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COLLEGE BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK: REDICK, WILLIAMS HONORED.


Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Turns out the difference between J.J. Redick and Adam Morrison Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled.  was 14 votes.

Redick, the star guard at Duke who became the NCAA NCAA
abbr.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
 career leader in 3-point field goals, received 43 votes from the 72-member of The Associated Press' national media panel to win the national play of the year award.

Morrison, the Gonzaga junior who edged Redick in the season-long, bicoastal bi·coas·tal  
adj.
1. Relating to both the east and west coasts of the United States, as:
a. Traveling frequently between coasts as part of a business or living arrangement:
 scoring race, got the other 29 votes in balloting conducted before the NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean:

Men's Sports
  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, the most common usage of this term
  • NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship
  • NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship
.

Redick averaged 26.8 points this season, shooting 47 percent from the field, 42 percent from 3-point range and 86 percent from the free throw line. A tireless worker on offense and an extremely intense player, he averaged 37.1 minutes.

He finished his career with 2,769 points and 457 3-pointers.

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Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
 coach Roy Williams Roy Williams may refer to any of several individuals: Sports
  • Roy Williams (coach), University of North Carolina Men's Basketball Head Coach
  • Roy Williams (wide receiver), wide receiver for the Detroit Lions
, who followed a national championship season by leading an inexperienced Tar Heels team to a Top 10 finish, was named AP national coach of the year.

Williams, who won the award in 1992 at Kansas, is the second coach to win it at two schools, joining Eddie Sutton (Arkansas in 1978 and Kentucky in 1986), and is the seventh coach to win it more than once, with UCLA's John Wooden the record holder at five times from 1967 to 1973.

--Pepperdine's search: USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code.  assistant coach Gib Arnold will have a preliminary interview for the Pepperdine job in Indianapolis today.

Arnold, a former Pepperdine assistant, will talk with John Kasser, who Pepperdine hired to help with the search, at the Final Four.

``It's a phenomenal job and dream job,'' Arnold said. ``It's exciting they granted me an interview.''

Arnold is in his first season with the Trojans. He spent the previous two seasons as the coach at College of Southern Idaho. He was an assistant at Pepperdine under Jan Van Breda Kolff For the Dutch footballer called Jan van Breda Kolff, see Jan van Breda Kolff (footballer)

Jan Michael van Breda Kolff (born December 16, 1951) is an American former college and professional basketball player and college basketball head coach.
 and Paul Westphal.

UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
 assistants Ernie Zeigler and Donny Daniels, the former Cal State Fullerton coach, also have had preliminary discussions with Kasser. Utah assistant Marty Wilson and Gonzaga assistant Bill Grier were expected to talk to Kasser as well.

Pepperdine will entertain discussions with 15-to-20 coaches at the Final Four and the field will be narrowed to about five coaches for official interviews.

- Jill Painter and Scott Wolf

--Arrivals and departures: Delaware hired Mont Ross, an assistant at Saint Joseph's, as the Blue Hens' new coach. ...

Cleveland State coach Mike Garland resigned after a 23-60 record in three seasons.

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Date:Apr 1, 2006
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