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Archbishop Carroll graduate Hollie Mershon scored a career-high 18 points off the bench to spark Drexel in a 56-46 Colonial Athletic Association win over Georgia State (5-8) on Thursday night at the Daskalakis Athletic Center. The Dragons improved to 9-4. Kamile Nacickaite added 12 points and Renee Johnson-Allen turned in career highs with five assists and five rebounds. Drexel began its rally with 9 minutes, 45 seconds remaining. A 22-6 run was fueled largely by reserves. Philadelphia U. 82, Georgian Court 52 - Kate Brennan collected 20 points and seven rebounds for the Rams in a rout of winless Georgian Court that opened a home doubleheader with the men's team.

Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, 99, is in grave condition at a Los Angeles hospital, according to multiple reports Wednesday night. According to a report on Los Angeles television station KCAL, Wooden, who is in UCLA Medical Center, has not eaten in the last couple of days and is very ill. Wooden, nicknamed "The Wizard of Westwood," won an unprecedented 10 NCAA championships in his final 12 seasons, including seven in a row from 1967 to 1973. The first football game in 20 years between Penn State and defending national champion Alabama will be shown on Sept.

Gabriela Marginean poured in 34 points, but Drexel (17-10, 11-5 in CAA) lost a 60-58 heartbreaker to Georgia State (14-13, 5-11) last night in Atlanta. The Dragons rallied from a 12-point deficit with less than five minutes remaining in the game, but an off-balance, last-second jumper by Marginean that would have tied the game came up short. Massachusetts 75, Saint Joseph's 62 - The Minutewomen (11-17, 5-8 Atlantic 10) shot 61 percent in the second half to pull away from the Hawks 15-13 (8-5 A-10)

Elena Delle Donne has her own way of dealing with anger issues. The Delaware freshman flirted with her school scoring record yesterday, collecting 35 points as the Blue Hens held off Georgia State, 68-65, in a Colonial Athletic Association women's basketball game at the Bob Carpenter Center. She made 15 of 22 shots, including 4 of 7 three-pointers. "I felt like I played awful against Old Dominion," Delle Donne said, referring to Thursday night's 54-52 setback on the road.

Georgia State came into its game with Drexel as one of the top-ranked defensive teams in the Colonial Athletic Association, but Jamie Harris quickly made a mockery of that. Penetrating at will, Harris had 21 points by halftime, and the junior guard from New York City made sure that Drexel wouldn't start CAA play with two road losses. Bouncing back from Saturday's disappointing performance at Delaware, the Dragons built a 20-point lead late in the first half and defeated the Panthers, 72-57, last night at the GSU Sports Arena.

Guard Jamie Harris scored a career-high 32 points last night to lead Drexel to a 72-57 rout of Georgia State in a Colonial Athletic Association game at the GSU Sports Arena. Harris made 12 of 19 shots from the field as the Dragons improved to 7-8 overall and 2-1 in the CAA. Gerald Colds scored 16 points for the winners. Freshman Daryl McCoy snared a career-high 13 rebounds, including five on the offensive end, for Drexel. "We played well tonight," Dragons coach Bruiser Flint said.

Who: Drexel (6-8, 1-1 CAA) at Georgia State (8-6, 2-0) When: 7 o'clock Where: Sports Arena, Atlanta TV: None Radio: WNTP (990-AM) Notes: This is the second of three games in 5 days for Drexel. The Dragons lost to Delaware on Saturday and host Virginia Commonwealth on Wednesday . . . Georgia State is 5-0 at home this season, and has won eight straight at home. Senior Trey Hampton has scored 68 points and is 21-for-25 from the field over the last three games.

Perhaps enough time has passed for Binghamton University's basketball program to begin a recovery. At least its new head coach, former Temple star Mark Macon, hopes so. Macon leads Binghamton - limping along at 4-10 and more than three months removed from the dismissal of six players, including at least three starters - against La Salle (7-5) in a home game today. After spending several years as an assistant at Temple, Georgia State and Binghamton, Macon looked forward to becoming a head coach.

In a game featuring eight lead changes, Villanova struggled in the second half in a 55-47 loss to Massachusetts yesterday in Amherst, Mass. The Wildcats (2-1) missed six of their last seven shots and the Minutewomen (2-2) made seven free throws in the final 45 seconds for the win. Villanova's Tia Grant, Heather Scanlon, and Laura Sweeney all scored 12 points. Georgia 49, Rutgers 48 - Ashley Houts scored 17 points to lead the No. 16 Bulldogs (3-0) to a come-from-behind win over the Scarlet Knights (2-2)

Kevin McHale is out as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves. David Kahn, the new president of basketball operations, announced the move yesterday, ending McHale's 15-year stint with the Timberwolves, mostly in the front office. McHale boldly had drafted Kevin Garnett out of high school in 1995. Kahn replaced McHale in the front office in April. In 2005, McHale took over as coach after firing Flip Saunders, and the team was 19-12 the rest of the season. The Hall of Famer and former Boston Celtics star returned to the bench in December for a second stint, replacing the fired Randy Wittman.