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WRESTLING

3 Beavers are Pac-12 champs — A trio of Oregon State wrestlers won weight-class titles and the Beavers were second in the team standings at the Pac-12 wrestling championships, held Sunday at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis. Arizona State successfully defended its team title, winning its 18th Pac-12 wrestling crown overall. The Sun Devils topped the five-team field with 96 points behind six individual champions. The Beavers were second with 70 points, followed by CSU Bakersfield with 52.5, Stanford with 47.5 and Cal Poly with 37. Weight-class champions for OSU were Ronnie Bresser at 125 pounds, Corey Griego at 197 and Amarveer Dhesi at 285. In addition to Bresser, Griego and Dhesi, Oregon State freshman Hunter Willits qualified for the NCAA championships with a runner-up finish at 157 pounds.

BASKETBALL

Hurley fined $10K by Pac-12 — Arizona State men’s basketball coach Bobby Hurley has been fined $10,000 by the Pac-12 Conference for inappropriate conduct toward officials at the end of the Sun Devils’ loss to Oregon State on Saturday night in Corvallis. The conference said in a news release Monday that Hurley followed and verbally confronted the officials as they exited the court after the Sun Devils’ 79-75 loss. Hurley responded to every media question after the game with: “I’m a terrible coach right now.” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement that Hurley violated conference policy and that that type of behavior will not be tolerated.

USD coach arrested for domestic violence — Lamont Smith, men’s basketball coach at the University of San Diego, was arrested on three domestic violence charges Sunday at Oakland International Airport as his team prepared to fly home from the Toreros’ regular-season finale at the University of San Francisco. According to ABC 10 News in San Diego, the charges stem from a disturbance at the team hotel in San Francisco after the game Saturday night. A woman “intimately involved with Smith,” according to the TV station, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The coach faces three charges: domestic violence, assault with force likely to commit great bodily injury, and false imprisonment. Smith, 42, is in his third season coaching his alma mater.

SOCCER

CONCACAF Gold Cup expands — The CONCACAF Gold Cup will expand from 12 nations to 16 for the next edition in 2019. The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football also said Monday it will explore holding the 2019 tournament outside of the United States, possibly with some games in Central America and the Caribbean. CONCACAF started the Gold Cup in 1991, and 11 of the 14 tournaments have been played entirely in the U.S. Two have been shared by the U.S. and Mexico, and one by the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. is the defending champion after winning its sixth regional title last year. Mexico has seven championships and Canada won in 2000. The 2019 tournament figures to be the first significant test for the next U.S. coach. Bruce Arena quit in October after the U.S. failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup, ending a streak of seven straight appearances in soccer’s showcase. CONCACAF said it will announce the Gold Cup qualifying process on March 7, when it reveals details of a Nations League tournament.

— From staff and wire reports