Sports briefly: No. 6 Maryland tops Marquette in men's basketball

Maryland coach Mark Turgeon didn't have to say much to get the attention of his fifth-ranked Terrapins, not with Marquette's Markus Howard coming off a 51-point game. Not with a title on the line at the Orlando Invitational.

"I had a feeling our guys were going to step up, knowing it was a championship game," Turgeon said after Anthony Cowan Jr. scored 22 points and backcourt mate Darryl Morsell spearheaded a defense that limited Howard to six points in Maryland's 84-63 victory Sunday afternoon at Disney World.

"I know my guys, and I knew they were going to step up."

Howard scored 91 points in his first two games of the tournament, scorching Davidson for 40 points and topping 50 for the third time in his career against USC in the semifinals. But he went 1-for-12 Sunday, including 0-for-6 on three-pointers.

Maryland (8-0) is off to its best start since the 2006-07 season. Brendan Bailey led Marquette (5-2) with a career-high 27 points.

• Cameron Parker set an NCAA record with 24 assists in Sacred Heart's 101-57 victory over Division III Pine Manor in Fairfield, Conn. The record of 22 was held by four players: Oklahoma's Trae Young, Syracuse's Sherman Douglas, Charleston Southern's Tony Fairley and Southern's Avery Johnson.

• Sonya Morris' short jumper in the final minute lifted No. 16 DePaul to a 70-68 victory over Northwestern, handing the Wildcats their first loss after five victories.

• No. 12 Florida State harrassed No. 6 Texas A&M star Chennedy Carter into 8-for-22 shooting and took an 80-58 victory in the Maggie Dixon Classic in Fort Worth, Texas.

U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin won as usual, and the margin is getting bigger. Shiffrin won a World Cup slalom in Killington, Vt., by 2.29 seconds.

It was Shiffrin's 62nd World Cup win, tied for second on the all-time women's list with Annemarie Moser-Proell and still 20 victories behind Lindsey Vonn.

Olympic champion Matthias Mayer of Austria ended Italian Dominik Paris' winning streak in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, taking the first World Cup super-G of the season. Paris won the final three super-G races last season.

Tommy Nappier stopped all 23 shots he faced, giving No. 11 Ohio State a 2-0 victory over visiting No. 20 Michigan State and a sweep of the Big Ten series.

In another Big Ten game, redshirt junior Luke Morgan scored a goal and assisted on another as Michigan defeated No. 19 Wisconsin 3-1 at the Kohl Center. Michigan is 5-9-2, 1-6-1-0, and Wisconsin is 7-8-1, 2-5-1-1.

A 3-year-old gelding that suffered a breakdown in a workout at Del Mar in California has been euthanized, the fifth horse to die during the fall meet that ends Sunday.

The horse that died, Koa, was trained by Hall of Famer Jerry Hollendorfer, who was banned from training at Santa Anita in California after four of his horses died there.

Minnesota Scene: Junior Analee Weaver of Stillwater finished eighth Saturday in the Midwest Regional of the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship in Kenosha, Wis. Her top-10 finish, in 18 minutes, 09.8 seconds over 5K, advances her to the national meet on Dec. 14 in San Diego.

Luge: U.S. slider Tucker West won two silver medals, in men's and men's sprint, in a World Cup luge meet at Lake Placid, N.Y., and Emily Sweeney added a bronze in the women's sprint to the silver she won Saturday. Germans won six medals over the weekend, the United States five.

Olympics: Carissa Moore of Honolulu and 17-year-old Caroline Marks of Melbourne Beach, Fla., qualified for the two spots on the U.S. women's Olympic surfing team. Moore and Marks finished as the top two American women in the World Surf League rankings after Sunday's competition in Honolua Bay, Hawaii.