No. 12 DePaul women wrap up outright Big East title
Sonya Morris scored 22 points, Chante Stonewall had 20 and No. 12 DePaul beat Georgetown 87-69 on Friday night with the Blue Demons wrapping up the outright Big East regular-season title.
Sonya Morris scored 22 points, Chante Stonewall had 20 and No. 12 DePaul beat Georgetown 87-69 on Friday night with the Blue Demons wrapping up the outright Big East regular-season title.
Lexi Held hit five of DePaul's season-high 18 3-pointers and the No. 11 Blue Demons rolled to a 92-66 win over Georgetown on Sunday.
Natisha Hiedeman and Allazia Blockton each scored 23 points to help No. 13 Marquette beat Georgetown 75-62 on Monday to advance to its third straight Big East Conference title game.
Isabelle Spingola scored 12 points and hit consecutive 3-pointers at the start of the fourth quarter that gave Marquette the lead for good as the No. 8 Golden Eagles defeated Georgetown 59-52 Friday night.
Georgetown has promoted James Howard to women's basketball coach. Howard had been the team's associate head coach for the past two seasons.
Women's basketball coach Natasha Adair is leaving Georgetown, where she took over in 2014, to coach at Delaware.
Villanova coach Harry Perretta earned his 700th career win Sunday, as well as his 300th Big East victory.
Kale has seemingly been seen everywhere these days, but next Friday, the once discarded green that has risen to prominence will take on new life -- as an in-arena giveaway.
From rap artists to homecoming rallies, and even a little Ray Allen thrown in, Midnight Madness was ripe with memorable moments.
Natasha Adair is the new women's basketball coach at Georgetown.
Jim Lewis has been hired by Georgetown as interim coach of women's basketball, replacing Keith Brown, who resigned after an investigation into players' accusations of unprofessional conduct and inappropriate language.
Georgetown women's basketball coach Keith Brown has resigned after an investigation into unprofessional conduct and inappropriate language as alleged by some of his players.
Georgetown has placed two of its women's basketball coaches on administrative leave because of allegations of "unprofessional conduct and the use of inappropriate language."
Notre Dame guard Skylar Diggins, Connecticut forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and South Florida guard Andrea Smith are the unanimous selections to the All-Big East team.
NBC Sports Network verbally offered the Big East between $20 million to $23 million a year for six years to acquire the league's media rights, sources told ESPN.
The Big East is hoping to resolve its divorce with the seven departing Catholic-based basketball schools within the next few weeks in time for a summer 2014 departure, according to a source.
Geno Auriemma isn't broken up about the breakup of the Big East. In fact, he said Tuesday he wished the seven Catholic schools that decided to leave could exit the conference immediately and blamed the conference's flux on their past voting decisions.
As the curtain closed on the opening weekend of games, it's clear that there might not be a better race for bragging rights than the one in the state of Tennessee.
TEAM | CONF | GB | OVR |
---|---|---|---|
UConn | 16-0 | - | 19-1 |
Marquette | 14-3 | 2.5 | 17-4 |
DePaul | 10-4 | 5 | 13-6 |
Villanova | 9-4 | 5.5 | 14-4 |
Seton Hall | 10-5 | 5.5 | 12-6 |
Creighton | 6-7 | 8.5 | 7-10 |
Providence | 4-9 | 10.5 | 6-12 |
St. John's | 4-11 | 11.5 | 7-13 |
Georgetown | 2-13 | 13.5 | 2-13 |
Butler | 2-14 | 14 | 2-15 |
Xavier | 1-8 | 11.5 | 4-9 |