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The 33rd Maui Invitational tips off today and will feature another field loaded with basketball powers.The eight-team tournament consists of teams that have a combined 14 NCAA championships, 40 Final Four appearances and 192 NCAA tournament appearances. This years field includes Oregon, Tennessee, Georgetown, Wisconsin, Oklahoma State, UConn, North Carolina and host Chaminade.?The winner at Maui has gone on to win the the national title four times, with UConn in 2010-11 the most recent. North Carolina has won the title three times.No. 4 Georgetown and Oregon will play at 4:30 p.m. on ESPN2 and WatchESPN.Georgetown is making its third appearance in the Maui Invitational, though it has never reached the finals. The Hoyas are 1-2 for the second straight year, the first time that has happened in back-to-back seasons since 1980-81 and 1981-82 seasons. Georgetown did make the NCAA championship in the 1981-82 season. The Hoyas have lost at least 11 games in each of the last three seasons and have won just half of their conference games in that span. That is in contrast to John Thompson IIIs first nine years as head coach, when the Hoyas won 63 percent of their conference games.?Rodney Pryor and L.J. Peak both lead the Hoyas in scoring through three games at 17.7 PPG.?The Hoyas scored 105 points in their victory over South Carolina Upstate, their most points in a game since the 2007 season. The Hoyas problems have come on defense in the last year plus, as they averaged 22.9 fouls per game, the most in the Big East last season. In three games this season, the Hoyas have committed 24.3 fouls per game.?-- ESPN Stats & InfoJaire Alexander Womens Jersey . Both players have lower body injuries that will keep them out of the lineup until at least January 31, which is the first game they can be activated from IR. 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Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, announced Wednesday that the team would assign Swedish forward Elias Lindholm to his nations team for the upcoming tournament.WASHINGTON -- Rookie Trea Turner hit his 13th homer, Tanner Roark tuned up for the playoffs with 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball and the Washington Nationals beat the Miami Marlins 2-1 on Saturday while clinching home-field advantage for the NL Division Series.NL East champion Washingtons third trip to the postseason in five years will begin Friday in the nations capital against the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers, with Max Scherzer slated to face Clayton Kershaw. Game 2 is the following day, before the best-of-five NLDS shifts to L.A.The Nationals, it turned out, didnt need to beat the Marlins -- which they did, thanks to Turner, Roark (16-10) and Bryce Harpers RBI single. The Dodgers 3-0 loss to the San Francisco Giants, assuring Washington of finishing with a better record than Los Angeles, was announced before the bottom of the seventh to the Nationals Park crowd of 31,635, which responded with a standing ovation.While home field might not seem like a big deal in a short series, Nationals manager Dusty Baker figured it was important in this instance.Thats because the Dodgers went 53-28 at home, a .654 winning percentage, but are only 38-42 on the road, .475.Theyre under .500 on the road and way over .500 at home. So which one would you suggest? Baker said. Im not a numbers man, exactly, but I think it would be to our best interest -- give us the best chance -- to have them come here, versus us going there.Roark, lined up to pitch Game 2 against the Dodgers, allowed Miami only three hits, including Chris Johnsons RBI single to right in the sixth. Mark Melancon got the last four outs for his 46th save.Turner singled and came around to score on Harpers line drive up the middle in the first inning, then delivered a solo shot off Wei-Yin Chen (5-5) in the fifth. Turner also stole his 32nd base.Harper struck out twice, giving him six Ks in twwo nights after missing four games with a sore left thumb.dddddddddddd Fans booed when he was walked intentionally in the eighth.SITTING STANTONMarlins RF Giancarlo Stanton was out of the starting lineup Saturday, and will be on Sunday, too, manager Don Mattingly said, to make sure the slugger does not enter the offseason hurt. Stanton was sidelined with a groin injury into September. He may get an at-bat, a pinch-hit, or something like that. He still wasnt playing at 100 percent, Mattingly explained, and once the games were meaningless, its harder to take a chance on him having to rehab during the winter.TRAINERS ROOMNationals: LF Jayson Werth was out of the lineup, a day after leaving the game because of a tight back that he said was not a serious injury. Baker called the decision to hold out Werth on Saturday more precaution than anything. ... 2B Daniel Murphy sat out again with an injured glute muscle. He hasnt been in the starting lineup in two weeks, but Baker said he expects the NL MVP contender to be available for Game 1 of the NLDS.UP NEXTMarlins: Wrap up the season, sending RHP Tom Koehler (9-13, 4.15 ERA) to the mound.Nationals: In what will be Washingtons first -- and last -- entirely meaningless game of 2016, RHP Scherzer takes a 19-7 record, 2.82 ERA and career-high 277 Ks into the regular-season finale, chasing an NL Cy Young Award to add to the 2013 AL honor he won for Detroit while going 21-3. Thats been the pinnacle for pitchers ever since I was in the game -- and long before me. It would be forever: `Hes a 20-game winner, Baker said. Expounding on how he views pitchers stats, Baker said: People put a lot of emphasis on ERA, which is good, but I put emphasis on wins for a guy that knows how to win. ' ' '