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2007-08 AP All-America Basketball Teams
Michael Beasley, Kansas State, 6-10, 235, freshman, Washington, 26.5 ppg, 12.4 rpg, 53.5 fg pct, 38.9 3-pt fg pct, 1.7 blocks (72 first-place votes, 360 points)
Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina, 6-9, 250, junior, Poplar Bluff, Mo., 23.0 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 54.0 fg pct, 81.7 ft pct (72, 360)
D.J. Augustin, Texas, 6-0, 180, sophomore, New Orleans, 19.8 ppg, 5.7 apg, 37.2 minutes (66, 346)
Kevin Love, UCLA, 6-10, 260, freshman, Lake Oswego, Ore., 17.1 ppg, 10.6 rpg, 55.7 fg pct (52, 318)
Chris Douglas-Roberts, Memphis, 6-7, 200, junior, Detroit, 17.2 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 55.1 fg pct, 44.9 3-pt fg pct (52, 309)
Luke Harangody, Notre Dame, 6-8, 251, sophomore, Schererville, Ind., 20.8 ppg, 10.2 rpg, 51.5 fg pct, 37.5 3-pt fg pct (9, 211)
Shan Foster, Vanderbilt, 6-6, 205, senior, Kenner, La., 20.5 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 52.6 fg pct, 47.3 3-pt fg pct (7, 159)
D.J. White, Indiana, 6-9, 251, senior, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 17.3 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 60.4 fg pct, 1.7 blocks (2, 146)
Stephen Curry, Davidson, 6-2, 185, sophomore, Charlotte, N.C., 25.1 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 2.8 apg, 43.8 3-pt fg pct, 89.8 ft pct, 1.9 steals (4, 117)
Roy Hibbert, Georgetown, 7-2, 278, senior, Adelphi, Md., 13.6 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 1.9 apg, 60.1 fg pct, 2.3 blocks (1, 86)
Derrick Rose, Memphis, 6-3, 190, freshman, Chicago, 13.9 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 4.5 apg (4, 85)
Chris Lofton, Tennessee, 6-2, 200, senior, Maysville, Ky., 16.1 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 39.8 3-pt fg pct, 83.5 ft pct (4, 82)
Darren Collison, UCLA, 6-1, 165, junior, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., 15.2 ppg, 3.9 apg, 50.6 3-pt fg pct, 87.4 ft pct, 1.9 steals (2, 80)
Brook Lopez, Stanford, 7-0, 260, sophomore, Fresno, Calif., 19.2 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 2.2 blocks (1, 73)
Eric Gordon, Indiana, 6-4, 215, freshman, Indianapolis, 21.3 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 2.5 apg, 84.5 ft pct (4, 72)

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By Simon Evans
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - World number one Tiger Woods, seeking his ninth win in 10 tournament starts, said he was unimpressed with the greens at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill course.
Organisers have faced a struggle to get the greens ready for the Arnold Palmer Invitational after they were struck with roundworms.
“They are not very good. It’s going to be an interesting week on them. You’re going to see a lot of guys hit good putts and they are going to go weird ways, unfortunately,” Woods told reporters after the Pro/Am competition on Wednesday.
“But, hey, we’ve all got to deal with it, we’ve all got to putt on them and you just have to accept hitting good putts and that they may not go in. But hopefully we hit enough good ones where they do go in.
“It is what it is. You just have to deal with it. I don’t know if it makes a worse putter better or a better putter worse.
“You’ve just got to go up there and be committed to what you’re doing and hit the good putts and hopefully they will somehow fall,” added Woods.
Earlier Palmer had said that after scientists and turf experts had looked at the greens and the nematode (roundworm) problem, enough work had been done to make the greens good for tournament play.

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PAUL VI COACH Tony Devlin certainly has reason to jump up and down about his team’s performance so far this season.
But forgive Devlin if you don’t see him turning cartwheels or excitedly hopping around. Not because he doesn’t want to; rather, he’s just being cautious, after double hip-replacement surgery in August.
"I had been feeling the pain for quite a while, and I finally decided to go in and get it done," Devlin said. "The pain was getting to be too much. Now I feel great. When I’m showing the team how to do a drill, I can really show them how to do it, as opposed to just explaining. I can move a lot better now."
Coincidentally, Devlin works for Camden Tool, which manufactures parts for such things as hip replacements.
His team certainly needs no repair. Led by the terrific play of point/scoring guard Will Campbell (23.1 points a game), the Eagles have won 14 of 15 and are ranked No. 2 in the Daily News’ South Jersey Top 10.
In the past 2 weeks, they posted impressive road wins against rivals Camden Catholic (54-39) and Camden (89-81).
Those wins, in particular, showed the Eagles’ versatility. Games against Camden Catholic and, further down the road, other non-public schools come tournament time are always hard-fought and low-scoring. Paul VI also showed it can get up and down the floor with anyone in a high-scoring win over Camden.
When Cinnaminson’s T.J. DiLeo broke the school record by dumping 50 points against Delran last Thursday, no one could have been more excited than coach Mike Fries.
"It was an amazing performance," said Fries, whose club sits at 13-1 and is ranked No. 3. "He wasn’t cherry-picking or anything like that. He only missed four shots; he shot 9-for-11 on threes and 9-for-10 from the foul line."
Although he battled a nasty virus for a couple of weeks earlier this month, DiLeo seems to be back to 100 percent, which isn’t good news for anyone in the Burlington County Patriot Division.
Fries has done a wonderful job with the Pirates this season,
including impressive wins over Holy Cross and Rancocas Valley.
"We’re a little surprised. We knew we’d be good, but we didn’t know how good," he said. "Everybody is gelling and everyone is playing well with [DiLeo]."
Cinnaminson has three more games until the Feb. 2 tournament cutoff date when teams with .500 or better records qualify.
"Our goal was to get the top seed in Group 2, and if we win all three games, we’ll do that," Fries said.
It won’t be easy, as opponents include 13-3 Holy Cross on Thursday and 13-2 Medford Tech on Friday.
As for DiLeo, who is averaging 22.4 points, Fries said Monmouth offered him a basketball scholarship. Richmond, Delaware and a couple of Ivy League schools will watch him this week.
Camden Catholic coach Jim Crawford is only five wins away from No. 600. The humble Crawford, who has been at the helm for the Irish since 1979, probably would point out that before reaching that milestone, he suffered loss No. 200 (on Jan. 17 to Paul VI).
Crawford’s club, which stands at 11-3, is looking for its 20th straight 20-win season. That’s impressive enough, but consider this: The Irish might get 20-plus again with a starting lineup that includes a junior and two sophomores, plus more underclassmen coming off the bench.
Speaking of Camden Catholic, has there ever been a more successful junior-varsity coach than the Irish’s Joe Murtin? Murtin, who has served under Crawford since 1985 and was a captain on Crawford’s first team, is five wins away from his 350th. During his tenure, the Irish JV has gone a remarkable 345-142.
Although his team probably won’t make it to the tournament this season, Washington Township coach Bob Byatt must be commended for the job he’s doing with a very young group.
Township, which competes in the rugged Olympic American, is 6-9 this season but certainly has some very good years ahead. Junior Rick Hudson is one of South Jersey’s quickest players, and Byatt has been getting solid play from a slew of sophomores, including 6-9 Matt Lopez.
"This year has kind of been a struggle so far, because we are so young," Byatt said. "But our younger kids are getting very valuable experience, which is going to help them down the road.
Also hindering Byatt is the fact none of the township’s four public middle schools has a basketball team. They were deleted because of budget cuts some years ago.
"We get a ton of kids who come out for the program, which is great," Byatt said. "And this year we’re lucky to have some very good younger players. I’ve been real pleased with the development of our younger guys, and hopefully that will continue."
In its dramatic, 62-61 win over Winslow Township on Thursday, Rancocas Valley opened the game by scoring its first nine points in 1 minute, 3 seconds, then scored its next nine in 1:27 . . . Attending last week’s game between visiting Winslow Township and Williamstown were Markieff and Marcus Morris. The twins from Prep Charter are now at Living Christian Academy in Cherry Hill and will play for Kansas in the near future . . . St. Augustine will look to avenge its early-season home loss to St. Joseph tonight. The Hermits stand at 12-2, while St. Joseph is at 11-5, but has lost two in a row. *

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