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Gebren
falls short of spot in NCAA Championships
TCU diver Stephen
Gebren’s run at a spot in the NCAA Championships came to an
end this weekend at the NCAA Zone D Diving meet at the University
of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Against a very
tough field, Gebren placed 12th in the three-meter competition with
a score of 387.30 and 13th in the one-meter, notching a 205.00.
The sophomore
qualified for the meet, which included divers from schools in Arkansas,
Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas, by posting a career-high
482.60 score in last month’s Conference USA Invitational.
The weekend
competition concluded a successful 2001-02 campaign for the TCU
swimming and diving teams. The men finished the season with a 9-2
dual meet record and C-USA Men’s Invitational championship
while the Lady Frogs notched a 10-3 dual mark and placed third in
the inaugural C-USA Championships.
Women’s
tennis team wins over Utah Utes Sunday
The No. 29-ranked
TCU women’s tennis team shutout the Utah Utes, 7-0, on Sunday
afternoon in Salt Lake City. The Frogs are now 6-0 on the road this
season. TCU moves to 12-4, 2-0 C-USA for the season, while Utah
drops to an even 7-7.
The Frogs swept
all three doubles matches for the second match in a row. At No.
1 doubles slate, No. 30-ranked Paty Aburto and Rosa Perez defeated
Irini Kotoglou and Hilary Doyle by a score of 8-4. The No. 2 duo,
and No. 51-ranked, Saber Pierce and Leoni Weirich earned the quickest
doubles win of the day with their 8-2 victory over Cassie Kasteler
and Alison Hansen. Katrin Gaber and Karla Mancinas picked up their
tenth victory of the spring with their 8-6 win against Linn Ronnberg
and Sheri Esrock.
The Frogs return
home to host Oklahoma State on Tuesday, March 26 at Bayard H. Friedman
Tennis Center.
CBS’
NCAA tournament coverage draws high ratings
NEW YORK —
The first four days of CBS’ coverage of the NCAA tournament
drew the highest ratings since 1994.
The broadcasts
on Thursday through Sunday averaged a 5.8 overnight rating, a 12
percent increase from last year’s 5.2. The overnight was CBS’
highest since a 5.9 over the same four-day period in 1994.
On Sunday, the
overnight rating was 6.8, up 19 percent from last year’s 5.7.
Overnight ratings
measure the 53 largest TV markets in the United States, covering
about 65 percent of the country.
The last two
NCAA Tournaments finished with the lowest ratings in the 20 years
that CBS has televised the event, with the 2-week average rating
of 6.5 last year up slightly from 2000’s overall average of
6.4.
Home
pods create controversy in college hoops
When asked about
the new NCAA tournament guideline that kept more teams closer to
home, most coaches said they were going to wait and see how it affected
the early rounds.
With seven of
the remaining 16 teams winning their first two games without even
having to pay cellphone roaming charges, the responses are starting
to come in.
Even Oklahoma
being just two hours away in Dallas didn’t cause many rumbles
because the Sooners were seeded second.
The ones that
jumped out were teams such as Pittsburgh, a No. 3 seed; Illinois,
a No. 4; and Texas, a No. 6, getting the advantage of turning a
neutral site into an adjunct campus for a day.
Mississippi
State, seeded No. 3, lost to Texas in the second round and Bulldogs
coach Rick Stansbury was upset that the American Airlines Center
in Dallas had a definite orange hue Sunday.
“If you’re
asking me should a lower seed have an advantage — no,”
Stansbury said. “We’re the only high seed that had to
do this.”
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