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Marist makes postseason history with win
Mar 13 2007 11:45PM (CT)
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - Will Whittington scored 31 points and Marist upset Oklahoma State 67-64 on Tuesday night in the first round of the NIT.
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Big Time: Niagara wins NCAA play-in game
Mar 13 2007 10:20PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Clif Brown's career night made the NCAA play-in game feel less like a consolation prize. For Niagara, it felt like history. The senior forward with the gentle touch scored 32 points and made a career-high six 3-pointers Tuesday night, leading the Purple Eagles to a 77-69 victory over Florida A&M in the play-in game.
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Big Time: Niagara wins NCAA play-in game
Mar 13 2007 10:20PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Clif Brown's career night made the NCAA play-in game feel less like a consolation prize. For Niagara, it felt like history. The senior forward with the gentle touch scored 32 points and made a career-high six 3-pointers Tuesday night, leading the Purple Eagles to a 77-69 victory over Florida A&M in the play-in game.
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Big Time: Niagara wins NCAA play-in game
Mar 13 2007 10:20PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Clif Brown's career night made the NCAA play-in game feel less like a consolation prize. For Niagara, it felt like history. The senior forward with the gentle touch scored 32 points and made a career-high six 3-pointers Tuesday night, leading the Purple Eagles to a 77-69 victory over Florida A&M in the play-in game.
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Sorry, UConn: Central Conn. is in NCAAs
Mar 13 2007 10:09PM (CT)
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) - Central Connecticut's players are used to the chants on the road: "safety school! safety school!" This is not UConn, the state's flagship university with its national championships, picturesque campus and Hall of Fame coach. This is CCSU, one of four campuses in the Connecticut state university system, located near the Stanley tool factory in blue-collar New Britain.
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Weary Wolfpack beat Drexel in NIT
Mar 13 2007 9:40PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Engin Atsur scored 18 points and Ben McCauley had 16 to lead weary North Carolina State to a 63-56 win over Drexel on Tuesday night in the first round of the NIT.
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Police: Nevada coach abusive, profane
Mar 13 2007 7:25PM (CT)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Nevada coach Mark Fox yelled profanities and appeared ready to use force toward a police officer and game officials after the Wolf Pack lost to in the Western Athletic Conference tournament, according to a police report released Tuesday.
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Former NAIA power gets to both dances
Mar 13 2007 6:16PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - At first, Belmont appeared to have overreached when it jumped from NAIA to NCAA Division I in 1997. How could the small Baptist university _ enrollment around 4,500 _ survive? Quite well, as it turns out.
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Former NAIA power gets to both dances
Mar 13 2007 6:16PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - At first, Belmont appeared to have overreached when it jumped from NAIA to NCAA Division I in 1997. How could the small Baptist university _ enrollment around 4,500 _ survive? Quite well, as it turns out.
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Illinois retires American Indian mascot
Mar 13 2007 5:38PM (CT)
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois swept aside the last vestiges of Chief Illiniwek on Tuesday, voting to retire the mascot's name, regalia and image.
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Cincinnati coach Laurie Pirtle retires
Mar 13 2007 5:07PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Laurie Pirtle is retiring after 21 years as Cincinnati's women's basketball coach with over 300 career victories and six NCAA tournament appearances.
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Column: Kruger a feel-good story at UNLV
Mar 13 2007 5:05PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - UNLV has had more than its share of issues with the NCAA over the years, so it wasn't surprising there was some grumbling about town when a team hotter than the clubs on the glittering Las Vegas Strip managed only a No. 7 seed in the Midwest Regional.
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UMKC fires basketball coach Zvosec
Mar 13 2007 3:02PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - University of Missouri-Kansas City fired men's basketball coach Rich Zvosec on Tuesday after a 12-20 season.
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Former Marine goes dancing in NCAAs
Mar 13 2007 2:58PM (CT)
DENTON, Texas (AP) - Rich Young's road to the NCAA tournament includes a firefight in Iraq and peacekeeping in Kosovo. Now that the North Texas senior forward _ a former Marine and Iraq war veteran _ is about to play in the postseason tournament, he can hardly believe his good fortune.
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Niagara, Florida A&M open NCAA today
Mar 13 2007 6:47AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - It's a game no NCAA tournament team believes it should be in _ the play-in game that fills out the field of 64. This year, Florida A&M and Niagara are feeling insulted they have to play Tuesday night for a chance to take on Kansas, the top seed in the West Regional, on Friday in Chicago.
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Memphis powerhouse has Achilles' heel
Mar 13 2007 5:34AM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Memphis Tigers are among the best scorers and shooters in the country _ until it's time to shoot free throws.
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