With the Cowboys' ground game clicking, Oklahoma State' s Donovan Woods threw just eight passes in his college debut. Yet the Volunteers were still in the game, trailing only 21- 7 because of two big mistakes by Auburn. After McCoy' s free throws broke a 64- all tie, Kelly Roysland hit a driving layup after a Hardy turnover to make it a four- point game. The Cardinal crept within 49- 44 on Lindy La Rocque' s 3- pointer.
Western Conference final series Friday night at Reunion Arena. The Dragons scored 14 consecutive points, all by Mejia and Elegar, at the start of the decisive run when it went from down 10 to up 51- 44. He didn' t want his Razorbacks to get beat that way, so he did a little tweaking on defense earlier this week. But according to UConn officials, Laura Lishness is the only UConn player to get a triple double, recording 14 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists back in March, 1989, against Providence in the Big East Tournament. MORGANTOWN, W. 16 AP) defeated American University 65- 61 in the URI Invitational on Friday.
The loss snapped a 69- game home win streak and knocked UConn from its No. "Most sponsors and the television networks see no major gains from splitting fields" Beman said. The Scarlet Knights won the regular season Big East title last year, snapping UConn' s 11- year reign and this year were the preseason pick to win it again " I suspect if we continue to work hard, we can continue to hopefully prove ourselves worthy " Stringer said. They saw a game that was crying for overtime only because neither team was playing well enough to put the other away. Jeomi Maduka, the Ivy League player of the year, was held to seven points- going 0- for- 10 from the field The two- sport star, who has already qualified for the U S.
NEW ORLEANS( AP- Travis Diener scored 20 points and dished out 12 assists to lead Marquette to an 82- 68 victory over Conference USA rival Tulane Saturday. M( AP- Dominic McGuire and Eddie Miller each scored 15 points as Fresno State ended New Mexico State' s 19- game home winning streak Saturday night with a 60- 58 victory in the Western Athletic Conference. UMass led 36- 22 at halftime and after the first 10 minutes of the second half it widened its advantage to 30 points, 64- 34 St Bonaventure( 6- 19, 3- 10 A- 10) lost its sixth in a row. Travis Garrison, Chris McCray and Mike Jones each scored 15 points for Maryland, which had another of its long- running, positive streaks snapped.
Hatcher's single broke the 2-2 tie, and a walk, a wild pitch and two singles produced two more runs. "All of a sudden, you didn't have Dempsey-Tunney, you had a club fight in Toledo-or Bonecrusher Smith against Tim Witherspoon. Wide receivers Charles Sullivan( 8 catches- 204 yards) and Devale Ellis( 8- 92 yards) were Clarkson' s favorite targets as the Black Bears had no answer for the Pride passing game. One came in the first, when Brady Anderson led off the inning with a walk and later crossed the plate, courtesy of a Dwight Evans double. Midway through Tuesday evening's Angel game came an announcement over the public address system. Stukes made another layup with 4: 51 left, Georgia' s first field goal in nine minutes and also the Bulldogs' final points of the game. RALEIGH, N.
We went into the locker room down eight, and we were stressing how important the first five minutes of the second half were. Singletary, who missed the previous game with a hip injury, was 11- of- 20 from the field, including four 3- pointers, and had six steals and six rebounds " I shot the ball well but we didn' t play good team defense " Singletary said. Little' s total tied a season high for the Tar Heels( 21- 0, 8- 0 Atlantic Coast Conference, who remained the only unbeaten women' s or men' s team in Division I and extended the longest home winning streak in the nation to 30 games. The Bears were forced to foul the rest of the way, and Wichita State made 6- of- 8 free throws to close out the game. Utah Valley coach Dick Hunsaker, who played at Weber State from 1974- 1977, is now 2- 2 coaching against his alma mater.
MILLINGTON, Tenn. Ohio State( 23- 13) will play Massachusetts for the championship Thursday night, after the Minutemen knocked off Florida 78- 66 and allowed a small but vocal contingent of Buckeye fans to breathe a little easier before their game even began " I know there' s a bunch of people in this room who are a lot more disappointed than I am " coach Thad Matta said, when someone suggested he might have relished another chance at the team that beat Ohio State for the national championship last season. Tucker scored with 45 seconds left to push Wisconsin' s lead to 61- 58. Trivia Time: When did the Lakers and the Pistons first meet in the National Basketball Assn. Olson told Stoudamire to be himself and quit worrying so much " I wanted to have fun regardless of if I played good or not " Stoudamire said " I wanted to go out and smile and have fun " Asked if this suspension would be a permanent fix for what has been an ongoing problem with his moody guard, Olson said " I hope so because I' m out of ideas " Salim is a very nice young man and he needs to show it " Olson said.
Notre Dame outscored the Mountaineers 46- 22 inside, had a 39- 30 rebounding advantage and outscored West Virginia 15- 6 from the free- throw line " We thought we had a good game plan coming in and all of a sudden we quit defending the post " Carey said. "You can't be doing that" The Angels' fourth run in the fifth was earned but could have been prevented with some major league fielding. Alexis Hornbuckle scored 14 points, and Nicky Anosike added 11 points and 11 rebounds as part of a balanced offense for Tennessee. You can' t be doing that against Rutgers " Rutgers is 7- 3 in games against Top 25 teams, with five of the wins coming against Top 10 teams Boston College is 0- 7 against ranked teams. It shouldn' t have happened " Nevada coach Chris Ault said " You got 11 guys closing in on him.
Home- court advantage, and the knowledge that it had nothing to lose. 6 AP, and lost both meetings with the rival Cardinal during the regular season- 72- 52 and 60- 58- to finish as runners- up. Ohm scored 15 points from several different spots on the court, and Emily Fox added 13 points and 10 assists in a 75- 63 victory over Northern Iowa on Friday " She' s a player. "I can still remember standing there watching that baton bounce around on the track" Hawthorne finished with 44 points, while Long Beach Poly was second with 39. UNLV later retook the lead at 43- 41 with 2: 06 before the half. The Buckeyes then sprinted away to score 16 of the half' s final 20 points to build a 42- 23 lead. The Zips were the perfect opponent for a Penn State offense breaking in a new receiving corps and three new starters on the offensive line.
