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Holland named to powerful USA Basketball panel
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win over UNLV extends Stokes' ties to USC ...
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03.21.05: Spurrier
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03.20.05: Kentucky
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03.19.05: Hodge
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03.18.05: UAB
smothers 6th- seeded LSU in Round 1 shocker ... Bearcats dump
Iowa, set sights on Kentucky ... Preview: (7) Charlotte vs.
(10) N.C. State ... Preview: (4) Louisville vs. (13)
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03.17.05: Timeline
on ECU hoops coach Ricky Stokes ... Nothing heals like an
NIT win for Tigers' Washington ... Horned Frogs halt
RedHawks' home streak ... Davidson rips VCU for first-ever
NIT victory ...
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03.16.05: It's
not the Big Dance, but it's a win for DePaul ... NCAA
preview: UAB vs. LSU ... NCAA preview: Cincinnati vs. Iowa
... CORRECTED Final AP college basketball poll ...
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03.15.05: Handicapped
Marquette makes quit exit from NIT ... New arena a factor in
Virginia's firing of Gillen ... Heart attack hospitalizes
Tech football coach ... Final 2004-05 college basketball
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03.14.05: 12
current, future C- USA teams earn NCAA or NIT bids ...
Finney dismissed by Tulane ...
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East Carolina athletic director Terry
Holland will have a say in the strategic direction and oversight of the
United States' international basketball efforts.
Holland has been elected to the USA
Basketball Executive Committee for the 2005-2008 term. The 10-person
governing panel was announced Thursday by USA Basketball's Board of
Directors in a news release from the organization's headquarters in Colorado
Spring, CO.
Holland, who was also elected USA
Basketball Secretary, recently served as chairman of the 2000-2004 USA
Basketball Men's Collegiate Committee. His involvement with the organization
also has included a stint as head of the prestigious NCAA Men's Basketball
Committee.
Val Ackerman, founding President of the
Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), was elected President of USA
Basketball for the four-year period.
USA Basketball is a non-profit
organization and the national governing body for men's and women's
basketball in the United States. The organization is responsible for the
selection, training and fielding of USA teams that compete in FIBA sponsored
international basketball competitions, as well as some national
competitions.
The competitions in which USA teams
regularly compete include the Olympics, World Championships, Pan American
Games, World University Games, World Championship for Young Men/Women,
Junior World Championships, Hoop Summit and Youth Development Festivals.
ECU fans to have rooting interest in NIT semis
COLUMBIA South Carolina senior Carlos
Powell ran around the gym with his arms outstretched like a little kid. He
had good reason to celebrate.
Powell and the Gamecocks (18-13)
presumably including USC assistant and newly-appointed
East Carolina head coach Ricky Stokes
are headed to New York and Madison Square Garden for the NIT semifinals
after a 69-66 victory over Georgetown on Thursday.
``I thought senior day was my last time
playing here,'' said Powell, whose 21 points led the Gamecocks. ``There's a
lot of people who were wishing they were playing right now.''
Instead of ending the season losing
five of its last six, South Carolina has turned things around and won three
in a row.
But the Gamecocks have needed a couple
of last-second wins to stay alive in the NIT, and Thursday night was no
different.
The Hoyas (19-13) had two chances to
tie the game late but Darrel Owens and Jeff Green each missed 3-pointers
with less than 30 seconds remaining. Down by three with 2 seconds to go, a
final Georgetown attempt from beyond midcourt was swatted out of bounds by
Josh Gonner.
South Carolina will face the winner of
Saturday's Texas-Christian-Maryland game in the semifinals in New York.
Saint Joseph's and Memphis will play in the other semifinal next Tuesday
night.
It's South Carolina's second trip to
Madison Square Garden under coach Dave Odom, who served as East Carolina's
head coach from 1979-82.
``Wow, what a game what a three-game
run,'' Odom said. ``We haven't played a bad team yet.''
The Gamecocks' three-game excursion to
reach the NIT semifinals apparently hasn't too much of a distraction to keep
Stokes from doing his job for ECU. Since being named Pirates coach at a
press conference in Greenville last week, he has already announced the
hiring of two
highly-regarded assistants.
Triangle's Sweet 16 teams converge at RDU
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski saw
something quite rare before his team left for the Austin Regional.
As the top-seeded Blue Devils headed to
their charter plane at the Raleigh-Durham airport Wednesday, Atlantic Coast
Conference rivals North Carolina and North Carolina State were doing the
same a few hundred yards away.
It's the first time since 1989 that those three teams advanced to the round
of 16. North Carolina and North Carolina State both were bound for the
Syracuse Regional, where the Tar Heels are the No. 1 seed and the Wolfpack
are No. 10.
``It was like we were either evacuating or we were all deploying,''
Krzyzewski said. ``I (was) looking and said, `I am sure this hasn't
happened.' That is great for our region, and I am happy for our league.''
Duke will face fifth-seeded Michigan State on Friday. North Carolina State
will take on sixth-seeded Wisconsin before North Carolina faces fifth-seeded
Villanova.
Another DUI charge embarrasses Cincinnati
CINCINNATI Cincinnati basketball
assistant Keith LeGree was suspended after he was charged with driving under
the influence, less than a year after coach Bob Huggins was suspended for a
drunken driving conviction.
LeGree will remain on suspension until
the university completes an investigation, the school said Thursday. He will
continue to be paid but will forfeit benefits and will not be allowed to
coach the team.
``Our image has taken yet another big
hit by the careless action of someone, who, given the events of the past
year, should have been very much aware of the consequences,'' athletic
director Bob Goin said.
Huggins returned to work Aug. 27 from a
university suspension after his drunken driving conviction. The university
suspended Huggins indefinitely June 12, following his arrest four days
earlier.
LeGree completed his fifth season on
the coaching staff. He was a point guard on the 1994-95 and 1995-96 Bearcat
teams.
He could not immediately be reached for
comment, and there was no telephone listing for him in Cincinnati.
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