KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kingston Fleming scored 17 points as No. 5 Houston held off AJ Dybantsa and defeated BYU 73-66 in the Big 12 quarterfinals Thursday night.
Dybantsa played all 40 minutes, finishing with 26 points, but he was held to 3-of-10 shooting in the second half. He came into the game just 25 points shy of Kevin Durant’s record of 92, set in the 2007 Big 12 tournament. His 3-pointer with 4 seconds left gave him the record.
BYU was playing in its third game in as many days, while Houston was playing in its first since Saturday.
Emanuel Sharp scored 13 points for Houston (27-5), Joseph Tugler added 12 and Chris Cenac Jr. had 10.
BYU (23-11) also got 15 points from Robert Wright.
Houston struggled to put away BYU. Flemings picked up his third foul in the first minute of the second half. Sharp then picked up his third at the 17:28 mark, giving Houston serious foul trouble in its back court. Flemings got his fourth foul with 6:52 left and Houston clinging to a 59-58 lead.
But BYU couldn't capitalize.
Houston led most of the first half, but BYU never let the game get out of reach. Houston led by as many as nine points, but BYU responded with a 10-2 run to trim the deficit. BYU took its first lead on a free throw by Kennard Davis Jr., and then a pair of 3-pointers by Aleksej Kostic and a dunk by Dominique Diomande gave BYU a 41-37 at halftime.
Houston advanced to Friday's semifinals against either TCU or No. 14 Kansas.
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Houston's Joseph Tugler, left, drives past BYU's Keba Keita during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 Conference tournament Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
DRAMMEN, Norway (AP) — Norwegian cross-country skiing star Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo said Friday he sustained a concussion from a fall in a World Cup race a day earlier but that he was “all good in the hood."
Klaebo, one of the stars of the recent Milan Cortina Games, said he would “take some days off” to recover after his crash involving U.S. skier Ben Ogden during on Thursday.
Klaebo posted a photo of himself giving a thumbs-up from a hospital bed, and he included audio of the Bee Gees disco hit “Stayin’ Alive.”
“Took a fall yesterday and hit my head pretty hard, but luckily everything is all good in the hood,” he wrote on Instagram.
“Ended up with a concussion so I'll take some days off from both training and the internet just to make sure everything settles properly. Only got one head, so have to take good care of it.”
Klaebo, who last month set a record for most gold medals (six) won at a single Winter Olympics, also thanked “everyone who reached out and checked in.”
Thursday’s crash happened in a semifinal heat of the men’s sprint competition in Drammen. Ogden lost his balance and fell across the skis of Klaebo, who fell backward and hit his head on the snow.
Klaebo will miss Saturday's 50-kilometer race at Holmenkollen, and his status for the World Cup finals next week in Lake Placid, New York, was unclear.
“We will monitor his progress closely and make ongoing assessments regarding when it is appropriate for him to resume training and potentially take part in upcoming competitions,” Norway national team doctor Ove Feragen said in a statement Friday. “It is too early to say whether he will participate in the World Cup finals in the USA.”
The Drammen hospital's diagnosis was “a mild head injury, a light concussion," Feragen confirmed.
Klaebo was “doing well under the circumstances,” the doctor's statement said, adding that the Olympic champion would travel home to Trondheim on Friday.
Klaebo’s 11 career gold medals is also a Winter Olympics record.
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Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, second from left, reacts after a fall during the World Cup sprint cross-country race in Drammen, Norway, Thursday March 12, 2026. (Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo lies on the snow after a fall during the World Cup sprint cross-country race in Drammen, Norway, Thursday March 12, 2026. (Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo lies on the snow after a fall during the World Cup sprint cross-country race in Drammen, Norway, Thursday March 12, 2026. (Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo walks after a fall during the World Cup sprint cross-country race in Drammen, Norway, Thursday March 12, 2026. (Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)
