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The magical March Madness cocktail will now include eight more teams, eight more games and more of one other ingredient, too: beer. Maybe wine, too. The NCAA on Thursday...
May 07, 2026
Jack Craig was torn. When completing his bracket for the Butler Eagle’s March Madness basketball contest last month, Craig had Duke and Michigan facing each other in the ...
April 10, 2026 Sports
PHOENIX — Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday to win its first NCAA championship in women’s basketball. Th...
April 05, 2026 College
A Seneca Valley product has turned a Division II program into a national champion. Easton Bazzoli, a 2013 Raiders grad, and the Gannon University men’s basketball tea...
April 05, 2026 Sports
INDIANAPOLIS — UConn had just finished Friday's public practice at the Final Four. Coach Dan Hurley had paced around the court for the better part of an hour clutching a ...
April 03, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS — There was the scene of lovable courtside TV analyst Bill Raftery genuinely shocked as he tried to comprehend what had just unfolded before him. Moments lat...
April 02, 2026
Easton Bazzoli, a 2013 Seneca Valley graduate and current head coach of Gannon University men’s basketball, has guided the Golden Knights to the NCAA Division II national...
March 30, 2026 Sports
Florida isn’t around to defend its title anymore, but all the other top seeds in this year's NCAA Tournament are still around. And many of them are winning convincingly. ...
March 26, 2026 College
This could be a familiar Final Four in the women’s NCAA Tournament. UConn, South Carolina, UCLA and Texas reached the Final Four last year. They’re the top four seeds thi...
March 26, 2026 College
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Kymora Johnson scored 28 points as 10th-seeded Virginia became the first First Four team to reach the regional semifinals after an 83-75 double-overtime...
March 23, 2026 College
PITTSBURGH — College of Charleston coach Robin Harmony is heading north to take over Pittsburgh's struggling women's basketball program. Pitt athletic director Allen Gree...
March 23, 2026 College
ST. LOUIS — Santa Clara thought it had knocked Kentucky out of the NCAA Tournament when freshman Allen Graves answered a tying basket by Wildcats star Otega Oweh with a 3...
March 20, 2026 College
DURHAM, N.C. — Taliah Scott scored 15 points, and Baylor rallied from a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter, making 11 of 14 free throws down the stretch, to beat Ne...
March 20, 2026 College
Top-ranked UConn and the other favorites in women's college basketball can't wait for March Madness to begin. The Huskies are the defending champion, and the last time t...
March 17, 2026 College
Let the madness begin. March Madness arrived Sunday evening when the NCAA released its 68-team tournament bracket, sending hundreds of thousands of fans scrambling to...
March 17, 2026 College
There was a time when the NCAA men's college basketball tournament was wildly unpredictable. Hard as it may seem to believe, there was one season where a No. 4 seed, two...
March 17, 2026 College
For those who will be entering an NCAA women's college basketball tournament bracket pool this year, let's begin with the ending: You're probably going to pick Connectic...
March 17, 2026 College
Duke received the top overall seed for the men’s NCAA tournament Sunday, followed by Arizona, Michigan and Florida, each of whom would love a repeat of last season when a...
March 15, 2026 College
UConn was awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the women’s NCAA tournament on Sunday and enters March Madness needing six more victories to complete the seventh undefeated s...
March 15, 2026 College
PITTSBURGH — Jeff Capel is sticking around in Pittsburgh. Athletic director Allen Greene announced Friday that Capel will be back for a ninth season despite a disappoint...
March 13, 2026 College
Nicholas DelGratta, who could become the third Butler County Community College men’s basketball player since 2015 to finish a season with the highest scoring average in ...
March 12, 2026 Sports
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quadir Copeland had 24 points and eight assists, Ven-Allen Lubin added 18 points and No. 7 seed N.C. State beat 15th-seeded Pittsburgh 98-88 Wednesday i...
March 11, 2026 College
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Damarco Minor followed his own miss to score with 0.7 seconds left and give 15th-seeded Pittsburgh a 64-63 win over 10-seed Stanford in the opening game...
March 10, 2026 College
The Atlantic Coast Conference entered the season hoping to create a jolt for men's basketball, a flagship sport facing a dwindling count of March Madness bids in recent y...
March 10, 2026 College
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh fired women's basketball coach Tory Verdi on Tuesday, ending a three-year tenure in which the Panthers struggled to find success on the court and ...
March 03, 2026 College
The Butler County Community College men’s basketball team will battle for conference and regional titles this weekend during a dual-championship tournament in BC3’s Field...
February 20, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Isiah Evans scored 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting, including 5 for 6 on 3-pointers, and No. 4 Duke pulled away in the second half to defeat Pittsburgh 70-54 o...
February 11, 2026 College
PHILADELPHIA — Six former players on the women’s basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh have sued coach Tory Verdi and the school over what they call abusive coa...
February 10, 2026 College
PITTSBURGH — Jaron Pierre Jr. and Boopie Miller combined to score 41 points as SMU rolled 86-67 past Pittsburgh on Saturday. Pierre Jr. scored 21 on 8 of 11 shooting with...
February 07, 2026
The drive between Butler High School’s gym and Slippery Rock University’s Morrow Field House is nearly 18 miles. The path between the two basketball courts felt much long...
February 03, 2026 Sports
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