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| | Tuesday, August 15 Knee injury will sideline Land | |||||
| ESPN.com news services CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati sophomore forward Eugene Land will undergo reconstructive surgery on his right knee and will miss the 2000-01 basketball season. Land, who was expected to compete for a starting position next season, is scheduled to have the surgery to repair damaged ligaments on Aug. 18 at University Hospital. Dr. Angelo Colosimo, the team's orthopedic surgeon, will perform the operation. Rehabilitation likely will take eight months to a year. University spokesman Tom Hathaway declined Thursday to say how Land was injured, saying only that it was not related to university athletics. The 6-foot-7 Land, a Cincinnati native, sat out last season as a redshirt. He averaged 3.2 points and 1.7 rebounds as a freshman in 1998-99, playing in 27 games. Ex-Alabama head coach now an assistant at Kentucky LEXINGTON, Ky. -- David Hobbs, who guided Alabama into the postseason four times in six years at the helm of the basketball program, Tuesday was named an assistant at another Southeastern Conference school, Kentucky. The 51-year-old Hobbs, who held the head job at Alabama from 1993-98, takes over for Shawn Finney, who was named coach at Tulane last month. "Dave comes from Alabama where he had a great career and brings a lot of expertise, a lot of knowledge and a lot of experience," Kentucky coach Tubby Smith said. "Having worked as an assistant under Wimp Sanderson and running their program, I know he has the ability and will bring a lot to our program." Hobbs compiled a 110-76 record at Alabama and the Crimson Tide played in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments in 1994 and 1995. Nebraska's Truscott to transfer back home to Houston HOUSTON -- Louis Truscott, a 6-foot-7 forward who has played the last two years at Nebraska, is transferring to the University of Houston. Truscott, a former star at Houston Milby High School, wants to return so his 2-year-old daughter can be closer to his family, he told KRIV-TV in Houston. He averaged eight points and six rebounds a game last year for the Cornhuskers. Sutton hires UNLV assistant to help at OSU STILLWATER, Okla. -- An assistant coach at Nevada-Las Vegas is joining the men's basketball staff at Oklahoma State. Coach Eddie Sutton on Monday announced he had hired Glynn Cyprien, who has been at UNLV the past five years. He also has coached at Western Kentucky, Jacksonville, Lamar and Texas-San Antonio. "Some of my former assistants recommended Cyp very highly," Sutton said. "He is very well respected in the coaching profession and I think he will rank right up there with all the outstanding assistant coaches I've had." BC guard Pina will miss his final season CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- Boston College guard Dwayne Pina will miss the 2000-01 campaign, his final season of eligibility, because of a heart problem. The 5-10, 177-pound Pina has cardiomyopathy, a structural or functional abnormality that causes a weakening of the heart and results in an inability to pump blood efficiently. "I'm saddened that my playing career had to end this way," said the New Bedford native. "I was looking forward to one more year in an Eagle uniform, but the reality is the reality." Pina has played in 78 games over the past three seasons after joning the Eagles as a walk-on prior to the 1997-98 season and owns career averges of 2.5 points, 2.6 assists and 2.0 rebounds per game. In 1998-99, Pina started all 27 of Boston College's games and dished out 4.5 assists per contest to rank seventh in the Big East Conference. Kentucky's Mr. Basketball no longer welcome at EKU RICHMOND, Ky. -- Rick Jones, Kentucky's 1999 Mr. Basketball, will not attend Eastern Kentucky this fall after pleading guilty to drug possession charges last month. Jones had announced his intent to transfer from Vanderbilt, sit out a year and play for the Colonels. But he was arrested in June after police stopped him for speeding in Georgetown and found marijuana and rolling papers in the car he was driving. He pleaded guilty last month in Scott District Court to possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and was ordered to pay $225 in fines and court costs. "After reviewing Rick's situation, Coach (Travis) Ford and I have concluded that this is in everyone's best interest at this time," EKU athletics director Jeff Long said in a statement. "We wish Rick the best and have offered him any permissible assistance as he considers options for his academic and athletic future." Jones, a 6-foot-1 guard, averaged 5.7 points and led Vanderbilt in 3-point field goal percentage at 48.2 percent last season. He tied a Southeastern Conference tournament record with eight 3-pointers in a first-round victory over Mississippi State in March. He was kicked off the team in April for academic reasons and signed with Eastern Kentucky in May. Assistant follows Brey to Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Sean Kearney, the top assistant coach at Delaware the past five seasons, is following former boss Mike Brey to Notre Dame. Brey was hired as Notre Dame's coach last month after Matt Dougherty resigned to take the North Carolina job. He said Wednesday that Kearney will be his associate coach. The 40-year-old Kearney was an assistant at Delaware for nine seasons. He also was an assistant at Providence, Philadelphia Textile and Northwestern. Brey also hired Anthony Solomon and Lewis Preston as assistant coaches and Rod Balanis as director of basketball operations. Tar Heels to switch uniforms The University of North Carolina will be back wearing basketball jerseys that say "North Carolina" again, a year after switching to the interlocking "NC" logo. "I was surprised that people got as emotional as they did when we made the change, because we have modified the uniforms before," said former coach Bill Guthridge. The interlocking "NC" was moved to both sides of the game shorts below the argyle screenprint. "(Athletic director) Dick Baddour and coach Guthridge told me when I started that they had decided to put 'North Carolina' back on the jerseys," new head coach Matt Doherty said. "I told them we won three national championships with 'North Carolina' on the uniforms so that was fine by me." J.C. star Broom fails to meet Lobos' requirements ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Dion Broom, a highly touted junior college forward, is academically ineligible to transfer to New Mexico this fall. Broom averaged 26 points a game last season at Yavapai Junior College in Prescott, Ariz., and needed to pass three courses this summer at Mesa (Ariz.) Community College to qualify for enrollment at New Mexico. New Mexico coach Fran Fraschilla said Thursday night Broom didn't pass all the required courses. "Dion knew what he needed to do and he had every opportunity to do it," Fraschilla said. "He didn't, so we move on. In many ways, it's a benefit ... We don't necessarily need people who aren't willing to work hard to be successful." Broom was expected to provide immediate help to New Mexico's inside game. He earned second team junior college All America status as a sophomore last season. Broom's failure to qualify academically opens up another scholarship for New Mexico. Fraschilla indicated the Lobos will use the scholarship to recruit a player for the 2001-2002 season. "We've gotten such a response from the kids we're recruiting right now," Fraschilla said, "that this could help us in many ways. Some young guy we're recruiting right now is going to have a whale of an opportunity." The Lobos' inside players for next season include returning senior Brian Smith, junior college transfer Malcolm Battles and freshmen Patrick Dennehy, Alvin Broussard and Isaiah "Zeke" Johnson.
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