College Basketball
Raiders need to develop secondary ball handler
Billy Donlon will get extra time with his players in the fall to get ready for the 2013-14 season.A new NCAA rule allows men’s basketball programs to start practicing 42 days before their first game. That’s two weeks earlier than in the past. Teams can practice 30 times in that ...
College basketball scoring reaches 60-year low
The caliber of the play in Louisville’s 82-76 win over Michigan in the NCAA tournament final was applauded by many because of the high-powered offenses on display.Given the ever-slowing pace in college basketball, the game also was an anomaly.Overall scoring in 2012-13 was 67.5 points per team, marking four straight ...
Bradbury looking forward to summer practices
It will be a busier summer than usual for Wright State women’s basketball coach Mike Bradbury and the Raiders. In a couple of weeks, they’ll start summer practices, and they get eight weeks of practice time.A year ago, for the first time, Division I men’s coaches got to work with ...
Deane invited to U-19 national team trials
Dayton freshman Amber Deane doesn’t plan to suddenly become a player who jacks up shots and tries no-look passes in order to impress the USA basketball staff during her bid to make the U-19 national team this week. She figures she just has to display the fundamentally sound game that ...
Miller applauds rule change that lengthens preseason
The NCAA has started to give college basketball coaches something they’ve felt has been long overdue: more access to their players. The movement began a few years ago with the ability to stage workouts with up to four players from the first day of school until Sept. 15. And beginning ...
Parker earns player of year honors in Germany
Josh Parker didn’t know exactly what he was getting into when he signed to play pro basketball in Germany, but he felt better about his prospects overseas when he learned how much his team would be depending on him. “When I first got there, the coach said he was going ...
Second Thoughts: Big Kav should open up, then move on
Many of you will call your mom today, maybe watch the Reds game with her. Meanwhile, Kobe Bryant is going through his old closet looking for photos from his teen years. He’s fighting with his mom in court because she wants to auction off his stuff for big bucks. Kobe ...
Davidson officially joining A-10
The departure of Xavier and Butler to the new Big East was a blow for the Atlantic 10, but commissioner Bernadette McGlade has filled those vacancies with perhaps the two most attractive schools in the A-10 footprint outside of the power conferences. Davidson, the flagship program in the Southern Conference, ...
UD makes home visits with pair of shooting guards
College basketball coaches were able to make home visits with players in the junior class last month, and 6-foot-4 wing J.P. Macura was booked so solid that he had trouble recalling all the schools that made the trip to Minneapolis to huddle with him and his family. “Let’s see, there ...
Kavanaugh reinstated by UD
Matt Kavanaugh couldn’t attend classes at Dayton while being suspended for a year for violating the school’s code of conduct, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t learn a thing or two during his time away. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound center said the disciplinary measures taken by UD taught him some life ...
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