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NEW YORK (AP) Jack Powers, a former player, coach and athletic director at Manhattan College, will be the first Jasper to have his basketball uniform number retired.No. 34 will be raised to the rafters of Draddy Gymnasium on Feb. 26, at halftime of the game with Iona.Powers was...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina State men's basketball assistant coach Rob Moxley is back to full duties after a life-threatening offseason health scare.The 46-year-old Moxley was hospitalized for several days in May and was on medical leave for a time, though the school didn't specify the nature of...

ATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Hawks will hold training camp at the University of Georgia for the third year in a row.The Hawks, coming off a 60-win season that set a franchise record, will practice at the Stegeman Coliseum training facility from Sept. 29-Oct. 1 before returning to Atlanta.The...

NEW YORK (AP) The Big East brought its incoming freshman class to New York City for two days and not one basketball was bounced, dunked or dribbled.The 10-member, basketball-centric Big East invited its ''rookies'' for a weekend of discussions of what these athletes were going to find out...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) New Hornets guard Jeremy Lin says he had trouble convincing a security guard that he's an NBA player when he showed up at the team's Charlotte arena.The NBA's first American player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, Lin tweeted about the encounter Saturday afternoon: ''Went to...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Memphis has canceled plans to honor former Tigers coach John Calipari for his induction into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.Hours after announcing a dinner Dec. 28 benefiting the Tigers and honoring Calipari, Memphis President M. David Rudd issued a statement on Twitter saying the...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) The United States Basketball Writers Association has chosen one of Dean Smith's close friends - former Georgetown Hall of Fame coach John Thompson - as the first recipient of the award named for the late North Carolina coach.The association will honor Thompson at a...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) TCU guard Hudson Price is transferring to Charlotte to play for his father, former NBA star Mark Price.Hudson Price will have to sit out the 2015-16 season due to NCAA transfer rules. He has two years of eligibility left.Mark Price said in a press release...

NEW YORK (AP) A five-game marathon featuring all of the Big East's teams again highlights the conference's schedule for 2015-16.Conference play for the 3-year-old, basketball-centric league begins Dec. 30 with Seton Hall at Marquette and Georgetown at DePaul. The league will again play an 18-game, double round-robin schedule....

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) Peter Pujals ran for one touchdown and passed for another, and Holy Cross withstood a late Monmouth rally to take a 27-19 victory Saturday in a season opener.Two field goals by Connor Fitzgerald in the fourth quarter gave the Crusaders a 27-16 cushion...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) Duke's men's basketball team is headed back to the White House next week to celebrate its latest national title.School officials announced Friday that President Barack Obama will honor the Blue Devils on Tuesday for their NCAA Tournament championship.Duke won its fifth NCAA Tournament title in...

PITTSBURGH (AP) Duquesne has named longtime University of Dayton administrator David Harper as the school's new athletic director.Harper replaces Greg Amodio, who left the Dukes in July for the same job at Quinnipiac.Harper spent the last three years at Dayton as the associate vice president of university advancement,...