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Rice Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Rice certainly isn't panicking about being 0-1 in Conference USA. That doesn't mean the Owls aren't a little frustrated, though, about not being 1-0. Rice lost a heartbreaker in its conference opener Jan. 7, 63-61 to Marshall at home. Rice's best player, junior forward Arsalan Kazemi, was tripped af... (original story)

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East Carolina Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

East Carolina showed plenty of heart and guts on Wednesday night, despite losing 78-76 to a very good Southern Mississippi team. Both teams came in riding win streaks but only one will take that on to Saturday. The good news for the Pirates is they come home for their second conference game against ... (original story)

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Memphis Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Memphis finally seems headed in the right direction for the first time in a long time. Memphis finished the 2011 portion of its 2011-12 schedule by beating Robert Morris 64-47 and Charlotte 67-58. While that might not seem like much by the standards of a team that began the season ranked, it's somet... (original story)

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Houston Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

The hope is the Houston Cougars on Jan. 7 at UTEP will be able to take a night off from the nail-biters that have become the norm this season. After seven of Houston's 13 non-conference games were decided by five points or fewer, the Cougars opened C-USA action on Jan. 4 with a 70-69 overtime victor... (original story)

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Southern Miss Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Bad news for the rest of Conference USA: Southern Mississippi has yet to play its best basketball. And the Golden Eagles are 14-2 and have won 10 straight, the school's longest winning streak since 1990-91, after Wednesday's 78-76 win over East Carolina. They also have won 13 of their last 14. While... (original story)

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UCF Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Who needs Donnie Jones? The UCF head coach won't be roaming the sidelines for the Knights' Jan. 7 C-USA showdown with East Carolina as he serves a school-imposed three-game suspension to start league play as part of the NCAA's ongoing investigation into recruiting concerns around the athletics depar... (original story)

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UAB Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Alabama-Birmingham is just 5-7 heading into its final nonconference game Jan. 3 at Florida. A three-game winning streak and Cameron Moore, though, give the Blazers reasons to believe they can be a factor in Conference USA after winning the regular-season title last season. While the senior forward i... (original story)

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Marshall Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Two streaks down, one to go. Before heading to Rice for a game in Houston on Saturday, Marshall had to settle the not so small matter of a pair of bothersome streaks. No. 1, the Herd was 0-7 against visiting UTEP, never having defeated the Miners since joining Conference USA in 2005. No. 2, Marshall... (original story)

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UTEP Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

It's been just two seasons since Houston snapped a 16-game UTEP win streak with a shocking 81-73 upset victory in the Conference-USA Tournament championship game, but that doesn't mean that there's necessarily a rivalry brewing between the two clubs. That's because both programs replaced coaching st... (original story)

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Southern Methodist Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

As Southern Methodist gets set to begin Conference USA play, coach Matt Doherty has a good feeling about his Mustangs. SMU is 8-5 following a 2-3 start and has won three of its last four games. It has one more non-conference game, at Mississippi on Jan. 3, before opening conference play at Tulsa on ... (original story)

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