Women’s Basketball personalities from across the country will play in the 4Kay Golf Classic on Monday, Sept. 13 at Barton Creek Resort and Spa.
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Goestenkors, Conradt join to support Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund
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Women’s Basketball will appear nationally on FSN five times during the 2010-11 regular season.
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Big 12 Conference releases 2010-11 FSN Women’s Basketball telecast schedule
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The Ducks have scored three times in the first quarter and lead New Mexico 21-. 4:15 p.m.: Garrett Gilbert ’s first start for Texas isn’t going so great. The Longhorns are knotted with Rice 3-3 early in the second quarter. Gilbert has thrown for just 10… Source: USA Today
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Australia vs. Slovenia; Turkey vs. France; Russia vs. New Zealand; Greece vs. Spain and Lithuania vs. China . The second-ranked women’s volleyball team broke a school record for blocks in a three-set match with 20 as the Longhorns easily handled Florida … Source: Austin American-Statesman
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U.S. finishes 5-0 in basketball pool play
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Rice forward Arsalan Kazemi, who is believed to be the first Iranian to earn a scholarship to play Division I hoops, scored 14 points against Team USA at the world championship. He also showed he could be diplomatic when discussing the political backdrop of the game. It’s not every day a Rice player gets interviewed on CNN , and Kazemi came through with this: “Yeah I get a lot of questions, most of it about the politics. But our game is nothing to do about the politics, it’s just the sport,” Iranian player Arsalan Kazemi told CNN. “The only way is for people from USA and Iran can come together and have a friendly time together. We have to go there and play our best. The USA, you know, are a lot better than us. We just have to go there and play so the fans can enjoy the game,” Kazemi said before the match. The 6-foot, 7-inch forward and sophomore at Rice University in Texas considers himself a fan of both teams. On the court, Kazemi played well going up against Chauncey Billups and the rest of the Americans. Besides the 14 points, he came away with five steals and rebounded well as usual. Kazemi nearly averaged a double-double as a freshman at Rice, finishing second in rebounds in Conference USA and proving he’s a trailblazer who can play.
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Rice forward takes on the USA-Iran topic
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Earnesia Williams will soon be en route to Portugal where she will play with Olivais Coimbra.
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Texas A&M athletic director was asked on the radio this week about the school’s decision to remain in the Big 12 instead of moving to the SEC — a move heavily favored by fans. From the San Antonio Express-News: “I was concerned with changing conferences that we may not be ready for the level of competition if we decided to leave,” Byrne told host Dave South on the weekly show that’s part of the Aggie Radio Network. “I was very concerned about trying to take things slowly, and not rush.” He continued, to the dismay of plenty of Aggies: “If we looked at where we stacked up financially in the Pac 10 conference, we were about third,” Byrne said of annual athletic budgets. “If we looked at where we stacked up in the Southeastern Conference, we were eighth out of 12. We didn’t rank very well. “My big concern was that when Texas A&M made the move from the Southwest Conference to the Big 12 conference (in ‘96), they were not ready for the level of competition that was out there.” Byrne continued to South, “(A&M) had not made the investment in facilities, staff or salaries — all the things you need to build a great program. And you saw the results of that. We had a good football team in 1998, then we had problems. “We had terrible basketball (teams). … We had significant issues in track and field. We had problems with most of our sports because we were not ready for the level of competition.” Okay, I get it, Aggies fans. Byrne didn’t exactly go all Braveheart/Russell Crowe/Rambo here. But he’s not paid to be Rambo. He’s paid to run the athletic department the best he knows how, and staying in the Big 12 was the best move for the Aggies. Let me simplify, speaking strictly in terms of football: SWC < Big 12 < SEC Using previous worries about the Aggies' move to the Big 12 as a reason not to leave for the SEC probably wasn't the best idea, and exposes some holes in his logic.
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Expect Hopkins Horn to jump in at any minute now. Per the Leader:
Brigham Young University will leave the Mountain West Conference for the 2011-12 season, go independent in football and join the WCC in all other sports, notably men’s basketball, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation told ESPN.com.
BYU and the WCC will make a combined announcement later Tuesday.
This is notable to Texas because:
A. We’re set to play BYU in 2011, ‘13 & ‘14. After the power moves by the Mountain West Conference in pillaging the WAC, BYU was forced to “settle” for the WCC. This is notable for BYU because it effectively forces them to schedule 12 true “non-conference” games instead of being able to pick a few WAC teams to play every year. Expect BYU to remain aggressive in scheduling high-profile teams like Texas to keep up brand recognition. Conversely, the more exposure BYU gets (not on Versus anymore, hooray!), the better Texas’ foresight to schedule them appears.
B. Obviously, BYU going independent will provide some semblance of a template should Texas choose to go independent. If BYU independence is a smashing success, there’s no reason to think Texas going independent shouldn’t be more successful than the Battle of San Jacinto. If BYU fails or fades into obscurity, Texas brass will at least have a data point to mitigate any unbridled optimism about heading towards independence.
C. Also important to note is that BYU beat OU last year. And any team that beats OU is a friend of ours (well, at least until 2011 anyway).
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Not that it would have mattered anyway, because Korie Lucious is only 20. But the point stands: Lucious’ arrest Monday morning on charges of drunken driving is bad news for Lucious, for coach Tom Izzo, and for the Michigan State Spartans in general.
The news is still coming in, but here’s what the world knows so far. Lucious was pulled over at 2:30 a.m. Monday in East Lansing. He was administered a breathalyzer test. He registered a .09 blood alcohol level. The legal limit in Michigan is .08. Lucas isn’t yet old enough to drink, so the legal limit doesn’t apply to his predicament; he would be in trouble even if he would have been at .07 or .06. (Lucious’ age makes the theoretical discussion over whether .09 should be considered “drunken driving” beside the point.)
In the meantime, Tom Izzo is waiting to comment until he “gathers all the facts.”
The immediate repercussions are hard to gauge. Punishments vary as widely as coaching styles. Lucious could miss a percentage of the season, or he could miss all of it. That will depend on how lenient Izzo is feeling, whether Lucious shows the appropriate amount of regret, and whether Lucious has a record of renting space in Izzo’s famed doghouse, a la dismissed senior guard Chris Allen. (Which, to my knowledge, he doesn’t.)
Speaking of Allen, two things. One: If Izzo was willing to dismiss his senior guard for a variety of closed-door, team-related, non-illegal offenses, does Lucious stand a chance to be back this season? And two: As Jeff Eisenberg notes, does Izzo wish he’d have repaired things with Allen rather than boot him off the team? Lucious’ improved play in 2009-10 — especially his impressive stint in place of injured guard Kalin Lucas — was one of the reasons Michigan State was supposed to be able to easily discard Allen. They had other pieces in place. But what now?
All of that remains to be seen; we’ll wait for Izzo’s response to the facts he continues to gather. But at this stage, it’s all ugly. Michigan State’s wild offseason just got a little bit wilder.
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If you look down ESPNU’s top 100 recruits for the class of 2011 — especially at the top 30 or so recruits on that list — the only word you see in the column under “school” more often than “Kentucky” is “none.” That’s how good this class is.
John Calipari has been on his way to landing a very, very good 2011 recruiting class for a while now. The No. 1 player in the class, Michael Gilchrist, committed in April. Marquis Teague, the No. 3 overall player, eventually de-committed from Louisville and committed to Kentucky in April. Anthony Davis, No. 12 in the class, fought through a brief rumor-oriented dust-up to finalize his commitment to the Wildcats in June.
And now, Calipari’s fourth player: Kyle Wiltjer, the No. 32-ranked player in 2011, announced his decision to attend Kentucky this week. Wiltjer’s commitment shores up what might be the best recruiting class Calipari has ever had, which, yeah, is saying something.
Maybe just as interesting, though, is that Wiltjer is the second straight player ranked No. 1 in the state of Oregon to commit to the Wildcats. The first was 2010’s Terrance Jones, who famously donned a Washington hat at a press conference before changing his mind and ending up in Lexington. So what gives? Is Calipari that popular in Oregon? Does Kentucky’s brand extend to the great northwest? Are players from Oregon going to start flocking to the Bluegrass State?
Levity aside, Wiltjer chose Kentucky for all the reasons other players choose Kentucky. In fact, he might sum it up more succinctly than I can. From the Portland Tribune:
Wiltjer was impressed with several things about Kentucky. He has great respect for coach John Calipari and his record of sending players to the NBA. He feels he’ll fit well in Calipari’s uptempo system of play. And he was swayed by a great recruiting class Calipari has compiled for 2011.
And there you have it. That formula — which kicked off with what Calipari overzealously called the greatest night in Kentucky basketball history during the NBA draft in June — has yielded what should end up being three straight No. 1 overall recruiting classes for Calipari at Kentucky.
Now that we’re familiar with it, it’s easy to understand. It’s much tougher to replicate.
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UK’s 2011 class somehow gets better
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