...Southern Conference) took its first lead since the 6:11 mark in the first half with 1:37 to go in the game when Zakee Wadood's trey gave the Buccaneers an 82-81 lead. Jenkins answered with the eventual game-winner to make the score 84-82...

...Tigers with 21 points and 14 rebounds. Shawan Robinson added 19 points and Chris Hobbs had 13 points and 13 rebounds. Zakee Wadood led East Tennessee State with 24 points and a school record 10 steals. Ben Rhoda added 19 and Brad Nuckles scored 17...

...for South Carolina. Jerald Fields scored 12 points for East Tennessee State (1-3), while Dimeco Childress and Zakee Wadood added 11. South Carolina shot 52 percent (38-for-58) from the field and hit 13-of-28 3-pointers. Marius...

...Fields led East Tennessee State with 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Tiras Wade added 14 points. But Fields, Wade and Zakee Wadood, who had 11 points and nine rebounds, would all foul out in a sloppy game that had 37 fouls, 48 turnovers and a double-technical...

...basketball, Bartow said. "Really, it just goes back to the personalities that we have," he said. Those include Zakee Wadood, selected the Southern Conference player of the year Monday by league coaches. He's averaging 14.8 points, second...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- East Tennessee State forward Zakee Wadood has been named the Southern Conference's player of the year while Wadood's coach, Murry Bartow, has won coach of the year...