COLLEGE BASKETBALL: CVCC moves starting times of Saturday doubleheader up by an hour

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Because of anticipated winter weather, Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) will start its home basketball games earlier than planned on Saturday. The Red Hawks’ women face Region X foe Fayetteville at noon – an hour earlier than originally planned – and the CVCC men’s game against Lenoir Community College will also begin an hour earlier (2 p.m.) …

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Vols easily handle Bears in exhibition game at Tennessee

HobbsDailyReport.com KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A crowd of more than 16,000 watched Tennessee’s men easily handle visiting Lenoir-Rhyne University on Tuesday night in a college basketball exhibition. The game, won 86-41 by Tennessee, was a match-up of the Vols’ head coach, Rick Barnes, battling his alma mater. He is a 1977 LRU graduate who played basketball for the Bears and is …

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Red Hawks release schedules for 2018-19 season

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) will play 33 regular-season women’s basketball games, and the men will play 32 regular-season games this season. Red Hawks officials released the 2018-19 schedules on Tuesday via a press release. The women’s first game is Oct. 11 at home in a 5:30 p.m. tipoff against Warren Wilson. The men open their schedule …

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Red Hawks add Grantham as assistant coach

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Matt Grantham, a second generation basketball coach from Jacksonville, N.C., was hired Wednesday as an assistant coach for men’s basketball at Catawba Valley Community College. In a press release, Red Hawks men’s head coach Bryan Garmroth announced Grantham will join the CVCC staff after two seasons as an assistant coach at North Carolina Wesleyan University. Grantham, an …