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         <title>Women's Basketball Celebrates Season With Family and Fans</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:56:19 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The Illinois State women's basketball team held a celebration at Redbird Arena on Thursday night to commemorate its historic 2007-08 season. The Redbirds welcomed in their fans and family members to celebrate with them as they reminisced about the season, handed out individual awards, named the 2007-08 captains and recognized the four seniors leaving the program due to graduation.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[The NCAA released a list of teams Thursday that ranked in the top-10 percent nationally in each sport based on Academic Progress Rates (APR), and the Illinois State women's basketball program ranked among those top-tier teams.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[n the Illinois State women's basketball team for a celebration at Redbird Arena on Thursday, April 24, to commemorate the Redbirds' remarkable 2007-08 season. Admission is free to the public and there will be complimentary snacks and drinks provided, courtesy of the Illinois State Athletics Department. The Redbird Arena doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the party will go from 7-8 p.m.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:17:25 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Illinois State junior guard Kristi Cirone was named to the 2007-08 Associated Press Women's Basketball All-America Team as an honorable mention selection on Tuesday, April 1. Cirone was one of 45 honorable mention honorees on the AP team, which also featured three five-member squads. Cirone is the first AP All-American in Illinois State women's basketball history.]]></description>
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         <title>Cirone Honored as State Farm MVC Good Neighbor Award Recipient</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:11:26 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Following her selection earlier this month as the 2007-08 Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, Illinois State junior guard Kristi Cirone was named a recipient of the State Farm MVC Good Neighbor Award, the league office announced Tuesday. Cirone was one of 10 female student-athletes in The Valley to receive the award that is given three times annually to 10 student-athletes who are in good academic standing, demonstrate good citizenship through good sportsmanship and significant community service and are participating in a sport during the season of recognition.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:43:12 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Illinois State junior guard Kristi Cirone was named a national finalist for the Division I State Farm Coaches' All-America Basketball Team for NCAA Division I, as selected by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), Monday, March 24. Cirone is among a group of 40 of the best players in the nation that the 10-member team will be selected from.]]></description>
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         <title>ISU Falls to Oklahoma, 69-61, In the First Round of the NCAA Tournament</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:42:14 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The 13th-seeded Illinois State Redbirds (27-6) fell to fourth-seeded Oklahoma (22-8), 69-61, in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Tournament in Mack Arena. After a hard-fought first half, Oklahoma opened the second half with a big run to clinch the win and deny the Redbirds in their bid for a second NCAA Tournament win. Junior guard Kristi Cirone scored a game-high 22 points, the third-highest total by a Redbird in an NCAA Tournament game.]]></description>
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         <title>Welcome to the Big Dance: ISU Arrives In West Lafayette</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:39:07 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The Illinois State women's basketball team arrived in West Lafayette, Ind., Friday night and had its first official day of NCAA Tournament festivities Saturday. After being welcome to West Lafayette with Easter baskets from their host family, the Redbirds came to Mackey Arena Saturday morning to meet the media and practice in the facility.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Cirone was the Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for the second-consecutive season, becoming just the fourth player in the history of the conference to achieve that feat, after leading the Valley in assists (5.6 apg) and assist-to-turnover ratio (3.04), and finishing second in scoring (16.3 ppg) and steals (2.6 spg). She was also a First-Team All-Valley, First-Team All-MVC Scholar-Athlete and All-Valley Defensive Team selection.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[This weekend, the best teams in women's college basketball will be taking part in the NCAA Tournament all across the country and for the first time in three years, the Illinois State Redbirds are a part of that group. ISU will stay in the Midwest, needing to drive less than three hours to Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind., for its fifth all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The 13th-seeded Redbirds (26-6, 13-5 MVC) take on 4th-seeded Oklahoma (21.8, 11-5 Big 12) in a first round matchup on Sunday, March 23, at 11 a.m. CDT. The game will be shown on ESPN 2, as a part of the network's roving coverage of the first round, and WJBC-AM 1230 will broadcast all of the action live.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:26:54 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Junior Kristi Cirone, a guard on the Illinois State women's basketball team, was named the Prairie Farms/Missouri Valley Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Week Wednesday, March 19. Cirone has received the honor, which recognizes a male and female Valley student-athlete every week for academic and athletic success, four times this season, more than anyone else in the conference. Cirone has earned the award five times in her career.]]></description>
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         <title>ISU Offers NCAA Bus Package, Tickets</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:54:24 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The Illinois State Athletics Department has session tickets available and is offering a fan-bus package for Sunday's NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament game between the Redbirds and Oklahoma at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. Tip-off for the game is 11 a.m. CDT.]]></description>
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         <title>Redbirds To Face Oklahoma In NCAA Tournament</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:59:47 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[A crowd of family, friends and fans joined the Illinois State women's basketball team at Redbird Arena on Monday night to find out who and where the Missouri Valley Conference champions would play in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. They had to wait more than 30 minutes, but erupted in cheers when they saw that Illinois State is seeded 13th in the Oklahoma City region. The Redbirds will take on fourth-seeded Oklahoma (21-8) at 12 p.m. on Sunday, March 23, at Mackey Arena, the home of the Purdue Boilermakers, in West Lafayette, Ind.]]></description>
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         <title>ISU Hosts NCAA Selection Show Party</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:00:52 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Illinois State fans, alumni and students are welcome to join the Redbird women's basketball team in a public viewing of the 2008 NCAA Tournament Selection Show at Redbird Arena on Monday. Parking will be available in the Turner lot on the east side of Redbird Arena.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:41:04 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The Illinois State women's basketball team is going to the Big Dance. The top-seeded Redbirds (26-6) defeated third-seeded Drake (22-10), 70-62, in the championship game of the 2008 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament on Sunday, March 16. The win clinched the second MVC Tournament title in the last four years for the Redbirds and gives ISU the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Redbirds became the 15th No. 1 seed to win the title in the 24-year history of the MVC Tournament.]]></description>
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