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Brittney Griner will not play for the US Olympic team this summer
Apr 19, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
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Brittney Griner, who could very well be the most dominating women’s basketball player in our country, will not participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics with Team USA. Late last month, a roster for the team was released with 11 of the 12 members, leading to speculation that Griner could be the piece that completed the…
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Back in March, Erving Walker was arrested in Gainesville and charged with petty theft and resisting an officer without violence. Why? Well, according to the police report, Walker ordered a taco from a street vendor and took off without paying. He was spotted by the cops and when they told him to stop, Walker took…
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Two Pitt Panthers will be going under the knife on Friday. Point guard Tray Woodall will finally be getting surgery on what has been deemed a sports hernia. Woodall suffered the injury in a game against Duquesne and sat out 11 of the next 12 games before finally returning. He got hot in the first…
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Bo Ryan finally speaks about Jarrod Uthoff, doesn’t help his case at all
Apr 19, 2012, 1:43 AM EDT
Bo Ryan finally broke his silence regarding his decision to restrict the schools that can recruit redshirt transfer Jarrod Uthoff, who is trying to transfer out of the program. And you know what? Bo proved all of us wrong, just not in the way that he intended. We all thought that he had barred Uthoff…
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CJ Leslie pranked Mark Gottfried before telling him he was returning
Apr 19, 2012, 12:47 AM EDT
On Wednesday afternoon, news broke that CJ Leslie would be returning to NC State for his junior year. The importance of this decision shouldn’t be understated. While Leslie currently falls in that dreaded tweener category in regards to his potential as an NBA player, at the college level he is a perfect fit at the…
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Zach Tomaselli is changing his story again. Just five days after he announced to the world that everything he said in regards to Bernie Fine was lie, that he “has never met Bernie Fine” in his life and that it “was all a game” to him, Tomaselli released a statement saying that all of that…
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Wisconsin could not have possibly messed up the transfer process of redshirt freshman Jarrod Uthoff anymore. And I’m not talking about the fact that a spiteful Bo Ryan is doing everything he can to limit where Uthoff is able to go to school, which in-and-of-itself is an embarrassment. Ryan has made 34.2% of the power…
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Yesterday evening, Jason King of ESPN.com broke the news that Larry Brown was on the verge of being hired by SMU. So every college hoops writer tweeted about it and many of them wrote about it. I did both. It was enough to make one believe that Brown had put pen to paper and signed…
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In September of 2010, Washington announced that Tyreese Breshers, then a redshirt sophomore, would be retiring from basketball for “medical reasons”. What those medical reasons were, precisely, was never announced. Breshers fractured his shin as a senior in high school and needed surgery to insert a rod through his patella tendon and into his shin…
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You don’t need me to tell you (again) how unfair it is that coaches and athletic department administrators can, essentially, hold players that want to transfer out of their program hostage. I did just that on Monday when news about Eric Hyman’s, South Carolina’s AD, refusal to release Damontre Harris to NC State started getting…
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The Ivy League is the only conference in the country that determines the recipient of their automatic bid through regular season standings. There is no Ivy League tournament. The winner of the regular season gets a bid to the Big Dance, and the structure couldn’t be more ideal. There are eight teams in the Ivy…
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Texas A&M t-shirt company is still getting acquainted with the SEC
Apr 17, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
It appears that even Texas A&M fans struggle when it comes to figuring out who is in the new SEC. Aggieland Outfitters, which is, quite obviously, an online apparel store for Texas A&M gear, was forced to recall some t-shirts on Tuesday. The problem? The shirts, which you see to the right and can be…
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As we all suspected would be the case, five of Kentucky’s underclassmen declared for the NBA Draft on Tuesday evening. Freshmen Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague and sophomores Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb are all going pro, but it wasn’t without some drama. “Anthony, Doron and Terrence have decided to put their names…
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Larry Brown to SMU isn’t as bad as everyone is making it out to be
Apr 17, 2012, 5:47 PM EDT
According to a report from ESPN.com, Larry Brown has officially agreed to become the next head coach of the SMU Mustangs. Current Illinois State head coach Tim Jankovich has been offered a job as the “coach-in-waiting”, while the rest of Brown’s staff will be made up by super-recruiter Jerrance Howard (who cut his teeth as…
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One of the big questions coming into this offseason was how the Big East’s tournament would look in 2013. With West Virginia heading to the Big 12 and UConn spending next March on sabbatical, how would the Big East put together a 14 team tournament? Would there be just two double-byes? Would the bottom two…
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Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, Dana O’Neil of ESPN.com broke down the academic reforms that the NCAA ratified back in October. The system isn’t exactly being overhauled, but there will be some significant changes that are made. Here is a list of the changes that will be implemented, beginning in 2015: – Incoming freshmen will be…
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It’s now official: Deshawn Painter will be playing his final season of college basketball at Old Dominion. Painter, who spent the past three seasons at NC State, will be enrolling at the Norfolk, VA, school to be closer to his family. His great-grandmother is sick. “It was really tough,” Painter said of the decision to…
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Every year, there seem to be a couple of players that are simply adored by every single media member that covers college basketball. This year, it was guys like Robbie Hummel, Kim English, Thomas Robinson and Nate Wolters. (Well, at least one media member was crushing on Wolters this season.) One guy that would have…
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Eloy Vargas made one Kentucky fan the most popular girl in her high school and gave her a night she won’t soon forget. On Saturday afternoon at an autograph signing, Vargas was approached by Natascha Richardson with an out-of-the-ordinary request. “It was my turn to get an autograph and I was just like, what are…
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On Friday evening, Alex Oriakhi, the nation’s most sought-after transfer, officially made his commitment to play his final season at Missouri. And while the former UConn big man let the decision-making process play itself out, it turns out that Missouri was the desired destination all along. “This is where I wanted to go from the…
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San Francisco transfer Perris Blackwell had found a landing spot. The 6-foot-9, 240 lb Blackwell was one of six Dons to leave the USF program back in March, but he was undoubtedly the hottest commodity. Blackwell averaged 12.7 points and 6.1 boards as a starter this past season, helping to lead the Dons to the…
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This decision should come as no surprise. Marc Spears, an NBA writer for Yahoo.com, tweeted out on Monday afternoon ”decided to enter the NBA Draft after receiving release from Alabama.” Mitchell, a junior, was suspended from the Alabama team in early February and, ultimately, given the boot after the season ended. Most expected that he would…
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Kentucky’s five stars to hold press conference Tuesday afternoon
Apr 16, 2012, 5:08 PM EDT
The five Kentucky Wildcat underclassmen that saw major minutes this past season — Anthony Davis, Terrence Jones, Doron Lamb, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague — will hold a press conference on Tuesday afternoon to announce their intentions for the NBA Draft. The general consensus: all five are going pro. Anthony Davis will likely be the…
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Damontre Harris the latest player handcuffed by transfer rules
Apr 16, 2012, 4:55 PM EDT
Damontre Harris, South Carolina’s starting center that averaged 6.8 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.3 blocks (he was 19th in the nation in block percentage), has been given a release to transfer out of the program. This is not uncommon nor all that unexpected. South Carolina is in the midst of a coaching change — Frank…
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Read through the rest of our Early Entry breakdowns here. Will Barton, Memphis: Let me preface this by saying that I like Will Barton. A lot. He plays hard. He’s a competitor. He’s quotable and honest and interesting to write about. And he’s got all the tools to be an NBA wing. He’s athletic, he’s got…
