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Rickey Claitt was 5-of-6 on 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 28 points for Oregon State, carrying the Beavers to an 81-73 victory over UTEP in Game 3 of the College Basketball Invitational championship series Friday night.Oregon State made 12-of-19 3-point shots for a 2-1 series win, which clinched its first postseason title in school history. Lathen Wallace added 13 and Roeland Schaftenaar scored 12 for the Beavers.

Gonzaga and Michigan State have played three times in the past. Michigan State beat the Zags at home back in 1997 and in a Sweet 16 game in 2001

PNC Financial Services Group will buy National City Corp. of Cleveland in a $5.6 billion deal that will bring PNC Bank to Milwaukee.

The Boise State Broncos will continue their season in the College Basketball Invitational.The CBI announced Sunday night after the NCAA Tournament and National Invitation Tournament selected their fields that Boise State would play at Stanford on Wednesday night.

Tomorrow night, in front of a sold out crowd and a national television audience, the Portland Trail Blazers will wear commemorative "Rip City" jerseys,

The season continues for head coach Tom Collen and the Razorback women’s basketball team as the University of Arkansas was invited to participate in the 2009 Women’s National Invitational Tournament.

Arkansas, 17-13 overall, is the Southeastern Conference automatic representative, and will face the winner of Texas-Arlington and Oklahoma State next Monday, March 23 at Bud Walton Arena. UTA plays at Oklahoma State in Stillwater on Saturday.

Rajasthan Royals is a franchise chain cricket team based in Jaipur, who play in the IPL. The team is led and coached by Shane Warne. The team’s mascot is a lion named Moochu Singh. The team’s national anthem is "Halla Bol" sung by Ila Arun. The promotional video that was shown on national networks before and during the first edition of IPL was directed by Indrajit Nattoji of Blink Pictures. Leicestershire spinner Jeremy Snape was signed with the Rajasthan Royals as their high performance coach and team psychologist. They were winners in the first IPL tournament in 2008.

Michael Jordan’s son, Marcus, is one of the best high school basketball players in the state of Illinois, if not the best. Like Yahoo Sports said, Michael Jordan celebrated another championship in Chicago, this time it was his son’s.Jordan, a six-time champion (you all know that), was proud of his son’s performance. Marcus Jordan had 19 points as he and his Chicago Whitney Young basketball team beat Waukegan, 69-66, to win the Class 4A Championship.As Marcus and Chicago Whitney Young was cheering, Jordan was too, in tears. Tears of joy.

The morning of the championship game dawned foggy, rainy, snowy and windy Monday, with so much mist around the high floors of Renaissance Center that you could barely see the Detroit River, Belle Isle, the Ambassador Bridge, Cobo Hall or Ford Field.But that was in the here and now and it did not matter. The better window was the one to the past, the big-screen television in the hotel room that showed a video of Magic Johnson of Michigan State and Larry Bird of Indiana State a mere 30 years before.