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    • Seton Hall

    NEWARK, N.J. — Seton Hall will head to Puerto Rico undefeated.

    The Pirates opened the second half on an 11-0 run and cruised to the finish line with a 71-50 victory over Columbia at the Prudential Center.

    Seton Hall is now 2-0 heading into the Puerto Rico Tip-Off where it will face USC on Thursday and either Memphis or UT-Chattanooga on Friday. The team departs Tuesday.

    “Early in the year the first thing you want to do is take care of business at home,” said Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez, whose team beat St. Francis (N.Y.) in the season opener Friday night. “Winning these first two games is important. In the last year-and-a-half, two years we’re trying to establish that we don’t want teams to roll in here and beat us.”

    Jeremy Hazell led all scorers with 21 points on 5-of-11 shooting, including 4-of-9 from 3. John Garcia had 11 points and 14 rebounds and Eugene Harvey quietly put together a nice game with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.

    Rutgers Football

    Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano won’t be able to watch today’s Ravens-Giants game up the New Jersey Turnpike, but he will be rooting for Ray Rice.

    “I’m real excited for Ray,” Schiano said Sunday morning in a conference call. “I got to see him when we played Navy. He came to our hotel on Friday night. We’ve texted each other a little bit throughout the season.”

    Ray was an All-American tailback during his time at Rutgers, rushing for more than 2,000 career yards and helping the Scarlet Knights become relevant on the national stage.

    As a rookie with Baltimore, he’s rushed for 356 yards, including a career-high 154-yard outing in Week 9 during a 37-27 victory over Cleveland when he started for the injured Willis McGahee.

    They call you a backup, but when it’s your turn, you have to have a starter’s mentality, Rice said after that game, according to RayRice.org.

    Lance Stephenson, St. Anthony, St. Benedict's, St. Patrick

    Lance Stephenson versus Tamir Jackson

    Tristan Thompson against Michael Gilchrist

    Those delicious matchups will take place in early 2009 at a pair of prep matchups not to be missed.

    Stephenson and the three-time PSAL champion Lincoln Railsplitters will face Jackson and the St. Benedict’s Gray Bees in the Brian Doherty Classic on Jan. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Prudential Center in Newark.

    Those two teams were supposed to square off last season, but the game never took place. Lance and Lincoln went on to win their third straight city championship, while Jackson and the Gray Bees finished 24-1 and ranked No. 2 behind St. Anthony of Jersey City in most national polls.

    Pittsburgh, St. John's

    A healthy Levance Fields returned to the Pittsburgh lineup Friday night and helped the No. 5 Panthers rout Fairleigh Dickinson, 86-63.

    Fields’ status was uncertain until minutes before gametime. The senior missed a dozen games with a broken left foot that occurred in late December, then fractured it again in August and needed a bone graft operation. He was out for Pitt’s two exhibition games, but had no apparent problems with his foot while getting 15 points and eight assists in 25 minutes.

    “He really changes our team when he plays,” coach Jamie Dixon said.

    Rutgers Football


    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mike Teel threw for 294 yards and two touchdowns to help surging Rutgers rout South Florida 49-16 on Saturday for the Scarlet Knights’ fourth consecutive victory.

    Kenny Britt had his fourth straight 100-yard game receiving, scoring on a 93-yard pass play early in the fourth quarter. Rutgers (5-5, 4-2 Big East) also forced six turnovers to hand USF (6-4, 1-4) its fourth loss in five games.

    Britt finished with eight receptions for 173 yards. It was his sixth 100-yard performance of the season, 12th overall – moving him into third place on the career conference list for 100-yard games behind Larry Fitzgerald (14) and Antonio Bryant (13).

    Villanova

    Mouphtaou Yarou, a 6-10, 240-pound power forward from Montrose Christian whose commitment to Villanova in August was broken here at ZAGSBLOG, signed his Letter of Intent on Friday, completing a three-man recruiting class considered among the best in the Big East .

    “We had to get Mouph to sign his Letter of Intent and then we had to get it faxed to the Republic of Benin in Africa, and get his mother to sign it there and get it faxed back,” Villanova coach Jay Wright told ESPNU. “The guys at Montrose Christian, coach Stu Vetter, just two minutes ago [Friday] got it up here and got it to our compliance officer.”

    Yarou is part of a three-man class that includes Philly Roman Catholic point guard Maalik Wayns and 6-7, 178-pound power forward Isaiah Armwood of Montrose Christian. Recruiting expert Tom Konchalski says Villanova may have the best recruiting class in the Big East.

    Dominic Cheek, High Schools, Kansas, Memphis

    Xavier Henry, the No. 1 shooting guard in the Class of 2009, is down to Kansas and Memphis, and says he will sign in the spring.

    “It’s the biggest decision of my life and I think about it every day,” Henry told ESPNU’s Lowell Galindo on Friday. “And when the time is right I think I’ll let everybody know where I’m going.”

    Henry’s father, Carl, went to Kansas and his brother, C.J. Henry, enrolled at Memphis to play basketball for John Calipari.

    “Of course my brother going to Memphis is a plus,” he said. “I just look at the playing styles and the people that are going to be there when I’m there and who can take care of me right.”

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