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INDIANAPOLIS — Florida Southern College women’s swimmer Mallary Meyer of Greencastle has been chosen as one of a select number of student-athletes to attend the NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in Orlando in April. The NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum engages a diverse and dynamic representation of student-athletes, coaches, faculty, and administrators...

VALPARAISO -- Indiana State completed a sweep of the Valparaiso Crusaders on Wednesday night with an 87-82 overtime victory. Cloverdale graduate Cooper Neese made his first collegiate start and finished with 13 points, second highest on team. Neese hit all eight of his free-throw attempts as the Sycamores nailed 25 of 28 from the line...

Wednesday was a special evening for DePauw University’s men’s and women’s basketball programs in their penultimate game of the regular season against Denison. Not only did they complete a sweep of their North Coast Athletic Conference foes in front of their home crowd, the No. 19 women defeating Denison 58-50 and the men winning 86-81, but they did it while raising money for the Kay Yow Breast Cancer Research Fund.

Olney Central College, ranked No. 14 in this week’s National Junior College Athletic Association rankings, suffered its third loss of the season on Wednesday night by falling 98-95 at Kaskaskia. Cloverdale graduate Jalen Moore led the Blue Knights with 32 points, hitting 10 of 19 shots from the field (including 3 of 4 from 3-point range). He also hit 9 of 10 free throws, while adding eight assists, three rebounds and a steal...

DELAWARE, Ohio — DePauw shot 54 percent from the field and outrebounded host Ohio Wesleyan by 29 on the way to an 85-55 North Coast Athletic Conference win over the Battling Bishops on Saturday. With the win, the Tigers clinched a share of their seventh North Coast Athletic Conference title in eight years...

PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley used an explosive offensive attack to take down visiting Indiana State 96-67 in front of a crowd of 5,805 fans inside Carver Arena on Saturday night.. Freshman Cooper Neese of Cloverdale led the team in scoring for the second consecutive game as he also set a career high for the second consecutive game -- this time with 20 points. ...

GREENCASTLE — Prior to every men’s basketball game, DePauw University’s athletic Twitter handle tweets out a reminder to students and fans that there’s a game that night. Along with the graphic that shows the opponent, time and location of the game is a clever caption describing what’s forecast for that given day...

TERRE HAUTE - Indiana State poured it on early on the offensive end and didn't allow a field goal during the first seven minutes and 11 seconds of play in en route to a convincing 85-62 victory over visiting Evansville on Wednesday night inside Hulman Center...

alen Moore had a rather unconventional statistical line in Saturday’s 101-79 win at Southwestern Illinois. The No. 17-ranked Olney Central Blue Knights improved to 20-2 on the season with their third straight win. Moore did not score a point, missing all four of his field goal attempts, but dished out 16 assists...

DePauw scored the final five points of the third quarter and the first eight of the fourth and pulled away from visiting Hiram for a 69-52 North Coast Athletic Conference win. The 20th-ranked Tiger women improved to 18-4 overall and 12-1 in the NCAC, while the Terriers dropped to 9-13 overall and 3-10 in conference play...

OBERLIN, Ohio — Maya Howard hit two free throws with 17 seconds left and Oberlin missed a 3-pointer with one second remaining as No. 16 DePauw took a 51-48 North Coast Athletic Conference win at Oberlin on Saturday in women’s college basketball. The Tigers moved to 16-4 overall and 10-1 in NCAC play, while the Yeowomen dropped to 11-8 overall and 6-4 in conference play...

DePauw trailed 24th-ranked Wittenberg by two points with less than 30 seconds left in overtime, but Nick Felke hit a 3-pointer with 22 seconds left and added two free throws with eight seconds remaining to help DePauw to a 77-75 North Coast Athletic Conference win over the visiting Tigers on Wednesday night...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Tyreke Key scored 22 points with four of Indiana State's six 3-pointers, freshman Cooper Neese added 14 and the Sycamores beat Valparaiso 70-53 on Wednesday night. Emondre Rickman chipped in with 12 points and Bronson Kessinger had 10 for Indiana State (11-8, 3-4 Missouri Valley). Key and Rickman each scored 10 points in the first half to help Indiana State build an 11-point lead...

LAKELAND, Fla. – After more than a decade at the helm of Florida Southern College’s intercollegiate athletic programs, Director of Athletics Pete Meyer is retiring in February. Meyer will pursue an opportunity in private business with his wife, Julie...

DePauw jumped out to a 17-2 first-quarter lead and never trailed on the way to a 71-57 North Coast Athletic Conference win over Kenyon on Saturday in women’s basketball. The Tigers improved to 15-3 overall and 9-0 in the NCAC, while the Ladies fell to 12-6 overall and 6-4 in NCAC play...

CRAWFORDSVILLE — DePauw entered its men’s basketball game at rival Wabash on Wednesday night as the North Coast Athletic Conference’s top 3-point shooting team and 27th in the nation (40.1%), while the 14th-ranked Little Giants came in with the league’s best defense against the long ball and eighth in the country (27.5%)...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Jordan Barnes posted 15 points and pulled down 11 rebounds as the Sycamores fell 69-64 to Northern Iowa on Wednesday night. The Sycamores dropped to 10-7, 2-3 MVC while Northern Iowa improved to 8-10, 3-2 MVC. The loss ended a three-game winning streak for the Sycamores against UNI. Barnes posted his first career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 11 rebounds. Cooper Neese came off the bench to score a career-high 13 points and had a look at three with eight seconds remaining which glanced off the rim.

VINCENNES — College basketball coaches sometimes need to make starting lineup changes, and those moves are not always received well by the player being removed from the starting lineup. Olney Central College women’s coach Clint Burris needed to make such a move in December involving 2017 Greencastle graduate Nailah Ray...

VINCENNES — Wednesday was a pretty good day for Jalen Moore. In the morning, the Cloverdale graduate was named the National Junior College Athletic Association player of the week for the period of Dec. 30-Jan. 6 for his 33-point, 11-assist effort for Olney Central College against Kaskaskia...

GRANVILLE, Ohio — DePauw closed the first half on an 18-2 run before outscoring Denison, 45-11, in the second half on the way to a 78-29 North Coast Athletic Conference road victory. The Tigers, ranked 19th by D3hoops.com and 20th in the latest coaches’ poll, improved to 13-3 overall and 7-0 in the NCAC, while the Big Red dropped to 8-7 overall and 4-3 in conference play...

Cloverdale graduate Jalen Moore was named the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I player of the week for the period of Dec. 31-Jan. 6. Moore, a freshman at Olney Central College, had a breakout game on Saturday against Kaskaskia in his only outing of the week...

WOOSTER, Ohio — DePauw outscored Wooster 24-8 in the second quarter to break free from the Fighting Scots on the way to a 76-49 North Coast Athletic Conference win. The Tigers, ranked 21st in the latest D3hoops.com poll and 22nd in the coaches’ rankings, improved to 12-3 overall and 6-0 in NCAC play while Wooster dropped to 4-10 overall and 0-5 in conference play...

HIRAM, Ohio — The DePauw women’s basketball team moved to 11-3 overall and 5-0 in the North Coast Athletic Conference following a 76-55 win at Hiram Thursday. Following a back-and-forth opening quarter, #21/22 DePauw gained a 19-18 lead on Maya Howard’s jumper with 23 seconds left in the frame. The Tigers then scored the first eight points of the second to extend the lead to 27-18, but Hiram eventually closed the gap to 33-30 at the intermission...

CHICAGO (AP) — Aher Uguak scored a career-high 19 points and Loyola-Chicago held Indiana State to 12 first-half points to win Wednesday night’s Missouri Valley Conference opener 79-44. Cameron Krutwig had 16 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, and Marques Townes added 13 points, seven rebounds and five assists for the Ramblers (8-6)...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Alford was fired as UCLA basketball coach in his sixth season on Monday, with the Bruins mired in a four-game skid that included losses at home to Belmont and Liberty. Athletic director Dan Guerrero said assistant Murry Bartow will serve as interim coach through the end of the season...

Second-ranked Thomas More used a 14-4 run that bridged the third and fourth quarters to pull away from 21st-ranked DePauw on the way to a 71-56 win in the Amy Hasbrook Memorial Tournament championship game on Saturday. The Tigers moved to 9-3, while the Saints improved to 17-0...

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Tom Crean can put a positive spin on pretty much any conversation. Sure, it’s been a bit of a culture shock to go from hoops-crazy Indiana to a state that treats the sport with a collective meh. But, without batting an eye, he’ll tell you that Georgia has everything it needs to become a basketball powerhouse...

HONOLULU (AP) — Alex Robinson had 15 points, eight rebounds and four assists and TCU withstood a late rally to beat Indiana State 83-69 on Tuesday night in the championship game of the Diamond Head Classic.

HONOLULU, Hawaii — Cloverdale graduate Cooper Neese, playing in just his second collegiate game, scored 10 points and added six rebounds on Saturday afternoon as Indiana State defeated Colorado 72-67 in the 2018 Diamond Head Classic. The win marked ISU’s first victory over a Pac-12 team since 1946...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — DePauw, ranked 21st by D3hoops.com and 22nd in the coaches’ poll, scored 24 straight points bridging the third and fourth quarters and pulled away from Stevenson for a 76-52 win in the Daytona Beach Shootout in women’s college basketball on Friday...

The DePauw men’s basketball team shot 61.5 percent from the field and placed five scorers in double figures in a 91-77 North Coast Athletic Conference win over visiting Allegheny Friday. The Tigers improved to 7-3 overall and 2-3 in the NCAC, while the Gators dropped to 4-7 overall and 0-5 in conference play...

DePauw’s women’s basketball team, ranked 21st in the latest d3hoops.com poll and 22nd in the coaches’ rankings, never trailed on the way to a 65-35 win over Kean at the Daytona Beach Shootout on Thursday. The Tigers moved to 7-2, while the Cougars dropped to 4-6...

DePauw’s young basketball team ran into a quicker and more athletic Hiram College that was simply on fire from three-point range Thursday night. And as good as the Tigers have been at times in their 6-3 start, Hiram was much better in an 81-66 win at Neal Fieldhouse...

Josh Hall poured in a career-high 27 points and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds in leading DePauw to an 85-80 win over Earlham in men’s college basketball on Monday night. The Tigers moved to 6-2, while the Quakers dropped to 3-7. The Tigers led by as many as 11 in the opening half before the Quakers knotted the contest at 29-29. DePauw took a 41-37 lead into the intermission and never trailed the rest of the way...

TERRE HAUTE – For millions of children worldwide, Christmas Day 2018 will be a day for which they have anxiously awaited their many seasonal gifts. But for Cloverdale graduate Cooper Neese, Santa Claus will deliver his present nine days early as the sharp-shooting guard will finally get to make his debut with the Indiana State Sycamores on Sunday after a long wait. ISU plays at Texas Christian at 5 p.m. in a preliminary round of the Hawaiian Airlines Diamondhead Classic. The game will be broadcast on ESPNU.

The DePauw women’s basketball team jumped out to a 25-point lead in the opening eight minutes of its North Coast Athletic Conference contest against visiting Wittenberg and held off a second-half surge to take a 61-52 win Wednesday evening. The host Tigers, ranked 23rd by d3hoops.com and 24th in the coaches’ poll, improved to 5-2 overall and 2-0 in NCAC play, while Wittenberg dropped to 4-4 overall and 1-1 in the conference...

GAMBIER, Ohio — DePauw trailed by as many as 11 in the opening seven minutes of its North Coast Athletic Conference game at Kenyon, but went on a 24-8 run on the way to an 83-75 victory. The Tiger men’s team improved to 5-0 overall for the first time since the beginning of the 2009-10 season and 1-0 in the NCAC, while the Lords dropped to 0-7 overall and 0-2 in conference play...

TERRE HAUTE — DePauw trailed Rose-Hulman by 10 points with nine minutes left, but put together a 15-2 run to take a 3-point lead on the way to a 71-67 road victory on Wednesday night. The Tigers moved to 4-0, while the Engineers slipped to 2-2. The teams battled through a tight first half before Rose-Hulman closed with a 10-3 stretch to take a 37-29 lead at the intermission...

TERRE HAUTE — DePauw led by as many as 14 points in the first half, but shot just 23 percent in the second half as host Rose-Hulman defeated the Tigers, 49-47, in the third-place game of the Midwest Challenge. The Tigers, ranked ninth in the latest coaches’ poll and 13th in the D3hoops.com preseason rankings, dropped to 3-2. Rose-Hulman improved to 2-3...