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Men's Basketball: WVU to Play in Orlando Tourney

2006-05-23T14:27:00.000-07:00

ESPN Regional Television (ERT), a subsidiary of ESPN, Inc., will own and operate The ESPNU Classic, a newly created eight-team, 12-game college basketball tournament to be played over three days Thanksgiving weekend at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Fla. The announcement was made by Pete Derzis, senior vice president and general manager, ESPN Regional Television and Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Commissioner Rich Ensor. The MAAC will serve as the sponsoring conference of the event.
The inaugural tournament field will feature a number of top quality teams: Arkansas, Marist, Minnesota, Montana, Southern Illinois, Virginia Tech, West Virginia and Western Michigan. The tournament will feature four games on each day with each team playing daily. The two undefeated teams will face off in a championship match on the final day of competition, while the remaining teams will play in consolation games. Team pairings and game times will be determined on a later date. The entire competition, which will take place Nov. 23, 24 and 26, will be televised live with nine games on ESPN2 and three on ESPNU.
"I am certainly impressed with the quality of teams appearing in this tournament, especially in its first year of existence," says WVU head coach John Beilein. "With the competition and ESPN television exposure, it will be a great experience for our team."

Iona vs. St. Peter's

2006-03-15T13:43:00.000-08:00

Manhattan vs. Fairleigh Dickinson

2006-03-15T13:41:00.000-08:00

Jason Wingate scored six points in the final 1:40 and Manhattan held off Fairleigh Dickinson 80-77 Tuesday night in the opening round of the National Invitation Tournament.
The Knights' Chad Timberlake fell short with a desperation 3-pointer with three seconds left.
The Jaspers (19-10), winners of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular-season title, played an NIT home game for the first time since a 67-65 decision against Wisconsin-Green Bay on March 19, 1992. They had lost three consecutive NIT games, all on the road, since then.
They travel to meet top-seeded Maryland on Saturday.
Wingate, who finished with 15 points, sank two foul shots to provide a 76-74 edge with 1:40 left before Michael Peeples hit a 3-pointer from the left side. Wingate countered with a driving score to make it 78-77 with 57 seconds remaining.
Gordon Klaiber went to the free throw line with 40.9 seconds to play for the Knights (20-12). He was short with both attempts, but the ball was tipped back to him. Fairleigh Dickinson squandered that chance, as well, when Manhattan's Arturo Dubois tipped away an errant pass to Wingate, who was quickly fouled. He sank both of his foul shots with 22.9 seconds left for the 80-77 margin.
Wingate finished 3-of-13 from the floor and had struggled before his late-game heroics.

Loyola-Maryland vs. Canisius

2006-03-15T13:39:00.000-08:00

Jon Popofski's buzzer-beating layup lifted Canisius to a 74-72 win over Loyola, Md., Friday night in the first round of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament.
Popofski finished with 21 points and Kevin Downey scored 20 for the Golden Griffins (9-19), who entered the game as the tournament's ninth seed in the 10-team MAAC. Canisius advances to play Marist in a quarterfinal game on Saturday.
Andre Collins scored 24 points for Loyola (15-13), which was attempting to advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2001. The Greyhounds, who swept their two-game regular-season series against Canisius, have lost their last five meetings against the Golden Griffins in tournament games.
The decisive play came when Canisius got a chance for one final shot after Collins' 17-footer dinged off the right side of the rim. Popofski ran down the rebound, allowing the Golden Griffins to call a timeout with 3.3 seconds left.
On the ensuing play, Downey inbounded a long pass to Popofski, who caught the ball just above the 3-point line in the Greyhounds' end. Cutting across the top of the key, Popofski drove the left lane through traffic and laid a shot in off the backboard just as the buzzer sounded, sparking a wild celebration among Golden Griffins players on the court.
Canisius won coming from behind and after squandering a 39-32 lead at the break. Loyola responded with a 22-6 run, capped when Collins completed a four-point play that put the Greyhounds up 54-45 with 12:30 left.
The Golden Griffins, however, responded and tied the game at 72 when Downey hit a hook shot in the right post with 1:27 remaining.
The fates appeared to be against the Greyhounds from the beginning when Collins and Hassan Fofana, the team's two leading scorers, were stuck in an elevator at their hotel for half an hour. They arrived about 50 minutes before tipoff, Loyola spokesman Eric Rhew said.

Iona-Marist

2006-03-07T12:32:00.000-08:00

Ricky Soliver scored a career-high 31 points, leading Iona to a 100-84 victory over Marist in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament semifinals Sunday night.
Soliver, who finished 10-of-18, made his first five field-goal attempts and five free throws of the second half, sparking a surge that broke the game open for the Gaels (22-7). Steve Burtt added 30 points and Kiril Wachsmann had 18 to help Iona advance to the MAAC championship game for the 10th time in the tournament's 25-year history and first since 2001.
The Gaels will face St. Peter's Monday night with an automatic NCAA tournament berth on the line. St. Peter's beat Manhattan 84-74 earlier in the day, upsetting the conference's regular-season champion.
Jared Jordan scored 18 and Ben Farmer 17 for Marist (19-10). The Red Foxes failed to advance to the MAAC title game for the first time since joining the conference in 1997.
Tied at 46 at the half, the Gaels hit their first 10 attempts and built a 74-62 edge with 9:35 left. That's when Soliver completed a three-point play after he was fouled while tipping in Burtt's miss - Iona's first miss of the period.
Marist, which missed only seven of 23 attempts in the first half, couldn't keep up, never closing to within five points.
The 184 combined points mark the fifth most scored in the MAAC tournament, 12 short of the record set in a regulation game. Iona's 100 points were also the fifth most scored by one team in a tournament game.

MAAC-St. Peter's-Iona

2006-03-07T11:16:00.000-08:00

Guard Steve Burtt and the Iona Gaels put aside all the questions, the frustrations and past bickering to finally come together when it mattered most.
Knowing that he and his fellow seniors could go down as one of Iona's best classes to never win a championship, Burtt scored 28 points to spark an 80-61 victory over St. Peter's in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship game Monday night. Burtt was named the tournament MVP in helping Iona clinch its eighth NCAA tournament berth.
``This is what I wanted more than the points, more than the accolades, more than the records,'' said Burtt. ``My career wouldn't have been a success if I didn't get this championship. ... We were destined for this.''
Burtt joined his father Steve Burtt Sr., who was named the tournament's MVP when Iona won the MAAC title in 1984.
``I thank that man so much,'' said Burtt, who leaped into his father's arms and gave him an extended bear hug shortly after the game ended. ``I owe it all to him.''
Coach Jeff Ruland smiled when discussing the two Burtts.
``This caps off that legacy,'' Ruland said.
Ricky Soliver shook off early foul trouble, scoring 12 for Iona, which won its conference-leading seventh MAAC title and first since 2001 - the last time the Gaels qualified for the NCAA tournament. Kiril Wachsmann added 11 points and 12 rebounds.
For St. Peter's, Keydren Clark's magnificent tournament run ended with the senior guard scoring 25 points to lead the Peacocks (17-15), who came out flat, a result of playing their fourth game in four nights.
Besides leading St. Peter's to its first MAAC championship game appearance since 1999, the senior guard scored 95 points in four games - passing both Oscar Robertson and Hersey Hawkins - and finishes with 3,058 career points to rank sixth on the NCAA scoring list.
``It's a part of life. I didn't want to end it this way,'' Clark said. ``Tonight they were the better team.''
Raul Orta added 13 points for St. Peter's, which dropped to 2-4 in MAAC championship games - it's last win coming in 1995.
The Gaels, 7-3 in the MAAC title game, took control early, sparked by a 15-0 run over a four-minute stretch. Burtt and Soliver each hit 3-point baskets and reserve forward Anthony Bruin capped the run completing a three-point play to put Iona up 25-12 with 10:13 left in the first half.
Burtt went 6-of-11 - including 3-of-5 in 3-point attempts - for 21 points in the first half, producing timely shots to avert any St. Peter's runs.
Ahead 46-33 at the break, the Gaels put the game away in the opening minutes of the second half when Burtt and Soliver hit back-to-back 3-point shots to put Iona ahead 54-39. The Peacocks never closed within 10 points down the stretch.
Clark and Burtt were the conference's two most prolific guards this season and also happened to be teammates at New York City's Rice High School. The two made sure to find each other following the game.
``I told him to go to the NCAA tournament and win a game for me,'' Clark said.
Burtt scored 83 points in three tournament games in helping the Gaels outscore their opponents by a combined margin of 260-199, including an 80-54 blowout of defending champion Niagara - a team the Gaels had never defeated in tournament play - in the quarterfinals.
In previous years, the players would sometimes bicker over sharing the ball.
``We went through a lot of obstacles,'' Soliver said. ``It was win or go home, man. ... We had a good year, a couple of letdowns, but this is where you've got to bring it.''
Burtt, who has 2,011 career points, became only the second Iona player to reach the 2,000-point plateau. The other was his father, who scored 2,534 in the early 1980s.
``We caught them on the fourth game in four days and I think we wore them down a little bit,'' Iona's coach Ruland said.
``I'm not going to use that as an excuse,'' Peacocks coach Bob Leckie said. ``We didn't have it tonight.''

Siena-Iona

2006-02-24T09:52:00.000-08:00

Antoine Jordan scored 20 points and Tay Fisher added 19, leading Siena to an 82-76 win over Iona on Thursday night.
Steve Burtt had 33 points for Iona (20-6, 13-4). Ricky Soliver chipped in 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Gaels.
Kojo Mensah finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Saints (14-12, 9-8). David Ryan had 13 points for Siena.
Iona led 10-9 early in the first half but the Saints took control behind seven first-half 3-pointers. Siena finished 11-for-23 from beyond the arc.
The Gaels trimmed the lead after Kiril Wachsmann's dunk made the score 77-76 with 40 seconds to go. A three-point play by Mensah sealed the win for Siena.

St. Peter's-Fairfield

2006-02-15T09:59:00.000-08:00

Terrance Todd scored 28 points and DeWitt Maxwell added 27 points as Fairfield won a 109-108 shootout over St. Peter's Tuesday in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game.
Maxwell's total was a career-high and it pushed him over the 1,000 mark for his career. It came one game after he was held scoreless. He also had a game-high 12 rebounds and six blocks.
Fairfield (9-15, 7-9 MAAC) withstood a 42-point effort from St. Peter's guard Keydren Clark, who moved within 125 points of 3,000 for his career. The two-time Division I scoring champ matched a season-high for points.
Fairfield got 14 points apiece from Michael Bell and Michael Van Schaick, who also handed out five assists.
Raul Orta had 16 points for St. Peter's (12-13, 8-8) and Kaimondre Owes added 15.
After a missed free throw by Bell with a second to play, Clark took a 60-footer that hit the front rim, but it wouldn't have counted.

Siena - Loyola, Md.

2006-02-15T09:50:00.000-08:00

Kenny Hasbrouck scored 21 points to lead Siena to an 85-69 win over Loyola on Tuesday night.
Tay Fisher made six 3-pointers and finished with 19 points, while David Ryan added 18 for the Saints (13-11, 8-8 Metro Atlantic Athletic). Antoine Jordan had 14 points, nine rebounds and nine assists.
Siena led 36-33 at halftime, but Loyola (12-12, 6-10) scored first in the second half to get within a point.
The Saints used a 19-3 run to go up by 17 points with less than 13 minutes remaining. The Greyhounds could get no closer than eight points the rest of the game.
Andre Collins led Loyola with 20 points, while Brad Farrell chipped in 14.

Siena-Rider

2006-02-13T10:07:00.000-08:00

Kenny Hasbrouck scored 22 points - one of five Siena players in double figures - to lead the Saints to a 92-73 win over Rider on Sunday.
Kojo Mensah, Antoine Jordan and Tay Fischer each had 17 points for Siena (12-11, 7-8 in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), while Mike Beers added 12 points and four steals. Terrance Mouton and Jason Thompson each had 17 points for Rider (8-15, 4-11), which had a tough night from the floor, hitting just 39 percent of their shots.
Sienna, which never trailed, took command early and held double-digit leads for most of the game. The Saints started the game with a 22-5 run, including 12 points from Fischer, and their defense kept Rider off-balance for most of the day.
The Broncs tried to rally midway through the second half with a 12-4 run that cut the Saints lead to seven points, but Sienna soon sealed the win with an 18-2 run. Mensah, who scored six points during that stretch, also finished with a game-high nine rebounds.

Manhattan-Loyola, Md.

2006-02-06T10:22:00.000-08:00

Devon Austin and Jeff Xavier each scored 19 points and Mike Konovelchick had 18 to lead Manhattan to a 86-68 win over Loyola of Maryland on Sunday.
The Jaspers (14-7, 10-3 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) opened with an 18-0 run en route to their third win in the last four games. Konovelchick hit a pair of 3-pointers and Xavier converted a three-point play in the run.
Manhattan overcame 19 turnovers by making 13 3-pointers.
Andre Collins had 20 points and Shane James 12 for the Greyhounds (11-10, 5-8), who have lost five straight.
Xavier had 16 first-half points and Jason Wingate scored 10 of his 15 points in the opening period as the Jaspers led 49-29 at the break.
James scored to cut Manhattan's lead to 65-53 with 11:49 remaining, but the Greyhounds never got closer.
The Jaspers shot 57 percent from the field to Loyola's 38 percent.

Canisius-Rider

2006-02-06T09:48:00.000-08:00

Terrance Mouton scored 17 points as Rider held off Canisius 73-69 in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game on Sunday.
Jason Thompson added 16 points, seven rebounds and four blocked shots for the Broncs (8-13, 4-9), while Edwin Muniz had 12 points and seven rebounds. Rider also made 11 3-pointers, but the outcome remained in doubt the Broncs made five of seven foul shots in the final 38 seconds.
Corey Herring scored 19 points and pulled down a game-high eight rebounds to lead Canisius (5-16, 4-9), which had five players in double figures. Chuck Harris added 14 points for the Golden Griffins, while Jon Popofski had 13.
Canisius seemed like it would run away with the game early on, scoring the first 12 points and taking a 22-9 lead before Rider rallied back with a 14-2 run midway through the first half. The Broncs then grabbed a 38-35 halftime lead and the teams traded baskets for most of the second half until Rider finally took the lead for good with an 8-3 run late in the game.

Marist-Iona

2006-02-06T09:38:00.000-08:00

James Smith scored a career-high 27 points and Jared Jordan came within a rebound of a triple-double as Marist beat Iona 87-81 on Sunday.
Smith bettered his previous career high of 21 points before halftime, getting 24 as the Red Foxes (14-7, 8-5 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) took a 50-38 lead.
Jordan, a 6-foot-2 junior guard, had 16 points, 15 assists and nine rebounds.
Steve Burtt Jr. scored 16 of his 28 points in the second half for the Gaels (16-5, 10-3), who got within one point with just under 2 minutes to play. But Ryan Stilphen of Marist then hit a desperation 3-pointer as the shot clock was about to expire.

Niagara-Fairfield

2006-02-06T09:17:00.000-08:00

Terrance Todd scored 14 points and Fairfield made 9-of-12 from the foul line in the final five minutes as it beat Niagara 68-64 in a Metro Atlantic Athletic game on Sunday.
Fairfield (8-13, 6-7 MAAC), which won its second straight, led by as many as 14 points in the second half.
Niagara (8-13, 5-8) pulled to within three points with the ball, but Clif Brown missed a 3-point attempt to tie with one minute to play.
The Stags put the game away at the foul line.
Jonathan Han, who made three of those foul shots, had 11 points and five assists. Brown led Niagara with 22 points and 15 rebounds.
J.R. Duffey and Lorenzo Miles scored 13 apiece.
Fairfield, which entered the game last in the conference in defense, held Niagara to 40 percent shooting and 5-of-20 from 3-point range.

Marist-Loyola, Md.

2006-01-31T11:43:00.000-08:00

Will Whittington made five 3-pointers and finished with 22 points to lead Marist to an 86-78 win over Loyola on Monday night.
Carl Hood added 14 points, while Jared Jordan had 13 points and 11 assists as the Red Foxes (13-6, 7-4 Metro Atlantic Athletic) shot 59 percent.
Andre Collins led Loyola (11-8, 5-6) with 30 points but also missed 16 field goals. Shane James had 12 points.
Marist's largest lead of the game came at 35-17 in the first half.
The Greyhounds ran off a 30-17 spurt over 11 minutes in the second half to cut their deficit to 65-62. But Whittington made a 3-pointer on Marist's next possession and the Red Foxes held on for their eighth straight win.

Rider-Niagara

2006-01-30T12:00:00.000-08:00

Lorenzo Miles scored 25 points to lead Niagara to an 84-70 win over Rider in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play Sunday.
J.R. Duffey had 24 points for Niagara (7-12, 4-7 MAAC), which snapped a three-game losing streak.
Clif Brown came off the bench for 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Purple Eagles.
Jason Thompson had 21 points for Rider (7-12, 3-8).
Niagara, which has just eight active players on its roster, played most of the second half without its leading scorer and rebounder, Charron Fisher, who suffered a knee injury.
Fisher will have an MRI on Monday.

Fairfield-Canisius

2006-01-30T09:37:00.000-08:00

Corey Herring scored 32 points to lead Canisius to an 87-71 win over Fairfield in Metro Atlantic play Sunday.
Canisius snapped a six-game losing streak.
Herring scored 20 points in the first half as the Golden Griffins (5-14, 4-7 MAAC) took a 41-35 halftime lead.
Fairfield (6-13, 4-7) pulled to within 10 on back-to-back 3-pointers by Herbie Allen and Michael Bell with 13:23 left in the second half but came no closer.
Jon Popofski added 16 points for the Golden Griffins, while Harris and Darnell Wilson each scored 13.
Terrence Todd led Fairfield with 27 points.

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Fairfield-Iona

2006-01-18T10:38:00.000-08:00

Steve Burtt scored 25 points and Kiril Wachsmann added 18 points with 12 rebounds to help Iona beat Fairfield 89-77 on Tuesday night.

Iona (12-3, 6-1 Metro Atlantic), which won its fourth straight game, trailed 19-18 midway through the opening half before going on a 10-0 run. Marvin McCullough ended the spree hitting two 3-pointers.

The second of those provided the Gaels with a 28-19 advantage with 6:34 left in the half. Iona held a 45-31 halftime lead.

Iona continued to pull away early in the second half and used six straight points to create its largest lead, 61-41, with 12:16 remaining. Anthony Bruin's layup capped that run. The Gaels were never threatened after that.

Todd Terrence had a game-high 30 points for Fairfield (5-10, 3-4).

Ricky Soliver chipped in 17 points and seven assists for the Gaels.

Fairfield had won the the last six meetings between the teams.

Fairfield-Rider

2006-01-11T09:37:00.000-08:00

Terrence Todd scored 26 points and had six assists to lead Fairfield over Rider 85-81 Tuesday night.

Rider (4-8, 0-4 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) led 78-77 with 2:37 left before Fairfield went on a 6-0 run to take an 83-78 lead. Herbie Allen scored three points in the run, and 17 in the game, making all five of his 3-point shots.

Terrance Mouton and Edwin Muniz led Rider with 22 points apiece.

Fairfield (4-8, 2-2 MAAC) surged to an early 28-17 lead before a 10-2 Rider run cut the lead to three, which remained the margin at halftime.

Fairfield led 70-59 in the second half before the Broncs went on a 15-2 run, including six points by Muniz, to take a 74-72 lead with 4:10 left.

Marist-Liberty

2006-01-11T08:36:00.000-08:00

Jared Jordan and Will Whittington each had 18 points and all five starters scored in double digits as Marist beat Liberty 83-69 Tuesday night.

Ryan Stliphen had 14 for Marist (6-6), Carl Hood had 12 and James Smith had 10. Smith and Hood each had 11 rebounds as Marist outrebounded the Flames 45-31.

Marist had 15 second-chance points to just five for Liberty (4-10). The Red Foxes turned 14 Liberty turnovers into 27 points, 17 in the first half.

Marist jumped out to an 11-0 lead in the first four minutes and led 37-28 at halftime. Marist went on a 9-1 run to open the second half, but Liberty tied it off two free throws by Damian Hubbard.

Liberty went ahead by as many as five, but couldn't hold on. Marist regained the lead off Jordan's layup with 11:26 remaining. The Flames stayed within five until the final 3 1/2 minutes, when Jordan had six points and Hood scored five.

Larry Blair led Liberty with 18 points, and Anthony Smith and Hubbard each had 10.

Three Liberty players fouled out, as did two from Marist.

St Peter's-Manhattan

2006-01-09T11:53:00.000-08:00

Keydren Clark scored 41 points, but Manhattan beat Saint Peter's 95-82 on Sunday for its eighth straight victory.
C.J. Anderson had 24 points and 11 rebounds for the Jaspers (8-4, 4-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), and Arturo Dubois added 20 points and 12 rebounds. Manhattan used a 22-0 run midway through the first half to take control against the Peacocks (7-6, 3-1).
The Jaspers played tight defense on Clark, making his points difficult to come by. Clark, the nation's leading scorer the past two seasons, shot 11-for-26 from the field, including 4-of-11 from 3-point range. He entered averaging a little more than 25 points per game.
Jeff Xavier scored 18 points for Manhattan, and Jason Wingate added 17.
Manhattan shot 62 percent in the first half and held Saint Peter's without a field goal for 6 1/2 minutes. The Jaspers' up-tempo offense enabled them to build an 18-point lead before the break. They led 53-40 at halftime.
Manhattan extended its lead in the second half to 64-43 at the 16:39 mark. Saint Peter's got no closer than 12 the rest of the way.

Siena-Massachusetts

2005-12-27T15:09:00.000-08:00

Massachusetts 78, Siena 69

Rashaun Freeman had 23 points and 12 rebounds and Massachusetts used a 7-0 game-ending run to pull away for a 78-69 win over Siena on Friday night.
Siena (4-4), which trailed by as many as 15 in the second half, pulled within 71-69 on a basket and free throw by Kojo Mensah with 1:33 to play.
Chris Lowe hit a layup and two free throws to start the Minutemen's run. Stephane Lasme and James Life also hit a pair of free throws each for the final score.
Life and Jeff Viggiano had 12 each for UMass (4-3) and Life finished with 10. Freeman was 7-of-10 from the field and 9-of-11 from the line.
Mensah led Siena with 23 while Antoine Jordan had 18 and Tay Fisher 13.
Lowe's steal and layup gave the Minutemen a 44-34 lead at halftime. Freeman's layup with 15:03 to go in the game gave UMass its largest lead of the game 54-39.

Fordham-Manhattan

2005-12-27T15:05:00.000-08:00

Manhattan 81, Fordham 68

Jeff Xavier scored 24 points and C.J. Anderson added 23 to lead Manhattan to its fifth straight victory, 81-68 over Fordham on Friday night.
Xavier had the first five points in the Jaspers' 10-0 run to open the second half that gave them the lead for good. The Jaspers (5-4) added a 14-2 run that featured 3-pointers by Mike Konovelchick, Kenny Minor and Xavier to take a 56-43 lead with 11:39 to go.
Manhattan led 73-50 on Anderson's layup with 5:58 to go.
The Jaspers defeated their local rival for the fifth consecutive time and 13th in the last 15 meetings.
Jermaine Anderson had 19 points and Marcus Stout added 17 for the visiting Rams (3-7), who committed 18 turnovers.

Fordham Rams - Manhattan Jaspers

Loyola

2005-12-27T15:00:00.000-08:00

Virginia 98, Loyola, Md. 59

J.R. Reynolds scored 25 points and Adrian Joseph added 24 as Virginia snapped a three-game losing streak by defeating Loyola of Maryland 98-59 Friday night.
Jason Cain had a double-double with 15 points and 16 rebounds for the Cavaliers (4-4), who outrebounded Loyola 51-32.
Virginia did much of its damage from 3-point range and the foul line. Reynolds and Joseph had five 3s apiece as the Cavaliers went 13-of-21 from beyond the arc. Virginia also outscored the Greyhounds 23-4 from the free-throw line.
Maryland transfer Hassan Fofana, making his Loyola debut, hit a jumper to give the Greyhounds a 7-3 lead with 17:01 remaining in the first half. But Reynolds, who had 17 points in the first half, hit three 3s in a 45-9 run that put Virginia in control 48-16 with 4:24 left.
Virginia led 60-29 at the break, and Loyola could get no closer than 29 the rest of the way.
Loyola's Andre Collins scored 16 points - 8 below his average - on 6-of-20 shooting. He also had 10 assists.
Fofana had 12 points and Michael Tuck 10 for the Greyhounds.
Virginia's Mamadi Diane scored 11 points and Laurynas Mikalauskas had 10.

Loyola, Md. Greyhounds - Virginia Cavaliers

Iona-Kentucky

2005-12-27T14:57:00.000-08:00

Kentucky 73, Iona 67

Who knows if it was the playing time that sparked the points or the points that sparked the playing time? Either way, Rekalin Sims returned as a scoring presence for No. 19 Kentucky on Friday night.
The reserve forward had 11 points, six more than his total in the previous three games, to lead the Wildcats to 73-67 victory over Iona in their annual home game at Freedom Hall.
``I definitely needed a game like I had, just because I've been on the down for the last few games,'' The 6-foot-8 junior said. ``This was a confidence-builder for me.''
The Wildcats (8-3) never trailed, although the Gaels (7-1) played them far tougher than No. 11 Louisville - the court's usual tenant - did in getting blown out last Saturday in Lexington, Ky.
If that game proved the guard-heavy Kentucky lineup can score inside, this one provided more evidence.
It marked the re-emergence of Sims, who was 5-of-8 from the field. Earlier this week, he acknowledged his shooting has struggled since his drop-off in playing time, something he said he never had to deal with in junior college.
Rajon Rondo had 13 points for Kentucky and Joe Crawford added 12, but much of the post-game credit was heaped on Sims.
``He was more mobile,'' Wildcats coach Tubby Smith said.
Rondo said he sensed a breakout for Sims.
``He had a swagger in the warmups,'' Rondo said.
Kentucky is 116-31 all-time in Louisville, including victories in its last 16 games there against non-Southeastern Conference teams other than the Cardinals.
Steve Burtt had 23 points for Iona, which cut the lead to three with just over a minute left. But Kentucky guard Patrick Sparks hit a 3-pointer - his only field goal of the game. Sparks had a season-high eight assists and a game-high seven rebounds.
``I like shooting in this gym,'' said Sparks, who made three free throws in the final seconds to win last year's game against Louisville in Freedom Hall. ``It's a good place to play.''
With the game tied 4-4, Kentucky went on an 8-0 run. The Gaels cut the lead to 14-11 on consecutive 3-pointers - including a four-point play by Marvin McCullough - but they would get no closer.
Burtt, who came into the game as the nation's No. 3 scorer, scored 21 points in the second half. He missed seven of eight shots in the first half and spent much of the opening 20 minutes on the bench after picking up two quick fouls.
``You can't keep a great player down,'' Smith said of Burtt. ``A guy like Steve Burtt made some big plays down there, but I thought we made him work to get his shots.''
Kentucky is 6-0 against Iona and 11-0 against teams from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
``We just couldn't get over the hump,'' Iona coach Jeff Ruland said. ``A couple of our big guys just didn't show up tonight.''

Iona Gaels - Kentucky Wildcats

Loyola, Md-UMBC

2005-12-27T14:54:00.000-08:00

Loyola, Md. 71, UMBC 64

Andre Collins scored 21 points, and Loyola of Maryland beat Maryland-Baltimore County 71-64 on Sunday night to begin the season 2-0 for the first time since 1999-2000.

Linton Hinds added 14 points, and Josko Alujevic had 11 points and a team-high nine rebounds for the Greyhounds.

John Zito scored 20 points to lead the Retrievers (1-3).

Collins was hot from the start, scoring 15 of Loyola's first 31 points, and the Greyhounds took a 31-15 lead with 6:35 remaining in the first half.

But the Retrievers got back into the game with an 11-2 run and trailed 35-28 at halftime.

Loyola quickly pushed the lead to 11 early in the second half, but UMBC clawed back, getting within three on Zito's 3-pointer with 13:40 remaining.

Hinds answered with a 3-pointer and a steal leading to two free throws. His transition basket gave Loyola a 61-46 lead.

UMBC stayed within striking distance, but 10 missed free throws and a 1-for-13 night from 3-point range would prove too much to overcome. Loyola hit 19 of 24 free-throw attempts to seal the victory.

``These guys are starting to learn how to win,'' Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos said.

UMBC Retrievers - Loyola, Md. Greyhounds Goals Total 1 2 3 OT Shootout
UMBC Retrievers 64
Loyola, Md. Greyhounds 71