03/11/2010

Coach's experimental offense yields long-range payoff for Comets
The experiment began three years ago. UT-Dallas coach Terry Butterfield had watched then-West Virginia coach John Beilein's complex system of cuts and backdoors and crisp passes, and he wanted to try it.

03/09/2010

Men's basketball: UNT one win away from NCAA tourney

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Denver's Rob Lewis, right, drives to the basket with UNT's Eric Tramiel defending on Monday at the Summit Arena in Hot Springs, Ark.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The trio of Josh White, George Odufuwa and Tristan Thompson powered North Texas to a 63-56 win on Monday over the Denver Pioneers in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament and into the SBC Championship for the second time in four years. UNT (23-8) will face the Troy Trojans at 6 p.m. today with a bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line. The win by UNT is its tenth straight and it ties the school record for most wins in a single season with 23.

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03/08/2010

Texas A&M-Commerce's Guy Morriss apologizes for comment
Texas A&M-Commerce football coach Guy Morriss apologized to the university and to the editor of the campus newspaper Friday for his team's involvement in the Feb. 25 theft of the publication's entire press run, according to a school news release issued Monday.

03/07/2010

Baseball: Oklahoma 5, Stephen F. Austin 4
Oklahoma pitcher Jeremy Erben has picked up his fifth win of the season with a 5-4 victory over Stephen F. Austin.

Men's basketball: No. 24 UTEP 52, Alabama-Birmingham 50
Derrick Caracter scored the final six points for UTEP, including a game-winning dunk with 1 second left that gave the 24th-ranked Miners a 52-50 victory over UAB on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Tulane 79, Houston 76
Jordan Callahan scored 21 points and Tulane withstood a huge second-half rally to beat Houston 79-76 on Saturday night in both teams' regular-season finale.

Men's basketball: Central Florida 66, Rice 59
Taylor Young scored 14 points and Marcus Jordan had 12 to lead UCF to a 66-59 victory against Rice on Saturday.

Men's basketball: Alcorn State 69, Prairie View A&M 67
Jonathan Boyd scored 21 points as Alcorn State ended a difficult season on a positive note by defeating Prairie View A&M 69-67 on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 82, UTA 79
Kevin Palmer scored a game-high 26 points to lift Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to an 82-79 victory over Texas-Arlington on Saturday night in the final game of the regular season for both teams.

03/05/2010

Texas A&M-Commerce president supports football coach Morriss
Texas A&M-Commerce president Dan Jones said in a statement Friday that he was embarrassed by the football team's theft of an entire press run of the campus newspaper last week but defended coach Guy Morriss.

03/04/2010

Guy Morriss' words send wrong message
Kevin Sherrington writes that Texas A&M-Commerce football coach Guy Morriss set an incredibly poor example when he claimed he was proud of his players for stealing all available copies of the campus newspaper, which had carried a front-page story of a drug bust involving a couple of teammates.

03/03/2010

Editor wants apology from Texas A&M-Commerce coach who praised football players' theft of school newspapers
Texas A&M-Commerce athletic director Carlton Cooper apologized Wednesday, saying he was very disappointed with members of the school's football program over "an error in judgment."

02/28/2010

Men's basketball: Sam Houston State 94, Texas-Arlington 69
Gilberto Clavell finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds and Sam Houston State defeated Texas-Arlington, 94-69, Saturday night to clinch the Southland Conference regular season title.

02/27/2010

Dia's 31 points carry SMU men over Houston
SMU must have gotten caught up in the moment. How else to explain SMU beating Houston, 94-83, on Saturday at Moody Coliseum?

02/28/2010

Men's basketball: UTEP 78, Rice 64
Jeremy Williams hit 6 of 7 3-pointers and scored 20 points as UTEP defeated Rice, 78-64, in Conference USA play on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Texas-San Antonio 76, Lamar 74
Morris Smith IV scored 21 points and UTSA defeated Lamar 76-74 Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Houston Baptist 76, Texas-Pan American 62
Mario Flaherty grabbed a double-double, scoring 20 points and pulling down 16 rebounds, as Houston Baptist beat Texas-Pan American 76-62 on Saturday.

Men's basketball: Prairie View A&M 62, Alabama A&M 53
Michael Griffin and Chris Sights scored 11 points each to lead Prairie View A&M to a 62-53 victory against Alabama A&M on Saturday night.

02/21/2010

Men's basketball: Texas-San Antonio 91, Sam Houston State 90
Devin Gibson scored 22 points, Morris Smith IV added a double-double and Texas-San Antonio ended Sam Houston State's 11-game winning streak with a 91-90 overtime victory Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Arkansas-Pine Bluff 57, Prairie View A&M 55 (OT)
Lebaron Weathers hit a jumper as time expired in overtime to give Arkansas-Pine Bluff a 57-55 victory against Prairie View A&M on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Alabama-Birmingham 75, Houston 66
Elijah Millsap had a double-double with 22 points and 14 rebounds, and Alabama-Birmingham downed Houston 75-66 on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Mississippi Valley State 62, Texas Southern 44
Shannon Behling scored 14 points and Mississippi Valley State routed Texas Southern 62-44 on Saturday night for its second win in a row.

Men's basketball: UTEP 78, Tulsa 70
Texas-El Paso showed Saturday it's just fine with the Conference USA basketball tournament moving to Tulsa this year.

Men's basketball: Southeastern Louisiana 66, Stephen F. Austin 56
Patrick Sullivan scored 20 points, 14 in the second half, as Southeastern Louisiana pulled away to beat Stephen F. Austin 66-56 on Saturday.

Men's basketball: New Jersey Tech 66, Texas-Pan American 59
Chris Flores scored 23 points and New Jersey Institute of Technology defeated Texas-Pan American 66-59 on Saturday.

Men's basketball: McNeese State 65, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 62
Diego Kapelan scored 17 points and McNeese State held off Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 65-62 on Saturday.

Men's basketball: Nicholls State 66, Texas State 63
Bryson Triggs nailed a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer to propel Nicholls State to a 66-63 win over Texas State on Saturday.

Men's basketball: Northwestern State 82, Lamar 79
Devon Baker and Will Pratt scored 19 points each as Northwestern State defeated Lamar 82-79 on Saturday.

Men's basketball: East Carolina 76, Rice 65
Brock Young scored 27 points to lead East Carolina to a 76-65 victory over Rice on Saturday.

02/20/2010

Suspended UTEP gridders admit robbery roles
A pair of suspended Texas-El Paso football players accused of robbery say they are guilty.

02/16/2010

Men's basketball: Jackson State 70, Texas Southern 67 (OT)
Garrison Johnson hit seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points as Jackson State defeated Texas Southern 70-67 in overtime Monday night.

Men's basketball: Prairie View A&M 74, Grambling State 58
Tim Meadows had 19 points and 15 rebounds Monday night to lead Prairie View A&M to a 74-58 victory over Grambling State.

Lamar to have new scoreboard for football team
A $1 million donation will help pay for a new digital scoreboard as Lamar University resumes football this year.

02/14/2010

Chest pains sideline Houston women's basketball coach
Houston women's basketball coach Joe Curl has been hospitalized with chest pains two years after missing a season because of a heart attack.

Men's basketball: UTEP 100, East Carolina 76
Randy Culpepper scored a career-high 45 points and UTEP ran away from East Carolina 100-76 Saturday night to maintain its hold on first place in Conference USA.

Men's basketball: Southern Mississippi 66, Rice 50
Gary Flowers scored 20 points and Angelo Johnson added 12 more, leading Southern Miss in a 66-50 win over Rice on Saturday.

Men's basketball: Sam Houston State 90, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 74
Gilberto Clavell had 30 points and eight rebounds to lead Sam Houston State to a 90-74 victory against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Texas State 81, Lamar 67
Cameron Johnson scored 19 points as Texas State defeated Lamar, 81-67, in Southland Conference pay on Saturday.

Men's basketball: Texas Southern 87, Grambling State 66
Deandre Hall scored 32 points and Travele Jones had 21 as Texas Southern defeated Grambling State 87-66 Saturday.

Men's basketball: Texas-Pan American 74, Utah Valley 61
Aaron Urbanus scored 19 points to lead four Texas-Pan American players in double digits as the Broncos beat Utah Valley 74-61 on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Stephen F. Austin 69, McNeese State 56
Jereal Scott scored 18 points, including 15 in the second half, to help Stephen F. Austin glide past McNeese State 69-56 on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Jackson State 51, Prairie View A&M 44
Garrison Johnson scored 20 points and Jackson State won its seventh straight game with a 51-44 come-from-behind victory Saturday over Prairie View A&M.

Men's basketball: Middle Tennessee 109, Houston Baptist 79
James Washington scored 34 points and made 10 3-pointers, and Middle Tennessee routed Houston Baptist 109-79 on Saturday night.

Men's basketball: Texas-San Antonio 63, UTA 61
Texas-San Antonio went on a 10-0 run shortly after halftime and put the clamps on Texas-Arlington's Marquez Haynes en route to a 63-61 victory on Saturday.

Former Abilene Christian coach dies
Former Abilene Christian men's basketball coach Willard Tate has died after a long illness. He was 74.

02/13/2010

SMU fades in final minute, losing to Houston, 66-60
Kelvin Lewis scored 29 points to lead Houston to a 66-60 victory over SMU Saturday.

02/12/2010

SMU women make a statement in win over Rice
The SMU women earned more than a win in Friday's 73-54 domination of Rice.

02/11/2010

Trinity Valley Community College coach, player arrested after scuffle in game
The women's basketball coach at an East Texas junior college and one of his players was released on bond after their arrests after a game.

02/10/2010

SMU coach Doherty laments lack of leadership in Mustangs' loss to UTEP
SMU's 62-51 loss on to UTEP on Wednesday night at Moody Coliseum left Mustangs coach Matt Doherty disappointed in his team's lack of leadership.

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