Category: NCAA News Wire
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Forward T.J. Warren led all scorers with 31 points and lifted North Carolina State to a 71-64 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday in Cassell Coliseum. Warren, a candidate for the ACC’s Player of the Year award, played his most efficient game of the season. The sophomore finished 12-for-21 from the floor. […]
PHILADELPHIA — It was one of those games that neither team seemed to want to win. It included poor shooting by St. John’s, several turnovers by Villanova, in addition to loose balls and missed opportunities on both sides. It was the kind of game where it took a little luck to break things open. In […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Forward Davante Garner scored seven of his team-high 22 points in overtime as Marquette held off DePaul for a 96-94 Big East victory on Saturday at Allstate Arena. Gardner’s two free throws with 32 seconds left gave the Golden Eagles the winning points as they opened a 95-89 lead. Blue Demons guard […]
Colgate’s hot shooting, particularly from 3-point range, was too much for struggling Loyola-Maryland in the Raiders’ 84-60 victory on Saturday in Hamilton, N.Y. Colgate (10-17), which snapped a three-game losing streak, made 60.4 percent (32-of-53) of its shots from the field, including 66.7 percent (12-of- 18) from beyond the 3-point arc. Starting junior center Ethan […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia has had numerous games this season in which it has exploded for big runs, leading to blowout wins. Before Saturday, the Cavaliers had won going away in nine of their 13 ACC victories. And then they did it again Saturday against Notre Dame, with what Irish coach Mike Brey called “a […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — The Iowa State Cyclones did not earn any style points on the road against the TCU Horned Frogs. Just another much-needed Big 12 road win. No. 19 Iowa State struggled to distance itself from Big 12-cellar-dwelling TCU but finally emerged with a 71-60 victory on Saturday at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. Iowa State […]
The William & Mary Tribe maintained its firm hold on third place in the Colonial Athletic Association on Saturday with an 81-67 victory over the Northeastern Huskies at Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Va. With the CAA conference tournament beginning March 7 in Baltimore, the Tribe — who completed a season sweep of the Huskies — […]
Still riding the momentum of their season-defining upset victory earlier this week over conference top-dog Delaware, Towson notched its fourth straight victory Saturday against Hofstra, 83-77, in Hempstead, N.Y. Behind 22 points and six rebounds from forward Jerrelle Benimon, the Tigers moved to 20-9 overall and 11-3 in the Colonial Athletic Association, firming their hold […]
The Richmond Spiders got hot from three-point range in the second half and knocked off the LaSalle Explorers 62-49 at the Robins Center in Richmond, Va., on Saturday. The Spiders (18-9, 8-4 Atlantic 10) won for the fourth time in five games and remain tied with Massachusetts, George Washington and Virginia Commonwealth for third place […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Forward Julius Randle’s put-back with 3.9 seconds left in overtime pushed the No. 18 Kentucky Wildcats past the LSU Tigers 77-76 at Rupp Arena on Saturday. Randle only scored eight points, less than half of his season average, but his 15 rebounds came up big for the Wildcats. Kentucky had the last […]
