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North Carolina slides from preseason No. 1 to no NCAA bid

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

North Carolina has gone from starting the season at No. 1 to missing the NCAA Tournament.The Tar Heels on Sunday officially became the first top-ranked team in The Associated Press preseason poll to miss March Madness since the field’s expansion to 64 teams in 1985. The Tar Heels (20-13) returned four starters from a team that made a magical run last March to the NCAA title game under Hubert Davis, who was in his first season replacing retired Hall of Famer Roy Williams. The highlight was beating Duke in the Final Four — and sending Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski into retirement — in the first-ever NCAA Tournament meeting between the famed rivals.Yet little went to plan in a season of unfulfilled expectations, down to being listed as one of the first four teams outside the field.The Tar Heels were one of the worst 3-point shooting teams in program history, and that allowed defenders to sag down on AP All-ACC big man Armando Bacot inside and take away driving lanes while da...

Houston gets No. 1 seed in Midwest at expense of Kansas

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Houston received the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night, the selection committee rewarding the Cougars at the expense of Kansas, which had been hoping its national title defense would include a stop just down the road from its campus in Lawrence.Instead, the top-ranked Cougars will try to reach their hometown Final Four starting off in Birmingham, Alabama, but with the potential of playing a Sweet 16 game and a regional final in Kansas City, Missouri.The Cougars (31-3) lost to Memphis in the American Athletic Conference title game Sunday. They were playing without Marcus Sasser, the league player of the year and a likely All-American who strained his groin in the first half of their semifinals and will be a question mark leading up to Thursday’s opener against Northern Kentucky.It’s the first No. 1 seed for the Cougars since 1983, the height of their Phi Slama Jama era, when Hall of Fame coach Guy Lewis led Cl...

March Madness: Alabama, Houston, Kansas, Purdue the 1 seeds

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

The top overall seed, Alabama, has been on a roll despite the program being entangled in a developing murder case. Another No. 1 seed, defending national champion Kansas, has a coach coming out of the hospital and a team coming off a blowout loss. Yet another, Houston, just watched its best player go down in a heap with a scary injury.This year’s March Madness frontrunners might be anything but perfect, but the presence of these teams and all their questions at the top of the bracket could make for precisely what the NCAA wants its tournament to be – a perfectly unpredictable mess. Most of the drama in picking this year’s bracket was resolved far before Selection Sunday. Arizona State and Nevada made it off the bubble, as most expected, and into the 68-team field. Rutgers and Oklahoma State did not. Purdue, with 7-foot-4 Zach Edey leading the way, edged out UCLA for the fourth and final No. 1 seed. And in a decision most everyone saw coming, the selection committee left North Caroli...

March Madness committee’s top seeds for men’s tournament: Overall No. 1 seed Alabama, Houston, Kansas and Purdue

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — March Madness committee’s top seeds for men’s tournament: Overall No. 1 seed Alabama, Houston, Kansas and Purdue.Source

Edey’s 30 helps No. 5 Purdue hold off Penn State in Big Ten

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Zach Edey scored 30 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, and No. 5 Purdue hung on to beat Penn State 67-65 in the Big Ten Tournament championship game Sunday. The Boilermakers (29-5) led by as much as 17 in the second half, only to have the lead shrink to one in the closing seconds. They came away with their second title to go with one in 2009. Not long after, Purdue was named a No. 1 seed in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament.Penn State (22-13) made things interesting in the final minute. Purdue led 66-60 when Myles Dread nailed a 3 with 16 seconds remaining. Evan Mahaffey then stole Brandon Newman’s inbound pass and fed Camren Wynter for a layup that made it a one-point game with six seconds remaining.Purdue’s Fletcher Loyer then made a free throw before missing the second. Penn State’s Andrew Funk got the rebound, but after a timeout, Wynter got called for traveling just before the final buzzer.Edey, the Big Ten Player of the Year, shook off the constant double team...

Top overall NCAA seed Alabama headlines South Region bracket

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

Alabama gets to stay home as the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.The Crimson Tide (29-5) is the top team in the South Region after landing the program’s first-ever top seed when Sunday’s field of 68 teams was revealed. That came hours after the Tide closed out a second Southeastern Conference Tournament title in three seasons.Alabama opens play in its home state on Thursday, facing the First Four winner between Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Southeast Missouri State in Birmingham.It’s been a season of wild success for Nate Oats’ program on the court, but it comes as Alabama is also dealing with with the fallout of former Tide player Darius Miles and another man being indicted on capital murder charges for the January shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.That story also involves star freshman Brandon Miller, with a police investigator testifying last month that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun that night. Neither Miller nor current pl...

Al menos 8 personas muertas tras ataque armado en Guanajuato, México

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

(CNN Español) — El gobierno del estado mexicano de Guanajuato condenó este domingo el asesinato de ocho personas durante un ataque que unos hombres armados realizaron en un bar en la población de Apaseo el Grande.Las víctimas son seis hombres y dos mujeres, según un comunicado oficial, que agrega que las autoridades han reforzado la seguridad en la zona con miembros de varias agencias del orden.Por su parte, la Fiscalía General del Estado informó a través de Twitter que abrió una carpeta de investigación para dar con los responsables del violento incidente del sábado.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Nor’easter expected to bring, snow, wind, some coastal flooding

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

A Nor’easter is set to move over the area late Monday night and sticks around through early Wednesday morning. The highest impacts are expected on Tuesday, with significant snowfall, high winds, and some coastal flooding. The storm starts out with light rain showers Monday night, generally after 10pm, and gradually pick up in intensity going into Tuesday morning. Locations in northern and central Worcester County will likely experience a change over to snow around midnight, with locations in Metro West and the North Shore seeing a change over early Tuesday morning. Around noontime Tuesday, the center of the Nor’easter will be just offshore, increasing wind speeds, while also changing rain over to snow closer to the city of Boston. The highest wind gusts are expected Tuesday afternoon, with gusts up to 60mph possible. The northeast wind will also lead to minor flooding, with some northeast facing beaches experiencing isolated pockets of moderate flooding. By Tuesday eve...

Suspect arrested in Dorchester attempted bank robbery

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

A Mashpee man has been arrested in connection with the attempted bank robbery of a bank inside a Stop & Shop in Dorchester on Saturday, officials said.Officers who conducted a traffic stop on a stolen vehicle in the area of Washington and East Berkeley streets arrested Lukas Gauthier, 27, on charges of receiving a stolen motor vehicle, operating after revocation or suspension, and attempted bank robbery.He is slated to be arraigned Monday in Boston Municipal Court.

Feds move to protect ‘all’ SVG deposits; Second bank, in New York, shuttered Sunday

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:01:11 GMT

No depositor will see a loss due to the collapse of one of the country’s largest banks, the Treasury and central bank said in a joint statement Sunday night in an attempt contain a burgeoning financial crisis that also saw authorities seize a second institution ahead of Monday’s market bell.“Today we are taking decisive actions to protect the U.S. economy by strengthening public confidence in our banking system. This step will ensure that the U.S. banking system continues to perform its vital roles of protecting deposits and providing access to credit to households and businesses in a manner that promotes strong and sustainable economic growth,” The Federal Reserve, Department of the Treasury and FDIC said in a Sunday statement.“Depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13,” the statement continued. “No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.”On Friday, ...