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Despite his insistence that the 2012 Olympics in London would be his last with Team USA, it appears that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski could be in for another run in the 2016 Games. Team USA chairman Jerry Colangelo has yet to name a replacement and has pushed the deadline for finding a new coach past the…
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San Jose State leading scorer James Kinney suspended for season
Feb 9, 2013, 10:44 AM EDT
San Jose State senior guard James Kinney has already been forced to sit eight straight games, but now has been suspended for the remainder of the 2012-13 season, the San Jose Mercury News is reporting. Kinney, who had been averaging 20.6 points per game before his suspension, would be one of the nation’s Top 15…
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Pregame Shootaround 2.9.13: Peyton Siva, Russ Smith meet tough Notre Dame backcourt in South Bend
Feb 9, 2013, 9:32 AM EDT
Game of the Day: No. 11 Louisville vs. No. 25 Notre Dame (9:00 p.m. ET, ESPN) Louisville has won three straight games after losing three in a row as part of a bad stretch in late January. In hand with that turnaround has been Peyton Siva reemerging after struggling during the Cardinals’ losing streak. Since…
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Late Night Snacks: Chase Tapley caps night with last-second shot to beat Boise State (VIDEO)
Feb 7, 2013, 1:31 AM EDT
Tapley beats Boise Game of the Day: Wisconsin 74, Iowa 70 (2OT) Four Badgers scored in double figures, as Iowa dropped another close game to a quality Big Ten opponent. Wisconsin trailed by three, 58-55, with 0:21 to go, but a clutch three-pointer from Traevon Jackson tied the game and sent it into overtime. In the…
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Toledo’s Nathan Boothe downs Miami (OH) with buzzer-beating three (VIDEO)
Feb 6, 2013, 11:42 PM EDT
Toledo freshman Nathan Boothe had 13 points Wednesday night, but none were bigger than the three that gave his team the 65-64 victory over Miami (OH). The Rockets trailed by two with 1.4 seconds remaining and had an in-bounds from under their own basket. Boothe caught a defender stepping in the wrong direction and flashed…
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For a team that has so much youth in its regular rotation, it was Arizona’s two seniors who powered the Wildcats to a win over an upstart Stanford team Wednesday night. Mark Lyons scored a season-high 25 points and Solomon Hill had 23, the two accounting for nearly 66 percent of Arizona’s overall offensive output…
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Indiana State blows out No. 16 Creighton, tied for 2nd in Missouri Valley
Feb 6, 2013, 10:00 PM EDT
Welcome to the wild Missouri Valley. One day after a Southern Illinois team that had previously been 1-10 in conference play beat Wichita State, Indiana State dominated No. 16 Creighton, on its way to a 76-57 victory Wednesday night at Hulman Center in Terre Haute, Ind. Player of the Year candidate Doug McDermott, the center of…
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Keith Appling injures shoulder as No. 8 Michigan State beats No. 18 Minnesota
Feb 6, 2013, 9:11 PM EDT
With the Michigan State backcourt already thinned out by injury, the Spartans needed freshman Gary Harris in the lineup Wednesday against No. 18 Minnesota. Though at times visibly in pain from back spasms, Harris fought to score 15 key points, including a big layup plus the foul with 1:35 remaining to lift No. 8 Michigan…
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Michigan State’s Travis Trice reportedly out vs. Minnesota with concussion symptoms
Feb 6, 2013, 6:44 PM EDT
Michigan State sophomore Travis Trice will miss Wednesday’s game against Minnesota as he works through concussion-like symptoms, Spartans coach Tom Izzo announced this evening and as reported by Diamond Leung of MLive.com. Trice, a 6-0, 170-pound native of Huber Heights, Ohio, dealt with concussion-like symptoms earlier in the season that caused him to miss five…
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ICYMI: Wichita State loses to Southern Illinois on goaltending call in final seconds (VIDEO)
Feb 6, 2013, 5:26 PM EDT
Wichita State lost its third game in a row Tuesday night, falling to Southern Illinois, 64-62, after a Jalen Pendleton floater was blocked and called a goaltend. Was it, though? Video has surfaced, embedded below, of the sequence, which sees Pendleton driving down the lane and putting up a layup before it was blocked by Ehimen…
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Can Ole Miss follow up a big college football signing day with a win on the basketball court?
Feb 6, 2013, 4:09 PM EDT
Ole Miss fans are likely feeling good about their school today, considering the football program had a successful signing day that included nabbing a signature from the nation’s No. 1 prospect, Robert Nkemdiche (pictured at right). The Rebels signed 28 players, including two five-star prospects in Nkemdiche and offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil. It looks like, at…
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Late Night Snacks: Tuesday night shows college basketball means business
Feb 6, 2013, 1:30 AM EDT
Game of the Day: No. 3 Michigan 76, No. 10 Ohio State 74 (OT) It was billed as “Trey Burke vs. Aaron Craft Pt. II” and it didn’t disappoint. We saw a battle of two of the nation’s best point guards, but the most important player for Michigan in its overtime win was junior Tim…
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Tim Hardaway, Jr., No. 3 Michigan outlast No. 10 Ohio State in overtime thriller
Feb 5, 2013, 11:33 PM EDT
Michigan junior Tim Hardaway, Jr. has spent much of the 2012-13 season proving that he has become more than just a three-point shooter in his third year in with the Wolverines. But on Tuesday night, he leaned on that three-point shot again and led No. 3 Michigan to a grueling 76-74 overtime win against No.…
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Wichita State loses third in a row, falls to 9-point underdog Southern Illinois
Feb 5, 2013, 10:36 PM EDT
What has happened to Wichita State? A loss to Missouri Valley contender Indiana State is one thing. Falling to Northern Iowa was a game the Shockers likely wish they could have had back. But Tuesday night showed a reason for real concern with Gregg Marshall’s team, as the Shockers fell to Southern Illinois, 64-62, at…
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New Orleans chosen as host for Sun Belt Tournament through 2016
Feb 5, 2013, 8:10 PM EDT
The city of New Orleans, fresh off hosting the 2012 Final Four and the 2013 Super Bowl, has been chosen as the host site for the Sun Belt men’s and women’s championship through 2016, the conference announced Tuesday. “New Orleans is a great destination for our basketball championships and the recent renovations to Lakefront Arena…
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Life isn’t always easy for a college basketball transfer, and we got a peek into that life via the Duke Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper. In a piece by Andrew Beaton, Hood gives insight into the struggles he has faced since coming from Mississippi State and enrolling at Duke this fall. Per NCAA rules, he is…
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Dick Vitale, Brad Nessler, Jay Bilas to be international voices of Final Four
Feb 5, 2013, 5:40 PM EDT
For the first time in his long career, Dick Vitale himself will be a broadcast “diaper dandy” at the Final Four. Vitale, along with play-by-play man Brad Nessler and fellow analyst Jay Bilas, will be the voice of ESPN International’s broadcast of the 2013 Final Four, which reaches 150 countries through 35 networks, reaching from…
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Montana guard Kevin Henderson suspended after being charged with DUI
Feb 5, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT
Sophomore Kevin Henderson has been suspended from the Montana men’s basketball team after being charged with DUI Sunday, the Associated Press is reporting. According to the report, Henderson was pulled over by campus police Sunday and found to have a blood-alcohol level of greater than 0.02, which is the legal limit for persons under the…
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Does the lack of a dominant team help or hurt college basketball?
Feb 5, 2013, 9:30 AM EDT
A hearty welcome to those of you just now joining the rest of us in following college basketball now that football season has ended. We’ll be running a series of posts to get all you football fans caught up on the season at-large. To read through them all, click here. This year in college basketball is…
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Michigan sophomore Trey Burke sits atop CBT’s National Player of the Year rankings
Feb 4, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT
A hearty welcome to those of you just now joining the rest of us in following college basketball now that football season has ended. We’ll be running a series of posts to get all you football fans caught up on the season at-large. To read through them all, click here. Honorable Mentions Jamaal Franklin, San Diego…
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UNLV forward Anthony Bennett leads CBT’s Freshman of the Year rankings
Feb 4, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT
A hearty welcome to those of you just now joining the rest of us in following college basketball now that football season has ended. We’ll be running a series of posts to get all you football fans caught up on the season at-large. To read through them all, click here. There have been a number of…
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Inspiring story behind Tyler Lewis’ breakout game for NC State
Feb 3, 2013, 2:35 PM EDT
NC State was without point guard Lorenzo Brown due to injury Saturday vs. No. 14 Miami. In his absence, the Wolfpack looked to freshman Tyler Lewis, who had played just 38 minutes through the first eight games of ACC play. He would be asked to nearly equal that total Saturday, playing 36 stellar minutes and…
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Jermaine Lawrence, a 6-9, 190-pound native of Queens, N.Y., has committed to coach Mick Cronin and the Cincinnati Bearcats, he announced via a series of pictures on his Tumblr page Sunday. Lawrence chose Cincinnati over St. John’s and UNLV. He becomes the fifth commit in Cincinnati’s 2013 class, joining Kevin Johnson, Troy Caupain, DeShaun Morman,…
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Ricky Ledo to the NBA Draft? Sidiki Johnson off the team? Providence hits rough patch
Feb 3, 2013, 11:55 AM EDT
Ed Cooley is building a solid foundation for future success at Providence. He had one of the top recruiting classes in the country last year. His program is moves to a more stable, basketball-only conference soon. But he is running into two major bumps in the road that could set the progress back significantly, depending…
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Pregame Shootaround 2.3.13: Marquette-Louisville sets table for Super Bowl
Feb 3, 2013, 10:47 AM EDT
Game of the Day: No. 12 Louisville vs. No. 25 Marquette (2:00 p.m. ET, ESPN) Marquette coach Buzz Williams has his team where few expected it to be after losing key starters Darius Johnson-Odom and Jae Crowder after last season. The Golden Eagles are competing and contending in the Big East, off to a 6-1…
