Category: NCAA News Wire
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas and Oklahoma State were both missing pieces as they faced off in a mid-week Big 12 game. Texas’ remaining pieces proved far superior. Longhorns guard Javan Felix poured in 27 points to propel No. 19 Texas past a Marcus Smart-less Oklahoma State team, 87-68, on Tuesday night at the Frank Erwin […]
Senior guard Chris Dixon and sophomore Dylan Sherwood tallied 14 points apiece as UNC-Wilmington defeated the visiting Towson Tigers 66-53 on Monday and snapped a 14-game losing streak, the longest skid in Seahawks history. Guard Freddie Jackson added 11 points for the Seahawks (6-20, 0-11), who had not won a game since Dec. 3 when […]
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia put the clamps on Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim, while their own candidate for Big 12 Player of the Year, guard Juwan Staten, strung together a dazzling all-around game Monday, leading the Mountaineers to a 102-77 victory over the 11th-ranked Cyclones. As the West Virginia student section chanted “MVP,” Staten […]
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Guards Marcus Foster and Will Spradling each scored five points in overtime as the Kansas State Wildcats upset the No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks 85-82 on Monday at Bramlage Coliseum. It was the Wildcats’ third win in the last seven games in Manhattan against Kansas after losing 25 straight from 1983-07. The Wildcats […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Up 37-35 with 10:40 to go, Virginia Cavaliers guard Malcolm Brogdon missed a layup, giving the Maryland Terrapins and guard Roddy Peters a breakaway layup opportunity to potentially tie the game. There was only one problem. Virginia swingman Justin Anderson, known for his highlight reel plays, made another one as he pinned […]
Morgan State senior forward Thair Heath was hospitalized in fair condition late Monday night after a hard fall during the Bears’ road game against Coppin State in Baltimore. Heath was removed from the court on a stretcher in a neck immobilizer. According to the Baltimore Sun, he was taken to the University of Maryland Shock […]
MANHATTAN, Kan. — This may turn out to be a rivalry after all. Guards Marcus Foster and Will Spradling each scored five points in overtime, and Kansas State upset No. 7 Kansas 85-82 Monday at Bramlage Coliseum. It was the Wildcats’ third win in the past seven games in Manhattan against Kansas after losing 25 […]
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Iowa State’s star forward, Melvin Ejim, rode into West Virginia’s Coliseum riding the wave a record-setting, 48-point performance against TCU on Saturday afternoon, and when he sank the game’s first shot, the feeling of a repeat was in the air. Forty minutes of basketball later, that was still the only basket Ejim, […]
In a key Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference showdown for Norfolk State, the Spartans nearly gave up a big first-half lead before settling down and pulling away late to rout the Howard Bison on Monday night, 75-49, in Norfolk, Va. Guard Pendarvis Williams helped the Spartans jump out to a 36-18 lead thanks to a pair of […]
The Morgan State Bears won for the fourth-straight time against the Coppin State Eagles, winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference contest 82-77 Monday night at Coppin’s Physical Education Complex, in Baltimore, Md. Morgan improved to 9-13 overall and 7-3 in the conference, while Coppin fell to 9-15 and 6-5. Morgan State had balanced scoring, led by […]
