Published on: 10th March, 2010
New York – Cinderella almost continued its run towards college basketball relevance today, but not quite. St. Johns University, once among the titans of the sport but having fallen on hard times in recent years, had defeated Connecticut handily yesterday to move into the second round of the Big East Championships. They took a favored [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
New York – Tonight, Norm Roberts can rest a little easier. As many games as St. Johns has lost under his tutelage against teams the Red Storm never used to lose to, today’s convincing blowout of the University of Connecticut in the opening round of the Big East Championship tournament at Madison Square Garden was [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
New York — Syracuse forward Wes Johnson, a newcomer who helped lead Syracuse to the Big East regular-season title and an overall record of 28-3, has been named Big East Player of the Year by a vote of the league’s head coaches. His coach, Jim Boeheim was named the Coach of the Year of the [...]
Published on: 14th January, 2010
New York – Tonight was supposed to be one of the big events of this college basketball season, particularly since it was taking place in the basketball cathedral of Madison Square Garden. It was a happening, not so much because it was St. Johns against Cincinnati in another battle of Big East teams who can [...]
Published on: 2nd January, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Tim Tebow and coach Urban Meyer stood together in one corner of the Louisiana Superdome, sang the school fight song and then offered a final gesture. Tebow took off on a victory lap. Meyer saluted the Florida fans. It was Tebow’s way of saying goodbye. It may have been Meyer’s, too. Tebow [...]
Published on: 11th December, 2009
NEW YORK — John Wall was last in Madison Square Garden a little less than eight months ago, for the Jordan Brand Classic, a messy high-school All-Star game in which he had eight points, six assists and five turnovers, and two big men, Georgia Tech-bound Derrick Favors and Mississippi State-bound Renardo Sidney, were named co-MVPs. [...]
Published on: 30th October, 2009
Freshman Lance Stephenson put on a show Saturday in his first public appearance as a member of the University of Cincinnati basketball team. Playing in an intrasqad scrimmage before the football game, Stephenson scored 22 points in 25 minutes to lead the Red team to a 50-43 victory over the Black team. He also made [...]
Published on: 7th September, 2009
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Monday that quarterback Sam Bradford has a Grade 2 or Grade 3 sprain of the AC joint in his right, throwing shoulder. Stoops said that Bradford’s recovery will continue to be monitored and it could be a “week or two” before there is a total understanding of a timetable [...]
Published on: 11th July, 2009
New York — Forward Lance Stephenson, who has committed to play at Cincinnati this fall, agreed to a plea deal and will not serve jail time in his sexual assault case. Stephenson, ranked No. 12 in the ESPNU top 100, pleaded guilty to a charge of misdemeanor disorderly conduct on Friday and will seek counseling [...]
Published on: 10th February, 2009
NEWARK, N.J. — Jeremy Hazell paced a balanced scoring attack with 31 points — the sixth time this season he has eclipsed 30 points in a game — leading Seton Hall to a 91-81 victory over St. John’s Thursday night. The win was the third straight for Seton Hall (12-9, 3-6 Big East), all coming [...]