but only took three shots and went scoreless. Thomas was averaging 15.4 points per game. She scored six points on Wednesday. Instead, the bench contribut

CHICAGO -- Jacqui Grant and Ashton Millender each scored 15 points and No. Colorado Avalanche Gear . 16 DePaul beat Prairie View A&M 94-62 on Monday.Kelly Campbell made back-to-back 3-pointers -- her only two of the game -- to give DePaul a 26-7 lead. The Blue Demons extended their lead to 31-11 after one quarter and it was 50-20 at halftime.Millender hit a 3 late in the third quarter for a 44-point lead.Jessica January and Tanita Allen added 12 points apiece as six players finished in double figures for DePaul (6-2). January had seven assists and Allen grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds for her first career double-double.DePaul, which was coming off a 91-46 loss at No. 1 UConn on Thursday, was 12 of 37 from distance and shot 46 percent overall.Alexus Parker led Prairie View (4-5) with 15 points and eight rebounds. The Lady Panthers turned it over 21 times and were outrebounded 49-37. Colorado Avalanche Store . Gerald Green and Miles Plumlee? Green had bounced around the NBA when he wasnt playing overseas. The Pacers gave up on Plumlee after just one season. Now Green and Plumlee are key cogs in the Suns surprising breakout season. Stitched Avalanche Jerseys . It was just business as usual for the Thunder at home. Durant scored 32 points and the Thunder beat the Bulls 107-95 on Thursday night for their eighth straight win. https://www.cheapavalanche.com/ . Dallas hasnt ruled out the star quarterback for Sunday nights game against Philadelphia, but all signs point to Romos back injury pushing Kyle Orton into the starting role after two years of limited play as the backup. Surely Ortons name isnt the first that comes to mind for fans wanting a change after years of damaging interceptions, fumbles or, most infamously, the field goal flub when Romo dropped the snap on a kick that could have won his first playoff game in 2006. MINNEAPOLIS -- The Florida State Seminoles have climbed in the rankings with an efficient and balanced offense.The defense and rebounding are pretty good, too.Nicole Ekhomu scored 16 points and Ivey Slaughter had 14 points and 10 rebounds to help the No. 8 Seminoles beat Minnesota 75-61 on Wednesday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.Reserve center Chatrice White added 13 points and seven rebounds for Florida State (7-1) in its six straight victory. The Seminoles had 11 blocked shots, eight steals and held Minnesota to 33.9 percent shooting.Its our bread-and-butter, Slaughter said. I think thats what makes us a great team on the offensive end because of how we start with defense. Defense is our key.Florida State outrebounded Minnesota 51-32, including 23 offensive rebounds -- leading to 18 second-chance points.Kenisha Bell scored 17 points and Carlie Wagner added 15 for the Gophers (4-3). They have lost three in a row.It was disappointing, Minnesota coach MarleneStollings said. I just dont think that we handled their physicality. We knew they were a very solid rebounding team. But having played against Georgia and North Carolina and outrebounded both teams, I had higher expectation that we would handle the physicality a little bit better than we did.The Seminoles used a 12-2 run at the start of the second quarter to open up a 42-19 lead, their biggest of the night.STAT OF THE NIGHTFlorida State recorded a season-high with the 23 offensive rebounds. The Seminoles made any chance of a comeback difficult by grabbing seven offensive rebounds in the fourth quarter alone.The Gophers entered the game averaging 47.3 rebounds per game, with a plus-3.3 rebounding margin. Florida State had tallied 38.3 rebounds per game and outrebounded opponents by 7.0 per game.We knew that it would be a battle on the boards, Florida State coach Sue Semrau said. We havent been to the same form that we were last year on the boards. That was something we felt like we needed to grrow coming into this game. Colorado Avalanche Shirts. I thought Ivey was tremendous. She is a great rebounder and it was her turn to step up and really assert herself there.STAR WATCHOn the same day she was named one of 50 players on the Naismith Trophy watch list, Wagner was held to her second-lowest scoring game of the season.Wagner entered the game averaging 21.2 points per game to go with 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 assists. She shot a season-low 12 times against Florida State, hitting six shots. She also had a season low with two rebounds.BIG PICTUREFlorida State: The Seminoles showed they are more than just Leticia Romero and Shakayla Thomas. The teams top two scorers combined for six points. Romero, who entered averaging 14.8 points, had five rebounds and five assists but only took three shots and went scoreless. Thomas was averaging 15.4 points per game. She scored six points on Wednesday. Instead, the bench contributed 37 points, with two players in double figures.Minnesota: The teams shooting is proving to be a concern. The Gophers entered the game averaging 79.2 points, but were shooting 40.4 percent from the field. Minnesota shot 33.9 percent just two games after a season-low 27.1 percent in a loss to Georgia.POLL IMPLICATIONSBack-to-back wins against the Big Ten will certainly look good on Florida States resume, but beating Minnesota wont provide much of a boost. The two previous wins -- against then-No. 25 Gonzaga and 6-1 Michigan -- were more important, as well as the upcoming meeting with No. 19 Florida.UP NEXTFlorida State: An extended stretch of road games, which included winning the Paradise Jam Championship in the Virgin Islands, is over. The Seminoles have some time off before hosting Western Carolina on Dec. 4.Minnesota: Off their first loss at home, the Gophers will try to get back on track when they host Detroit on Dec. 3. ' ' '