Washington – Jeff Green, the Big East player of the year, is staying in the draft. Roy Hibbert is staying put.
The juniors who led Georgetown to the Final Four are going their separate ways. Green announced Wednesday he will keep his name in the NBA draft, while Hibbert said he will withdraw his name and return for his senior season.
Green led Georgetown in scoring (14.3 points) and was second in rebounding (6.4) and assists (3.2). Hibbert led the Hoyas in rebounds (6.9), averaged 12.9 points and blocked 90 shots this season. At 7-feet-2, he will eventually be a coveted possession in the NBA.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Cougars’ Daugherty in serious condition
Washington State women’s basketball coach June Daugherty was upgraded from critical to serious condition a day after going into cardiac arrest while at a medical clinic for a checkup. Daugherty, 50, was “doing as well as can be expected,” said Mike Daugherty, her husband and the team’s associate head coach.
Former Maine star Cindy Blodgett returned to the school, taking over the women’s program.
St. Paul, Minn., police said former Villanova basketball star Howard Porter, 58, remained hospitalized with injuries suffered in a severe beating.
Eastern Washington guard Rodney Stuckey, who led the Big Sky Conference in scoring last season at 24.6 points, said he will seek a professional career and not return for his junior year.
Officials from Seton Hall and the New Jersey Devils announced an agreement to move Seton Hall’s basketball games to the new Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., beginning this year.
COLLEGE LACROSSE
Duke pursues lost year of eligibility
Duke hopes the NCAA will give back the year its men’s lacrosse players lost during last season’s now-debunked rape scandal. The school is asking the NCAA to grant an extra year of eligibility for team members, who played just eight games in 2006 before the university canceled the rest of the season amid rape allegations against three players. Still – as his team prepares for this weekend’s Final Four – coach John Danowski figures the proposal is “a long shot.”
FOOTNOTES
Teams in America’s Cup final set
Emirates Team New Zealand defeated Desafio Espanol by 1 minute, 18 seconds off the coast of Valencia, Spain, taking the best-of-nine Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals 5-2. The Kiwis start racing against Luna Rossa in the final June 1; the Italians moved into the final with a 5-1 series win over BMW Oracle Racing, the sole American entry.
Nashville Predators owner Craig Leipold reached an agreement to sell his franchise to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie after 10 years of losing money. Whether the sale would involve relocation of the NHL franchise remained unknown.
Former CSU star Becky Hammon scored 17 points and the WNBA San Antonio Silver Stars held off visiting Connecticut 74-71 after blowing most of a 25-point lead.
The Seattle Storm set a franchise record for points in a game with a 100-87 home win over the Phoenix Mercury.
Roy Jones Jr. (50-4) will face Anthony “Tyger” Hanshaw (21-0-1) in a light heavyweight bout July 14 in Biloxi, Miss.
