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Unfinished business for Latta, Tar Heels
Mar 27 2007 11:59PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Ivory Latta snatched the rebound and immediately looked at the clock. Only 10 seconds left. Just 10 seconds until she was going back to the Final Four. Latta held to the ball and hardly moved a muscle, except to flash a smile that stretched as the clock thinned. Once the buzzer sounded on North Carolina's 84-72 victory over Purdue in the finals of the Dallas Regional on Tuesday night, the senior star threw the ball straight up and ran to join her teammates in celebration.
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Clemson wins; advances to NIT title game
Mar 27 2007 11:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - K.C. Rivers scored 19 points as Clemson held on to beat Air Force and advance to the National Invitation Tournament championship with a 68-67 victory Tuesday night.
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Lady Vols roll into 17th Final Four
Mar 27 2007 10:17PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Candace Parker yearns to win a national championship. Now she and Tennessee are just two games away from ending the Lady Vols' nine-year drought. With Parker dominating at both ends and the talented Lady Vols getting contributions from almost everybody else on the roster, they rolled over Mississippi, 98-62, and into their 17th Final Four on Tuesday night.
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Nichols' heroics lift Mountaineers
Mar 27 2007 9:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Trailing by two with 2 seconds remaining, West Virginia was thinking victory instead of overtime. Darris Nichols hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to lift West Virginia to 63-62 victory over Mississippi State in the semifinals of the NIT at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night.
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Letter perfect: UCLA's great 'D'
Mar 27 2007 8:41PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Add a "D" to UCLA. The Bruins play defense as well as any team in the country, and now comes their greatest challenge _ defending champion Florida and its multifaceted offense.
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Lady Vols roll into 17th Final Four
Mar 27 2007 8:07PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - To beat Tennessee, Mississippi needed to play a near perfect game. Instead, Candace Parker and the Lady Vols did. With Parker dominating at both ends and the talented Lady Vols getting contributions from almost everybody else on the roster, they rolled over the Rebels and into their 17th Final Four 98-62 on Tuesday night.
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Crawford is Georgetown's unsung leader
Mar 27 2007 7:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jeff Green, exercising his usual modesty, said 7-foot-2 center Roy Hibbert is the leader of Final Four-bound Georgetown.
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Crawford is Georgetown's unsung leader
Mar 27 2007 7:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jeff Green, exercising his usual modesty, said 7-foot-2 center Roy Hibbert is the leader of Final Four-bound Georgetown. Hibbert said without a doubt that it's Green, who happens to be the Big East player of the year. When asked to break the tie, coach John Thompson III also didn't hesitate. His answer: none of the above.
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Career assistant helps LSU rise above
Mar 27 2007 5:27PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Bob Starkey has made a career out of being in the background, breaking down film to assist noted coaches such as Dale Brown and Sue Gunter, and running practice drills that helped Shaquille O'Neal and Seimone Augustus develop into stars.
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Louisville taps Walz as women's coach
Mar 27 2007 5:12PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Jeff Walz was hired Tuesday as the women's basketball coach at Louisville after spending the last five seasons as a Maryland assistant.
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Tar Heels mascot dies after hit by car
Mar 27 2007 1:17AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The North Carolina student who performed as a mascot for the school's basketball team died three days after being struck by a car before an NCAA tournament game. Jason Ray died Monday morning, said Steve Kirschner, the university's associate athletic director for communications. He was 21.
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Tar Heels mascot dies after hit by car
Mar 27 2007 1:17AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The North Carolina student who performed as a mascot for the school's basketball team died three days after being struck by a car before an NCAA tournament game. Jason Ray died Monday morning, said Steve Kirschner, the university's associate athletic director for communications. He was 21.
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