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Today’s Play of the Day comes from Seton Hall Men’s @ UConn last night.
First is a Seton Hall ATO play, perfectly executed at the end of the first half for a lay-up. The easy basket cut the UConn lead to 3.
I have not figured out how to take clips from ESPN360.com, but I am totally hooked on watching the games there. I can get in two games a day easy. Best part…. haven’t lost one yet!
Enjoy.
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Coach Auriemma comments to the Hartford Courant on why his UConn Huskies are better than everyone else.
Simple, but true.
Thanks to Mark Thomas for sharing this with us.
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Epiphanny Prince
What started at Rutgers the last three years, had a couple month stop in Russia is now headed for Botas Spor, a team in Adana, Turkey – an American-friendly city near a United States military base about 90 minutes by airplane from Istanbul.
Epiphanny Prince began her professional playing career for Spartak Moscow and Head Coach Pokey Chatman.
I heard she had yet to play because owner Shabtai von Kalmanovic was working on her Russian pass port when tragedy struck. Piph is fortunate to land in Turkey. This could be a blessing in disguise for Prince. More playing time is on the horizon and that will give WNBA General Managers a more valuable body of work to assess her draft status.
The story does not elaborate on how the progress is going towards moving her family from their Brooklyn home. The focus of Piph’s journey has been reported as two-fold: 1.) Provide for her family and 2.) Prepare better for WNBA.
Let’s update this in a month and see how her progress is going.
From GREG BISHOP, New York Times
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The ACC was the clear winner of the conferences during the early signing period. Seven teams from the conference rank among the top 25 recruiting classes in 2010, and 21 nationally ranked players signed with a school from the ACC.
Rivals.com recruiting analyst Jerry Meyer breaks down and rank the recruiting efforts of each conference for the early signing period.
Conference Rankings
1. ACC | 2. SEC | 3. Big East | 4. Big Ten | 5. Big 12 | 6. Pac-10
CONFERENCE BREAKDOWN:
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They don’t all need glasses. But if you always suspected basketball referees are biased — well, you’re right, according to a couple of professors who’ve studied the matter.
Refs favor the home team, the academics say. They’re big on “make-up” calls. They make more calls against teams in the lead, and the discrepancy grows if the game is on national TV.
The professors studied 365 college games during the 2004-05 season and found that refs had a terrific knack for keeping the foul count even, regardless of which team was more aggressive.
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