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Kayla Burt joins University of Portland coaching staff (AP) 2007-05-04 06:35:05
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — University
of Portland coach Jim Sollars hired Kayla Burt as an assistant, citing the former Washington guard’s experience and inspirational return to basketball after a heart attack.
“Kayla was a fine player and an inspiration to her team and the entire Seattle area,” Sollars said Wednesday. “She has experience in every area that we need.”
A defibrillator was implanted in Burt’s chest after her heart stopped during a New Year’s Eve gathering
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NCAA panel OK’s moving back 3-point line 2007-05-03 20:24:25
INDIANAPOLIS - College basketball players might want to start polishing up their long-range shooting.
The men’s basketball rules committee approved a measure Thursday that would move the 3-point
line back one foot in 2008-09 — from 19 feet, 9 inches to 20 feet, 9 inches. If approved by the playing rules oversight committee on May 25, it would mark the first major alteration to the 3-point shot since its inception in 1986-87.
The move comes after more than a
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Irish extend Brey’s contract 2 years 2007-05-03 20:21:38
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -Notre Dame’s Mike Brey, the Big East coach of the year, signed a two-year contract
extension Thursday to remain with the Irish
through the 2012-13 season.
Notre Dame was 24-8 last season after going 16-14 the previous year. The Irish went 11-5 in the Big East to match the school record for conference victories, and their 23 regular-season wins were the most since 1985-86.
“Mike is a highly gifted and talented leader, who has a great sense of what it
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N.C.A.A. Looking Ahead on Poor Academic Progress 2007-05-03 19:05:49
The N.C.A.A. released its third annual installment of academic progress data yesterday, penalizing few colleges but projecting many more penalties next year.
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Most of the programs cited in the latest round of penalties have a low national profile. But that should change next year when an exception known as squad size adjustment, which was incorporated to help teams adapt to the new rules, will no longer be available to help stave off scholarship losses.
Without the
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NCAA hits schools for lagging academic progress 2007-05-03 19:04:25
By Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY The NCAA stepped up a crackdown on academics Wednesday, subjecting 81 poor-performing teams to immediate scholarship reductions and flagging more than four dozen as chronic offenders that could be hit with harsher sanctions a year from now.
Four football teams coming off bowl appearances — Hawaii, Western Michigan, Middle Tennessee State and
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Pitino signs three-year extension with Louisville 2007-05-03 19:03:37
LOUISVILLE (AP) — Louisville
coach Rick Pitino signed a three-year contract extension on Thursday that will keep him with the Cardinals through 2013.
The new deal increases Pitino’s annual salary from $1.65 million to $2.25 million a year beginning next season and will pay Pitino $2.5 million a year if he stays until the end of the contract. The contract also boosted a
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NCAA panel recommends moving back men’s three-point line 2007-05-03 19:01:48
By Jack Carey and Tim Gardner, USA TODAY College men’s basketball players might want to spend a good part of the upcoming summer working on longer long-range shooting.
Larry Keating, chairman of the NCAA men’s basketball rules committee, announced Thursday that the committee has voted to recommend that the three-point
arc be moved back one foot — to 20 feet, 9 inches
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NBA’s age minimum working 2007-05-03 10:43:33
Before any of us could be 100 percent confident about the correct spelling of his first name — and, more pointedly, whether he could play this game — Thaddeus Young said it was time to move on.
He will have plenty of classmates on the NBA
draft’s early-entry list. After a year in which college programs borrowed some extremely high-dollar talent, the NBA’s 19-year draft age minimum is forcing that debt to come due. Six of the top seven of Rivals.com’s prospects in the class of
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Top-seeded Tennessee, North Carolina in Pittsburgh field — but can’t play yet (AP) 2007-05-02 12:25:19
PITTSBURGH (AP) &mdash
; Pittsburgh
is an unlikely place for two of women’s college basketball’s most successful programs, Tennessee
and NorthCarolina
, to size up each other before a possible Final Four matchup next month.
Due to a quirky bit of scheduling, the two No. 1 seeds — North Carolina
in the Dallas regional, Tennessee in the Dayton regional — find themselves in the same unfamiliar city during the NCAA tournament but without a chance to play a rematch of the Tar Heels’ early
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NCAA tournament capsules (AP) 2007-05-02 12:12:58
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — There’s more to the Oklahoma Sooners than Courtney Paris.
Just enough, it turns out, for the third-seeded Sooners to hold off No. 14 Southeast Missouri State 74-60 on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Freshman Jenna Plumley, all 5-foot-4 inches of her, had 20 points behind six 3-pointers and Leah Rush scored 19 to lead Oklahoma (27-4).
Sonya Daugherty led Southeast Missouri State (24-8) with 25 points in the Dayton Regional’s opening
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Prized recruit Lucas chooses Florida over Kentucky 2007-05-15 15:35:43
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jai Lucas
picked Florida
over Kentucky
, just like his future college coach.
The McDonald’s All-American and son of former NBA player and coach John Lucas said Monday he will sign a letter of intent to play for Florida and coach Billy Donovan.
Lucas picked Florida over Kentucky and Oklahoma State. He made the announcement at his high
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Backup Winthrop guard seriously injured in car crash 2007-05-15 15:32:00
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Winthrop
basketball player DeAndre Adams was in a coma in an Atlanta hospital after a car accident, coach Randy Peele said Sunday.
The 20-year-old backup guard was returning to his Austell, Ga., home when his car left the road, flipped and hit a tree about 4 a.m. Saturday.
Peele told
The Herald
in Rock Hill that he had been speaking
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, crash
Purdue-NC rematch part of first women’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge (AP) 2007-05-15 03:27:05
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A rematch of a regional final between Purdue
and North Carolina will be part of the first women’s Big Ten
/ACC Challenge
.
The challenge will last at least four years and match 11 teams from each conference, officials announced Monday. The games will traditionally be on the first Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after Thanksgiving, following the men’s format.
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Florida beats out Kentucky for prized recruit 2007-05-14 20:30:36 SCORES | STANDINGS | SCHEDULES | STATS | TEAM PAGES | MATCHUPS | DISCUSS
Florida
beats out Kentucky
for prized recruit
Point guard chooses Gators over Wildcats — just like his future coach
Updated: 6:43 p.m. ET May 14, 2007
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Storm re-sign G Bird (PA SportsTicker) 2007-05-14 03:12:05 SEATTLE (TICKER)
– Sue Bird is back with the Seattle Storm
, and she’s bringing a pair of international titles with her.
Fresh off a Russian Superleague championship, Bird was re-signed by the Storm, the team announced Saturday. Terms were not disclosed.
Along with Seattle teammate Lauren Jackson, Bird helped their Spartak Moscow Region team to an 88-72 victory over CSKA Samara in the fifth and deciding game of their Superleague Finals series earlier in the week. In the
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SN: St. John's, Auburn least relevant programs 2007-05-14 03:10:56 SCORES | STANDINGS | SCHEDULES | STATS | TEAM PAGES | MATCHUPS | DISCUSS
St. John's, Auburnleast
relevant programs
Red Storm stink since Jarvis fired, Tigers inconsistent, Beavers, Lions bad
OPINIONBy Mike DeCourcyUpdated: 8:05 p.m. ET May 12, 2007
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Theus the man in WAC 2007-05-14 03:10:43 SCORES | STANDINGS | SCHEDULES | STATS | TEAM PAGES | MATCHUPS | DISCUSS
Theus to Be Highest Paid Coach in WAC
Updated: 9:51 p.m. ET May 10, 2007
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AP: Law to become Illinois women’s basketball coach 2007-05-14 03:10:36 SCORES | STANDINGS | SCHEDULES | STATS | TEAM PAGES | MATCHUPS | DISCUSS
AP: Law to become Illinois
women’s basketball coach
By DOUG FEINBERGAssociated Press SportsUpdated: 7:54 p.m. ET May 10, 2007
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Point-shaving remains a concern in college athletics 2007-05-14 03:10:15
By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY When gambler Ghazi “Gary” Manni allegedly bribed University of Toledo running back Harvey “Scooter” McDougle Jr. and other players to rig football and basketball games from 2003-06, he didn’t ask them to deliberately lose, according to federal law authorities.
The alleged game-fixer’s pitch to McDougle was more insidious — and
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Security concerns at college stadiums take center stage 2007-05-14 03:10:04
By Jack Carey, USA TODAY PHILADELPHIA — With security concerns
at sports venues on the minds of athletic administrators in the post-9/11 world, representatives of 38 colleges from across the nation met Wednesday at Temple University for the first intercollegiate athletics sport security and safety workshop.
The workshop was presented by ADT Security Services and
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Stability at last: Mystics coach returns for 3rd season (AP) 2007-05-17 23:57:04
WASHINGTON (AP) — On Saturday, Richie Adubato will go where no Washington Mystics
coach has gone before. He will start his third season with the team.
Believe it or not, that’s quite an accomplishment. Before Adubato, the Mystics went through seven coaches in seven years — and Marianne Stanley was the only one to make it through two full seasons.
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Aggies’ Jones contemplates draft 2007-05-17 09:06:24
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas A&M junior forward Joseph Jones said Wednesday he won’t return to the Aggies if he thinks he will be one of the top 15 picks in next month’s NBA draft.
“Anywhere in the top 15 — that will be a great accomplishment for me and I’m going to have to take that,” Jones said in an interview with Houston station KRIV.
Jones has started 94
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With Coaches on Move, Top Recruits May Wait 2007-05-17 07:38:02
When the high-profile college basketball coaches Tubby Smith, Bob Huggins, Billy Gillispie and John Beilein left their teams for new jobs this spring, speculation was widespread about the reactions of the players who had signed national letters of intent with the universities they were leaving.
As of this week, only one of those 12 players had asked for a release from his letter of intent, said officials at Kentucky (Smith), Kansas State (Huggins), Texas A&M (Gillispie) and
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NCAA group to work on academic problems in men’s hoops 2007-05-16 21:07:25
By Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY After years of hand-wringing over academic deficiencies in men’s basketball, the NCAA is launching an intensive review of the sport and a search for remedies.
The association is putting together a working group likely to include university presidents and athletics directors, conference commissioners, faculty athletic representatives and coaches,
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UNC’s Brandan Wright hires agent, will remain in NBA draft 2007-05-16 21:05:31
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina forward Brandan Wright
has signed with an agent and will remain in the NBA
draft pool.
The Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year will be represented by Jim Tanner of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Williams and Connolly.
“I think Brandan is obviously a tremendous talent, and he’s got the potential to be a
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Prep standout Patterson chooses Kentucky 2007-05-16 21:04:48
By Jody Demling, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal The wait for Patrick Patterson
’s decision is finally over.
The McDonald’s All-American from Huntington, W. Va., has picked the University of Kentucky
and is signing a national letter-of-intent with the Wildcats.
The 6-foot-8 Patterson picked Kentucky over Florida and Duke before 250 fans, friends and a throng of media
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Winthrop guard DeAndre Adams dies after car accident 2007-05-16 21:03:44
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Winthrop
guard DeAndre Adams
died Wednesday from head injuries he suffered in a car accident
, the school said.
Adams, 20, had been in a coma since Saturday’s accident. He was returning to his home in Austell, Ga., when his car left the road, flipped and hit a tree.
Winthrop athletic spokesman Jack Frost said in a statement that Adams had
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Mid-Con Conference to change name to The Summit League 2007-05-16 09:01:23
BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — The athletic conference that South Dakota State University will join this summer is changing its name.
Effective June 1, the Mid-Continent Conference will be renamed The SummitLeague
.
SDSU, North Dakota State and Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne will become conference members on July 1. The NCAA Division I conference offers 19 sports for men and
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Starkey gets promotion at LSU (AP) 2007-05-15 20:49:26
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU assistant Bob Starkey, who led the team to the Final Four as an interim head coach last season, has been promoted to associate head coach.
Starkey coached LSU after Pokey Chatman resigned abruptly just before the NCAA tournament amid allegations of improper conduct with a former player.
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Bob Starkey gets promotion at LSU 2007-05-15 19:56:55
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Bob Starkey, the LSU women’s basketball assistant coach who guided the team to the 2007 Final Four, has been promoted to associate head coach by the team’s new head coach Van Chancellor.
Starkey led LSU to four wins in the NCAA tournament after Pokey Chatman resigned abruptly just before the tournament amid allegations of improper conduct with a former
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