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NEW YORK (AP) Ed Corbett has officiated hundreds, maybe a thousand, college basketball games. From games that are played in front of hundreds of fans to the sport's biggest stage - the Final Four.On Thursday night, Ed Corbett worked a game unlike any other for him: His son,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Texas Tech's Tubby Smith will receive the John R. Wooden Award's Legends of Coaching honor in April.The annual award recognizes coaches who exemplify Wooden's standards of coaching success and personal integrity.Smith will receive the award at the ESPN College Basketball Awards show in Los Angeles...

MILWAUKEE (AP) Cody Wichmann hit all five of his 3-point shots and scored a career-high 17 points to help Milwaukee cruise to an 85-61 win over Division III Trinity International on Friday night.Matt Tiby had 14 points, 13 rebounds and five assists, Austin Arians scored 11 and J.J...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) Oregon State's Tres Tinkle is still learning how to balance basketball and family - no easy task when his dad is his coach. The sophomore forward has his own apartment now, taking those first steps toward independence. He hasn't quite mastered dinner, however. ''I still go home most...

Arizona's Smith injures leg in exhibition openerTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Arizona redshirt freshman Ray Smith, who tore both ACLs the previous two seasons, suffered what appeared to be a serious leg injury in the 10th-ranked Wildcats' 86-35 exhibition victory over College of Idaho on Tuesday night.Smith returned after being...

CHICAGO (AP) Illinois forward Darius Paul has been dismissed following his arrest last week during a team trip to France.Coach John Groce (grohs) announced the move in a written statement Friday.Immediately after the trip, Groce had said he had ''indefinitely'' suspended Paul for violating team rules. On Friday,...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) If Florida State wants to get one of the top four seeds in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament, the Seminoles must quickly cure their road woes. The 19th-ranked Seminoles play their next two games on the road, where they are 2-5 in league play and have dropped...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Illinois starting center Mike Thorne Jr. is out indefinitely with a torn meniscus in his left knee.Illinois (3-4) announced Monday that the fifth-year center was injured in Saturday's loss to then-No. 4 Iowa State. Thorne had surgery Monday.Thorne was averaging 13.4 points and 8.4 rebounds...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Louisville is facing challenges on the court, and off of it heading into the season.The Cardinals have such a young roster that coach Rick Pitino signed a couple of graduate transfers to provide leadership.Then came the escort allegations this month.Katina Powell has alleged that former...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) Northern Arizona coach Jack Murphy had every reason to believe his team would take a big leap in the 2015-16 season. The Lumberjacks returned four players he considered starters from a team that made it to the championship game of the CollegeInsiders.com tournament and had talented newcomers...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) A University at Buffalo Police report states Justin Moss is one of three men's basketball players accused of stealing $650 out of a dorm room in June, some three months before the star forward was dropped from the team.The report says Moss, Mory Diane and...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Kentucky forward Derek Willis miss two weeks after injuring a finger on his left hand during Saturday's practice, the second injury to a Wildcats reserve this week.On Tuesday, junior guard Dominique Hawkins underwent surgery for a broken right hand that will sideline him for four...