Post by stlvufan on Jan 21, 2006 12:47:16 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Centenary at Oakland men[/glow]--The Oakland Press
. . — CRYSTAL EVOLA
When: 6 tonight
Where: Oakland Athletics Center, Rochester
Broadcast: www.ougrizzlies.com Records: Centenary 3-14 (1-5 Mid-Con); Oakland 7-12 (2-5 Mid-Con)
Overview:
Oakland will try to find some momentum after dropping three out of four games. … The Golden Grizzlies return home after a 1-2 road trip. OU plays three straight and five of its next six games at home. … Juniors Shawn Hopes and Calvin Wooten combined to score 48 of OU’s points in Thursday’s 74-63 loss at Oral Roberts. … An OU win combined with a Western Illinois over Chicago State win would allow the Grizzlies to move up a spot to sixth place in the Mid-Con standings. … OU has won three straight against Centenary to lead the all-time series 3-1. … The Gents are 0-9 on the road this season.
Up next: Valparaiso at Oakland,
[glow=red,2,300]Centenary at Oakland women[/glow]--The Oakland Press
— CRYSTAL EVOLA
When: 3:30 p.m. today Where: Oakland Athletics Center, Rochester Broadcast: www.ougrizzlies.com
Records:
Centenary 2-15 (1-5 Mid-Con); Oakland 6-11 (2-4)
Overview:
Oakland will look to snap its two game losing skid in its first home game since Jan. 9. … OU’s top three scorers rank in the top 10 in the Mid-Con. Jayme Wilson is third at 16.2 points per game, Anne Hafeli is eighth with her 13.4 average and Nicole Piggott is 10th with a 12.6 average. … OU holds a 4-0 lead in the all-time series against Centenary. The closest contests have been decided by 15 points. … Centenary picked up its first conference win and snapped a 13-game losing skid on Monday in a 76-67 decision over Southern Utah. The Ladies are 0-7 on the road this season. Junior Holli Wilkins leads Centenary at 13.6 points per game.
Up next: Oakland at Valparaiso, 3:05 pm Jan 28 Ind
[glow=red,2,300]State college basketball schedule[/glow]--Indy Star
www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS06/601210450/1068
[glow=red,2,300]Game Preview: UMKC at IUPUI[/glow]--Kansas City Star
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/colleges/university_of_missouri-kansas_city/13676506.htm
[glow=red,2,300]UMKC returns focus to league[/glow]--Kansas City Star
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/colleges/university_of_missouri-kansas_city/13676511.htm
[glow=red,2,300]MEN’S BASKETBALL: Kone staying behind today[/glow]--Post Tribune
www.post-trib.com/cgi-bin/pto-story/sports/z1/01-21-06_z1_spor_07.html
Jan. 21, 2006
By Justin Breen / Post-Tribune deputy sports editor
VALPARAISO — Homer Drew insists his program is clean regarding an NCAA investigation of center Mohamed Kone.
“He has done nothing wrong. We have done nothing wrong,” Drew said after an early morning Friday practice.
The Crusaders, who play at Southern Utah tonight, sat Kone for Thursday’s game at Chicago State after the NCAA contacted VU, telling the school it was investigating questions regarding Kone’s travel to the school. Sources said that the travel in question was when Kone came to Valpo from Florida in September. Drew and VU director of athletics Mark LaBarbera said Kone will not play until the investigation is concluded.
LaBarbera said Friday Kone did not make the trip to Southern Utah, and he is still on campus. LaBarbera said he doesn’t expect to hear from the NCAA until early next week, hopefully by Monday. The Crusaders’ next game after tonight is Thursday at Oakland.
Like Drew, LaBarbera said VU and Kone have done nothing wrong.
“That’s clearly our position,” LaBarbera said via cell phone.
NCAA media relations member Dana Thomas said Friday she could not comment on the investigation, and said she could not confirm an investigation was taking place. Valpo assistant director of athletics Jenn Samble, in charge of compliance for the school, also said Friday she could not comment.
Kone arrived at Valparaiso on Sept. 6, well after the start of the fall semester on Aug. 23.
Kone was in Florida for four weeks during the summer living with Babacar Sy, his former high school and college coach — and also a close confidant. Sy had helped bring several African players to American colleges, and Kone, of the Ivory Coast, was one of them, as was VU junior Moussa Mbaye, of Senegal. Mbaye spent time with Kone in Florida during his four weeks there.
When Kone was in Florida, Sy was in the process of becoming the head coach at Florida Preparatory Academy, but he was later fired and took all eight of his international players out of the school as well.
Kone had followed Sy to the College of Southern Idaho, where he played for two years, and Sy then recommended he go to Baylor, where former VU coach Scott Drew is in charge. But not enough of Kone’s credits transferred to Baylor, and he wound up at Valparaiso.
Kone on Friday said the whole situation was “crazy.” The Crusaders on Thursday struggled without Kone and lost to the Cougars 90-76, which snapped a six-game winning streak.
“I don’t even understand,” Kone said. “(The NCAA) took (the Chicago State) game from me. I could have helped the team.
“Right now, I’ve just got to be positive.”
Drew said, as far as he knows, no other school, especially in the Mid-Continent Conference, blew the whistle on a possible infraction.
“I’m shocked at what happened on this,” Drew said. “I had tears in my eyes when I told him (Thursday). All he wants to do is play.”
Drew said he likely would start Mbaye at center tonight, but a lineup featuring Oppland and four guards, and another lineup with Oppland, Mbaye and freshman forward Urule Igbavboa and two guards are other possibilities.
Before Thursday, Kone had started to find his game and had shown glimpses of why he was rated one of the top junior college players in the country last season. During the winning streak, the 6-foot-11 center was shooting 53.3 percent from the field, and he had 34 blocked shots.
“He just alters a lot of shots,” senior guard Seth Colclasure said after Thursday’s loss, in which Kone sat at the end of VU’s bench dressed in all-black apparel.
Drew also said Friday that guard Jimmie Miles was out of Porter hospital and could start practicing next week. Miles had been dealing with a viral infection, Drew said.
Guard Shawn Huff was at Friday’s practice, hobbling on crutches. Huff broke a bone in his left foot on Monday during a scrimmage and had surgery Wednesday. Drew said he will be out at least six weeks.
Drew originally had called for a brief shootaround before leaving for Southern Utah, but he called for the hourlong practice, which began at 6:30 a.m., because he was upset with the Crusaders’ effort at Chicago State.
“The losing wasn’t the disappointment. The disappointing thing was we didn’t come to play,” Drew said.
Southern Utah makes 7.4 3-pointers per game. Point guard Steve Barnes is shooting 45.5 percent from 3-point range.
Contact Justin Breen at 648-3122 or jbreen@post-trib.com
Up next
Valpo (11-5, 4-2 Mid-Con)
at Southern Utah (4-14, 3-3)
When: 8 p.m. today
Where: Centrum Arena; Cedar City, Utah
Radio: WVUR (95.1-FM), WEFM (95.1-FM), WAKE (1500-AM)
KONE STATEMENT
Statement released Thursday on Valparaiso senior center Mohamed Kone issued by director of athletics Mark LaBarbera and men’s basketball coach Homer Drew:
“We have been informed by the NCAA of questions regarding Mohamed Kone’s travel to Valparaiso University to enroll as a student, and we will be holding him out of tonight’s game in an effort to maintain his eligibility in the future. We are unable to comment further on the situation until it has been resolved by the NCAA.”
[glow=red,2,300]JUSTIN BREEN COLUMN: No Kone means no sunshine for VU this season[/glow]--Post Tribune
www.post-trib.com/cgi-bin/pto-story/sports/z1/01-21-06_z1_spor_12.html
Jan. 21, 2006
VALPARAISO
I asked Dan Oppland on Wednesday whether the Valparaiso’s men’s basketball team would be as good a club without Mohamed Kone.
“Probably not,” Oppland said.
How about definitely not.
Let’s tell it like it is: Valpo is a dead duck without Kone. The Crusaders don’t have a legitimate starting center without him. No Kone means they have no chance of winning the Mid-Continent Conference Tournament, let alone an NCAA Tournament game or two.
If Kone, who is the subject of an NCAA investigation regarding his travel to Valpo from Florida in early September, continues to miss games, the Crusaders will go back to the dark ages they experienced last season.
By all accounts, Kone has been a good teammate. He’s been friendly and fair with the media, too. He’s learning to pass the ball, especially to Oppland, and his shot selection has dramatically improved.
His biggest strength — defense — is also Valpo’s biggest weakness when he’s not on the court. During VU’s 90-76 loss at Chicago State on Thursday — the first game Kone missed due to the NCAA investigation — the Crusaders were lost on the glass and in the paint. They were outscored inside 38-24, and don’t look for those numbers to get any better if Kone doesn’t come back soon.
I wrote at the end of last season that the sun might never shine on VU’s program again, and that might have happened this season if Kone hadn’t arrived as a pseudo gift from Baylor.
The summer was a desperate time for Homer Drew and Co. Kenny Harris was not going to play. Moussa Mbaye is a valuable substitute, but he would have been Harris’ backup had Harris been healthy.
As Oppland said, freshman Urule Igbavboa is a power forward. If Kone hadn’t come, Drew said freshman Arden Skoglund wouldn’t have redshirted.
In the hot months, Drew was forced to find a big man, in a hurry. And he jumped at the chance at landing Kone, even though the senior from the Ivory Coast — a junior college kid whose former coach, Babacar Sy, was involved in a scandal at Florida Preparatory Academy — didn’t fit the typical mold of a VU athlete.
Valpo is a school that takes great pride in its graduation success rate percentage, an incredible 98 percent from 1995-98. Although I’ve been told Kone has been a decent student, he’s at Valpo for one reason — to get to the NBA. He said that before the season started, and you really can’t blame him considering his mother and other family members are back in the Ivory Coast in the middle of a civil war.
From late December through last week, the Crusaders were an invigorating team to watch. They won six straight games, and they clearly were the team to beat in the Mid-Con.
But on Monday, solid sixth man Shawn Huff went down with a broken bone in his left foot, and guard Jimmie Miles continues to be out with a viral infection.
Kone’s loss is certainly the biggest. Behind Oppland, he’s the most important cog in the lineup.
Drew said an interesting sentence to me on Friday morning, when he held a practice that began at 6:30.
“The other teams in the conference have surpassed us with three of our top six players out,” Drew said.
He’s right, but if Kone returns, the Crusaders should be OK.
If he’s gone, then so is VU.
Contact Justin Breen at 648-3122 or jbreen@post-trib.com
[glow=red,2,300]No resolution in Kone's case[/glow]--NWI Times
nwitimes.com/articles/2006/01/21/sports/college_sports/2f3be782a319255c862570fd000e78f9.txt
[glow=red,2,300]Krystal clear to make good on opportunities[/glow]--NWI Times
nwitimes.com/articles/2006/01/21/sports/college_sports/874eade9d7655f70862570fd001428c9.txt
[glow=red,2,300]T-Birds could have hands full with Oppland[/glow]--The Spectrum
www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS/601210323/1006
[glow=red,2,300]CENTENARY[/glow]--The Shreveport Times
www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS02/601210313/1026
The Gents (3-14, 1-5 Mid-Continent Conference) continue the search for their first road win of the season today in Rochester, Mich., where they face Mid-Con foe Oakland.
Centenary is 0-9 on the road this season and is coming off a 63-52 loss to IUPUI on Thursday in Indianapolis.
[glow=red,2,300]CENTENARY[/glow]--The Shreveport Times
www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS02/601210314/1026
The Ladies go for their second straight Mid-Continent Conference victory today when they play Oakland in Rochester, Mich., at 3:30 p.m.
Centenary (2-15, 1-5 Mid-Con) defeated Southern Utah 76-67 on Monday at the Gold Dome for its first Mid-Con victory since the 2003-04 season. The Ladies got a career-best 27 points from Holli Wilkins in the win over the Thunderbirds.
[glow=red,2,300]State Colleges[/glow]--The Salt Lake Tribune
www.sltrib.com/suutbirds/ci_3409429
Southern Utah 69, Western Illinois 53: Brothers Nate and Rand Janes each scored 16 points and Nate Janes grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Southern Utah in Cedar City.
Henry Uhegwu scored 12 points for the Thunderbirds (4-14, 3-3 Mid-Continent), and Fernando Bonfirm added 11.
Southern Utah opened the game with a 17-2 run.
[glow=red,2,300]College Basketball Preview[/glow]--The Salt Lake Tribune
www.sltrib.com/suutbirds/ci_3423998
Valparaiso at Southern Utah
At the Centrum, Cedar City
Tipoff: 7 p.m. Radio: 590 AM, 91.1 FM
Records: SUU (4-14, 3-3 Mid-Con); Valparaiso (11-5, 4-2)
Series: Valpo leads, 13-5
Last meeting: Valpo, 82-76 (2005)
About the Thunderbirds: Leading scorer and rebounder Lubor Olsovsky sat out of their 69-53 win over Western Illinois on Wednesday due to a team-imposed suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct and should return tonight.
About the Crusaders: Their six-game winning streak ended Thursday night in a 90-76 loss at Chicago State. . . . Senior F Dan Oppland leads them in scoring at 20.4 ppg, while G Ron Howard averages 13.8 ppg.
SUU (7-10) at Valparaiso (10-6)
1 p.m. MST, Athletics-Recreation Center, Valparaiso, Ind.
The Thunderbirds are in the midst of a season-high seven-game losing skid. SUU guard Cassie Hahl is scoring 13.6 points a game.
[glow=red,2,300]Thunderbirds Host Valparaiso In Second Game Of Four-Game Homestand[/glow]--SOUTHERN UTAH THUNDERBIRDS
www.suu.edu/athletics/mensball/release.html
[glow=red,2,300]CRUSADERS HOPE TO REBOUND AT SOUTHERN UTAH[/glow]--www.valpo.edu
www.valpo.edu/athletics/index.php?a=s&a2=vnr&sid=2&nrid=2371
. . — CRYSTAL EVOLA
When: 6 tonight
Where: Oakland Athletics Center, Rochester
Broadcast: www.ougrizzlies.com Records: Centenary 3-14 (1-5 Mid-Con); Oakland 7-12 (2-5 Mid-Con)
Overview:
Oakland will try to find some momentum after dropping three out of four games. … The Golden Grizzlies return home after a 1-2 road trip. OU plays three straight and five of its next six games at home. … Juniors Shawn Hopes and Calvin Wooten combined to score 48 of OU’s points in Thursday’s 74-63 loss at Oral Roberts. … An OU win combined with a Western Illinois over Chicago State win would allow the Grizzlies to move up a spot to sixth place in the Mid-Con standings. … OU has won three straight against Centenary to lead the all-time series 3-1. … The Gents are 0-9 on the road this season.
Up next: Valparaiso at Oakland,
[glow=red,2,300]Centenary at Oakland women[/glow]--The Oakland Press
— CRYSTAL EVOLA
When: 3:30 p.m. today Where: Oakland Athletics Center, Rochester Broadcast: www.ougrizzlies.com
Records:
Centenary 2-15 (1-5 Mid-Con); Oakland 6-11 (2-4)
Overview:
Oakland will look to snap its two game losing skid in its first home game since Jan. 9. … OU’s top three scorers rank in the top 10 in the Mid-Con. Jayme Wilson is third at 16.2 points per game, Anne Hafeli is eighth with her 13.4 average and Nicole Piggott is 10th with a 12.6 average. … OU holds a 4-0 lead in the all-time series against Centenary. The closest contests have been decided by 15 points. … Centenary picked up its first conference win and snapped a 13-game losing skid on Monday in a 76-67 decision over Southern Utah. The Ladies are 0-7 on the road this season. Junior Holli Wilkins leads Centenary at 13.6 points per game.
Up next: Oakland at Valparaiso, 3:05 pm Jan 28 Ind
[glow=red,2,300]State college basketball schedule[/glow]--Indy Star
www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS06/601210450/1068
[glow=red,2,300]Game Preview: UMKC at IUPUI[/glow]--Kansas City Star
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/colleges/university_of_missouri-kansas_city/13676506.htm
[glow=red,2,300]UMKC returns focus to league[/glow]--Kansas City Star
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/colleges/university_of_missouri-kansas_city/13676511.htm
[glow=red,2,300]MEN’S BASKETBALL: Kone staying behind today[/glow]--Post Tribune
www.post-trib.com/cgi-bin/pto-story/sports/z1/01-21-06_z1_spor_07.html
Jan. 21, 2006
By Justin Breen / Post-Tribune deputy sports editor
VALPARAISO — Homer Drew insists his program is clean regarding an NCAA investigation of center Mohamed Kone.
“He has done nothing wrong. We have done nothing wrong,” Drew said after an early morning Friday practice.
The Crusaders, who play at Southern Utah tonight, sat Kone for Thursday’s game at Chicago State after the NCAA contacted VU, telling the school it was investigating questions regarding Kone’s travel to the school. Sources said that the travel in question was when Kone came to Valpo from Florida in September. Drew and VU director of athletics Mark LaBarbera said Kone will not play until the investigation is concluded.
LaBarbera said Friday Kone did not make the trip to Southern Utah, and he is still on campus. LaBarbera said he doesn’t expect to hear from the NCAA until early next week, hopefully by Monday. The Crusaders’ next game after tonight is Thursday at Oakland.
Like Drew, LaBarbera said VU and Kone have done nothing wrong.
“That’s clearly our position,” LaBarbera said via cell phone.
NCAA media relations member Dana Thomas said Friday she could not comment on the investigation, and said she could not confirm an investigation was taking place. Valpo assistant director of athletics Jenn Samble, in charge of compliance for the school, also said Friday she could not comment.
Kone arrived at Valparaiso on Sept. 6, well after the start of the fall semester on Aug. 23.
Kone was in Florida for four weeks during the summer living with Babacar Sy, his former high school and college coach — and also a close confidant. Sy had helped bring several African players to American colleges, and Kone, of the Ivory Coast, was one of them, as was VU junior Moussa Mbaye, of Senegal. Mbaye spent time with Kone in Florida during his four weeks there.
When Kone was in Florida, Sy was in the process of becoming the head coach at Florida Preparatory Academy, but he was later fired and took all eight of his international players out of the school as well.
Kone had followed Sy to the College of Southern Idaho, where he played for two years, and Sy then recommended he go to Baylor, where former VU coach Scott Drew is in charge. But not enough of Kone’s credits transferred to Baylor, and he wound up at Valparaiso.
Kone on Friday said the whole situation was “crazy.” The Crusaders on Thursday struggled without Kone and lost to the Cougars 90-76, which snapped a six-game winning streak.
“I don’t even understand,” Kone said. “(The NCAA) took (the Chicago State) game from me. I could have helped the team.
“Right now, I’ve just got to be positive.”
Drew said, as far as he knows, no other school, especially in the Mid-Continent Conference, blew the whistle on a possible infraction.
“I’m shocked at what happened on this,” Drew said. “I had tears in my eyes when I told him (Thursday). All he wants to do is play.”
Drew said he likely would start Mbaye at center tonight, but a lineup featuring Oppland and four guards, and another lineup with Oppland, Mbaye and freshman forward Urule Igbavboa and two guards are other possibilities.
Before Thursday, Kone had started to find his game and had shown glimpses of why he was rated one of the top junior college players in the country last season. During the winning streak, the 6-foot-11 center was shooting 53.3 percent from the field, and he had 34 blocked shots.
“He just alters a lot of shots,” senior guard Seth Colclasure said after Thursday’s loss, in which Kone sat at the end of VU’s bench dressed in all-black apparel.
Drew also said Friday that guard Jimmie Miles was out of Porter hospital and could start practicing next week. Miles had been dealing with a viral infection, Drew said.
Guard Shawn Huff was at Friday’s practice, hobbling on crutches. Huff broke a bone in his left foot on Monday during a scrimmage and had surgery Wednesday. Drew said he will be out at least six weeks.
Drew originally had called for a brief shootaround before leaving for Southern Utah, but he called for the hourlong practice, which began at 6:30 a.m., because he was upset with the Crusaders’ effort at Chicago State.
“The losing wasn’t the disappointment. The disappointing thing was we didn’t come to play,” Drew said.
Southern Utah makes 7.4 3-pointers per game. Point guard Steve Barnes is shooting 45.5 percent from 3-point range.
Contact Justin Breen at 648-3122 or jbreen@post-trib.com
Up next
Valpo (11-5, 4-2 Mid-Con)
at Southern Utah (4-14, 3-3)
When: 8 p.m. today
Where: Centrum Arena; Cedar City, Utah
Radio: WVUR (95.1-FM), WEFM (95.1-FM), WAKE (1500-AM)
KONE STATEMENT
Statement released Thursday on Valparaiso senior center Mohamed Kone issued by director of athletics Mark LaBarbera and men’s basketball coach Homer Drew:
“We have been informed by the NCAA of questions regarding Mohamed Kone’s travel to Valparaiso University to enroll as a student, and we will be holding him out of tonight’s game in an effort to maintain his eligibility in the future. We are unable to comment further on the situation until it has been resolved by the NCAA.”
[glow=red,2,300]JUSTIN BREEN COLUMN: No Kone means no sunshine for VU this season[/glow]--Post Tribune
www.post-trib.com/cgi-bin/pto-story/sports/z1/01-21-06_z1_spor_12.html
Jan. 21, 2006
VALPARAISO
I asked Dan Oppland on Wednesday whether the Valparaiso’s men’s basketball team would be as good a club without Mohamed Kone.
“Probably not,” Oppland said.
How about definitely not.
Let’s tell it like it is: Valpo is a dead duck without Kone. The Crusaders don’t have a legitimate starting center without him. No Kone means they have no chance of winning the Mid-Continent Conference Tournament, let alone an NCAA Tournament game or two.
If Kone, who is the subject of an NCAA investigation regarding his travel to Valpo from Florida in early September, continues to miss games, the Crusaders will go back to the dark ages they experienced last season.
By all accounts, Kone has been a good teammate. He’s been friendly and fair with the media, too. He’s learning to pass the ball, especially to Oppland, and his shot selection has dramatically improved.
His biggest strength — defense — is also Valpo’s biggest weakness when he’s not on the court. During VU’s 90-76 loss at Chicago State on Thursday — the first game Kone missed due to the NCAA investigation — the Crusaders were lost on the glass and in the paint. They were outscored inside 38-24, and don’t look for those numbers to get any better if Kone doesn’t come back soon.
I wrote at the end of last season that the sun might never shine on VU’s program again, and that might have happened this season if Kone hadn’t arrived as a pseudo gift from Baylor.
The summer was a desperate time for Homer Drew and Co. Kenny Harris was not going to play. Moussa Mbaye is a valuable substitute, but he would have been Harris’ backup had Harris been healthy.
As Oppland said, freshman Urule Igbavboa is a power forward. If Kone hadn’t come, Drew said freshman Arden Skoglund wouldn’t have redshirted.
In the hot months, Drew was forced to find a big man, in a hurry. And he jumped at the chance at landing Kone, even though the senior from the Ivory Coast — a junior college kid whose former coach, Babacar Sy, was involved in a scandal at Florida Preparatory Academy — didn’t fit the typical mold of a VU athlete.
Valpo is a school that takes great pride in its graduation success rate percentage, an incredible 98 percent from 1995-98. Although I’ve been told Kone has been a decent student, he’s at Valpo for one reason — to get to the NBA. He said that before the season started, and you really can’t blame him considering his mother and other family members are back in the Ivory Coast in the middle of a civil war.
From late December through last week, the Crusaders were an invigorating team to watch. They won six straight games, and they clearly were the team to beat in the Mid-Con.
But on Monday, solid sixth man Shawn Huff went down with a broken bone in his left foot, and guard Jimmie Miles continues to be out with a viral infection.
Kone’s loss is certainly the biggest. Behind Oppland, he’s the most important cog in the lineup.
Drew said an interesting sentence to me on Friday morning, when he held a practice that began at 6:30.
“The other teams in the conference have surpassed us with three of our top six players out,” Drew said.
He’s right, but if Kone returns, the Crusaders should be OK.
If he’s gone, then so is VU.
Contact Justin Breen at 648-3122 or jbreen@post-trib.com
[glow=red,2,300]No resolution in Kone's case[/glow]--NWI Times
nwitimes.com/articles/2006/01/21/sports/college_sports/2f3be782a319255c862570fd000e78f9.txt
[glow=red,2,300]Krystal clear to make good on opportunities[/glow]--NWI Times
nwitimes.com/articles/2006/01/21/sports/college_sports/874eade9d7655f70862570fd001428c9.txt
[glow=red,2,300]T-Birds could have hands full with Oppland[/glow]--The Spectrum
www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS/601210323/1006
[glow=red,2,300]CENTENARY[/glow]--The Shreveport Times
www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS02/601210313/1026
The Gents (3-14, 1-5 Mid-Continent Conference) continue the search for their first road win of the season today in Rochester, Mich., where they face Mid-Con foe Oakland.
Centenary is 0-9 on the road this season and is coming off a 63-52 loss to IUPUI on Thursday in Indianapolis.
[glow=red,2,300]CENTENARY[/glow]--The Shreveport Times
www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060121/SPORTS02/601210314/1026
The Ladies go for their second straight Mid-Continent Conference victory today when they play Oakland in Rochester, Mich., at 3:30 p.m.
Centenary (2-15, 1-5 Mid-Con) defeated Southern Utah 76-67 on Monday at the Gold Dome for its first Mid-Con victory since the 2003-04 season. The Ladies got a career-best 27 points from Holli Wilkins in the win over the Thunderbirds.
[glow=red,2,300]State Colleges[/glow]--The Salt Lake Tribune
www.sltrib.com/suutbirds/ci_3409429
Southern Utah 69, Western Illinois 53: Brothers Nate and Rand Janes each scored 16 points and Nate Janes grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Southern Utah in Cedar City.
Henry Uhegwu scored 12 points for the Thunderbirds (4-14, 3-3 Mid-Continent), and Fernando Bonfirm added 11.
Southern Utah opened the game with a 17-2 run.
[glow=red,2,300]College Basketball Preview[/glow]--The Salt Lake Tribune
www.sltrib.com/suutbirds/ci_3423998
Valparaiso at Southern Utah
At the Centrum, Cedar City
Tipoff: 7 p.m. Radio: 590 AM, 91.1 FM
Records: SUU (4-14, 3-3 Mid-Con); Valparaiso (11-5, 4-2)
Series: Valpo leads, 13-5
Last meeting: Valpo, 82-76 (2005)
About the Thunderbirds: Leading scorer and rebounder Lubor Olsovsky sat out of their 69-53 win over Western Illinois on Wednesday due to a team-imposed suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct and should return tonight.
About the Crusaders: Their six-game winning streak ended Thursday night in a 90-76 loss at Chicago State. . . . Senior F Dan Oppland leads them in scoring at 20.4 ppg, while G Ron Howard averages 13.8 ppg.
SUU (7-10) at Valparaiso (10-6)
1 p.m. MST, Athletics-Recreation Center, Valparaiso, Ind.
The Thunderbirds are in the midst of a season-high seven-game losing skid. SUU guard Cassie Hahl is scoring 13.6 points a game.
[glow=red,2,300]Thunderbirds Host Valparaiso In Second Game Of Four-Game Homestand[/glow]--SOUTHERN UTAH THUNDERBIRDS
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[glow=red,2,300]CRUSADERS HOPE TO REBOUND AT SOUTHERN UTAH[/glow]--www.valpo.edu
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