Chanticleers Lose Top Rebounder: Coastal Carolina junior forward Joseph Harris has a torn ligament in his left thumb and will miss the rest of the season. Harris averages 8.3 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. He is third in the conference in rebounding. Harris injured the thumb during the Chanticleers’ […]
Month: December 2007
Arizona: Freshman Lucas-Perry Leaves Desert
Freshman Lucas-Perry Leaves Desert: Arizona freshman guard Laval Lucas-Perry has decided to transfer to another school. Lucas-Perry averaged four points and 1.6 rebounds in 9.8 minutes per game. He played in five of the Wildcats’ eight games this season. Interim coach Kevin O’Neill said Lucas-Perry decided he’d find better opportunities […]
Arkansas State: Prolific Banks Won’t Return in 2007
Prolific Banks Won’t Return in 2007: Arkansas State won’t have its senior leader until 2008. The team has suspended senior guard Adrian Banks through Jan. 1 after he was arrested for firing a gun in Jonesboro city limits. Through six games, Banks was averaging 21.7 points per game. Coach Dickey […]
Pittsburgh: Wallace Will Miss Rest of Panthers’ Season
Wallace Will Miss Rest of Panthers’ Season: Pittsburgh freshman center Austin Wallace will miss the rest of the season after having surgery this Friday to fix a fractured patella tendon, which he injured in practice last week. Wallace scored two points in only 12 minutes this season and did not […]
MEAC: New Teams Will Play in Conference Tournament
New Teams Will Play in Conference Tournament: New MEAC members North Carolina Central and Winston-Salem State are not eligible for the conference’s NCAA Tournament bid yet, but they won’t be left out of the tournament this year. The conference announced a special game between the two that will be played […]
Minnesota: Smith Becomes Million-Dollar Gopher
Smith Becomes Million-Dollar Gopher: Minnesota and coach Tubby Smith have reached agreement on a seven-year contract that will pay Smith $1.75 million per year. The former Kentucky coach arrived in Minneapolis in March to resurrect the Gophers program. So far, Minnesota is 6-1, with the lone loss coming at Florida […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Brad Best The Mountain West Conference men’s basketball teams have collectively hit a bumpy patch in the road that has brought many teams down from their early season peaks and into the valley where pre-season expectations were formed. Take Saturday, December 8 as an example. BYU […]
UMass Wins Ugly
Minutemen Win Ugly, Rebound From Loss by Phil Kasiecki UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Travis Ford was happy to win an ugly game, and not just for the sake of winning alone. Naturally, he wanted the win, but the UMass head coach wanted it to come in a good way. That was […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Conference Notebook by Nils Hoeger-Lerdal We’re a month into the season, and things are beginning to shape up in the Big Ten. Let’s take a look at the expected, unexpected, and peculiar aspects of each team’s early resume. Indiana Hoosiers (8-1) What we knew: Eric Gordon is the […]
Yale Gets Win Over Banged-Up Vermont
Bulldogs Look Solid Against Under-Manned Vermont by Phil Kasiecki NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Mike Lonergan had a sense of how this game was going to go. “I said we’re going to play our butts off and we’re going to be dead in the end,” said the Vermont head coach after […]
