Patty Mills will miss approximately a month because of two fractured metacarpal bones in his right hand.
Mills sustained the injury when he tried to break his fall with 3:06 left in the first half during St. Mary's loss Thursday evening to Gonzaga.
Patty Mills will miss approximately a month because of two fractured metacarpal bones in his right hand.
Mills sustained the injury when he tried to break his fall with 3:06 left in the first half during St. Mary's loss Thursday evening to Gonzaga.
Duke has replaced Wake Forest as the top ranked team in the NCAA, marking the third time in three weeks the top ranking has changed teams, the Associated Press is reporting.
Duke visits Wake Forest on Wednesday night.
The Blue Devils have been ranked No. 1 in nine seasons since 1997-98, most of any school. Duke also is the third ACC team (North Carolina and Wake) to be ranked No. 1 this season; since ESPN's association with the coaches' poll began with the 1997-98 season, no conference has had three teams ranked No. 1 in a single season.
Jeff Jordan was a walk on for Illinois last year, but now the son of Michael Jordan has a full scholarship.
Illinois coach Bruce Weber told reporters Thursday that the sophomore guard has proven he belongs.
Jordan is averaging almost 10 minutes a game off the bench for Illinois and has been lauded for his defense.
Bill Self was in attendance to watch John Wall, the nation's top undecided recruit, play in the Tournament of Champions.
Wall, a 6-foot-4 senior point guard from Raleigh, N.C., pushed his team to a T of C championship, either scoring or assisting on his team's final 25 points and finishing with 41 points and 10 rebounds.
Self greeted Wall following the game, according to an account by Allen Vaughn of the News-Leader.
Self: "Johnny, great win man. You really played well."
Wall: "Thanks."
Self: "I'm not supposed to be talking to you, and you know that, but I just wanted to tell you that was a great win."
Then Self vanished.
I called Missouri State NCAA compliance officer Kyle Yates, curious of Self's behavior. Yates insisted what Self did was wrong, but not unique, as I suspected.
"(He) definitely shouldn't have done that, but it's not uncommon," Yates said. "If he would have sat him down and had a conversation, that would have been a big deal."
Malcolm Delaney scored 21 points and Virginia Tech held on to upset No. 1 and unbeaten Wake Forest 78-71 on Wednesday night, as reported by the Associated Press.
The Demon Deacons have moved up two spots to No. 1 overall in the ESPN/USA Today college basketball coaches' poll.
Wake Forest (16-0) pulled in 25 of the 31 first-place votes at stake; the other six went to Duke (16-1).
The Blue Devils and Demon Deacons will face off on Jan. 28.
Morris Peterson did not play in the Hornets' win over the Pistons after having his college jersey retired Saturday afternoon by Michigan State.
Stanford spoiled former coach Mike Montgomery's return to Maples Pavilion in charge of No. 23 California with a 75-69 victory Saturday night.
Lawrence Hill scored 25 points for the Cardinals.
Freshman DeMar DeRozan scored a career high 22 points, including 19 in the second half, while Daniel Hackett held #15 Arizona State phenom James Harden to a career-low four points to help USC to a 61-49 upset win on Thursday night.
"We guarded as well as we've guarded since I've been here," fourth-year USC coach Tim Floyd said. "Daniel Hackett didn't make a field goal, but played as well as any player I've had at USC. He was outstanding."
Harden, a 6-foot-5 sophomore averaging a conference-leading 23.1 points, missed all eight of his field goal attempts and went 4-of-7 from the foul line.
"I was able to frustrate him, make him settle for the jumper late in the game," Hackett said. "Once I saw his jumper wasn't going, I tried to crowd him. I just tried to contain him without fouling. We really did a great job with all five guys loading on him. I just did my job. Without the help of my teammates, it's not happening."
In a game for the ages Jodie Meeks dropped 54 points, including 10 three pointers, on Tennessee to give the Wildcats a 90-72 road win, the Associated Press is reporting.
In the process Meeks also broke Dan Issel's school record of 53 points. The record has stood for 39 years.
"It means a lot to be in the same sentence as Dan Issel. It's mind-boggling," he said. "I was just out there playing to win."
"I have never seen anything like it," Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie said. "Jodie Meeks had 46 against Appalachian State, and they are a nice team, but not near a team the quality of Tennessee and on the home court."
The 54 points was also the biggest individual SEC performance since Chris Jackson's 55 for LSU against Mississippi in 1989.
"There have been so many great players -- this is the greatest basketball tradition in the world at the collegiate level -- and to be able to put your name up there with some of those greats is quite an accomplishment," Gillispie said.