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The Nevada Wolf Pack (11-7, 3-4 MWC) will try to continue a three-game winning stretch when visiting the Utah State Aggies (16-2, 6-1 MWC) on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. This matchup is at 9:00 PM ET on Fox Sports 1.
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The No. 7 Houston Cougars (14-3) will try to extend their 10-game winning streak when they host the Utah Utes (11-6) on Wednesday night. Houston won the first nine games of its hot streak by double digits before sneaking past UCF in a 69-68 final on Saturday. The Cougars need a last-second layup to escape as 13.5-point favorites. Utah has won three straight games, including an overtime win against BYU on Saturday.
Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. ET on Wednesday at the Fertitta Center. Houston is favored by 19.5 points in the latest Houston vs. Utah odds, while the over/under is 135 points, per SportsLine consensus. Before entering any Utah vs. Houston picks, you’ll want to see the NCAA Basketball predictions from the model at SportsLine.
The model simulates every Division 1 college basketball game 10,000 times. It enters Week 12 of the 2024-25 season on an 199-138 betting roll (+2692) on all top-rated college basketball picks dating back to 2023. Anyone following at sportsbooks and on betting apps could have seen huge returns.
Houston erased a double-digit deficit and pushed its winning streak to 10 games when forward J’Wan Roberts scored a game-winning layup with 1.1 seconds remaining against UCF. The Cougars are riding a 32-game home winning streak, which is the longest of any team in the country. They outscored opponents by an average of 24.7 points per game during the first nine games of the current hot stretch.
Senior guard L.J. Cryer leads Houston with 13.8 points per game, while junior guard Emanuel Sharp is averaging 13.8 points. Their balanced lineup has three other players scoring more than eight points per game, and Sharp leads the team in rebounding (6.6 rpg). The Cougars have covered the spread in five of their last seven games, while the Utes are just 3-8 ATS in their last 11 games. See which team to pick here.
Why Utah can cover
Utah is playing its best basketball of the season, moving up to seventh place in the Big 12 standings with a three-game winning streak. The Utes crushed Oklahoma State on Jan. 11 as 7.5-point favorites, powered by a 21-point outing from junior forward Ezra Ausar. They added an upset win at TCU last Wednesday, notching a 73-65 win as 4-point underdogs.
Senior guard Gabe Madsen scored a team-high 17 points, while sophomore forward Keanu Dawes chipped in 16 points and six rebounds off the bench. Utah extended its hot streak with an overtime win against BYU on Saturday, despite closing as an underdog in that game as well. Ausar poured in a career-high 26 points on an efficient 11 of 15 shooting performance. See which team to pick here.
How to make Houston vs. Utah picks
The model has simulated Utah vs. Houston 10,000 times and the results are in. We can tell you that the model is leaning Over, and it’s also generated a point-spread pick that is hitting in well over 60% of simulations. You can only see the pick at SportsLine.
Police have arrested a suspect in the unsolved murder of a Honolulu teenager, whose death rocked the high school where her body was discovered almost five decades ago. They said the man arrested, Gideon Castro, was one of her former schoolmates who joined the U.S. Army Reserve after graduating.
Dawn Momohara was found dead the morning of March 21, 1977, on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School, in Hawaii’s capital, according to the Honolulu Police Department. She was 16 and a student there in her sophomore year.
Officers at the time showed up to a gruesome scene. Momohara was partially clothed and lying on her back with an orange cloth tied around her neck, said Lt. Deena Thoemmes, of Honolulu Police, at a Tuesday news conference. A subsequent autopsy ruled Momohara was strangled to death, and the medical examiner said there were signs of sexual assault.
Although police retrieved an unknown man’s DNA sample from the teenager’s clothing, they could not identify a suspect. Authorities would not develop meaningful leads in the homicide until 2020, after a cold case detective re-submitted evidence for forensic exams using updated technology.
Dawn Momohara.
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By September 2023, the DNA tests led investigators to two possible suspects: brothers Gideon Castro and William Castro, who had both been interviewed in the immediate aftermath of Momohara’s killing. Back then, Gideon Castro told police he met Momohara at a school dance in 1976, just before he graduated, police said. William Castro in those interviews said he and Momohara periodically talked on the phone but denied ever being in any kind of relationship with her.
Once forensic tests narrowed down the pool of potential suspects to the Castro brothers, Thoemmes said police traveled to Chicago, where William Castro lived, to obtain a DNA sample secretly from one of his children and use it as a comparison. The comparison excluded William Castro as a suspect, and Gideon Castro, now 66, was arrested at his nursing home in Utah on a second-degree murder charge.
Gideon Castro will be extradited back to Honolulu, Thoemmes said.
“On behalf of the Honolulu Police Department, I want to thank all the individuals and agencies that made today’s arrest possible,” the lieutenant said. “Thank you for all your dedication and commitment to the tireless purusit of justice for Dawn and the Momohara family.”
Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, extreme weather and issues involving social and criminal justice. Emily Mae previously wrote for outlets like the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed and Newsweek.
Viané Cumber scored a game-high 25 points to match her career high, and Alyssa Hargrove put up a stellar overall game for the Lobos, who improved to 13-7 overall, 6-1 …
It’s fair to say the UNM women’s basketball team beat Utah State at its own game Tuesday night.
The visiting Lobos appeared more than happy to engage the pressing Aggies in an baseline-to-baseline track meet, and why not? Four players scored 15 points or more for New Mexico, which shot 58% from the field and rolled to a 101-78 victory at the Dee Smith Spectrum in Logan, Utah.
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Adams said the Legislature will draft another constitutional amendment to expand their power to change citizen initiatives.
Utah Senate President Stuart Adams warned that if the state fails to respond to a recent court ruling that limited legislative changes to citizen initiatives then Utah could become the next “Petri dish of America.”
Adams predicted that lawmakers will draft language for another constitutional amendment before the 2026 election cycle to work around the Utah Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Legislature’s limited ability to reform citizen ballot initiatives.
“The people in Utah that are elected ought to be making decisions for people in Utah,” Adams, R-Layton, told reporters on Tuesday.
How did we get here?
In July, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that the Utah Constitution prohibits lawmakers from altering the results of citizen-led ballot initiatives that reform the government unless the changes are narrowly tailored to meet a compelling government interest.
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In September, the state’s highest court upheld a decision from a 3rd District Court judge that voided “Amendment D,” a ballot initiative crafted by legislative leadership that would have amended the Utah Constitution to allow lawmakers to amend or repeal citizen initiatives in all cases.
But the Utah Legislature is far from ready to cede their ability to amend laws passed via ballot initiative.
Is Utah becoming more like Oregon?
Adams insisted that continuing with the court decision would undermine the state’s republican form of government and would set the state on a path to becoming like California and Oregon.
Adams recounted a conversation he had with the Democratic senate president of Oregon, where a ballot initiative decriminalizing hard drugs wreaked havoc for four years before the legislature stepped in last year with a recriminalization law.
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Oregon’s citizen initiative policy made it “the Petri dish of America,” this lawmaker reportedly told Adams. “Every crazy idea in America is passed with an initiative in Oregon,” Adams said.
Citizen initiatives are often driven by activist groups from other states, Adams pointed out. The 2020 Oregon initiative that legalized the possession of all drugs was funded by an organization from New York City.
“Out-of-state companies coming in and running initiatives like that are destroying states,” Adams said.
Another constitutional amendment
Other states have attempted to prohibit foreign influences on ballot initiatives. But these laws have been held up by court challenges on First Amendment grounds, according to Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Draper.
Passing this kind of restriction on special interests through a constitutional amendment before all Utah voters could put it on stronger legal footing, Cullimore said.
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Voters can only vote on a constitutional amendment during a presidential election year. Adams said he isn’t sure whether the Legislature will pass a bill to place another constitutional amendment on the ballot this session or next.
The last time lawmakers attempted to amend the state Constitution to allow changes to all citizen-led ballot initiatives, the effort was struck down because of misleading language and the failure to adequately advertise the amendment.
“We have served the people well, and I’m just really concerned that out-of-state groups will come in and spend the money and destroy all that we’ve done here,” Adams said.
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