college basketball
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Release from Georgia State Athletics: Behind a game high 18 points by tournament MVP Kevin Ware, Georgia State earned a 38-36 win over Georgia Southern in a defensive slug-fest on Sunday afternoon at Lakefront Arena to earn the school’s third ever bid to the NCAA tournament. Georgia State (24-9) won its fifth-straight and ninth of
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Release from Georgia State Athletics: Led by 32 points from Sun Belt Player of the Year R.J. Hunter, Georgia State earned an 83-79 win over UL Lafayette in the first of two semifinal games at the Sun Belt tournament at Lakefront Arena on Saturday afternoon. The Panthers will advance to the championship game for the
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Release from Georgia State Athletics: Georgia State head coach Ron Hunter, who led the Panthers to a second-straight Sun Belt title, has been named a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award, given annually to one of the top coaches in college basketball. The Ben Jobe Award is presented annually to the top minority coach in
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Release from Georgia State Athletics: Georgia State fell to No. 1 seed UALR 71-54 in the opening round of the Sun Belt Women’s Basketball Championship at Lakefront Arena Wednesday. The Panthers had an 11-0 to close to 49-41 with 10:18 to play and were down nine at 54-45 with 8:26 to play, but UALR was
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Release from Georgia State Athletics: Georgia State junior R.J. Hunter became just the fourth student-athlete in Sun Belt Conference men’s basketball history to earn back-to-back Player of the Year awards as announced by the conference office on Tuesday. Hunter, along with senior Ryan Harrow both earned All-Sun Belt First-Team honors for the second-consecutive year. Hunter
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Release from Georgia Tech Athletics: Sophomore Kaela Davis of the Georgia Tech women’s basketball team has been named to the All-ACC First Team by the league’s 15 head coaches, ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced on Monday. Davis was also named to the All-ACC First Team by the ACC’s Blue Ribbon Panel, which consists of media,