DePaul Tries To Turn Around Tough Big East Start
The DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball team roared out to an impressive 12-1 non-conference record, but have hit a little bump in the road, letting two games slip away.
The DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball team roared out to an impressive 12-1 non-conference record, but have hit a little bump in the road, letting two games slip away.
The Big East, with six NCAA Tournament teams, including Villanova and Xavier as #1 seeds, has reestablished itself as an elite conference.
The Big East Tournament may seem like Villanova's for the taking, but Butler and others will challenge them come tipoff Wednesday.
The Blue Demons bringing back the head coach who left them 10 years ago marked a change that's no different.
When the conference fell apart two years ago, the strength of the Big East conference was in serious doubt. Two years later, the conference has six representatives in the NCAA Tournament.
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The Big Ten has sent 18 teams to the Final Four in the last quarter century but has just one champion.
Garrett led the conference's freshmen in scoring and assists.
DePaul freshmen Billy Garrett Jr. and Tommy Hamilton IV were both named to the Big East's All-Rookie Team after a vote by the league's head coaches.
Soon, DePaul will have some key questions to answer about its basketball program.
DePaul's leading scorer has left the program.
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It's a rarity at this level, in any sport, for a head coach to have had no playing experience in college. It hasn't prevented Williams from guiding Marquette to the Sweet 16 the last two seasons and a 60-30 regular season record in the Big East.
The death of the Big East as we know it hit home last week as 14 teams arrived at the World's Most Famous Arena (Connecticut was ineligible). Next season, the "Catholic 7" will be reportedly joined by Butler, Creighton, and Xavier in a basketball-only conference that has paid to keep the Big East name.
Yesterday was a relatively drama-free Selection Sunday. Joe Lunardi was a perfect 68 for 68, as Middle Tennessee State, St. Mary's, Boise State, and La Salle claimed the final spots in the field. Louisville, Gonzaga, Kansas, and Indiana earned the top seeds.
Jim Larranaga's team has had a banner season, but they'll likely have to beat Duke for a second time this season -- this time with Ryan Kelly -- to reinforce their potential to go deep in the NCAA Tournament.
The Seton Hall Pirates (15-17) waited until the final minute of regulation to make it interesting, but the team from South Orange rallied in overtime to a 46-42 victory over the South Florida Bulls (12-19).
Notre Dame will join the Atlantic Coast Conference starting next season, a year earlier than expected, following the split among the Big East's football schools and seven Catholic schools that forming their own basketball-focused conference.
Notre Dame will join the Atlantic Coast Conference starting next season, a year earlier than expected, following the split among the Big East's football schools and seven Catholic schools that forming their own basketball-focused conference.
The Big East and the so-called "Catholic 7", which includes DePaul, officially announced their much-anticipated split Friday, which will become effective July 1.
Seven Big East schools including DePaul will leave the conference and pursue a new basketball framework.
The seven Big East schools that don't play football spoke with the conference commissioner Thursday about possibly breaking from a league that has been drastically reshaped.
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There were a total of eight victims in four separate, similar, incidents all just minutes apart.
The 33-year-old went to open his car door when he saw two people sitting inside.
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A string of armed robberies was reported in downtown Chicago overnight .There were a total of eight victims in four separate, similar, incidents all just minutes apart.
Chicago police said the 33-year-old went to open his car door, in the 400 block of East 89th Street just before 4 a.m., when he saw two people sitting inside. That's when one of them shot the victim in the hand.
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There were a total of eight victims in four separate, similar, incidents all just minutes apart.
The 33-year-old went to open his car door when he saw two people sitting inside.
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Keith Hill, president of Amalgamated Transit Union 241, said the driver radioed for police help. But nobody came, Hill said.
Police said the thieves used different types of force to make off with large quantities of cigarettes and bottles of alcohol in each incident.
School officials said police arrested the gunman and recovered a gun.
One of the men sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, while the other had a knife in his hand, police said. Both men beat until he fell to the ground, police said.