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Pitt beaten again
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Pitt men's basketball team dropped its third straight game with an 82-70 loss at Florida State late Wednesday night.
The Panthers trailed 28-23 at halftime, and despite making several runs in the second half, could not overcome the Seminoles and Jamir Watkins, who scored 26 points.
Pitt sophomore guard Jaland Lowe scored all of his 22 points in the second half, and Jorge Diaz Graham came off the bench to score 17.
PITTSBURGH (12-5): Austin 3-6 0-0 8, Corhen 0-4 2-2 2, Dunn 0-8 2-2 2, Leggett 4-10 4-4 13, Lowe 6-12 9-10 22, J.Diaz Graham 5-7 3-4 17, Amadou Kante 1-2 0-0 2, Cummings 1-5 0-0 2, G.Diaz Graham 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 21-56 20-22 70.
FLORIDA ST. (12-5): Bol Bowen 2-8 1-1 6, Ewin 6-9 6-9 18, Davis 4-9 2-2 11, Jackson 3-7 7-8 13, Watkins 6-13 11-12 26, Thomas 2-3 0-0 5, Maluk 1-2 1-1 3, Holt 0-0 0-0 0, Deng 0-4 0-0 0, Swinton 0-1 0-0 0, Nitu 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-56 28-33 82.
Halftime--Florida St. 28-23. 3-Point Goals--Pittsburgh 8-21 (J.Diaz Graham 4-5, Austin 2-4, Leggett 1-4, Lowe 1-4, Cummings 0-1, G.Diaz Graham 0-1, Dunn 0-2), Florida St. 6-19 (Watkins 3-6, Davis 1-2, Thomas 1-2, Bol Bowen 1-4, Jackson 0-1, Maluk 0-1, Swinton 0-1, Deng 0-2). Rebounds--Pittsburgh 29 (Corhen 9), Florida St. 37 (Ewin 13). Assists--Pittsburgh 10 (Lowe 5), Florida St. 13 (Jackson 4). Total Fouls--Pittsburgh 24, Florida St. 18.
PSU Altoona prevails
PITTSBURGH -- The Penn State Altoona men's basketball team won its third straight game while bagging its fifth Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference win on Wednesday night, when the Lions held off conference foe Carlow University for an 82-79 victory in the Donahue Pavilion.
Penn State Altoona (9-6, 5-1 AMCC) never trailed, building a 41-31 halftime advantage and holding the lead despite a late push from Carlow (2-11, 1-4 AMCC).
Nehemiah Frye led the way for the Lions with a team-best 17 points while Dwayne Jones added 16 points.
Lady Lions fall at No. 1 UCLA
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The Penn State women's basketball team dropped to 9-9 Wednesday night, losing to No. 1 UCLA, 83-67, in a Big Ten matchup.
Gabby Elliott and Talayah Walker led the Lady Lions with 17 points each. Lauren Betts led UCLA (17-0) with 22 points.
PSU's Alli Campbell recorded 12 points, six rebounds and six assists in 37 minutes.
The Penn State women host No. 9 Ohio State Sunday at 1 p.m.
PSU Altoona loses at home
Carlow University overcame a 25-point deficit in Wednesday night's Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference contest in the Adler Arena to hand the Penn State Altoona women's basketball team an 81-76 loss.
The Lions (7-8, 4-2 AMCC) built a 25-point advantage by halftime, following a dominant first half that saw Penn State Altoona put up 45 points while holding Carlow to just 20 points and a 23.3 percent field goal percentage. But the Celtics staged a furious comeback in the second half, outscoring Penn State Altoona 26-19 in the third quarter and 35-12 in the fourth to hand the Lions a tough loss.
Jaidyn McCracken finished with a team-high 17 points for Penn State Altoona. Jordan Bisignani followed with 14 points while Jess Burns scored 13.
Women's teams will get paid
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Women's basketball teams finally will be paid for playing games in the NCAA Tournament each March just like the men have for years under a plan approved Wednesday at the NCAA convention.
The unanimous vote by NCAA membership, which was met by a round of applause, was the final step toward a pay structure for women playing in March Madness after the Division I Board of Governors voted unanimously for the proposal in August.
NCAA President Charlie Baker joined others in giving credit for the creation of a performance fund to those who came before and helped build women's basketball.
"We're the lucky ones," Baker said. "We got to be here on the day it became a reality."
Now comes more work to continue investing in women's basketball to grow the sport even more.
"That's the part I hope, that someday down the road, we all will have someone say about us that they sit on the shoulders of the work that we did," Baker said.
From Mirror, wire reports