Cleveland State University NCAA News

Sylven Landesberg did his usual thing with 20 points Wednesday night, and once-seldom-used junior lefty Will Sherrill emerged for a career-high 18.

Cleveland State's Trevon Harmon looks for a shoot against Wichita State on Saturday.

Thanks to walk-on Will Sherrill, Virginia's memories of the Moon Palace Resort are a little more favorable than they might have been otherwise.

Sylven Landesberg scored 20 points and Will Sherrill came off the bench to add 18, including 15 in the second half, to lead Virginia to a 76-65 victory over Cleveland State on Wednesday night.

John Wall scored 15 points and DeMarcus Cousins added 14 Tuesday to power No. 5 Kentucky to a 73-49 win over Cleveland State in Cancun, Mexico.

Once John Wall gained his footing, not even a warped court could slow down Kentucky.

John Calipari is far from satisfied with his team's defense, but Kentucky 's first-year coach saw progress in the Wildcats' last game.

Norris Cole scored 24 points and had six assists to lead Cleveland State to an 80-65 victory on Saturday night.

Norris Cole scored 38 points to lead Cleveland State to a 78-64 win over Florida A&M on Thursday night.

Cleveland State begins its home season this morning with a Business Mans Special, 11:30 a.m. game against Wilmington College.

D'Aundray Brown and Jared Cunningham each scored 14 points to lead Cleveland State to a 99-74 win over Wilmington on Monday.

Cleveland State basketball begins its season tonight against a veteran St. Bonaventure team out of the Atlantic 10 Conference that finished .500 overall last season.

Jonathan Hall scored 20 points and St. Bonaventure shot better than 77 percent in the first half to defeat Cleveland State 72-62 Friday night in the season opener for both teams.

CSU begins their defense of the Horizon League this Friday. PREVIEWING CLEVELAND STATE: Gary Waters finds himself in a bit of a rebuilding season for the Vikings after posting the first back-to-back 20 win seasons since the late 1980's. With just two starters and four players back who saw significant action last year, Waters must quickly ...

Despite losing three starters, Head Coach Gary Waters will hope to build on last year's campaign which saw the Cleveland State Vikings win the Horizon League Tournament and beat Wake Forest in the NCAA tournament before bowing out to Arizona in the second round.

Butler is once again the overwhelming favorite to win the Horizon League men's basketball title, and Wright State looks to be the Bulldogs' toughest challenger.

Cleveland State coach Gary Waters is tempering enthusiasm about the team making a return trip to the NCAA Tournament this season.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: PG Lance James was a third-team JUCO All-American at Aiken Tech after averaging 23.4 points, 6.1 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 3.2 steals, but he has big shoes to fill replacing Cedric Jackson .

Butler center Matt Howard was projected to repeat last season's honor as Horizon League basketball Player of the Year in balloting announced today.

The preseason Horizon League poll is in. Valparaiso was picked eighth by league-wide media, coaches and sports information directors.