The Illawarra Hawks survived a stirring Brisbane Bullets fightback to secure a 91-85 overtime win in the NBL on Monday night.Brisbane rallied from 17 points down midway through the third quarter to tie the game at 77-77 with 11 seconds remaining in regulation time.The Hawks opened up an early four-point buffer during overtime and held their nerve in the dying minutes to win by six points and cement third place on the ladder.The Bullets were dealt an injury blow during overtime with Cameron Bairstow crashing to the Brisbane Convention Centre floor as his left knee buckled underneath him during a routine layup.The initial diagnosis doesnt look good for the former NBA forward who will have scans on Tuesday morning.Brisbanes Torrey Craig led all scorers with 21 points, while Nicholas Kay (14 points, six rebounds) top-scored for the Hawks who had seven players score 10 points or more.Hawks coach Rob Beveridge was relieved that his side held on to win after dominating for large periods of what was a scrappy contest.I felt we controlled the game and if we lost that wed be devastated, Beveridge said.The way we fought together in overtime was pretty special and I think these guys can start to believe they are a pretty good team.The Hawks edged a tight first quarter 18-17 and flew out to an early lead in the second as 13 first-half turnovers hampered Brisbane on the offensive end.Illawarra held an eight-point lead at the main break and soon extended their advantage to double digits as the Bullets also struggled with poor shooting from the field.Down by 17 midway through the third term, Brisbane rallied to cut the deficit to 10 at three-quarter time and then to five points inside the final two minutes.Brisbanes tenacity paid dividends as they forced the match into overtime with only seconds to spare, but the Hawks were the hungrier side during the extra minutes as they notched their ninth win of the season.Cheap Nike Kevin Durant Basketball Shoes China . 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Ancelotti says Ronaldo has recovered from a hamstring injury but "but he doesnt feel comfortable yet so we wont risk him." Madrid is third in the Spanish league, six points behind leader Barcelona, going into Saturdays game against Valladolid.DES MOINES, Iowa -- Drake coach Ray Giacoletti abruptly resigned Tuesday after three-plus seasons, saying it was time for a new voice to lead the Bulldogs out of a skid that has them just 1-7 so far this season.Giacoletti, a former coach at Utah, went 32-69 at Drake and will be replaced by assistant Jeff Rutter for the rest of the season. Athletic director Sandy Hatfield-Clubb wouldnt speculate on Rutters status following the season.Giacolletis stint with the Bulldogs got off to a promising start, as he finished 15-16 in 2013-14 at a program with just one NCAA Tournament appearance since 1971.But Drake finished 9-22 and 7-24 in the next two seasons. The Bulldogs only win so far in 2016-17 came against Division III Simpson College, and last week they went through a brutal stretch that included two-point losses at DePaul and Fresno State.It felt like this was the right move, Giacoletti said. Im a big boy. I understand how this thing works. Its year four, and where our team needs to be, in my opinion, not anybody elses opinion, where I believe our team should be, Im accountable for that. I didnt feel like we were there, and I didnt feel like there was a whole lot of how I could help it change.The promotion was bittersweet for Rutter, a close friend of Giacolettis who will be a Division I head coach for the first time.Rutter has spent 30 years in coaching, including a stint as the head coach at Division II Wisconsin-Parkside from 1996-2003. He left to join Greg McDermott at Northern Iowa and followed McDermott to Iowa State, where the pair worked togethher for seven seasons.ddddddddddddTheres no wholesale change, some magic formula. (Its about) guys believing in playing efficiently, playing hard, playing together, and just trying to get over the hump and hope getting over the hump snowballs in a positive way, Rutter said.Giacolettis resignation was just the latest in a long line of struggles for Iowas most downtrodden Division I program.After reaching the Final Four in 1969, the Bulldogs went through decades of lackluster play. Tom Davis, who had recently been let go at Iowa, took over in the early 2000s and made the program competitive before handing the program over to his son. Keno Davis led Drake on a remarkable run in 2007-08, winning the Missouri Valley Conference and earning a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. He left for Providence after that season and was replaced by Mark Phelps, a strong recruiter who couldnt make the Bulldogs a winner in five seasons.Hatfield-Clubb thought she had found the right guy in Giacoletti, a former head coach at Utah and a Gonzaga assistant who hoped to follow the blueprint that Mark Few used to maintain sustained success with the Zags.Unless Rutter can show marked improvement with this years roster, shell likely have yet another coaching search on her hands this spring.Our team is not where we expected to be when we originally talked about that vision, Hatfield-Clubb said.---More college basketball at www.collegebasketball.ap.org ' ' '
