Four Southern California teams were selected (Loyola, Pepperdine, USC and Cal State Fullerton) and were sent to different sites. It wasn' t the sharpest game Oklahoma State has played this season by any means. Now Maryland will play for the first women' s basketball title in school history. BOSTON( AP- Jessalyn Deveny scored 14 of her 23 points during a 24- 9 run to start the second half and finished with nine rebounds, leading No 17 Boston College past New Hampshire 78- 49 Saturday. Cincinnati( 10- 12, 1- 7) remains at the bottom of the 16- team conference, stuck in its deepest rut in 19 years The Bearcats have lost nine of their last 10.
Darren Cooper scored 16 points to lead the Pilots( 11- 6, 0- 2 West Coast, who have lost 18 of their last 19 games in Santa Clara. Grier, who spent time on the bench because of foul trouble, had been averaging 17. Atsur added two inside drives, Evtimov another three and Hodge a jam. But the seeds of defeat had been sown before that " The mistakes we made early really hurt us " McCallie said " They got eight more second- chance points than we did because they hustled And 18 turnovers against a zone? We' re better than that. That' s mind- boggling " It' s nice to do something that hasn' t been done in 21 years. Not much of a view, either, what with the first-place Oakland Athletics so high above This isn't where Autry expected the Angels to reside.
But a three- point play by Smith and two baskets by Sean Marshall got Boston College within four less than 2 minutes later. BOONE, N. Memphis has won its five games in this NCAA tournament by an average of nearly 16 points. Unlike their opener, when they had to rally for a 24- 13 victory over Virginia Tech, the Trojans( 2- 0) played like an elite team " This is what we hoped to do when we came home " USC coach Pete Carroll said " This game was a great statement for us. The Lady Raiders retook the lead with four straight free throws. The highest finishing rookie, for example, usually winds up as rookie of the year.
"But we played well enough to win" In other 4-A action:Canyon 11, Thousand Oaks 7-Canyon won 7 of 9 singles sets in defeating host Thousand Oaks. She was on a mission, and it' s hard to get back into a ball game with that' The victory gave Baylor( 20- 3, 10- 2 Big 12) 20 wins for the fifth consecutive season under Mulkey- Robertson. 7 AP) bounced back from its only loss with an 84- 40 victory over Sacred Heart on Tuesday night Davenport also recovered from a poor performance She was held to 14 points in a 64- 48 home loss to No 3 LSU on Thursday, when she was constantly double- teamed. Luke Meyer' s 3- pointer with 9: 56 left capped a seven- point mini- run that gave Saint Louis its largest lead at 41- 25, and the closest Memphis got was a six- point deficit with 14 seconds to go. Louis this season, hit a two-run homer in the first inning and a solo shot in the fourth for his 15th homer.
The Cardinal hit 6- of- 8 free- throw attempts in the final 1: 03 to seal it. And they probably didn't want to play us" UCLA Coach Glenn Bassett claimed the draw didn't bother him, saying he knew the Bruins were possibly going to meet the Bulldogs right away. Furber figured the cub could make it for four days on its own, unless a male bear, or boar, got it first They eat their young. J( AP- John Bunch had 11 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocked shots to lead Monmouth to a 69- 60 win over St Francis of New York on Saturday night. 16 DePaul had five players reach double figures in a 99- 54 victory over Loyola- Chicago. 12 Eastern Kentucky off balance for much of the game in the first meeting between the schools.
The Boilermakers( 9- 4, 2- 1 Big Ten) went more than 8 minutes in the first half and more than 9 minutes in the second without a field goal, but got to the foul line often enough to hold off the Hoosiers( 7- 6, 0- 3. DePaul lost starters Erin Carney and Caprice Smith to foul trouble during a 9- 0 Oklahoma run early in the second half. Montana State and Northern Colorado( 4- 22, 2- 12) combined to make 20 of 44 shots from 3- point range. It was never really close against Vanderbilt( 19- 7, 8- 3, which ended a six- game winning streak and has not beaten Tennessee since Feb 16, 2002. Alexander (5-4) struck out five and walked two to end his two-game losing streak in pitching his fourth complete game. If the starting pitcher sets the tone of a game, as Toronto Manager Jimy Williams says, then Roger Clemens and the Boston Red Sox should have been well on their way to victory Saturday night. Fowles finished with 18 points and 14 rebounds while playing less than half of the game in No. Smiley, 5-4 in his second full season and his first as a starter, struck out a career-high eight and walked two.
George Washington finished tied with Temple in the conference, but its 68- 66 loss to the Owls on Jan 19 relegated the Colonials to the No 2 seed Amanda McGrew led Rhode Island( 13- 18) with nine points LaQuanda Brandon added seven. Latta had 22 points- her best as a college player in her native state- to keep No 5 North Carolina unbeaten with an 87- 67 victory over No 19 Vanderbilt. 22 AP) took a break Sunday from Atlantic Coast Conference with a 85- 29 win over Longwood, the Eagles' most lopsided victory ever. The Badgers( 16- 5, 7- 3 Big Ten) also got 13 clutch points from Alando Tucker, finally healthy after a toe injury kept him out of three conference games and limited him in three others. But Nelson missed both shots and Hansbrough knocked down a straightaway jumper on the next play to make it 66- 63 with 3: 15 left. It didn' t show during the game, but she' s got such a good, quick release and good size.
Emily Westerberg had 11 points and a team- high eight rebounds and Aubree Johnson had 10 points " We didn' t come out strong but we knew we hadn' t played our best basketball yet " Kovesdy said " We just had to start playing and we moved the ball better in the second half " Mandy Close and Kim Butler each scored 19 points for the Beavers( 15- 14, who lost their seventh straight to Arizona State Casey Nash added 12 The Sun Devils will meet UCLA in Sunday' s semifinals The Bruins beat California in an earlier game, 80- 63. Jones gave Army a 35- 28 lead on a 13- yard scoring run and added the eventual winning TD from 1 yard with 2: 24 left, giving Army a 42- 28 lead " We got our mind- set the second half " Jones said " We were determined not to let them stop us, no matter what they did " Joe Bain caught a 43- yard scoring pass from Julmiste to pull South Florida within 42- 35 with just over a minute left. Stillwell, who played at Thousand Oaks High, is batting . 266 with six home runs and 26 runs batted in. Savanna 12, Brea-Olinda 11-Bill Nicoloff was 4 for 4 with 3 RBIs to lead Savanna, which got 14 hits, at Brookhurst Park Savanna finishes its season 8-16-2 and 4-10. Joining Ard in double- figure scoring was Josh Slater, who had 15. But the Golden Eagles went on an 8- 0 run to tie the score at 40 on a 3- pointer by Boyd with 14: 10 to go. The Spiders( 3- 7, 2- 5) scored on their first possession of the third quarter after a 40- yard punt return by Ryan Mace.
