Tuesday's sports briefs

Rachel Banham could've scored a lot more than she did over her career at Lakeville North.

Ah, but that's not her game.

Unselfishness is the mark of a true point guard, and Banham's ability to find her teammates with the ball along with her all-around skills helped her develop into one of the best prep players in the nation. The University of Minnesota recruit was named Tuesday as the Associated Press Player of the Year for girls' basketball.

"She finished 40 points short of 2,000 for her career, but she could've got that easily," Lakeville North coach Andy Berkvam said. "She's more concerned about making her teammates around her better. Her career assist-to-turnover ratio is 2-to-1, which is pretty phenomenal for a kid who handles the ball as much as she does."

Joining Banham on AP's all-state team are Rebekah Dahlman of Braham, Bethany Doolittle of Hill-Murray, Jessica Newman of Barnum and Michelle Young of Woodbury.

Banham averaged 17.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and four assists per game this season and led the Panthers to the Class 4A state semifinals, where they lost to Eden Prairie.

Floyd's coach supportive, worried Instead of concentrating on spring football, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly has to deal with the absence of receiver Michael Floyd, a former Cretin-Derham Hall star, after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving over the weekend. He was suspended indefinitely by his coach.

"There's a range of emotions that you have. I think it's a lot like a parent would have, from anger to disappointment to making sure that something like that in his life never happens again," Kelly said Tuesday.

"I think you go through the gamut of all those things. We want to be able to support Mike, but also understand that this was a serious, serious offense, and so I think all those emotions play in it when you first hear about something like that."

Floyd was driving a white Cadillac at 3:18 a.m. Sunday when he ran a stop sign about a block from the school's main entrance, according to an affidavit from St. Joseph County deputy prosecutor Chris Daniels.

Floyd failed three sobriety tests and a breathalyzer test showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, well above Indiana's legal limit for driving of 0.08 percent, Daniels said.

Floyd also was cited for underage alcohol consumption on May 15, 2009, and later pleaded guilty. He was also cited for underage drinking in Minneapolis on Jan. 8, 2010.

Kelly said Tuesday he wasn't aware of the 2009 incident involving Floyd.

In other college football news: Miami linebacker Ramon Buchanan is facing felony counts of resisting arrest and battery after allegedly spitting on and attempting to head butt a police officer, as well as three misdemeanor charges following an incident last week.

Six countries bid for figure skating Six countries have put in bids to replace Japan as host of the world figure skating championships following the earthquake and tsunami that killed an estimated 18,000 people. International Skating Union president Ottavio Cinquanta told The Associated Press that the bids are from Russia (Moscow), Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia), the United States (Colorado Springs, Colo., or Lake Placid, N.Y.), Finland (Turku), Croatia and Austria.

Tennis stars to host charity soccer tourney

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will lead a group of top tennis players in a charity soccer match to benefit the relief effort in Japan. Andy Murray and David Ferrer are among others planning to play in the soccer match against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers professional team at a Miami high school Wednesday night.

Gymnastics: Russian gymnast Nikolai Andrianov, whose 15 medals made him the second-most decorated male athlete in Olympic history, died at 58. Russian news reports said Andrianov had suffered for years from a degenerative neurological disorder.

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