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Dailey scores 1,000th point
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- Bethany College junior Cole Dailey joined the 1,000-point club with a late three-pointer, but the Bethany College men's basketball team fell to Geneva, 90-86, at Metheny Fieldhouse on Dec. 17.
Dailey, a 2022 graduate of East Liverpool High School, went over 1,000 points with three seconds remaining - trimming the deficit to two points. However, Geneva hit a pair of free throws to push the lead to the four-point final deficit.
Dailey finished with 17 points on 7-of-14 shooting with a team-high eight rebounds and seven assists in 33 minutes.
He becomes the 30th member of Bethany's 1,000-point club.
For Geneva, junior Jonathan Bertovich from Heartland Christian had three rebounds and two assists in 29 minutes, junior Nick Million from Columbiana collected five points and three assists in 12 minutes and junior Brayden Costea from Minerva grabbed two rebounds in 11 minutes.
Double-double for Blazer
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- Bethany College freshman Addy Blazer posted her first collegiate double-double, but the Bison women's basketball team fell to Geneva, 79-76, at Metheny Fieldhouse on Dec. 17.
Blazer, a 2024 graduate of United High School, had career night by totaling 16 points and 11 rebounds in 30 minutes of action -- all career highs. She also led the Bison with three steals.
Bethany senior Alyssa Serensky from Western Reserve High School had two points in 13 minutes.
Bethany was 1-of-20 from three-point range, while Geneva was 4-of-24.
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Christmas football here to stay
(AP) -- Like it or not, LeBron James and the NBA are going to have to make room for the NFL no matter what day of the week Christmas Day falls.
Netflix set records as the most-streamed NFL games in U.S. history while the NBA had its best holiday numbers in five years according to Nielsen.
The NFL and Nielsen said 65 million U.S. viewers tuned in for at least one minute of one of the two NFL games.
The Baltimore Ravens' 31-2 victory over the Houston Texans averaged 24.3 million while Kansas City's 29-10 win at Pittsburgh averaged 24.1 according to early viewer figures released by Nielsen on Thursday.
The NBA's five-game slate averaged about 5.25 million viewers per game across ABC, ESPN and its platforms, according to the league and Nielsen.
"I love the NFL," James said in his televised postgame interview Wednesday night. "But Christmas is our day."
However, Wednesday's ratings showed that there is room for both. Even though the NBA had the sports calendar to itself on Dec. 25 for many years, the NFL has made Christmas one of its tentpole events during the regular season, joining Kickoff Weekend and Thanksgiving.
"The numbers speak for themselves and LeBron can have his own view, and I'm sure more people will look at that because of this," said Hans Schroeder, the executive vice president of NFL Media. "But, you know, we're focused on the NFL and we're thrilled with the results this year with the Christmas on Netflix and we're excited to continue to build that over the next couple of years."