May 22, 2013

College Basketball: Top 25 Monday’s Women’s and Men’s Results / Griner reaches 3,000 career points as Baylor beats UConn

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(Baylor No. 1 for seventh week in a row. For the seventh consecutive week, Baylor has topped the AP Top 25 Poll after defeating Texas Tech and TCU this past week. Nebraska and Wisconsin-Green Bay also entered the poll this week.) (PhatzRadio / AP) — HARTFORD, Conn. — Brittney Griner scored 25 points, including the [...]

Saturday’s Top 25 College Football Roundup: Notre Dame, LSU wins and West Virginia loses

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(PhatzRadio / AP) —- West Virginia came into Saturday’s game at Texas Tech in the drivers’ seat for the Big 12 title, undefeated and eyeing a shot at the BCS championship and with quarterback Geno Smith acclaimed as a Heisman Trophy front-runner. The No. 5 Mountaineers left with none of it following a 49-14 loss [...]

College Basketball Roundup: Kansas slams Oklahoma St. 70-58

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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Tyshawn Taylor scored 27 points, Thomas Robinson added 17 points and 11 rebounds and No. 3 Kansas claimed the Big 12 title outright by beating Oklahoma State 70-58 on Monday night Taylor scored 10 straight points in the final 5 minutes to close it out for the Jayhawks (25-5, 15-2). Unranked [...]

College Basketball Roundup: Kentucky beats Mississippi 77-62

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Terrence Jones had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 1 Kentucky to a 77-62 victory over Mississippi on Saturday, the Wildcats’ 50th consecutive win at home. The Wildcats (26-1, 11-0 Southeastern Conference) are 49-0 at home under head coach John Calipari as part of the nation’s longest active home [...]

Stanford surges to fourth in BCS standings behind No. 1 LSU

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — The top three positions in the Bowl Championship Series standings stayed the same, but there has been a change at No. 4. Stanford takes that position, rising two places after its thrilling triple-overtime defeat of Southern California. The Cardinal take the spot vacated by Clemson, which lost to Georgia Tech [...]

Big 12 interim commissioner thinks Missouri will remain in conference

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — Interim Big 12 Commissioner Chuck Neinas says he is confident Missouri will stay in the Big 12. The Big 12 athletic directors wrapped up two days of meetings in Dallas on Wednesday and Neinas met with each individually. Missouri is the latest Big 12 school in the spotlight, considering whether to [...]

Weekend Forecast: Bowl predictions after an unpredictable season

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Oregon quarterback Darron Thomas is hoping to be smiling after the Ducks play Auburn in the national championship game. CAPTION By Rick Bowmer, AP The 2010 college football season has just 35 games remaining. If there is one word to describe what transpired in the past four months, unpredictable would be at the top of [...]

Fresh title-game pairing takes top billing in annual bowl rankings

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Several times over the past few days, I’ve seen it written that college football has the best regular season in sports and the worst postseason in sports. Agreed on the former; disagreed on the latter. No question, college football has the most clunky, illogical and head-scratching postseason in sports. But to call it the “worst” [...]

College Football Bowl Picture – What bowl season lacks in drama, it makes up for in quantity

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No juicy controversies this year. Sorry. Nearly everyone will be where they should be when the bowl monsoon begins. Oh, there’s the Big East conundrum. Connecticut, once 3-4, is in the Fiesta Bowl with an 8-4 record, which doesn’t have them happy at Michigan State or Boise State. But really, this is all disgustingly neat [...]

Weekend Forecast: SEC matchups take center stage Saturday

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Florida and South Carolina will clash in Gainesville with the winner going to the SEC championship game CAPTION By Brett Flashnick, AP The saying goes “if you can’t say anything nice about something, don’t say anything at all.” That’s why this week’s column will be short and sweet. The two matchups of Top 25 teams [...]