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BOSTON — Connecticut coach Dan Hurley won’t shy away from the notion that his team has consistently been the best in college basketball this season. The Huskies’ 33-3 re...
March 28, 2024 College
The NCAA women's basketball tournament has so far been the most successful it has ever been when it comes to viewership and attendance, driven by crowds flocking to see t...
March 28, 2024 College
The first three days of the NCAA Tournament attracted record ratings, only to see the momentum stifled due to Sunday's games being blowouts. Overall, the tournament is a...
March 27, 2024 College
BRISTOL, Conn. — Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes can claim another record — the most-viewed first-round game in women's NCAA Tournament history. The Hawkeyes' 91-65 w...
March 27, 2024 College
SPOKANE, Wash. — Utah coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a series of “racial hate crimes” after arriving at its first NCAA Tournament hotel and was forced to c...
March 27, 2024 College
In finishing its regular-season series with Pitt-Johnstown on Saturday, the Slippery Rock University baseball team swept the Mountain Cats on the road. The Rock (11-4, 3-...
March 25, 2024 Sports
It's another year without a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket. Surprising wins by Yale, Oakland and Duquesne busted many of the more than 22 million brackets entered in th...
March 25, 2024 Sports
OMAHA, Neb. — Illinois fans had been waiting since 2005 for their team to get back to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. Their patience was finally rewarded. Coach Brad Unde...
March 25, 2024 Sports
BOCA RATON, Fla. — The lure of Michigan became apparent to Dusty May not in the last few days, but almost 20 years ago when he was just starting his coaching career. He w...
March 25, 2024 Sports
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brad Underwood smirked and almost imperceptibly shook his head when the question was asked: What would it mean for Illinois to finally make it back to ...
March 23, 2024 Sports
The Slippery Rock University baseball team responded to a 2-1 home loss to Pitt-Johnstown with a 5-2 triumph in the second game of Friday’s twin bill. The split, which op...
March 23, 2024 Sports
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The referee who blew the critical whistle that worked against Samford at the end of its loss to Kansas in the NCAA Tournament might be following the...
March 23, 2024 Sports
OMAHA, Neb. — Dae Dae Grant scored 19 points, including four clinching free throws in the final 10 seconds, and No. 11 seed Duquesne kept retiring coach Keith Dambrot wor...
March 22, 2024 College
PITTSBURGH — Jack Gohlke made 10 3-pointers and 14th-seeded Oakland delivered the first true shock of this year's March Madness, beating third-seeded Kentucky 80-76 in th...
March 22, 2024 College
4 Butler grads contribute to teams’ success
4 Butler grads contribute to teams’ success
March 22, 2024 Sports
OMAHA, Neb. — Dae Dae Grant scored 19 points, including four clinching free throws in the final 10 seconds, and No. 11 seed Duquesne kept retiring coach Keith Dambrot wor...
March 21, 2024 Sports
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Saint Peter’s is back in the NCAA Tournament. But this Peacocks squad bares no resemblance to the one that shocked the country — and busted brackets — t...
March 21, 2024 College
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A day after Clemson sued the Atlantic Coast Conference, the ACC filed a lawsuit against the school in a North Carolina court, saying the school is break...
March 21, 2024 College
DAYTON, Ohio — Jimel Cofer scored all 19 of his points in the second half and overtime and Grambling State rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat Montana State 88-81 to ...
March 21, 2024 College
The College Football Playoff and ESPN announced a $7.8 billion deal Tuesday that will give the network exclusive rights to the expanded postseason through the 2031 season...
March 20, 2024 College
PITTSBURGH — Before Duquesne slid into basketball anonymity and nearly five decades of what coach Keith Dambrot only semi-jokingly describes as “anguish,” there was glory...
March 20, 2024 College
Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as flipping between all the games going down over the first week of March Madness. Ultimately, those chan...
March 19, 2024 Sports
SV graduate, Bucknell sophomore takes 2nd in conference tourney
SV graduate, Bucknell sophomore takes 2nd in conference tourney
March 19, 2024 Sports
Keith Dambrot's first NCAA tournament appearance as the head coach at Duquesne will also be his last. The 65-year-old Dambrot is retiring whenever the Dukes' run in March...
March 19, 2024 College
Butler graduate in NCAA Tournament with Boilermakers for final time
Butler graduate in NCAA Tournament with Boilermakers for final time
March 19, 2024 Sports
Bocci places 10th at D-II national meet CLARION — Butler graduate David Bocci placed 10th in the 200 butterfly at the NCAA Division II National Championships recentl...
March 19, 2024 Sports
MEGAN WISE (Moniteau) placed third in the shot put for Grove City at the Bethany Invitational. Her best heave was 36 feet, 11.75 inches. MADDALYN SEMMLER (Butler)...
March 18, 2024 College
Duquesne earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time in 47 years, beating fifth-seeded seeded VCU 57-51 Sunday to win the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship. The si...
March 18, 2024 College
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 pa...
March 18, 2024 College
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan fired coach Juwan Howard on Friday after five seasons, parting ways with the former Fab Five star whose return to his alma mater included...
March 16, 2024 Sports
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