Sports briefly: Wendell Carter Jr. continues run of Duke's one-and-dones

Make it four one-and-dones for Duke this season.

Wendell Carter Jr. is joining Duke freshmen Marvin Bagley, Trevon Duval and former Apple Valley star Gary Trent Jr. in declaring for the NBA draft after helping the Blue Devils to the NCAA tournament's Elite Eight.

"I want to thank Duke University, my coaches and teammates for helping me so much, not only on the court, but off it as well," Carter said in a statement on his Instagram account. "We're all brothers, we all have each others' backs. I'm really going to miss being around my friends, but I'm really going to cherish the moments we had together. I'm very excited and very happy to say I was part of something special here at Duke."

Carter, from Atlanta, was a top-five recruit coming out of high school. He averaged 13.5 points and 9.1 rebounds this past season.

• Former Duke coach Vic Bubas, who led the Blue Devils to three Final Fours in 10 seasons, has died at 91. Current coach Mike Krzyzewski says Duke "lost a true legend." Bubas went 213-67 with the Blue Devils from 1959-69 and led them to Final Fours in 1963, 1964 and 1966.

• North Carolina State's Omer Yurtseven is transferring to Georgetown. The Turkish 7-footer will sit next season because of NCAA transfer rules and has two seasons of eligibility. He averaged 13.5 points and 6.7 rebounds as a sophomore, while becoming a three-point threat.

• Auburn hired former Arkansas-Little Rock head basketball coach Wes Flanigan as an assistant. Flanigan was a four-year starter at Auburn from 1993-97.

The school said in a statement she was diagnosed last November with the unspecified issue and will undergo short-term treatment.

McCallie is 297-80 in 11 seasons at Duke with 10 NCAA tournament appearances and three Atlantic Coast Conference titles.

Daedra Charles-Furlow, a women's basketball Hall of Famer who played on Tennessee's 1989 and 1991 national championship teams, has died in Wayne County, Mich. She was 49.

Charles-Furlow was known as Daedra Charles when she played for Tennessee from 1988-91. She won the 1991 Wade Trophy, given annually to the top women's college basketball player in the nation.

• Virginia has hired former WNBA star Tina Thompson to coach its women's basketball team. Thompson, 43, never has been a head coach before, but she was the career scoring leader in the WNBA, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a four-time WNBA champion.

Figure skating: Three-time world champion Patrick Chan announced he's retiring from competition. The 27-year-old from Toronto, who sat out a season after the 2014 Sochi Olympics, was ninth in men's singles at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

College baseball: LSU coach Paul Mainieri joined the 1,400-wins club Sunday when the Tigers entered the bottom of the ninth inning trailing Tennessee by four runs and won 9-7 when freshman Daniel Cabrera hit a three-run, walkoff homer. Mainieri is one of four active Division I coaches with 1,400 wins.

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