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SEC FOOTBALL NEWS AND NOTES Williams, Hutchins and Smith honored Auburn runningback Car nell Williams, Ole Miss defen sive back Von Hutchins and Mississippi State placekicker Brent Smith were named SEC players of the week Monday. Williams won his Player of the Week honors by rushing for 185 yards on 36 carries in a 28-21 win over Tennessee at home last Saturday. The junior run ningback also scored a touch down in the game. Williams ended the game with 232 all purpose yards, which is a ca reer-high. Also, Williams' 185 rushing yards against Tennes see was his highest rushing total against an SEC opponent. Hutchins came to play against Florida last week, when the Rebels beat the Gators 20-17 in Gainesville, Fla. Hutchins finished the contest with six tackles, a sack, an interception and one pass deflection. The se nior from Natchez, Miss., col lected his first career sack on a Florida third-and-goal play. The Gators ended up missing the subsequent 37-yard field goal. Hutchins now has 23 tackles, two interceptions and four pass deflections on the season. Smith earned his player of the week stripes going three for-three on his field goal attempts and his extra point at tempts, providing Mississippi State 12 of its total points as the Bulldogs beat Vanderbilt 30-21. Smith connected on 47-, 45- and 34-yard field goal tries. This year, Smith has made five of six field goals and has yet to miss an extra point in his career. Divisional leads up for grabs in week 7 The outcomes of the SEC East and the SEC West could be decided Saturday, a day that features contests between No. 8 Georgia at No. 13 Tennessee in the SEC East and Auburn at No. 7 Arkansas in the SEC West. Florida also plays an im portant cross-divisional game at No. 6 LSU. Tennessee had a nine-game win streak against Georgia un til the Bulldogs took the past three games to start a streak of their own. Georgia is coming off a 37-23 victory over mistake and injury-prone Alabama. The Volunteers are returning to Knoxville, Tenn., after a loss at unranked Auburn. Tennessee's defense could not stop Auburn runningback Carnell Williams last Saturday, but this week the Vols will look to contain Georgia quarterback David Greene. The game will be televised at 7:45 p.m. on ESPN2. Even though Auburn start ed the season 0-2, both losses were against nonconference op ponents, and the Tigers still have their sights set on the SEC Championship. Auburn is already on the way after beating Tennessee, but Auburn now has to play Arkansas. The Razorbacks have beaten Auburn in four out of their past five games, with Arkansas winning last season's game in Auburn 38-17. Jefferson Pilot Sports will broadcast the game at 12:30 p.m. LSU is also in the hunt for the SEC West crown but will have to beat Florida at home to stay undefeated. Florida leads the series in Baton Rouge, La., but LSU proved it wasn't in timidated by the Gators when the Tigers won in Gainesville, Fla., last season 36-7. LSU quarterback Matt Mauck finished the game with 153 yards passing and two touchdowns. LSU is coming off a bye week, and Florida is com ing off a 20-17 loss to Ole Miss at home. The Florida-LSU game will be broadcast on CBS at 3:30 p.m. Other SEC games include Southern Miss, at Alabama, Memphis at Mississippi State, Navy at Vanderbilt and Arkansas State at Ole Miss. Kentucky plays USC on Thursday night. BRIEFLY • Men’s soccer team to play Elon at home The USC men's soccer team (7 3) will step on the field against Elon (3-5-1, 1-1-1 Southern) tonight. Carolina has yet to lose a game at home this season. Each of the Gamecocks' losses have come on the road, to Portland, Washington and Clemson. USC is also 1-0 all-time versus Elon. The only game between the schools ended with a 5-1 Carolina win in Columbia in 2001. Elon comes into the game af ter a win against Southern Conference foe Georgia Southern 1-0 at home. Elon was 1-5-1 until the past two games. The Phoenix's other wins came against UNC-Wilmington and Longwood College. The Gamecocks and the Phoenix will meet at 7 p.m. at Eugene E. Stone III Stadium. USC will play Wake Forest on Sunday at 2 p.m. before going on the road again, this time against Charlotte and Furman. Midnight Madness set for basketball ► | The USC men's basketball team will play host to Midnight Madness on Friday, Oct. 17 in the USC Practice Facility. Midnight Madness is the tra ditional beginning to the bas ketball season and will feature the semifinals and finals of a stu dent three-on-three basketball tournament, volleyball head coach Kim Hudson Christopher, wemen's basketball head coach Susan Walvius, a celebrity hot shot contest, Cocky and the cheerleaders, and a 15-minute scrimmage by the men's basket ball team at midnight, plus a stu dent contest to be announced later. The first 1,000 students will receive Midnight Madness T shirts, and other giveaways will be held at the event. Doors open for the event at 10:30 p.m., and admission is free. NCAA 3-point line to be moved back for 2004-2005 season BY STEVE HERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS - The 3-point line in college basketball is about to be moved 9 inches farther from the basket beginning in the 2004 OS season. Barring unexpected dissent by the NCAA’s two smallest divi sions, the new line will be set at 20 feet, 6 inches. The championships committees of all three divisions decided to' keep the rectangular free throw lane, rejecting a switch to the trapezoidal lane used interna tionally. “In Division I, it’s essentially done,” Marty Benson, the NCAA liaison to the basketball rules committee, said Tuesday. “In Division II and III, the manage ment councils have to look at it and either approve what the championships committee did or change what the championships committee did.” Earlier *this year, South Carolina coach Dave Odom, a "rules committee member, said the extra 9 inches might discourage marginal shooters from taking longer shots. “That would make the shot more meaningful,” he said. The management councils meet Oct. 21-22. If they agree, the changes in all three divisions will take effect in the 2004-05 season. If they don’t, the matter will be de cided by the NCAA executive com mittee Oct. 31. That committee’s options in clude approving the change for , only the divisions that passed it, approving it for all three divisions or rejecting it for all three, Benson said. It’s unlikely Divisions n and III will not go along, he said. Another proposal would cut from 16 to 8 the number of prede termined sites for the first two rounds of the women’s Division I tournament. If approved by the Division I management council and the ex ecutive committee, that change would take effect for the 2005 tour nament. “It’s just the evolution of the championship. It creates more neutral sites for the champi onship,” said Scotty Rogers, as sistant director of the Division I women’s basketball championship committee. “You have a little more neutrality when only one of those teams could potentially play at home.” The men’s first and second rounds already are played at eight sites. “The only difference, and it’s a major difference, is that the wom en’s-proposal is for predetermined sites, meaning the host institution could play at home,” Rogers said. “The men’s tournament does not allow that.” USC Honors Hispanic Students and Faculty who have excelled in Leadership and Service. Friday, October 10,2003 7:00pm- 10:00pm Russell House Ballroom Other News: •Freshmen pick up your Freshman Record in 227 Russell House Monday-Friday 9:30-5pm SG would like to thank students for their positive input concerning the allocation of one-time funding. 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