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Alabama guard Avery Johnson Jr.. top right, shoots and scores against Clemson guard Shelton Mitchell in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Alabama forward Braxton Key (25) scores against Clemson center Sidy Djitte in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Alabama guard Avery Johnson Jr. dunks against Alabama in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Clemson guard Shelton Mitchell scores against Alabama in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY DEC. 18 AND THEREAFTER - In a Dec. 12, 2016 photo, Mulberry Elementary School's therapy dog, Finley, licks Kaylee Cochran, in Muscatine, Iowa. Finley is Mulberry Elementary's first therapy dog and one of his many jobs is to help students cope with sadness or anxiety. (Liora Engel-Smith/Muscatine Journal via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY DEC. 18 AND THEREAFTER - In a Dec. 12, 2016 photo, trainer Lindsay Welsch, left, holds Finley as kindergartner Ben Maas pets him at Mulberry Elementary School in Muscatine, Iowa. Finley is Mulberry Elementary's first therapy dog and one of his many jobs is to help students cope with sadness or anxiety. (Liora Engel-Smith/Muscatine Journal via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY DEC. 18 AND THEREAFTER - In a Dec. 12, 2016 photo, first grader Annabella Hesseling reads to Finley at Mulberry Elementary School in Muscatine, Iowa. Finley is Mulberry Elementary's first therapy dog and one of his many jobs is to help students cope with sadness or anxiety. (Liora Engel-Smith/Muscatine Journal via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 18 - In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, paint cans surround Claire Cooley, a 7th grade student at Anson Middle School, as she paints a hay bale in Anson, Texas. Anson Middle School art students have painted 41 bales around town for the Christmas season. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 18 - This Nov. 29, 2016 photo, shows one of the complete hay bales on the courthouse squarein Anson, Texas. Anson Middle School art students have painted 41 bales around town for the Christmas season. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 18 - In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Hanna Jones, second from right, and Trista McIntire, right, laugh as boys from their eighth grade art class strain to tip over a hay bale on the courthouse square in Anson, Texas. Anson Middle School art students have painted 41 bales around town for the Christmas season. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 18 - In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Eighth grade student Hanna Jones adds color to the candy cane painted on a hay bale near the Jones County Courthouse in Anson, Texas. Anson Middle School art students have painted 41 bales around town for the Christmas season. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 18 - In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Lauryn Macias, 13, watches as Erica Jones fills in the color for Santa Claus' eyes on one of the hay bales around the Jones County Courthouse in Anson, Texas. Anson Middle School art students have painted 41 bales around town for the Christmas season. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 18 - In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Erica Jones, the Anson Middle School art teacher, pains the eyes on a portrait of Santa Claus decorating a hay bale along U.S. 277 in Anson, Texas. Anson Middle School art students have painted 41 bales around town for the Christmas season. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, DEC. 17-18 - In this Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 photo, second grade students work in class at Wildflower Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colo. Wildflower Elementary has won the 2016 National Title 1 Distinguished School, which means the school has closed achievement gaps for minorities, low-income kids and other subgroups of students. The recognition continues a history of achievement for the school; it won the National Blue Ribbon Award for excellence five years ago, in 2011. (Stacie Scott/The Gazette via AP)
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Hugo Romero, 13, slides down a hill in snow at Chapman Elementary School in Northwest Portland, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. Mike Zacchino/The Oregonian via AP)
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Maria Marin breaks the ice on the sidewalk after shoveling snow, and before adding salt Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, at her home in Walla Walla, Wash., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. (Michael Lopez/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP)
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Julian LePelch paddles his kayak past a flooded field at Tamalpais High School Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in Mill Valley, Calif. One of the strongest rainstorms of the season hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, with a small town in the North Bay receiving nearly seven inches of rain over the last 24-hour period, forecasters said. Flash-flood warnings are in effect for southern Sonoma County and northern Marin County. LePelch is a student at the school. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Students walk along West 4th Street in front of the Jeffrey S. Gould learning center, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, in New York. New York University has introduced a program to help students save money by putting them up in elderly people's spare bedrooms. The plan has gotten serious consideration from some students straining under the institution's $66,000 annual tuition. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Yale University alumnus Dr. Benjamin Carson, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, speaks at Yale, Thursday, Dec. 8 as a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale. (AP Photo/Stephen Dunn)
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From left, Caleb Montgomery, Mahbubul Alam and Tyler Siefken perform sandbell slams during 7th grade PE class at Cockrill Middle School on Nov. 9, 2016 in McKinney, Texas. (Ting Shen/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
