In brief: Hansbrough sweeps college hoops awards
Tyler Hansbrough had a busy Friday morning on the biggest weekend of his young basketball career.
The North Carolina junior forward was selected the Associated Press’ college basketball player of the year, an honor that came less than an hour after he was presented the Oscar Robertson Trophy by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association as their player of the year.
Hansbrough led the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring (22.8) and rebounding (10.3) as the Tar Heels (36-2) were ranked No. 1 for all but six weeks this season and were the overall top seed for the NCAA tournament.
Drake’s Keno Davis was selected coach of the year by the AP, and he, too, had a busy morning as he swept the awards given Friday.
He and his father, Dr. Tom Davis, who won the award in 1987 at Iowa, became the first father and son to win the award.
Davis led Drake to a school-record 28 wins, its first Top 25 ranking since 1975 and its first NCAA tournament berth since 1971. He becomes the second straight first-year coach to win the award. Like Washington State’s Tony Bennett last season, he succeeded his father as head coach.
“California has turned to its biggest rival to find its new men’s coach, hiring former Stanford coach Mike Montgomery to replace the fired Ben Braun.
Montgomery was to be officially introduced at a news conference on campus today, the school said.
Montgomery, who spent 18 years with the Cardinal, has been out of coaching since August 2006 when he was let go after two seasons in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors.
Tennis
Roddick falls in semis
Seeking a successful follow-up to his breakthrough victory over Roger Federer, Andy Roddick instead lost to Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the semifinals of the Sony Ericsson Open.
Davydenko’s opponent in the final Sunday will be Rafael Nadal, who beat Tomas Berdych 7-6 (6), 6-2.
In the women’s final today, Serena Williams seeks her fifth Key Biscayne title and second in a row when she plays No. 4-seeded Jelena Jankovic.
Miscellany
Henry released
Former Bengal Chris Henry was released from jail in Cincinnati, spending an extra night there because no one was available to provide a court-ordered monitoring device.
Henry, 24, was cut by the Bengals on Thursday, a few hours before he was arraigned on charges of assault and criminal damaging. A man accused Henry of punching him in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle on Monday night.
“Three players each scored a pair of goals for the United States in an 8-1 win against Germany in the opener of the World Women’s Hockey Championship at Harbin, China.
Canada defeated Russia 8-1 and Sweden knocked off Japan 5-0 in other first-round games.
“Joe Alleva is leaving Duke to become LSU’s athletic director. Alleva will replace Skip Bertman, who is retiring in June.
“Former cyclist Tammy Thomas was convicted of lying to a grand jury investigating a steroid distribution ring that has implicated some of the biggest stars in baseball, football and track.
Thomas was the first figure connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case to go to trial.