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Texas Tech guard Christian Anderson stays in the NBA draft after 2 seasons with Red Raiders

By The Associated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech guard Christian Anderson is keeping his name in the NBA draft after two standout seasons with the Red Raiders.

The school said Tuesday that Anderson has officially declared for the next month’s draft. The announcement came a day before the deadline for underclassmen to withdraw from the draft and maintain their NCAA eligibility.

Anderson was the Big 12 leader with 7.4 assists and 38.4 minutes played per game as a sophomore this past season, when he also averaged 18.5 points. His 244 assists were a single-season school record and he was a third-team pick on the AP All-America team.

In 68 games (40 starts) over his two seasons with the Red Raiders, he averaged 14.5 points and 4.7 assists per game. They were an NCAA Elite Eight team in 2024-25 and lost in the second round of this year’s NCAA Tournament to Alabama and finished 21st in the final AP poll.

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UNC-Wilmington women’s basketball coach says she’s fortunate to be alive after nearly drowning

By The Associated Press
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — UNC Wilmington women's basketball coach Nicole Woods says she's lucky to be alive after being caught in a rip current while trying to rescue her 8-year-old nephew during a family beach outing last week. Woods told WECT-TV she took her two children as well as her niece and nephew, both 8, to Wrightsville Beach on May 21. Her nephew waded into the Atlantic Ocean when a wave knocked him under the water. Woods says she jumped into help him, only to have the current start dragging both of them out to sea. Woods, 41, pushed her nephew above the surface so he could breathe before she lost consciousness. A rescue team pulled Woods and her nephew to shore. Paramedics performed CPR on Woods, then used a defibrillator to revive her. Woods says she spent at least 24 hours on a ventilator before being able to breathe on her own.
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