NATIONAL SPORTS NEWS

Last Update on February 03, 2012 08:07 GMT

ALL-STAR STARTERS

NEW YORK (AP) -- Blake Griffin and Andrew Bynum have been voted to the All-Star game, joining Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul to give the city of Los Angeles four starters.

Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant kept the West from being an entire L.A. story by earning a forward spot for the Feb. 26 game in Orlando. Griffin and Bynum are first-time starters, while Bryant earned his record-tying 14th consecutive nod.

Dwight Howard of the host Magic was the leading vote-getter with 1.6 million. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are going together again from Miami, while MVP Derrick Rose of Chicago and New York's Carmelo Anthony round out the East starters.

Starters were chosen by fan balloting. The reserves will be chosen by voting of the head coaches from each conference and will be announced next Thursday.

ORAL ROBERTS-S DAKOTA ST

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- Nate Wolters scored 24 points and Jordan Dykstra added 22 as South Dakota State snapped Oral Roberts' 13-game winning streak with a 75-60 win Thursday night.

South Dakota State (18-6, 10-2 Summit League) asserted itself as the front-runner with a 15-2 lead inside the game's first seven minutes, precipitated by three turnovers and 1 of 7 shooting by Oral Roberts (20-5, 12-1). South Dakota State led 34-23 at halftime.

Oral Roberts had been undefeated in conference play coming into the game, having won 19 consecutive Summit League games dating to last season, but was undone by 3 of 13 3-point shooting and 15 turnovers.

In the second half, the Golden Eagles would get no closer than 11 in the second half and trailed by as many as 20.

Roderick Pearson and Warren Niles led Oral Roberts with 14 points apiece. Michael Craion and Steven Roundtree added 12 points each.

SIGNING DAY-OKLAHOMA ST

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -- Oklahoma State has added two more high-school prospects to its 2012 recruiting class.

The Cowboys announced Thursday that they received letters of intent from receiver Austin Hays from San Antonio and linebacker Seth Jacobs from Arroyo Grande, Calif. The letters arrived after OSU announced a class of 22 recruits on national signing day Wednesday.

Hays is 6-foot-2 and 170 pounds and is the fifth receiver signed by Oklahoma State for next season.

Jacobs is 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds and becomes the second linebacker in the recruiting class.

Jacobs was recruited as part of a rare trip to California by coach Mike Gundy. Gundy says Oklahoma State doesn't plan to recruit the state heavily -- but is willing to make occasional trips there as OSU's national profile continues to rise.