Category: Wirenews
Notre Dame opened with 14 straight points and never looked back on the way to a 104-67 nonconference victory over Coppin State on Wednesday night at Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind. Forward Zach Auguste scored a game-high 21 points for the Irish (3-0), who had five players score in double figures in the first […]
DENVER — After an embarrassing home loss to the Portland Trail Blazers a week ago, Ty Lawson spoke up. The Denver Nuggets’ season was spiraling in the wrong direction, so the point guard told his teammates they had to change their defensive mindset. “I became more vocal in the locker room,” he said. “We were […]
The Boston University Terriers broke open a close game with a 21-2 run to start the second half and held off a late Norfolk State Spartans charge to earn a 71-63 victory on Wednesday at Echols Hall in Norfolk, Va. The Terriers run took 7:25 until Spartans guard Jeffrey Short finally stopped the bleeding with […]
Cold shooting ended Fairleigh Dickinson’s hopes of a second quality road win to start its season. Converting just 30 percent of its shots from the field including a miserable 4 of 20 from the 3-point line, the Knights dropped a 61-44 decision on Wednesday night to Rutgers at the Rutgers Athletic Center in New Brunswick, […]
Guard Devon Walker scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half to help visiting the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks hold off the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers, 53-41, Wednesday night in Emmitsburg, Md. It was the first win at UMES (1-2) for first-year coach Bobby Collins, who arrived after four straight winning season […]
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Buzz Williams is still unbeaten as the Virginia Tech Hokies head coach. Virginia Tech (2-0) pulled away late in the second half to secure a 73-63 win over the Liberty Flames on Wednesday night in Cassell Coliseum in an opening game of the Cancun Challenge. The young, freshmen-laden Hokies were paced by […]
Andre Walker scored 11 of his game-high 16 points in the second half as the Loyola University (Md.) Greyhounds rallied for a 45-38 victory over the visiting Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers Wednesday night at the Reitz Arena. Both teams shot poorly, but Loyola (2-1) did just enough to win a second straight game. Walker, a freshman […]
Police in Cobb County, Ga., outside Atlanta reopened an investigation into allegations that Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard abused his 7-year-old son. The Howard Phillips Center for Children and Families in Florida contacted Cobb County officials to look into the case after more details became available in the past day, according to reports. An initial […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Forward Anthony Davis went into territory uncharted against Sacramento Kings, and in so doing lifted the New Orleans Pelicans to an impressive bounce-back victory Tuesday night. Davis scored 27 points, the first Kings opponent to reach that total this season, and the Pelicans rode a big second half to a 106-100 victory […]
MILWAUKEE — Add this one to the list of building blocks for the Milwaukee Bucks. They watched a 22-point lead disappear and were outscored by 11 in the final quarter, but held on down the stretch to notch a 117-113 victory over the New York Knicks at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Milwaukee shot 55 […]
