College basketball: RJ Barrett is leaving Duke after one season to enter the NBA draft. Barrett announced his decision Wednesday in a video posted on social media. School spokesman Mike DeGeorge said Barrett plans to hire an agent but has not chosen one. The AP All-American averaged an ACC-best 22.6 points along with 7.6 rebounds while forming half of perhaps the nation’s most potent one-two punch along with classmate and roommate Zion Williamson. Barrett is widely projected as a lottery pick. ... Also declaring for the draft were Kentucky guard Keldon Johnson and Kansas guard Quentin Grimes. ... Mark Pope is returning to BYU to replace the retired Dave Rose as the Cougars’ coach. Pope was an assistant under Rose from 2011 to 2015 before leaving to take the top job at Utah Valley. ... Casey Alexander was hired as the 10th coach in Belmont history, succeeding his former coach and boss, Rick Byrd. The 46-year-old Alexander played at Belmont and spent 16 years as Byrd’s assistant before leaving to become head coach at Stetson for two seasons and Lipscomb for six.

NFL: The Patriots re-signed kicker Stephen Gostkowski and added tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins. With the Gostkowski signing, the team is bringing back its second-longest tenured player behind only quarterback Tom Brady. Next season will be the 35-year-old kicker’s 14th in the NFL.

Soccer: Ajax wasn’t rattled by a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo at the stroke of halftime, equalizing immediately after the break to secure a 1-1 draw against Juventus in Amsterdam in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals. Showing increasing confidence after eliminating three-time defending champion Real Madrid in the last 16, Ajax produced more chances early on but then let Ronaldo waltz through its defense to head in a cross in the 45th minute. In the opening minute of the second half, David Neres curled a shot into the far top corner. ... Luke Shaw unwittingly helped Luis Suarez’s header into the net to give Barcelona a 1-0 win over Manchester United in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal in Manchester, England.

Tennis: The season-long streak of having different winners at each WTA tour event will continue for another week after Alison Van Uytvanck lost in the second round of the Samsung Open in Lugano, Switzerland. Van Uytvanck is among the 16 women who have won a singles title in 2019. She was the last of the group still playing at this week’s clay-court tournaments in Lugano, Switzerland and Bogota, Colombia. The fourth-seeded Belgian lost 6-4, 7-5 to 108th-ranked Fiona Ferro of France to ensure there will not be a repeat of her hard-court victory in Budapest in February.

WNBA: Notre Dame guard Jackie Young, who decided to enter the WNBA draft early and skip her senior season, was selected No. 1 by the Las Vegas Aces. She’s the second Irish player to be drafted first after entering early, joining Jewell Loyd in 2015. Young was the first of five Notre Dame players to be drafted. Arike Ogunbowale went fifth to Dallas. Brianna Turner went 11th to the Atlanta Dream. She was later traded to Phoenix for Marie Gulich. Jessica Shepard was taken 16th by the Minnesota Lynx. Marina Mabrey was the fifth to go, drafted 19th by the Los Angeles Sparks.

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