Category: NCAA News Wire
The William & Mary Tribe are off to a solid 2-1 start to the season after Thursday night’s 100-57 walloping of Bluefield College at Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Va. With three players scoring in double figures by halftime — and the Rams barely breaking double figures as a team — the Tribe raced to a […]
NEW YORK — The Iowa Hawkeyes fell victim to a big Texas run in the second half en route to a 71-57 Longhorns win in the semifinals of the 2K Classic on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. With the score tied 43-43, the No. 10 Longhorns (3-0) went on a 20-5 run to move […]
Senior guard Gary Bell Jr. scored 18 points, all in the first half, leading No. 13 Gonzaga to a 94-42 rout of Saint Joseph’s on Wednesday night at McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Wash. Bell led five players who scored in double figures for Gonzaga (3-0). Freshman guard Josh Perkins came off the bench to […]
Notre Dame opened with 14 straight points and never looked back on the way to a 104-67 nonconference victory over Coppin State on Wednesday night at Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind. Forward Zach Auguste scored a game-high 21 points for the Irish (3-0), who had five players score in double figures in the first […]
The Boston University Terriers broke open a close game with a 21-2 run to start the second half and held off a late Norfolk State Spartans charge to earn a 71-63 victory on Wednesday at Echols Hall in Norfolk, Va. The Terriers run took 7:25 until Spartans guard Jeffrey Short finally stopped the bleeding with […]
Cold shooting ended Fairleigh Dickinson’s hopes of a second quality road win to start its season. Converting just 30 percent of its shots from the field including a miserable 4 of 20 from the 3-point line, the Knights dropped a 61-44 decision on Wednesday night to Rutgers at the Rutgers Athletic Center in New Brunswick, […]
Guard Devon Walker scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half to help visiting the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks hold off the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers, 53-41, Wednesday night in Emmitsburg, Md. It was the first win at UMES (1-2) for first-year coach Bobby Collins, who arrived after four straight winning season […]
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Buzz Williams is still unbeaten as the Virginia Tech Hokies head coach. Virginia Tech (2-0) pulled away late in the second half to secure a 73-63 win over the Liberty Flames on Wednesday night in Cassell Coliseum in an opening game of the Cancun Challenge. The young, freshmen-laden Hokies were paced by […]
Andre Walker scored 11 of his game-high 16 points in the second half as the Loyola University (Md.) Greyhounds rallied for a 45-38 victory over the visiting Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers Wednesday night at the Reitz Arena. Both teams shot poorly, but Loyola (2-1) did just enough to win a second straight game. Walker, a freshman […]
A stellar all-around performance by guard Briante Weber and solid support from backcourt mates Treveon Graham and Melvin Johnson were enough for No. 15 Virginia Commonwealth to fight off a tough challenge from Toledo on Tuesday. The Rams emerged with a 87-78 win in their home opener at Richmond, Va. Weber, making his season debut […]
