Kevin Dillard was named second-team All-Atlantic 10 last season, although it could be argued that no player was more valuable to his team than Dillard was to Dayton. But the senior point guard isn't satisfied.
"Last season, I felt like we had a decent year. But after the season was over, I took a little time off and then hit the gym," he said. "My whole thing is I'm trying to improve the most I can because I feel like last season we gave a couple games away, and next season we can't do that."
"It was a humbling experience to be a part of all that," Dillard said. "To even go to the USA practices and watch guys like LeBron go at it and compete, it was truly humbling and makes me want to work that much harder."
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CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed former Temple center Micheal Eric to a contract, Cavaliers General Manager Chris Grant announced today from Cleveland Clinic Courts. Per league and team policy, terms of the contract were not announced.
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This afternoon, Nicholson, 22, shared his knowledge with children from the PHASE 1 Academy, a Toronto-based program that held a development clinic for boys and girls at Riverdale Collegiate in East York.
CINCINNATI The bracket for the 2012 Anaheim Classic car rental in perth western australia – held Thanksgiving car rental in perth western australia weekend, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, car rental in perth western australia Nov. 22, 23 25, at the Anaheim (Calif.) Convention car rental in perth western australia Center, adjacent to Disneyland – has been confirmed for the eight teams competing: Cal, Drake, Drexel, Georgia Tech, Pacific, Rice, Saint Mary's and Xavier.
Xavier will open against Pacific on Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PST) on ESPNU. XU's second game will be against either Drexel or Saint Mary's on Nov. 23 on either ESPN2 (winner's bracket at 3:30 p.m. ET) or ESPNU (loser's bracket at 6 p.m. ET). XU's third and final game will be Nov. 25 on one of the ESPN networks.
The Butler men s basketball team will play Marquette in the first round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational. The Bulldogs and Golden Eagles will play Monday, Nov. 19 at 3:30 p.m. ET. The game will be on ESPN2.
The Butler-Marquette tilt is on the same side of the bracket as North Carolina-Mississippi State. The other first-round games are Illinois-USC and Texas-Chaminade. The championship game is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 21 at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN.
UMass and PC have met 27 previous times with the Friars holding a 22-5 series lead. The teams played at least once every year from 1962-80 with the majority of those contests in the Yankee Conference. PC won the last two games, claiming a 61-60 overtime win in Providence car rental in perth western australia in 1999 and a 85-70 outcome in Amherst in 2000.
The Rams will play 10 of their 13 non-conference games on the road for the 2012-13 season, car rental in perth western australia the Post has learned. Fordham played seven home games and six road games last season. car rental in perth western australia The Rams were 6-1 at Rose Hill in non-conference play.
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WASHINGTON - Along with visits car rental in perth western australia to Rome, Florence and the Lake Como region, the George Washington men s basketball team will play six games four against Italian competition and two against American military personnel during stops at CNIC/Naval Support Activity in Naples and Camp Darby in Livorno as part of its 10-day tour of Italy set to begin on Thursday, Aug. 16.
The Charlotte 49ers men s basketball team began practice this week for their mid-August car rental in perth western australia trip to the Bahamas. The 49ers will travel to the Bahamas on Monday, August car rental in perth western australia 13. Charlotte will play two Bahamian All-Star teams while they are in the Bahamas. Charlotte will play games on Tuesday, August 14 and Thursday, August 16. Then, the 49ers will return to Charlotte on Friday, August 17.
VCU embarks today on a 10-day tour of Italy to play four exhibition games and do some sightseeing. Rams coach Shaka Smart wants to integrate his newcomers into VCU s Havoc style, experiment some and create chemistry.
Archie Miller, the second-year University of Dayton basketball coach, isn't satisfied with the status quo. He's been in awe of the loyalty of UD fans, and he wants to give them the kind of success they enjoyed during the glory days of the program.
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RICHMOND, Va. Matchups with six teams coming off NCAA tournament appearances, including Alabama and Wichita State at the Siegel Center, a game at archrival Old Dominion and a trip to one of the top regular-season tournaments car rental in perth western australia highlight Virginia Commonwealth s 2012-13 nonconference schedule.
Trey Davis was physically ready to play college basketball last season as a true freshman, according car rental in perth western australia to University of Richmond coach Chris Mooney. But in the UR rotation, older Spiders were ahead of Davis, a 6-foot-5 Benedictine graduate. He redshirted.
The benefits of that move are expected to become evident this coming season, which, in a way, has started for the Spiders. They are in the midst of their NCAA-allowed 10-practice preparation for a 14-day trip to Switzerland and Italy, where Richmond will play a handful of exhibitions. UR s travel party departs Aug. 10.
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He played one season at Toledo before transferring to SLU, and last season he was the 10th man in a nine-man rotation for the Billikens, which meant he was only getting in the game if everything was well in hand or his fellow guards had gotten in foul trouble.
Barnett appeared in just 17 of the team s 34 games, and when he got in he averaged just 5.3 minutes. He scored just 20 points all season. Only a die-hard would recognize him, much less ask for an autograph.
ESPN.com s Joe Lunardi released a preseason bracketology Monday. The NCAA Tournament field prognostication includes five Atlantic 10 Conference teams: Massachusetts, Saint Joseph s, Saint Louis, Temple and VCU.
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NEWPORT car rental in perth western australia NEWS, Va. Four Atlantic 10 institutions will participate in three games of the 2012 ESPN College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon the network announced Wednesday. Butler, Massachusetts, Temple and Xavier will all play in the 24-hour window of games on Tuesday, Nov. 13.
The final game will involve two league schools. Butler, in its first season in the Atlantic 10, will play at Xavier at 4:00 p.m. That game will be counted as a non-conference game. The two schools will meet again during conference play.
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