Big Ten semifinals today…UConn’s Samuelson is ACC player of year…Lundkvist stops 50 shots on his birthday

NEW YORK (AP) — Second-ranked Michigan State takes on No. 15 Michigan and No. 8 Purdue faces Penn State in today’s semifinal matchups in the Big Ten Tournament at Madison Square Garden. The Spartans picked up their 13th straight win by getting past Wisconsin 63-60, while the Wolverines routed Nebraska 77-58. Purdue beat Rutgers 82-75 and the Nittany Lions edged No. 13 Ohio State 69-68.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — UConn forward Katie Lou Samuelson has been selected the American Athletic Conference player of the year for the second straight season. The junior helped the Huskies to a fifth straight regular-season conference championship by averaging 18.3 points. She also leads the nation 3-point field goal percentage, making 49 percent of her shots from behind the arc. South Florida’s Jose Fernandez was chosen the AAC’s coach of the year, leading his team to a 24-6 record, his ninth 20-win season at USF.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist has become the first goaltender to stop 50 or more shots in consecutive victories since the NHL began tracking saves in 1955. The Rangers goalie stopped 50 shots on his 36th birthday as New York beat the Calgary Flames last night, 3-1. No Rangers goalie had made 50 saves in a win since Mike Richter in 1996, before Lundqvist beat Vancouver 6-5 in overtime Wednesday night.

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Austria’s Marcel Hirscher has locked up the men’s World Cup giant slalom title with a race to spare. One day after his 29th birthday, the Olympic GS champion dominated today’s penultimate event of the season, giving him an insurmountable 125-point lead in the GS standings over Norwegian rival Henrik Kristoffersen. Hirscher has won eight of the last 10 World Cup giant slaloms and reached the podium of the other two.

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA’s rule-making panel has unanimously approved adding video review to the laws of soccer, clearing the way for its use at the World Cup. The panel, known as IFAB, voted today to begin updating the game’s written rules to include video assistant referees. Video review can overturn a “clear and obvious error” by match officials involving goals, penalty awards, red cards, and mistaken identity.

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