----------
News Nuggets, 03.25.04
NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
Next Day Nuggets...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
Eustachy resurfacing at
Southern Miss
PREVIOUS NUGGETS |
03.24.04: Marquette
breaks Broncos to advance in NIT... .. UAB coach brushes off
Auburn speculation... .. Penders envisions return to glory
for Houston... .. Women parallel men in TV ratings surge...
AP All-America Team... ..
More... |
03.23.04: NCAA
to take over policing of grad rates... .. Tournament TV
ratings skyrocket... .. Irish reduce C-USA to one NIT
survivor... .. Pirates still anchored in baseball polls... ..
More... |
03.22.04: 'Forty
minutes of hell' takes UAB to Sweet 16 ... .. All-talk,
no-walk Bearcats sent packing by Illini... .. Cowboys lasso
Tigers early and cruise to Regionals... .. Late Vandy flurry
extends State's round-of-16 drought... ..
More... |
03.21.04: The
one that got away could haunt Huggins ... .. Former
Razorback Richardson backs Blazers... .. Calhoun-disciple
Leitao comes up short against mentor... .. Injury-plagued
Houston tight end gains 6th year of eligibility... ..
More... |
03.20.04: Former
shortstop hits home run in pursuit of ECU chancellor job ...
.. UAB blazes path past Huskies to second round... ..
Memphis bombs Gamecocks from long range... .. Second-half
collapse eliminates Louisville... ..
More... |
No Nuggets Mar. 18-19, 2004. |
03.17.04: Cal
visit to 'The Rock' highlights USM football slate... ..
Cincy clears Whaley to play on eve of tourney... .. Low blow
leaves status of DePaul guard in doubt... .. Ex- Longhorns
coach in running for Houston job... ..
More... |
03.16.04: Hamrick
hires Kruger to restore Rebs' Tark-era glory... ..
Inspiration for 'Pitt County Offense' returns to Stanford
roots... .. Baseball polls... .. AP basketball poll... ..
More... |
03.15.04: NCAA,
NIT sweep up eight C-USA teams... .. NCAA
conference-by-conference selections... .. O'Leary, UCF seek
redemption together... ..
More... |
03.14.04: Bearcats
capture 4th tourney title... .. Cop charged after gun-shot
in tush at ACC tourney... .. NCAA Tournament selection
committee members... ..
More... |
03.13.04: C-USA
Tournament semifinals roundup... .. Hot action in Cincinnati
extends to band bus... .. Hanky-panky nets stiff discipline
for BYU players... .. Big 'D' ponies up to keep Red River
Shootout... ..
More... |
|
Larry Eustachy will be named Southern
Mississippi's basketball coach, a university source close to the
team said Wednesday night.
USM officials will introduce Eustachy at a Thursday news conference,
the source said.
Southern Miss spokesmen Mike Montoro and Mike Martinez on Wednesday
night declined to identify who would fill the vacancy left by James
Green, but acknowledged the news conference was to introduce a
coach.
Eustachy was forced to resign as Iowa State's basketball coach last
year after photographs were published of him drinking and kissing
young women at a fraternity party.
Green, a former Conference USA coach of the year, resigned a day
before the Golden Eagles' final regular season game. His eighth
season proved to be a contentious one: the Golden Eagles finished
13-15 and lost five of their last six games.
Southern Mississippi basketball has been mired in
mediocrity for years. Under Green the Golden Eagles won a regular-season
Conference USA co-championship in 2001. But they are coming off their third
straight losing year.
Declining attendance at Reed Green Coliseum also hurt Green. The Golden
Eagles drew about 3,300 per game to the 8,095-seat arena this past season.
Eustachy was the Associated Press' coach of the year in 2000 and led Iowa
State to Big 12 championships in 2000 and 2001. In 2000, the Cyclones
reached the round of eight in the NCAA Tournament.
Eustachy also spent three seasons as the head coach at Idaho and five at
Utah State. His career record over 13 seasons is 260-145.
Before he resigned from Iowa State, Eustachy announced he was an alcoholic.
Earlier this year, he said he had stopped drinking and wanted to get back
into coaching.
Eustachy has some history in Mississippi. He was an assistant at Mississippi
State in the early 1980s under coach Bob Boyd.
Eustachy was also said to be a candidate for an opening at James Madison.
Towe
gains security at New Orleans
New Orleans basketball coach Monte Towe agreed to a
new five-year contract that will run through 2008-09.
"Monte Towe proved this year that he can bring the University of New Orleans
basketball back to major prominence," athletic director Jim Miller said
Wednesday.
UNO, picked to finish last in the Sun Belt West, made it to the championship
game of the conference tournament before losing to Louisiana-Lafayette
67-58.
A member of N.C. State's powerhouse teams of the early 'seventies, Towe has
led the Privateers to winning seasons each year since taking over the
program three seasons ago. He has compiled a 47-42 record at UNO, including
a 17-14 mark this year. .
"We are making progress every year both academically and athletically as far
as our talent is concerned," Towe said.
The contract must still be approved by the LSU System Board of Supervisors.
Calipari cops regional coaching award
Memphis head coach John Calipari has been named the
National Association of Basketball Coaches District 7 Coach of the Year. The
NABC District 7 covers all NCAA Division I institutions in Tennessee and
Kentucky.
Calipari is the first Memphis head coach to receive this award. This is the
second time that Calipari has earned the honor, as he also won the NABC
District 1 award in 1996 as head coach of the UMass Minutemen. Calipari was
named NABC National Coach of the Year in 1996.
In his four seasons at Memphis, Calipari has compiled a 92-38 overall record
and is the only coach in Tiger history to post 20-win seasons in each of his
first four years. He has guided Memphis to the postseason in each of his
first four seasons, directing the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament the past two
years. Calipari's 2001 and 2002 squads advanced to the National Invitation
Tournament (NIT) final four, and the 2002 team won the NIT crown.
Calipari has an overall record of 285-109 and is ranked among the top 10 in
coaching starts by victories in the first 12 seasons.
The Tigers (21-7), ranked No. 24 in the final Associated Press (AP) poll, is
seeded No. 7 in the East Rutherford Regional and will play the No. 10 seed
South Carolina Friday, Mar. 19 in Kansas City, Mo. Game time for the
match-up is 11:30 a.m. (CT).
Memphis finished 2003 ranked No. 19 in the final AP poll, and with the No.
24 ranking this year, it is the first time since the final polls of 1985 and
1986 that the Tigers have been ranked in the final polls in consecutive
seasons.
Glantz-Culver lines for NCAA & NIT games
THURSDAY GAMES
FAVORITE
LINE UNDERDOG
Saint Joseph's 2.5 Wake Forest
Oklahoma State 2 Pittsburgh
Syracuse 1.5 Alabama
Connecticut 9 Vanderbilt
at Notre Dame 6 Oregon
at Iowa State 7 Marquette
|
FRIDAY GAMES
FAVORITE
LINE UNDERDOG
Duke
7 Illinois
Texas
2 Xavier
Georgia Tech 4 Nevada
Kansas
4 UAB |
USC, LSU cross paths at last — at the White House
WASHINGTON — Southern California and LSU finally met this week, but not on
the football field. President Bush hosted the players at the White House
Tuesday to honor the co-national champions.
There's been ``a lot of talk about who's number one,'' Bush joked, adding
that the South Lawn of the White House is ``a pretty good size,'' big enough
to accommodate both teams.
The Bowl Championship Series came under intense criticism at the end of the
season when USC, ranked No. 1 in the AP media and the coaches' polls, was
bypassed for the BCS' title game in the Sugar Bowl. LSU beat Oklahoma, and
finished No. 1 in the final coaches' poll.
USC beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl and was voted No. 1 in the final
Associated Press poll.
Both teams are national champions, Bush declared to cheers at a ceremony
featuring three other NCAA championship teams: Indiana's men's soccer team,
North Carolina's women's soccer team and USC women's volleyball team.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically from staff, ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools, and from Associated Press and
other reports. Copyright 2004
Bonesville.net and other publishers. All rights reserved. This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
|