Washington’s 27 points leads Canisius

Harold Washington scored 27 points and Alshwan Hymes had 17 as Canisius defeated winless Binghamton 75-66 Wednesday night.

Canisius, which shot 56 percent (14 of 25) from the field in the second half, made 13 of 16 free throws down the stretch to put the game away. Washington made 9 of his 17 field goal tries and was 7 of 8 from the line.

Washington has been the catalyst for this Canisius team this year even though they have only won three games on the year. He is averaging 19 ppg 4.2 rpg 2.2 apg

Atkins has began to play a bigger role for UVA

Indeed, Tuesday night was more about evaluating the growth of players like Darion Atkins and the potential of players like Jesperson. What exactly can they give Virginia once conference play begins a week from Saturday? That remains somewhat uncertain, but at least we came a little closer to finding out.

Specifically for Atkins, who prior to Tuesday mostly had received playing time in chunks, this game was important for him to be able to get into a rhythm on the floor. He played a career-high 20 minutes.

“I felt more comfortable, obviously,” Atkins said. “Everyone saw that. I just felt like I’m building chemistry with the guys on the court, and I’m just getting a little bit more comfortable with my game. It was a lot of fun.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/cavaliers-journal/post/no-23-virginia-69-maryland-eastern-shore-42-three-up-three-down/2011/12/27/gIQA5dHgLP_blog.html

Starks scores 20, No. 12 Georgetown knocks off No. 4 Louisville 71-68

Georgetown is more concerned with accumulating wins than making statements with 10 freshmen and sophomores on the roster. Sophomore Markel Starks and freshman Otto Porter made sure the Hoyas did both.

Starks scored 16 of his career-high 20 points in the second half and Porter came up clutch late as No. 12 Georgetown snapped No. 4 Louisville’s 20-game home winning streak with a 71-68 victory Wednesday night in the Big East opener for both teams.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/starks-scores-20-no-12-georgetown-knocks-off-no-4-louisville-71-68/2011/12/28/gIQAOaePNP_story.html#

Atkins and Grant lead Irish to victory over Pittsburgh

Eric Atkins

Notre Dame handed No. 22 Pitt its second consecutive loss tonight, a 72-59 setback in the Big East Conference opener at the Joyce Center.

Eric Atkins and Jerian Grant each added 15 apiece for the Irish, who trailed by one at halftime.

Jerian Grant & Talib Zanna
fight for the ball.

Talib Zanna led led Pitt (11-3, 0-1) with 13 points and 12 rebounds for the Panthers, who dropped consecutive games for the first time since the 2009-10 season. The Panthers lost their final non-conference game to Wagner Friday night.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11361/1199605-100.stm

Ian Hummer scores 16 in a loss

Junior forward Ian Hummer finished with 16 points, but he needed 17 shooting possessions to get there and boosted his total with two three-pointers in the final minutes. Siena’s zone, which was clearly designed to stop the Tigers’ post offense, kept Hummer off-balanced and challenged every shot inside, holding the star to 4-for-13 shooting inside the arc.

Read more: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/12/22/29709/

Georgetown man handles Memphis

Jason Clark scored 18 points and Hollis Thompson added 17 as No. 16 Georgetown beat Memphis 70-59 Thursday night.

Georgetown (10-1) extended its winning streak to eight games. The Hoyas held the lead for the entire game and opened the margin to as much as 20 points before a late surge by Memphis, although the Tigers were unable to complete the comeback.

Chris Crawford scored 17 and Will Barton had 12 points and 11 rebounds for Memphis, which has lost three of its last four games.

Read more:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2017075553_apbkct25memphisgeorgetown.html

Tamir Jackson leads Rice in a big win

Tamir Jackson scored 13 points while Ahmad Ibrahim and Lucas Kuipers followed with 12 each as Rice defeated Texas A&M 65-58 on Thursday night.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/jackson-lifts-rice-past-texas-aandm-65-58/2011/12/22/gIQAi6xdCP_story.html

VCU's Graham gets career high tuesday night

Freshman Treveon Graham scored a career-high 18 points and Virginia Commonwealth opened the second half on a 14-2 run to take control Tuesday night in a 68-49 victory over Alabama-Birmingham.

The Rams (8-3), who also got 16 points from Juvonte Reddic, won their fifth in row, again using their stifling defense to wear an opponent down. UAB turned the ball over 23 times, including on three consecutive possessions after halftime as VCU scored 11 straight.

Read more:
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/graham-scores-18-and-vcu-forces-23-turnovers-in-defense-led-68-49-victory-against-uab/2011/12/20/gIQALXv87O_story.html

Robinson records 21 & 18 against Davidson

Thomas Robinson had 21 points and 18 rebounds for the Jayhawks. Tyshawn Taylor came back from surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee to get 15 points and seven assists, while Elijah Johnson finished with 15 points.

Kansas was coming off a win over No. 2 Ohio State and a lengthy break for final exams, though most of the game it looked as if they were still on break.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/12/19/davidson-shocks-no-12-kansas-in-80-74-victory/#ixzz1hCfh498C

DC Maryland Virginia talent

Here is how our areas talent has performed up to now.


Point Guards

• Kendall Marshall (UNC) - 4.9 ppg 2.5 rpg 10.5 apg
• Brandon Young (DePaul) - 17.5 ppg 4.6 apg 2.9 rpg
• Erick Green (VTech) - 16.1 ppg 3.2 rpg 2.7 apg
• Marc Hill (NC A&T) - 10.6 ppg 3.9 apg
• Percy Wood (UMES) - 11.1 ppg 2.8 rpg 3.7 apg
• Chris Tolson (Hampton) - 7.3 ppg 2.7 rpg
• Anthony Meyers (Robert Morris) - 5.9 ppg 3.2 rpg 2.6 apg
• Jerome Seagears (Rutgers) - 7.7 ppg 3.1 rpg 2.4 apg
• Rodney Glascow (VMI) - 7.7 ppg 2.1 rpg 4.4 apg
• Erick Atkins (Notre Dame) - 14 ppg 2.6 rpg 3.5 apg
• Cedrick lindsey (Richmond) -13 ppg 3.2 rpg 4.3 apg
• Darren Clark (Bowie State) - 20.8 ppg 4.5 rpg 4.7 apg
• Francis Ashe (Chestnut Hill) - 5.9 ppg 4 rpg 2 apg

Shooting Gaurds

• Sean Mosley (Maryland) - 10.9 ppg 5.2 rpg
• Jason Clark (Georgetown) - 15.5 ppg 3.5 rpg
• Jerian Grant (Notre Dame) - 12.5 ppg 3.9 rpg 4.2 apg
• Lasan Kromah (George Washington) - 9.6 ppg 5.7 rpg
• Brendan Bald (Vermont) - 8.3 ppg 1.7 rpg
• Marcus Thornton (William & Mary) - 10.2 ppg 2 rpg
• Derrick Thomas (Drexel) - 8.1 ppg 2.7 rpg 2.3 apg 
• Bryan Allen (George Mason) - 7.3 ppg 4.1 rpg 3.5
• Kendall Durant (Abilene Christian) - 11.4 ppg 3.7 rpg
• Jay Gavin (Bowie State) - 16.9 ppg 3.8 rpg 3.1 apg
• Phil Wood (Johnson C Smith) - 11.6 ppg 3.7 rpg
• Harold Washington (Canisius) - 19 ppg 4.2 rpg 2.2 apg

Small Forwards

• Kris Joseph (Syracuse) - 14.4 ppg 6 rpg
• Dwayne Jackson (Morgan) - 10.5 ppg 2.4 rpg
• Raphiael Putney (UMass) - 8.7 ppg 4 rpg
• Javorn Farrell (UMass) - 7.6 ppg 3.2 rpg
• Ayodeji Egbeyemi (Loyola Marymount) - 6.5 ppg 4.6 rpg

Power Forwards

• Chris Braswell (Charlotte) - 17 ppg 8.6 rpg
• Jon Taylor (St Francis (PA)) - 6.4 ppg 3.8 rpg
• Joston Thomas (Hawaii) - 9.8 ppg 3.5 rpg
• Thomas Robinson (Kansas) - 18.1 ppg 12.1 rpg

Center

• Raven Barber (Mount St Mary's) - 9.8 ppg 3.8 rpg
• Dante Taylor (Pittsburgh) - 7.9 ppg 6 rpg
• Delonta Boyd (Johnson C Smith) - 11.4 ppg 7.7 rpg
• Talib Zanna (Pittsburgh) - 5 ppg 5.8 rpg
• Henry Sims (Georgetown) - 12.6 ppg 5.2 rpg 3.9 apg 

Barton dominates for Memphis

For the second consecutive week, University of Memphis sophomore guard Will Barton was named the Conference USA player of the week this afternoon.


Barton, a 6-6, 175-pound guard from Baltimore, Md., turned in career highs of 28 points and 16 rebounds in Memphis' 95-87 road loss to No. 4-ranked Louisville on Saturday.

Read this article below:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/19/will-barton-named-conference-usa-player-week/

Cedrick Lindsay continues to impress

Former Gonzaga High School standout cedrick Lindsay has began to find his way in the explosive Richmond Spider offense. Lindsay was formally a combo guard, but has trasitioned well into a solid starting point gaurd.
In the last two games Lindsay has scored in 20  plus points versus two teams that could possibly make a run in March. This year he is averaging 13.5 ppg 4.6 apg 2.9 rpg.
The pace the Lindsay is on he could possibly recieve all confrence honors within the Atlantic 10 confrence. Watch out for him to do big things for the Spiders this year.

Last two games:
*vs Iona - 21pts 8ast 2reb
*vs VCU - 22pts 3ast 4reb

Hill has big game against UCF

Marc Hill of North Carolina A&T had a big game versus Central Florida and son of Micheal Jordan, Marcus Jordan on Tuesday night.

Hill had A&T's game high with 17 points along with 3 rebounds and 3 assists. The Aggies made a strong second half run but fell short.

Read this article:

http://www.ncataggies.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=24500&ATCLID=205346437

Jerian Grant is starting to come along.

Jerian Grant is a former High School star for the high powered Dematha Stags and son of former NBA player Harvey Grant. Also, his uncle is Horace

Grant who won numerous NBA championship and his older brother Jerai Grant was a 2nd team All-ACC selection in 2011. In other words, Jerian he has big shoes to fill.

Now Jerian is a sophmore starting guard for the Notre dame Fighting Irish. This year he has been filling those shoes, by averaging 13.8 ppg 4.6 apg 4 rpg. Even though the Irish are 5-3 early Coach Brey has to like what he sees from Grant.


In the last 3 games Grant has posted double-double and double digit scoring in each one of the games.

vs #18 Gonzaga: 16pts 3ast
vs Bryant: 12pts 11reb 7ast
vs Georgia: 20pts 5reb 4ast

Clark leads Hoyas past Crimson Tide

The Georgetown Hoyas are a young and talented group, led by a senior in Jason Clark. The Hoyas beat a tough and star studded team in the Alabama Crimson Tide. On Thursday night the Hoyas put an end to a long home game winning streak held by the Crimson Tide of 24 games.

Alabama made two free throws with 13 seconds to go in the game. The Hoyas came down after a time out and ran a set, that gave Hollis Thompson an open 3 pointer, and sure enough he stepped into in a sunk the shot with 1 second left. The Hoyas held on to win 57-55.

Jason Clark had 22 points and Hollis Thompson 12 points 8 rebounds.

Read article below:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/story/2011-12-01/georgetown-stuns-alabama-in-final-second/51565710/1

Hollis Thompson & Jason Clark

Young gets game high in a lost.

Brandon Young led DePaul in scoring with 18 points on Thursday night versus Ole Miss, but lost on a last second transition layup.

Read the article:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-12-01/sports/ct-spt-1202-depaul-basketball--20111202_1_blue-demons-murphy-holloway-cleveland-melvin