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News Nuggets, 03.09.04
NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
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Compiled from staff reports
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Kelly
Tires C-USA Tournament schedule
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03.08.04: C-USA
final regular season standings, tourney pairings... .. Cards
ink Pitino, Petrino to long-term pacts... .. JMU coach steps
down after poor season... ..
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03.07.04: Quarterback
killer Coleman hits jackpot with Falcons... .. Standing room
only at top of C-USA... .. Conference standings, scoreboard
& tournament seedings... .. Academic scandal costly for
Gardner-Webb... ..
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03.06.04: Deliberations
continue on ECU chancellor candidates... .. Tourney bid
secure for ECU, courtesy of SLU... .. C-USA standings,
scoreboard & schedule... .. USM coach steps down on eve of
ECU game... ..
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03.05.04: DePaul
ambushes Bearcats... .. C-USA standings, scoreboard &
schedule... .. Billikens star leaves team to be with ailing
Dad... ..
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03.04.04: Latest
C-USA basketball standings, scoreboard & schedule... ..
Former Hamrick competitor quits Montana... .. Hoops
doubleheader on aircraft carrier in the works..? ..
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03.03.04: Former
Pirate Doll departs LSU staff for NFL... .. 49ers star
Withers hit with DWI charge... .. USM football receives
practical donation... .. NCAA considers standardizing
guidelines for recruiting visits... ..
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03.02.04: ECU
football campaign starts in Morgantown, ends in Charlotte...
.. Jones nabs weekly hitting honor... .. Kent State elevates
Martin to head coach... .. Baseball polls... .. Hoops poll... ..
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03.01.04: Pirates
sail through LeClair tourney towards Top 25... .. National
pitching honor named after 'Rocket'... .. Bulls AD Selmon
steps down... .. C-USA hoops standings... ..
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02.29.04: Pirates
launch LeClair Invitational in style... .. Ex-ECU assistant
takes over U of L defense... .. Houston jockeys to drop LSU
for Oklahoma... .. Sycamores retire Larry Bird's No. 33... ..
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02.28.04: Delayed
LeClair Invitational schedules first pitch for today... ..
SMU dismisses ECU alum Dement... .. Hot Tigers stalk cold
Cardinals... .. Coaches rebuked after frostbite incident... ..
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Wednesday, March 10 (First Round):
(5) Charlotte vs. (12) Tulane (ESPN 2) 1:00 PM
(8) Marquette vs. (9) TCU (ESPN 2) 3:30 PM
(6) Louisville vs. (11) ECU (ESPN Plus) 7:00 PM
(7) St. Louis vs. (10) USM (ESPN Plus) 9:30 PM
Thursday, March 11 (Quarterfinals):
CHA/TUL vs. (4) UAB (ESPN Plus) 1:00 PM
MAR/TCU vs. (1) DePaul (ESPN Plus) 3:30 PM
LOU/ECU vs. (3) Cincinnati (ESPN Plus) 7:00 PM
SLU/USM vs. (2) Memphis (ESPN Plus) 9:30 PM
Friday, March 12 (Semifinals)
Semifinal No. 1 (ESPN) 4:30 PM
Semifinal No. 2 (ESPN Plus) 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 13
Championship Game (CBS) 11:41 PM
All times Eastern.
VIEW FINAL C-USA REGULAR SEASON
STANDINGS...
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AP Basketball Poll
The top 25 teams in The Associated
Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,
records through Mar. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place
vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
[Conference USA teams — present and
future — and Carolinas teams in
bold.]
Rank/Team/Record/Points/Previous
1. Saint Joseph's (67) 27-0 1,795 2
2. Stanford (2) 26-1 1,648 1
3. Gonzaga (1) 26-2 1,604 3
4. Mississippi St. 25-2 1,557 5
5. Duke (2) 25-4 1,519 4
6. Pittsburgh 27-3 1,451 6
7. Oklahoma St. 24-3 1,410 7
8. Kentucky 23-4 1,370 8
9. Connecticut 24-6 1,158 9
10. Wisconsin 21-6 927 16
11. Texas 21-6 914 10
12. Illinois 22-5 898 18
13. Cincinnati 21-6 844 13
14. Georgia Tech 22-8 817 19
15. Wake Forest 19-8 672 11
16. North Carolina 18-9 665 14
17. N.C. State 19-8 654 17
18. Kansas 20-7 607 20
19. Syracuse 21-6 593 23
20. Providence 20-7 521 12
21. Arizona 19-8 400 21
22. Utah St. 25-2 322 24
23. Memphis 21-6 310 22
24. S. Illinois 25-4 264 15
25. Air Force 22-5 73 _
Others receiving votes: Michigan St.
70, Charlotte 48, DePaul 42, Louisville 41, Boston
College 36, Washington 36, Seton Hall 34, W. Michigan 31, Nevada 20, ETSU
10, Texas Tech 10, Florida 6, Dayton 5, Manhattan 4, South Carolina 3,
Boise St. 2, UTEP 2, Alabama 1, BYU 1, Marquette 1, Oklahoma 1,
Pacific 1, Princeton 1, Va. Commonwealth 1.
Baseball America & Collegiate Baseball
Polls
The top 25 teams in the
Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball polls with records through Mar. 7 and previous rankings.
The Baseball America poll is voted on by the publication's staff. The
Collegiate Baseball poll, which includes each team's point total, is voted
on by coaches, sports writers and sports information directors:
[Conference USA teams — present and
future — and Carolinas teams in
bold.]
BASEBALL
AMERICA POLL
Rank/Team/Record/Last Week
1. Stanford 15-3 1
2. Texas 19-2 4
3. South Carolina 12-0 5
4. Rice 11-3 2
5. Louisiana State 12-2 3
6. Miami (FL) 11-3 6
7. Auburn 13-1 9
8. Arizona State 15-2 10
9. Long Beach State 11-4 7
10. Mississippi 11-0 12
11. Tulane 10-3 8
12. Texas A&M 14-2 14
13. Wichita State 3-0 15
14. Notre Dame 7-1 11
15. Florida Atlantic 16-1 20
16. Florida 15-3 22
17. Georgia Tech 8-5 13
18. UC Irvine 12-3 _
19. Arizona 9-6 16
20. Oklahoma 10-3 19
21. Southern Mississippi 11-1 _
22. Mississippi State 7-0 _
23. East Carolina 12-3 21
24. Florida State 11-5 _
25. Clemson 4-5 18
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COLLEGIATE
BASEBALL POLL
Rank/Team/Record/Points/Last Week
1. Louisiana St. 12-2 495 1
2. Stanford 15-3 494 2
3. Texas 19-2 492 3
4. South Carolina 12-0 490 5
5. Arizona St. 15-2 489 6
6. Rice 11-3 487 4
7. Miami (FL) 11-3 485 8
8. Notre Dame 7-1 483 7
9. Wichita St. 3-0 478 9
10. Florida Atlantic 16-1 473 11
11. Long Beach St. 11-4 470 10
12. Auburn 13-1 468 14
13. Texas A&M 14-2 466 12
14. Florida 15-3 463 19
15. Mississippi 11-0 460 21
16. Tulane 10-3 458 13
17. Mississippi St. 7-0 454 24
18. U.C. Irvine 12-3-1 451 25
19. Florida St. 11-5 449 23
20. Nebraska 6-3 447 15
21. Oklahoma 10-3 445 16
22. Georgia Tech. 8-5 443 17
23. North Carolina St. 10-2 438 22
24. East Carolina 12-3 435 18
25. North Carolina 8-3 432 _ |
Cougars coach shifted to new job
Houston coach Ray McCallum was reassigned
Monday to athletic department fund-raiser.
The basketball team was 44-72 in McCallum's four seasons.
"We had a lot of close ballgames and we just didn't come out on top,"
McCallum said. "The next coach has got a good foundation. These guys have
been taught. They've been prepared for victory. I think the next coach is
going to have immediate success."
The Cougars (9-18, 3-13 Conference USA) have lost eight of their last nine
games.
McCallum has three years remaining on his current contract.
"I think after four years my expectation was that we would be farther
along," said athletic director Dave Maggard, who reassigned McCallum. "We
can't afford to be near the bottom of Conference USA. My view is we should
be much more competitive."
The school was disappointed in low attendance at home games, averaging only
2,884 in 17 games at the 8,400 seat Hofheinz Pavilion.
"I saw too many people losing interest in the basketball program and too
many fans canceling season tickets," Maggard said. "We've got to move up
ahead of that and we've got to move right now."
McCallum's best season at the school was 2001-02, when the Cougars finished
18-15 and earned a berth in the NIT.
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