Cranberry's Wise shining for PittPITTSBURGH — Cranberry Township resident and Pitt women's basketball freshman Brenna Wise scored 12 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the Panthers' 59-48 win Sunday at Virginia Tech.Wise leads Pitt with 10.7 points and 7.5 rebounds per game this season. Pitt (11-14, 3-9) has won three straight Atlantic Coast Conference road games.

NBA All-Star Game gets more viewersTORONTO — The NBA All-Star Game averaged 7.6 million viewers, up 6 percent over 2015, according to Nielsen’s ratings.The West’s 196-173 victory saw a peak audience of 8.7 million for a 15-minute segment from 8:45-9 p.m. The game was the most-viewed program on cable television Sunday night.It was the first NBA All-Star game held outside the United States, so host city Toronto is not reflected in Nielsen ratings.

Clemson’s Watson will graduate earlyFORT WORTH, Texas — Deshaun Watson is on schedule to have his communications degree in hand by this time next year, after his junior season.The dual-threat Clemson quarterback also hopes to take care of some unfinished business by then and have a national championship trophy to go with it.On Monday night, Watson accepted the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback. He was the first player in FBS history with more than 4,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing in the same season. But the Tigers finished 14-1 after a 45-40 loss to Alabama in the College Football Playoff championship game.Watson says their goal is to finish it out and go 15-0 next season.He says he won’t decide until after next season if he will leave early for the NFL.

Villanova still No. 1 on AP hoop pollVillanova was No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for a second week and Kansas, coming off wins over two top 10 teams, jumped four places to second.Duke, which had one of the longest consecutive poll streaks ever, returned at No. 20 after two weeks out of the Top 25.Villanova (22-3) received 44 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday with Kansas (21-4) getting the other 21.Oklahoma and Iowa stayed third and fourth.