Syracuse Tops Big East Power Rankings
With West Virginia's win over Portland Sunday
With West Virginia's win over Portland Sunday
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni
Doron Lamb is still mulling his college decision while trying to plan a visit to Arizona.
The 6-foot-4 Lamb out of Oak Hill (Va.) Academy has visited UConn, Kansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma. He is the No. 3 shooting guard in the Class of 2010.
“He likes the ones he visited,” his father, Calvin Lamb, said Monday morning. “He’s still up in the air.”
Calvin said a visit to Arizona would depend on both the Oak Hill and Arizona schedules.
West Virginia established itself as a serious national contender Sunday night by winning the 76 Classic in Anaheim with an 84-66 win over Portland in the final.
The Big East has now accounted for three major holiday tournament championships.
Unbeaten Syracuse (6-0) beat defending NCAA champ North Carolina last week to win the Coaches vs. Cancer event at Madison Square Garden.
No. 4 Villanova (6-0) — the Big East’s preseason No. 1 team — won the Puerto-Rico Tip-Off
And now the No. 8 Mountaineers (5-0) prevailed over a deep field in Anaheim.
Senior Da’Sean Butler was named tournament MVP after putting up 26 points on 10-for-16 shooting. He is now 13th on the all-time West Virginia scoring list with 1,532 points.
“The thing about it is he can score so many ways,” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins told MSNsportsNET.com. “He can score off the bounce. He can score in the post. He makes the 3. He’s not a great percentage 3-point shooter but he makes big 3-point shots for us. When he kind of gets it going from 3 then he’s really hard to guard because that opens up his dribble drive.”
NEW YORK — J.J. Redick is aware of the widespread perceptions of white basketball players.
They are generally described as slower, less athletic and less “talented” than their African-American counterparts.
“I don’t buy into all that,” he said after scoring 7 points in the Magic’s 114-102 victory Sunday over the Knicks at MSG. “There’s perceptions, obviously, if you’re a white player. I think you just deal with it from the time you’re 8 on. It’s second nature, you don’t think about it.
“There’s a perception, who cares? Let’s move on.”
NEW YORK — Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni says Lawrence Frank was “doomed from the start” because of the Nets’ multitude of injuries.
“Lawrence was kind of doomed from the start in the sense of everyone got hurt,” D’Antoni said before the Knicks played Orlando Sunday night at MSG. “Thats a tough part of the business.”
The Nets fired Frank Sunday after losing their first 16 games of the NBA season.
NEW YORK -- Coming off Friday's 68-59 loss
