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College basketball rankings: North Carolina, Texas set to square off for Maui Invitational title

December 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 Basketball, Carolina, college, Invitational, Maui, North, Rankings, set, Square, Texas, title

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North Carolina and Texas were the two highest ranked teams in the Maui Invitational field this season, according to the CBS Sports Top 25 And 1. So the bracket has unfolded as I assumed it would. And now we’ll get a championship game on Wednesday featuring three five-star freshman bigs — UT’s Greg Brown and UNC’s Day’Ron Sharpe and Walker Kessler.

That’s a nice midweek afternoon treat.

Tip is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET.

North Carolina got to this title game courtesy of Tuesday’s 67-63 victory over Stanford in which Caleb Love, a five-star freshman guard, scored a team-high 16 points. He’s averaging 13.0 points, 3.3 assists and 2.3 rebounds through three games for a Tar Heels team that ranks 10th nationally in defensive efficiency. Meantime, Texas got to this title game courtesy of Tuesday’s 66-44 blowout of Indiana in which Matt Coleman, a senior guard, scored a team-high 16 points. He’s averaging 14.3 points, 5.7 assists and 2.3 rebounds through three games for a Texas team that ranks second nationally in defensive efficiency. So these are, quite literally, two of the best defensive teams in the country.

Don’t be surprised if the winner doesn’t touch 70 points.

North Carolina is No. 16 in Wednesday morning’s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings. Texas is No. 19. Indiana was removed from the Top 25 And 1 following its loss to Texas. The Hoosiers were replaced by Louisville, which is 4-0 after Tuesday’s 75-54 victory over Western Kentucky. Chris Mack’s Cardinals also own a win over Seton Hall.

Wednesday’s Top 25 And 1 rankings

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Warren Central’s Tae Davis set to make college decision

December 1, 2020 [email protected]_84 Centrals, college, Davis, decision, set, Tae, Warren

Warren Central High School junior Tae Davis is poised to make his college decision on Saturday.

The 6-7 Davis, who had 15 points in a 76-63 season-opening win over Tech on Wednesday, is one of the top prospects in the 2022 in-state class. Davis, who is ranked No. 134 nationally on the 247sports composite, has offers from Butler, Indiana, Purdue, Louisville, Nebraska and Xavier.

Davis said the timing of his decision at the outset of his junior season is a simple one.

“I wanted to get it out of the way,” he said. “The schools that are here now I know are the ones most interested in me. Those are the schools that have been on me for a while. It’s really that. I can focus on my (high school season).”

Davis, who averaged 10.9 points and 4.7 rebounds as a sophomore at Lawrence Central before transferring to Warren Central to follow his father, former Lawrence Central assistant D’Andre Davis, has a family connection to Louisville. His older brother, Dre Davis, was an Indiana All-Star last season at Lawrence Central and is off to a good start as a starter in three games for Louisville, averaging 9.7 points and 4.7 rebounds.

“Dre has talked to me about recruiting, but not about going where he’s at,” Davis said. “He’s talked to me about the process and different things, how to pick your school and things like that. But he never told me to go here or here or anything like that. He just gave me information and advice on his process.”

Watching his older brother go through the recruiting process did help Davis learn what to look for and get a sense of what was important in finding the right fit for himself.

“He took me on some of his visits when he first started getting offers and interest and things like that,” Davis said. “I learned a whole lot.”

Davis’ Warren Central team got off to a solid start in the win over Tech. Senior Malik Stanley led the Warriors with 19 points, 10 rebounds and six assists and junior Chandler Jackson added 15 points and four rebounds. The Warriors led by as many as 24 points in the second half.

“I think we started off with great energy,” Davis said. “We jumped on them from the start. We started to fade out a little bit after a good start. We played well in spurts, but I think overall we had a good first game. We just have to keep that energy that we started with, stay even-keel and play better on defense for the whole game.”

Warren Central’s next game is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday against Crispus Attucks at Brownsburg.

Saturday event at Brownsburg

The first All-State Insurance Sneakers for Santa Shootout is set for Saturday with seven games. The event, sponsored by Ryan Owens All-State Insurance, will ask fans who are able to attend

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Kickoff Time and Opening Line Set

December 1, 2020 [email protected]_84 kickoff, line, Opening, set, Time

Kickoff Time Set

Boston College have their opening kickoff time set for the season finale. The Eagles (5-4) and Cavaliers (4-4) will battle at 3:30 on Saturday, the game will be found on the RSN family of channels (NESN, YES, etc.).

The remainder of the ACC schedule is as follows

Saturday, Dec. 5
Western Carolina at North Carolina, noon, ACCN
Syracuse at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m., NBC (previously announced)
Georgia Tech at NC State, 4 p.m., ACC Network
Clemson at Virginia Tech, 7:30 p.m., ABC
Miami at Duke, 8 p.m., ACC Network

Opening Line

The opening line has also been set for this game. According to the gambling website betonline.ag, the line has been set at UVA (-4). While both teams may look similar in records, there are probably a few factors why the Cavaliers are favored in this game. One, this a road game, and book makers usually associate that with a point to two in the direction of the home team. On top of that, they also take in account injuries, and with Phil Jurkovec’s status unknown that would mean more favorable odds for UVA.

Other ACC odds include:

Syracuse at Notre Dame (-33)

Clemson (-21½) at Virginia Tech

Western Carolina at North Carolina (-49)

Florida State at Duke (-2½)

Georgia Tech at NC State (-7½)

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Nanoscopic barcodes set a new science limit

November 30, 2020 [email protected]_84 barcodes, limit, Nanoscopic, science, set

Using barcodes to label and identify everyday items is as familiar as a trip to the supermarket. Imagine shrinking those barcodes a million times, from millimeter to nanometre scale, so that they could be used inside living cells to label, identify and track the building blocks of life or, blended into inks to prevent counterfeiting. This is the frontier of nanoengineering, requiring fabrication and controlled manipulation of nanostructures at atomic level—new, fundamental research, published in Nature Communications, shows the possibilities and opportunities ahead.

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) led collaboration developed a nanocrystal growth method that controls the growth direction, producing programmable atomic thin layers, arbitrary barcoded nanorods, with morphology uniformity. The result is millions of different kinds of nanobarcodes that can form a “library” for future nanoscale sensing applications.

The researchers anticipate that such barcode structures will attract broad interests in a range of applications as information nanocarriers for bio-nanotechnology, life sciences, data storage, once they are incorporated into a variety of matrixes.

Lead author Dr. Shihui Wen said the research provides a benchmark that will open up the potential for engineering smaller nanophotonics devices.

“The inorganic nanobarcode structures are rigid, and it is easy to control the composite, thickness and distance accuracy between different functional segments for geometrical barcoding beyond the optical diffraction limit. Because they are chemically and optically stable, the nanoscopic barcodes can be used as carriers for drug delivery and tracking into the cell, once the surface of the barcode structures is further modified and functionalized with probe molecules and cargos,” Dr. Wen, from the UTS Institute of Biomedical Materials and Devices (IBMD), said.

The team also had an additional breakthrough with the development of a novel, tandem decoding system, using super-resolution nanoscopy to characterize different optical barcodes within the diffraction limit.

Senior author, UTS IBMD Director, Professor Dayong Jin said there was no commercial system available for this type of super resolution imaging.

“We had to build the instrumentation to diagnose the sophisticated functions that can be intentionally built into the tiny nanorod. These together allow us to unlock the further potential for placing atomic molecules where we want them so we can continue to miniaturize devices. This was the first time we were able to use super resolution system to probe, activate and readout the specific functional segment within the nanorod.

“Imagine a tiny device, smaller than one thousandth the width of a human hair, and we can selectively activate a particular region of that device, see the optical properties, quantify them. This is the science now showing many new possibilities,” he said. Professor Jin is also the co-director of UTS-SUStech Joint Research Centre.

The researchers envisage the developed nanoscale optical devices could be simultaneously used for tagging different cellular species.

“These devices are also readily applicable for high-security-level anticounterfeiting when different batches of them are blended with inks and can be readily

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Lego’s International Space Station set is 16% off at Amazon for Cyber Monday

November 30, 2020 [email protected]_84 Amazon, Cyber, International, Legos, Monday, set, Space, Station

In what may just be a Cyber Mondy miracle, Lego’s International Space Station is on sale at Amazon. Lego’s model of the space station, which was released in February, is currently sold out on Lego.com, but now the highly sought-after building kit can be yours. Act fast and you can get a space station Lego set of your own for $58.99, just over $10 less than the usual price.

With 864 pieces you can build and display an impressively realistic space station (this was a Lego Ideas set originally) as well as two cargo spacecraft and a miniature space shuttle. The set also includes two astronaut microfigures.

The Lego International Space Station is a model beautiful enough to stand in as a centerpiece in any space lovers home. But it’s not just for looks. Lego was sure to include impressive details like a posable Canadarm2, just like the real-life station’s mechanical arm. It also made sure the space station’s “solar panels” rotate so you can change the angle and that the kit included cargo spacecrafts, which astronauts aboard the real station depend on.

The set even includes a 148-page booklet with facts about the International Space Station and information about the Lego fan who created this set for Lego Ideas. When you’re all done building and playing, you can set the station up on a display stand for all to admire.

Be sure to check out more of Space.com’s Cyber Monday deals, including one on a Lego D-O Droid!

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College football TV schedule, Week 14: Alabama-LSU, Florida-Tennessee set for SEC on CBS doubleheader

November 29, 2020 [email protected]_84 AlabamaLSU, CBS, college, doubleheader, FloridaTennessee, football, schedule, SEC, set, Week

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The SEC announced scheduling changes on Friday that included finding a spot for No. 1 Alabama at LSU on Dec. 5 after the game was initially postponed from its Nov. 14 date amid positive COVID-19 tests and tracing protocol within the Tigers program. That’s a huge win for college football fans, as the game will not only be played but take place in prime time as the second part of an SEC on CBS doubleheader.

No. 6 Florida vs. Tennessee will kick off the doubleheader at 3:30 p.m. ET with the Gators looking to impress the College Football Playoff Selection Committee after showing up in the top six of the first set of rankings. Florida beat Kentucky 34-10 on Saturday and has all but clinched the SEC East as it heads into a road context in Knoxville, Tennessee. Carter Blackburn, Aaron Murray and Jenny Dell will be on the call from Neyland Stadium.

Our attention will turn to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the evening for Alabama at LSU with Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson and Jamie Erdahl on the call. The game is scheduled to kick off at 8 p.m. and feature the Crimson Tide as they look to close out their SEC West title and cement themselves as the nation’s top team.

Since the Tigers already had their game against the Gators moved to Dec. 12 and Alabama is likely to face Florida in the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 19, there was not an obvious option to get the SEC West rivals together during the 2020 regular season. But the SEC, with efforts to try and allow for all 14 teams to play 10 games, made adjustments that included moving Alabama at Arkansas and Ole Miss at LSU off their previously scheduled Dec. 5 date to allow the Crimson Tide and Tigers to play.

Both games will air live on CBS and can be streamed live on CBSSports.com, through the CBS Sports app. They are also available via authentication through CBS All-Access.

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Analysis: Investors weigh prospects for U.S. corporate earnings as stocks set records

November 29, 2020 [email protected]_84 analysis, corporate, Earnings, Investors, prospects, Records, set, Stocks , Weigh

NEW YORK (Reuters) – As U.S. stocks scale fresh record highs, investors are trying to gauge whether next year’s projected profit rebound will be strong enough to add fuel to the rally.

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. flag is seen on a building on Wall St. in the financial district in New York, U.S., November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

Analysts are projecting that earnings for S&P 500 companies will rise 23% next year after falling more than 15% this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

Yet stock prices have already staged a massive recovery from the March lows of the pandemic, with the S&P 500 index rising more than 60% from its bottom to its recent record highs amid progress toward a COVID-19 vaccine and hopes for a speedy economic recovery.

The S&P 500 is trading at 23 times expected earnings for the next four quarters, only slightly lower than its June peak of 25 times expected earnings – its highest in roughly two decades. Those multiples are well above the long-term average of about 15, based on Refinitiv’s data. The sharp run-up in U.S. shares since March against a backdrop of still-weak earnings has driven up valuations.

Indeed, U.S. stocks have climbed despite another surge in virus cases across the country as well as a slight deterioration in profit projections for next year. S&P 500 earnings growth estimates for 2021 have weakened from 28% on Oct. 1 to 22.5% as of Friday, based on Refinitiv’s data.

“A disconnect is starting to occur,” said Nick Raich, chief executive of The Earnings Scout, an independent research firm.

“So one of two things have to happen. Either estimates have to catch up with price, or price will have to come down if we don’t see a compensatory rise in earnings expectations.”

Longer lockdowns because of the virus are among the reasons the near-term risk for stocks is “skewed to the downside,” Savita Subramanian, head of U.S. equity and quantitative strategy and global head of ESG research for BofA Global Research, wrote in her 2021 outlook report last week.

Some strategists argue that consensus estimates for next year underestimate the rebound that is likely to take place in earnings.

“There was a great sense of just surviving,” said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, resulting in corporations cutting operations “down to the nubs.”

“If you bring back growth, we’ll have more of that fall to the bottom line than ever before,” he said.

With results in from 97% of companies, the S&P 500 looks set to post just a 6.5% decline in third-quarter earnings, a vast improvement over the 21% fall that had been projected on Oct. 1, based on Refinitiv’s data. Fourth-quarter earnings are projected to decline 11%, versus the 13.6% drop forecast on Oct. 1.

Still, a lot depends on the timing of the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine, analysts said, since that will determine how fast normal business activity

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Investors weigh prospects for U.S. corporate earnings as stocks set records

November 29, 2020 [email protected]_84 corporate, Earnings, Investors, prospects, Records, set, Stocks , Weigh

By Caroline Valetkevitch

a car parked on a city street: FILE PHOTO: A car waits to enter the financial district security zone near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City

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FILE PHOTO: A car waits to enter the financial district security zone near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City

NEW YORK (Reuters) – As U.S. stocks scale fresh record highs, investors are trying to gauge whether next year’s projected profit rebound will be strong enough to add fuel to the rally.

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Analysts are projecting that earnings for S&P 500 companies will rise 23% next year after falling more than 15% this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

“A disconnect is starting to occur,” said Nick Raich, chief executive of The Earnings Scout, an independent research firm.

“So one of two things have to happen. Either estimates have to catch up with price, or price will have to come down if we don’t see a compensatory rise in earnings expectations.”

Some strategists argue that consensus estimates for next year underestimate the rebound that is likely to take place in earnings.

“If you bring back growth, we’ll have more of that fall to the bottom line than ever before,” he said.

Still, a lot depends on the timing of the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine, analysts said, since that will determine how

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Five College Football Playoff questions that need answers after first set of rankings

November 25, 2020 [email protected]_84 Answers, college, football, Playoff, questions, Rankings, set

The College Football Playoff committee unveiled the first set of rankings Tuesday, and there were no questions whatsoever.

Just kidding. The committee left some interesting debates, starting with the top four. Alabama (7-0) and Notre Dame (8-0) hold the top two spots, but Clemson (7-1) is ranked ahead of Ohio State (4-0).

MORE: Complete Week 13 CFP rankings

Why? That’s just one of our five big questions from the first set of rankings:

College Football Playoff rankings questions

Why is Clemson ranked ahead of Ohio State?

There’s a bit of TV trolling at work here. The Tigers have a victory against No. 10 Miami. The Buckeyes have a victory against No. 12 Indiana. Clemson has a larger sample size, but also has a loss to No. 2 Notre Dame.

The committee might have unnecessarily boxed themselves in here, even if the Tigers beat the Irish in the rematch. Ohio State could go undefeated, but the best win left on the schedule is No. 8 Northwestern (5-0) — a team that controls its own destiny for a Playoff spot. The stakes will be higher between the Buckeyes and Wildcats than they were in the 2018 Big Ten championship game.

The seeding will work itself out, but at this juncture the Buckeyes should be ranked higher. Expect the committee to fall back on the “each week is a blank slate” mantra that gets used so often if the teams end up switching spots.

Can two SEC teams make the Playoff?

Based on the precedent set with Clemson and Notre Dame — and knowing four SEC teams are ranked in the top 10 — it’s possible.

Assuming both the Tigers and Irish win out in the regular season, No. 5 Florida could beat Alabama in the SEC championship game. If the game is an instant classic between Heisman contenders Mac Jones and Kyle Trask, then it’s possible that both the Gators and Crimson Tide both snag a spot (though Alabama would need help, with teams such as Ohio State, Oregon and Cincinnati losing).

No. 6 Texas A&M also is ranked high enough, but likely won’t have the benefit of a SEC championship game appearance. The Aggies need to be over-the-top-impressive down the stretch against LSU, No. 22 Auburn and Tennessee. Texas A&M needs either Clemson or Notre Dame to lose twice, and it’s better if Florida loses to Alabama in Atlanta.

Why is Cincinnati so far ahead of BYU?

That’s a good question. The teams are separated by one spot in the AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll, with the Bearcats at No. 7 and the Cougars at No. 8.

Cincinnati held the same spot in the CFP rankings, and their path to the Playoff is open with the help we outlined last weekend. The Bearcats must win out, need Clemson or Notre Dame to lose twice and hope Alabama and Ohio State take the first two spots. That would create a compelling argument with Texas A&M for the last spot, and the

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Early action applications to University of Georgia set record

November 25, 2020 [email protected]_84 action, applications, Early, Georgia, Record, set, university

The University of Georgia accepted more than 8,000 students from 45 states and Washington, D.C., including 132 counties across Georgia, to become part of UGA’s Class of 2025.

“It is gratifying to see the number of high-achieving students who seek a UGA education continue to rise,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “I look forward to enrolling another strong class of first-year students who will make outstanding contributions to our academic community when they join us next fall.”

The university received more than 20,500 applications this year — up from 17,000 last fall — in part because the UGA Admissions Office now accepts the Common Application as an option for applicants. The Common App platform simplifies the application process for prospective students.

“The large increase in early action applications was both challenging and exciting for our office, and the admissions team has worked incredibly hard over the past three months in reviewing these files,” said David Graves, interim senior executive director of admissions.

The pandemic necessitated several changes to the recruitment and application processes this year, including making ACT and SAT score submission optional as many testing locations were shut down or inaccessible. Traditional face-to-face recruiting events such as high school visits, college fairs and on-campus events moved online in spring 2020, extending UGA’s reach to approximately 14,000 students and family members.

Students admitted via early action earned exceptional grades on challenging coursework. The middle 50% of admitted students reported a core GPA of 4.00-4.33 and had completed or were currently enrolled in a total of 8-13 AP, IB or dual enrollment courses. While more than 30% of students were admitted without a test score, those with test scores typically reported an ACT score of 32-34 and an SAT score of 1370-1500.

Students who received a deferral to regular decision are still given full consideration for admission to UGA.

“We recognize that the admissions process can be incredibly stressful for students and their families, and decision release can amplify that stress,” said Amanda Sale, interim executive director of admissions. “A deferral is not a final decision for a student; it gives them the opportunity to provide our office with more information as we take a deeper dive into their file.”

The regular decision application deadline is Jan. 1, and final admissions decisions for deferred early action and regular decision applicants are typically announced in mid-March.

The University of Georgia continues to elevate its academic offerings and support, resulting in record achievements for its students. In its most recent year, UGA achieved a record four-year completion rate (71%) and tied its previous high for six-year completion (87%). UGA’s 87% completion rate far exceeds the six-year completion rates for Southeastern Conference peer institutions and UGA’s comparator peers, which average 75% and 79%, respectively.

UGA is ranked No. 15 in the latest U.S. News & World Report list of top public universities, marking its fifth consecutive year in the top 20.

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