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Pittsburgh went perfect from the free throw line in the final minute, allowing star center Aaron Gray to breathe a big sigh of relief after the Big East Tournament semifinals Friday night at Madison Square Garden. The 7-0 Gray, a senior and Emmaus High graduate, had one of his…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s hard to move a mountain, which is what Marquette must have thought Pittsburgh center Aaron Gray represented in the paint Thursday night at Madison Square Garden The 7-0 Gray, a senior and Emmaus High graduate, was at times guarded by Marquette’s 7-0 Mike Kinsella, but Gray…
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Read on mcall.com →Villanova’s chase for the Big East tournament title ended Thursday afternoon in Madison Square Garden. But memories from the ninth-seeded Wildcats’ 62-57 loss to top-seeded Georgetown in the quarterfinals will linger for a while. That’s because Villanova (22-9) went from missing…
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Read on mcall.com →Villanova’s chase for the Big East tournament title ended Thursday afternoon in Madison Square Garden. But memories from the ninth-seeded Wildcats’ 62-57 loss to top-seeded Georgetown in the quarterfinals will linger for a while. That’s because Villanova (22-9) went from missing…
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Read on mcall.com →Scottie Reynolds and Curtis Sumpter, the freshman and the fifth-year senior, both played 37 minutes and demonstrated a strong will for Villanova Wednesday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. The play of both keyed Villanova’s gutsy 75-67 win over DePaul in the first round of the…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray had another night of honors, winning an award that was based as much on his academic excellence as his athletic accomplishments on Tuesday night in New York. Gray, the University of Pittsburgh’s 7-0 senior center and Emmaus High graduate, received the Aeropostale…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray has gone from back-up center in his first two seasons at Pittsburgh to being named to the Big East Conference first team in back-to-back seasons. Gray, a 7-0 senior and Emmaus High graduate, was a unanimous selection and the only first-team repeat on the Big East team…
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Read on mcall.com →Winning battles for rebounds and loose balls, Villanova closed its regular season with an emotional 78-75 Big East Conference victory over Syracuse at the Wachovia Center Saturday afternoon. Senior forward Curtis Sumpter, plagued by knee and other injuries over the last three…
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Read on mcall.com →Times are not as tough as they may seem for Penn State sophomore Courtney Molinaro, a former Central Catholic basketball star. That’s because Molinaro is not discouraged by the meager 8.9 minutes per game she averages, fourth lowest on the team, or her 1 point per game scoring…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s season is officially over, but the controversy remains. The Patriot League announced Thursday night that Army’s 47-46 playoff victory over Lehigh in will stand, despite acknowledging that Josh Miller’s buzzer-beating shot left his hand after the clock expired. The…
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Read on mcall.com →It was a finish that left Lehigh stunned and steamed Wednesday night. Freshman Josh Miller made a running bank shot after the buzzer sounded (as video from Lehigh’s Web site, lehighsports.com, showed) that lifted Army to a 47-46 win over Lehigh in the Patriot League tournament…
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Read on mcall.com →The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III South tournament is the equivalent of the Division I NIT and WNIT tournaments. But that doesn’t mean that the games will be any less intense for the DeSales men’s and the Moravian women’s teams, who accepted ECAC playoff…
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Read on mcall.com →Cheyney center Robbie Simpson had a career game, and the Wolves’ guards had big fun dribbling at will through Kutztown’s vulnerable defense Tuesday night. Simpson, a 6-10 sophomore center, dunked four times over Kutztown players en route to a career-high 26 points in helping…
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Read on mcall.com →Jackie Adamshick was in no rush to say goodbye Monday night. But when the moment came, the Villanova senior did not shed a tear. That’s because she kept her emotions bottled up inside in her final game at The Pavilion. Adamshick, a former Central Catholic star, received a…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray took an extra-cold shower Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t just because of his disappointment over No. 10 Pittsburgh self-destructing in the closing minutes of a 61-53 loss to No. 12 Georgetown in a Big East matchup for first place, before a sellout crowd of 20,038 at…
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Read on mcall.com →The Patriot League Tournament starts next Wednesday with the top four seeds hosting quarterfinal games. The two remaining highest seeds will host semifinal games next Sunday. The championship game will be held at the surviving highest seed. This is the first year the league has…
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Read on mcall.com →Fran O’Hanlon is now the winningest coach at Lafayette College with 171 victories, a distinction he earned with a double-overtime victory over Lehigh last Sunday. He won’t be presented with a game ball — with the date, score and team Lafayette beat painted on the ball — until…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh scrapped hard for every basket, rebound, and steal it got Wednesday night. But that determined effort didn’t result in victory against Bucknell, which prevailed in a 69-56 victory before a crowd of 2,530 at Stabler Arena. The Bison dominated Lehigh in most categories, but…
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Read on mcall.com →The Muhlenberg men’s team finished 9-9 again in Centennial Conference play and in fifth place for the second straight season, which seems like the Mules did not make an improvement. But records don’t always tell the story, especially this tale of a Mules team that went from…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh picked the wrong Lafayette player to foul Sunday afternoon with 1.6 seconds left in the second overtime. That’s because Lafayette senior guard Jamaal Hilliard is an 81-percent free-throw shooter, and was just waiting for the opportunity to close out his final home game at…
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Read on mcall.com →It was like a steel cage match with hard fouls and even harder falls to the hardwood. No chairs were tossed, no technical fouls called, no blood drawn. It was just Villanova and Georgetown, longtime rivals battling hard over 94 feet of the court Saturday afternoon before a crowd…
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Read on mcall.com →Muhlenberg’s Tom Scott couldn’t be stopped on drives, capping off his final game at Memorial Hall with one huge basket after another Thursday night. His final bucket was the best, a breakaway two-handed dunk for the exclamation point in the Mules’ come-from-behind, 91-84…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University center Jason Mgebroff didn’t return with a bang in his first game of 2007 on Wednesday night. But coach Billy Taylor was not discouraged by the five points Mgebroff scored in the Mountain Hawks’ 56-53 overtime win over Colgate in a Patriot League matchup in…
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Read on mcall.com →Chris Huber was spoiled when he was at Parkland High. That’s because Huber, now a senior shooting guard at Muhlenberg College, had the perfect point guard in Eddie Ohlson, who’s a junior at DeSales University. Back at Parkland, all Huber had to do was get open and Ohlson was…
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