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Herd aims to be best defensive team in C-USA
HUNTINGTON -- Donnie Jones listed three areas of importance for his second season as head coach of the Marshall men's team.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State dominated Big Ten Conference women's basketball in the last four seasons.
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Your 2008 Thundering Herd team.
HUNTINGTON -- Alderson-Broaddus, Pitt Johnstown, West Liberty and West Virginia State were listed as West Virginia Conference men's teams to watch by The Sporting News in its preseason magazine.
MORGANTOWN -- Mike Carey will be the first one to admit that patience is not one of his strong suits. Anyone walking the WVU Coliseum corridors at mid-afternoon during basketball season can attest to that.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Southeastern Conference rising stars Victoria Dunlap and Amber Smith lead the Kentucky women's team.
MU women's basketball to display 2 extremes
HUNTINGTON -- As the Marshall women's basketball team gets its season under way, there will be two extremes that fans will notice.
WVU men's basketball expects well balanced scoring team
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University men's coach Bob Huggins expects another well balanced scoring team in 2009.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Here is the Ohio State men's basketball team in a nutshell: no seniors, missing its top three scorers, but lots of promise, lots of possibilities.
HUNTINGTON -- Shepherd University, the defending West Virginia Conference women's regular-season champion, was No. 25 in the Women's Division II Bulletin Preseason Top 25 ranking.
Patterson one of 2 starters returning for Wildcats
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Patrick Patterson was taking the Southeastern Conference by storm until the injury bug hit.
Your 2008 Thundering Herd team.
The Tennessee Vols, led by their two-time national coach of the year, are coming off back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16 appearances and a school-record 31 wins. They were picked to defend the title.
HUNTINGTON -- LSU won last season's Southeastern Conference women's regular-season championship, but Tennessee did the Tigers one better.
HUNTINGTON -- It's Memphis, again. The Tigers are a heavy favorite to win the Conference USA men's championship for the fourth consecutive year.
For the second time in three seasons the Big East Conference earned a record eight bids to the NCAA championship. Louisville made it to the Elite Eight while West Virginia and Villanova played in the Sweet 16.
Big Ten Conference women's basketball had nine postseason teams last season.
Big East Conference women's teams are coming off a banner season when 12 of the 16 teams played in post-season tournaments.
Wisconsin, the defending Big Ten Conference regular-season and tournament champion, figures to be a major player again, but there are several challengers.
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Mario Chalmers hit his historic jumper and left town, now an NBA rookie playing alongside Dwyane Wade and former rival Michael Beasley in Miami.
OXFORD, Ohio -- Charlie Coles is having a good day.
HUNTINGTON -- Southern Miss, coming off a 21-win season when the Golden Eagles advanced to the third round of the WNIT, is favored for the Conference USA women's championship.