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SEATTLE (AP) An argument is brewing in the University of Washington team room. It started with bickering, and voices are now rising, college basketball players going back and forth.Except this disagreement had nothing to do with anything on the basketball court. Think pronunciation, not passing or shooting.''I said...

LAS VEGAS (AP) All that Winston Shepard could do was smile.With 2:42 left in Thursday night's semifinal at the Las Vegas Invitational, the 6-foot-8 forward backpedaled after banking an 18-foot jumper high off the glass to give San Diego State a 10-point lead over No. 14 California, and...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame coach Mike Brey has signed 6-foot-6 guard D.J. Harvey from Bowie, Maryland, to play for the Fighting Irish next season. Harvey averaged 15.4 points, seven rebounds and four assists last season as a junior at DeMatha High School, the same school Brey attended and...

NC State adds 7-foot Turkish center Omer YurtsevenRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina State has added center Omer Yurtseven to its basketball roster.Team spokesman Fred Demarest on Monday confirmed that the school had received his signed letter of intent.Yurtseven is a 7-foot center from Turkey who scored 91 points...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Wake Forest guard Codi Miller-McIntyre will miss 4-6 weeks with a broken foot.Coach Danny Manning said Monday that Miller-McIntyre had surgery on his foot during the weekend, but did not specify which foot.Miller-McIntyre averaged a team-best 14.5 points last season while starting all 32 games....

After years of playing in one of the Southeastern Conference's most outdated facilities, Mississippi hosts the first game in its $96.5 million new basketball arena on Thursday night.Now coach Andy Kennedy hopes he has a team that's worthy of the new home.Ole Miss (10-3, 0-1 SEC) faces Alabama (9-3,...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) Duke says freshman center Marques Bolden will miss the top-ranked Blue Devils' first two games with a leg injury. Team spokesman Cory Walton announced the injury to Bolden's lower left leg on Monday. Bolden will miss the opener against Marist on Friday night and the second game Saturday...

AP Basketball WriterVillanova gets top overall seed in NCAA's early rankingsBy JOHN MARSHALLVillanova had a surprising loss to unranked Marquette last month, a setback that bumped the Wildcats from the top spot in the AP Top 25.The NCAA Tournament selection committee was not swayed by one surprising loss. It...

AP Sports WriterNorth Carolina's Justin Jackson leads AP all-ACC TeamBy JOEDY McCREARYRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina forward Justin Jackson is The Associated Press player of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference and Georgia Tech's Josh Pastner is its coach of the year.Jackson, one of three unanimous selections...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota coach Richard Pitino defended his embattled father Wednesday, saying Rick Pitino had no knowledge of a former staffer allegedly paying escorts to have sex with recruits and players in a Louisville dorm.''I know, and I told him this, `Put your head on the pillow at...

Big East picks ex-Villanova AD Nicastro for new positionNEW YORK (AP) Former Villanova athletic director Vince Nicastro has been named deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of the Big East Conference.Commissioner Val Ackerman announced the appointment to the newly created position on Thursday.Nicastro was the athletic director at...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) Ivan Rabb is so famous around Berkeley and San Francisco's East Bay that fellow California freshman and top recruit Jaylen Brown is doing his best to take the pressure off.''This guy, this is young Iv right here,'' Brown said with a chuckle before Thursday's practice....