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MORAGA, Calif. -- As dominant as Saint Marys has been at home over the past decade, Nevada coach Eric Musselman questioned why he even scheduled the game -- especially for the season opener.Thats what an NCAA Tournament team looks like, Musselman said. They never lose here. I shouldnt have scheduled the game. I dont really know what else to say. ... Ive been in this building too many times. We were not ready to play that type of competition.Jock Landale carried the momentum of his strong preseason into a memorable first career start, scoring a career-high 33 points to go with nine rebounds, leading No. 17 Saint Marys past Nevada 81-63 in the season opener for both schools Friday night.Landale, a 6-foot-11 Australian center, shot 15 for 20 and has shown in a hurry how much better he can be with a larger role for 15th-year coach Randy Bennett. He was the backup to Dane Pineau last season, typically the first man off the bench, then arrived for fall camp in better shape and determined. Pineau has been slowed by a back injury, giving Landale an opening.Hes our best scorer on the block, Bennett said. Im glad he played well because he put the work in. His freshman and sophomore year, he thought he let up at the end of the summer.This offseason, Landale dropped 20 pounds. He gave up bread, pasta and stuck to brown rice.I had to change my diet entirely, that was the big thing, he said. In the offseason, I cut out all that kind of stuff -- chocolate, lollies, soft drink, all that kind of stuff is gone.The Gaels shared the West Coast Conference regular-season title with Gonzaga last season but are determined to get back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013 after three straight years in the NIT.When Bennett was told of Musselmans postgame reaction about playing the Gaels, he grinned.I dont know why he did (schedule the game). Im glad he did, Bennett said, acknowledging his own nerves for this opponent. I cant remember a first game I was more stressed about.Marcus Marshall had 25 points while D.J. Fenner scored six straight Nevada points late in the first half and finished with 12.Landale made four of his first seven shots as Saint Marys jumped to an 18-12 lead on the way to a 42-29 halftime advantage at rocking McKeon Pavilion.This marked the Bay Area return of Musselman, the former Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings head coach beginning his second season in Reno. On his staff as a new assistant is Yann Hufnagel, fired late last season by California amid allegations of sexual harassment.Cameron Oliver -- from nearby Oakland -- had five blocks to go with 13 points for the Wolf Pack, who were the College Basketball Invitational tournament champions last season.Nevada hasnt beaten a ranked team in the regular season since taking down No. 6 Kansas on Dec. 21, 2003, and going on to reach the NCAA Tournaments Sweet 16.This was just the second meeting between the programs after the Wolf Pack won 76-58 on Dec. 12, 2006.OPENING NIGHT DOUBLEHEADERCalifornia held off the Gaels 74-67 in a womens game played first as the Golden Bears avenged a loss to Saint Marys last season that snapped their eight-game winning streak in the East Bay rivalry.BIG PICTURENevada: Musselman looks to build following a turnaround in his first year for a team that had gone 9-22 the previous season and improved into a 24-game winner that finished tied for fourth in the Mountain West Conference. ... Nevada shot 14 for 24 from the free throw line.Saint Marys: The Gaels are 112-32 against non-conference opponents over the past nine-plus years. ... Landale -- one of seven Aussies on what is expected to be one of Bennetts strongest rosters -- averaged 7.9 points and 3.9 rebounds playing 14.5 minutes last season as a sophomore.UP NEXTNevada: Hosts Loyola Marymount on Monday for the first of three straight home games before traveling to Anchorage for the Great Alaska Shootout.Saint Marys: Hosts Prairie View A&M on Wednesday.---For more college basketball: http://collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 Michael Jordan Jersey Throwback . Rob Manfred, baseballs chief operating officer, testified last week during the grievance filed by the players union to overturn Rodriguezs 211-game suspension. 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Michael Jordan Jersey Swingman . - NASCAR announced a 33-race schedule for the 2014 Nationwide Series with virtually no changes from this years slate. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Lucy N Ethel won the first three starts of her career in a seven-week period. After missing eight months due to an ankle chip, the 3-year-old Lucy N Ethel picked up where she left off, scoring a front-running, half-length 22-1 upset victory in Sundays Grade 2, $300,000 Prioress Stakes at Saratoga.Hustled to the front out of the gate by Jose Lezcano, Lucy N Ethel took some heat from multiple stakes winner Dearest through splits of 22.05 seconds for the quarter-mile and 44.96 for the half-mile but kept going, keeping Dearest at bay to the wire.Lucy N Ethel, a daughter of During, covered the six furlongs in 1:09.33 and returned $47.40 to win.Dearest finished second by 2 3/4 lengths over Takrees, who got third by a neck over Off the Tracks, the 2-1 favorite. She was followed, in order, by Kareena, Coniah, One True Kiss, Lost Raven, Coppa, and Appealing Maggie.Lucy N Ethel is owned and bred by Steven Perrys J A G Racing and James Stevensons Jettany Thoroughbred Corp.Though she had been trained by Ramon Preciado for her first three starts, Chloe Bradley -- Preciados longtime assistant -- was the trainer of record for this race. Preciado is facing 270 days worth of suspensions for multiple clenbuterol positives though he has a valid trainers license in Pennsyylvania and New York.dddddddddddderry said Bradley has been training Lucy N Ethel at a farm in Westhampton, N.J., though Lucy N Ethel shows workouts at Parx.Perry said that after Lucy N Ethel had a chip removed from an ankle she did her rehabilitation at a farm in Ocala, Fla. Perry said the horse was then sent to Bradley at the New Jersey farm.When we sent her from the farm in Ocala to the farm in Jersey Chloe was at the farm taking care of a string of horses, Perry said. It felt comfortable for us.Perry said he had hoped Lucy N Ethel could run in a race before the Prioress. Lucy N Ethel was scratched out of the Aug. 14 Blue Sparkler Stakes at Monmouth Park because track officials there werent sure who was actually training the horse, Bradley or Preciado.New York stewards said they talked to New Jersey investigators, who confirmed that Lucy N Ethel was based on the Westhampton, N.J. farm. Bradley has a valid receipt as an owner/trainer in New York.This filly could be in Ramons hands or Chloes hands. She was an assistant to Ramon for a long time, Perry said. She could go back to Ramon. Were a group. Were connected.- additional reporting by Jim Dunleavy ' ' '