Michigan State defeated Virginia 60-54 in the NCAA tournament. Travis Trice scored 23 points to lead the Spartans to their seventh Sweet 16 appearance in eight years under coach Tom Izzo. Brad Keselowski won the NASCAR race at Auto Club Speedway after benefiting from late caution flags that allowed him to gain positions and new tires. Matt Every won the Arnold Palmer Invitational in golf by one shot for his first win in over a year. Daytona International Speedway will begin demolishing the backstretch grandstands as part of the Daytona Rising renovation project.

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NEWS-JOURNAL
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
SCOREBOARD
WICHITA ST. 78
KANSAS 65
WISCONSIN 72
OREGON 65
GONZAGA 87
IOWA 68
OKLAHOMA 72
DAYTON 66
DUKE 68
SAN DIEGO ST. 49
W. VIRGINIA 69
MARYLAND 59
LOUISVILLE 66
N. IOWA 53
By STEVE REED
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Travis Trice received a text
message Sunday from Golden State Warriors
forward and former Michigan State player
Draymond Green that read, “Don’t let this be
your last game.”
The Spartans’ senior guard texted back, “It
won’t.”
Trice made sure of that Sunday, scoring 23
points and helping Michigan State knock sec-
ond-seeded Virginia out of the NCAA Tourna-
ment for the second consecutive year, 60-54.
The 6-foot, 175-pound Trice scored 13 of his
team’s first 15 points on 5 of 5 shooting, in-
cluding three 3-pointers, to help the Spartans
build a 15-4 lead.
Branden Dawson added 15 points and nine
rebounds for the seventh-seeded Spartans,
who advanced to the Sweet 16 for the seventh
time in the past eight seasons under coach
Tom Izzo. The Spartans will play Oklahoma in
Syracuse, New York, on Friday.
“Our thing was attack from the get go and
get a lead,” said Trice, in his first full season
as a starter after three years as a reserve.
“Big-time players make big-time plays (and)
that’s what Travis did,” said Dawson, who
started playing with Trice in AAU ball.
With top seed Villanova having lost Satur-
day, it is the first time a Nos. 1 and 2 seed from
the same region didn’t advance to the Sweet
16 since Kentucky and Gonzaga in 2004.
The Cavaliers (30-4), the first Atlantic Coast
Conference team to lose after a 9-0 start in the
tournament, were led by Anthony Gill’s 11
MICHIGAN STATE 60, VIRGINIA 54
Trice is nice for Spartans
Associated Press/GERALD HERBERT
Michigan State’s Travis Trice dunks during the
second half of Sunday’s game.
By GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
FONTANA, Calif. — As Kevin Har-
vick chased Kurt Busch down
the stretch in a battle of the best
cars in the Fontana field, Brad
Keselowski was
buried in 17th
place — until the
yellow flags start-
ed flying.
A caution for
debris allowed Ke-
selowski to move
up to sixth. When
a second flag went
up, he took four
new tires as Har-
vick and Busch
only got two.
Keselowski
burned that extra
rubber all the way
to Victory Lane.
Keselowski
roared past Busch
on the final lap
and held off the
streaking Harvick
to win Sunday,
earning his first
Sprint Cup Series
victory of the sea-
son in a wild finish.
“I knew (Harvick) and (Busch)
had been the class of the
Strategy
pays off
for Kez
Late pit stop key
in earning victory
SPRINT CUP
Up Next
Michigan State
vs. Oklahoma,
10:07 p.m.
Friday
More Inside
Roundup of
Sunday’s men’s
and women’s
action, a
look ahead to
the Sweet 16,
tourney glances,
PAGE 6B
By KEN WILLIS
ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
ORLANDO — Matt Every never has
minced his words. He’s not a guy
prone to spouting positive think-
ing just for the sake of trying to
convince himself or others.
He kept saying he was headed in
the right direction, but most of the
results from the past 12 months in-
dicated otherwise. Now, we know
why.
Every’s victory Sunday in the Ar-
nold Palmer Invitational involved
great form — four straight sub-70
rounds, including a birdie on the
72nd hole for a closing 6-under
par 66 and one-shot victory. It also
provided the Daytona Beach native
a bit of career validation, since
there’s a certain level of status that
comes with graduating from the
massive club of one-time PGA Tour
winners.
“The first one, you don’t know
if it’s going to happen because it
never happened before,” said the
former Mainland Buc and Florida
Gator, who has spent much of the
past six months in the gym and
on the practice tee. “After I won,
I played poorly ... then I decided
to make some changes — (to) my
body and my game.
“Today, it was emotional. But the
first one, you worked your whole
life for. The second one, I worked
like six months, you know.”
Every earned $1.134 million for
his one-shot win over Henrik Sten-
son, whose birdie putt on the final
hole stayed out on the high side.
The victory also gains Every entry
into his second Masters, which will
be April 9-12 in Augusta, Georgia.
Feeling much better about his
game, he’s looking forward to re-
visiting Augusta National, where
he missed the 36-hole cut last year.
“After Augusta last year, I was
really bummed out,” he said. “I felt
really good about my game, and
ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL
KING AGAINEvery rallies from 3 shots down to reign supreme at Bay Hill
Associated Press/REINHOLD MATAY
Daytona Beach native Matt Every gestures after making a birdie on No. 18
during Sunday’s final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.
By GODWIN KELLY
godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com
Daytona International Speed-
way will begin the process of
bringing down the backstretch
grandstands this morning as the
track moves into a new phase of
its Daytona Rising project.
The demolition will start by
removing the 46,000 grandstand
seats and some structure.
The suite tower section will
remain in place until after the
Coke Zero 400 Sprint Cup race
in July.
The entire grandstand area
will be gone sometime in early
November, DIS spokeswoman
Gentry Baumline-Robinson said
Sunday.
“We’re very excited to get
moving on the backstretch dem-
olition,” Baumline-Robinson
said. “This is just a step in the
process for Daytona Rising and
DAYTONA RISING
Project’s
new phase
starts todayFinal Leaderboard
Matt Every 68-66-69-66—269
Henrik Stenson 68-66-66-70—270
Matt Jones 71-65-67-68—271
Mo. Hoffmann 66-65-71-71—273
Ben Martin 68-67-68-71—274
For complete scores, PAGE 5B
BRAD
KESELOWSKI
Up Next
STP 500,
1 p.m.
March
29 (Fox
Sports 1)
Inside
Sunday’s
complete
results,
PAGE 5B
BIRDIE BOGEY
GREENS IN REGULATION: 14/18 (78%)
NUMBER OF PUTTS: 28
FAIRWAYS HIT: 11/14 (719%)
AVERAGE DRIVING DISTANCE: 280.1
POSITION: Winner
BIRDIES: 7
PARS: 10
BOGEYS: 1
Source: PGATour.com
MATT EVERY’S SCORECARD
HOLE
PAR
RD 4
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 TOTAL
4 3 4 5 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 5 3 4 72
5 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 3 3 5 4 3 4 5 3 3 66 (-6)
SEE RISIING, PAGE 2B
SEE EVERY, PAGE 5B
SEE SPARTANS, PAGE 2B
SEE KEZ, PAGE 5B