UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) — Dallion Johnson made five 3-pointers for all 15 of his points, John Harrar had 11 points and a career-high 20 rebounds and Penn State beat Northwestern 67-60. It was a defensive battle through the first 13 minutes as Northwestern led 48-43. Penn State then started making 3-pointers — five of them during a 17-2 run to take a 57-50 lead with 2:30 left. The Wildcats went five-plus minutes without a field goal during the run. Penn State finished 13 of 33 from 3-point range with nine makes in the second half. Pete Nance scored 12 points, and Ty Berry and Audige each added 11 for Northwestern.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Katie Benzan made a floater with 11.8 seconds to play to put Maryland up by three, and the No. 13 Terrapins held on for a 67-64 victory over No. 10 Indiana on Friday night when Nicole Cardano-Hillary missed everything on a shot from the right wing. Angel Reese scored 20 points with 16 rebounds for the Terps, who led almost the entire game and finally held off the slumping Hoosiers. Indiana lost for the fourth time in five games to close the regular season. Maryland had an eight-game winning streak snapped in a loss to Michigan last weekend, but the Terps rebounded despite the absence of guard Ashley Owusu, who was out with an illness.
UNDATED (AP) — The game of the weekend in the Big Ten matches No. 13 Wisconsin against Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey, on Saturday. The Badgers hope to avenge their Feb. 12 loss to the Scarlet Knights to set up a Tuesday home game against No. 4 Purdue that could decide the top seed in the conference tournament. Rutgers could use a win to help its NCAA Tournament hopes. The featured women’s game has No. 6 Michigan visiting No. 21 Iowa on Sunday. Iowa star Caitlin Clark scored a career-high 46 points in a 98-90 loss at Ann Arbor on Feb. 6.
UNDATED (AP) — The NCAA has relaxed the amount of THC an athlete can have to trigger a positive test, and is recommending less-stringent penalties for athletes who do test positive for marijuana. The threshold levels for THC, which is the active ingredient in marijuana, will go from 35 nanograms per milliliter to 150 nanograms per milliliter, which the NCAA says is in line with the World Anti-Doping Agency’s levels. The threshold-level change is effective immediately and is retroactive to drug tests taken since fall 2021. Marijuana is legal in some form — medical, recreational or both — in the majority of U.S. states.
