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Social Media Reacts To Uc Davis’ First Ncaa Tournament Victory

... bottom, and UC Davis guard Brynton Lemar, vie for a loose ball during an NCAA Tournament First Four game Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. John Minchillo The Associated Press. UC Davis guard Lawrence White celebrates after an NCAA Tournament First Four game Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. The Aggies beat North Carolina Central 67-63 to earn their first tournament victory. John Minchillo The Associated Press. UC Davis coach Jim Les motions to his players during the first half against North Carolina Central in an NCAA Tournament First Four game Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. John Minchillo The Associated Press. North Carolina Central coach Le Velle Moton talks to his players during an NCAA Tournament First Four game against UC Davis on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. John Minchillo The Associated Press. Spectators watch an NCAA Tournament First Four game between UC Davis and North Carolina Central on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. John Minchillo The Associated ...

Uc Davis Takes On The Grand Canyon

... classes, both at the graduate and undergraduate level, say it’s their favorite class they have ever taken,” Yarnell said. “They have learned the most from these classes, and some of our students have even completely changed directions with what they want to do after they graduate.”. While these trips are beneficial for students in the long run, they are expensive to operate, and funding is difficult. Unfortunately, because of this, there is only a limited amount of students who are allowed to enroll in these courses. Although this is the case, many UC Davis departments have been working on attempting to offer more of these types of classes and allowing more people to enroll in the ecogeomorphology courses. “We’re trying to expand the offerings,” Printer said. “We think that these expeditionary classes (field-based classes) are really what Davis knows best and we’re trying to pull ...

Car Of The Future Is Driverless, Shared, Electric, Uc Davis Survey Says

... organizations, and the technology and auto industries participated in the survey, which was developed in connection with the launch of ITS-Davis’ new Policy Initiative, “3 Revolutions: Sharing, Electrification and Automation.”. “For the first time in half a century, real, transformative innovations are coming to the world of passenger transportation,” said Dan Sperling, director of ITS-Davis and the new 3 Revolutions Policy Initiative. “This survey shows us that without thoughtful collaboration and community-facing policies, these changes would lead to increased inequities, vehicle travel, and greenhouse gas emissions. We need to be creative in order to steer these innovations to the public interest.”. But has hopeful and forward-looking as Sperling and the survey may be, it comes as ...

Uc Davis, Longest Of Long Shots, Keeps Its Cool Amid March Madness

... game against North Carolina Central. less. Luis Fernando Anguiano a freshman political science major, in Davis, Ca., on Tues. March 14, 2017, take a break between classes, as he had no idea the men's basketball team has made it into the NCAA. more. Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle. Image 3 of 3. Brandon La Point, a UC Davis athletics staff member in Davis, Ca., on Tues. March 14, 2017. He talks about the UC Davis Aggies having won an invitation in the men's NCAA basketball tournament in a first four ultra-preliminary game against North Carolina Central. less. Brandon La Point, a UC Davis athletics staff member in Davis, Ca., on Tues. March 14, 2017. He talks about the UC Davis Aggies having won an invitation in the men's NCAA basketball tournament in a first four. more. Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle. UC Davis, longest of long shots, keeps its cool amid March Madness. 1 / 3. Back to Gallery. What that means, Brayton said, is that he is proud and he is excited and he’s not risking any pennies on the Aggies’ chances. “We’re known for our academics,” he said. Brayton said there ...

Uc Davis Men’s Basketball Team Earns First Trip To Ncaa Tournament

... to extend the lead to four points with 1:30 left. The Anteaters ruined their next possession when Spencer Rivers committed an offensive foul 20 seconds later. But Nelson replied to Lemar’s dramatic score by making a 3-pointer with 7.3 seconds left that narrowed the deficit to 48-47. However, Lemar’s two free throws with 5.8 seconds enabled UC Davis to make history. Before Lemar’s late performance, neither team took firm control until the end. The Aggies exploited the Anteaters’ early tendency toward self-sabotage. Irvine committed five turnovers in the first five minutes, did not score until 6:17 expired and missed 13 of 14 field-goal attempts in the middle of the first half. As a result, UC Davis built a 7-0 advantage after six minutes and held a 24-16 halftime lead. In the second half, Irvine became a different team. The Anteaters intensified their defense and rebounding. The Aggies responded by missing nine of their first 10 shots and seeing Irvine ...

Uc Davis’ J.t. Adenrele Takes Long, Challenging Road To Big Dance

... Ohio, and senior forward J. T. Adenrele was trying to take in everything. “Sitting in first class, walking off the flight, walking to the bus, being in Ohio, across the country,” Adenrele said by phone. “I’m trying to take every single bit of these moments to kind of cherish them.”. The Aggies will make the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance Wednesday in a “First Four” game against North Carolina Central for the right to face Midwest Region top-seed Kansas in the first round. Among those making up the current squad, Adenrele’s wait has been the longest. Adenrele, who grew up in Roseville and attended Oakmont High, was a freshman in UC Davis head coach Jim Les’ first season in 2011-12, when the Aggies went 5-26. He lost two college seasons to serious injuries, one in each knee. He endured grueling rehabs and wondered at times ...

Jarue Manning, ‘double’ Distinguished Emeritus

... paintings, Prince Street Gallery. Read more in this story from the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, College of Letters and Science. Fereydoun Hormozdiari of the School of Medicine, the Genome Center and the MIND Institute has been named a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in computational and evolutionary molecular biology. He is one of 126 early-career scholars to receive the prestigious award, which comes with $60,000 over two years to conduct leading-edge research. Hormozdiari, assistant professor in the medical school’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, specializes in computational biology and genomics. His research mainly explores the underlying causes of complex disorders, such as autism and intellectual disability. He is developing and utilizing novel computational methods to find the potential genetic variants that ...

Uc Davis Beats Nc Central In First Four 67-63

... going to continue to fight, to keep this story going.". BIG PICTURE. UC Davis: Won despite some sloppy ball-handling. The turnover-prone Aggies will have to tighten it up to have a chance against Kansas. North Carolina Central: Poor shooting doomed the Eagles, especially when the game got close down the stretch. With five seniors starting, the window may be closing on their hopes to get any deeper in the tournament. BRICK CITY. North Carolina Central shot only 36 percent for the game, and was just 10 of 35 in the second half. The Eagles converted only 5 of 26 3-point attempts. Graf paced North Carolina Central with 15 points. Kyle Benton and Patrick Cole added 13 each. "We missed too many layups," Moton said. "And I told the guys at the beginning of the season: Your season is going to come down to one possession. And you got to capitalize when you get that ...

How The Men’s Team Made History

... the semifinals. The Aggie-Titan game went to overtime, which saw the teams knotted at 64 with 12 seconds remaining after Tre Coggins missed a 3-pointer that would have given Fullerton the lead. Siler Schneider collected the rebound for the Aggies, brought the ball back the other way and tried a 3-pointer of his own. It missed the rim and landed in the hands of his teammate Chima Moneke, who jumped straight up and scored the winning basket as time expired. “I knew when Siler shot it, there was time left on the clock. I saw Khalil (Ahmad of Fullerton) — he didn’t box out and was just watching the shot — and I snuck in. I knew that if there was a missed shot, I would get the offensive rebound. I tried to stay cool because I knew there was enough time to get it up and in,” Moneke said. Onward and Upward. What ...

Southern Cal, Uc Davis Win First Four Matchups

... job of moving the ball, and I felt that if we continued to do that, I would put us in a successful position to score most of the time.". Down by three points at halftime, the Aggies went on an 11-2 run to start the second half, and led by as many as nine before streaky North Carolina Central (25-9) forced some turnovers and chipped away at the lead. The Eagles pulled within 64-63 with 1:49 left in the game on a 3-pointer by Dajuan Graf. They got the ball back with 37 seconds left, but another 3-point try by Graf was off the mark. Graf had to foul Lawrence White, who made two free throws with 16 seconds remaining to give the Eagles some breathing room. Brynton Lemar hit a foul shot with 4 seconds left to put it away. "We had guys, mentally they just weren't there," North Carolina Central coach Le Velle Moton said. "And they got in their feelings and their emotions a little bit, and they busted us in the mouth. And I think we gathered ourselves and obviously we made the switch to the 1-3-1 and caused some turnovers and got us back in.". ...

Uc Davis Basketball Secures Spot In March Madness Tourney

... Bhattal. The next big thing will be the team’s first game against on Wednesday. The players learned of their opponents at an event on event campus on Sunday afternoon. They will face North Carolina Central University on Wednesday in Dayton. The winner goes on to play the top-seed Kansas on Friday in Tulsa. Coach Jim Les says his team has worked hard and he is proud at a chance at basketball sports history. “March Madness is one of the elite sporting events in our nation. I am proud of the hard work these young men put in, and to be representing UC Davis and the Sacramento region in the tournament,” said Les. “I think it’s great for the community of Davis, for the students, and us. It’s for everyone. To put UC Davis on the map,” said Guard Brynton Lemar. He ranks third in three-point percentage and No. 10 in three-point field goals in Big West play. UC Davis ...

Uc Davis, Usc Wins Cap Off First Four Of Ncaa Tournament

... breathing room. Brynton Lemar hit a foul shot with 4 seconds left to put it away. NO. 11 USC 75, NO. 11 Providence 71. DAYTON, Ohio - Bennie Boatwright scored a career-high 24 points as Southern Cal rallied from a 17-point deficit in the second half to beat Providence 75-71 in a First Four game Wednesday night. The comeback victory was revenge for the Trojans, who lost to Providence by one point in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament last year. They move on to play 6 th-seeded SMU at Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday. After Providence led by 15 points at halftime and went up by 17 to start the second half, Southern Cal (25-9) mounted a furious rally. The Trojans closed it to five points at the 10-minute mark, and went up 61-60 on a jumper by Chimezie Metu off a turnover with 6:46 left. Metu hit ...