MINNEAPOLIS — P.J. Fleck gave a lengthy answer recently in explaining why his Minnesota football team will not host a spring game. The most intriguing part was slightly cryptic. "I want to keep things inside the best I possibly can keep things inside," he said. News that the Gophers are scra…
Dusty May was frazzled Sunday afternoon. It was a few hours before the NCAA Tournament selections would be unveiled and the Florida Atlantic coach was seriously worried that the Owls weren’t going to get picked.
Kellie Harper always knew she wanted to coach college basketball, but never thought it would be at her alma mater Tennessee. That’s because she thought Pat Summitt would be there forever.
INDIANAPOLIS — One question, Eddie Lampkin Jr.: Can you play tight end? Even a little? “I can,” Colorado's cult hero of a center told me as he settled into his locker stall and put down a phone buzzing like a hornet’s nest after the lunacy that was CU 102, Florida 100. “I used to play tight …
PITTSBURGH — Jack Gohlke has no illusions of going to the NBA. Guys who spend five years in Division II before transferring to a small D-I program with one NCAA Tournament win in its history typically don't head to the pros.
It’s the hope that kills you as over 99% of March Madness bracket fans brutally discovered after day one of the men’s tournament, which is already delivering its fair share of shocks.
In 2007, Kobe Bryant becomes the fourth player in NBA history to score at least 50 points in three straight games.
MIAMI — Katie Meier announced her retirement as Miami Hurricanes women’s basketball coach on Thursday, a day that should have found her courtside again at practice, preparing her team for its first-round game in the NCAA Tournament. Her Canes reached the Elite Eight one year ago, a program first, and this season went 19-12, were expected to be invited by all forecasts and logic, should have ...
For Washington State's Myles Rice, playing basketball is ten times easier than what he was doing last season — sitting in a patient room getting chemotherapy and radioactive drugs put into his body.
ATLANTA — The other shoe just dropped. Clemson is also suing the ACC over the conference’s exit fees. Clemson hasn’t joined Florida State’s lawsuit — this is a separate filing in a different state — but it has the same effect. The league’s two best football-playing schools want to play football elsewhere. We stipulate that such litigation could come to nothing. It’s possible no court will ...
Charles Barkley analyzes former President Barack Obama's March Madness bracket.
ATHENS, Ga. — Regardless of how Georgia fans might feel about the SEC’s decision regarding the 2025 conference schedule format, at least they can be sure the Bulldogs will have a dynamic home schedule next year. The SEC announced Wednesday it is sticking with an eight-game conference format for the 2025 season. The format will mirror the temporary model set for 2024. That is, whatever ...
The women’s NCAA Tournament field is set and now the fun begins, with 68 teams trying to win the national championship. The Final Four will be in Cleveland.
South Carolina is the the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament and Caitlin Clark's Iowa team, JuJu Watkins' USC team and Texas earned the other No. 1 seeds.
The status quo has become a moving target as college basketball ramps up to March Madness.
The last time Anthony Walker Jr. played a football game in South Florida, he finished off his high school career at Miami Monsignor Pace with a win over rival Belen Jesuit. Since then, he went to Northwestern for college and played in the NFL for the Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns. After a decade in the Midwest, it was time for a homecoming for the 28-year-old South Florida native ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — SMU isn’t ready to head off to the ACC quite yet. While several prominent programs throughout the country turned down the chance to play in the National Invitation Tournament, the Mustangs are relishing the opportunity to compete in the postseason for the sixth time in 11 years. After doubling its win total from last season, SMU will open play in the 32-team NIT by ...
Creighton's Isaac Traudt is playing at the highest level of college basketball while managing Type 1 diabetes. He wears an insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor under his uniform.
Creighton's Isaac Traudt is playing at the highest level of college basketball while managing Type 1 diabetes. He wears an insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor under his uniform.
The now-iconic phrase March Madness traces to 1939 and one Henry V. Porter, assistant executive secretary of the Illinois High School Association, who, prior to the state basketball tournament, said in the group’s magazine: “A little March madness may complement and contribute to sanity and help keep society on an even keel.” (Back in ‘39 the Great Depression was ebbing and World War II was ...
Just as college football players now treat the second- and third-tier bowl games as a trip to the proctologist, so, too, are today’s era of college basketball players who view the NIT as the Avocados From Mexico Cure Bowl. Until the current pay-for-play model is tweaked, and includes language or incentives to play in these level of games and events, players will bail to either turn pro, or to ...
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The status quo has become a moving target as college basketball ramps up to March Madness.
South Carolina is the the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament. The Gamecocks are looking to become the 10th women’s basketball team to go undefeated for an entire season.
Defending champion Connecticut, along with Houston, Purdue and North Carolina are the top seeds in a March Madness bracket that started going haywire even before the pairings came out.
Milan Momcilovic had 18 points and Keshon Gilbert scored 16 as No. 7 Iowa State used a big second-half to rout No. 1 Houston 69-41 in the Big 12 Tournament final.
Cameron Matthews and Josh Hubbard each scored 18 points and ninth-seeded Mississippi State dominated fifth-ranked Tennessee 73-56 Friday in the Southeastern Conference Tournament quarterfinals.
The Pacific Union College men’s volleyball team kicked off its 2024 season entering a new era for the program under the leadership of head coach Jack Cowden.
March Madness wouldn’t be March Madness without the excitement of those early upsets in the NCAA Tournament. The 68-team field won’t be announced until Sunday, but it’s a safe bet that one or more high seeds will get bounced early.
Through painful experience, I have come to believe that evaluating new coaching hires is one of the most difficult facets of college sports punditry. When Vanderbilt hired Bryce Drew to coach its men’s basketball team in 2016, I thought it was a match made in hoops heaven. Instead, Drew was fired after going 0-18 in SEC games in his third season (2018-19). He exited Music City with a 40-59 ...
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