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Gonzaga needs team effort to top Indiana
Mar 18 2006 11:59PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - That wispy mustache shouldn't fool anyone. Adam Morrison and his Gonzaga teammates are up there with the big boys of college basketball _ in large part because there's more to the Zags than just their superstar.
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Indiana's Mike Davis stoic in goodbye
Mar 18 2006 11:57PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mike Davis wearily said goodbye to Indiana basketball, thanking his players as much for their effort over the last month as for their final game for the coach.
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DePaul cruises past Liberty in 1st round
Mar 18 2006 11:36PM (CT)
ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) - Hanging from Doug Bruno's left pocket was a simple piece of paper with the inscription: "Thanks Coach Ray." DePaul's players wore a similar message on the sides of their shoes.
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Okla. State's Hendricks win 165-lb finals
Mar 18 2006 11:18PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Johny Hendricks set off Oklahoma State's celebration of its fourth straight national title Saturday night with a dramatic victory in the 165-pound finals.
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Lady Bears hold off Northern Arizona
Mar 18 2006 11:13PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - For the first 15 minutes or so, the Lady Bears of Baylor looked like the defending NCAA champions they are. That was good enough to get them past feisty Northern Arizona 74-56 in their first-round game Saturday night.
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Top-seeded UNC ousts UC Riverside
Mar 18 2006 11:00PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ivory Latta has a personal guarantee. The North Carolina Tar Heels will be back up to full speed in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
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Duke dominates GW en route to Sweet 16
Mar 18 2006 10:31PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - From J.J. Redick's 3-pointer for the first points to another perfectly dominating performance from Shelden Williams, the Duke Blue Devils were as good as they've been all year.
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LSU nips Texas A&M in wild finish
Mar 18 2006 10:30PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - LSU calls the play "special," and Darrel Mitchell ran it to perfection. With the clock running out on his team's hopes, the Tigers' lone senior made a long 3-pointer with 3.9 seconds remaining to give the Southeastern Conference regular-season champions a 58-57 victory over Texas A&M on Saturday in the second round of the Atlanta Regional.
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Washington rallies to beat Illinois 67-64
Mar 18 2006 9:55PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Washington Huskies somehow got labeled as being soft while on their way to finishing second in the Pac-10 Conference. No one would dare say that to the Huskies now.
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Boston College too big, fast for Montana
Mar 18 2006 9:47PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Jared Dudley was waiting for Boston College to play this way the entire season. The Eagles dominated 12th-skeeded Montana 69-56 Saturday in the Minneapolis Regional, looking nothing like the team that struggled to beat Pacific in the first round.
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Wichita State upsets Tennessee to advance
Mar 18 2006 8:29PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - P.J. Couisnard stepped back from the defender and launched a straightaway 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down. As soon as the ball swished through the net, Couisnard pointed triumphantly to Wichita State's rowdy fans.
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Oklahoma's Paris makes Pepperdine pay
Mar 18 2006 8:26PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Courtney Paris raised her hand to come out, then trotted past Oklahoma's bench and down a tunnel. It was only a few minutes into the game, so she must have had an injury or an equipment problem, right? Nope.
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TCU's Lacy to miss NCAA first-round game
Mar 18 2006 7:57PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Natasha Lacy, the leading scorer and rebounder for Texas Christian, will miss Sunday's first-round NCAA tournament game against Texas A&M to attend to a personal matter.
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Florida advances to Sweet 16 with rout
Mar 18 2006 7:37PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Gators downplayed every aspect of their recent struggles in the NCAA tournament. They pointed to this being a different year and a different team, and vowed to get different results.
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Terps ignore seeding, focus on preparation
Mar 18 2006 6:52PM (CT)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Maryland guard Shay Doron says the sore right thigh that bothered her during the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament a couple weeks ago is just fine. Her ego doesn't seem to be too bruised either by the No. 2 seed for the Terps.
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Staley, Rizzotti savor 1st round matchup
Mar 18 2006 6:37PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Dawn Staley graduated from college four years before Jennifer Rizzotti. However, it was Rizzotti who likely blazed a trail for Staley to take over as coach at Temple and eventually lead the Owls into an NCAA tournament date against ... Rizzotti and Hartford.
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Army women's basketball enjoys new fame
Mar 18 2006 6:35PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Army's women's basketball team is becoming quite the craze as the huge underdogs prepare to meet Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
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Washington tops Minnesota in 1st round
Mar 18 2006 6:29PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Kristen O'Neill scored four points in the final minute, including a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 56.6 seconds left, and Washington beat No. 25 Minnesota 73-69 Saturday.
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Dials carries OSU's hopes against Hoyas
Mar 18 2006 6:22PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State's Terence Dials didn't do a very good job of trying to hide how tired he was of answering questions about Georgetown center Roy Hibbert.
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BYU wins 1st tournament game in 4 years
Mar 18 2006 6:15PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Ambrosia Anderson hit a baseline jumper and ran down the court with a huge grin on her face. This was the homecoming she had in mind.
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Carolina's fab frosh leading title defense
Mar 18 2006 6:10PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - From any perspective, the statistic is stunning. In the last 13 minutes of their NCAA tournament opener, the North Carolina Tar Heels got all of their points from four freshmen playing well beyond their years.
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Les leads Bradley into the second round
Mar 18 2006 6:09PM (CT)
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Jim Les was Bradley's starting point guard in 1986, the last time the Braves played in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
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Augustus, LSU decimate Florida Atlantic
Mar 18 2006 6:05PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - LSU coach Pokey Chatman is not happy after her top-seeded Tigers opened up their chase for a national title with a mixture of rust and complacency.
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Arizona St. overwhelms Stephen F. Austin
Mar 18 2006 5:46PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona State was too big and too deep for Stephen F. Austin on Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA women's tournament.
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Arizona's Shakur looking to lead upset
Mar 18 2006 5:31PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Mustafa Shakur developed his style on Philadelphia's gritty city playgrounds, competing against future Division I stars and neighborhood regulars.
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Northwestern St. reminds nation of Katrina
Mar 18 2006 5:24PM (CT)
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Kerwin Forges' girlfriend was almost eight months pregnant with twins when she fled the New Orleans area with his parents, about a day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
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Evansville player killed in crash
Mar 18 2006 5:22PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Evansville basketball player Eric Ottens died in a crash in Iowa when he ran a stop sign and his car was struck by another, police said.
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Bucknell different day after 2nd NCAA win
Mar 18 2006 5:07PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The day after their shocking first-round NCAA tournament victory last year, the Bucknell Bison were still caught up in the excitement of what they had done.
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Utah rallies from brink of 1st round upset
Mar 18 2006 3:45PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Shona Thorburn brought Utah back from the brink of a first-round upset in the NCAA tournament. The senior guard scored eight of her 21 points in the final 4 1/2 minutes and the fifth-seeded Utes rallied from a 15-point second-half deficit Saturday to beat No. 12 seed Middle Tennessee 76-71.
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Michigan State beats Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mar 18 2006 2:39PM (CT)
ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) - Liz Shimek took over in the second half and Michigan State took off. Shimek scored 17 of her 27 points in the final 20 minutes as the Spartans shook off a sluggish first half and pulled away from Wisconsin-Milwaukee for a 65-46 victory in their NCAA tournament opener Saturday.
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Manhattan bounces Maryland from NIT
Mar 18 2006 1:37PM (CT)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Maryland never really wanted to be part of the National Invitation Tournament. Following a listless performance against Manhattan, the top-seeded Terrapins won't have to play anymore.
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Kansas suffers 2nd straight 1st round loss
Mar 18 2006 12:10PM (CT)
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Most of these Kansas kids didn't have much to do with the "Bucknell Bummer." Now they have one to call their own. Marcellus Sommerville scored 21 points and made five 3-pointers, and 13th-seeded Bradley handed the fourth-seeded Jayhawks their second straight first-round NCAA tournament exit with a 77-73 victory Friday night.
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Memphis starts slow, beats Oral Roberts
Mar 18 2006 5:00AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Andre Allen isn't the Memphis player opposing teams consider a serious threat. He's a 5-foot-10 guard who comes off the bench and doesn't make a lot of shots, especially from long range.
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Bennerman leads N.C. State past California
Mar 18 2006 4:59AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Herb Sendek knew his N.C. State Wolfpack only needed a little prodding to break out of their four-game losing streak. So before they opened the NCAA tournament, he treated them to a highlight film of the great plays they made this season.
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George Mason proves critics wrong with win
Mar 18 2006 4:59AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Sensing that his team was nervous and tight, George Mason coach Jim Larranaga called his players together after practice earlier this week.
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Texas struggles, but defeats Penn
Mar 18 2006 4:58AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - With LaMarcus Aldridge and P.J. Tucker in the lineup, the Texas Longhorns were supposed to have an easier time in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
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Former DePaul basketball coach dies at 92
Mar 18 2006 4:57AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Ray Meyer, who built DePaul into a national basketball power during a 42-year span, coaching a generation of players stretching from George Mikan to Mark Aguirre, died Friday at age 92.
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Defending champs squeak by in 1st round
Mar 18 2006 4:55AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A whole new Carolina cast looked nothing like defending champs the first time out in the NCAA tournament. In the end, four freshmen made it turn out all right.
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Villanova holds off pesky Monmouth
Mar 18 2006 4:54AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Villanova had the No. 1 seed, the home-court advantage, and a resume that has them unquestionably among the nation's elite. None of that seemed to faze unheralded Monmouth.
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Albany nearly pulls off shocker over Uconn
Mar 18 2006 4:48AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Connecticut relied on its skill and experience to avoid an historic upset. Marcus Williams scored a season-high 21 points and Denham Brown added 17, helping the top-seeded Huskies overcome a 12-point, second-half deficit to beat 16th-seeded Albany 72-59 on Friday night.
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Ill., Wash. show respect before face-off
Mar 18 2006 4:34AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Illinois and Washington players spoke glowingly of each other on Friday. The coaches from UCLA and Alabama tried to build each other up. But on Saturday, they'll be trying to beat each other.
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Missouri State ousts Stanford in NIT
Mar 18 2006 12:58AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Blake Ahearn and Deke Thompson scored 19 points each to lead Missouri State to a 76-67 win over Stanford on Friday night in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament.
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