Old Dominion Monarchs NCAA Basketball News

Old Dominion's men and women head to El Paso, Texas, and their first Conference USA basketball tournaments after upper-division finishes.

A deadline trade to the Los Angeles Lakers earned some on-court time for the best hype man in the NBA , and Kent Bazemore is hoping that was only the beginning.

't expected to have a significant impact for the Los Angeles Lakers after arriving via trade on February 19. And then came one breakout game after another.

GAME NOTES: The East Carolina Pirates travel north to take on the Old Dominion Monarchs, in a Conference USA matchup at the Constant Convocation Center on Thursday night.

A lifetime ago, back on Jan. 11, ODU easily handled its country cousin, East Carolina, in the Monarchs' first Conference USA game.

A 30-minute chat with Old Dominion's Anton Larsen strays from basketball and touches in quick succession on the differences in the regulatory climates in the United States and the European Union, the effect of the expansion of the Panama Canal on the local port and even the crisis in Ukraine.

The Monarchs had no answers for the pair, who turned in identical 14-point, nine-rebound performances Sunday in Charlotte's 74-63 defeat of ODU at Halton Arena.

Aaron Bacote scored 17 points and Dimitri Batten scored 10 for Old Dominon in the Monarchs ' 74-63 loss at Charlotte.

Willie Clayton and Mike Thorne Jr. both scored 14 points and gathered nine rebounds as Charlotte handled Old Dominion 74-63 on Sunday.

Richard Ross evoked some recent history when asked what it meant for Old Dominion to get a first-round bye in next week's Conference USA tournament.

Sophomore guard Aaron Bacote scored 22 and junior forward Richard Ross added a career high tying 19 points along with 10 rebounds as the Monarchs defeated Marshall, 70-63 in a C-USA contest Thursday night.

If Marshall's 2014-15 team can pull off what Old Dominion is doing this season, the atmosphere around the program will be a little brighter.

In an emotional game with five technical fouls and an ejection, Hampton University outlasted Maryland Eastern Shore 104-89 Monday in Princess Anne, Md., behind Du'Vaughn Maxwell's 19 points and 11 rebounds.

Newly-aquired Laker Kent Bazemore does the shirt-in-the-mouth after missing a three-pointer against the Celtics in the first half, Friday, February 21, 2014, at Staples Center.

The victory left the Bulldogs in a four-way tie for second in Conference USA, a game back of Middle Tennessee, Louisiana Tech's next opponent.

Along with MarShon Brooks, Bazemore became a Laker. Straight from the Vegas Pro League, he had a few highlight reel plays that got the crowd buzzing.

Maybe it was the near-silent flight home from "the debacle at Tulsa " last weekend.

Most NBA observers can be forgiven for not knowing much about the second-year guard.

GAME NOTES: The Rice Owls step into the Constant Center tonight to take on the Old Dominion Monarchs in a Conference USA matchup.

Kent Bazemore, guard for the NBA's Golden State Warriors, has made "a significant financial contribution" toward the Hoopla Ticket Program to buy tickets to the NCAA First Four games in Dayton that will be distributed to airmen and local students.