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DALLAS -- Wesley Matthews has taken greater responsibility with Dirk Nowitzki out of the Dallas Mavericks lineup much of this season.Matthews scored 20 of his 26 points in the second half of Dallas 107-82 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night.Matthews was the star of the game, obviously, Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said. He is our leader right now with Dirk out. He really sets the tone for us in the locker room and on the floor. He is just the vocal guy.Matthews has accepted the expanded role as Nowitzki has been limited to five games by a strained right Achilles tendon.I feel like thats one of the reasons why they brought me over here (from Portland). Through this rough patch, injuries and everything, everybody had to mold together. Its almost like we had to restructure ourselves. I think everybody has embraced that.Harrison Barnes scored 17 of his 22 points in the first half to help Dallas improve to 4-15.Chicago was coming off a 111-105 victory over defending champion Cleveland on Friday night.Jimmy Butler led Chicago with 26 points.I dont think anybody played well tonight, Butler said. We didnt play with energy on either end of the floor.Barnes powered the Mavericks to a 17-point first-quarter lead with eight points.They came out and threw the first punch and kept throwing, and we could just never recover from that, Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said. We did expend a lot of energy (Friday) night.Dwight Powell (17) and rookie Dorian Finney-Smith (11) had career highs in scoring, and Deron Williams had a season-high 15 assists with only one turnover.The biggest thing was we were even (43-43) on the boards, Carlisle said. Andrew Bogut had a game-high 11 rebounds, and Powell grabbed eight.Neither team scored in the first 2:15, but Dallas went on a 7-0 run over the next 1:20. The Mavericks led 23-6 with 3:17 left. The quarter ended with Dallas leading 29-18. Bogut had six points and eight rebounds.Chicago pulled within six points three times in the second quarter, but Dallas finished the first half with a 57-45 lead. In the third quarter, Matthews had 14 points, and the Maverick led by as many as 21 points.TIP-INSBulls: C Robin Lopez has a career-high 11 straight games with 10 or more points. He scored 15 against Dallas. ... F Jimmy Butler has reached 20 points in 17 of 19 games. He scored on a drive with 1:00 left in the third quarter, but was charged with a technical foul for arguing that he had been fouled.Mavericks: G Wesley Matthews made 7 of 11 3-point attempts. ... C Andrew Bogut fouled out, but had 11 rebounds and a season-high eight points. ... The Mavericks 29 first-quarter points were a season high. ... Their largest margin of victory before Saturday was 12 points.WADE RESTSBulls G Dwyane Wade missed his second game this season, both to rest. He stayed in Chicago after Fridays win over Cleveland. Their flight landed in the DFW Metroplex at 2:30 a.m. for the second game in a stretch of four games in five days. Nikola Mirotic started in Wades place and was scoreless in 13 minutes played.NOWITZKI INDEFINITEThe Mavericks said that they no longer will keep a timetable for when F Dirk Nowitzki (strained right Achilles tendon) would play. Instead, his return will be listed as indefinite. He has played in only five games this season.We said Im still a few games away, but luck can change, so I just have to go day by day, Nowitzki said.At this stage in my career, I dont move well anyways, so if Im out there at like 80, 90 percent, I dont think Im a big help, so I want to make sure my bodys responding the right way and well go from there.UP NEXTBulls: Return home to play Portland on Monday night. Chicago won at Portland 113-88 behind Jimmy Butlers 27 points on Nov. 15.Mavericks: Host Charlotte on Monday night in the second game of a four-game homestand. Dallas lost to the Hornets on the road Thursday night. Adidas Yeezy Schweiz . But the quarterback hopes to stay involved in football after officially calling it quits Tuesday. "Id love to look at those opportunities as they arise," Pierce said in an interview from his Winnipeg eatery. Yeezys Schweiz Outlet . Dukurs winning time was 1 minute, 45.76 seconds, a quarter-second better than Russias Alexander Tretiakov. 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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Five Lady Vols scored in double figures as Tennessee (5-4) snapped a two-game skid with a 92-66 victory over Appalachian State on Wednesday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.Junior guard Alexa Middleton led all UT players with 20 points while Jamie Nared recorded her fifth double-double in the last six games with 15 points and 10 rebounds. The Big Orange got a huge lift from the bench with 41 points from reserves on the night.After giving up 24 first-quarter points, the Lady Volunteers clamped down defensively and held the Mountaineers to just 41 points combined for the rest of the game. UT was also efficient on the offensive end, shooting 49 percent for the game while committing just six turnovers, the fewest since a 71-66 loss at South Carolina on Feb. 23, 2015. Tennessee dominated down low, outscoring App State 50-28 in the paint and finishing with a 44-35 advantage on the boards.The Mountaineers (4-6) jumped out to an early 7-2 lead and led 24-20 at the end of the first quarter thanks to some red-hot shooting, converting 11 of their 15 shot attempts in the quarter. Middleton came off the bench and shouldered the offensive load for the Big Orange in the opening frame with 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting.UT went on an early 8-0 run in the second quarter and outscored App State 25-10 in the period to take an 11-point lead into the locker room. Middleton and Diamond DeShields led all scorers in the first half with 12 points apiece as the Lady Vols shot a blistering 53 percent from the field.ddddddddddddennessee extended its lead to 23 with a dominant third quarter. Mercedes Russell contributed six points and a pair of rebounds in the period to give the Lady Vols a 69-46 lead entering the final quarter of play.A pair of 3-pointers from Nared and Kourtney Dunbar fueled a 10-0 run to begin the fourth quarter that ended any chance for an Appalachian State comeback. UTs 92 points were a season high and marked the fifth time this season that the team has scored over 80 points.PILING UP THE POINTS: Tennessee scored a season-high 92 points in the victory, surpassing the 86 they scored in a win over Tennessee State on Nov. 30. The Lady Vols scored over 80 points for the fifth time already this season after only doing so four times all of last year. UT also recorded season highs for second chance points (22) and bench scoring (41).LADY VOLS IN DOUBLE FIGURES: The Lady Vols had five players score in double figures for the first time since last years season opener against Central Arkansas. Middleton (20), DeShields (16), Nared (15), Russell (15) and Schaquilla Nunn (12) all posted 10 or more points for UT on the night. Nunns 12 points were a career high for her at Tennessee.UP NEXT: Tennessee continues its five-game homestand with a highly anticipated showdown against No. 10 Stanford on Sunday. The game will be broadcast live on the SEC Network at 3 p.m. ' ' '