Norman, Okla. ? Oklahoma will meet with NCAA officials in April regarding an investigation into the school's men's basketball and gymnastics programs, the school said Wednesday.Athletic director Joe Castiglione said Oklahoma had been working with the NCAA and, along with NCAA enforcement staff, ...
SPRINGFIELD, MO. ? New Missouri State football coach Terry Allen believes in omens.A sign that Allen is the right man, in the right place at the right time? In the lobby of a downtown hotel on Tuesday, he crossed paths with John Q. Hammons."It certainly was a pleasure to meet him, and I took it ...
Lubbock, Texas ? It's been quite an unusual 40th season for Texas Tech coach Bob Knight so far: His successor already has been picked, he's off to his worst start in a decade, but he's still got the same intensity that helped him win three national championships with Indiana."I'm still ...
Hartford, Conn. ? No surprises here.Connecticut put the squeeze on overmatched New Hampshire early, and the second-ranked and unbeaten Huskies cruised to another lopsided victory.Rudy Gay had 22 points and three steals, and Ed Nelson dominated down low with 11 rebounds in UConn's 86-44 victory ...
Denver ? Boise State coach Dan Hawkins was close to completing a deal that would bring him to Colorado to replace Gary Barnett.A person familiar with the negotiations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a deal is still pending, told the Associated Press that the school hoped to ...
Tom Davis didn't go into coaching to get rich; it just happened that way."It probably was good timing, to some degree," the Drake men's basketball coach said last week.Davis got his first big-time job at Boston College in 1977, just as college basketball was starting its climb into the ...
Vince Young can claim at least one victory over Southern California this season.The Texas quarterback was selected to the Associated Press All-America team released Tuesday, relegating USC's Matt Leinart to second-team.Young was runner-up in the Heisman Trophy voting to Trojans tailback Reggie ...
Philadelphia ? Allan Ray scored 19 points, and No. 3 Villanova withstood a 24-7 run late in the second half to beat pesky Penn, 62-55, Tuesday night at the Palestra.Randy Foye scored 16 points, and Mike Nardi had 14 for the Wildcats (7-0), who got off to a shaky start in the first of three ...
