The recent group of four transfers from the Nebraska volleyball team also has had an impact on the Huskers’ once highly promising 2016 recruiting class.

Among the four players who left the program this spring was freshman outside hitter Maddie Haggerty, who battled a shoulder injury in her only season in Lincoln and did not play. Her younger sister, Molly Haggerty, had also been committed to Nebraska, but reopened her commitment after Maddie decided to seek a new school. Wednesday night, Molly Haggerty announced on social media that she’s committed to Wisconsin.

Molly Haggerty was set to be the third Haggerty to play volleyball at Nebraska, and likely would have arrived with the highest recruiting ranking. She’s long been considered one of the top five recruits in the 2016 class. Her older sister, Meghan Haggerty, will be a senior middle blocker for the Huskers this season. Three years ago, Meghan Haggerty had signed with Wisconsin, before being released from her scholarship and joining NU just a few months before the 2012 season.

Molly and Maddie aren’t planning to be college teammates anymore. Maddie is now at Central Florida. Molly Haggerty committed to Nebraska while attending the Huskers’ preseason scrimmage in 2013, just before her sophomore season of high school. At the time, she told the Journal Star she picked Nebraska over Penn State and Minnesota.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Denzel Valentine scored 13 of his 18 points in the second half to lead Michigan State to a 62-58 win over Oklahoma in an NCAA Tournament East Regional semifinal on Friday night. Counted out in February, the Tom Izzo-coached Spartans (26-11) are instead headed to the Elite Eight for the second straight year and fourth time since 2009. And they’re going as a seventh-seeded team that knocked off the third-seeded Sooners (24-11), a week after knocking off No. 2 Virginia.

Travis Trice led the Spartans with 24 points, while Branden Dawson had 11 rebounds. Buddy Hield led the Sooners with 21 points. Michigan State is the lowest-seeded team still in the tournament, and advances to face fourth-seeded Louisville on Sunday. The game turned once Michigan State took its first lead, going up 44-42 on Dawson’s 8-foot turnaround jumper with 9:26 left. The teams traded the lead four times before the Spartans went ahead for good with 6:42 left, when Matt Costello put back his own miss with an emphatic dunk. After Hield missed a 3-point attempt at the other end, Valentine responded by hitting a pull-up 3-pointer in transition to make it 51-47.

And Michigan State maintained the lead by finally hitting shots from the free-throw line. After missing seven of their first 10, the Spartans were perfect on their final six free throws. Trice hit two to put Michigan State up 62-58 with 13.2 seconds left. Hield missed a 3-point attempt on what became the Sooners’ final possession in a game that stretched into Saturday morning. The Sooners got off to a blistering start on offense by hitting eight of their first 11 attempts, and built a 18-8 lead on Khadeem Lattin’s putback of a Jordan Woodard miss 5 1/2 minutes in. It was an impressive start against a stingy Spartans’ defense that had limited Virginia to hitting just 17 field goals in a 60-54 win last weekend. Oklahoma, however, couldn’t maintain the pace and allowed the Spartans back into the game. Valentine missed six of his first seven attempts before hitting a 3-point basket with 2:36 left to cut the Sooners lead to 31-27.

North Carolina’s long-running academic fraud scandal now includes five NCAA charges, including a lack of institutional control for poor oversight of an academic department popular with athletes and the counselors who advised them.

The school released a 59-page notice of allegations Thursday from the NCAA, which uses the document to specify violations uncovered during an investigation. The charges were more broad-based than focused on individual sports, with the NCAA regarding academic irregularities in the formerly named African and Afro-American (AFAM) Studies department as potential improper benefits by saying athletes received access to courses and other assistance generally unavailable to non-athletes.

No coaches were named in the five allegations, though one dealt specifically with the conduct of a women’s basketball adviser for providing too much help on research papers.