College Picks: Decision Day in Big East
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As great as a conference championship game can be, and there are five being played in the next three days, deciding a league champ the old-fashioned way can be fun.
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OK, there's the Pistons in the Palace tomorrow night. That's no day at the beach. But after that, well, it looks like the Celtics have a good chance to make up some ground in the not-so-hot Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference.
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Doc Rivers is going to New Orleans, although, as he noted yesterday, he hasn't spent "one ounce of time" thinking about what he'll do as coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star team. Kevin Garnett has been the leading vote-getter all along and will be named one of the five East starters tonight, unless Barack Obama's New Hampshire pollsters have been ...
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-- Connecticut was a clear choice as No. 1. Rutgers was more of a poll mystery. The Huskies regained the top spot in The Associated Press women's basketball poll Monday after receiving 38 of the 50 first-place votes. Connecticut had been No. 1 for seven straight weeks before falling to No. 2 last...
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Rutgers keeps rising, Connecticut is still falling and Duke is back at No. 1. The AP women's basketball poll underwent more upheaval Monday, nothing new in this season of change among the Top 25.
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After a weekend in which Rutgers beat South Florida and Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati, the Big East standings are a jumble.
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The Big East Conference will retain a 12-team conference tournament and a one-division regular season structure once it expands to 16 teams for the 2005-06 season.
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CINCINNATI -- The NCAA has turned down Cincinnati quarterback Ben Mauk's request for another season of eligibility. The rejection is a setback for the up-and-coming Big East team that finished with a No. 17 ranking.
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TODAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL/MEN 8 p.m. -- Yale at Penn, CN8 HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL/GIRLS 6:45 p.m. -- Braintree at Framingham, WBNW (1120) PRO BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. -- Celtics vs. Phoenix at the FleetCenter, FSN, WWZN (1510) 7 p.m. -- Cleveland at New York, ESPN 9:30 p.m. -- Sacramento at Houston, ESPN BOXING 7:30 p.m. -- Eddie Sanchez vs. Teddy Reid (super ...
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Marquette was facing an early exit from the Big East tournament, and St. John's fans were thinking about an upset. One big run and a bunch of clutch shots down the stretch helped the 18th-ranked Golden Eagles regain control Wednesday night to make the second round of the Big East tournament.
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The game will be meaningful on so many levels. When Boston College hosts Syracuse tomorrow at Alumni Stadium, the Eagles will not only be playing for their first Big East title in their last game as a conference member, they will also be looking to send off their 14 departing seniors in grand style by clinching a Bowl Championship Series ...
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The Big East will undergo an extreme makeover next year when Boston College departs for the Atlantic Coast Conference and DePaul, Marquette, Cincinnati, Louisville, and South Florida arrive to expand the league into a mega 16-team basketball conference.
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Points: Though it is still September, this key divisional clash could determine who represents the East Division in the Mid-American Conference title game - as it has for five of the past six years.
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TODAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL/MEN 7 p.m. -- Penn at Harvard, WRCA (1330) PRO BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. -- Celtics vs. Orlando at the FleetCenter, FSN, WWZN (1510) 7 p.m. -- Dallas at Indiana, ESPN 9:30 p.m. -- Houston at Minnesota, ESPN BOXING 9 p.m. -- Edner Cherry vs. Ricky Chiles at Hollywood, Fla., ESPN2 11 p.m. -- David Diaz vs. Kendall Holt ...
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The seventh-ranked Hoyas open Big East play Saturday with a 58-46 victory over Rutgers, Georgetown's sixth straight win over the Scarlet Knights.
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In a turnaround as swift as it has been stunning, the Big East Conference has transformed from a college football punch line into a national power in the past two years.
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PISCATAWAY, New Jersey (Ticker) -- Riding an eight-game win streak in Big East Conference games, No. 13 West Virginia needed a fourth-quarter push from quarterback Rasheed Marshall to extend it to nine.