Texas Tech’s Rizvic Has Surgery to Repair Broken Facial Bones: Texas Tech center Esmir Rizvic is recovering from having surgery Monday night to repair broken bones in his face after taking an elbow from Oklahoma’s Longar Longar. Red Raiders coach Bob Knight feels that Longar shouldn’t be allowed to play […]
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Pepperdine, Charlotte: Pepperdine Guard Gerrity Transfers to Charlotte
Pepperdine Guard Gerrity Transfers to Charlotte: Pepperdine sophomore guard Michael Gerrity has transferred to Charlotte and will be eligible to join the team in the second half of the 2007-08 season and will have two and a half years of eligibility remaining. Gerrity had a good freshman season at Pepperdine, […]
South Carolina: Odom Receives Two-Year Extension, NIT Sixpeat Now Possible
Odom Receives Two-Year Extension, NIT Sixpeat Now Possible: After back-to-back NIT championships, South Carolina has given coach Dave Odom a two-year extension. The new deal should keep Odom in charge of the Gamecocks until the 2009-2010 season. Odom is one of only two coaches to have four seasons of 20-plus […]
BYU: BYU Player Celebrates Career-High by Getting Arrested
BYU Player Celebrates Career-High by Getting Arrested: After scoring 19 points to lead the Cougars over San Diego State, Rashaun Broadus was arrested for suspicion of drunken driving Sunday. He was arrested at 5 a.m. and failed sobriety tests, leading cops to charge him with speeding, not having a license, […]
Kansas, Oregon State: Giles Transfers to Oregon State
Giles Transfers to Oregon State: Former Jayhawk center C.J. Giles has transferred to Oregon State two months after his dismissal from Kansas. Giles will be able to practice with the team, but he is ineligible to play until December 2007 and has less than two years of eligibility remaining. Both […]
LSU: Big Baby Banged Up in Accident
Big Baby Banged Up in Accident: LSU junior forward Glen Davis was involved in a car accident early Sunday morning and went to the hospital for evaluation. Another driver apparently ran a stop sign and slammed into the side of Davis’ car, triggering his air bag. Although Davis was uninjured, […]
Kansas State: Wildcats Face Tough Injury Loss
Wildcats Face Tough Injury Loss: Kansas State might be without its most dynamic player, Bill Walker, for the remainder of the season. The team fears that the freshman swingman tore his ACL against Texas A&M this past weekend. Walker will undergo an MRI to determine the extent of the injury, […]
Dayton: Plummer Sits Against Rams
Plummer Sits Against Rams: Dayton sat junior forward Norman Plummer in Sunday’s 75-74 loss at Rhode Island. Plummer, who has already had one issue in recent months when he was convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence in October, is the team’s leading rebounder. Asked about Plummer’s DNP, head […]
Georgia Tech: Yellow Jackets Ban Clinch
Yellow Jackets Ban Clinch: Georgia Tech has suspended sophomore guard Lewis Clinch for the remainder of the season because he violated a school policy. The team did not reveal details about the violation committed by the team’s third-leading scorer. Clinch averages 13.2 points per game and is one of the […]
NCAA: Cal Tech Wins First Game in 10 Years
Cal Tech Wins First Game in 10 Years: It’s hard to imagine any basketball team losing every NCAA game it plays for an entire decade, a span of 207 games. But the Cal Tech Beavers aren’t known for basketball because the Division III school attracts mostly elite future mathematicians and […]