Colorado coach Jeff Bzdelik announced Casey Crawford, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound forward from Wake Forest, will transfer to the Buffaloes. Crawford, originally from Overland, Kan., played one season with the Demon Deacons, averaging 1.1 points in nine games. He scored a career-high five points in a 94-58 loss to Air Force in November. He will sit out the 2007-08 season according to NCAA transfer rules.
New Colorado State basketball coach Tim Miles got his first commitment for the class entering in the fall of 2008. Jesse Carr, an all-Nebraska 6-foot-2 guard from Class C-1 state champion Ainsworth, told the Omaha World-Herald on Tuesday he had committed to sign with the Rams. Miles recruited Carr for North Dakota State prior to moving to CSU. Carr also drew interest from Wichita State and Nevada. – Natalie Meisler
Strickland-Vickers team leads Coe Invite
The Jim Strickland and Warren Vickers tandem fired a second-round 63 and jumped atop the leaderboard Thursday at the Charlie Coe Invitational, an amateur tournament at Castle Pines Golf Club.
Strickland and Vickers own a two-round total of 129, leading Kyle Coody and Shane Heise at 131 and Trent Brown and Chris Kessler at 133. The team of John Elway and Eddie Lyons is tied for fifth place at 137 after shooting 70 in the second round.
Brothers Jim and Pat Grady, teammates on the University of Colorado golf team, shot a second-round 71 and finished at 135 to win the Colorado Golf Association Two-Man team championship at Lakota Canyon Ranch and Golf Club in New Castle.
Finishing in a three-way tie for second at 138 were Henry Bissell, a 2004 champion at the event, and partner James Heath; Ryan Anderson, last year’s champion, and his partner, Riley Andrews of CU; and the 2005 champions, CU teammates Derek Tolan and Michael Baird.
