Newswire

Hampton: Collins Quits at Hampton

Collins Quits at Hampton: Hampton coach Bobby Collins resigned yesterday, ending a four-year run with the Pirates. Collins compiled a 65-57 record in those four years, including the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship this season and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament play-in game. The Pirates lost to Monmouth 71-49 in […]

NCAA: NIT Redux

NIT Redux: The NIT continued play Wednesday with seven first-round games. Here’s a roundup of the results. No. 5 Old Dominion surprised No. 4 Colorado with a crushing 79-61 victory on the road. Isaiah Hunter hit five three-pointers en route to a career-high 28 points. The Monarchs will play the […]

Pepperdine: Westphal Lost in Waves’ Overwash

Westphal Lost in Waves’ Overwash: Pepperdine officials fired coach Paul Westphal Wednesday after the Waves finished a 7-20 season. Westphal had coached the Waves for five seasons but did not yield as much success as he has had earlier in his career. He has coached the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and […]

Ball State: Cardinals Dump Buckley

Cardinals Dump Buckley: Ball State officials fired coach Tim Buckley Wednesday. The Cardinals finished the season 10-18, ending Buckley’s six-year run as Ball State’s coach. He compiled a 143-139 record during his stint with the Cardinals, including one NIT appearance in 2002. The school reassigned Buckley to another position at […]

Pan American [3/16/06]

Davenport Out at Texas – Pan American: Texas – Pan American officials canned coach Robert Davenport Tuesday after he completed his second losing season in two years as the Broncs’ coach. The team finished 7-24 this season after going 12-16 last season. School officials didn’t appreciate the program’s apparent decline […]

NCAA: Bomb Scare Delays San Diego Games

Bomb Scare Delays San Diego Games: Police officials responded quickly to a possible bomb threat at San Diego State’s Cox Arena, the site of four first-round games today, by evacuating the stadium and brining in the dogs. A bomb-sniffing dog identified a possible problem in a hot dog stand. After […]

First Round [3/16/06]

Oakland Region – First Round: No. 2 UCLA started slow against No. 15 Belmont, making only five shots while the other Bruins jumped out to an 18-12 lead. But the more celebrated Bruins outscored their counterparts by 40 the rest of the game to cruise to a 78-44 victory. Freshman […]

Minneapolis Region: Play-in Game

Minneapolis Region – Play-in Game: No. 16 Monmouth opened NCAA Tournament action with a 71-49 win against No. 16 Hampton in the play-in game. Powered by a flurry of three-pointers, the Hawks dominated the Pirates to earn a trip to Philadelphia to play Villanova in the first round. Chris Kenny […]

NCAA: NIT Redux

NIT Redux: The NIT resumed college basketball action after everyone took a day off to breathe following the closing weekend of conference tournament madness. The eight opening round games featured four match ups between No. 7 vs. No. 8 seeds and No. 9 vs. No. 10 seeds. No. 9 Manhattan, […]

USC: Pruitt Pestered by Victoria’s Secret

Social Networking Gone Awry: According to several sources, a prank was pulled on USC starting guard Gabe Pruitt by Cal-Berkeley students, who created a fake online persona (“Victoria”) who chatted with Pruitt online. At the Saturday, March 4th game against USC, Cal students started chanting “Victoria” as Pruitt was introduced, […]