scott: the second semi final, dematha against gonzaga. the eagles, the pretty finish. late in the quarter, the shot clock winding down, reggie gardner. dematah up after three. -- demath fourth quarter, and more of the same. dematha wins. i think we did a good job of sticking to the game plan. we shot the ball very well. it's important tomorrow night. scott: another impressive victory for dematha setting up a championship showdown against st. john's monday night, the opening tipoff at 8:00 at american university. erin: was the guy with a beard sleeping? switching gears, nascar, what a finish at the daytona 500. it was the closest finish in the 58 years of the great american race. 30 laps to go, dale earnhardt junior loses control in the scrum and off he goes. hard into the wall. he was ok. his day was done. the final lap come incredible denny hamlin knocks a matter of position. a race to the finish between martin truex and hamlin. who won? what do you think? a photo finish. hamlin wins by four ranges. erin: you almost cannot tell from the wide shot. robert: coming up, a

john's are champions of the wcac, knocking off dematha. >> the outcome means a lot.itle tilt, girls' for the third straight year, wasting the title, beating st. john's, 70-61. third ranked virginia taking on 12th-ranked miami, the hurricanes up five. reed with the three coming he had 21 for the hurricanes come as they take down the cavs, 64-61. odds makers say the chicago cubs are the favorite to win the world series this year. they have the nationals' chances at 14-1. leon: the cubs the favorite? that probably has not happened since 1903. . nationalay was margarita day. leon: you have about 32 minute national margarita day. the most expensive margarita in history, a new york city bar came out with a billionaire's $1,200 perhat costs drink. alison: and you know how many they had sold when they wrote that article? leon: how many. alison: none. [000:30:06;00] [000:30:08;00] choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number, and the ultimate sleep number event, going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjust

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vj king and fultz and dematha. we have excitement going on. now, the stags won last thursday on the road. now looking to make it 2 in a row. the all-american game, featuring fultz and king and of urcose, we'll have highlights of tonight's big showdown, coming up at 11:00. >>> maryland terrapins return to the xfinity center to take on michigan. join us beforehand for a special edition of game on live at college park. starts at 11:30, sunday, followed by the game at 1:00. which you can also see here on wusa 9. but of course, they have wisconsin, on thursday. >> and cuziges -- cousins is going nowhere, right? >> they can slap him with the franchise tag. >> just $20 million, right? >> want to recap for us? >> not everybody goes below freezing tonight. everybody is back in the 40s tomorrow, thursday, ask friday. and i point out the 50s. >> look at the weekend. >> wusa 9 news at 6:00. >> we'll be back with your early evening news at 7:00. i do everything on the internet. but, it's kind of slow. my friends say i should get fios because it's the faste

high school teams, >>> tonight, high school basketball tran31, bragging rights on the line between dematha and st. john to bring an even regular series into tonight's coes the game, harvey looks for the shot, thinks it. the cadets with a nice hefty lead, though. maryland commit, anthony cohen, going head to head with mcdonald's all-american , good spin move and the rim, the crowd like that one, for sure. cohen, 21 points and seven assists, helped lead st. john's to a 71-57 court storming victory. >>> the ladies of the big night as well, paul the six in action seeking their third straight w cac title, taking on the cadets. st. john's putting in early panthers lead, junior asia mcrae muscles her way to the basket. up by six. but, senior pittsburgh command, jasmine whitney, show championship experience in the big stage with buckets like this. paul the sixth with a 70-61 win, they hoist the hardware >>> upper-level, terrapins number nine in the coaches polls, thanks to two losses to unranked teams. the virginia cavaliers, however, move up to the number three spot. however, may not last very lo

. >>> tll be stepped up police presence at dematha after a threatening song was posted on line on sound cloud threatening to do harm to the school. the song has been taken town. t down. the school is taking precautionary measures including increased police presence on campus. >>> good morning. coming up on 5:41 on your thursday morning. most of the south side of the metro saarea is dry, but there a line of moderate to heavy rain showers now central montgomery county. here is gaithersburg, laytonsville, olney. pretty heavy rain along route 108, 124, route 97. so montgomery u pretty intense rain for the next little bit. not going to be anything like yesterday. no thunder or lightning just yet, but coming down in a few spots. so bus stop forecast, windy, temperatures near 50 this morning and only in the mid-40s this afternoon. have the umbrellas and rain coats ready to go. showers this morning. hit and miss later on this afternoon. long pants and pocket rocks for those little kids under 40 or 50 pounds, way them down or risk blowing away. >> my son definitely needs some pocket rocks. gormg