Corey Maggette will sit out the Los Angeles Clippers game against Portland on Saturday night with a chest contusion.

Maggette, coming off 19 points and seven rebounds in a win over Sacramento on Friday night, was injured in the second half against the Kings, but still finished the game.

The Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA Development League have been assigned guard Jordan Farmar from their NBA affiliate, the Los Angeles Lakers. Farmar is the 24th NBA player assigned to a D-League affiliate this season.

Farmar, 6-2, 180, has played in 62 games this season for the Lakers and has averaged 4.8 points, 1.7 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game.  He was selected by the Lakers with the 26th pick in the first round of the 2006 NBA Draft.

?This is just what the Lakers had in mind for the D-Fenders.  It?s a chance to give the young guys some extra playing time and we are happy to be a part of that,? said D-Fenders Head Coach Dan Panaggio.  ?We hope Jordan will bring some leadership and added defensive punch to the D-Fenders line up.?

Farmar will wear jersey #2.

The Florida Gators and their in-demand coach, Billy Donovan, moved one win away from a second straight national championship Saturday night, defeating the Bruins 76-66 behind 19 points from Corey Brewer, 16 from Chris Richard and 14 more from Lee Humphrey.

Donovan got the best of Ben Howland and Florida got the best of UCLA for the second straight year at the Final Four, adding this semifinal win to a 73-57 rout in last year's title game.

"This is what it's all about," Gators forward Joakim Noah said. "We know it's not over yet. We're happy, but we're not satisfied."

This victory for the Gators (34-5) set up another sort of rematch. They'll play Ohio State on Monday in the final, hoping for the same kind of result as their 27-point victory in the championship football game earlier this year. The Buckeyes beat Georgetown 67-60 in the first semifinal Saturday.

Despite one of the best freshman seasons in recent history, Texas phenom Kevin Durant still is not sold that a jump to the NBA is the right move for him at this point, nor does he want people to assume that it is the most logical choice.

"The NBA can wait," Durant told ESPN.com. "I love college so much and if I decide to stay, that's going to show a lot of freshmen that they don't have to go to college just for one year.

"I love my family so much at Texas and I really don't want to leave them," Durant said. "[The NBA] is my dream but it's going to be a hard decision."

Ohio State showed it can win without Greg Oden. Georgetown was just lost without Roy Hibbert.

With Hibbert and Oden both hampered by foul trouble, it was Mike Conley Jr. and the rest of the Buckeyes who carried Ohio State to its first national title game since 1962 with a 67-60 victory over Georgetown on Saturday night.

Conley finished with 15 points, six assists and five rebounds, while Oden added 13 points -- all in the second half -- and eight rebounds in 20 minutes.

Hibbert scored 19 and had six rebounds in 24 minutes for the Hoyas, and more than held his own in the much-anticipated matchup with Oden.

Ohio State will now face the winner of the UCLA-Florida game.

Arkansas has been granted permission to talk to Memphis coach John Calipari, a Memphis official confirmed Saturday.

The Razorbacks are looking for a coach to replace Stan Heath, who was fired Monday. Memphis spokesman Lamar Chance said he wasn't sure Arkansas had contacted Calipari yet, but that permission has been granted.

Calipari guided Memphis to the NCAA regional final for the second straight season. He received a contract extension through 2012 on Monday.

One of Pennsylvania's top high school basketball players, who signed a letter of intent with New Mexico State University, was hospitalized with injuries from a shooting early Saturday, officials said.

Aliquippa High School senior Herb Pope, 18, a three-time first team all-state player, was shot twice in the lower abdomen, once in the left lower arm and once in the thigh around 3 a.m., Aliquippa Police Chief Ralph Pallante said.

"From what the detectives told me, [the injuries] didn't appear to be, at this time, life-threatening," he said.

If it weren't for UCLA playing in today's men's Final Four, Sonics guard Ray Allen would have had surgery on his injured left ankle this week. Instead, Allen will have the season-ending procedure April 7 because the operating doctor promised his daughter, a Bruins fan, that he'd take her to the event in Atlanta.

"I'm in a holding pattern right now," Allen joked. "When the game [between UCLA and Kansas] was on the other day, you know who I was rooting against."

Dr. Richard Ferkel will perform the surgery to remove the large bone spurs in Allen's left ankle at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Los Angeles. Allen is contemplating also having scar tissue in his right ankle repaired simultaneously because the anesthesia causes nausea.

New Orleans Hornets guard Peja Stojakovic said Friday that a setback in his rehab from back surgery will further delay his return to the court.

"It got a little sore and stiffer," said Stojakovic, a three-time All-Star who had a disc fragment removed from his lower back Dec. 17. "I'm going to relax a couple days and get some medication and see how it goes."

The Hornets had planned to re-evaluate Stojakovic to see whether he would be able to play Saturday night against the New York Knicks but Stojakovic was unable to go through practice Friday. He started the session by shooting, but said he started to stiffen up when he started running. He worked out with trainers instead of practicing with teammates.

Derrick Rose was the overwhelming choice as Mr. Basketball of Illinois in statewide balloting of coaches and media.  Rose will attend Memphis this fall.

His favorite book is "Think Big," the story of how African-American neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson overcame an inner-city upbringing in Detroit and Boston to attend Yale and eventually become the first to successfully separate conjoined twins.

"When he was younger, his mother made him read every day," Rose said of Carson. "He became an honor-roll student in high school and then became a doctor. It made a big impression on me."

Rose's favorite television show is the cable comedy "Still Standing," and his favorite performing artist is rapper Lil' Wayne.

His movie of choice is "The Illusionist," and his favorite athlete is LeBron James.