November 21, 2009
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- N.C. State coach Sidney Lowe couldn't help being impressed by his team's start. Tracy Smith had 16 points and 11 rebounds as State beat Akron 66-45 at the Glenn Wilkes Classic on Friday. Dennis Horner also scored 16 points for the W...
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NEW YORK -- Two of the most storied programs in the history of college basketball squared off for the first time in more than two decades Friday night before an electric crowd at Madison Square Garden. North Carolina and Syracuse have combined to win thre...
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GREENSBORO -- UNCG completed the first half of the ACC portion of its schedule Friday night, and now it will assimilate what it has learned. Clemson pinned an 89-67 defeat on the Spartans in their home opener before a crowd of 5,672 in the Greensboro Coli...
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November 20, 2009
NEW YORK — North Carolina appeared on its way to a double-digit blowout of Ohio State Thursday night but ended up holding on for dear life before a pro-Tar Heels crowd at Madison Square Garden. It wasn't quite the Dean Smith Center, but for one nigh...
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GREENSBORO — The party starts early, and later this evening UNCG jumps headfirst into uncharted waters. The Spartans (0-2) take on No. 22-ranked Clemson (2-0) in UNCG's first game this season in its new full-time home: the Greensboro Coliseum. The g...
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Kermit Blount's 17-year career as the football coach at Winston-Salem State University will end Saturday. Blount, who has more career victories than any football coach in school history, will be reassigned to another department...
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Kay Yow and John Thompson first shared a special experience 21 years ago as coaches of the U.S. men's and women's Olympic basketball teams. On Thursday, 10 months after Yow lost a long battle with breast cancer, she and Thompson were presented with the se...
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NO. 11 DUKE 69, GEORGIA SOUTHERN 42: Jasmine Thomas scored 12 points to lead a balanced offense and No. 11 Duke won easily in its home opener, routing Georgia Southern 69-42 on Thursday night. The Blue Devils (2-1) dropped from No. 6 to No. 11 in the poll...
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NO. 18 DAYTON 63, NO. 21 GEORGIA TECH 59: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Paul Williams scored seven of his 13 points in the final minute, including a go-ahead 3-pointer, in Dayton's 63-59 victory over Georgia Tech in the opening game of the O'Reilly Auto...
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November 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — Here's a rule of thumb and several fingers: If your third-leading returning scorer is a first-team preseason All-American, you're more loaded than an angioplasty-inducing baked potato. That's the deal with the Guilford Quakers, who appl...
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WINSTON-SALEM — Faced with a towering opponent from a power conference, a lot of teams would try to take their time, slow the tempo and shorten the game. High Point is not a lot of teams. The undersized Panthers ran, and ran, and ran some more, shut...
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November 18, 2009
DURHAM — The message scrawled in magic marker on a strip of athletic tape and pasted across the forehead of the Blue Devil mascot was direct and to the point. "Nolan's In, 49er's Out." Not exactly Shakespearean iambic pentameter, but accur...
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CHAPEL HILL — Kennedy Tinsley sat in the posh new room high above Kenan Stadium with the stars of the game, his No. 36 jersey and uniform pants both covered in grass stains.The senior from Greensboro took one last look around during the interview......
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GREENSBORO — For the second time in three seasons, preseason polls have the Guilford College Quakers ranked among the top five teams in NCAA Division III men’s basketball. This season, a talented trio of seniors hopes to justify that ranking b...
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GREENSBORO — Walter Brady and Adam Powell will be counted on to lead Greensboro College to more consistency and a better record this season. Brady, one of two seniors on the team, and Powell, a junior, will be expected to provide offense for a Pride...
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Coach: Tom Palombo (217-118 overall, 117-53 in six seasons at Guilford)Home court: Ragan-Brown Field House (2,500), Greensboro2008-09: 26-6 overall, 14-2 ODAC (finished third in NCAA Division III tournament)Projected starters: G Rhett Bonner, 6-1, Sr. (16...
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Coach: Bryan Galuski (54-51 overall and in four seasons at Greensboro)Home court: Hanes Gym (800), Greensboro2008-09: 9-16 overall, 3-9 USA South ConferenceProjected starters: G R.J. Smith, 5-11, Sr. (7.8 ppg, 2.4 apg); G Pernell Davis, 5-10, Jr. (transfe...
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LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Liberty freshman Devon Brown scored a game-high 26 points and the Flames took advantage of a cold-shooting UNCG squad to take a 60-42 win at the Vines Center on Tuesday. Lakiah Hyson scored nine points to lead the Spartans (1-1), who sho...
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GREENSBORO -- For the second time in three seasons, preseason polls have the Guilford College Quakers ranked among the top five teams in NCAA Division III men's basketball. This season, a talented trio of seniors hopes to justify that ranking better than...
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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Jeff Allen recorded a double-double and Virginia Tech broke open a tie game with an 11-0 run midway through the second half en route to a 59-46 victory over UNCG on Tuesday night at Cassell Coliseum. UNCG tied the game at 38 on a basket...
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ATHENS, Ohio -- Ohio University took a double-digit lead early and withstood a second-half run to defeat N.C. A&T 93-82 at the Convocation Center. Sophomore Nic Simpson led the Aggies with 22 points -- his second 20-point effort in three games. Freshm...
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November 17, 2009
DURHAM (AP) — Duke didn't have one of its key players and Coastal Carolina was missing one too. The big difference: The Blue Devils had plenty of other weapons to make up for it. Kyle Singler had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 9 Duke routed the...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Defending the Bowl Championship Series and trying to convince critics that it is the best way to determine a college football champion has to qualify as one of the toughest jobs in America.Bill Hancock now has that job.Hancock, the f...
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GREENSBORO — UNCG has signed four players to its men's basketball team: 6-foot-9 power forward Cody Henegar, 6-6 shooting guard Mike Liabo, 6-2 guard Drew Parker and 6-5 wing Trevis Simpson.Henegar is a post player from Marion County High in Jasper......
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* Coach: Scott Cherry (first season as a head coach) * Home court: Millis Center (1,750), High Point * 2008-09: 9-21 overall, 4-14 Big South (T-9th) * Projected starters: G Tehran Cox, 6-1, Jr. (transfer from Arkansas-Fort Smith); G Nick Barbour, 6-1, So.
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