COLLEGES
Michigan men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard has been suspended for the final five games of the regular season and fined $40,000 for hitting a Wisconsin assistant in the head, triggering a postgame melee.
The Big Ten Conference also on Monday suspended three players one game for the altercation following the Badgers’ 77-63 win on Sunday: Michigan’s Moussa Diabate and Terrance Williams II, and Jahcobi Neath of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Coach Greg Gard was fined $10,000 for violating the conference’s sportsmanship policy but was not suspended.
Howard is expected to be back for the Big Ten tournament, which begins March 9 in Indianapolis.
• Gonzaga is the unanimous No. 1 in the latest Associated Press men’s basketball poll. The Bulldogs aren’t likely to budge the way they’re dominating the West Coast Conference.
Gonzaga remained at No. 1 for the second straight week, receiving all 61 votes from a media panel in the poll released Monday. Arizona moved up a spot to No. 2 for its highest ranking in four years, with Auburn, Purdue and Kansas rounding out the top five.
Gonzaga (23-2, 12-0 WCC) has followed up last year’s run to the national championship game with another dominating regular season. The Bulldogs haven’t lost since Dec. 4, and their lopsided wins over Pepperdine and Santa Clara last week clinched a 10th straight WCC regular-season title.
• Chance Dixon scored 18 points and Cody Hawes had 17 to lead Southern Maine (10-16) past Castleton (5-21) 68-62 in a Little East Conference prelim in Gorham.
Hawes added eight rebounds and three assists for USM, which advances to face UMass Dartmouth in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. Jason Lombard had 12 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.
Eric Shaw was 10-15 from 3-point range and scored 30 points for Castleton.
• Wentworth (10-15) took a 37-point lead at the half and cruised to a 98-73 Commonwealth Coast Conference tournament first-round win over the University of New England (7-19) in Biddeford.
Trey Carrier had 45 points and 10 rebounds for Wentworth. Tommy Dooling added 10 points.
Alex Kravchuk had 17 points, while Drake Gavin had 16 points and nine rebounds for UNE.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Kim Mulkey has LSU back in the top 10 for the first time in 13 years as the Tigers moved up three places to No. 8 in the Associated Press poll.
Mulkey, who won three national titles in 21 seasons as Baylor’s coach, has guided LSU to 23 victories in her first season in Baton Rouge. The Tigers are second in the Southeastern Conference behind South Carolina, the unanimous No. 1 team in this week’s poll.
South Carolina was followed by No. 2 Stanford and No. 3 North Carolina State. North Carolina jumped six places to No. 18 after its victory over Louisville, which dropped a spot to No. 4.
Baylor moved up to fifth. Michigan, UConn, LSU, Iowa State and Indiana rounded out the top 10. Indiana fell five spots after losing twice.
BASKETBALL
NBA: Goran Dragic plans to sign with Brooklyn, giving the Nets a veteran boost in the backcourt.
Dragic played in just five games this season in Toronto, where he was traded from Miami in the offseason in a deal for Kyle Lowry. The Raptors dealt him to San Antonio at the trade deadline. Dragic then agreed to a buyout and became a free agent.
SOCCER
GERMANY: Borussia Dortmund forward Gio Reyna’s latest injury is not as bad as initially thought and the American could return to team training in two weeks, the club said.
The 19-year-old Reyna’s first start in six months ended in tears on Sunday as he left the field amid fears of a recurrence of the right hamstring injury he sustained on Sept. 2 while playing in a World Cup qualifier for the United States.
Dortmund said those fears “did not materialize after detailed diagnostics. The team doctors assume that the American will be able to take part in the team training again within 14 days.”
Reyna looked sharp on Sunday in his first start for Dortmund since Aug. 27. But he had to go off shortly after Marco Reus opened the scoring in the 26th minute of Dortmund’s 6-0 rout of Borussia Monchengladbach.
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