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UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- Top-ranked Duke bounced back from its loss to Kansas by beating Penn State, but watched another player go down with an injury.Freshman Frank Jackson led five players in double figures with 17 points and Amile Jefferson added 16 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Blue Devils to a 78-68 win Saturday in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournament.Sophomore Chase Jeter rolled his left ankle in the first half and didnt return.Tony Carr had 20 points and Shep Garner added 15 to lead Penn State (2-2).Jeter went down under the Penn State basket while going for a rebound. The 6-foot-10 sophomore was on the floor for several minutes before being helped off the court. His injury came minutes after Grayson Allen left the game, favoring the right foot he hurt in the recent loss to Kansas.Allen went back to the locker room, but returned to the floor a few minutes later. He finished with 12 points and needs just three more to become the 65th Duke player with 1,000 points for his career.Matt Jones and Luke Kennard added 15 points each for Duke.Were banged up more than any team Ive ever coached, said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. Before the game and then during the game. I mean, Amile has been hurt this week. He has 15 rebounds and 16 points.Despite the injuries, the Blue Devils went on an early 13-2 run that turned a tie game into a 21-10 lead. They led 36-24 at the half, despite some poor shooting from Allen and Kennard, who were a combined 4-15 from the floor. But Jackson picked up the slack, scoring 11 of his points before intermission.To be able to have the next man up, coach does a good job motivating us, Jones said. We didnt come to Duke to lose, be second fiddle or bow down to anybody. We know what were capable of and everyone on that sideline can help. That confidence that is instilled in us, takes us to where we need to go.A 3-point play by Allen stretched the lead to 64-51 midway through the second half.Penn State trailed 72-57 with just under 5 minutes to play, but went on a 9-2 run before the Blue Devils closed out the game.Dukes short bench outscored Penn States 19-5.BIG PICTUREDuke: Jeters injury further depletes a Blue Devils team that is still without three highly touted freshmen -- Harry Giles, Jayson Tatum and Marques Bolden -- as well as junior Sean Obi. They may have just seven players available for Sundays championship game. Krzyzewski pegged Jeters status for the game as doubtful.I know if he can play, he will play, Krzyzewski said. Were going to try and win. We would like to win.Penn State: The Nittany Lions are using the tournament as a measuring stick to see how the young team stacks up against top-level competition. This was the programs first game against a No. 1 ranked team since 2011, and theyre now 0-14 in those games.We took another step today, said coach Patrick Chambers. We got better. And thats our goal Just keep getting better. Its a process thats going to take some time, but were going to eventually get there.POLL IMPLICATIONSDuke was No. 1 in the preseason poll and the first voting of the regular season, but likely will fall a few spots after its loss to Kansas. How far may depend on how they do in this tournament.PERIMETER DEFENSEDuke held Penn State to six 3-point baskets on 21 attempts. Thats not a fluke. The Blue Devils held their first three opponents under 15 percent from the outside and were giving up fewer than three 3-pointers a game coming into the tournament. Duke was 9 for 24 from 3-point range.UP NEXTDuke will play either Cincinnati or Rhode Island in the tournaments championship game Sunday afternoon.Penn State will play the loser of the second game in the tournaments consolation game.----More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25.Air Max Sneaker 2017 . Bjorn, who had a 36-hole total of 8-under 134, made a testing six-foot putt to save par on the 16th and a birdie on the 17th before bogeying the final hole after a misjudged approach shot. American Kevin Streelman was in second place after shooting a 69. Air Max 90 Clearance .ca. Hey Kerry, big fan of yours, just finished reading your book. I think that we all saw the Canucks/Flames line brawl just after puck drop. It was obvious that something was about to happen, even to the referees because the fourth lines were on to start. http://www.airmaxclearance.us/ . For the Wild it was their first win of the season and they now have a record of 1-1-2 while the Jets fall to 2-2. Jets start a six game home stand Friday with another divisional game, home to the Dallas Stars. Nike Air Max Outlet . -- Ken Appleby made 32 saves for his first shutout of the season to lead the Oshawa Generals to a 2-0 win over the Belleville Bulls on Wednesday in Ontario Hockey League action. Wholesale Air Max Shoes . -- Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar will be out for roughly four weeks after tearing his left hamstring. Canadian coaching has lost one of its leaders, and the sport of track and field one of its most eloquent voices. Geoff Gowan died in Halifax on Thursday night at the age of 83 after a lengthy struggle with Parkinsons disease. Gowan was a member of both the Order of Canada and Canadas Sports Hall of Fame, and to track and field fans was an articulate broadcaster who "could turn a phrase as easily as any Olympian clears a hurdle," said longtime CBC producer Terry Ludwick. "He taught Canadians how to watch track and field," said Ludwick, now a broadcasting executive with the CBC. "He could sum up victory and defeat in such human terms, but with technical expertise that could be understood by a schoolboy or schoolgirl. And he had such a great sense of humour and great appreciation for the athletes that he covered. His articulation was such that its almost difficult to watch track and field now without hearing a British voice." The native of Ravenglass, England, travelled the globe covering track and field, covering countless Olympics and world championships. Ludwick remembers being in the broadcast boost with Gowan for the high jump at one particular meet. "We showed three or four replays for each competitor. One particular athlete went over and they werent successful and the bar went down. And we showed three or four replays, and towards the last one Geoff said And no matter how many times we show this replay, the bar will not stay up," Ludwick recalled, with a laugh. Gowan also dedicated much of his life to coaching development, and was technical director and president of the Coaching Association of Canada from 1972 to 96. In his 25 years with the national organization, he was instrumental in developing the National Coaching Certification Program, considered to be among the best coaching education programs in the world, and the program that has helped developed more than a million Canadian coaches. "Geoff was an outstanding leader in Canadian sport, and influenced thousands of athletes, coaches, and colleagues in sport management and the media. He has been a friend, role model, and mentor to myself and many others in Canadian sport, and will be deeply missed," CAC chief executive officer John Bales said in a statement. A lasting tribute to Gowans leadership is the annual Geoff Gowan Award, which recognizes lifetime contribution to coaching development. Many of Canadas top coaches have won the award, including Jack Donahue, Doug Clement, Al Morrow, Donald Dion, Charles Cardinal, Andy Higgins, Tim Frick, Allison McNeill, Lyle Sanderson, Dru Marshall and Keith Russell. "He was a really gracious human being," Ludwick said. "As a coach, he understood that in everyone there was a champion that could be coaxed out in whatever walk of life they were." Longtime CBC broadcaster Steve Armitage remembered Gowan as a tireless worker who could put in gruelling 13 and 14-hour days without showing the slightest bit of fatigue. Gowan worked alongside the late Don Wittman covering track and field for 26 years, making for what Armitage called "one of the great combinations in Canadian broadcasting history.&quuot; "He and Don (who died of cancer in 2008) really prided themselves in never having an argument," Armitage said.dddddddddddd "Geoff was so good. He was, in his delivery and in his vocabulary, almost Churchillian," Armitage added. "He would say things and he would say it in such a manner that after you heard it you would just go Wow. How did he come up with that? And his wasnt the shotgun, machine-gun approach to play-by-play. He would use his words sparingly and let the action tell the story." Longtime CBC sportscaster Mark Lee was similarly impressed with Gowans spine-tingling delivery. "His voice crackled with authority when he called track and field," Lee said. "His choice of words was so poetic, and his English accent gave him that distinguished quality that really separated him from the rest of the broadcasters. He was such a scholarly man when it came to track and field. . . but his ability to use his knowledge and distill it into 10 seconds of sterling broadcast quality with a delivery that came right out of Madison Avenue -- he was a really remarkable person that way." Lee remembers being Gowans partner in the booth for one of Donovan Baileys world championship 100-metre victories -- Donovan won the 100 metres at both the 1995 world championships and 96 Olympics. "During the replay, right from the blocks when the gun went off, Geoff counted off One. . . two. . . three. . . four. . . five. . . six. . .seven. . . eight. . . nine. . . 10, and I started leaning into the monitor to watch this," Lee recalled. "He got up to 44 and Donovan crossed the finish line and Geoff said, 44 steps: the first 10 with the explosion of a race engine and the next 15 accelerating leanly and smoothly, with the gait of a gazelle, and then relaxing through the last 10, or whatever. "But he counted every stride to the finish line. And at the end he said 44 strides to victory. It was so simple." Gowan could switch storytelling gears with ease, calling a field event or long-distance race with similar expertise. "It was remarkable to watch an endurance event like a mens 5,000 metres," Lee said. "He would get right inside an athletes head. The cameras would show you these grimacing close-ups and Geoff would tell you that the mind was willing but the body was failing in this case. Or he could tell you in a 400 metres that with 100 metres to go the lactic acid was coursing through a runners quads and his legs were beginning to feel heavy and rubber, and now it was just survival to get to the finish line without tying up and his body crippling him. "It was just a remarkable description of the human body at its best." "This was live too. He would choose these very descriptive passages right off the top of his head in a live broadcast," Lee added. "There are very very few people in this world who can do that." Gowan was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 2002. He also received an honorary doctorate in civil law from Acadia University for his service to sport in Canada. Details on funeral arrangements have not been released. ' ' '