DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — UCLA’s storied NCAA Tournament history includes 18 Final Four appearances. A First Four? None, until now. The Bruins open the tournament in Dayton on Tuesday at the bottom of the bracket looking up, an unexpected development for a team that started the season with an international […]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — No. 16 seed LIU-Brooklyn (18-16) vs. No. 16 seed Radford (22-12) First Four, East region; Dayton, Ohio; Tuesday 6:40 p.m. EDT. BOTTOM LINE: Northeast Conference Tournament winner LIU-Brooklyn makes its first appearance in the tournament in five years. Radford got in by beating Liberty at the […]
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Virginia went from being an unranked team that few expected to contend in the Atlantic Coast Conference to the unanimous No. 1 in the final AP Top 25 of the season. The Cavaliers (31-2) earned all 65 first-place votes in Monday’s poll to remain on top […]
Clarence Emory Jones, age 73 of Draper passed away Friday, March 9, 2018 at his home. Born March 4, 1945 in Giles County, he was the son of the late Robert Emory Jones and Margaret Evelyn Stoots Jones. His grandparents and brother, Clifford Jones also preceded him in death. He […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Virginia earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, its reward for one of the best seasons in Atlantic Coast Conference history. The selection committee didn’t do the Cavaliers any favors on their side of the bracket. The No. 1 seed in the South […]
From the top seed in the NCAA Tournament — Virginia — to those that barely made it into the bracket — Arizona State and Syracuse — it feels as though everyone involved in March Madness is on the bubble this year. College basketball is in trouble. The brackets came out […]
Virginia, Virginia Tech and Radford are headed to the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament and they now know their opponents in this coming week’s opening round games. Virginia, the ACC Champions and No. 1 overall seed for the tournament, will open Friday in Charlotte in the South Region against University of […]
Pulaski County Schools will open two hours late on Monday in anticipation of inclement weather. Watch for updates.
The latest from the National Weather Service… A complex storm system will develop over the southeastern US today then begin moving northeast tonight and Monday, eventually toward the North Carolina coast later in the day Monday. While there remain some uncertainties, confidence is increasing that this storm has the potential […]
NEW YORK (AP) — With no one-and-dones, no sure-fire NBA lottery picks, No. 1 Virginia put together one of the most dominant seasons in the storied history of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball. Kyle Guy, Devon Hall and the Cavaliers beat No. 12 North Carolina 71-63 in the ACC championship game […]