COLLEGES

Freshman leads the way as Duke tops Florida State

Freshman Frank Jackson scored a season-best 22 points and No. 17 Duke beat No. 15 Florida State 75-70 in men’s basketball on Tuesday night at Durham, North Carolina.

Amile Jefferson, playing in his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, added 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Blue Devils (23-7, 11-6 ACC).

Dwayne Bacon scored 19 points and Xavier Rathan-Mayes had 15 for the Seminoles (23-7, 11-6).

• Dakota Mathias scored 17 of his 19 points in the first half and Caleb Swanigan added 17 of his 21 in the second to lead No. 16 Purdue past visiting Indiana 86-75 for a share of the Big Ten title.

The Boilermakers (24-6, 13-4) broke a tie with their rival by claiming a record 23rd conference championship.

James Blackmon Jr. scored 16 points for Indiana (16-14, 6-11), which has lost 8 of 10.

TENNIS

DUBAI CHAMPIONSHIPS: Andy Murray is coming off a bout of shingles, but he looked in good shape during a 6-4, 6-1 first-round victory over Malik Jaziri at Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The top-ranked Murray was playing his first match since being upset by Mischa Zverev in the Australian Open fourth round last month.

Murray said that his mother-in-law was the first to suggest he had shingles, which a doctor confirmed the next day.

Defending champion Stan Wawrinka didn’t survive the first round, falling to Damir Dzhumur 7-6 (4), 6-3.

MEXICAN OPEN: Novak Djokovic beat Martin Klizan 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the opening round at Mexico City.

The win was Djokovic’s first since his shocking loss in the second round of the Australian Open.

SOCCER

MLS: Major League Soccer is increasing each team’s roster size from 28 to 30 by creating two spots for homegrown players that have come up through a team’s youth system.

OLYMPICS

SPEED SKATNG: U.S. Speedskating will hold the short track Olympic trials in December at the Utah Olympic Ova from Dec. 15-17. That will decide the 12 skaters who will compete in the PyeongChang Games in 2018. Athletes will compete in the 500, 1,000 and 1,500 meters.

HOCKEY

YOUTH: Former Buffalo Sabres player Andrew Peters won’t face charges following an on-ice brawl involving the youth hockey team he coaches.

The Erie County district attorney’s office and Buffalo police began looking into the Saturday fight after video appeared to show Peters reaching across the Buffalo Junior Sabres’ bench and shoving to the ice a player from the Hamilton, Ontario, team.

District Attorney John Flynn said the parents of the teenage player don’t want to pursue criminal charges against Peters, so his office won’t take legal action.

GOLF

MASTERS: Rory McIlroy says Tiger Woods was in a good place mentally when they had lunch last week and that the next few weeks would go a long way in determining whether the four-time Masters champion shows up at Augusta National to play in the Masters.

“It’s a possibility, for sure,” McIlroy said.

– News services report