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News Nuggets, 02.19.04
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C-USA basketball standings & scoreboard

(Through games of Wednesday, Feb, 18.)

               Conference All Games
Team             W  L  PCT   W  L  PCT
Memphis          9  2 .818  18  4 .818
UAB              9  2 .818  16  6 .727
Cincinnati       8  3 .727  17  5 .773
Charlotte        8  3 .727  16  6 .727
DePaul           8  3 .727  15  7 .682
Louisville       7  4 .636  17  5 .773
Texas Christian  6  5 .545  10 12 .455
Saint Louis      5  5 .500  12  9 .571
Southern Miss    5  6 .455  12 10 .545
Marquette        4  6 .400  13  8 .619
Tulane           3  8 .273  10 12 .455
East Carolina    2 10 .167  10 12 .455
Houston          2 10 .167   8 15 .348
South Florida    1 10 .091   7 15 .318

Tuesday's Games:
   Texas Christian 71, Louisville 46
Wednesday's Games:
   East Carolina 76, Tulane 66
   Charlotte 84, South Florida 72
   Southern Miss. 70, Houston 48
   UAB 80, Cincinnati 68
   Marquette at Saint Louis, 9 p.m.

Aggies added to revised Wake football slate

Wake Forest has modified its 2004 football schedule to accommodate a request by the Air Force Academy to defer its scheduled trip to Winston-Salem to a future year.

The Demon Deacons will fill the spot on their schedule by adding a Sept. 18 home game with nearby Greensboro neighbor, North Carolina A&T, Wake athletic director Ron Wellman announced Tuesday. It will be the Deacs' first appearance of the season in Groves Stadium.

The WFU-NC A&T contest will be the first ever meeting on the gridiron between the schools and it will mark the first time the I-AA Aggies will challenge a I-A program.

"We are extremely excited to be playing a school so close to us," Wellman said of A&T, which is located less than 30 miles from Winston-Salem. "Wake Forest and North Carolina A&T have met numerous times in other sports and we enjoy our relationship with them. They have an outstanding program and it should be a great game."

Air Force requested that its game at Wake Forest be postponed so that the Falcons could play an additional home game this fall. The game has been moved to the 2008 season.

North Carolina A&T finished the 2003 season 10-3 overall and the Aggies finished first in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference with a 7-1 mark under first-year coach George Small. The Aggies advanced to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs, where they lost in the first round at Wofford.

North Carolina A&T's athletic director is Charlie Davis, a Wake Forest graduate and a former basketball All-American and ACC Player of the Year.

The A&T game will be Wake Forest's home opener and its third game overall. The Deacons open the season Sept. 4 at Clemson, then play at East Carolina Sept. 11.

Wake Forest finished the 2003 season 5-7 overall — one victory short of being bowl-eligible for the third straight season — and 3-5 in the ACC. The Deacons will return 17 of 24 starters and 44 total letterwinners this fall.

Little Vick faces multiple charges

BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick was arrested Tuesday and accused of serving alcohol to three underage girls in his apartment and having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Vick, the 19-year-old brother of Atlanta Falcons quarterback and former Hokies star Michael Vick, faces four misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He's free on a $2,500 bond.

He could face up to four years in jail.

Vick's roommates, Hokies tailback Mike Imoh and wide receiver Brenden Hill, were charged with three misdemeanors for allegedly serving the girls alcohol last month. Both also were arrested Tuesday and released after posting the same bond, authorities said.

The charges stem from a gathering at the apartment the players share.

According to an affidavit, the girls told police they were given vodka and rum to drink while at the apartment on Jan. 27, and that a roommate of Vick took pictures of them as they "danced and stripped from their clothing." At some point, the affidavit said, two girls claimed Vick had sex with their 15-year-old friend in his bedroom.

State law allows a person who has consensual sex with a child 15 or older to be charged with a misdemeanor. Convictions for contributing to the delinquency of a minor are punishable by a maximum of 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine for each count.

There also could be sanctions from the university.

Under the school's Comprehensive Action Plan governing the conduct of its athletes, players are not automatically suspended from a team for misdemeanor charges. But a conviction would trigger a review by athletic director Jim Weaver.

He would determine the severity of the sanctions to be levied against the athlete, ranging from suspension for a given time to dismissal from the team.

Weaver said Tuesday night he plans to let the case run its legal course.

"I'm going to operate within the guidelines of the Comprehensive Action Plan," he said when reached at home by The Roanoke Times. "I'm not commenting before the legal system takes its action."

Vick's attorney, Marc Long, and Imoh's attorney, Christopher Tuck, declined comment. Hill has no attorney of record.

Vick, a redshirt freshman last season, saw extensive playing time in the second half of the season, sharing duties with starting quarterback Bryan Randall. Hokies coach Frank Beamer planned to use both quarterbacks again next season.

Imoh, a junior, was one of the nation's top kick returners. Hill, a redshirt sophomore, was a high school teammate of Vick.

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