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Educational Column: Recruiting — Electronic Transmissions — Microblogs (I)
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Basketball College GameDay and Saturday Primetime 2010 Schedule
ESPN’s weekly College GameDay Driven by State Farm® college basketball series and the Saturday Primetime game-of-the-week telecast -- returning for a sixth consecutive season – will begin January 16, 2010, from Storrs, Conn., for the women’s BIG EAST showdown between Notre Dame and defending Nationa
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Routs remind us of the way we were
11-17-09--Perhaps there are folks who could look at the doubleheader held here in what will be the 2010 Final Four city and not think, "Wow, they had the wrong matchups." Not sure who those people are, though.
But, alas, there was no other way to do it. Not with these four teams. Texas and Texas
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Baylor 100, Tennessee Tech 55
11-17-09--For Baylor freshman sensation Brittney Griner, every game is still a learning experience.
Two lessons learned in her first home game Tuesday night: use two hands and play under control more when in foul trouble.
Griner had 10 points, 11 rebounds and eight blocked shots, but missed
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UF women's basketball team falls short in upset bid of FSU
11-17-09--The Florida women’s basketball team made 50 percent of its shots in a season-opening win over Stetson, but coach Amanda Butler thought it could do even better.
It didn’t quite turn out that way.
UF couldn’t overcome a 27-percent (9 of 33) second-half shooting effort and fell 66-62
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Wallace Leads Women's Basketball to 66-52 Win Over Auburn
11-17-09--Junior Shaqwedia Wallace scored 19 points to lead the Temple women’s basketball team to a 66-52 win against Auburn, improving the Owls’ record to 2-0. The Tigers, reigning champs of the SEC, now stand at 1-1 overall.
Every player that entered the game scored for Temple, with
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Rutgers Women's Basketball Rolls to 85-49 Win Over Kean
11-17-09--Senior guard Brittany Ray (Bronx, N.Y.) registered 20 points to lead all scorers as Rutgers recorded an 85-49 victory over Kean University on Tuesday evening at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.
Sophomore guard April Sykes (Starkville, Miss.) had 12 points–all in the first half-and cla
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Missouri women's basketball rides strong first half to victory
11-17-09—Missouri came out strong in its regular season opener Sunday, leading Northern Iowa by 25 points at halftime. A second-half surge by the Panthers proved too little too late as the Tigers coasted to a 74-57 victory.
Senior forwards Amanda Hanneman and Marissa Scott both had personal best
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Stanford's Ogwumike Named Pac-10 Women's Basketball Player of the Week
11-16-09--STANFORD sophomore forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike was named the Player of the Week for the opening week of the season, Nov. 9-16, Commissioner Larry Scott announced today.
Nnemkadi Ogwumike (Cypress, Texas) led the Cardinal on a successful East Coast swing in the opening weekend of the 200
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OSU's Riley wins Big 12 women's basketball honor
11-16-09--Oklahoma State's Andrea Riley was honored Monday as one of the Big 12's Women's Basketball Players of the Week, as selected by a media voting panel.
Riley was honored along with Iowa State's Anna Prins for season-opening games of Nov. 13-15. Riley, a senior, was honored for the eighth
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Hawkeye, Cyclone receive weekly honor
11-16-09--Iowa's Kachine Alexander and Iowa State's Anna Prins each garnered women's basketball player of the week honors from their conferences.
Alexander, a 5-foot 9-inch junior, was named the Big Ten's co-player of the week along with Ohio State's Jantel Lavender. Alexander recorded double-do
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Lady Vols find the zone against Griner
11-15-09--Tennessee's women's basketball program got stung an inordinate amount of times last season. Now, this is a group of grew-up-the-hard-way players who are ready to sting back. Baylor coach Kim Mulkey expected that, which is why she wasn't too upset after a 74-65 loss to the Lady Vols in Sund
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Guards come up big in Stanford's win over Rutgers
11-15-09--No. 2 Stanford survived a challenge from Rutgers before pulling away in Sunday's 81-66 win. It survived in large part because of a 50-33 rebounding edge on the Scarlet Knights, a total that included 28 Cardinal offensive rebounds. And it did it with 54 points and 27 rebounds from tri-capta
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OSU women's basketball: Late lapse casts small cloud over win
11-15-09--Finding fault with a 19-point win might seem like complaining about a partly cloudy summer day.
But after a 91-72 drubbing of Bowling Green in a quarterfinal game of the Preseason WNIT yesterday, Ohio State women's basketball coach Jim Foster found himself longing for 40 minutes of sun
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Texas A&M hits No. 6 Duke hard in women's basketball
11-15-09--Danielle Adams scored 24 points in her Texas A&M debut and the Aggies stunned Duke 95-77 on Sunday.
The Aggies (1-0) took the lead near the midway point of the first half and didn't trail again. Despite poor shooting, the Blue Devils (1-1) cut the lead to three points with about 14 min
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LSU women's basketball team's defense dominant in 92-19 win over Centenary
11-15-09--Energy didn't seem to be an issue as the Lady Tigers' defeated Centenary 92-19, the second largest margin of victory in program history.
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OU women’s basketball notebook: Sooners get just four trips to free-throw line
11-15-09--Perhaps the only statistical item more glaring than No. 13 Oklahoma’s disappointing shooting percentage in its 62-51 loss to No. 21 Georgia was the number of times the Sooners went to the foul line, or more exactly, the number of time they didn’t.
While the Bulldogs (1-0) connected on
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Bruszewski (19 points) leads eight Irish players in double figures
11-15-09--Coach Muffet McGraw was not as excited as the 9,080 fans about Notre Dame (No. 7 ESPN/USA Today, No. 4 AP) breaking the 100-point barrier at home for the first time in seven years in a 102-57 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Sunday night.
"I don't care how many points we score," she
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Wright moves to No. 5 on Virginia's career scoring list in win
11-15-09--Monica Wright made her final 10 shots from the field and scored 25 of her game-high 31 points in the second half to lift Virginia (No. 18 ESPN/USA Today, No. 14 AP) past Manhattan 86-68 on Sunday.
The Cavaliers (2-0) forced 15 turnovers and held Manhattan scoreless for almost 6 minutes
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NCAA Releases New Study On Sports Wagering And Student-Athletes
Core News Facts
• The NCAA has released its second national study on sports wagering behaviors of U.S. college student-athletes, which gauges the change and prevalence of these activities since the 2004 study.
• The results from this latest study indicate that the NCAA and its members have m
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Spartans women's basketball signs three of state's top four recruits
11-13-09--Michigan State women's basketball coach Suzy Merchant might not be finished recruiting this year's crop of high school seniors, but the three players she signed this week speak volumes about her vision for the program.
Madison Williams, 6-foot-7, of Birmingham Detroit Country Day, 6-3
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Women’s basketball signs nation’s top recruit
11-13-09--The Stanford women’s basketball team is arguably the most talented squad in the nation and yet Thursday, it still found a way to improve.
Chiney Ogwumike, the consensus top recruit in the country, signed with the Cardinal and will join her sister Nnemkadi, a sophomore, on The Farm next
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Brittney Griner Cleared for Takeoff
11-12-09--Dunks in women's basketball have been like meteors in the night sky, fleeting moments of excitement, flashes that fade quickly until the next one shows up. Six women have dunked in a college game, totaling 15 dunks.
When a dunk happens, it makes the highlight reel, sparks a brief
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Salem's Amy Scullion among OSU women's basketball recruits
11-11-09--The Ohio State women's basketball team signed four recruits on Wednesday, including 6-foot Amy Scullion of Salem, Ohio, who was ranked as one of the top 100 recruits in this class by ESPN.
Joining Scullion are Darryce Moore, a 6-2 center from Boardman, Ohio, Ashley Adams, a 6-5 center
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Three Sign Letters of Intent
11-11-09--West Virginia University women’s basketball coach Mike Carey announced today the addition of three future Mountaineers who signed their national letters of intent to attend WVU next year.
Giving the coach signatures were Brooke Hampton (Colts Neck, N.J./Colts Neck), Jessica Harlee (Fa
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Suspension Issued for Two OSU Women’s Basketball Players
11-11-09--Ohio State women’s basketball head coach Jim Foster Wednesday announced the suspension of seniors Cherise Daniel and Shavelle Little for the first three games of the 2009-10 season.
Both players committed an NCAA secondary rules violation that will be enforced with the three-game suspe
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Texas A&M Women's Basketball Inks Second-Straight Top 10 Recruiting Class
11-11-09--For the second consecutive year, the Texas A&M women’s basketball program has landed one of the top recruiting classes in the nation with the signing of two top-rated high school prospects who will join the nationally-ranked Aggies for the 2010-11 season as announced by head coach Gary Bla
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'Very, very good' day for U of L, UK women's basketball teams
11-11-09--While the local men's basketball programs are waiting to sign players, the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky women's coaches were busy Wednesday, raking in top prospects on the first day of the fall signing period.
Both schools signed five prospects, and their classes
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Expectations are simple for OSU women's basketball team: win
11-11-09--Oregon State women's basketball coach LaVonda Wagner doesn't mince words in describing what she expects from the 2009-10 Beavers.
"My expectations are to win, period, the end," Wagner said. "We are really looking to build a successful foundation by putting in a lot of extra time. So we
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Women's hoops media guides and web sites getting sexier
11-11-09--Florida State unvieled its new women's basketball web site today and -- whoa! -- didn't know this was the direction we were headed. This blog pays attention to the No. 15 Seminoles because of Seattle native Sue Semrau, FSU's head coach since 1997 and three-time Coach of the Year.
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UConn Women: Hayes Out; Doty Will Start
11-11-09--The UConn women's basketball program has experienced more significant injuries than the strained hamstring that has idled point guard Lorin Dixon indefinitely.
But it's no way to start the season.
Dixon, the 5-foot-4 junior expected to replace All-American Renee Mont
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Bearkats slash ticket prices for basketball
11-11-09--General admission tickets to Bearkat home basketball games in November and December are available for only a $1.
That’s the bargain Sam Houston State is offering hoop fans during the $1 Bearkat Basketball Ticket Sale, which lasts only 72 hours on www.gobearkats.com, beginning at 1
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NCAA grants Andrews another season at Cal
11-11-09--The California University women's basketball team, which is ranked No. 3 in the NCAA Division II USA Today/ESPN preseason poll, got a little stronger Tuesday.
California received word from the NCAA that point guard Crystal Andrews has been granted another season of eligibility. Andrews
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Former MSU coach’s discrimination suit slated for judge trial
11-10-09--A gender-discrimination lawsuit filed against Montana State University by a former women’s basketball coach will go to trial before a federal judge in April.
Following a 45-minute hearing in Butte Nov. 2, U.S. District Court Judge Sam E. Haddon denied the university’s request that he i
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LCCC women join NJCAA this season
11-10-09--Last season former Midview player Katie Street took over the women's basketball program at Lorain County Community College. The program was a club team, and the Commodores struggled all season, finishing with a record of 0-11.
"Last year was a building year for sure," Street
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How to Fix the WNBA
Why the NBA's plan for selling women's basketball will never work—and what might.
Earlier this month, the New York Times' Karen Crouse argued that America was falling for women's hoops. After the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever to win the WNBA title, Crouse wrote that the champi
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Five burning questions for 2009-10
11-9-09--Many of those who aren't partisan to UConn and Tennessee will complain that those two programs get too much publicity, they're sick of hearing about them and how "annoying" it is when they win NCAA titles. (Which they've done quite a lot.)
Now, not all non-fans of the Big Two say this …
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BRYANT WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO MISS THREE REGULAR-SEASON GAMES
11-9-09-- The Bryant University Athletics Department has announced that three women's basketball players will miss the first three games of the 2009-10 season as prescribed by the NCAA for participating in a uncertified summer basketball league. The announcement was made today by Director of Athlet
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ESPN interested in bidding for the rights to March Madness
11-4-09--If the NCAA opts out early next year from its 11-year, $6 billion contract with CBS for the men's basketball tournament,ESPN would be interested in bidding for the rights to March Madness, said Burke Magnus, ESPN's senior vice president of college sports programming.
CBS' contract runs
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Athlete Gets a Second Chance at Life
College athletes are not supposed to have to worry about going into cardiac arrest, but it happened to a 20-year-old from Chicago.
On October 15, the first day of practice for the women’s basketball team, Elizabeth Pearlman from Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, collapsed.
“To sta
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Nancy Lieberman to coach Frisco D-League team
11-4-09--The Frisco team in the National Basketball Development League will hire Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman as its first coach, and the news is not as surprising as you might think.
Far from it, say some of the people who know Lieberman well. In fact, the hiring of a woman to coach a men’s te
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Women's basketball assistant coach dies
11-5-09--Jacqueline Moore, Eastern Illinois women's basketball assistant coach, died late Wednesday.
Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers confirmed at 12:05 a.m. Thursday that Moore, who was entering her third season with the team, collapsed while working out and died.
Schniers could n
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