The most technically difficult track on the circuit
DALLAS -- Moody Madness indeed, and quicker than even Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown thought. Nick Russell had 15 points to go with a couple of big steals as SMU beat No. 7 Cincinnati 76-55 on Saturday night, ending the Bearcats 15-game winning streak. It was the Mustangs third win over a Top 25 team in seven games since moving back into renovated Moody Coliseum on campus five weeks ago. \"If we didnt have a good team, all wed have is a beautiful building,\" said Brown, in his second season at SMU. \"I didnt imagine it would be like this this quickly. But I was hopeful that we could get it that people wanted to see our team play and appreciate the fact that were playing hard and playing the right way.\" Before their recent surge, the Mustangs (19-5, 8-3 American Athletic Conference) hadnt defeated a ranked opponent anywhere since December 2003. They hadnt had multiple wins against Top 25 teams in the same season since 1984-85, the last time SMU appeared in the poll. They reached as high as No. 2 that season. After this one, fans rushed the floor to celebrate. \"It was crazy,\" said Cannen Cunningham, who had 11 points. \"Everybodys my best friend now.\" Russell had two steals in less than a minute that led to breakaway baskets, with a 3-pointer from Nic Moore in between, to cap an 11-0 run by the Mustangs after Cincinnati (22-3, 11-1) cut the gap to 48-41 midway through the second half. \"Theres not much to say. They beat us in every facet of the game,\" Bearcats coach Mick Cronin said. \"We didnt meet the challenge. ... I think we just got rattled, no question about it. We didnt show poise.\" Cincinnati, with its highest ranking in 10 years, hadnt lost since dropping consecutive games against New Mexico and Xavier in the first half of December. The Bearcats beat SMU 65-57 at home in the AAC opener on New Years Day. Ben Moore also had 15 points for SMU, while Nic Moore scored 14. AAC scoring leader Sean Kilpatrick led Cincinnati with 22 points on 5-of-18 shooting, including 3 for 12 on 3-pointers. The Bearcats scored six points in a row to make it 48-41, the closest they had been since there were 3 minutes left in the first half, when Titus Rubles hit two free throws after being fouled on a breakaway drive after stealing a pass. They didnt get any closer after Russell made a layup after Markus Kennedy broke through two defenders and passed him the ball. SMU was back up 59-41 with 8:13 left when Russell had a steal and broke free for a thunderous, one-handed dunk. Nic Moore hit a 3-pointer right before that, after Ben Moores breakaway layup that came after another steal by Russell. \"When Nick got a steal and they didnt even try to run back with him, I figured it was over,\" Cunningham said. The sellout crowd in the 7,000-seat building broke into chants of \"Larry! Larry! Larry!\" several times -- from before tipoff until late in the game. While students at one end serenaded Cincinnati players with \"Over-rated,\" students sitting at the end near Brown and the SMU bench yelled out \"Under-rated!\" Maybe that wont be the case any more for the Mustangs after another convincing victory over a ranked team. The Mustangs won all six of their home games played off campus before re-opening Moody Coliseum with a 74-65 win Jan. 4 over then-No. 17 UConn. Last Saturday, SMU beat then-No. 22 Memphis 87-72. \"At the beginning of the year, we knew that we believed in each other, but not a lot of people did,\" Russell said. \"Im sure nobody expected us to be here. We knew what we had: Weve got a great coach, a great coaching staff -- the skys the limit.\" Nike Air Max 90 Womens Blue . Langer appeared to be in trouble when his second shot on the par-5 18th ended up in the rough short of the green. He hit a brilliant pitch to 5 feet and made the putt after Slumans birdie attempt rolled just wide. Nike Air Max 90 Mens Blue . 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Kuchar shot 65, and Loupe had a 70.FRANKFURT, Germany -- Three members of the Canadian bobsledding team were hospitalized Thursday after their four-man sled slammed into the roof of the track during a training run for this weekends World Cup stop in Germany. The crash came when pilot Chris Spring of Calgary lost control of his sled on the 16th turn of the 17-turn course at Altenberg, one of the worlds toughest tracks. Spring sustained a \"major puncture wound\" to his buttocks and upper leg area from debris created by the crash, said Don Wilson, the chief executive officer of Bobsleigh Canada. He added that the sliders were resting comfortably and that the injuries were not life-threatening. Pieces of that debris, mostly wood, came through the bottom of the sled and caused the bulk of the injuries. \"I think these athletes are extremely lucky,\" said Nathan Cicoria, the high-performance director for the Canadian team. Weather was not believed to have been a factor in the crash, although training runs were cancelled earlier in the day by heavy snow. \"Ive never seen a sled so destroyed,\" said Canadian coach Tom de la Hunty. Spring was airlifted to the University Clinic in Dresden. Push athletes Bill Thomas of Queensville, Ont., and Graeme Rinholm of Saskatoon were sent to nearby hospitals, where they were to stay at least overnight because of bruising and trauma. A fourth member of the team, Tim Randall of Toronto, was treated at the track and not seriously injured. \"All athletes are at this point in time stabilized, under medical care and thats basically where we are,\" Wilson said. Photos taken at the crash site showed pieces of wood had fallen from the track and onto the snowy surface below, more proof of how much force was generated by Springs sled. \"This an extremely unfortunate incident that we are taking very seriously,\" Wilson said. De la Hunty said the \"disastrous\" crash took place in turn 16, where the sled hit the roof over the course and skidded down the wall, but never left the track. \"The entire front part of the sled came off and dragged through the sled with the athletes inside,\" de la Hunty said. The rest of the training schedule for the day was scrubbed after the crash. \"I didnt actually see the crash,\" U.S. bobsled pilot Steven Holcomb, the 2009 world champion and 2010 Olympic goldd medallist, said in a message to The Associated Press.dddddddddddd. \"I was inside preparing for my run. I only saw the aftermath.\" The fourth World Cup stop of the season for bobsled and skeleton is scheduled to begin Friday in Altenberg, with mens skeleton and womens bobsledding competitions. Saturdays schedule includes womens skeleton and two-man bobsled, followed by the four-man bobsled event Sunday. The 27-year-old Spring was born in Australia and represented that country in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics before switching to the Canadian team after that season. He applied for Canadian citizenship even before those Olympics formally ended, saying he was frustrated over the direction of the Australian program and what he described as a lack of funding. Australia pulled out of the four-man event in Vancouver after a series of crashes depleted the teams roster and left two athletes with concussions. It was at those Vancouver Games when safety again moved to the forefront of conversations about sliding sports. Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili crashed in a training run and died hours before the opening ceremony, his head smashing into a metal beam after his body sailed over the track wall at nearly 145 km/h when he lost control near the finish line. Heavy snow fell in Altenberg for much of Thursday, and German officials released a statement in the morning saying the weather conditions forced the cancellation of that days scheduled skeleton training runs. In the same statement, they said a decision would be made later in the day about whether to allow bobsleds to take their practice runs. By early afternoon, womens bobsled training resumed with 12 sleds taking part. \"Im sure the weather wont impact us that much while we are here, or at least it wont impact me,\" Spring wrote on his blog Sunday. \"Another new track and a tough one at that so I will be switched on for the best part of the week we are here and no doubt stressing out about all the little things us pilots like to worry about.\" Altenberg is notorious for being one of the most difficult tracks in the world to drive, and athletes for years have clamoured for more practice time at the facility. \"The most technically difficult track on the circuit,\" U.S. bobsled coach Brian Shimer once said of Altenberg, in former East Germany. Cheap Jerseys For Sale Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Supply Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '