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Cameron Johnson scored 17, Jamal Murray finished with 15 points and 10 assists and Aaron Gordon scored 15 for the Nuggets.

Gordon scored with 6.2 seconds left in regulation to tie the game, then forced Victor Wembanyama into a miss on the final shot of regulation.

Wembanyama finished with 34 points, 18 rebounds, seven assists and five blocked shots for the Spurs, who lost for only the third time in their last 30 games.

Stephon Castle scored 20 points for San Antonio, while Devin Vassell and Julian Champagnie each scored 18 for the Spurs.

HEAT 152, WIZARDS 136

MIAMI (AP) — Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 32 points before dashing out to fly to the NCAA women's basketball title game, Kel'el Ware finished with 24 points, 19 rebounds and seven blocks, and Miami rolled past Washington.

Bam Adebayo —who scored 83 pointsin Miami's last game with Washington — faced a triple-team on his first possession and scored 14 for Miami. Andrew Wiggins had 21 and Pelle Larsson scored 16 for the Heat. Adebayo also had nine rebounds and seven assists.

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Miami reached 150 points for the third time in franchise history. It scored 153 against New Orleans last April 11 — and finished with 150 against the Wizards in Adebayo's 83-point night on March 10.

Will Riley scored 31 for Washington, which has reached the 60-loss mark for the third straight season. Sharife Cooper scored 20 for the Wizards, who trailed by as many as 35 at one point.

PISTONS 116, 76ERS 93

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tobias Harris scored 19 points, and Daniss Jenkins added 16 points and 14 assists as Detroit beat Philadelphia to clinch the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

The last time the Pistons (56-21) were the top seed in the East was in 2006-07. They have already clinched the Central Division title for the first time since 2007-08.

Jalen Duren added 16 points and seven rebounds, and Ausar Thompson had 14 points for the Pistons, who have won 12 of their last 15 games.

Both Duren (illness) and Harris (left knee contusion) had been listed as questionable. The Pistons are 8-2 in the 10 games that Cade Cunningham has missed with a collapsed left lung.

Tyrese Maxey led the 76ers with 23 points. Paul George scored 20 points, and VJ Edgecombe added 19. George has averaged 25.8 points in six games since returning from a 25-game suspension for violating the league's drug policy.

Hurley was asked about Auriemma following his team'swin in the men's Final Four against Illinoison Saturday, April 4. Known for his bold, emotional antics on the sidelines, Hurley joked "obviously I've had a negative influence on Geno." He added it was crazy because "Geno has helped me so much," and he credited how Auriemma handled the fallout from it.

"Geno, the way handled the whole thing, such a stand up guy with the way he handled itwith the statement, and he's one of the classiest people," Hurley said. "If any one should get the benefit of the doubt in the world of sports, it's Geno Auriemma, because he's one of the most authentic, genuine, great people you'll ever meet in your life."

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The Final Four matchup between South Carolina and UConn was played with intensity throughout, with emotions building as the game reached its closing stretch.

That tension surfaced late as the outcome was decided, leading to visible reactions and an exchange between two of women's basketball's most prominent coaches.

Above, UConn Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley react during the second half of the 2026 Women's Final Four semifinal at Mortgage Matchup Center.

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The Final Four matchup between South Carolina and UConn was played with intensity throughout, withemotions building as the game reached its closing stretch.That tension surfaced late as the outcome was decided, leading to visible reactions and an exchange between two of women's basketball's most prominent coaches.Above, UConn Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley react during the second half of the 2026 Women's Final Four semifinal at Mortgage Matchup Center.

Just as the previously undefeated UConn women were about to officially lose to South Carolina in the national semifinal on Friday, April 3, Auriemma hada heated end-of-game exchange with Staleyas they went to shake hands, resulting in him heading to the locker room without shaking Staley or her team's hands.

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That happened after Auriemma took a shot at Staley when complaining about the officiating during the game to ESPN's Holly Rowe. He said "their coach rants and raves on the sideline and calls the referees some names you don't want to hear" and "I got a kid with a ripped jersey and (the refs) go, 'I didn't see it.'" The player with the ripped jersey was Sarah Strong, who said she actually ripped the jersey herself.

After much scrutiny,Auriemma apologized for his actionson Saturday, April 4.

In his statement, Auriemma said "there's no excuse" for how he handled the situation and said it was uncalled for how he acted.

Staley and South Carolina did not have much to say about the situation when speaking to media one day before the Gameocks play UCLA in the national championship game, with Staley saying it wasn't a distraction to the team.

"Just continue to focus on our team and their ability to advance in this tournament. And hopefully win another national championship," Staley said.

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Except, that is, for the toilet.

The Artemis II crew's 16.5-foot-wide (5-meter-wide) Orion capsule experienced a waste management-related problem that arose in the early hours of Saturday as Day 3 was winding down.

"It's an issue with dumping the waste out of the toilet," Artemis II Flight Director Judd Frieling told reporters Saturday morning. "And so it appears to me that we probably have some frozen urine in the vent line."

The astronauts— NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — were still fast asleep by midmorning nearly 200,000 miles (nearly 320,000 kilometers) from Earth as mission controllers continued to troubleshoot the issue. And by Saturday afternoon, early in Day 4 of the flight, mission controllers had a plan of attack: to warm up the frozen line by rotating the capsule to put the frozen urine into the sun.

That appeared to partially unclog the pipe, allowing the capsule to expel some of the urine from the wastebasket-size tank into the vacuum of space.

Shortly after, mission control said the toilet was "go" — but "for fecal use only."

Efforts to fix the commode continued throughout Saturday, but stubborn clogs prevented a full cleanout. Until, at last, around midnight Eastern time, mission control delivered the long-awaited update: "Breaking news," mission control's capsule communicator, Jacki Mahaffey, told the crew. "You are go for all types of use of the toilet."

"And the crew rejoices!" Koch replied. "Thank you!"

Glistening space pee

The process of venting the urine outside the capsule was a moment Koch also showed on camera earlier in the mission. The pee trickles by like glowing gems in the vacuum of space as it zooms by the Orion's windows.

But the frozen vent line was not the crew's only run-in with toilet troubles.

Shortly after launching to orbit from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, the crew realized the toilet's pump wasn't working. Pumps are important and used for a variety of reasons, including assisting with pulling waste from the body. In space, there is no gravity to assist with such expulsions.

That problem had a relatively straightforward fix: The crewmembers simply hadn't put in enough water to prime the pump. After they topped that off, the system began functioning as intended.

The astronauts celebrated that small victory on Thursday during a virtual interview with news media.

"I'm proud to call myself the space plumber," Koch said. "We were all breathing a sigh of relief when it turned out to be just fine. We did originally think that there could have been potentially something fouling up the motor."

'The most important piece of equipment'

The onboard toilet is perhaps the spaceflight amenity held most dear to astronauts who value creature comforts.

"I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board," Koch added during her Thursday dispatch from Orion.

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With the Orion toilet malfunctioning, the astronauts had to resort to a technique employed by the deep-space explorers of the mid-20th century.

In the Apollo era, astronauts did not have a toilet. They relied solely on bags to relieve themselves.

And the process was not always error-free. During the 1969 Apollo 10 mission — the one in which Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan circumnavigated the moon — Stafford reported back to mission control on Day 6 of the mission that a piece of waste was floating through the cabin, according toonce-confidential government documents.

"Give me a napkin, quick," Stafford wasrecordedsaying a few minutes before Cernan spots more: "Here's another goddamn turd."

The astronauts famously hated the bagged-poop approach.

"The fecal bag system was marginally functional and was described as very 'distasteful' by the crew," anofficial NASA reportfrom 2007 later revealed. "The bags provided no odor control in the small capsule and the odor was prominent."

The Orion crew had to rely on a similar system for liquid waste while they worked to fix their toilet woes. Referred to as the the Collapsable Contingency Urinal or CCU, astronaut Don Pettit, following along with the mission from home, shared an image on his social media feed.

Orion's legacy

The Apollo 10 capsule wasn't the only one plagued with toilet issues. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, which notched its first astronaut mission in 2020 and has flown more than a dozen since, also had several hiccups with its hygiene system.

During a Crew Dragon flight in 2021, for example, SpaceX found that a tube used to funnel urine into a storage tank became unglued, causing a leaky mess beneath the capsule's floor. That forced the astronauts to rely on backup undergarments — which are essentially adult diapers.

The current NASA administrator, billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, also commissioned a three-day flight aboard Crew Dragon in 2022, called Inspiration4. During the spaceflight, he had to troubleshoot an onboard toilet problem. The issue, however, did not involve wayward waste floating around the cabin, Isaacman told CNN at the time.

Decades of toilet development informed the system aboard Orion that the Artemis II astronauts are using. NASA put a similar system on board the International Space Station — which orbits just a couple hundred miles above Earth — to help vet the technology.

Collins Aerospace holds a roughly $30 million contract,inked in 2015, to design and adapt the technology, known as the Universal Waste Management System or UWMS, for Orion.

And the system also builds on decades of the Space Shuttle program's toilet technology. On both systems, urine is vented outside the capsule while solid waste is compacted and returned home with the crew.

When it functions, the in-space toilet can have its advantages.

"One of my friends has even said he prefers the toilet in space to the one on Earth," former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino told CNN.

Massimino isn't so sure, however. "I really miss my toilet on Earth because it's very involved in space, and you have to be careful and respect your friends so that you don't leave a mess," he said. "And always clean up after yourself because you don't want people to get sick."

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The Iberia Parish Sheriff's Officesaid in a Facebook postthat deputies are investigating an incident involving a vehicle that struck pedestrians during a parade in New Iberia, a small Cajun town in southern Louisiana, about 30 minutes from Lafayette. As a result, "several individuals sustained injuries, some of which are believed to be serious," the sheriff's office added.

Louisiana State Police said they arrested the driver, a 57-year-old man, and charged him with driving while impaired, 18 counts of first-degree negligent injuring and careless operation, Reuters reported. Police said he is also accused of having an open container with an alcoholic beverage in the vehicle.

The incident occurred during the Louisiana Lao New Year Festival, with itsorganizers on Facebook sending well wishesand announcing that its Saturday night music programs will be canceled, including live concerts and alcohol sales, "in the interest of public safety."

The festival typically occurs on Easter weekend and celebrates the Lao New Year, according to the organizers' Facebook page.

"We are profoundly saddened by the news of the incident near the festival grounds," the organizers' post reads. "We are awaiting additional details from authorities as they become available. All security resources have been redirected to the scene, and we currently do not have security personnel available due to the circumstances."

Organizers added, "We are praying for the victims and for their families during this difficult time."

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At least 15 were injured as a result of the incident, according tolocal TV station KATC NewsandThe New York Times, both citing the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office.

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At the time of the incident, the crowd was gathered at a nearby intersection for the parade, KATC reported.

In a post on social media Acadian Ambulance said that it transported 13 people to the hospital. Two of them were airlifted, the ambulance service wrote on X, Reuters reported.

In a statement provided to USA TODAY, a local hospital spokesperson said, "We are actively caring for patients who were transported to our facility, Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center, following the incident in New Iberia."

The hospital added, "Our teams are focused on providing the highest level of care. Due to patient privacy, we're unable to share specific details about individuals." The hospital did not say how many of the injured individuals it was treating or their conditions, calling the situation "dynamic."

USA TODAY contacted the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office on April 4 for information on the number of victims, but has not received a response.

Louisiana governor 'praying for all those affected'

In a Facebook post on Saturday,Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry saidhe and his wife, Sharon, "are praying for all those affected, and are grateful for the first responders who have responded to the scene."

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrillalso issued a statement on Facebook, saying, "I'm praying for all those injured and impacted by this terrible tragedy and will be following up with responding law enforcement agencies to offer support."

Contributing: Reuters

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