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Blount
named to All C-USA second Team
CHICAGO —
TCU guard Junior Blount has been selected to the 2002 All-Conference
USA Second Team. A talented collection of backcourt performers headlines
the 2002 All-Conference USA First Team. Five of the six first team
selections are guards, including Cincinnati senior Steve Logan,
Charlotte senior Jobey Thomas, Louisville junior Reece Gaines, Marquette
sophomore Dwyane Wade and Memphis freshman Dajuan Wagner.
Memphis center
Kelly Wise rounds out the first team as the only frontcourt player
on the squad. The awards are voted on by the league’s coaches
and media.
The Conference
USA Player of the Year last season, Logan led the league in scoring
at 22.6 points per game this year while helping the Bearcats to
their seventh consecutive regular season league championship. A
finalist for the Naismith, Wooden and Senior CLASS awards, Logan
has moved into second place on C-USA's all-time scoring list with
1,892 points, having reached double-figure scoring in his last 51
outings.
Conn.
women maintain top spot in AP poll
Upsets in conference
tournaments triggered a shakeup in the AP women’s basketball
poll Monday, even as Connecticut continued its season-long run at
No. 1.
LSU, Penn State
and Florida International all joined the poll, Florida International
making it for the first time in three years and the two others returning
after being ranked earlier this season.
Purdue, South
Carolina, Minnesota, Boston College and Florida also lost to unranked
opponents and each fell two places.
Defending national
champion Notre Dame, Georgia and TCU dropped out after conference
tournament losses. TCU had joined the poll for the first time in
history only last week.
TCU, which made
its debut at No. 25 last week, lost to Tulane in overtime in the
Conference USA semifinals.
Connecticut
just kept rolling, however, and was a unanimous No. 1 for the ninth
straight week. Stanford (30-1) remained a solid No. 2 with 1,052
points after reaching the championship game of the first Pac-10
tournament.
No. 3 Duke
(26-3), No. 4 Oklahoma (24-3) and No. 5 Vanderbilt (27-6) each moved
up one place.
After Tennessee
in sixth, Baylor, Louisiana Tech, Purdue and Colorado completed
the Top 10. Baylor, Tech and Colorado all moved up one spot.
Iowa State
fell one spot to 11th after losing to Baylor on a last-second shot.
Texas and Kansas State each moved up one place and were followed
by South Carolina, Old Dominion, North Carolina, Texas Tech, Colorado
State, Minnesota and Boston College.
Cincinnati,
LSU, Penn State, Florida and Florida International held the final
five places.
Duke
undefeated Big 12 play, holds No. 1 in polls
NEW YORK —
Kansas, Maryland and Duke were 1-2-3 in the AP college basketball
poll for the third consecutive week Monday, while Oregon made its
first Top Ten appearance in 26 years.
The top-ranked
Jayhawks (27-2) completed the first perfect season in Big 12 history
with their 95-92 victory over Missouri on Sunday and stretched their
winning streak to 14 games.
Oklahoma and
Cincinnati were fourth and fifth, switching places from the pervious
week.
Gonzaga moved up one place to sixth while Pittsburgh jumped three
places to seventh.
Alabama, Oregon and Illinois rounded out the Top Ten.
Florida dropped
from eighth to 11th following Saturday's 70-67 loss at Kentucky.
In addition
to Duke and Florida, three other teams in last week’s Top Ten
— Cincinnati, Alabama and Marquette — lost last week.
Kentucky was
No. 12 in the latest poll, followed by Marquette, Oklahoma State,
Arizona, Stanford, Georgia, Western Kentucky, Connecticut and Miami.
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