Category: NCAA News Wire
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — No. 20 Memphis defeated No. 18 SMU 67-58 Saturday at FedExForum in the American Athletic Conference finale for both teams. Memphis (23-8, 12-6 AAC) used a 20-5 run to go from trailing by a point to taking a 58-44 lead with nine minutes to play. Tigers senior guard Chris Crawford (nine points) […]
South Carolina coach Frank Martin was remorseful on Friday about his actions this week that led to a one-game suspension from the university. Martin will sit out Saturday’s SEC game at Mississippi State as “a result of inappropriate verbal communication as it relates to the well-being of our student-athletes,” South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner […]
UC Santa Barbara officials issued a statement on Friday apologizing for the odd occurrence during Thursday’s men’s basketball game against Hawaii, when a UCSB student ran onto the court and confronted Hawaii coach Gib Arnold. The statement read as follows: “On behalf of the UCSB student-athletes and staff we are disappointed and saddened by the […]
ST. LOUIS — As far as No. 2 Wichita State is concerned, its 31-0 regular season is ancient history. “As of now, we’re 1-0,” guard Fred VanVleet said following the Shockers’ 80-58 blowout of Evansville on Friday in the Missouri Valley Conference quarterfinals. “We’re going to try to go 1-0 again tomorrow and 1-0 on […]
ST. LOUIS — The Shocker Invitational, a.k.a. the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, got underway Friday with a predictable result. No. 2-ranked Wichita State set a single-game conference tournament record with 11 blocked shots as it notched its third double-figure win of the season over Evansville, an 80-58 decision in the quarterfinals at Scottrade Center. Forward […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — The last moments of the first half said everything about the Butler Bulldogs’ 79-46 winThursday over the DePaul Blue Demons. With one second left, Butler center Nolan Berry rebounded guard Alex Barlow’s miss and finished with a dunk to give the Bulldogs a 35-18 lead. But Barlow kept an eye on DePaul […]
Freshman guard Milton Doyle buried a 3-pointer at the buzzer, giving Loyola (Chicago) a 74-72 win over Bradley in a first-round Missouri Valley Conference tournament game Thursday at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The 10th-seeded Ramblers lost two regular-season games to the seventh-seeded Braves by a combined 26 points, but they avenged those defeats […]
The Virginia Commonwealth Rams overcame a slow start and an uneven performance to knock off the Richmond Spiders 56-50 on the road Thursday night and keep its hopes of winning a share of the Atlantic 10 Conference title alive. VCU (23-7, 11-4 Atlantic 10) was down 26-22 at halftime and trailed 37-26 on a layup […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Guard Alex Barlow scored 19 points and the Butler Bulldogs ended their seven-game losing streak with a 79-46 win on Thursday night over the DePaul Blue Demons. Forward Khyle Marshall added 18 for Butler (13-16, 3-14 Big East), which had not won since a 64-57 victory at Seton Hall on Jan. 29. […]
Guard Justin Black hit a fallaway 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds left in overtime to give Morgan State a 68-66 victory at Howard on Thursday night in Washington. Howard took a 66-65 lead on a tip-in by junior guard Prince Okoroh with 8.9 seconds left. Morgan State then got the ball to Black, a 6-foot-2 senior, […]
