PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Princeton and Harvard are set for their
toughest test yet: A one-game playoff for the Ivy League
championship that sends the winner to the NCAA tournament.
The Tigers forced a tie for the title and the playoff with a
70-58 win over Penn. Princeton and Harvard will play Saturday at
Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn., in a one-game
playoff for the league's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.
It will be the seventh playoff in Ivy history.
UNDATED (AP) - Eleven teams have now earned bids to the 68-team
NCAA men's tournament that starts next week, including three
conference tournament winners Tuesday night:
- Butler, last year's national runner-up, is going back to the
NCAA tournament. Matt Howard scored 18 points to lead Butler to a
59-44 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee for its third Horizon League
tournament title in the past four years.
- Solomon Bozeman's deep 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds remaining
gave Arkansas-Little Rock a 64-63 win over North Texas for the Sun
Belt title and sent the Trojans to the NCAA tournament for the
first time in 21 years.
- Keith Benson scored 28 points and Reggie Hamilton had 26
points to lead Oakland, Mich., past Oral Roberts 90-76 to repeat as
the Summit League champion.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel
(TREH'-sehl) is being suspended for two games and fined $250,000
for violating NCAA rules. He failed to notify the school about
information he received involving two players, and questionable
activities involving Buckeye memorabilia.
Tressel also will receive a public reprimand and must make a
public apology. But his job is not in jeopardy.
Last December, the NCAA suspended five players, including
quarterback Terrelle (tuh-REHL') Pryor, for the first five games of
the 2011 season for selling items such as jerseys and championship
rings to the owner of a tatoo establishment in Columbus.
Tressel says he's "sorry and disappointed" in the way he
handled the matter, and says he will learn from this experience.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The clock is ticking toward Friday's deadline
to hammer out a new labor agreement between the NFL and the NFL
Players Association.
Both sides were at the mediation table Tuesday for a 13th day of
talks.
The current collective bargaining agreement was set to expire
last week, but two extensions now have pushed the cutoff to the end
of Friday.
While progress has been made, both sides have stuck to their
stances when it comes to two central issues: The NFLPA has not
agreed to any major economic concessions; the NFL has not agreed to
the union's long-held demand that the league completely open its
books, repeatedly saying the players have enough data.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Former New York Giants running back
Tiki (TEE'-kee) Barber is looking at a comeback four years after
retiring from the NFL. The 35-year old is the Giants all-time
leading rusher, but the team says Barber will be released once he's
taken off the retirement list.
Barber's television career fizzled, and in 2010 the New York
Post reported he was broke and couldn't pay his divorce settlement.
