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The Citadel men's basketball coach Duggar Baucom collapsed on the sideline during the first half of Monday's game against Duke.
According to the Associated Press, the 61-year-old was transported to Duke University Hospital for further evaluation after being helped off the court.
Associate head coach Jack Castleberry assumed Baucom's duties for the remainder of Monday's game.
Following The Citadel's 107-81 loss to the Blue Devils, Castleberry told reporters Baucom "is as good as he can be" and "in good spirits."
Baucom is in his seventh season at The Citadel. The Bulldogs had their first winning record (13-12) under his watch in 2020-21 and got off to a 3-1 start prior to their trip to Durham, North Carolina. They opened the campaign with a 15-point victory over Pittsburgh.
Baucom is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to Monday's contest, he recounted how he used to follow Duke games when he worked as a member of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The Citadel returns to the court Sunday to play South Carolina State.
After East Tennessee State men's basketball coach Jason Shay announced his resignation this week, several players have come forward to support the coach.
According to Michael A. Fletcher of ESPN, the players believe he was forced to leave for supporting them when they kneeled during the national anthem as a protest against racial inequality.
"I personally feel like him resigning is crazy," freshman point guard Truth Harris told ESPN. "It shows a lot of what is going on in this town, and in this country right now."
Senior guard Jordan Coffin further elaborated on the situation in a video on social media:
"All this about us kneeling, and then Coach Shay supporting us through all of that," Coffin said. "People should want a coach that stands behind the players through anything."
The players took a knee during the national anthem ahead of a February 15 game against Chattanooga. About a week later, GOP members of the Tennessee senate signed a letter calling for players to be punished for their actions.
ETSU President Brian Nolan also said he "would have done some things differently."
Shay supported the players but resigned after just one season as the team's head coach with two years left on his contract. The team went 13-12 in his first year on the job.
Athletic director Scott Carter clarified that it was Shay's decision to step down.
"ETSU did not fire Coach Shay nor force Coach Shay to resign," Carter said in a statement to ESPN.
Six players have entered the transfer portal this offseason, including Harris.
The Samford men's basketball team dropped 99 first-half points en route to a 174-99 exhibition win over Division III Greenville University on Wednesday.
Ten players scored 10 or more points for Samford, led by redshirt senior guard Myron Gordon and his 28.
The Bulldogs shot 64.0 percent from the field and 47.6 percent from three-point range. They also out-rebounded Greenville 58-39 and committed 23 fewer turnovers (41-18).
Jarred Johnson paced Greenville with 21 points.
Samford nearly doubled Greenville's scoring output by halftime in taking a 99-50 lead into the break. The Bulldogs ended the half on an 18-0 run that lasted just 2:59.
Bucky McMillan is leading Samford in his first year at the helm. The 37-year-old previously led the Mountain Brook High School (Alabama) boys hoops team from 2008-2020, going 333-74 and winning five state championships.
The Bulldogs have adopted the nickname "Bucky Ball" for their play style. After Wednesday, they're certainly a team to watch.
Samford has Alabama A&M up next on Sunday.
Fletcher Magee of Wofford College not only led his team to its first NCAA tournament victory, but he set the Division I record for most career three-pointers. Watch the video above for more about this breakout star.
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Fletcher Magee is a relatively unknown star. But after setting the Division I career record for three-pointers with 509 and producing a second-round showdown with Kentucky, Wofford's senior marksman has a chance to follow in a legend's footsteps.
Eleven years removed from Stephen Curry's memorable run with Davidson, Magee could propel a small school to the brink of college basketball excellence.
And then, millions of people would know his name.
Magee set the NCAA record Thursday during the second half of seventh-seeded Wofford's 84-68 win over No. 10 Seton Hall. He knocked down a triple―his third of the contest and No. 505 overall―to pass Oakland's Travis Bader, setting off a raucous cheer in his home state of Florida.
Magee finished with seven threes and scored a team-best 24 points to dispatch Seton Hall.
With a shade over seven minutes remaining, Wofford trailed 60-59. Magee's triple sparked a decisive 25-8 run in which he connected on a trio of three-pointers. That ability to take over a game is simply one of several striking similarities between Curry and Magee.
Both players led their program to a Southern Conference championship. Both players stood atop the nation in three-pointers for a single season―while hitting at least 40 percent of them. Both players will have faced a No. 2 seed in the second round.
Longtime Wofford coach Mike Young has acknowledged the similarities.
"I've been in this league a long time, and I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say Steph Curry's the best player the SoCon's ever seen," he told Chris Dortch of The Athletic in 2017. "I don't like to compare players, but in terms of Fletch's ability to score and do it as efficiently as he's doing it, from all points on the floor, let's just say it reminds me of someone."
That praise is merited. It will also be quickly forgotten if Magee and the Terriers don't advance.
Up next for Wofford is Kentucky, which put together arguably the most impressive showing of March Madness' Day 1. John Calipari's squad cruised to a 79-44 win over 15th-seeded Abilene Christian, which knocked down just five threes.
Unconventional though he is, Magee is fully capable of wrecking UK on the perimeter.
Heading into the Big Dance, the Wildcats ranked 223rd in three-point defense. This season, seven opposing players have drilled at least five threes, and Kentucky is 3-4 in those games. Magee has buried five-plus trifectas 20 times as a senior.
Incidentally, Curry connected on five-plus threes during each of Davidson's three March Madness victories in 2008.
Sure, Magee isn't doing this alone. Wofford boasts the country's second-best clip from long distance, largely thanks to Magee and Nathan Hoover, a 45.7 percent shooter from long range who hit four threes Thursday. Curry didn't have a perimeter sidekick of that caliber.
But the Calipari-coached team knows its biggest threat.
Wofford will go as Magee does.
Kentucky―which may again be without star forward PJ Washington because of a sprained foot, per Alyssa Lang of the SEC Network―will do everything it can to slow Magee. After all, he's previously taken down a giant; Magee netted 27 points in the upset of North Carolina in Chapel Hill last season.
Yes, the 'Cats will likely be favored, and nobody would be surprised if the powerhouse program topples the SoCon champions. That's what second-seeded teams are supposed to do in March.
However, they can only prepare so much for the greatest three-point weapon college basketball has seen in a decade. He isn't just a volume shooter; he's exceptionally efficient while hoisting more than 10 threes per game. He's the driving force of a potential Cinderella story.
Wofford is fully capable of beating Kentucky. And if that happens, he'll no longer be the cult hero compared to Steph Curry.
The nation will know him as Fletcher Magee.
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The seventh-seeded Wofford Terriers held off the 10th-seeded Seton Hall Pirates 84-68 in the first round of the 2019 NCAA men's basketball tournament on Thursday, and it's all thanks to a big performance from senior Fletcher Magee.
Magee led the Terriers to the program's first-ever tournament victory with 24 points on 7-of-14 shooting. All seven makes came from three-point range:Â
That big night helped the fourth-year guard make history:
Magee's final trey of the night came with 3:11 to play and extended the Wofford lead to double digits.
Meanwhile, Seton Hall star Myles Powell responded to a quiet first half (four points) with a 23-point outburst in the second:
That included 17 points in the first nine minutes and eight seconds out of the break.
But Powell couldn't carry his team to the finish line. After the Pirates cut the deficit to a single point with less than five minutes to play, the Terriers went on a 17-0 run over the next four minutes to pull away for good.
Win or lose, both Magee and Powell put on quite the show:
Wofford will now face second-seeded Kentucky on Saturday for a spot in the Sweet 16.
Fletcher Magee made history in Thursday's 2019 NCAA men's basketball tournament game between the Wofford Terriers and Seton Hall Pirates.
With his third three-pointer, Magee passed former Oakland Golden Grizzlies guard Travis Bader for the most career three-pointers (505).
The odds of Bader keeping his record through Thursday were slim to none. Magee averaged 4.6 made threes on 10.7 attempts heading into the tournament, and he was bound to have a green light in such an important game for the Terriers.
Seton Hall also ranked 139th in three-point defense, allowing opponents to shoot 33.6 percent from beyond the arc.
College basketball fans have known about Magee's long-range prowess for a few years. Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller profiled him in December 2017.
The 6'4" guard finished the 2017-18 season with 148 made threes—at the time, the fifth-most in a single season. He's since surpassed his own mark, with 151 threes and counting entering the Big Dance.
Now, Magee is the gold standard for long-range specialists at the college level.
