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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Former Grand Canyon guard Tyon Grant-Foster heading to Gonzaga
FILE - Grand Canyon guard Tyon Grant-Foster (7) controls the ball during the second half of a second-round college basketball game against Alabama in the NCAA Tournament in Spokane, Wash., Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File) SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Former Grand Canyon guard Tyon Grant-Foster is headed to Gonzaga. Grant-Foster announced his decision on Instagram Wednesday. A 6-foot-7 senior, Grant-Foster was the 2024 Western Athletic Conference player of the year after averaging 20.1 points and 6.1 rebounds in his first season with the Antelopes. He averaged 14.8 points and 5.9 rebounds last season. Advertisement Grant-Foster missed more than a year of basketball after collapsing in the locker room at halftime while playing for DePaul. He was recruited out of Indian Hills Junior College by Kansas and played one season for the Jayhawks in a limited role. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: and
Miami Herald
22-03-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Maryland crushes Grand Canyon with balanced attack
Julian Reese had 18 points and nine rebounds and Derik Queen had 12 points and 15 rebounds as No. 4 seed Maryland rolled past No. 13 seed Grand Canyon 81-49 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament's West Regional on Friday in Seattle. Ja'Kobi Gillespie had 16 points and Selton Miguel had 13 as they combined for five of the Terrapins' seven 3-point field goals, helping set a school season record for 3-pointers with 276. The 2016-17 team had 272. The Terrapins (26-8) have won 16 of their last 17 first-round NCAA Tournament games dating to 1997 and will meet No. 12 seed Colorado State (26-9) in the second round Sunday. Colorado State upset No. 5 seed Memphis 78-70. Maryland had its largest margin of victory in an NCAA Tournament game. "We just stayed together as a team and just kept punching and kept punching kept punching and we defended and just -- we did everything well that we usually do as a team," Queen said. "We just went out there and just played hard." Tyon Grant-Foster had 23 points but the rest of the Grand Canyon starters combined for only 15 points for the WAC champion Antelopes (26-8), who were seeking a second consecutive first-round win after beating fifth seed Saint Mary's 75-66 a year ago. "We see a lot of post play" in the Big Ten, Maryland coach Kevin Willard said. "So for us to flip the switch and go against guards that can get downhill, we hadn't seen that in a while. So I thought it was really good the fact that these guys really focused in for three days, and really the guards, I challenged the guards to play a little bit more physical defensively and I thought they did a great job." With 6-foot-9 Reese and 6-foot-10 Queen dominating inside, the Terrapins had a 44-33 rebounding advantage and a 44-16 advantage in points in the paint. Grand Canyon shot 28.6 percent from the field and was 5-of-23 from 3-point range. The Terrapins have won 13 of their last 16 games. The Terrapins used a 18-1 run that began with a Gillespie three-point play to take a 33-13 lead with 5 1/2 minutes to play in the first half. Maryland outscored the Antelopes 31-6 in a longer stretch of the first half to establish control. Grant-Foster's 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer, his third three in the final five minutes of the first half, cut Maryland's halftime lead to 42-28. Grant-Foster made the first basket of the second half, but the Antelopes were never closer than 12. "I thought they opened the door the first five minutes for us to have a little bit of a lead, and we didn't capitalize it," Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew said. "Once they got the lead it just snowballed. And as they took away a little bit of our energy level, then just we got exposed in a lot of ways." Maryland was one of one four Division I programs this season to have all five starters average in double figures. Rodney Rice finished with nine points. --Field Level Media Field Level Media 2023 - All Rights Reserved
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Queen regal for Terps, favored Maryland runs away from Grand Canyon in Seattle NCAAs
Maryland's madness marches on. Thanks to Derik Queen being regal, again. The Big Ten's star freshman big man's 14th double-double this season, and ninth in his last 11 games, left smaller Grand Canyon in a chasm it could never get out of. The fourth-seeded Terrapins seized a 20-point lead in the first half. Then they cruised to a 81-48 victory over the 13 seed 'Lopes at Climate Pledge Arena in the second of four first-round games of the NCAA tournament's return to Seattle. Queen finished with 12 points, 15 rebounds, three assists, two blocks, multiple no-look passes inside and more menacing moves than a turtle should have. He led the Terps (26-8), second-place finishers in the Big Ten this regular season, into the second round Sunday at the home of the NHL's Kraken — and hoped-for home of the future Sonics to the NBA. Maryland will play Colorado State. The 12th-seeded Rams (26-9) rallied to beat fifth-seeded Memphis 78-70 in the first Seattle game Friday. Against GCU, Julian Reese was 8 for 15 from the field for 18 points for Maryland. The Terps trailed early. Then they blitzed Grand Canyon with Queen inside and hot shooting outside during a relentless, 31-6 run. It put the Terps up by 20, 33-13, with 5 1/2 minutes left in the first half. Grand Canyon missed 16 of its first 21 shots and was shooting 23%. That was while Maryland was scorching, 12 for 23 (52%). All the while, Queen dominated the lane. Late in the first half, Grand Canyon leading scorer JaKobe Coles spun on a Terps defender free to rim for what he thought was a layup. The 6-foot-10 Queen raced across the lane and swatted Coles' shot from the rim into the corner. Coles, the Western Athletic Conference tournament most outstanding player last week, looked stunned. To avoid Queen, the 'Lopes resorted to shooting 3-point tries outside. That mostly failed, too. GCU shot just 21.7% (5 for 23) from 3-point range. Grant-Foster made one, from well behind the top of the arc to end the first half. He angrily pointed at his 'Lopes bench as the teams headed into the locker room for halftime. That cut Maryland's lead to 42-28. Grant-Foster scored the first basket after halftime, too, a put back that got GCU within 12. Grand Canyon couldn't get closer after that. A tip-in backside off a miss by Queen put Maryland back up by 17, 51-34, with 15 minutes remaining. The lead grew to 71-45 with 5:20 left, on a 3-pointer by the Terps' Selton Miguel off the 'Lopes' ninth turnover, then to 79-48 with Jordan Geronimo's emphatic, two-handed dunk off a loose ball in the lane with 2 minutes left.
Associated Press
31-01-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Tyon Grant-Foster scores 24 to propel Grand Canyon past Seattle University 83-74
The AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. PHOENIX (AP) — Tyon Grant-Foster came off the bench to score 24 points and lead Grand Canyon to an 83-74 victory over Seattle University on Thursday night. Grant-Foster also grabbed seven rebounds and blocked two shots for the Antelopes (16-5, 6-1 Western Athletic Conference), who trailed 44-39 at halftime. Duke Brennan totaled 18 points and eight rebounds. JaKobe Coles added 17 points, six assists and five rebounds. Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe and Kobe Williamson both scored 20 to lead the Redhawks (8-13, 3-4).
