NOTES : DUNCAN NAMED TOPS IN ACC.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Wake Forest star Tim Duncan Timothy "Tim" Theodore Duncan (born April 25 1976 in Christiansted, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands)[1] is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 6'11" (2. was selected Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member universities compete in twenty sports in the NCAA's Division I. Player of the Year for the second straight year. Duncan received 119 of a possible 121 votes cast by the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers The following is a list of sports writers. Historical sportswriters
Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. All-America team. Cleveland headed to Provo: Steve Cleveland, who has never coached major college basketball, was named to take up the reins of a Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. program coming off its worst season in history. Cleveland is completing his seventh season as basketball coach at Fresno City College Fresno City College (or FCC) is a city college in Fresno, California. Established in 1910, it was the first community college in California and the second in the nation. , a junior college where he compiled a 156-76 record. The Rams currently are ranked No. 1 in California with a 30-3 record. Tennessee's O'Neill heads to Northwestern: Northwestern University named Tennessee's Kevin O'Neill as its new men's basketball coach, hoping his history of rebuilding teams continues with the Wildcats. O'Neill, who replaces the fired Ricky Byrdsong, rebuilt the Marquette program and was in the process of doing the same in Knoxville. Clemson's Shyatt hired by Wyoming: The associate head basketball coach for Clemson University was named the new head coach at Wyoming. Larry Shyatt, 45, has signed a 5-year contract with a base annual salary of $98,000. Shyatt said he would begin his new duties after finishing out the season with Clemson, which faces Miami-Ohio on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Starbird leads women's All-America team: Stanford's Kate Starbird was the top vote-getter and Connecticut's Kara Wolters became a repeat selection on The Associated Press women's All-America basketball team. Starbird, a second-team pick last year, was voted to the first team on 38 of 40 ballots from a national media panel and had 196 points. Wolters also was placed on all 40 ballots, was a first-team pick on 34 and had 184 points in the voting. More honors? Gov. Roy Schneider wants the Legislature to confer the Virgin Islands' highest honor on All-American Duncan. If approved, the 20-year-old senior would be the youngest Virgin Islander ever awarded the Medal of Honor Medal of Honor highest American military decoration for wartime gallantry. [Am. Hist.: Misc.] See : Bravery . |
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