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Monday Sports in Brief

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 1:14 p.m. ET

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FRISCO, Texas (AP) WOMEN'S SOCCER

The U.S. women's soccer team's younger reserves not only didn't disappoint in their Group A finale in CONCACAF qualifying for the Rio Olympics, they delivered a record performance.

Crystal Dunn, one of only three regulars to start, tied a national team record with five goals and the U.S. routed Puerto Rico 10-0 Monday night to win the group.

The top-ranked Americans scored three times within 1:56 during the second half and outshot Puerto Rico 32-1.

The U.S. can clinch one of the 12 slots in Brazil with a win in its CONCACAF semifinal game Friday in Houston. It will face the runner-up of Group B, which will finish play Tuesday. Canada is expected to win that group with Guyana or Trinidad & Tobago finishing second.

NBA

TORONTO (AP) - The NBA All-Star Game averaged 7.6 million viewers, up 6 percent over 2015, according to Nielsen's ratings.

The West's 196-173 victory saw a peak audience of 8.7 million for a 15-minute segment from 8:45-9 p.m. EST. The game was the most-viewed program on cable television Sunday night.

It was the first NBA All-Star game held outside the United States, so host city Toronto is not reflected in Nielsen ratings.

Top local market ratings for the contest were San Antonio (12.4), Oklahoma City (9.9), Cleveland (9.7), San Francisco (9.4) and Memphis (8.4).

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Deshaun Watson is on schedule to have his communications degree in hand by this time next year, after his junior season.

The dual-threat Clemson quarterback also hopes to take care of some unfinished business by then and have a national championship trophy to go with it.

On Monday night, Watson accepted the Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's top quarterback. He was the first player in FBS history with more than 4,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing in the same season. But the Tigers finished 14-1 after a 45-40 loss to Alabama in the College Football Playoff championship game.

Watson says their goal is to finish it out and go 15-0 next season.

He says he won't decide until after next season if he will leave early for the NFL.

COLLEGE MEN'S BASKETBALL

Villanova was No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for a second week and Kansas, coming off wins over two top 10 teams, jumped four places to second.

Duke, which had one of the longest consecutive poll streaks ever, returned at No. 20 after two weeks out of the Top 25.

Villanova (22-3) received 44 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday with Kansas (21-4) getting the other 21.

Oklahoma, which lost to Kansas in their rematch, and Iowa stayed third and fourth. North Carolina jumped four places to fifth and was followed by Maryland, which had been No. 2, and Virginia. Michigan State and Xavier are tied for eighth and West Virginia, which also lost to Kansas, is 10th.

Joining Duke as newcomers were No. 19 Notre Dame and No. 22 Indiana. They replaced Texas A&M, Southern Cal and Wichita State.

COLLEGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

UConn, South Carolina, Notre Dame and Baylor are still the four No. 1 seeds according to the NCAA women's basketball selection committee.

It's the second time this month that the NCAA has released its top 10 women's teams to help build a buzz for the tournament in March.

The four schools were also the top choices when the NCAA revealed the teams on Feb. 1. Ohio State and Texas switched spots at five and six. Oregon State moved up once place to seventh while Arizona State dropped to eighth. Maryland and UCLA rounded out the 10. The NCAA had the same 10 teams when it did its first reveal on Feb. 1.

Florida, Florida State, Louisville, Mississippi State and Texas A&M were also receiving consideration from the committee. Those five teams were released in alphabetical order.

HORSE RACING

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - Nyquist remained undefeated with a 1 1/2-length victory in the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes on Monday at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Mario Gutierrez, Nyquist ran seven furlongs in 1:20.71, the third-fastest time in the race's history, which dates to 1955 when current distance was installed.

The 3-year-old colt paid $2.80, $2.10 and $2.10 as the 2-5 favorite in the field of five. Nyquist improved to 6-0, and earned $120,000 to boost his career earnings to $1,733,600.

Nyquist is trained by Doug O'Neill, who guided I'll Have Another to victories in the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

Exaggerator returned $2.40 and $2.10 as the 5-2 second choice.

Denman's Call, also trained by O'Neill, paid $2.60 to show.