UConn players celebrate after beating Purdue in the NCAA championship game at State Farm Stadium on Monday in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) UConn emphatically won a second straight NCAA Tournament on Monday night. The Huskies pulled away from Purdue in the second half en route to a 75-60 victory… Read More »
GLENDALE, Ariz. – The man who engineered Fairleigh Dickinson’s stunning upset of Purdue has taken on an unexpected side job this season. Tobin Anderson has become the go-to advisor for other coaches trying to come up with a game plan to beat the Boilermakers. It started in non-league play when Anderson started getting calls from… Read More »
Arizona State’s Ilya Kharun and Leon Marchand with teammates after a victory in the 400-yard medley relay at the NCAA men’s swimming championships in Indianapolis. Arizona State won its first national title in the sport. (Photo by Joe Robbins/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) INDIANAPOLIS – Bob Bowman had been everywhere in swimming, from Baltimore to… Read More »
On the eve of his team’s Elite Eight game with Illinois, UConn head coach Dan Hurley came across a series of tweets from a little-known former Illini player. Sean Harrington, now an ESPN analyst, wrote on X that UConn “hasn’t faced a team as athletic and physical” as Illinois. He added that Terrence Shannon Jr.… Read More »
The Sweet 16 is set. And it comes with an unexpected surprise from the ACC. The conference has a quarter of the remaining field in the men’s NCAA tournament, sending four teams to the second weekend. Clemson fended off Baylor and Duke steamrolled James Madison on Sunday night to secure their spot in the Final… Read More »
On March 30, 2023, Tyon Grant-Foster sat at home on his computer waiting for a Zoom meeting to start with his doctor at the Mayo Clinic. He had been away from the basketball court for 16 months after collapsing twice and undergoing two heart surgeries. Grant-Foster was waiting to hear definitively whether he could return… Read More »
Purdue has taken the first step. The top-seeded Boilermakers did not lose to No. 16 seed Grambling State on Friday. The 78-50 win over the Tigers would normally be an unremarkable NCAA Tournament result on a busy day of basketball. But this is no ordinary No. 1 seed. The Boilermakers are coming off one of… Read More »
Now we know why SEC commissioner Greg Sankey wants to stop “giving away” NCAA bids to automatic qualifiers from smaller conferences. Those have-me-nots have the audacity to continue eliminating the most ballyhooed programs from its entrenched league. The trend started Thursday night when a former Division II guard sank a barrage of 3s to fuel… Read More »
Forty-eight men’s college basketball teams have won at least two NCAA Tournament games since 2021. The sport’s most entrenched blue bloods, against all odds, are not among them. Eight-time national champion Kentucky can’t seem to get out of the opening round of the NCAA tournament, let alone end its nine-year Final Four drought. A Wildcats… Read More »
Ten players have a chance to win the Naismith Player of the Year Award, as the finalists were announced on March 14. Madison Booker, Cameron Brink, Paige Bueckers, Kamilla Cardoso, Caitlin Clark, Hannah Hidalgo, Elizabeth Kitley, Angel Reese, Jacy Sheldon and JuJu Watkins were all named to the list. But of the ten, five stand… Read More »