Staff reports   Staff reports   2/9/2012 12:28 AM   

Basketball Aiken JV boys 49 South Aiken 36 In a battle between the junior varsity teams from crosstown rivals Aiken and South Aiken high schools, the Hornets prevailed on Wednesday, winning 49-36. In spite of a game-best 21 points by the Thorou ...

Associated Press   By TIM DAHLBERG   2/9/2012 12:28 AM   

LSU fans had all but disappeared into the New Orleans night by the final minutes of last month's dreary BCS title game, leaving en masse when they figured out a team that couldn't get past the 50-yard-line wasn't going to magically find a way to cros ...

Staff reports   Staff reports   2/9/2012 12:28 AM   

Basketball Aiken JV boys 49 South Aiken 36 In a battle between the junior varsity teams from crosstown rivals Aiken and South Aiken high schools, the Hornets prevailed on Wednesday, winning 49-36. In spite of a game-best 21 points by the Thorou ...

Associated Press   By TIM DAHLBERG   2/9/2012 12:28 AM   

LSU fans had all but disappeared into the New Orleans night by the final minutes of last month's dreary BCS title game, leaving en masse when they figured out a team that couldn't get past the 50-yard-line wasn't going to magically find a way to cros ...

By ERIC RUSSELL   Sports writer   2/8/2012 11:54 PM   

It's not often that two players at the same position are the top two scorers on a team. However, the USC Aiken men's basketball team has that luxury, which has led it to being one of the top teams in the Peach Belt Conference's East Division. Junio ...

Staff reports   Staff reports   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

GREENWOOD -- The nationally 15th-ranked USC Aiken women's basketball team scored a thrilling 65-62 Peach Belt Conference victory on the road over No. 17 Lander on Wednesday. The win allows the Pacers (18-3, 11-2) to move within a game of the first- ...

Staff reports   Staff reports   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

GREENWOOD -- The 20th-ranked USC Aiken men's basketball team lost a Peach Belt Conference game Wednesday, falling on the road to Lander, 70-62. The Bearcats (14-7, 7-6) opened the game, racing out to a 13-5 lead. The Pacers (16-5, 10-3) responded w ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

NORTH AUGUSTA -- Francis Marion University is the perfect place for Arianna Pierner to go to college. The North Augusta High School soccer player said as much on Tuesday. That's when she was joined by family and friends in the lobby of the gymnasium ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   Sports editor   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

Get out your calculator, protractor, ruler and abacus. It's the final week of the South Carolina High School League basketball season, and determining the scenarios for region standings and playoff berth takes a mathematician. To make it simple, or ...

BY DARRYL SLATER   dslater@postandcourier.com   2/8/2012 10:41 PM   

COLUMBIA -- The history that South Carolina's women's basketball team made last Thursday at Tennessee began, in large part, last summer, on the playgrounds of Tampa, Fla. It was there, while spending time back home, that senior guard Markeshia Gran ...

Associated Press   By AARON BEARD   2/8/2012 11:57 PM   

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Freshman Austin Rivers buried a 3-pointer at the horn to give No. 10 Duke an 85-84 win over No. 5 North Carolina on Wednesday night. Rivers scored a season-high 29 points and hit six 3s, though the last will certainly live on i ...

Associated Press     2/8/2012 11:57 PM   

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Kris Joseph scored a career-high 29 points, hitting a go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute of overtime, and No. 2 Syracuse beat 12th-ranked Georgetown 64-61 on Wednesday night to give coach Jim Boeheim his 880th career win. Boeh ...

Associated Press   By BETH RUCKER   2/8/2012 11:57 PM   

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Skylar McBee scored a career-high 18 points to lead Tennessee to a 69-57 win against South Carolina on Wednesday night. McBee, in his second career start, hit 4 of 7 from 3-point range and sank all six of his free throws. His ...

By ERIC RUSSELL   Sports writer   2/8/2012 11:54 PM   

It's not often that two players at the same position are the top two scorers on a team. However, the USC Aiken men's basketball team has that luxury, which has led it to being one of the top teams in the Peach Belt Conference's East Division. Junio ...

Staff reports   Staff reports   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

GREENWOOD -- The nationally 15th-ranked USC Aiken women's basketball team scored a thrilling 65-62 Peach Belt Conference victory on the road over No. 17 Lander on Wednesday. The win allows the Pacers (18-3, 11-2) to move within a game of the first- ...

Staff reports   Staff reports   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

GREENWOOD -- The 20th-ranked USC Aiken men's basketball team lost a Peach Belt Conference game Wednesday, falling on the road to Lander, 70-62. The Bearcats (14-7, 7-6) opened the game, racing out to a 13-5 lead. The Pacers (16-5, 10-3) responded w ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

NORTH AUGUSTA -- Francis Marion University is the perfect place for Arianna Pierner to go to college. The North Augusta High School soccer player said as much on Tuesday. That's when she was joined by family and friends in the lobby of the gymnasium ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   Sports editor   2/8/2012 11:51 PM   

Get out your calculator, protractor, ruler and abacus. It's the final week of the South Carolina High School League basketball season, and determining the scenarios for region standings and playoff berth takes a mathematician. To make it simple, or ...

BY DARRYL SLATER   dslater@postandcourier.com   2/8/2012 10:41 PM   

COLUMBIA -- The history that South Carolina's women's basketball team made last Thursday at Tennessee began, in large part, last summer, on the playgrounds of Tampa, Fla. It was there, while spending time back home, that senior guard Markeshia Gran ...

Associated Press   By TERESA M. WALKER   2/8/2012 10:35 PM   

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mike Slive helped propose the plus-one plan to find a national champion in football and says actual change remains a couple years away even if everyone can agree on changes to the Bowl Championship Series. The Southeastern Confe ...