Virginia Military Institute NCAA News

Who needs 7-footers, set plays, or any kind of real half-court offense? On Sunday afternoon at John Paul Jones Arena, the Virginia men's basketball team sure didn't. UVa, playing a brand of small ball that ...

Sylven Landesberg scored 28 points and broke Virginia's freshman-debut scoring record, and the Cavaliers opened the season with a 107-97 win over VMI.

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Traffic on the recruiting trail to Christ School was light to nonexistent when Travis Holmes and his brother, Chavis, were seniors in 2005.

Michael Washington scored 18 of his 30 points in the second half and led Arkansas to a 91-87 overtime victory Friday night over Southeastern Louisiana in the season opener for both teams.

Kentucky is making a habit of shocking home losses to unheralded opponents. For the second straight season, the Cats stumbled against a lightly-regarded opponent.

It was Gardner-Webb all over again for Kentucky, only this one may even have been worse.

For former Tates Creek High School standout Michael Sparks, Virginia Military Institute's game at Kentucky Friday night represents a 48-hour furlough in basketball heaven.

Smith completed 13 of 18 passes for 236 yards and two touchdowns, and Jennings rushed 24 times for 151 yards and two scores for the Flames .

The Warriors scored early in the second quarter on a 34-yard field goal from Baertsch to close out a 10-play, 35-yard drive.

SIXTEEN 16 YEARS ago almost to the day, South Carolina defeated Tennessee for the first time, a 24-23 shocker that, at the time, was a career high-water mark for Sparky Woods, USC's 38-year-old coach.

Tribble, who was 19 of 25 for 243 yards, had touchdown passes of 1 yard to Tyrese Harris and 50 yards to Antwan Ivey.

When, Where: Spangler Stadium Coach Norman Harris Field, 1:30 p.m. Records: GWU 0-1 Big South, 3-4 overall; VMI 1-0 Big South, 3-3 Last week: Gardner-Webb beat Presbyterian 47-21; VMI has been idle since a ...

Gardner-Webb senior quarterback Devin Campbell is certainly making the most of another chance to lead the Bulldogs.

Maybe, VMI coach Sparky Woods suggested with a pained smile, the Keydets should have let the Bulldogs run.

Devin Campbell threw three touchdown passes and Gardner-Webb held off a late offensive charge to beat VMI 34-27 on Saturday.

It would be simple, sensible even, for a body once savagely driven to the ground to remain there.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: F Aaron Blosser comes to the team as a recruited walk-on after averaging 13 points and eight rebounds for Cox High in Virginia Beach.

Keydets coach Duggar Baucom often studies videotape of the fast-paced teams Loyola Marymount and La Salle put on the floor in the late 1980s.

STRENGTHS: Everyone is asked to shoot from the outside, and even players who struggled in the past have improved.