit at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.ORLANDO, Fla. —
Gregg Berhalter knows
where he’s supposed to take
the U.S. national team he
was hired to lead a year ago.
But there are several ways to
get to the World Cup, and the
route the coach picked has
proved to be riddled with
potholes, detours and roads
that lead nowhere.
And that’s led to wither-
ing criticism that he has lost
his way.
“It is what it is,” Berhalter
said with a shrug. “Everyone
has a job to do. And my job is
coaching the national team.
“There are parallel paths,
right? There’s the path of
getting results and there’s a
path of developing a really
young team, and sometimes
those paths go in different
directions and you don’t
always get the results, but
the development is still
there.”
On Friday night, Berhal-
ter and his team got the de-
velopment and the result
they were seeking, with
Gyasi Zardes scoring twice
and teenager Sergino Dest
picking up an assist two
minutes into his first com-
petitive game with the U.S.,leading a 4-1 rout of Canada
in a Nations League group-
play match.
Considering the oppo-
nent, a Canadian team rid-
ing a wave of momentum
and leading the group after
beating the U.S. last month
for the first time in 34 years,
it might have been the
Americans’ most important
victory of the year.
It was certainly the most
emphatic, with the U.S. scor-
ing three times in the open-
ing 33 minutes and never
looking back. And that not
only rescued the Americans’
pride and earned Berhalter
some welcome breathing
room, but it also erased Can-
ada’s goal-differential lead
atop the group table, leaving
the U.S. needing only a winover Cuba on Tuesday to ad-
vance to the tournament
semifinals.
“We haven’t done any-
thing yet,” Berhalter cau-
tioned. “We had an objective
to go to the next round.
We’re not in the next round
yet.”
The U.S., which improved
to 10-5-2 this year despite
missing playmaker Chris-
tian Pulisic, captain Michael
Bradley and starting goal-
keeper Zack Steffen to in-
jury, promised to come out
aggressively and it did, with
Jordan Morris scoring on a
right-footed volley from the
center of the box before
many in the sparse crowd of
13,103 had found their seats.
Dest set up the goal by run-
ning on to a bouncing cornerkick and volleying it forward
for Morris.
It was the first goal Cana-
da (6-3) had allowed in four
games and 286 minutes.
The Americans got two
more before the break, the
first on a counterattack that
ended with Morris lifting the
ball toward Zardes for a
header at the near post in
the 23rd minute, and the sec-
ond on a set piece, with Tim
Ream bending a left-footed
free kick into the penalty
area for Aaron Long to head
home in the 34th minute.
In the second half, Cana-
da’s Steve Vitoria and
Zardes exchanged scores in
the final 18 minutes, with Vi-
toria nodding in a corner
kick only to see Zardes, the
former Galaxy forward, an-
swer just before stoppage
time.
Canada had a 2-1 edge in
time of possession and took
just one fewer shot. But the
game really wasn’t close.
“They were bloody clini-
cal tonight,” Canadian
coach John Herdman said.
“Good for the U.S. They si-
lenced some critics.”
The win didn’t answer ev-
ery question, though.
“We’re nowhere near
where we need to be,”
Berhalter said.
“Or where we’re going to
be.”Berhalter and the U.S. silence their critics
U.S. 4, CANADA 1By Kevin BaxterSERGINO DEST, left, helps the U.S. avenge a loss to
Richie Laryea and Canada in the Nations League.John RaouxAssociated PressUCLA 71, UNLV 54
UNLV
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Mbacke Diong....26 0-2 0-0 3-7 0 3 0
Tillman .............357-13 1-2 2-7 1 4 18
Antonio.............11 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 2 0
Hardy...............376-17 0-0 0-2 2 1 13
Mitrou-Long.......345-12 0-0 1-5 0 2 13
Hamilton ...........274-12 2-2 2-4 2 0 10
Dembele ...........13 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 2 0
Blair .................12 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Shibel................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Green .................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Coleman.............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 22-57 3-4 8-26 5 15 54
Shooting: Field goals, 38.6%; free throws, 75.0%
Three-point goals: 7-23 (Tillman 3-6, Mitrou-Long
3-7, Hardy 1-6, Antonio 0-1, Hamilton 0-3). Team Re-
bounds: 1. Team Turnovers: 16 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots:
2 (Mbacke Diong 2). Turnovers: 16 (Hamilton 4, Hardy
3, Tillman 3, Mitrou-Long 2, Antonio, Blair, Dembele,
Mbacke Diong). Steals: 4 (Hamilton, Hardy, Mbacke
Diong, Mitrou-Long). Technical Fouls: None.
UCLA
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Riley.................23 4-8 1-4 3-5 1 1 9
Hill ...................27 1-3 4-4 2-8 1 1 6
Ali....................32 4-8 4-4 0-2 4 3 14
Campbell ..........32 5-8 2-2 0-1 4 1 15
Smith...............296-10 2-2 2-8 0 2 16
Jaquez ..............19 3-5 0-0 1-4 0 1 8
Bernard ............17 0-4 0-0 0-2 1 1 0
Singleton ..........16 1-3 0-0 0-2 0 1 3
Olesinski .............3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Totals 24-49 13-16 8-33 11 11 71
Shooting: Field goals, 49.0%; free throws, 81.3%
Three-point goals: 10-23 (Campbell 3-4, Jaquez 2-3,
Smith 2-4, Ali 2-6, Singleton 1-3, Riley 0-1, Bernard
0-2). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 16 (29 PTS).
Blocked Shots: 5 (Riley 2, Bernard, Hill, Jaquez). Turn-
overs: 16 (Hill 5, Ali 4, Bernard 2, Campbell 2, Smith 2,
Riley). Steals: 9 (Ali 4, Bernard 2, Smith 2, Singleton).
Technical Fouls: None.
UNLV 28 26— 54
UCLA 40 31— 71
A—NA.AT NEVADA
When:8. Where:Lawlor Events Center.
On the air:TV: CBS Sports Network; Radio: 790.
Update:USC (3-0) opened its season with three consecutive
wins of 11 points or more for the first time since 2000-01. This is
the Trojans’ first road game. They were 2-8 on the road last
season, and Nevada is 44-3 in its last 47 home games.
— Thuc Nhi NguyenUSC TONIGHT
MEN
at No. 22 Auburn 116, Cal State Northridge 70:Samir Dough-
ty scored a career-high 33 points, J’Von McCormick had a
school-record 16 assists and the Tigers (4-0) jumped up big
early on their way to a rout of the Matadors (0-4).UC Irvine 69, at Boise State 61:Eyassu Worku scored 15
points and Brad Greene had 14 points and eight rebounds to
lift the Anteaters (3-1) over the Broncos (1-3).at California 82, Cal Baptist 62: Grant Anticevich scored 16
of his 23 points in the first half, and the Bears (3-0) went on a
big run in the second half and beat the Lancers (2-2) to re-
main unbeaten in coach Mark Fox’s debut season.at Sacramento State 62, UC Riverside 49:Bryce Fowler
scored 17 points and Joshua Patton and Brandon Davis each
had 16 as the Hornets (2-0) beat the Highlanders (2-1). Domi-
nick Pickett led Riverside with 15 points while Callum McRae
pulled down 12 rebounds.MEN TODAY
Rice at UC Santa Barbara .......................................................2 p.m.
Pepperdine at Abilene Christian .....................................5:30 p.m.
Colorado State at Loyola Marymount ................................7 p.m.SOUTHLAND
AUBURN’SAustin Wiley battles Jared Pearre and
Elijah Harkless of Cal State Northridge.Julie BennettAssociated PressSOUTHLAND
UCLA 71, Nevada Las Vegas 54
Cal St. Bakersfield 91, Life Pacific 51
UC Irvine 69, Boise St. 60
California 82, Cal Baptist 62
Sacramento St. 62, UC Riverside 49
Auburn 116, Cal St. Northridge 70
Southwestern (Texas) 73, La Verne 54
Redlands 87, Luther 62
Western Washington 79, Concordia 72
Azusa Pacific 72, Seattle Pacific 57
WEST
N. Arizona 105, American Indian 32
Cal Poly 89, Simpson University 45
Hawaii Hilo 74, Concordia (Ore.) 69
Cal St. San Marcos 68, Academy of Art 52
EAST
Bryant 116, Lyndon St. 67
Dartmouth 55, Merrimack 46
Duquesne 58, Lipscomb 36
Hofstra 111, NYIT 69
Jacksonville 80, Mass.-Lowell 78
Rhode Island 93, Alabama 79
Robert Morris 85, Howard 65
West Virginia 68, Pittsburgh 53
SOUTH
Barton 87, Concord 83
Bethune-Cookman 100, Trinity Baptist 42
Chattanooga 90, South Alabama 72
Duke 74, Georgia St. 63
Florida St. 79, W. Carolina 74
Furman 83, Southern Wesleyan 61
Georgia 100, Delaware St. 66
Georgia Southern 76, Radford 73
Idaho 68, VMI 67
Longwood 78, Randolph 53
La. Lafayette 73, Youngstown St. 61
Mercer 84, Florida Gulf Coast 68
Mississippi 85, W. Michigan 58
Montana St. 59, Appalachian St. 56
North Carolina 77, Gardner-Webb 61
South Carolina 90, Cleveland St. 63
UNC Greensboro 64, Tennessee Tech 30
Utah Valley 66, Ala. Birmingham 55
W. Kentucky 79, E. Kentucky 71
William & Mary 78, Hampton 65
MIDWEST
Akron 57, N.C. Central 47
Bowling Green 88, Fairmont St. 66
Iowa 87, Oral Roberts 74
Kansas 112, Monmouth (N.J.) 57
Michigan 70, Elon 50
Milwaukee 61, Mo. Kansas City 52
N. Dakota St. 76, Rio Grande 70
N. Illinois 81, Coppin St. 69
Nebraska 90, S. Dakota St. 73
Notre Dame 74, Marshall 64
South Dakota 88, Texas Southern 69
Xavier 59, Missouri St. 56
SOUTHWEST
Arkansas St. 80, UC Davis 67
BYU 72, Houston 71
Baylor 72, Texas State 63Gonzaga 79, Texas A&M 49
Lamar 76, Mount St. Mary’s 61
Stony Brook 68, Texas A&M-CC 63
Texas 70, Prairie View 56
UTEP 71, Eastern New Mexico 57
ROCKIES
Utah St. 81, N.C. A&T 54
Utah 73, Minnesota 69WOMEN
AP TOP 25
No. 10 Mississippi St. 124, Murray St. 43
No. 24 Michigan 88, Kent St. 53
No. 25 South Florida 77, VCU 55
SOUTHLAND
Davidson 78, UC Irvine 72
Hawaii 52, Pepperdine 51
Cal St. Fullerton 79, Loyola Marymount 74
San Jose St. 73, UC Santa Barbara 70
Puget Sound 72, Cal Lutheran 70
Willamette 72, Pomona-Pitzer 58
Notre Dame de Namur 60, Cal St. East Bay 59
Azusa Pacific 72, Seattle Pacific 67
Humbold St. 67, Concordia 56
Simon Fraser 69, Cal St. L.A. 63
WEST
Cal St. Stanislaus 81, Holy Names 46
Minnesota Crookston at Hawaii Pacific, late
EAST
Buffalo 82, Columbia 75
Duquesne 76, Iona 74
La Salle 75, Harvard 69
Princeton 78, Seton Hall 76
SOUTH
Boise St. 83, Ala. Birmingham 81
Charlotte 77, Wake Forest 65
Coll. of Charleston 85, NC Central 78
Florida A&M 103, Trinity Baptist 54
Lipscomb 71, N. Kentucky 69
Miami (Ohio) 76, South Alabama 73
Mississippi St. 124, Murray St. 43
New Orleans 69, Mississippi 64
North Carolina 85, Charleston Southern 54
North Florida 64, Florida International 49
South Florida 77, VCU 55
St. Peter’s 82, Coppin St. 57
Stetson 58, Morehead St. 55
Virginia Tech 73, Liberty 69
MIDWEST
Abilene Christian 83, Wright St. 64
Akron 64, Purdue Fort Wayne 53
Michigan 88, Kent St. 53
North Dakota 67, Rhode Island 61
South Dakota 77, Dakota Wesleyan 46
Mo. Kansas City 87, Portland St. 69
Valparaiso 66, N. Dakota St. 54
SOUTHWEST
Texas A&M CC 64, Prairie View 52
Texas Arlington 68, North Texas 49
ROCKIES
Fresno St. 76, Montana 63COLLEGE RESULTS
All 205 pounds of Jules
Bernard’s body slammed
against the floor.
On a night full of defen-
sive highlights and hustle
plays, Bernard’s all-out dive
for a loose ball was the loud-
est, sending a thud echoing
around Pauley Pavilion.
The UCLA forward didn’t
stay down for long, though.
One Bruins assistant coach
pulled him to his feet. Anoth-
er whispered encourage-
ment in his ear. From a few
feet away, first-year head
coach Mick Cronin watched
in delight.
The Bruins continued
embodying their new
coach’s defensive ethos on
Friday, engineering a 71-54
defeat of Nevada Las Vegas
with energy and effort on
their own end of the floor,
and offensive efficiency on
the other.
“We tried to emphasize
our energy early in the
game,” Cronin said. “Talked
about it a lot today at prac-
tice at 2 o’clock. It carried
over into the game.”
Like a new couple, Cronin
and the Bruins are still get-
ting to know each other.
Their season-opener was
like a first date, team and
coach feeling one another
out in a four-point win over
Long Beach State.
Game No. 2 was more
seamless, the Bruins pulling
away from overmatched UC
Santa Barbara in the second
half for a 16-point win.
They looked like a perfect
match during long stretches
on Friday, with Cronin’s re-
newed defensive emphasis
pairing nicely with UCLA’s
explosive offensive flair. The
Bruins outshot the Rebels
from the field, 49% to 39%,
they outscored UNLV off
turnovers 25-13, they held a
35-27 edge in rebounds, and
they hit three more three-
pointers than their Moun-
tain West Conference
guests.
In the first half, the Bru-
ins capitalized on their suf-
focating defense. Their first
points, a corner three-point-
er from guard Tyger Camp-
bell, came after a UNLVturnover. Three more Rebels
giveaways after that fueled a
14-0 UCLA run. Later, the
Bruins went on a 17-4 scoring
spurt to open a 22-point
lead. The Rebels would ne-
ver get closer than nine the
rest of the night.
Chris Smith led the Bru-
ins with a career-high 16
points, going six of 10 from
the field while also collecting
eight rebounds. Cronin
proudly noted his seven de-
flections on defense as well.
“I shoulda had more,”
Smith said grinning. When
asked later what led to his
best game of the season, the
junior guard parroted
Cronin’s philosophy: “De-
fense and effort.”
Meanwhile, Campbell
tallied 15 points, four assists
and three three-pointers.
Prince Ali had 14 points and
four assists. Cody Riley
scored nine in his return to
the starting lineup. Jalen
Hill matched Smith with a
team-high eight rebounds of
his own.
Soon enough, Cronin will
know just how far along his
team is.
Later this month, they’ll
face Brigham Young and
potentially Kansas in the
Maui Invitational. In De-
cember, they face Notre
Dame and North Carolina
back-to-back. There are cur-
rently eight other unde-
feated teams in the Pac-12
as well. But for now, the Bru-
ins are in something of ahoneymoon phase under
their new coach, taking his
message of defensive forti-
tude to heart a little more
every night.
“I thought our effort was
great,” Cronin said. “You
hold teams down like that,
you’re going to win a lot of
games.”Bruins stay unbeaten as they
embrace a focus on defense
UCLA next
Monday vs. Southern
Utah, 8 p.m., Pauley
Pavilion, Pac-12 Networks
— The Thunderbirds (2-1)
will come to Westwood
after a close loss at
Brigham Young on
Wednesday and
double-overtime upset of
Nebraska last Saturday.
Morgan Dwayne leads
Southern Utah in scoring,
averaging 13.7 points.
— Jack HarrisTre Jones scored a ca-
reer-high 31 points and No. 2
Duke pulled away to beat
pesky Georgia State 74-63
on Friday night.
Freshman Vernon Carey
Jr. added season highs of 20
points and 14 rebounds and
Jack White finished with 10
rebounds.
Duke (4-0) overcame its
season-worst 34.2% shoot-
ing by outrebounding the
Panthers 58-32, and the
school says its 30 offensive
rebounds were the most in
coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 40
seasons.
“I feel like if I rebound, the
points will just come,” Carey
said.
And yet, three nights af-
ter top-ranked Kentucky
was upset at home by Ev-
ansville, the Blue Devils
were on upset alert against
an unintimidated mid-ma-
jor for longer than expected
before they scratched out a
sloppy victory, their 150th in
a row at Cameron Indoor
Stadium against nonconfer-
ence opponents.
“Probably at halftime, I
feel like maybe we were just
like, ‘What if that happens to
us?’ ” Carey said.
It was tied at 40 with less
than 17 minutes to play, be-
fore Jones scored 10 points
during a 13-0 run.at No. 21 Xavier 59, Mis-
souri State 56:Paul Scruggs
scored 14 points and made a
layup with 11.6 seconds left,
helping the Musketeers
(4-0) hold off the Bears, who
are picked to win the Mis-
souri Valley Conference.at No. 5 Kansas 112, Mon-
mouth 57: Isaiah Moss had
21 points to lead six Jay-
hawks in double figures
against an undersized and
outclassed MEAC oppo-
nent.at No. 6 North Carolina
77, Gardner-Webb 61:Fresh-
man Cole Anthony had 28
points to help the Tar Heels
pull away after leading by
only three at halftime.No. 8 Gonzaga 79, at
Texas A&M 49: After miss-
ing 12 of their first 15 shots,
the Bulldogs scored 20
straight points from about 1 1
minutes remaining in the
first half until a little morethan two minutes before
halftime.at No. 17 Utah State 81,
North Carolina A&T 54:Al-
phonso Anderson had 21
points, and Justin Bean add-ed 18 points and 10 rebounds
for the Aggies.at No. 24 Baylor 72,
Texas State 63: The Bears
began the second half on a
20-4 run.DUKE’SVernon Carey Jr. (1), who had 20 points,
fights Georgia State’s Josh Linder for a rebound.Ben McKeownAssociated PressCOLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Duke rebounds
and survives scare
associated press
By Jack Harris
UCLA 71, UNLV 54