Category: NCAA News Wire
UC Santa Barbara officials issued a statement on Friday apologizing for the odd occurrence during Thursday’s men’s basketball game against Hawaii, when a UCSB student ran onto the court and confronted Hawaii coach Gib Arnold. The statement read as follows: “On behalf of the UCSB student-athletes and staff we are disappointed and saddened by the […]
ST. LOUIS — As far as No. 2 Wichita State is concerned, its 31-0 regular season is ancient history. “As of now, we’re 1-0,” guard Fred VanVleet said following the Shockers’ 80-58 blowout of Evansville on Friday in the Missouri Valley Conference quarterfinals. “We’re going to try to go 1-0 again tomorrow and 1-0 on […]
ST. LOUIS — The Shocker Invitational, a.k.a. the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, got underway Friday with a predictable result. No. 2-ranked Wichita State set a single-game conference tournament record with 11 blocked shots as it notched its third double-figure win of the season over Evansville, an 80-58 decision in the quarterfinals at Scottrade Center. Forward […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — The last moments of the first half said everything about the Butler Bulldogs’ 79-46 winThursday over the DePaul Blue Demons. With one second left, Butler center Nolan Berry rebounded guard Alex Barlow’s miss and finished with a dunk to give the Bulldogs a 35-18 lead. But Barlow kept an eye on DePaul […]
Freshman guard Milton Doyle buried a 3-pointer at the buzzer, giving Loyola (Chicago) a 74-72 win over Bradley in a first-round Missouri Valley Conference tournament game Thursday at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The 10th-seeded Ramblers lost two regular-season games to the seventh-seeded Braves by a combined 26 points, but they avenged those defeats […]
The Virginia Commonwealth Rams overcame a slow start and an uneven performance to knock off the Richmond Spiders 56-50 on the road Thursday night and keep its hopes of winning a share of the Atlantic 10 Conference title alive. VCU (23-7, 11-4 Atlantic 10) was down 26-22 at halftime and trailed 37-26 on a layup […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Guard Alex Barlow scored 19 points and the Butler Bulldogs ended their seven-game losing streak with a 79-46 win on Thursday night over the DePaul Blue Demons. Forward Khyle Marshall added 18 for Butler (13-16, 3-14 Big East), which had not won since a 64-57 victory at Seton Hall on Jan. 29. […]
Guard Justin Black hit a fallaway 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds left in overtime to give Morgan State a 68-66 victory at Howard on Thursday night in Washington. Howard took a 66-65 lead on a tip-in by junior guard Prince Okoroh with 8.9 seconds left. Morgan State then got the ball to Black, a 6-foot-2 senior, […]
CINCINNATI — So much for preseason prognostications, even when it comes to coaches. Villanova was picked to finish fourth in the first year of the reconfigured Big East by the coaches, but the Wildcats claimed the program’s first conference regular-season title in eight years and their first outright league title in 32 years by holding […]
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Junior guard Travis Trice scored 17 points off the bench and No. 22 Michigan State snapped a two-game losing streak by defeating No. 24 Iowa 86-76 on Thursday night at Breslin Center. Forward Adreian Payne had 14 points and point guard Keith Appling supplied 12 to make their Senior Night a […]
