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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 ...

VMI has already taken down one storied program this season. They beat Kentucky Friday.

Virginia Military Institute's Duggar Baucom instituted a fast-paced scoring offensive system when he was hired as head coach in 2005.

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.

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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.

Andrew Pearson * APearson@CITIZEN-TIMES.com * published November 16, 2008 12:15 am ARDEN Traffic on the recruiting trail to Christ School was light to nonexistent when Travis Holmes and his brother, Chavis, ...

Billy Gillispie didn't mention Gardner-Webb, but his postgame assessment was verbatim from the last time his Kentucky team was shocked like this.

'They whipped us,' Gillispie said of the Wildcats' 111-103 upset to Virginia Military Institute Friday night.

The upset came just over a year after Gardner-Webb's 84-68 stunner over the Wildcats in Gillispie's second game as coach. The sequel came in the opener of year two, which was supposed to be a tuneup for the Wildcats' trip to No. 1 North Carolina next week.

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.

On their bus ride to Friday’s game, Virginia Military Institute players watched a video of Gardner-Webb beating Kentucky last November.“To show them it can be done,” VMI Coach Duggar Baucom ...

Depending on your outlook of the glass being half empty or half full, the University of Kentucky's opponent in tonight's season opener could be either a perfect test or foil with a key game at North Carolina ...

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.

Despite losing three starters, Winthrop was picked Tuesday to win a record fifth straight Big South Conference title.

CONWAYCoastal Carolina running backs coach Keith James said that starter Eric O'Neal will be involved in the Chanticleers' game plan Saturday at VMI.

Junior Sam Arnold ran for 132 yards and one touchdown, while junior quarterback Phil Caralla threw for 163 yards and two scores as the Apprentice School defeated George Mason 28-10 at Robinson Field in Fairfax.

Fifteen seconds into Saturday's game, quarterback Tim Maypray hit Daud Semalulu for a 74-yard touchdown, the first of 10 VMI scored on its way to a 69-20 drubbing of Division II Chowan at Alumni Memorial Field.

Howard Abegesah rushed for 124 yards and three touchdowns on 12 carries to lead Virginia Military Institute to a 69-20 victory over Chowan on Saturday.