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Max Abmas
Maxwell Abmas ( ; born April 2, 2001) is an American college basketball player for the Texas Longhorns of the Big 12 Conference. He previously played for four seasons at Oral Roberts. High school career Abmas attended Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He joined the varsity team in his sophomore season. As a senior, he averaged 19.1 points and 3.7 assists per game. He was named District 9-6A co-MVP. Abmas competed for 3-D Sports on the Amateur Athletic Union circuit. He was lightly recruited and committed to playing college basketball for Oral Roberts over offers from Army, Navy, Air Force and Marist. College career As a freshman at Oral Roberts, he was a regular starter and averaged 14.4 points, earning Summit League All-Newcomer Team honors. On December 8, 2020, he recorded 36 points, nine assists and six rebounds in an 83–78 loss to Oklahoma State. On February 13, 2021, Abmas scored a career-high 42 points in a 103–86 win over South Dakota State. Two days la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oral Roberts Golden Eagles Men's Basketball
The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles men's basketball team is the basketball team representing Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The team is a member of Summit League. Oral Roberts has made appearances in six NCAA Tournaments, the most recent appearance in 2021. The team has also appeared in eight National Invitation Tournaments, one College Basketball Invitational, and two CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournaments. The Golden Eagles have won seven regular season conference championships and six tournament championships. The team has been members of the Southland Conference and the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. In the opening round of the 2021 tournament, the Golden Eagles recorded just the ninth 15 vs. 2 upset in tournament history, defeating Ohio State 75–72 in overtime, in the process winning their first tournament game since 1974. Two days later, they became just the second 15 seed (after the 2013 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles) to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament
The Summit League men's basketball tournament is the post-season tournament for NCAA Division I conference Summit League. The winner of the tournament receives the Summit League's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. The tournament was first played in 1984, when the league was known as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU). The league was also known as the Mid-Continent Conference from 1989 to 2007, after which it was renamed to The Summit League. Format Currently, the top 8 men's basketball teams in the Summit League receive a berth in the conference tournament (barring NCAA sanctions). After the 16-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers: * Head-to-head competition * Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (starting with #1 and moving down until the tie is broken) * Ratings Percentage Index * Coin flip Tournament champions Performance by school * Teams in bold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma State Cowboys Basketball
The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. All women's teams at the school are known as Cowgirls. The Cowboys currently compete in the Big 12 Conference. In 2020, CBS Sports ranked Oklahoma State the 25th best college basketball program of all-time, ahead of such programs as Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma State men’s basketball has a very rich history of success, having won more national titles and advanced to the NCAA Championship, Final Four, Elite Eight and Sweet Sixteen more times than any Big 12 program other than Kansas. Oklahoma State has won a combined 23 regular season conference titles and conference tournament titles, which is the most of any program in the state of Oklahoma. NBA greats from Oklahoma State include Cade Cunningham (the number One overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft), Tony Allen (whose number was retired by the Memphis Grizzlies), J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Newspapers
People Newspapers is a Dallas, Texas-based publisher of two award-winning monthly community newspapers, Park Cities People' and Preston Hollow People'. The two papers mail to a combined 43,700 homes and businesses in the Park Cities, Preston Hollow, Turtle Creek, Bluffview, Devonshire, and Greenway Parks neighborhoods. The publisher began in 1981 with the weekly newspaper ''Park Cities People'', founded by Reid Slaughter and Kirk Dooley, to cover the Park Cities enclave of Highland Park and University Park. In 1989, the company began to publish a second paper, ''North Dallas People'', which was distributed free of charge in additional affluent neighborhoods. Following the 2003 purchase of the company by ''D Magazine'' founder Wick Allison Lodowick Brodie Cobb "Wick" Allison (March 17, 1948September 1, 2020) was an American magazine publisher and author. He was the owner of ''D Magazine'', a monthly magazine covering Dallas–Fort Worth, which he co-founded in 1974. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marist Red Foxes Men's Basketball
: ''For information on all Marist College sports, see Marist Red Foxes'' The Marist Red Foxes men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. The Red Foxes have qualified for the NCAA tournament twice (1986, 1987), losing in the first round in both instances. Prior to joining the MAAC in 1997, Marist was a charter member of the ECAC Metro Conference in 1981; which became the Northeast Conference in 1988. History The Marist men's basketball team's first varsity season was 1961–62 at the NCAA Division III level. For 20 years Marist would play at this level. Their most successful season during this time was the 1970–71 season under head coach Ron Petro, in which they went 21–7. The Marist Athletic Department including the men's basketball program transitioned up to the Division I level before the 1981–82 season. In response ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Force Falcons Men's Basketball
The Air Force Falcons men's basketball team represents the United States Air Force Academy, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. They play their home games at the Clune Arena and are members of the Mountain West Conference. Postseason NCAA tournament results The Falcons have appeared in four NCAA Tournaments, with a combined record of 0–4. NIT results The Falcons have appeared in one National Invitation Tournament, with a record of 3–1. CIT results The Falcons have appeared in two CollegeInsider.com Tournaments, with a combined record of 2–2. Notable former players Notable alumni include: *Jared Dillinger: Current TNT KaTropa and Meralco Bolts PBA Player *Gregg Popovich: Current San Antonio Spurs Head Coach * Rodney Tention: Later coach at Loyola Marymount (2005–08) *Bob Djokovich & Thomas Schneeberger: founder of the USAFA Team Handball and Olympians. Trivia The team attended the 1976 USA Team Handball Nationals and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navy Midshipmen Men's Basketball
The Navy Midshipmen men's basketball team represents the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, in NCAA Division I college basketball. The team competes in the Patriot League and plays its home games in Alumni Hall.Navy men's basketball 2006–07 media guide Accessed April 20, 2008. The U.S. Naval Academy began varsity intercollegiate competition in men's basketball in the 1907–08 season. Navy was retroactively recognized as the pre- NCAA tournament national champion for the 1912–13 and 1918–19 seasons by the |
Army Black Knights Men's Basketball
The Army Black Knights men's basketball team represents the United States Military Academy in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball. Army currently competes as a member of the Patriot League and plays its home games at Christl Arena in West Point, New York. History Bob Knight, the one-time winningest men's basketball coach in NCAA history, began his head coaching career at Army from 1965 to 1971 before moving on to Indiana. One of Knight's players at Army was Mike Krzyzewski, who later was head coach at Army before moving on to Duke and becoming the winningest men's basketball coach in NCAA Division I history. Army has generally not done well on the court since its inception in 1903. The Black Knights are one of only four original Division I teams in history to have never participated in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and one of 35 elgibile teams. Army shares this distinction with William & Mary, The Citadel, and St. Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dallas Morning News
''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ''Galveston Daily News'', of Galveston, Texas. Historically, and to the present day, it is the most prominent newspaper in Dallas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won nine Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in downtown Dallas. History ''The Dallas Morning News'' was founded in 1885 as a spin-off of the ''Galveston Daily News'' by Alfred Horatio Belo. In 1926, the Belo family sold a majority interest in the paper to its longtime publisher, George Dealey. By the 1920s, the Dallas Morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amateur Athletic Union
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. It has more than 700,000 members nationwide, including more than 100,000 volunteers. The AAU was founded on January 21, 1888, by James E. Sullivan and William Buckingham Curtis with the goal of creating common standards in amateur sport. Since then, most national championships for youth athletes in the United States have taken place under AAU leadership. From its founding as a publicly supported organization, the AAU has represented U.S. sports within the various international sports federations. In the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Spalding Athletic Library of the Spaulding Company published the Official Rules of the AAU. The AAU formerly worked closely with what is now today the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to prepare U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen American
The ''Allen American'' is a weekly local newspaper in Allen, Texas founded in 1970. It is currently operated by Star Media. In 1972 it swept the East Texas Press Association Awards, being judged the best publication in local news writing, general excellence, pictures, and community service. In the 1990s it was edited by Mark Hutchison and owned by Harte-Hanks Newspapers Harte Hanks is a global marketing services company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Harte Hanks services include analytics, strategy, marketing technology, creative services, digital marketing, customer care, direct mail, logistics, and ful .... It was later acquired by Scripps then sold to Lionheart in 1998. References Weekly newspapers published in Texas {{Texas-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varsity Team
In most English-speaking countries, varsity is an abbreviation of the word ''university''. In the United States and Canada, the term is mostly used in relation to sports teams. Varsity in the United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, varsity team or varsity club refers to the groups participating in varsity matches in sport or other competitions between rival universities. The term originally referred strictly to university-sponsored teams, and dates from the 1840s. In contemporary Scots language the term ''varsity'' is often interchangeable with ''university'' in contexts unrelated to sporting activity. Varsity in North America In the United States and Canada, varsity teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, technical school, high school, junior high school, or middle school. Such teams compete against similar teams at corresponding educational institutions. Groups of varsity sports teams are often organized into athletic conferences, which ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
