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Down in Tampa, Ilya Mikheyev put on a show Thursday night, netting two goals to power the Lightning past the Blackhawks four to one. Andrei Vasilevskiy was sharp with twenty-four saves, and Tampa Bay is now a perfect eight and oh at home, ten and three and two overall. Chicago, meanwhile, sits at zero and seven on the road. That home ice is becoming something serious.
Shifting to college hoops, Michigan pulled off the biggest win in program history Thursday night, taking down number two UConn seventy-seven to sixty-six. The fifth-ranked Wolverines hosted the first ever top-five women's matchup at Crisler Center, and they delivered. This is the kind of statement win that reshapes a program's identity heading deep into the season.
And up in Pittsburgh, Baye Ndongo was simply unstoppable. The Georgia Tech transfer dropped twenty-three points and twenty-one rebounds as Pitt rallied from thirteen down at halftime to knock off Buffalo eighty to sixty-one. A twenty-twenty game is rare at any level, and Ndongo became the first Pitt player to do it in nearly four years. The Panthers are two and oh and looking dangerous.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
