martin shaw, nick biberye, aaron bacote and trey freeman playing in their final home game. it's an emotional day, it's a big day for all of us, especially for those four seniors. aaron bacote from hampton is the 17th the nit final four "i'm appreciative for everything up to this point, the 5-25 year, it humbled me, broke me down so i could build myself back up." i think you've got to give him an awful lot of credit for being a good leader in his last three years. trey freeman transferred to old dominion from campbell, and in his two seasons with the monarchs he's been one of the top scorers in the nation and a top contender for conference player of the year.....freeman is from virginia beach and he's working on his masters in sports management, and odu holds a special place in his heart. "it allowed me to come home, finish my degree off and be able to play basketball and learn as much as i can from a great coach and staff and take everyrthing i've learned and apply it to life." "he's been phenomanal, for two years he's kind of program and what he's done on the court but als

a little later, aaron bacote, the feed to denzel taylor, the two handed slam. another big game by brandan stith. here's one of his 12 offensive rebounds, he had 16 boards total. stith with the putback. break. rice went on a big run to start the second half. marcus evans from chesapeake, the up and under. rice led by as many as 15. old dominion got within 6, but it's rice that hangs on for the win. owls hand odu a 75 to 66 loss. monarchs fall to 7 and 5 in league play and 5th place in the standings. here's coach jeff jones. "this one should hurt, i don't want them shrugging this off and saying on to that's not enough, we're not talented enough we've got to play smarter, tougher play alot harder ." back to rice freshman marcus evans. it was a homecoming for him. he's from chesapeake. went to great bridge, then transferred to cape henry in virginia beach. he's rice's top scorer. today he had 20 points and he's a shoe in to win conference usa rookie of the year and he was glad to be back in hampton family and friends for them to see me play for first time in a whil

martin shaw, nick biberye, aaron bacote and trey freeman playing in their final home game. it's an emotional day, it's a big day for all of us, especially for those four low point of a 5 win season, to a high point of playing in the nit final four "i'm appreciative for everything up to this point, the 5-25 year, it humbled me, broke me down so i could build myself back up." i think you've got to give him an awful lot of credit for being a good leader in his last three years. trey freeman transferred to old dominion from campbell, and in his two nation and a top

and it was a pretty good exit---- as it was for three other seniors--- martin shaw nick biberaj, aaron bacote---the senior out of hampton--- and likely the conference usa player of the year---- trey freeman. odu ran past the texas san-antonio last night 78 to 56 in fron of 83 hundred fans--- freeman---the senior transfer out of kellam high school in virginia beach---- career night for the big man brandon stith----career best 21 points and 14 rebounds--- conference usa----but still a game out of fourth place----which would give them a first- round bye conference usa tournament--- two more games left at north texas and rice--- and even after losing on miami---uva still very much alive for their third straight acc regular season title--- the hoos---ranked number 3 in the nation---at home---again in primetime last night---- taking on the 7th ranked and acc leading north carolina tar heels in front of a sold out---absolutely bonkers home crowd---announced 14 thouand 500 at john paul jones arena--- uva in white---first half---malcolm brogden----for three-----he was the and this time--hard to the ti