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C2 2015 1ST INDY STAR NBA 7p.m.Knicks at 8p.m.Nuggets at GrizzliesTNT 10:30 p.m.Bulls at LakersTNT College basketball 2p.m.DePaul at ProvidenceFox Sports 1 7p.m.Maryland at Ohio StateESPN 7p.m.Dayton at MassachusettsESPNU 8p.m. onnecticut at CincinnatiESPN2 8 :30 p.m.Indianapolis at 9p.m.Kentucky at MissouriESPN 9p.m.Eastern Kentucky at Murray StateESPNU 9:30 p.m.Colorado at Southern CalFox Sports 1 10 p.m.Utah at UCLAESPN2 11 p.m.San Francisco at BYUESPNU College basketball 6:30 p.m.Indianapolis at 7p.m.Rutgers at PurdueBTN 7p.m.Oklahoma at TexasFox Sports 1 9p.m.Ohio State at WisconsinBTN Golf 5:30 a.m.European:Dubai Desert ClassicGolf 10:30 a.m.Coates Golf ChampionshipGolf 2:30 p.m.PGA:Phoenix OpenGolf 1 a.m.(Fri.)European:Dubai Desert ClassicGolf NHL 7p.m.Canadiens at RangersNBCSN 10 p.m.Ducks at SharksNBCSN Tennis 3:30 a.m.(Fri.)Australian semifinalESPN ON THE AIR Home games in bold Pacers Today7p.m.vs.New York Saturday 7 p.m. s.Sacramento Feb.47p.m.vs.Sacramento Indiana p.m.vs.Rutgers Tuesday7p.m.at Wisconsin Feb.81p.m.vs.Michigan Purdue Saturday 6 p.m. a Northwestern p.m.vs.Ohio State Feb.73p.m.at Minnesota Notre Dame SaturdayNoonat Pittsburgh Wednesday 7 p.m. s.Boston College Feb.71p.m.at Duke Ball State p.m.at Miami (Ohio) Wednesday7p.m.vs.Buffalo Feb.72p.m.vs.Toledo Butler Saturday2p.m.at Marquette Tuesday7p.m.vs.St.John’s Feb.7 3:30 p.m.vs.DePaul IUPUI Friday8p.m.at Western Illinois Thursday7p.m.vs.Oral Roberts Feb.71p.m.vs.S.Dakota St.

Indiana State Saturday 1 :05 p.m. s.Bradley p.m.vs.Northern Iowa Feb.74p.m.at Loyola Fuel p.m.vs.Reading Saturday 7 :35 p.m. s.Elmira Feb.68:15 p.m.at Evansville NEXT THREE SPORTS ON THE GO RACING Barnhart will return a IndyCar race director Brian Barnhart has returned to the role of IndyCar Series race director. He will manage the operations of the event and serve as one of the three stewards officiating each race. He also served as one of those stewards last season.

arnhart, who was chief steward rom 1997-2011, was moved out of the ob after a series of controversial incidents, including the decision to re- tart a race at New Hampshire Motor peedway in the rain. Beaux Barfield was race director he past three years, but left to take a similar position with the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. Stewart buys inged sprint car series Tony Stewart has purchased the All Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Car eries, one of the oldest, traveling inged sprint car tours in the country. Stewart has also reached a separate eal with Rob Hunter and Shane Helms, principals of the Renegade Sprint Series, that will merge both series together under the All Star Cir- uit of Champions banner beginning his year. is my business, and proud that my business now includes the Stewart tweeted Wednesday.

Stewart also said he is pain free and eager to start the 2015 season: they counted down to the end of 2014, I was never so happy to see that number go off the calendar. I am ready to put he last two years behind me and never ook back, not look in the mirror, not alking about it, not thinking about it. I am going back to being me This Brickyard 400 will start at 3:30 p.m. The Brickyard 400 will have its latest scheduled start time ever this year p.m. and Indianapolis Motor Speedway's president sees benefits to i t.

Among those benefits: Giving local fans time to attend church and offering ore shade from the sun in the second half of the 160-lap race. It should be more comfortable as he race goes track president Doug Boles said. Last race started at 1 :15 p.m. The July 26 race will air on NBCSN. HIGH SCHOOL Corsaro tears ACL in game Roncalli star junior Lindsey Corsaro suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in her left knee in 61-44 loss at Class 4A top- ranked Bedford North Lawrence.

Roncalli sports information director ob Brown said it was confirmed on uesday that Corsaro, a University of entucky recruit, suffered the ACL and meniscus injury. Corsaro was in- ured in the second quarter of Satur- game. She averages 22.4 points and 10.4 rebounds. Roncalli played its irst game without her on Tuesday and defeated Southport, 63-29. The Rebels are 17-5.

COLLEGE IU King is asketball player of the week Indiana University East freshman ia King (Warren Central) is the NAIA National Division II Basket- all Player of the Week. She became the first IU East basketball player to win the national award one day after becoming the first IU ast player to win the Kentucky Int ercollegiate Athletic Conference player of the week honor. She averaged 28.3 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in three games last week, including a 34-point effort Jan. 22 at Midway College, the highest individual point total for any Red Wolf in the inaugural NAIA season. UIndy remains on top of NCAA ivision II poll The University of Indianapolis remains No.

1in the NCAA Division II poll in basketball. The reyhounds (17-0) increased their number of first-place votes from seven to 1 3. No. 2 Lincoln Memorial (Tenn.) is 18-0 and picked up the three other first- place votes. UIndy is 9-0 in the East Division of he Great Lakes Valley Conference, just ahead of No.

6 Bellarmine (16-2, 8 -1) and No. 20 Wisconsin-Parkside (16-2, 8-1). UIndy will try to break the chool record for best start 18-0 by he 1997 team that was ranked No. 1for one week in games today at Parkside a nd Saturday at Lewis (12-6, 4-5). Australian point guard Lucas Barker of UIndy is second in Division II, averaging 8.4 assists a game.

HOOSIER DIGEST Want to represent the United States a an Olympic pairs team in figure skat- i ng? This is not exactly how to do it: Begin practicing together less than six months before a major competition. Undergo an emergency appendec- omy. Be a skater representing Canada. I it all sounds as improbable as the Butler runs to back-to-back CAA basketball championship games, well, funny you would think so. One of the skaters in this pair, Ernie Utah Stevens, 21, is a Butler University tudent.

The other, Caitlin Fields, 19, is from Scottsdale, Ariz. They train at Carm el Ice Skadium and are coached by Serguei Zaitsev of the Skating Academy. Fields and Stevens won junior pairs i last U.S. Championships at reensboro, N.C. I even believe it Fields said.

ext, the pair will compete in the World Junior Championships, set for March 2-8 at Tallinn, Estonia. After that, a long distance to the 2018 Winter Olympics and Pyeonchang, South Korea. But the pair has come so far so fast, Stevens finally can answer those who have asked if he would ever compete in the Olympics. now, never felt more confident in my dream and my goal of mak- i ng the he said. At least they will have more time to prepare for Pyeonchang than they did or Greensboro.

Stevens had won national titles at the juvenile (2010) and novice (2013) levels, aired with Christina Zaitsev, daughter the coach. But Christina, 15, took this season off from competition, and Stevens needed a new partner. he coach auditioned several skate rs last August, including Fields. She ormerly trained in Montreal and was going to represent Canada with Sebastian Arcieri, but their partnership ended in 2013 after Arcieri was injured. The and Canadian federations had to a pprove affiliation change.

It just happened to be a uniquely lucky day that both Caitlin and Ernie were Zaitsev recalled. The skaters have been friends for ears. The 5-11Stevens and 4-10 1 2 Fields are complementary in size, and they ooked like a match from the start. Fields has medals from four nationals ith two other partners, so her resume is as accomplished as that of Stevens. The hard part was getting ready for a November sectional and then nationals.

A least they thought that would be hardest. wo weeks before they were to travel to Poland to achieve a worlds qualifying score, Fields had an appendectomy. She endured it, and the pair made it. It as reminiscent of a sectional in which tevens broke a metatarsal, skated any- ay, and won. kids are made of said eggy Noe Stevens, mother of Ernie.

IceNetwork.com coverage of the nationals cited the speed and ice coverage, solid elements and balletic positions. Zaitsev said judges were complimentary of the performance, and the scores reflected that. Fields began skating at age 3 for relief from Arizona summers and because she wanted to be play hockey like her heroes from the Phoenix Coyotes. tevens, too, wanted to be a hockey player when he began skating at 7 in Louisville, Ky. tevens has been training in the Indianapolis area since he was 13.

Throughout four years at Trinity High School, is mother transported him 125 miles to he Pan American Plaza rink a couple of times a week and on weekends. He did homework in the backseat. I know every rest stop on I-65 his mother said. I is unusual for skaters like Stevens to attend college, but he has planned around a schedule that has him on the ice from 8-10 a.m. and p.m.

daily. said Butler has been accommodat- i ng, and his strategic communications tudies keep him balanced. He often attend games at Hinkle Fieldhouse but loves basketball and was awarded a game ball by the eam last season. Along with his Team USA uniform, he said he keeps alive by wearing Butler-themed gloves. middle name, Utah, comes not from the mountain state but from a worker on his Paris, farm.

The farmworker became part of extended family, just as the Butler community has been. I do it without my friends at he said. are really behind He used to live on campus but now ents an apartment at the downtown eridian Lofts. Fields lives alone in a armel apartment and takes Arizona State online classes. hey have a knowledgeable mentor in Zaitsev, who skated for the Soviet Union and coached a French pair at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and a U.S.

pair at the 2011junior worlds. The coach is reticent about addressing the 2018 Olympics because, he said, it is such an incremental process. It requires commitment more than talent, he suggested. me, will is a Zaitsev aid. The skaters have shown they can find a way.

Call Star reporter David Woods at (317) 4 44-6195. Follow him on Twitter at GERRY PRESS Caitlin Fields and Ernie Utah Stevens perform during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Greensboro, N.C. on Sunday. Skating pair has sights et on 2018 Olympics Caitlin Fields and Butler student Ernie Utah tevens train in Carmel David Woods david.woods@indystar.com.