NEW YORK - Shunned by the NCAA tournament for the first time in 12 years, Maryland heads the 40-team field for the NIT.

Saint Joseph's made it to the NCAA's regional finals a year ago, but is one of two Atlantic 10 teams in the NIT. The other, Temple, will probably not know until Monday if coach John Chaney will return for the Owls' first-round game against Virginia Tech.

Southeastern Conference powers LSU and Tennessee received No. 1 seeds in the NCAA women's basketball tournament, joined by ACC tournament champ North Carolina and a team not usually seen at that level: Michigan State.The Big Ten tournament champions edged Stanford - which just last week climbed atop The Associated Press poll for the first time this year - to take the No. 1 spot.Joining Stanford as No. 2 seeds were ACC co-champion Duke, Big 12 champion Baylor and Big Ten co-champion Ohio State.

WASHINGTON - Major League Baseball intended to hand over by Monday's due date some of the records subpoenaed by the Government Reform Committee's inquiry into steroids.It's unclear who will show up to testify at the hearing Thursday, but there are deadlines earlier in the week for witnesses' statements and documents about baseball's drug-testing program to be turned over.Committee chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., predicted on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the full House easily would pass a contempt of Congress resolution if subpoenaed players don't appear.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Padraig Harrington shot a 9-under 63 to erase a seven-shot deficit in the final round, then won the Honda Classic when Vijay Singh missed a 21/2-foot putt to bogey the second playoff hole.Joe Ogilvie also made the playoff but was eliminated when he bogeyed the first extra hole, missing the fairway and needing four shots to reach the green.Pat Perez finished a stroke out of the playoff.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - No. 1 Roger Federer opened the defense of his Pacific Life Open title with a methodical 6-3, 6-3 victory over Mardy Fish.In an upset on the women's side, Russian teenager Evgenia Linetskaya defeated No. 2 Amelie Mauresmo 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 in a third-round match.Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic advanced with a win over Tomas Zib.In the women's third round, No. 5 Elena Dementieva defeated Severine Beltrame.

TORONTO - Donyell Marshall tied the NBA record with 12 3-pointers and the Toronto Raptors finished with a league-record 21 in their 128-110 victory over Philadelphia.Marshall was 12-for-19 from 3-point range and finished with a career-high 38 points. The Raptors, 21-for-34 from 3-point range, broke the previous NBA record of 19 3-pointers set by Atlanta in a victory in Dallas on Dec. 17, 1996.