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Show HERALD DAILY Wednesday, March 21, 2007 C5 WOMEN'S NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT MEN'S NIT ROUNDUP Mississippi mm It - Defending champ Terrapins knocked out of tournament THE ASSOCIATED n , '3 3 , 110-7- third-seede- THE BOB 60. The Terps, led by Toliver, went on a 124 run to make it 79-7- But Shay Doron and Marissa Coleman fouled out late, and the Rebels hit their free throws down the stretch. with the Connecticut-Wisconsin-Gree- cancer treatment. top-seed- 46-4- 11 Fresno Regional I North Carolina State 78, Baylor 72, OT: At Raleigh, N.C., Khadijah Whittington scored 15 of her career-hig- h 23 points after halftime to extend the fourth-seede- d Wolfpack's Greensboro Regional Duke 62, Temple 52: At Raleigh, N.C, Lindsey Harding had 13 of her 18 points in the first half and the Blue Devils advanced to the round of 16 for the 10th top-seed- straight year. Wanisha Smith scored 15 points and Carrem Gay added 13 points and 11 rebounds for Duke which blew most of a big early lead and pulled away late to beat the eighth-seede(32-1- ), d Owls. emo- tional season. The win gave Hall of Fame Rutgers 70, Michigan State coach Kay Yow her first trip to 57: At East Lansing, Mich., Kia battling for and offensive the NCAA tournament's round Vaughn had 12 of her 16 points in the first half and fourth-seede- d rebound and Shantell Black hit of 16 in six years, sending the two free throws to make it 75- - Wolfpack (25-9- ) to a matchup Rutgers won on the " 8 in the Green 59, Vanderbilt 56: At East Lansing, Mich, Amber Flynn scored 19 points tournament's round of 16 for the first time in school history. (31-3- Conferthe first ence team to reach the round of for the year, eclipsing the mark of 101 set by Chris Leonard in 1992. The Mountaineers (25-9the top seed in the East Region, beat N.C. State for the second time this season. The d Wolfpack (20-1had won five of their last six but couldn't contain Young, who hit consecutive to give WVU a advantage with 2:52 left. Alex Ruoff followed with another as the ), became ) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Frank Young scored 25 points, including 14 straight in the second half, and West Virginia defeated North Carolina State on Tuesday night to advance to the NIT semifinals. n Young set the school record with his first then buried five more, including three in the last six minutes to help West Virginia advance to its first NIT semifinal since 1981. Young has 107 and seventh-seede- d Bowling Green moved into the NCAA The Falcons PRESS single-seaso- i Bowling - ASSOCIATED 71-6- 6 d Knights (24-8- ) play Duke Blue Devils (32-1- ) Saturday in Greensboro, N.C. about 50 miles from their campus. I Connecticut 94, Wisconsin-Gree- n Bay 70: At Hartford, Pittsburgh, Candace Parker had Conn., freshman Tina Charles 30 points and 12 rebounds and led five UConn players in double the Lady Vols won on the Panfigures with 22 points and the Huskies ended the Phoenix's bid thers' home court to advance to the NCAA round of 16 for a for a 27th straight win. Huskies (31-26th consecutive season. The used a 14--2 run to erase a Sidney Spencer helped Parksecond-hal- f 2 deficit and er slow down Pitt's muscular Marcedes Walker and scored pulled away from there. d 89-7- Spartans' home court. As a reward, the Scarlet n Bay winner. N.C. State has won 12 of 14 since Yow returned from a leave to concentrate on her 68, Pittsburgh 54: At points, and Nicky Anosike and Shannon Bobbitt added 10 points each as Tennessee (30-3- ) remained the only team to reach the final 16 in every season of the tournament's history. Next up for the Lady Vols is Marist. Press CHILOAssociated Mississippi players celebrate their upset victory over defending champion Maryland second round of the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament on Tuesday. t Tennessee Press Mountaineers, Bulldogs move on to NIT semis i Maryland was expected to 1 - JEFF GENTNERAssociated West Virginia's Jamie Smalligan, right, shoots over North Carolina State's Ben McCauley, left, and Courtney Fells during the quarterfinals of the NIT on Tuesday. i - have a good chance at repeating as national champions with all five starters returning. The Terps added depth with transfer Sa'de Wileytewood, but it wasn't enough to stop them from a disappointing second round loss. "A season ago, we loved the fact that we had youth," Maryland coach Brenda Frese said. "I think it really hurt us tonight and spiraled in terms of our frustration and Ole Miss fed off of it." Armintie Price scored 28 points to lead the Rebels, the same Ole Miss team that was blown out by the Terps 9 at a tournament in the Baha-- ; mas in November. This time there was a lot more on the line. "This time we were trying to win a championship, we were playing for bigger and better things, so we were more focused," Price said. Mississippi will play No. 3 Oklahoma in the Dayton d Regional semifinals. The Sooners beat Marquette 7847 on Monday. Kristi Toliver led Maryland (28-6- ) with 24, including 14 in the second half when the Terps cut a lead to seven. But she also had 10 turnovers. "Kristi is a tremendous shooting for us and when she can knock down shot for us her game is really flowing," Frese said. "In terms of all our point guards, we need to take better care of the basketball." Maryland made its final run with 6 minutes left after Ole Miss' Alliesha Easley was J it 89-7- - ft - PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. Maryland fell into Mississippi's " trapnd the defending NCAA champion never got out. Ole Miss (23-1used its sti-- : fling defense to steal the ball v' 15 times and scored 42 points off 29 Maryland turnovers and the Rebels upset the No. 2 seed 8 in the Dayton Terrapins Regional on Tuesday night: "I think the game is really simple," Mississippi coach Carol Ross said. "You guard '' hard, you create ball plays, you let ball players make ball plays. You put them into position to do that." " tv - sixth-seede- They will face No. 3 seed Arizona State on Saturday. 16. Dallas Regional 64-6- 2 I North Carolina 60, Notre Dame 51: At Pittsburgh, LaToya Prin-gl- e led a frantic late run, Ivory Latta made six free throws in the final minute and North Carolina rallied to avoided an upset. Latta scored 17 points despite an off shooting night and Pringle added 10 points and 11 rebounds for the Tar Heels (32-3The nation's highest-scorin- g team was slowed considerably but still managed to recover after trailing 1 with 13 'a minutes remaining. The Tar Heels will play George Washington on Sunday in the semifinals. Mountaineers grabbed the with edge for good at 67-6- 5 2:00 left. top-seed- N.C. State's Courtney Fells missed a that would ). 38-3- have tied the game with four seconds remaining. West Virginia's Da'Sean Butler then made two free throws, setting off a celebration at the Coliseum in Morgantown. Loudspeakers blared John Denver's "Country Roads" and Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York." v The Mountaineers play South Region top seed Mississippi State in the semifinals on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Ruoff finished with 15 points and had a career-hig- h 11 assists. DaSean Butler added eight points off the bench. I Mississippi St. 86, Florida St. 71: At Starkville, Miss., somebody finally solved the riddle of how to neutralize Florida State's Al Thornton. Mississippi State forced him to the bench with early foul trouble, then shouldered its way into the NIT semifinals with a frenetic win over Florida State. "We went at him, forced him to guard us and got some calls," Mississippi State coach Rich Stansbury said. He made it sound simple, but few have contained Thornton this season like the Bulldogs did. The ) North Region's top seed limited one of college basketball's most dynamic players to 22 minutes and 16 points for the second-seede- d Seminoles (21-13- (22-13- ). Thornton drew two personal fouls in the first 4 minutes of the game, then two more in the first 5 minutes of the second half. Without their star, the Seminoles wilted under Mississippi State's n defense. man-to-ma- ON HUNTING John 2007 BYU SPRING FOOTBALL UCLA and Wisconsin. Eight of the opponents were ranked in last season's final polls. BYU and TCU also finished the 2006 season ranked 15th and 21st, respectively, in the USA Today Coaches poll. Utah may have the toughest schedule in the league. The Utes start the season at Oregon State on Aug. 30 before taking on Air Force in its MWC opener on Sept. 8. That's followed by a home game with UCLA on Sept. 15 and on Oct. 5, Utah travels to Louisville. Cougars Continued from CI All 12 of the Cougars' games will be televised this season, " including at least five nationally televised games. (Broadcast plans for the matchup have not yet been determined.) slate for The the nine MWC teams features 16 contests against teams that earned bowl berths in 2006, including BCS Bowl participants Louisville, Notre Dame and Boise State. Additional opponents who earned bowl bids this past season are Arizona State, California, Cincinnati, Hawai'i, Houston, Navy, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon State, Texas, Tulsa, BYU-UCL- I Disappointment: BYU freshman Brandon Howard has two turf toes that will keep him out for an undetermined portion of spring camp. Howard took the reps with'the red-shi- rt snaps with the No. 1 offense drills on Tuesduring workouts. day and completed "It's frustrating because it passes for 106 yards and a kind of surprised us," Menden-hal- l touchdown. His best sequence said. "It's something that's came at the end of practice, been bothering him during the completing and getting offseason. He was going to get the offense to the line. On third down, Cooper conan opportunity to get work at a featured position during nected with senior Bryce for a touchdown pass. spring." Senior Andre Saulsberry Sophomore Max Hall ran with the No. 1 defense at worked with the 2's on Tuescornerback on Tuesday, along day and completed for 44 yards. with senior Kayle Buchanan. At linebacker, BYU coaches worked in sophomore Dan Van I Daily Herald Sports . Editor Darnell Dickson Sweden, senior Chris Bolden 5 and freshmen Jaden Wagner can be reached at and Austen Jorgensen with the or by at first unit. ddicksonheraldextra.com. Read his spring football blog I Reverse action: Junior college at blogs.heraldextra.com transfer Cade Cooper took the Darnell defense on Monday but was in a boot for Tuesday's No. Continued from C2 1 Ma-hui- 344-255- Outdoor briefs e I More permits recommended: Utah's hunters might have more elk, pronghorn and bison permits to draw for this year. The DWR is recommending raising permit numbers for all e of Utah's animals. Permits for elk, pronghorn and bison would increase the I Dallas John can be most. 2 reached at or at The DWR is also recomadditional an adding mending djohnheraldextra.com. big-gam- 344-297- mm ' w,w,w;BrentBrownA'ufo:com) )dodge BYU BASEBALL Baseball Continued from Cl series starting Thursday at ..Miller Field This was supposed to be the warm-up- , a refresher course, particularly for pitchers. Law's plan was to use as many as five, trying to get two innings each out of the first four before a final closer. That plan had to get ripped apart and let loose into the night air. The Cougars were searching for a new guide entirely in the eighth inning, when Utah took control for good on four runs that broke a tie game. A lead-of- f single, followed Z by a hit batter, produced more trouble than the Cougars could "" get out of. A sarcrifice bunt, ' followed by a lousy throw over to third base from pitcher Michael Ward, broke open Utah's flurry as a run scored and led to three more. - . 1,000 general season buck deer permits to the Northeastern Region. You can learn more about the recommendations and share your suggestions at a series of upcoming meetings. Citizens representing Utah's public Regional Advisory Councils will take the input received to the Utah Wildlife Board when it meets April 5 in Salt Lake Gty to approve big game hunting permits for this fall's hunts. "We had control of the game, but we didn't execute when we needed to offensively or on the mound. We practice it all of the time with things like bunt defense. (Some of the situations that happened late) didn't sit well with us." s (Some of the situations that happened late) didnt sit well with us." This game didnt count in the league standings. An uneven number of MWC teams 2007 DODGE nan i rAA turn in ivii KATY1 I jUU UUAV VMD 4At m has forced teams to get a few extra games. Teams like BYU have preVance Law ferred to play teams close to BYU baseball coach home, for budget reasons. Otherwise, BYU had two bits of good news. BYU would like to think that Truth be told, though, BYU First, it's looking like shortcomwas on the ropes after the sev- while dropping to 13-stop Dan Vargas wont miss enth. Utah erased a 2 deficit Utes it's in more than a couple of more pared to the after a line drive off pitcher better shape heading into the weeks. He hurt his MCL J.D. Stambaugh that he March 15 at UNLV in the secbig series with TCU. Law used 20 players com- never saw as it sat ond inning, during warm-ups- , bined in the field and at the and missed the rest of the seright at his feet. Even Law's only seen that a plate, and also finagled seven ries. 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