Fridays Top 25 Capsule
Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »(13) BUTLER 59, VALPARAISO 51 INDIANAPOLIS Freshman Gordon Hayward scored 18 points and Willie Veasley added 13 as No 13 Butler used a late run to post a 59-51 victory, staving off a feisty Valparaiso team. Matt Howard chipped in nine points ...
Cardinals try to stay focused against Mountaineers
Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »Rick Pitino knows his team got a little too full of itself in the fall when preseason publications tabbed the Cardinals as a near lock for the Final Four. Three nonconference losses soon followed, taking Louisville's swagger and lofty No. 3 ...
Butler’s rapid rise follows familiar pattern
Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »It's 7 a m in Indianapolis and the city's residents are clearing their bleary eyes and snow-covered driveways. A few miles north of downtown, the activity is already bustling. Butler's soccer team is stretching at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The football team works ...
Georgia fires basketball coach Dennis Felton
Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »Dennis Felton led Georgia on a surprising run through the SEC tournament last season, winning four games in four days to capture the title. He won't get that chance this year. Felton was fired as coach of the Bulldogs on Thursday, one ...
Game at Grambling State canceled for no refs
Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »The road-weary Talladega College players arrived for a Grambling State game with hopes of pulling off another upset of a bigger team and left without hearing a single whistle blow. Turns out there was no officiating crew to call the game. "When ...
Thursdays Top 25 Capsules
Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »(25) GONZAGA 69, (18) SAINT MARYS 62 SPOKANE, Washington With Patrick Mills out of the game, Gonzaga had little trouble taking the early lead in the race for the West Coast Conference crown. Matt Bouldin scored 17 points and Steven Gray added ...
Suspended Miami guard Eddie Rios arrested
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »Suspended Miami basketball guard Edwin Rios was arrested and jailed Wednesday on charges of burglary and grand theft, Miami-Dade County jail officials said. Rios was booked Wednesday at 5:51 a.m. on two counts of burglarizing an unoccupied dwelling, and two counts ...
Sampson confirms appeal, calling NCAA ruling wrong
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »Kelvin Sampson has no intention of coaching college basketball anytime soon. Even if the NCAA allows him. Sampson, now an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks, confirmed Wednesday he has appealed the NCAA's decision, stemming from more than 100 impermissible phone calls made ...
Wednesdays Top 25 Capsules
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »(4) WAKE FOREST 70, (1) DUKE 68 WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina James Johnson scored the game-winning layup with under one second to play, lifting fourth-ranked Wake Forest to a 70-68 victory over No 1 Duke in an Atlantic Coast Conference thriller. Duke, which ...
10 remembered on anniversary of OSU plane crash
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketball | No Comments »Oklahoma State University commemorated the eighth anniversary of a plane crash that killed 10 men associated with the basketball program on Tuesday. Despite frigid and icy weather that resulted in the cancellation of classes, the university kept open the lobby of ...
