Big Ten Tournament First ROund

Tipoff: 7:30 p.m., The United Center, Chicago, Ill.

Records: Penn State (12-19, Big Ten 3-17); Northwestern (13-18, Big Ten 5-15)

TV: Peacock and NBC Sports Network

Radio: Penn State Sports Network

Satellite: SiriusXM Ch. 84

Notable: Penn State is the 18th seed in the 18-team Big Ten Tournament field while Northwestern is the 15th seed. … Penn State comes in off a loss at Rutgers on Sunday. Northwestern is coming off a one-point loss to Minnesota. … The Lions and the Wildcats have met five times in the tourney and Penn State is 3-2 in those games. … Northwestern is led by Nick Martinelli, who is the Big Ten’s leading scorer at 22.7 points-per game. The Wildcats also get 10.2 ppg from Arrinten Page. … Penn State played Northwestern once this season and lost by 21 points. … In its last four Big Ten tournaments, Penn State has won at least one game in each of them. …Once again, Penn State will count on Kayden Mingo, Ivan Juric, Josh Reed and Freddie Dilione V for offense. Both Mingo and Juric are true freshmen. … Whomever wins gets to play Indiana on Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. The Hoosiers are the No. 10 seed.

Mirror prediction: Northwestern 76, Penn State 57

Mirror prediction record: 24-7

— Scott Franco

Men: Pitt vs. Stanford

ACC TOURNAMENT FIRST ROUND

Tipoff: 2 p.m., Spectrum Center, Charlotte, N.C.

Records: Pittsburgh (12-19, 5-13 ACC); Stanford (20-11, 9-9 ACC)

TV: ACC Network (Kevin Brown and Jay Williams)

Notable: Pitt earned the 15th and final seed to the ACC Tournament with a 71-69 overtime win over Syracuse on Saturday … Stanford earned the No. 10 seed and has won four straight games … Stanford beat Pitt, 75-67, at home two weeks ago by closing the game on an 18-4 run. Ebuka Okorie scored 34 points for the Cardinal. Cam Corhen (22 points) and Barry Dunning Jr. (19) scored 41 of Pitt’s points. … The winner gets No. 7 seed N.C. State at noon Wednesday with that winner getting No. 2 Virginia at noon Thursday … Stanford is a 4.5 favorite over Pitt.

Mirror prediction: Stanford 73, Pitt 71

Mirror prediction record: 22-9

— Buck Frank

Season comes to an end for Red Flash

HACKENSACK, N.J. — The Saint Francis women’s basketball team saw its season end Monday night, losing 81-56 to Fairleigh Dickinson in a Northeast Conference Tournament opening-round game.

Aleah James led SFU (3-27) with 17 points while Shelby Ricks added 12 points. Both Sonia Sato and Makyiah Ward each contributed 11 points. Ava Renninger led FDU (28-4) with 19 points.

“We wanted to keep fighting and that was a testament to those young ladies,” SFU interim head cocah Raphael McNeill said. “They are a resilient group. They played hard.”

It is SFU’s final game as a Division I program as it will compete at Division III next season.

SFU (56): Ricks 6-8 0-0 12, Sato 5-16 1-2 11, Ward 5-11 0-0 10, Assefa 2-3 0-0 4, Walker 0-0 3-4 3, James 6-15 3-3 15, Thornhill 0-1 1-2 1, Minnis 0-2 0-0 0, Hawthorne 0-4 0-0 0. Totals: 24-60 8-11 56.

FDU (81): Renninger 7-9 34 19, McDonald 5-12 3-4 15, Gerke 2-11 0-0 6, Osei-Owusu 3-4 0-0 6, Downey 4-11 2-2 13, Lafleur 4-5 0-0 8, Toomey 2-4 0-0 4, Johnson 1-1 0-0 2, Elston 1 0-0 2. Totals: 30-63 1-16 81.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

Saint Francis 11 17 14 14 — 56

Fairleigh Dickinson 28 14 22 17 — 81

3-point goals: SFU 0-7 (Ricks 0-1, Sato 0-1, Ward 0-1, Assefa 0-1, James 0-1, Minnis 0-1, Hawthorne 0-1); FDU 9-31 (Renninger 2-3, McDonald 2-9, Gerke 2-9, crosby 0-1, Downey 3-9). Rebounds: SFU 215 (Ricks 7); FDU 48 (Lafleur 9). Assists: SFU 5 (Ward 3); FDU 12 (Renninger 5). Technical fouls: None. Attendance: 459