Tuesday, October 16, 2001

College Brierfs
Men’s golf third in tourney’s 2nd round

The men’s golf team was in third place after the second round of the Gary Koch/Cleveland Golf Intercollegiate Invitational at Old Memorial Golf Course in Tampa, Fla.

TCU shot 580 in two rounds, and trailed Kentucky by one shot and Florida by 15.

Junior Adam Rubinson was tied for fourth place after firing a three-under par 141.

Also placing were senior Andy Doeden, who was ninth after a team-low round of 67 on the second 18 holes, and freshman J.J. Killeen, who was 19th after shooting 147.

Tech hopes to schedule Knight’s alma mater
LUBBOCK (AP) — Texas Tech is close to scheduling a basketball game against Ohio State, the alma mater of the Red Raiders’ new coach, Bob Knight.

The schools have agreed to play a home-and-home series in Lubbock and Columbus, Ohio, but are trying to figure out when. It’s not likely to happen before the 2003-04 season, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported Monday.

A game against Indiana, Knight’s previous employer, was taken off the 2002-03 schedule for the same year as part of a “mutual” decision between the schools announced Saturday.

“We are truly interested,” said Randy Shrout, the Ohio State assistant in charge of scheduling. “We enjoyed the rivalry of playing Indiana with coach Knight there, plus with him being an alumnus of this institution and bringing him back to Columbus, we thought that would be a great thing because we enjoy his teams. If we can get ’em to Columbus, we’d go to Lubbock.”

Tech has also talked to Michigan and Purdue about future games.

Conference USA discusses football expansion
Chancellor Michael Ferrari said the Conference USA board of directors decided Monday to continue discussion of conference expansion at its winter meeting.

The board of directors, composed of presidents and chancellors from C-USA universities, met at TCU for its quarterly meeting.

Ferrari said C-USA is not releasing the names of universities being considered for the expansion because of potential commitments to other conferences.

C-USA is considering adding a 12th football team to the conference which would allow for a conference championship game, Ferrari said.

Women’s soccer splits matches over weekend
The women’s soccer team ended a four-match winning streak in a 2-1 loss in double overtime to the Alabama-Birmingham Blazers Sunday.

Junior forward Nicole Carman scored the first and only goal of the match for TCU (7-6-0, Conference USA 3-3-0) during the second period. The Blazers then tied the game with one minute left and sent the match into overtime.

The match remained scoreless during the first overtime. UAB won the game when a TCU defender knocked the ball into the net.

“We had to fight for our lives,” head coach Dave Rubinson said.

TCU defeated South Florida, 4-3, on Friday. This match marked the fourth consecutive win for the Frogs. The Bulls were leading 2-1 at the half after Carman scored a goal. Frogs came back after the half and scored three goals in the first 27 minutes of the period. Freshman forward Laura Greenberg scored twice while sophomore midfielder Jenny Swanson scored the winning goal of the game.

The Frog play Memphis 1 p.m. Sunday at Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium.