MaxBuck;1076720; said:
I don't know if it's a matter of the league being overrated or just a lot of pretty good (not excellent) teams that are real hard to beat at home.crazybuckfan40;1076789; said:
Men's basketball roundup: Lavender leads balanced Xavier past Massachusetts
Monday, January 28, 2008 2:59 AM
Associated Press
Nancy Palmieri Associated Press
Xavier's Drew Lavender loses control of the ball as he is defended by Massachusetts' Dante Milligan. Lavender scored 19 points.
No. 23 Xavier 77, Massachusetts 65 -- Xavier seems to be enjoying all the talk about its balanced scoring.
Drew Lavender of Brookhaven had 19 points to lead four players in double figures, and Xavier (17-4, 5-1) defeated Massachusetts (13-6, 2-3) in an Atlantic 10 game yesterday in Amherst, Mass.
The four double-figure scorers were a bit off the pace, though. The Musketeers came into the game with six players averaging more than 10 points, but they still were pleased with the results.
"We're a very unselfish team," said Lavender, the team's point guard. "We like sharing the ball. When anyone has a lane, we take it."
No. 4 Duke 93, Maryland 84 -- DeMarcus Nelson scored 19 of his 27 points in the second half, Gerald Henderson added 23 and Duke (17-1, 5-0) rallied to beat Maryland (12-8, 2-3) in an Atlantic Coast Conference game in College Park, Md.
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THATCHER, Ariz. -- Tim Parmeter pulled into the driveway and clicked and clicked and clicked his garage door opener, probably pushed the thing four or five times, best he can remember. But the door never opened. So he shook his head.
He just thought his estranged wife had changed the code like she had changed the locks, because that's the kind of stuff people do when they're going through a divorce. And it was a messy divorce.
It's hard for Parmeter to concentrate on winning after his terrible loss. (Provided to CBSSports.com) There were arguments and fights, countless phone conversations resulting in hang-ups. There were threats, both silly and serious. But the bad moments always seemed to pass with time. And so even though Tim had argued with Paula the previous afternoon and didn't hear from her the rest of that Friday, he didn't really think much of it and, at the time, he figured he'd just stop by the house Saturday morning to see his 2-year-old son, Ryan.
"I was kinda surprised she didn't call that Friday night," Tim said. "But in some ways I was just relieved to not be arguing on the phone."
But now it was Saturday morning and Tim was in the driveway and his clicker still wouldn't work and he was starting to worry. He dialed the home phone. Nobody answered. He dialed Paula's cell phone. Nobody answered. So he finally called Bryana Flynn, the family babysitter, and asked for help entering the home.
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