Xavier Henry

The New Orleans Hornets announced today that they have acquired guard Xavier Henry from the Memphis Grizzlies for a 2013 second round pick. “We are delighted to welcome Xavier to our team and the  New Orleans community,” said Hornets General Manager Dell Demps. “We hope Xavier will develop into a good basketball player that will contribute [...]  

shooting) that for 19 years had made him a very good basketball player. Importantly, he didn't fail to do these things because defenders were closing him out too strongly, because he couldn't get open against better defenders, or because he ...  

Some years, there's only one, and in others, none. In the last decade, there hasn't been a better pair than the duo of Putnam City's Xavier Henry and Bishop McGuinness' Daniel Orton in 2009. But since 2002, there hasn't been a class with more than two ...  

F Trevor Ariza missed Wednesday's game because of a groin strained sustained against the Jazz on Monday. Al-Farouq Aminu started in Ariza's place and finished with no points and four rebounds. He played 20 minutes and missed all four of his shots.  

The Hornets rank last in the league, shooting a miserable 19.5% this season. The team’s two best 3-point shooters, Marco Belinelli and Eric Gordon, are only shooting 28.6% and 8.3% respectively. That is not going to light up the scoreboard.  

The allegations against Bobby Dodd, the former Memphis youth basketball coach and top man at the Amateur Athletic Union, continue to be reported in this morning's Commercial Appeal. I took a look at a few things: Why did Dodd leave the YMCA in ...  

The point guard from Tahlequah, Okla., averages 12.6 points and 7.8 assists in 34.4 minutes per game for the Jayhawks. Goodrich’s 187 assists so far this year are just 20 shy of Kansas’ all-time single-season record. Jackson has appeared in 23 contests ...  

Tyshawn Taylor had 20 points and Jeff Withey added 18 points and 11 rebounds as No. 4 Kansas beat Kansas State 59-53. The Jayhawks (21-5, 11-2) won their 36th game in the last 39 against their Interstate 70 rival. Jamar Samuels had a season-high 20 points ...  

That's how you win games like this." Oh, and big-time players step up. Two did for the fourth-ranked Jayhawks, 21-5 overall and 11-2 in the Big 12. One Kansas has come to depend on greatly, another who has played like a gift over the last few weeks.  

If it's February, the Stanford men must be struggling. After winning five of its first six Pac-12 Conference games and moving onto the NCAA tournament bubble, the Cardinal has fallen into a sixth-place tie with no chance to reach the NCAAs as an ...  

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA has selected the first- and second-round and regional sites for the 2013 women's Division I basketball championship. Schools chosen to host those games include Baylor, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Duke, Gonzaga, Iowa ...  

The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference men’s basketball race just took on a whole new life. Winona State was penalized by the NCAA and the NSIC on Tuesday for using an ineligible player during 19 games this season. That player, guard ...  

But they came up empty on their next three trips down the court, unable to take advantage of the Jayhawks' balky foul shooting. ''This loss hurt,'' Samuels said. McGruder finished with 12 points for Kansas State, while Will Spradling had 10.  

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In or out? With the NCAA men’s basketball tournament just more than a month away, that’s the question Purdue fans are asking. It’s the question the Boilermakers are trying to answer, not with words but with perform ...  

Monday: UT 70, Texas A 68. Record: 15-9, 5-6 Big 12. Today: vs. Kansas St., 1 p.m. TV/radio: ESPN; 97.5 FM. AUSTIN - Myck Kabongo is one of the most scrutinized point guards in college basketball, but he's also a teenager from Canada.