The NIT added former Purdue coach Gene Keady and retired New Mexico athletic director Rudy Davalos to its selection committee Thursday.
Gene and Rudy bring years of experience and expertise with them," NIT president Greg Shaheen said. "Having gone through both the NIT Season Tip-off and the postseason NIT, we felt it was appropriate to add two more members to the committee to further diversify the geographic reach of the committee."
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Sep 25, 2006 10:50 PM EST
Doctors removed a bullet fragment Monday from the head of Sam Ashaolu, the most seriously injured of five Duquesne University basketball players shot on campus.
The fragment, initially believed to be an intact slug, was removed from behind his left ear, Duquesne officials said. The player's medical team now believes Ashaolu, a junior forward from Toronto, Canada, has three bullet fragments remaining in his head.
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Sep 24, 2006 11:55 PM EST
Six years ago, Arizona State met Tennessee in the first outdoor women's college basketball game.
Sun Devils coach Charli Turner Thorne enjoyed it so much she wanted to do it again. And she's convinced perennial power Texas Tech to participate this time.
The Sun Devils will meet the Lady Raiders on Dec. 18 at Chase Field, the Arizona Diamondbacks' retractable-dome stadium in downtown Phoenix.
"Basketball under the stars," Turner Thorne said. "It's going to be a lot of fun."
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Sep 2006 Archive
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AP | Sep 24, 2006
Former Iowa basketball star Pierre Pierce was released from jail Sunday after an 11-month stay for assaulting and terrorizing his girlfriend.
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Associated Press | Sep 23, 2006
A week after Ohio State filed an appeal in a bid to overturn a $2.
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Associated Press | Sep 23, 2006
At Duquesne University, this was another routine Saturday at Rooney Field.
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ESPN | Sep 22, 2006
Anthony Morrow, Georgia Tech's leading scorer last season, will miss most of preseason practice because of a stress fracture in his back.
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Associated Press | Sep 22, 2006
A federal judge dismissed the last claims in a defamation lawsuit filed two years ago by Jim Harrick and his son after the coaches were fired by the University of Georgia.
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ESPN | Sep 20, 2006
After a solid first season in the Big East Conference, Marquette on Tuesday gave men's basketball coach Tom
Crean a contract extension through the 2016-17 season.
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AP | Sep 19, 2006
Duke, Marquette, Stanford and Texas Tech will be the host schools for the opening rounds of the College Basketball Experience Classic, formerly known as the Guardians Classic.
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AP | Sep 19, 2006
Police charged two men Tuesday with shooting five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance, and they accused a 19-year-old sophomore of helping six men into the dance despite knowing some were armed.
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ESPN | Sep 18, 2006
The five Duquesne men's basketball players were shot early Sunday morning after walking away from a woman and her disgruntled boyfriend, neither of whom were students at the Pittsburgh campus, one of the players who was shot told ESPN.
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Associated Press | Sep 10, 2006
The Florida men's basketball team received its national championship rings Saturday in front of about 90,000 screaming fans, including former players Mike Miller, David Lee and Dwayne Schintzius.
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AP | Sep 5, 2006
The Big East Conference and ESPN agreed Tuesday to a pair of six-year deals to extend coverage of football and men's and women's basketball through 2013.
