LSU guard Ralston Turner will transfer to N.C. State, he said Monday. Turner, a 6-6 shooting guard, averaged 10.5 points per game in two seasons at LSU.
Under NCAA rules, he will have to sit out the 2012-13 season but will have two seasons of eligibility remaining. N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried recruited Turner out of Muscle Shoals, Ala. when he was the coach at Alabama.
"I felt like I knew coach Gottfried and I was comfortable with him," Turner said.
After LSU's 21-0 loss to Alabama in the BCS title game Monday night, Tigers coach Les Miles stopped short of asking AP voters for a split national title. Even he knew it was a lost cause after his team's uninspired performance against the Crimson Tide.
Alabama, with the first shutout in a title game (BCS, de facto or otherwise) in 20 years, left no room for doubt Monday night in the Superdome — despite a 9-6 regular-season loss to LSU — that it was the better team. And that's why I voted the Crimson Tide No. 1 in my final AP ballot of the 2011 season.
ATLANTA — North Carolina's depleted defense held its own against LSU and the offense overcame a shaky start but the Tigers' special teams proved to be the difference in the first half of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff.
Patrick Peterson had 244 yards in kick returns to set up two touchdowns and he returned a third, 87 yards for a touchdown to give the No. 21 Tigers a 30-10 halftime lead over No. 18 UNC.
North Carolina did not include a depth chart in its game notes released to the media today.
The 18th-ranked Tar Heels open the season on Saturday against No. 21 Louisiana State in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff in Atlanta.
DURHAM - Round two was tougher.
After routing Hampton in the first round of the NCAA women’s tournament, the No. 2 seeded Blue Devils faced a bruising, defensive-minded Louisiana State team on Monday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Pushed to the closing minutes, they escaped with a 60-52 victory and will advance to the Memphis Regional semifinals on Saturday.
DURHAM - With its 72-37 victory over Hampton on Saturday the Duke women's basketball team has now won 13 consecutive NCAA tournament games at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The No. 2 seeded Blue Devils (28-5) have been pretty strong at home this season.
DURHAM -- Louisiana State’s women’s basketball team summoned its usual prickly defense and bottled up Hartford for a 60-39 victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
UNC finalized its deal with LSU to open the 2010 football season in Atlanta in the Chik-fil-A Kickoff.
The Tar Heels had to move their previously scheduled game with South Carolina to accommodate the national showcase game. They will open the 2013 season against the Gamecocks in Columbia, S.C.
GREENSBORO — North Carolina point guard Ty Lawson will start against LSU in the second round of the NCAA Tournament today, a team spokesman said about 14 minutes before gametime.
Lawson, the ACC Player of the Year, has missed the past three games with a jammed right big toe.
