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News Nuggets, 03.07.04
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Compiled from staff reports
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QB killer Coleman hits jackpot with Falcons
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03.06.04: Deliberations
continue on ECU chancellor candidates... .. Tourney bid
secure for ECU, courtesy of SLU... .. C-USA standings,
scoreboard & schedule... .. USM coach steps down on eve of
ECU game... ..
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03.05.04: DePaul
ambushes Bearcats... .. C-USA standings, scoreboard &
schedule... .. Billikens star leaves team to be with ailing
Dad... ..
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03.04.04: Latest
C-USA basketball standings, scoreboard & schedule... ..
Former Hamrick competitor quits Montana... .. Hoops
doubleheader on aircraft carrier in the works..? ..
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03.03.04: Former
Pirate Doll departs LSU staff for NFL... .. 49ers star
Withers hit with DWI charge... .. USM football receives
practical donation... .. NCAA considers standardizing
guidelines for recruiting visits... ..
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03.02.04: ECU
football campaign starts in Morgantown, ends in Charlotte...
.. Jones nabs weekly hitting honor... .. Kent State elevates
Martin to head coach... .. Baseball polls... .. Hoops poll... ..
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03.01.04: Pirates
sail through LeClair tourney towards Top 25... .. National
pitching honor named after 'Rocket'... .. Bulls AD Selmon
steps down... .. C-USA hoops standings... ..
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02.29.04: Pirates
launch LeClair Invitational in style... .. Ex-ECU assistant
takes over U of L defense... .. Houston jockeys to drop LSU
for Oklahoma... .. Sycamores retire Larry Bird's No. 33... ..
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02.28.04: Delayed
LeClair Invitational schedules first pitch for today... ..
SMU dismisses ECU alum Dement... .. Hot Tigers stalk cold
Cardinals... .. Coaches rebuked after frostbite incident... ..
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02.27.04: Sponsors
hop aboard for LeClair Invitational... .. Updated C-USA
basketball standings, scoreboard & schedule... .. NCAA gives
green light to instant replay for Big Ten... ..
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02.26.04: Martin
prime candidate for Kent head coaching job... .. USM
elevates Derrick Nix to tight ends coach... .. Great West
Football Conference born... .. Whaley quits Bearcats... ..
Latest C-USA scoreboard, standings, schedule... ..
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Former East Carolina sack artist
Roderick Coleman has accepted a lucrative offer to join the Atlanta
Falcons, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
A $10 million signing bonus — part of a six-year deal worth $28.5
million — was enough to entice Coleman to depart Oakland, where he
started a career-high 12 games and had five sacks last season. He is
expected to formally sign with the Falcons on Monday.
The Raiders' fifth-round draft pick in 1999, Coleman led NFL
interior linemen with 11 sacks two years ago.
Standing room only at top of C-USA
The closest conference race in college
basketball has ended in a five-way tie for first place. Charlotte,
Cincinnati, DePaul, Memphis and UAB have all finished with identical league
records of 12-4 to share Conference USA's regular season title.
Based on tie-breaker procedures, DePaul
will be the top seed at the 2004 Kelly Tires Conference USA Men’s Basketball
Tournament in Cincinnati. The four day, 12-team event will be held
Wednesday-Saturday, March 10-13 at U.S. Bank Arena in downtown Cincinnati.
The regular season wrapped up on Saturday
with five league games: Cincinnati pulled out an 83-79 thriller over
Memphis, preventing the Tigers from earning sole claim to first place;
Marquette surprised Louisville 81-80; DePaul defeated South Florida 78-66;
UAB pounded Texas Christian 87-62; Charlotte thumped Tulane 79-65; and East
Carolina won at Southern Mississippi 63-50.
Saint Louis and Houston closed out their
regular seasons on Friday with the Billikens overcoming a big deficit to
edge the Cougars 72-69 in overtime.
Houston and South Florida missed the cut
for inclusion in the 14-team league's 12-team tournament, which gets
underway on Wednesday in Cincinnati
C-USA standings, scoreboard
& seedings
CONFERENCE USA FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS
Conference All Games
Team
W L PCT W L PCT
#Cincinnati 12 4
.750 21 6 .778
#Memphis 12
4 .750 21 6 .778
#Charlotte 12
4 .750 20 7 .741
#DePaul
12 4 .750 19 8
.704
#UAB
12 4 .750 19 8
.704
#Louisville 9
7 .563 19 8 .704
#Saint Louis 9 7
.563 16 11 .593
#Marquette 8
8 .500 17 10 .630
#Texas Christian 7 9 .438
11 16 .407
#Southern Miss 6 10 .375
13 14 .481
#East Carolina 5 11 .313
13 13 .500
#Tulane
4 12 .250 11 16 .407
Houston 3 13
.188 9 18 .333
South Florida 1 15 .063 7
20 .259
Note: # appears beside the name of each of the teams which
qualified for this week's 12-team C-USA Tournament.
KELLY TIRES C-USA TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Wednesday, March 10 (First Round):
(5) Charlotte vs. (12) Tulane (ESPN 2) 1:00 PM
(8) Marquette vs. (9) TCU (ESPN 2) 3:30 PM
(6) Louisville vs. (11) Ecu (ESPN Plus) 7:00 PM
(7) St. Louis vs. (10) USM (ESPN Plus) 9:30 PM
Thursday, March 11 (Quarterfinals):
CHA/TUL vs. (4) UAB (ESPN Plus) 1:00 PM
MAR/TCU vs. (1) DePaul (ESPN Plus) 3:30 PM
LOU/ECU vs. (3) Cincinnati (ESPN Plus) 7:00 PM
SLU/USM vs. (2) Memphis (ESPN Plus) 9:30 PM
Friday, March 12 (Semifinals)
Semifinal No. 1 (ESPN) 4:30 PM
Semifinal No. 2 (ESPN Plus) 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 13
Championship Game (CBS) 11:41 PM
All times Eastern.
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Academic scandal costly for Gardner-Webb
CHARLOTTE — Gardner-Webb was placed on
three years' probation by the NCAA last week for the grade-tampering scandal
that cost school president Christopher White his job.
The men's basketball team will be ineligible for postseason play this year,
and the men's and women's basketball teams will lose a scholarship in the
next two academic years. Both programs also will be limited in their
recruiting activities.
The NCAA's committee on infractions found that White provided former
basketball star Carlos Webb with an ``extra benefit'' and ``violated the
principles of institutional control.''
White resigned in October 2002, weeks after admitting he ordered an F to be
left out in calculating Webb's grade point average in 2000.
The change allowed Webb, the team's leading scorer in 1999, to remain
eligible in 2000, the year Gardner-Webb won the National Christian College
Athletic Association championship.
The scandal broke just days after Gardner-Webb completed a controversial
move to NCAA Division I, and resulted in weeks of student and faculty
protests at the Baptist school.
Three professors resigned, including a descendant of the family for whom the
school is named, before White submitted his resignation.
The school did not immediately comment on the sanctions, but scheduled an
evening news conference.
Gardner-Webb's probation is to run through March 3, 2007. The school had
proposed a two-year probation period.
An NCAA investigation also found that Gardner-Webb violated rules regarding
recruiting and academic eligibility.
Between 2000 and 2003, investigators found, student-athletes in baseball,
men's basketball, women's cross country and women's track practiced, and in
some cases competed, and received athletic financial aid while ineligible.
The school also failed to correctly certify the eligibility of 33
international student-athletes between 1999 and 2003. The former women's
basketball coach also was found to have purchased an airline ticket from
Poland to Charlotte for a prospective athlete.
The violations show Gardner-Webb was ill-prepared for a move to Division I
competition, the committee said.
In addition to the probation, all games in which Webb played are to be
removed from the record, and all schools' records regarding men's games and
the record of the head men's basketball coach are to be recalculated.
The school already has removed its National Christian College Athletic
Association championship banner.
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