Saturday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer-South Carolina; Mercer, Georgia College, Mayhem; Stuckey service; NCAA tournaments; football; more
Saturday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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Women’s NCAA Tournament
Mercer vs. South Carolina
Sunday, 6 p.m., ESPN
Georgia Tech vs. Stephen F. Austin
Sunday, 4:30 p.m., ESPNU
Around/About Central Georgia
Strong first half lifts Mercer over Western Carolina
Perry alum Gentry keys Bobcats’ big sweep
Mercer sweeps DH, sweeps Bradley
Third period lifts Huntsville over Macon
Mercer softball rolls to two Ws in Tennnessee
Large crowd at Shamrock Bowl celebrates Stuckey family (video)
Around/About Georgia
UGA’s Taylor not surprised by disparities at tournament
Walk-off lifts Georgia past Tennessee
Collins leads Hawks past Lakers
Moses Wright finally leaves Indianapolis
Dodge County’s Glover helps Kennesaw State to W
Men’s NCAA Tournament
Buddy Boeheim leads dads team against Hugs
Women’s NCAA Tournament
NCAA upgrades weight facilities for teams
UGA’s Taylor not surprised by disparities at tournament
Program-builder Schaefer has Texas rolling
Early enrollees get big boost in experience in tournament
Players in the bubble see a wide open San Antonio
College Basketball
Ohio State player getting threats, vulgarities after loss
Police now involved, support grows
Barkley goes off on the situation
Big Ten a first-day tournament bust
The upset can be quite the career changer for a coach
NIT: Langston Hughes grad leads Memphis over Dayton
NBA
LeBron goes down hard with ankle injury
College football
Ohio State has questions as spring starts
South Carolina’s Beamer ready for just football
NFL
Saints penalized for COVID violations
Ex-Falcon Neal joins ex-Falcon Quinn
Baseball
Vanderbilt’s Leiter whiffs 16 in no-hitter over South Carolina
Cubs minor-leaguer busted with load of drugs
Around the nation/world
Column: Pitino the latest example of sports overlooking faults
Iowa wins NCAA wrestling title
No fans from abroad for Tokyo Olympics
Allgaier takes Xfinity in Atlanta
And there was a throwdown afterward