Suns star Dillon Brooks out indefinitely with broken hand
Dillon Brooks' breakout season has been one of the most surprising stories of the NBA season. That story is now on hold.
The Phoenix Suns star sustained a broken left hand seven minutes into Saturday's game against the Orlando Magic, according to ESPN's Shams Charania. He reportedly does not yet have a timetable. Brooks scored 5 points and grabbed 3 rebounds in the Magic game before he went down.
Phoenix Suns guard Dillon Brooks has sustained a broken left hand and will be sidelined, sources tell ESPN. Doctors will meet to determine a timetable. Brooks is a key part to the playoff-contending Suns, averaging 21+ points and 3+ rebounds this season. Difficult injury blow. pic.twitter.com/x00of8NR7H
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 22, 2026
Brooks, 30, has averaged 21.2 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.1 steals on 44.1% shooting this season. This was Brooks first year with the Suns, after he was acquired along with Jalen Green in a trade that sent Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets.
This article will be updated with more information.
Lacey Eden gets 100th goal, Wisconsin hockey moves closer to WCHA title
MADISON – History and a hat trick? It was all in a day’s work for Lacey Eden.
On the way to record her second career hat trick, the senior forward for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team became the fourth player in program history to score 100 goals.
Eden also recorded two assists for her first five-point game.
“It was a really fun game to play,” she said. “I think we played a complete game. We played 60 minutes. They came out pretty hard in the first period and gave us some competition there and we were able to get over that (hump) and just work hard and it showed up on the scoreboard today for us.”
The accomplishment was part of an eventful afternoon for the nation’s No. 1 ranked team.
First and foremost, the Badgers (28-3-2, 22-3-2 WCHA, 69 points) defeated St. Cloud State, 9-2, at LaBahn Arena to move within one victory of the WCHA regular-season title.
And individually Eden wasn’t even the team’s top goal scorer. That distinction went to junior Kelly Gorbatenko, who finished with four goals, two better than her previous single-game high.
A lot of Badgers in the mix. Six players had multi-point performances. Senior Vivian Jungels and junior Laney Potter set single-game career highs with three and four assists, respectively. Freshman Charlotte Piekenhagen scored twice for her first multi-goal game.
Not bad considering when the teams last met Nov. 14 they skated to a 4-4 tie.
UW is 5-2 since its top players left for the Olympics.
“The group that we have right now, they've come together,” Wisconsin coach Mark Johnson said. “Out of the seven games we've played, this was one of their best from start to finish.”
The road to the big 💯 pic.twitter.com/B5v8VjiTc3
— Wisconsin Hockey (@BadgerWHockey) February 21, 2026
Eden joins Hilary Knight, Brianna Decker and Meghan Duggan as Badgers with 100 goals. Her pursuit of the milestone has been steady this season. She has scored a goal in 18 of 33 games and has put one on the board in nine of the last 11.
Goal No. 100 came off assists from sophomore Emma Venusio and Potter and gave the Badgers a 3-1 edge at the 3-minute 43-second mark of the second period.
Goal No. 2, which proved to be the game-winner, came 20 seconds into the third period and the third goal came at the 10:47 mark.
Eden has much respect for the players in the group she joined.
“Those three are girls that I've looked up to since I was a little kid and I've had the honor to play with two of them,” Eden said. “They've just been such big inspirations for me as a Badger and just throughout my hockey career so it's it's really cool to be on that shortlist with them.”
While Eden has been on a hot streak, Gorbatenko hadn’t scored in six games. Saturday she had the most consequential score of the day when she found the back of the net with less than 1 second to play at the end of the first period.
The power play goal was the difference between leading, 2-1, and 1-1 tie after one period. A flood of goals ensued.
Ohio State’s 6-3 win at Bemidji State on Feb. 21 assured the need for the Badgers to get a win in the season finale, which will begin at 11 a.m. Feb. 22 at LaBahn to win the league title. A loss gives the Buckeyes, who completed their regular season, the tie. An overtime loss would leave the teams tied for first.
The game is expected to be the last the Badgers play without its Olympians, who are expected to return to town Monday.
“It's going to feel like playoff hockey where you just have to do the little things right to kind of just get some momentum going,” Gorbatenko said. “We want that trophy. We know what's at stake.
“The B squad will be ready to go. We've done such like a great job, like with our Olympians gone and been able to hold on the fort. We're just one, one game away from a trophy and so we don't want to let it slip through.”
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Lacey Eden gets 100th goal, Wisconsin moves closer to WCHA title
UND fails to weather final storm as St. Thomas bursts ahead in fourth quarter to victory
Feb. 21—GRAND FORKS — St. Thomas sophomore guard Laura Hauge hit a 3-pointer, turned to the bench with a wide grin and pointed a finger at her celebrating teammates.
It was her second triple of the fourth quarter, and the Tommies' third in less than three minutes.
UND head coach Dennis Hutter called a timeout.
"Clip that!" yelled graduate guard Jada Hood as St. Thomas gathered courtside.
The Fighting Hawks had weathered storms early in the second and third quarters. They entered the fourth trailing by five.
The flurry of 3-pointers, though, gave St. Thomas an 12-point lead, which proved too much to overcome.
The Tommies (14-14, 7-7) kept the Hawks at bay down the stretch for a 70-58 win Saturday afternoon at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.
"I think we had a little bit of miscommunication, in conversion especially," sophomore guard Sydney Piekny said. "Getting ball side and getting to those shooters. But that's the way the game goes. We've got to adjust to that and we've got to get there faster. That really turned out to be the swing at the end of the game that pushed them away."
UND shot 4-for-5 from beyond the arc in the first quarter to overcome a 9-0 start by St. Thomas and carry a 16-14 lead into the second.
However, the Hawks made just one triple through the next two quarters. They shot 7-for-21 from 3-point range overall.
"They really just started trailing us out," Piekny said. "Hard switches, just trying to make it difficult for us to even get the ball. And we've got to adjust to that, we've got to find other ways to score, whether that's back cutting, changing our pace."
The Tommies shot 18-for-29 inside the arc to UND's 12-for-23. Sophomore Mikayla Werner scored 17 points without a single 3-pointer, shooting 7-for-9 from the field.
Senior guard Faith Feuerbach led St. Thomas by shooting 8-for-13 for 21 points.
The Tommies negated senior center Walker Demers' interior presence. Consistently hounded by double teams, she finished with five turnovers and shot 1-for-3 for two points.
"They made life tough for her," Hutter said. "They were doing a lot of things to take her away. Some teams have fronted her to make her life tough. Tonight, they doubled her and stunted her a little bit."
Graduate guard Mackenzie Hughes scored 19 points and was the only Hawk who scored in double figures.
When the Tommies opened the second quarter with a 9-2 run and eventually stretched their lead to nine, Hughes put in a layup and hit two free throws in the final two minutes for a more manageable deficit.
"She's the most fun player to watch," Piekny said. "I spot up in the corner and I just get a firsthand view of her drive going downhill. She's a pretty special player."
UND faced another weighty deficit near the end of the third quarter.
St. Thomas stretched its advantage to 10 points, though a triple from Piekny and a couple of free throws from graduate forward Hanna Miller in the final two minutes sliced the lead in half.
"We had to weather it again, because we didn't come out of the gate in the third quarter very well again," Hutter said. "We get down early, and we're always playing from behind. That's just something that we're struggling with is we're down (9-0 in the first quarter) before I had to call that timeout. It just takes twice as much effort, in my opinion, to come back as it does to hold and maintain a lead. ... It'd be nice if we could get off to a fast start once in a while here and get up 8-0, 8-2, 10-4 or something like that, where we don't have to withstand that kind of energy."
UND fell to 7-21 overall and 3-11 in Summit League play. The Hawks host South Dakota for Senior Night on Wednesday before closing out the regular season at North Dakota State on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — No. 3 Duke beats No. 1 Michigan 70-63 as top two teams in AP poll fall on same day.