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PREVIOUS NUGGETS |
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03.11.06: Special
days designated for football season ... Tulsa scrimmages
under Thursday night lights ... Tigers' Carney, Calipari
sweep C-USA honors ... C-USA Tournament Scoreboard |
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03.10.06: Koonce
accepts position with Packers ... ECU spring football taking
spring break ... K-State shows Woolridge the door ... C-USA
Tournament Scoreboard |
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03.09.06: Frasure
throwing his weight around ... Pirates top Tar Heels in
softball ... O'Leary planning to stay at Central Florida ...
C-USA Scoreboard & Tournament Schedule |
03.08.06: Hinnant
makes All
C-USA freshmen team ... ESPN nixes Vitale's commentary on
CBS ... Seahawks are dancin' ...
C-USA Scoreboard & Tournament Schedule |
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03.07.06: Rouse
earns C-USA distinction ... Spring drills: Depth chart
two-plus weeks away ... Marshall, Rice players share hitting
honors ... C-USA Scoreboard & Tournament Schedule |
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03.06.06: Tourney:
Bucs set for late-night joust with UCF ... ECU spring
drills: pads on, snap exchange off ... C-USA Scoreboard &
Tournament Schedule |
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03.05.06: 49ers
experience technical difficulties ... Huggins returns for
Cincinnati's seniors ... C-USA Scoreboard & Tournament
Schedule |
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03.04.06: Pirates
to strap on pads today ... Lady Pirates eliminated by Tulsa
... Briefs: More coaching exits; Tourney action ... C-USA
Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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03.03.06: Lady
Pirates nip UAB in C-USA Tournament ... UAB stuns Memphis to
boost dance prospects ... Mile High hosting in-state rivals
... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard |
03.02.06: Lady
Pirates Young, Mills collect accolades ... Cover boy Redick
and Duke tripped by hex ... Marlins need 9th-inning rally to
edge Miami ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard |
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03.01.06: Golden
Hurricane starts spring workouts ... Tulane's 'refugee' grid
team returning home ... Cage coaching merry-go-round speeds
up ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard |
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02.28.06: ECU's
Smith captures C-USA hitting honor ... Cravens forced out as
Wildcats hoops coach ... MRI brings positive news for 'Nova
star ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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02.27.06: Diamond
Deacs stun top-ranked Gators ... Pairings set for C-USA
women's tournament ... Davis wins last home game at Indiana
... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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02.26.06: Stanford
will open new stadium against Navy ... UTEP men, Houston
women capture track titles ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard |
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02.25.06: Home
state honors K-State football icon ... Switzer endorse
Osborne for Neb. governor ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard &
Schedule |
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02.24.06: ECU
home hoops finales bring promotions ... Juco hoops coach
climbs to 1,000-win plateau ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard |
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02.23.06: Rape
charge filed against Navy football star ... Finn finished
with Musketeers ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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02.22.06: Scholarship
suit could be costly to NCAA ... Big C-USA hoops matchup on
tap tonight ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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02.21.06: Spurrier
plucks UNC-Chapel Hill assistant ... Hurricanes, Sooners to
clash in 2007, 2009 ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard |
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02.20.06: Producers
working on Marshall film title ... NCAA announces plush digs
at Final Four ... C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
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News Nuggets, 03.12.06
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
Next Day Nuggets...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
Memphis
reigns as conference champ
Top-seed Memphis topped No. 2 seed UAB
57-46 on Saturday to win the 2006 Conference USA basketball tournament and
earn the program's first automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament since the
Tigers won the 1987 Metro Conference tournament.
League freshman of the year Shawne
Williams led all scorers with 18 points and was named tournament MVP after
reaching double figures in all three tournament games.
Joey Dorsey had 10 points and 12
rebounds Saturday in the victory over 24th-ranked UAB.
The Tigers (30-3), who also won the
league's regular season title, led from the start by jumping to a 7-0
advantage. Memphis, the nation's 5th-ranked team, staged a 13-2 run for a
17-point lead, their largest of the game, with about 8 1/2 minutes to play.
Rodney Carney tipped in a Tiger miss to make the score 49-32.
The C-USA All Tournament team included
Carney, Williams, Dorsey, UAB's Squeaky Johnson and Jason Williams of UTEP.
Pirates' Frasure 7th in NCAA weight throw
East Carolina's Eric Frasure capped an
award-winning season with a seventh-place finish in the 35-pound weight
throw at the 2006 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday at
Walker Pavilion of the University of Arkansas.
Frasure's longest effort, measured at
21.29 meters, fell 2.44 meters behind the national championship mark of
23.73 meters turned in by senior Spyridon Jullien of Virginia Tech,
according to a release from the ECU sports media relations department.
The Charlotte junior's best toss of the
championships, 21.29, was his second-longest effort of the season, trailing
only his school-record distance of 21.62 set on March 1.
Frasure and the Pirates begin the
outdoor season Saturday at Coastal Carolina.
Arizona
State ousts basketball coach
Rob Evans is out after eight seasons as
basketball coach at Arizona State where he compiled a 119-120 record. The
announcement came after Evans met with Sun Devils athletic director Lisa
Love on Friday.
Evans will be paid for the final year
left on his contract.
"I fully appreciate the efforts Rob and
his staff gave in his eight years here," Love said. "He accomplished many
goals and will always be remembered as a great Sun Devil. His work ethic and
professionalism will never be forgotten and always will be appreciated by
the Sun Devil family."
C-USA Scoreboard & Tournament Schedule
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(Updated
through Saturday, Mar. 11, 2006)
----- SCHEDULE -----
CONFERENCE USA
CHAMPIONSHIP
WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY, MAR. 8-11
FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN
WEDNESDAY
(10) Southern Methodist 61, (7) Rice 59
(11) Southern Miss 66, (6) Tulsa 61
(8) Tulane 64, (9) Marshall 58
(5) Central Florida 65, (12) East Carolina
52
THURSDAY
(2) UAB 69, (10) Southern Methodist 55
(3) Texas-El Paso 66, (11) Southern Miss 47
(1) Memphis 75, (8) Tulane 56
(4) Houston 71, (5) Central Florida 52
FRIDAY
(1) Memphis 68, (4) Houston 54
(2) UAB 63, (3) Texas-El Paso 60
SATURDAY - CHAMPIONSHIP
GAME
(1) Memphis
57, (2) UAB 46
FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS
(Regular season
ended Mar. 4, 2006)
TEAM
C-USA ALL
Memphis 13-1 27-3
UAB
12-2 22-5
Texas-El Paso 11-3 19-8
Houston
9-5 19-8
Central Florida
7-7 13-14
Rice
6-8 12-15
Tulane
6-8 11-16
Tulsa
6-8 11-16
Marshall
5-9 12-15
Southern Methodist 4-10 12-15
Southern Miss
3-11 9-20
East Carolina
2-12 8-19
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published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from other sources. Copyright 2006
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