Eagles Finally Get First ACC Win by Phil Kasiecki CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College can exhale, for now anyway. After starting their inaugural season 0-3 in ACC play, the Eagles finally got their first win in their new conference on Saturday as they held on for a 90-87 win […]
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Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Conference Notebook by Neal Heston First Quarter Report Card The conference season is four to five games deep now. Some of your typical straight-A teams will still make Mom and Dad proud. Others may want to forge signatures. Southern Illinois (11-3, 4-0) The Salukis definitely didn’t hit the […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Home cookin’ is the order du jour in the ACC. After one week of conference play, every team now has at least one game under their belt. Most have two. And only Duke has a conference road win. The road is always tough […]
Georgia Tech: Tarver Returns to Tech
Tarver Returns to Tech: Completing a suspension of less than a week, Georgia Tech senior forward Theodis Tarver returned to the team today after an academic committee ruled him eligible. Coach Paul Hewitt suspended Tarver earlier this week for failing to meet the school’s academic standards even though he satisfied […]
Missouri: Leading Tiger May Miss Colorado Game
Leading Tiger May Miss Colorado Game: Missouri junior guard Thomas Gardner may miss this weekend’s home game vs. Colorado because he had a concussion during practice yesterday. Thomas, the Tigers’ leading scorer, and sophomore forward Marshall Brown both scrambled for a loose ball and ran into each other, with Brown’s […]
Connecticut: Mono Weakens Husky
Mono Weakens Husky: Still fresh to Connecticut’s lineup, junior point guard Marcus Williams now has mononucleosis. Despite receiving the diagnosis for the illnesses that produces chronic fatigue — not a good symptom for a basketball player — the Huskies will continue to play Williams until he shows ill effects of […]
Northern Iowa: Injury Tames Panther
Injury Tames Panther: Northern Iowa senior guard Erik Crawford will miss at least a month while recovering from a broken bone in his right foot. Crawford hurt his foot in Northern Iowa’s 55-52 loss to Creighton Wednesday. He averages 10.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game as one […]
Villanova Beats Rutgers In OT
Guards Win it For Villanova, Again by John Celestand PISCATAWAY, N.J. – In college basketball, if you have one good guard you are fortunate. If you have an abundance of good guards, then count your blessings. Villanova’s guards helped them pull away from a scrappy Rutgers squad in overtime on […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart It was said at the beginning of the season that the Northeast Conference is one in which any team can knock off any opponent on any given night. Well, that statement has proved to be somewhat accurate thus far. The NEC appears to be […]
Baylor: Dotson Denied Appeal
Dotson Denied Appeal: Former Baylor player Carlton Dotson will not have an opportunity to appeal his murder conviction, at least not on the watch of Texas District Judge Ralph Strother. The judge denied Dotson’s request yesterday to appeal the conviction for murdering his former teammate Patrick Dennehy. Dotson had forfeited […]
