College Sports

SAN ANTONIO -- Kansas plays Memphis tonight for the NCAA men's college basketball championship. It's once-beaten Memphis against a Kansas team that was able to open a 28-point lead on top-ranked North Carolina Saturday in easily winning its national semifinal. Both teams are athletic, like to push the ball up the court and run at every opportunity.

The Piedmont Lions took two games from visiting Emory University on Sunday, bringing them to 24-7 on the season.

Matt Olson hit a game-winning RBI single and Georgia beat South Carolina 1-0, then the Bulldogs rallied in the second game of a doubleheader to win 5-3 on Saturday night.

Family members disclosed Saturday that longtime Georgia Bulldog radio announcer Larry Munson had successful surgery on Friday to remove blood clots on his brain.

It'll be Memphis and Kansas in Monday's men's NCAA basketball championship game.

Georgia football coach Mark Richt moved into the press box for Saturday's G-Day, getting a birds-eye view of the team that some are predicting will win the college football national championship in 2008.

ATHENS -- Whenever Walter Hill talks with acquaintances from East Hall the question invariably comes up. "Everybody always calls and asks me: are you going to get some playing time, you going play next year," said Hill, now a redshirt freshman receiver at Georgia.

SAN ANTONIO -- Tyler Hansbrough, who topped the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring and rebounding and led North Carolina to the Final Four, was selected The Associated Press college basketball player of the year Friday.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Lawyers for Rich Rodriguez and West Virginia University will meet in court for the first time at a hearing on Thursday on scheduling and pretrial motions in the lawsuit over a $4 million contract buyout clause.