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USF rallies to kick No. 24 Seton Hall (AP)

TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Seton Hall’s initial try into a Top 25 in 11 years
probably will be a brief one.

The Pirates consumed a 10-point lead over a final 6 mins against
South Florida on Friday night, and star Jordan Theodore missed a vicious free
throw in a shutting seconds of a 56-55 Big East loss.

Ron Anderson scored 14 points, 6 of them in a game-ending 14-3 run that
gave USF (10-8, 3-2) a initial feat over a ranked competition in scarcely two
years. Jawanza Poland done a prolonged 3-pointer to tie it during 53 and Toaryln
Fitzpatrick’s three-point play put a Bulls brazen for good with usually underneath a
minute to go.

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USF rallies to beat No. 24 Seton Hall (AP)

“I don’t caring about a ranking,” Seton Hall manager Kevin Willard said.
“The detriment hurts.”

Seton Hall (15-3, 4-2) embellished a necessity to one on a usually margin idea in
the final 6 minutes. Theodore had 16 points and statistically is a team’s
best giveaway chuck shooter during 82 percent, however a comparison missed a front end
of a 1-and-1 event with a possibility to put his group brazen with 3.8 seconds
left.

“We had a 1-and-1 to win a game,” Willard said. “That’s all we can ask
for in this joining and on a road.”

Theodore was 5 of 13 from a margin and 5 of 7 from a tainted line. Haralds
Karlis had 12 points and Herb Pope combined 10 for a Pirates.

“I wasn’t means to make a giveaway throws to go ahead. I’m unequivocally disappointed
in myself,” Theodore said. “I didn’t play a good diversion tonight during all. we didn’t
pass a round well. we didn’t fire a round well. we played during a gait that I
normally don’t play at. … we take a detriment on myself given we consider it was my
job to control a diversion and we didn’t do that.”

Poor descent execution opposite USF’s 1-3-1 section cursed Seton Hall down the
stretch. Coming out of a timeout during a essential widen in that Anderson
made a layup and Poland followed with his 3-pointer that wiped out a remainder
of what had been a 10-point lead, a Pirates had dual turnovers and a shot clock
violation.

Patrik Auda’s putback with 24 seconds remaining was Seton Hall’s usually field
goal after Aaron Cosby’s 3-pointer put a Pirates adult 52-42.

Fuquan Edwin scored a career-high 28 points Tuesday night to assistance the
Pirates journey past DePaul in their initial diversion as a ranked group given 2001.
Facing a Big East’s second-ranked scoring invulnerability incited out to be a much
bigger plea before a throng of usually 3,805 in a 20,000-seat Tampa Bay Times
Forum as a sophomore was singular to 4 points on 2-of-5 shooting.

“They went to that 1-3-1 zone, and it unequivocally took us out of a stroke that
we had,” Willard said, explaining what happened down a stretch.

USF tied it 27-27 during a half on a 3-pointer by Poland, who missed a
critical giveaway chuck late to give Seton Hall a possibility to win it during a end. The
Bulls led 33-29 before going cold from a margin and gradually examination Theodore
and Haralds Karlis lead an 18-5 run that clearly put Seton Hall in control.

Theodore began a pull with a span of layups, afterwards done a prolonged 3-pointer to
put a Pirates on tip for good. Karlis, a 6-foot-5 beginner from Latvia who was
averaging usually 3.2 points per game, combined a subsequent 9 points in a swell to
put a Pirates adult 47-38. Cosby’s 3-pointer gave them their biggest lead of the
night with 6 mins to go.

The detriment stopped Seton Hall’s four-game winning streak. The Pirates, off to
their best start in a Big East given a 1999-2000 season, have won 12 of
their past 14. The usually other detriment during that widen was to top-ranked
Syracuse.

USF won opposite a ranked competition for a initial time given beating
Georgetown on a highway in Feb 2010.

“It’s huge. We’ve had a integrate opportunities and didn’t money in,” USF
coach Stan Heath said. “We knew Seton Hall was on a roll, and we’re personification at
home. In a joining you’re going to get a lot of opportunities with so many good
teams. This was one, and we wanted to get them.”

Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:25 pm Leave a Comment

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Louisville F Kuric out vs. DePaul (AP)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)—Louisville’s streamer scorer Kyle Kuric will not play
in Saturday’s diversion opposite DePaul after nutritious a high left ankle twist in
practice, manager Rick Pitino pronounced Friday.

The comparison brazen was harm early in Thursday’s use when he apparently
stepped on a teammate’s foot. Pitino pronounced he’s not certain how prolonged Kuric competence be
out.

“When Kyle went down everybody was in shock, it was usually a surprise,”
Louisville ensure Chris Smith said. “We were all astounded given Kyle never
gets hurt. … Now everybody else has to step up.”

The 14th-ranked Cardinals (13-4, 1-3 Big East) have mislaid 4 of their last
five and have had 7 players skip during slightest a diversion with health or eligibility
issues.

Kuric is averaging 13 points and had scored in double total in 10 of his
last 11 games, including 11 points in a 90-59 detriment to Providence on Tuesday
night.

“Once we take a detriment by 31 points, we have to be certain and get your
team behind on track,” Smith said.

The bad opening stirred a players’ usually assembly and Smith said
everyone was concerned in airing out what’s left wrong given a 12-0 start.
Louisville was ranked as high as fourth before losing opposite Georgetown and
Kentucky.

After winning during St. John’s, a Cardinals forsaken a double overtime diversion to
Notre Dame before being blown out by a Friars.

“We met though a coaches and met as usually a group and we flattering much
brought a heads together and flattering most resolved a problem,” Smith said.
“The problem flattering most was a miss of certainty in any other and carrying each
other’s backs.”

Smith pronounced a group responded with one of some of a best practices of the
season even yet Kuric was harmed in Thursday’s session.

“We know what we need to do to win and final diversion was flattering most a miss of
effort on a whole team’s behalf, though we’ll never see that again,” Smith said.

Pitino pronounced that his team’s idea now is to win 9 some-more discussion games,
including a final 7 during home this deteriorate before streamer into a Big East
tournament.

“We took a vital shot with Kyle being out,” Pitino said. “DePaul, as we
saw with Providence, is able of violence us. So losing is not an option. We’ve
got to win.”

Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:25 pm Leave a Comment

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Syracuse 18-0 for second true deteriorate (AP)

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Dion Waiters demanded a small some-more sound as he motioned
toward a Philly throng colored with so many orange it could have upheld for a
Flyers game.

The Syracuse true stood and roared their approval.

For those Orange fans that done a outing from upstate New York to a ones
who remember Waiters personification round as a kid, he gave them a opening to savor
in his homecoming. The Philly local scored 20 points and No. 1 Syracuse
remained undefeated with a 79-66 win over Villanova on Wednesday night.

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Syracuse 18 0 for second straight season (AP)

“It was good entrance behind to a city where we were born,” Waiters said.
“All my family and friends were here. It was priceless.”

Priceless—and perfect.

James Southerland combined 15 points for a offset Orange, who are 18-0 for
the second true season. The Orange (5-0 Big East) used a 20-2 run to
dominate a struggling Wildcats.

Waiters has flourished in a haven purpose and has forced himself into early
contention for discussion actor of a year honors. He was 8 of 13 from the
floor and punished a Villanova group still perplexing to find a way.

“I told him he could measure as many points in 22 mins as he can in 30 if
you usually do what we do,” manager Jim Boeheim said.

Waiters looked pointy in a second half after an ungainly alighting moments
before halftime. He immediately grabbed his ankle and hobbled off a justice with
help from a group official. He sat on a dais for a initial 4 mins of the
second half, stretching with an ankle tag before he returned.

He could have rested.

The Orange had this win wrapped adult by halftime, even as their starting five
accounted for usually 18 points. Yet, a Orange hold a 19-point lead because
Waiters, a tip haven in a Big East, had his approach with a Wildcats, hitting
a span of 3s and scoring 14 points.

“I wanted to win, that was initial and foremost,” Waiters said. “But we was
excited that everybody was here to see me play.”

Scoop Jardine buried a using 31-footer during a buzzer to send a decidedly
pro-Orange throng into a frenzy and Syracuse into halftime with a 43-24 lead.

There was copiousness of room for Syracuse fans as usually 14,877 showed in a NBA
arena that used to be packaged to rafters for Villanova.

Villanova (8-9, 1-4) mislaid for a fourth time in 5 games and has put its
streak of 7 true NCAA tournaments in critical jeopardy. Mouphtaou Yarou
had 12 points and 12 rebounds for a Wildcats.

The Wildcats have not been ranked all deteriorate and were usually picked to finish
in a center of a Big East. But not even manager Jay Wright approaching his
underclassman-heavy lineup to onslaught and his 3 starting juniors to greatly
underachieve.

“It’s usually inexperience,” Wright said. “We don’t know yet, but
we’re removing there. We didn’t quit. Sitting here observant we didn’t quit is not a
good conditions if you’re pulling that as a positive.”

Maalik Wayns, who came in heading a Wildcats with 17.4 points per game,
did not measure until he sank 3 giveaway throws with 3:42 left in a initial half.
The Orange gave Wayns and a rest of a Wildcats nowhere to drive. On one play
in a initial half, Wayns started from a tip of a 3-point arc, dribbled into
a wall of Orange during a free-throw line, and was forced to plate out.

Wayns finished with no margin goals and 3 points. He could share the
blame in this one.

After Dom Cheek tossed adult an airball, Syracuse grabbed a lax ball
rebound and Waiters went down and buried a 3. Later in a first, Yarou was
knocked to a belligerent and had a round nude from his hands. Syracuse took
off using and Southerland shot a 3. He missed, simply outhustled dual Wildcats
to a lax ball, stepped behind and buried a 3 during Syracuse’s game-changing
run.

Waiters, Jardine and Rakeem Christmas are all Philadelphia locals and the
stands were dirty with family, friends and aged coaches.

They didn’t bewail their choice to leave home.

“They recruited me heavily so we know a lot of their people,” Jardine said.

Waiters gave them a reason to hearten in a second half when he intercepted a
pass and thundered down a justice for a grievous asperse and a 58-41 lead.

He had a same fastbreak asperse for a 20-point lead after in a half and
waved his hands toward a throng for them to get loud.

His ankle looked fine—it was usually tweaked—and so did Syracuse.

Led by Waiters and Southerland, a Syracuse dais outscored a starters,
47-32.

“We don’t speak about it much, though we have guys we consider are starters,”
Boeheim said. “We wish them to act like starters when they go in and play like
starters.”

The final time a Wildcats played a No. 1 team, they kick UConn on Feb. 13,
2006 during a Wells Fargo Center. That diversion was played in front of 20,859 fans and
most of them stormed a justice after a win.

The top rug was flattering dull Wednesday night and many of a Wildcats
fans over with about 5 mins left.

Posted on January 12, 2012 at 6:22 pm Leave a Comment

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No. 18 Georgetown women tumble to No. 2 Notre Dame (AP)

WASHINGTON (AP)—When Sugar Rodgers doesn’t have a indicate in a initial half,
it’s never a good pointer for Georgetown.

The Big East’s heading scorer was hounded by Notre Dame’s Brittany Mallory
on Tuesday night and didn’t make a shot until a necessity was good into double
digits. Rodgers finished with 13 points on 3 for 18 shooting, including 2 for 11
from 3-point range, and committed 5 turnovers in a 18th-ranked Hoyas’ 80-60
loss to a second-ranked Irish.

“It wasn’t descending for me,” Rodgers said. “I took good shots; it just
wasn’t falling.”

Rodgers has struggled in back-to-back games, going 4 for 19 in a win over
South Florida on Saturday. She had a identical unemployment during a start of a season.

“I consider a lot of it was Sugar rushed it a few times,” Georgetown coach
Terri Williams-Flournoy said. “Even when she was open, infrequently she rushed it.
Then she started creation some bad decisions perplexing to make a play.”

At halftime, a manager told Rogers to delayed down and relax—and find other
ways to score.

“Sometimes when we live and die by a burst shot, that’s how it goes,”
Williams-Flournoy said. “But she’s got to know she’s a improved actor than
that. She can put it on a floor, she can get to a basket, though when your game
is a 3-point shooter and that’s what she’s famous for, we usually have a tendency
to going behind to doing what we do.”

Georgetown can usually censure itself for starting delayed opposite a Irish. The
Hoyas radically played a initial 5 mins on Notre Dame’s finish of the
court. They kept grabbing descent rebounds—but usually had dual points to show
for it.

“Wish we could’ve converted a few some-more of those,” Williams-Flournoy said.

It’s a bit dicey to let a No. 2 group in a nation off a offshoot like
that, and a Hoyas paid a price. Once a Irish got going, they rolled to a
21-point halftime lead.

“We were lucky,” Notre Dame manager Muffet McGraw said. “We were just
really lucky.”

To be fair, a Irish were also flattering good over a final 35 minutes.
Skyler Diggins finished with 22 points, Natalie Novosel combined 21, and Kayla
McBride had 16 for Notre Dame (16-1, 4-0 Big East).

The Irish also went 28 for 32 from a giveaway chuck line as they avoided a
post-UConn letdown. Notre Dame finished Connecticut’s 57-game Big East regular
season winning strain Saturday and is now 5-1 opposite teams ranked in a Top
25.

The Irish have won 13 straight, their usually detriment entrance during No. 1 Baylor on
Nov. 20.

Rogers came into a diversion averaging 20.1 points, though she had dual fouls
before a diversion was 8 mins aged and didn’t measure in a initial 20. The
Hoyas (13-4, 2-2), who have been as hot-and-cold in large games as their 2-4
record vs. ranked teams suggests, and Rodgers’ play has something to do with
that.

Williams-Flournoy pronounced a Hoyas have nonetheless to find another outward threat
after losing Monica McNutt to graduation.

“Honestly, we’re usually blank that shooter,” a manager said. “I think
that took a lot of vigour off Sugar since we had to ensure Monica McNutt.”

Notre Dame won notwithstanding committing 18 turnovers and holding 28 fewer shots
than Georgetown, a statistical portion combined by a Hoyas’ diligence on the
offensive boards—and their inability to gain on it. They had seven
rebounds in those barbarous initial 5 mins alone, though they were trailing 4-2
because they were 1 for 11 from a field.

Georgetown had 15 descent rebounds during halftime—and usually four
second-chance points. The Hoyas had also forced 8 turnovers in a initial 20
minutes—but didn’t modify them into a singular point.

The Irish led 37-16 during a break. Rodgers’ initial 3-pointer capped a 7-0 run
that cut Notre Dame’s lead to 48-37 with 11 mins left, and she connected
again to make a measure 58-48 with 7:01 to go.

But a Irish responded any time, shutting with a 18-8 run, and kept the
Hoyas during brook during a giveaway chuck line, creation 16 of 18 attempts in a second
half.

“Teams in a Big East are too good to get buried by 21 during a half,”
Williams-Flournoy said. “It’s usually too tough to come back.”

———

Joseph White can be reached during http://twitter.com/JGWhiteAP

Posted on January 11, 2012 at 12:20 pm Leave a Comment

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Providence women routed by No. 3 Connecticut (AP)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)—Providence manager Phil Seymour thinks a Friars can
be rival with many of a teams in a Big East this season.

UConn, however isn’t one of them.

Bria Hartley and Tiffany Hayes any scored 19 points and No. 3 Connecticut
bounced behind from a detriment to Notre Dame with a 96-35 subjection of a Friars on
Tuesday night.

Lauren Okafor scored 8 points to lead Providence (9-8, 1-3 Big East),
which was entrance off an dissapoint of No. 21 DePaul.

“Our idea is to be in that tip eight,” pronounced Seymour. “I see us. We can be
in that tip eight.”

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had 13 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists and
Stefanie Dolson total 12 points for a Huskies (13-2, 3-1 Big East), who
extended their home-court winning strain to 94 uninterrupted games.

“Everyone is unequivocally vehement with a approach we played tonight,” pronounced Hartley,
who strike all 7 of her shots. “It only creates a diversion fun again. You don’t
want to go into games like Notre Dame where we should have won, or we could
have finished something differently to win that game. But we come out here tonight
and we know we played unequivocally tough and we left all out on a floor.”

The win was UConn’s 168th in a quarrel opposite an unranked opponent, a streak
that dates behind to 1999. The Huskies haven’t mislaid during home to a group outward the
Top 25 given Mar 1993—a camber of 259 games. That was a same year the
Huskies final mislaid back-to-back games in a Big East.

UConn shot 65 percent from a margin while holding a Friars to 15 baskets
on 50 attempts. The Huskies had 29 assists on their 36 baskets. All 11 players
scored.

“It was one of those wins where your group feels unequivocally good about a win
because everybody had a palm in it,” pronounced UConn manager Geno Auriemma.

The diversion was messy early, as a teams total for 13 turnovers in the
first 10 minutes. The Huskies, who incited a round over 27 times in their loss
to Notre Dame on Saturday, had 5 of those.

But UConn done 8 of a initial 11 shots. Hartley had 15 points during the
break, and played only 7 mins in a second half.

A give-and-go layup from Kelly Faris to Hartley done it 41-13, partial of a
21-4 run that pennyless a diversion open. The Huskies led 48-17 during halftime.

Hayes took over a scoring weight from there, scoring 13 points after
intermission. She strike 6 of her 8 shots and her 3-pointer put a Huskies
up 63-23 reduction than 5 mins into a second half.

“This was really something we needed,” pronounced Hayes. “This is going to
help us in a destiny given it’s a certainty booster.”

The win was UConn’s 27th in a quarrel over Providence, that was anticipating to give
the Huskies a good diversion after violence DePaul 60-52 on Saturday. That was the
Friars initial over a ranked competition given they kick Pittsburgh 3 years ago.

Providence hasn’t beaten Connecticut given Mar 7, 1993 in a semifinals
of a discussion tournament.

“They play during a opposite speed that’s roughly like men,” pronounced Seymour.
“The approach they run a floor, a approach they pull a ball, a approach they execute,
it’s opposite and there’s not a lot of teams that’s like that.”

Teya Wright, who came in averaging over 14 points and only underneath 11 rebounds
a game, had only 6 points and 4 rebounds in this one.

Hartley has scored in double total in 6 uninterrupted games. She has
scored over 20 points 3 times, though wasn’t in a diversion prolonged adequate to extend
that to four.

The detriment to Notre Dame finished UConn’s 57-game discussion winning streak. But
the Huskies have been good during bouncing back. They haven’t mislaid dual in a quarrel in
the Big East given descending to Providence and Louisville in Mar of 1993.

They are 47-0 after a detriment given then, and Auriemma pronounced he was gratified with
the approach his group was means to rebound back.

“They were endangered about my job,” he joked. “So, we conclude that.”

Posted on January 11, 2012 at 12:20 pm Leave a Comment

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Rutgers booty Calhoun’s UConn lapse (AP)

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP)—Welcome back, Coach.

Jim Calhoun’s lapse to a Connecticut dais following a three-game
suspension was not a successful one as Rutgers kick a eighth-ranked Huskies
67-60 on Saturday night.

The detriment was a second true for Connecticut and it came only 4 days
after a Huskies also mislaid in New Jersey, descending to Seton Hall. It is the
first time given 1969 that a Huskies have mislaid to both Jersey schools in the
same season.

Calhoun, who led Connecticut to a third inhabitant championship final season,
missed a initial 3 games of a Big East deteriorate for unwell to say “an
atmosphere of compliance” in a program. The NCAA sanctions were over
recruiting violations.

The Huskies kick South Florida and St. John’s before a detriment to Seton Hall
with partner manager George Blaney using a team.

“We weren’t unequivocally well-prepared to play basketball a final dual games,”
Calhoun said. “I came behind for two, 3 days and it hasn’t done any
difference. we am impossibly unhappy in how we’re personification right now. We’re
not in sync right now.”

The stat piece corroborated Calhoun on that. The Huskies matched their season-low
for points and committed a season-high 20 turnovers.

Calhoun wasn’t astounded Rutgers found a approach to kick a Huskies.

“After 26 years in a Big East we know we can get anybody anytime any
night,” a Hall of Fame manager said. “This Rutgers is a inspired young
basketball group that played with a clarity of purpose. They’ll remove some some-more and
win some more.”

Eli Carter had 19 points and associate beginner Myles Mack combined 14 for the
Scarlet Knights (9-7, 1-2 Big East), who kick then-No. 10 Florida 85-83 in
double-overtime on Dec. 29. It’s only a second time Rutgers has ever beaten
two Top Ten teams in a same season. The Scarlet Knights kick UCLA and West
Virginia in 1981-82.

“I’m agreeably surprised. Shocked? No,” Rutgers manager Mike Rice said.
“This group has it in them. They’re athletes. They’re only fresh right
now. When we compensate courtesy to sum and we’re communicating, these things can
happen.”

The win over Florida was followed by waste to South Florida and West
Virginia.

“Maybe we only get a lot of appetite when a large teams come in,” Carter
said. “We wish to infer we’re only as good if not better. We have to do that
for each team.”

The win snapped Connecticut’s 10-game winning strain opposite Rutgers and it
was only a Scarlet Knights’ second in 19 Big East regular-season meetings with
the Huskies. Rutgers’ final win over Connecticut was on Jan. 30, 2002.

“They some-more than warranted a victory,” Calhoun said. “Especially when you
consider they are one of a younger teams in a country.”

Rutgers and a freshmen backcourt busted Calhoun’s lapse when it used a
10-0 run in a second half to take a lead for good. Mike Poole and Mack both
hit a 3-pointer in a run that gave a Scarlet Knights a 52-45 lead with 7:29
to play.

Connecticut (12-3, 2-2), that has mislaid dual true after a seven-game
winning streak, could never get any offense going, generally from a perimeter
against Rutgers’ section invulnerability and a Huskies finished with a season-high 20
turnovers, good above a 13.9 they normal for a season.

Shabazz Napier had 23 points for a Huskies, who matched their season-low
for points, while beginner core Andre Drummond had 10 points, 12 rebounds and
seven turnovers, including dual passes from a post that went into a stands on
the fly.

Jeremy Lamb, Connecticut’s heading scorer with an 18.9 average, finished
with 8 points on 4-of-9 shooting, including blank all 4 3-point
attempts.

“Our backcourt was not unequivocally good tonight,” Calhoun said. “Overall Rutgers
ground it out, behind and onward and behind and forth. We didn’t finish a task
and mislaid a basketball game.”

Mack pronounced Rutgers was only perplexing to be earthy with Lamb.

“He’s not unequivocally like a earthy guy. He’s unequivocally nonchalant,” Mack said.
“He doesn’t like it when someone bumps him or whatever, so we only bumped him a
little bit and threw him off. “

Carter entered a diversion averaging 24.3 points over a final 3 games. He
hit a 3-pointer in a Scarlet Knights’ 8-0 run to open a second half that
gave them a 36-30 lead.

Connecticut sealed within 4 points 3 times in a final notation but
Rutgers went 8 of 10 from a giveaway chuck in that span.

Mack pronounced there is no explaining Rutgers’ ups and downs this season.

“We’re still perplexing to figure that out,” he said. “We only got to do this
on a unchanging basis. We use a same each day, we only got to come out
for a Top 10 group and a non-Top 10 group each diversion we play.”

Posted on January 8, 2012 at 6:16 pm Leave a Comment

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Cincy beats No. 22 Pitt, 6-0 given fight (AP)

PITTSBURGH (AP)—Cincinnati manager Mick Cronin told anyone who would listen
the Bearcats would go undefeated while comparison brazen and unquestioned team
leader Yancy Gates served his six-game cessation for his purpose in an nauseous brawl
with crosstown opposition Xavier 3 weeks ago.

The matter was designed to enthuse certainty in his decidedly undersized
team. Cronin didn’t indeed design it to happen.

Until, of course, it did.

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Cincy beats No. 22 Pitt, 6 0 since brawl (AP)

JaQuon Parker scored a career-high 21 points and Sean Kilpatrick combined 19 as
streaking Cincinnati kick No. 22 Pittsburgh 66-63 on Sunday night, a Bearcats’
sixth win in as many games given switching to a four-guard offense while Gates,
center Chikh Mbodj and brazen Octavius Ellis sat while portion their respective
suspensions.

“All this was (done) with relentless bid by a guys,” Cronin said.
“You watch those guys play we consider `How are they doing it, they’re so
small?”’

The answer? A complicated sip of fullcourt vigour and a lurch of fearlessness.

Cincinnati (11-3, 1-0 Big East) won during Pittsburgh for a initial time in 33
years by forcing 17 turnovers and conflict large shot after large shot in a second
half. The Bearcats finished 11 of 27 3-pointers, including several in a second
half to keep a disorder Panthers during bay.

“We don’t demeanour adult (at a scoreboard), we only fire a subsequent open shot and
stay on a attack,” Cronin said.

The Bearcats have energetically embraced a mad style, pulling a gait at
every event and regulating their discerning hands to interrupt a opponent’s offense.

“”Playing 4 guards is indeed kind of easier for a press, because
everyone on a group is unequivocally quick and unequivocally athletic,” Kilpatrick said. “We
use that to a advantage.”

Pitt (11-4, 0-2) simply couldn’t keep adult and has mislaid 3 true for
just a third time in manager Jamie Dixon’s tenure.

“We can’t make excuses,” Dixon said. “We need to find a way. We have the
guys to get it done.”

Nasir Robinson had 19 points and Ashton Gibbs combined 18 for a Panthers, but
Pitt—picked to finish fourth in a Big East in a preseason—again was
undone by messy ballhandling and bad outward shooting.

Playing though indicate ensure Travon Woodall, who sat out due to lingering
groin and abdominal injuries, a Panthers had difficulty removing organized
offensively. They looked out of sorts during a end, blank several chances to tie
in a final 30 seconds. Making only 5 of 19 3-point attempts didn’t help
either.

“We’ve only been blank shots and not holding advantage of opportunities,”
Gibbs said. “We had too many turnovers and they capitalized on them. We made
too many mistakes and they only took advantage of it.”

The Bearcats had no such certainty issues from behind a arc. With Parker
and Kilpatrick banishment early and often, Cincinnati overcame a 44-30 disadvantage
on a play to win their fifth true Big East highway diversion dating to last
season.

“You always demeanour intelligent when guys make shots,” Cronin pronounced with a laugh.

And a Bearcats are creation them in bunches after Cronin has reinvented his
team following a annoying 76-53 detriment to Xavier on Dec. 10 that finished with
a riot in front of a Cincinnati bench.

The indirect suspensions forced a Bearcats to go small. It’s a demeanour that
certainly suits them.

Cincinnati didn’t behind down conflicting a unexpected exposed Panthers, never
panicking after removing down by 8 points early. Instead they kept shooting,
kept removing their hands in flitting lanes and kept frustrating Pitt in the
process.

A 3-pointer by Dion Dixon gave Cincinnati a 66-59 lead with 3 mins to go
and Cincinnati dug in defensively to overcome a integrate of dear missed free
throws.

Pitt drew within 3 on dual giveaway throws by John Johnson with 40 seconds to
play though couldn’t take advantage after Parker and Kilpatrick clanked a front
end of dual 1-and-1s.

Johnson was called for an descent tainted to finish one possession. Gibbs missed
a 3-pointer on Pitt’s subsequent outing though a Panthers got a miscarry and called time
out with 2.4 seconds remaining. Lamar Patterson’s 3-pointer from a tip of the
key wasn’t tighten and a Bearcats poured off a dais in celebration.

The Panthers, meanwhile, have left in a conflicting direction. Pitt has
struggled acid for an identity. The team’s routinely devoted invulnerability has
only been so-so Woodall’s deficiency has forced Gibbs to do a infancy of the
ballhandling, with churned results.

How bad are things going for a Panthers? They’re unexpected beatable during the
Petersen Events Center.

Pitt started a deteriorate winning 55 of a final 57 home games though has mislaid at
the Pete 3 times in a final 6 weeks. Long Beach State raced by Pitt on
Nov. 16, afterwards Wagner dumbfounded a Panthers dual days before Christmas.

Missing Woodall hasn’t helped. The youth played for a initial time in
nearly a month in a 72-59 detriment to Notre Dame final week though didn’t even dress
against a Bearcats since of continued soreness.

The Panthers could positively use him, quite after Cincinnati spent 40
minutes badgering Pitt into messy mistake after messy mistake.

Gibbs finished 7 of 15 shots though couldn’t find a operation when a Panthers
needed it most.

“We attempted to discharge him violence us,” Cronin said. “We didn’t all the
way … though down a widen we finished it really, unequivocally tough on him.”

Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:11 pm Leave a Comment

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Calhoun-less UConn tops St.. John’s (AP)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)—Connecticut manager Jim Calhoun couldn’t attend
Saturday’s win over St. John’s. His players pronounced they could hear him in their
heads yelling during them to finish stronger.

The Huskies let a 23-point second-half lead trip to 11 before finally
beating a Red Storm 83-69 in a second diversion of Calhoun’s three-game NCAA
suspension for recruiting violations.

Shabazz Napier had 17 points and 9 assists to lead a Huskies. Freshman
Andre Drummond combined 16 points and 11 rebounds and Jeremy Lamb chipped in with
15 points as UConn (12-1, 2-0 Big East) won a seventh true game.

“Our problem is we demeanour during a score, we see we’re adult and we start playing
the score,” Napier said. “I told a guys we can’t do that. we don’t like how
selfish we are during times. But, we’ll get all together.”

D’Angelo Harrison had 17 points, and associate beginner Moe Harkless and junior
God’sgift Achiuwa any combined 16 for St. John’s (7-6, 1-1), that mislaid for the
first time in 4 games.

St. John’s also was but a conduct manager as Steve Lavin continues to
recover from prostate cancer medicine in October. Lavin, who coached 4 games
this season, missed his seventh uninterrupted game. There is no calendar for his
return, suspicion he continues to attend use and hoop recruiting duties.

But Harkless pronounced he doesn’t wish to hear excuses for a loss, even on a
team that starts 4 freshmen.

“I don’t like it when people contend that we’re immature and that’s a reason
why,” he said. “Because it doesn’t matter about that, it matters about your
heart. We only didn’t come out attack shots.”

A take and asperse by beginner Ryan Boatright gave UConn a 13-4 lead. The
Huskies, who came in averaging 6 3-pointers per game, had 5 in a initial 14
minutes. They finished 9 of 16 in a game.

UConn hold St. Johns to 25 percent sharpened in a initial half and 36 percent
for a game. St. John’s, that came in attack only 28 percent of a 3-point
shots, done only 4 of 24 and were 1 of 13 in descending behind 38-25 at
halftime.

The Huskies non-stop a second half with dual dunks by Drummond on alley-oop
passes.

“I would like to see them do it about 15 some-more times, and we would like to
see Andre get in position to do it 15 some-more times” pronounced associate conduct coach
George Blaney, who coached in Calhoun’s absence. “He’s so giveaway with how
he can arise adult and locate it. He doesn’t skip anything when his hands are around
it.”

The Huskies strike their initial 6 shots of a second half, including a
3-pointer by Lamb who was fouled and also done a giveaway throw, to give the
Huskies a 52-35 lead.

Drummond’s pushing floater put UConn adult 65-44 mid by a second half
and Huskies led by as many as 23 points before St. John’s done a final run,
cutting a UConn lead to 72-61 with 2:48 remaining on a asperse by Sir’Dominic
Pointer.

But Napier sealed out a diversion by hurdling over a depressed Amir Garrett for a
layup to make it 79-64 with a notation left.

“As usual, we kind of let them behind in as we were up,” Drummond said.
“We’re operative on it and we’re going to get it and we’re going to get that
killer instinct that we’re looking for.”

Connecticut is 2-0 to start a Big East deteriorate for a initial time since
2003-04, when a Huskies won their second of 3 inhabitant titles.

Calhoun, who was dangling for 3 discussion games by a NCAA for
failing to emanate an atmosphere of correspondence within a program, will lay out
Tuesday’s diversion during Seton Hall before returning to a sidelines during Rutgers next
Saturday.

“We really wish to get 3 and 0 for him and for ourselves,” Lamb said.
“We wish to win only as bad as he do. we know it’s tough for him watching. We’re
still using manager Calhoun’s system. One some-more diversion and we’ll be good.”

Harkless, a former UConn partisan who was entrance off a Big East freshman
debut-record 32 points in a win over Providence final week, strike only dual of his
first 7 shots.

“I consider that we should have did a improved pursuit of in a finish perplexing to take
over a game,” he said. “I didn’t claim myself as most as we should have.”

The Red Storm had won a final dual meetings with UConn, in a regular
season final year and in a 2010 Big East tournament. But a Huskies have won
10 of a final 11 opposite a Red Storm in a unchanging season, including eight
straight during home.

The diversion is a initial in a tough widen for St. John’s that also faces No.
4 Louisville, No. 14 Marquette and No. 12 Georgetown in a initial half of
January.

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Hoyas finish Louisville’s home strain during 20 (AP)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)—Georgetown is some-more endangered with accumulating wins
than creation statements with 10 freshmen and sophomores on a roster. Sophomore
Markel Starks and beginner Otto Porter done certain a Hoyas did both.

Starks scored 16 of his career-high 20 points in a second half and Porter
came adult purchase late as No. 12 Georgetown snapped No. 4 Louisville’s 20-game home
winning strain with a 71-68 feat Wednesday night in a Big East opener for
both teams.

“It was a really good, large win opposite a really good group in a formidable place
to play,” Georgetown manager John Thompson III said. “We aren’t worrying about
validation right now.”

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Hoyas end Louisvilles home streak at 20 (AP)

Still, it was another clever opening from a group picked 10th in a Big
East. Georgetown (11-1, 1-0) built an 11-point lead before carrying to tarry a
rally to win for a ninth uninterrupted time.

This was their grittiest bid yet, entrance from behind to build a large lead
and afterwards hold on when Louisville rallied late in front of a rough crowd.

Starks finished 7 of 8 from a domain to assistance Georgetown take control and
Porter, who had 14 points and 14 rebounds, done several pivotal plays late that
helped a Hoyas deflect off a Cardinals.

“When you’re in a feverishness of a conflict you’re only personification in a upsurge of
the game, shots are going to come,” Starks said. “Whether we make them or
miss them, those are shots you’ve got to be means to take. we took them and they
were means to fall.”

Louisville (12-1, 0-1) had been one of 6 Division we teams that came into
play Wednesday though a loss. The Cardinals hold a gossamer lead by many of
the initial half and early into a second before a Hoyas’ girl transformation took
over.

Kyle Kuric finished with 17 points and Peyton Siva had 15 for Louisville.

“This is really disappointing. This is a initial detriment during home. It’s sad,”
Cardinals ensure Chris Smith said.

Trailing 63-52, a Cardinals went on an 11-0 run sparked when Russ Smith
hit a 3 in a dilemma and Siva done dual pivotal plays, including attack a floater
off a potion before Gorgui Dieng scored down low to tie a measure with 2:01
left.

Porter followed adult a skip by Henry Sims with a layup afterwards grabbed a
defensive miscarry on a other finish that led to dual giveaway throws by Sims that made
it 67-63 with 1:12 left. Porter combined dual giveaway throws to pull a domain to six
before Smith strike a 3-pointer to cut it to 69-66 with 21 seconds left.

But Porter strike dual some-more giveaway throws to sign it.

“Nothing’s going by my mind, only these are tough shots, I’ve got to
hit these giveaway throws and a manager only kept revelation me these are purchase free
throws, this is what you’ve been practicing,” Porter said. “It never crossed
my mind about a crowd.”

Louisville had been off to a best start given 1974-75 and a longest home
winning strain given 1984 even yet a Cardinals indispensable to convene to win their
last 3 nonconference games and contingency play No. 3 Kentucky during Rupp Arena next.

Hollis Thompson, who finished with 10 points, strike a jumper and afterwards done a 3
to put a Hoyas adult 51-47 with only underneath 9 mins left. As play came toward
the Louisville end, arbitrate Karl Hess assessed a technical on a Cardinals’
bench and Jason Clark strike both giveaway throws to make it a six-point game.

Louisville manager Rick Pitino was austere about a call, entrance out to
halfcourt to state his box and after articulate to arbitrate Jim Burr during a next
media timeout.

“I was revelation Kyle not to go under,” Pitino said. “His name is Karl, he
thought we was articulate to him about fortifying screens.”

After Kuric strike dual giveaway throws, Starks done uninterrupted 3s to give
Georgetown a 59-49 lead with 6:06 left. Kuric done his fifth 3, though Sims
answered with a burst offshoot over Dieng and afterwards found Starks slicing down a lane
for a layup that done it 63-52 with 4 1/2 mins to play.

The Cardinals, who have rallied from deficits of 7 or some-more 9 times
dating to final season, done one final push. That’s when Porter thwarted them
late.

“This is a Big East. Night in, night out games are going to be like
that,” Starks said. “Rarely do we see blowout games. This was a tough
Louisville team.”

Posted on December 29, 2011 at 12:07 pm Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NCAA Basketball and tagged Big East, Henry Sims, Hollis Thompson, Karl Hess.

Big East lawsuit vs. WVU not discharged (AP)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)—A Rhode Island decider on Tuesday denied a ask by
West Virginia University to boot a lawsuit filed by a Big East Conference
over a university’s bid to make a discerning exit for a Big 12.

Providence County Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein deserted all of
the university’s arguments for dismissal.

The propagandize had argued a Rhode Island courts did not have a management to
decide a matter and should defer to a courts in West Virginia, where the
first polite fit was filed in this dispute.

The university also claimed it can’t be sued in Rhode Island since it has
sovereign shield as an group of a state of West Virginia and was not
properly told by a Big East of a lawsuit.

Court orator Craig Berke pronounced a calendar for destiny authorised proceedings
in Rhode Island has not been determined.

The Big East’s lawsuit seeks vague indemnification and an sequence that West
Virginia stay in a discussion for 27 months.

West Virginia supposed an invitation from a Big 12 in Oct and hopes to
join in time for a 2012 football season.

Since afterwards a propagandize and Big East have any sued a other and filed
motions to boot a other’s lawsuits. A West Virginia decider progressing this
month refused to boot a university lawsuit opposite a Big East.

A hearing in a box filed in West Virginia is scheduled for Jun 25, which
is 5 days before a university skeleton to leave a Big East.

The Big East countersued in Rhode Island on Nov. 4, 4 days after the
university filed a suit, alleging that West Virginia helped qualification a bylaws
and can't now omit them. The Big East says an early exit by a university
would do lost mistreat to a conference.

WVU has already sent half of a compulsory $5 million exit price to a Big
East, and it contends that by usurpation a down payment, a discussion agreed
to a evident withdrawal.

WVU contends a discussion disregarded a shortcoming to members by
failing to change a series of football-playing and non-football schools. But
the Big East says a bylaws have no such requirement.

Lawyers for a Big East did not immediately lapse messages on Tuesday.

Posted on December 28, 2011 at 6:07 am Leave a Comment

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