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NEW YORK -- Freshman Malik Monk scored 23 points on 7-for-11 shooting from 3-point range, and Isaiah Briscoe added 21 to lead No. 2 Kentucky to a 69-48 victory over No. 13 Michigan State on Tuesday night in the State Farm Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden.The Wildcats (3-0) averaged 90 points in their first two games but this time it was defense that did it as the Spartans (0-2) shot 32.8 percent from the field (20 of 61) including 5 for 26 (19.2 percent) from beyond the arc.Relying on another talented freshman class, Kentucky was able to up the tempo enough and keep the tenacious defense going that the Spartans committed 21 turnovers which the Wildcats turned into 24 points.Kenny Goins and Cassius Winston led the Spartans with nine points each. Freshman Miles Bridges was held to six points on 2-for-11 shooting but he grabbed 12 rebounds.BAYLOR 66, No. 4 OREGON 49WACO, Texas -- Johnathan Motley scored 17 points in his season debut and Baylor got a big early-season victory over the Oregon team playing without its preseason All-American.The Ducks (1-1) are missing Dillon Brooks, their 6-foot-7 junior forward who was their leading scorer last season but is still recovering from foot surgery during the offseason.Motley missed the season opener for Baylor (2-0) because of a one-game suspension after violating an NCAA rule by playing in an improper summer league game.The Ducks (1-1) quickly had a 3-0 lead when Chris Boucher hit from long range on the games first shot, before they missed their next six shots. After Motley made his first shot of the season and Manu Lecomtes buzzer-beating 3-pointer, Baylor never trailed again.Dylan Ennis led Oregon with 16 points, and Boucher finished with 12. Jordan Bell had 11 rebounds.No. 5 NORTH CAROLINA 93, LONG BEACH STATE 67CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Joel Berry II scored 23 points and North Carolina shot 53 percent to beat Long Beach State.Kennedy Meeks added 15 points for the Tar Heels (3-0), who scored the games first 14 points and led by 23 points by halftime. That dominating start was enough to erase any doubt about the outcome, though Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams was aggravated enough at one sloppy second-half stretch that he angrily punched a clipboard to the court during a timeout.Still, the Tar Heels -- who shot 59 percent in the opening half -- never let the 49ers closer than 16 after halftime.Gabe Levin scored 17 points for Long Beach State (1-2), who never recovered from an awful start that included making 8 of 31 shots (26 percent) in the first half. The 49ers finished at 36 percent and missed 20 of 26 3-pointers.No. 8 VIRGINIA 72, ST. FRANCIS BROOKYLN 32CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Austin Nichols scored 11 points in his Virginia debut and the Cavaliers beat St. Francis Brooklyn.The Cavaliers (2-0) held the Terriers scoreless for a stretch of more than 10 minutes in the first half and scored 20 consecutive points to open a 35-11 lead.The Terriers (0-2) ended the drought on two free throws by Yunus Hopkinson with 7.8 seconds left in the half.Nichols, a transfer from Memphis who missed Virginias two preseason scrimmages and season-opener at UNC Greensboro while serving a suspension for violating a team rule, scored on an array and shots around the basket. Jarred Reuter added nine points and London Perrantes. Marial Shayok and Mamadi Diakite each had eight for Virginia. All 11 scholarship players for the Cavaliers scored and Tony Bennett emptied his bench in the closing minutes.No. 22 CREIGHTON 79, No. 9 WISCONSIN 67OMAHA, Neb. -- Khyri Thomas scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half, breaking open a close game with a three-point play and 3-pointer on consecutive possessions, and Creighton defeated Wisconsin.Maurice Watson Jr. had 17 points and 10 assists and Marcus Foster added 15 points for the Bluejays (2-0).Bronson Koenig scored 21 points and Nigel Hayes had 16 points to lead the Badgers (1-1), who made only 3 of 26 3-pointers after starting 8 of 13 from beyond the arc.Wisconsin got within seven points in the final minute, but Justin Patton and Thomas finished off the Badgers with back-to-back dunks.Hayes, the Big Ten preseason player of the year, scored 11 points in the first 12 minutes and was held scoreless until Ethan Happ fed him for an easy lay-in with 11 minutes left in the game.No. 18 SYRACUSE 90, HOLY CROSS 46SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Andrew White scored 19 points, Tyler Lydon had 17, and Syracuse went on a 14-0 run in the first half to take control and overpower Holy Cross.Syracuse (2-0) shot 61 percent from the field and was 13 for 23 on 3-pointers. 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Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999.Minutes before the Giants played their first game for premiership points, coach Kevin Sheedy told the AFL minnows how to grow a backbone.The moment was caught on camera and is clearly the mantra that has propelled them to their first finals series, just five seasons later.Dont ever let any club or player dominate you at a ball, at a stoppage, in the air or on the ground, Sheedy says in the team meeting.That is the essence of simple, bloody basic football.Now lets get it going.The word dominate is yelled.It was March 24, 2012 and cross-town rivals Sydney won that match at ANZ Stadium by 63 points.Earlier this month, at the same venue and against the same opposition, the Giants won their first final.It was a particularly-brutal clash that demonstrated, beyond any doubt, that no-one kicks the Giants around any more.On Saturday, they will host the Western Bulldogs in a preliminary final.Theyve listened to it, havent they?, Sheedy said with pride earlier this week.They havent been smashed a lot.Im talking to a bunch of young players at a very different period of their life than now and they did not nneed to be stood over while theyre getting smashed.dddddddddddd.Sheedy, the legendary four-time Essendon premiership coach, was in charge at the Giants for two seasons before handing over to Leon Cameron.It was a seamless succession, with the Giants improving each season before this years leap into the top four.The way Sheedy handled the first season was classic psychology - rather than 22 games, the Giants were encouraged to break it down to 88 quarters.So we had 88 half-hour matches, he said.That was the best way to train and get these boys never to lose their self-esteem and confidence (given) they were only one year out of Year 12.However bad the losses - and there were some big ones - the Giants were never squashed.Its the best 40 losses Ive ever had, said Sheedy, who has since returned to Essendon in an executive role.Get them over and done with, keep playing the kids, refresh them, put them out and rest them and all of a sudden theyre a game off a grand final. 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