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Hailey Van Lith was one year away from tying a bow on a traditional college career at Louisville and being cemented as one of the most decorated four-year starters in Car...
June 19, 2025 College
Braylon Littlejohn heard the whispers. He understood how they started and why people were curious. The Butler standout football and basketball player, who graduated high ...
June 13, 2025 Sports
The Atlantic Coast Conference is reducing its 20-game men’s basketball schedule to 18, giving teams two more spots for marquee nonconference games in a bid to boost a lea...
May 07, 2025 College
For Dan Terwilliger, Norman Voelker Jr. and John Tabisz, patience has paid off. Literally. Terwilliger, 67, of Butler, won this year’s Butler Eagle March Madness Contest,...
April 11, 2025 Sports
SAN ANTONIO — Dribbles bounced off hips, no-look passes went to no one and Florida's best player couldn't make a basket. And when the Gators' bench was assessed a technic...
April 08, 2025 College
TAMPA, Fla. — UConn is back on top of women’s basketball, winning its 12th national championship by routing defending champion South Carolina 82-59 Sunday behind Azzi Fud...
April 06, 2025 Sports
PHILADELPHIA — Kevin Willard deadpanned — no, he hadn't heard the laundry list of complaints lodged against him by Maryland fans and former players and, well, the list go...
April 03, 2025 College
Three No. 1 seeds will be in the Final Four of the women's NCAA Tournament. But it's the No. 2 seed favored to win the title in Tampa, Florida. South Carolina reached it...
April 01, 2025 College
If you’re looking for an inspiring underdog or a glass slipper lying around in San Antonio, this year's version of the Final Four is not for you. Fittingly for an NCAA To...
March 31, 2025 College
And then there were 1s. With wins by Houston and Auburn on Sunday, next weekend's Final Four will have all four No. 1 seeds for the second time in NCAA Tournament history...
March 30, 2025 College
The women's NCAA Tournament has reached the Sweet 16. Of the 16 teams remaining, 15 are members of Power Four conferences and other is perennial juggernaut UConn, raisin...
March 25, 2025 College
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It's a line that dates back about two decades, to Maryland's 2006 run to the national title. “Overtime is our time,” coach Brenda Frese said. The Terr...
March 24, 2025 College
Years of bracket chaos have given way to the year of the power conference. Cinderella is staying home this time. The Sweet 16, a popular destination for bracket-busting ...
March 24, 2025 College
SEATTLE — Derik Queen banked in a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer, and Maryland advanced to the Sweet 16 in a thriller, beating Colorado State 72-71 Sunday in the second ro...
March 23, 2025 Sports
A roundup of Friday’s March Madness action: All-America guard Mark Sears scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half, and second-seeded Alabama pulled away late to esca...
March 21, 2025 College
SEATTLE — Kyan Evans made a career-high six 3-pointers and scored 23 points to lead No. 12-seed Colorado State past fifth-seeded Memphis 78-70 in Friday’s first round of ...
March 21, 2025 Sports
A roundup of Thursday’s March Madness action: Men’s First Round Tennessee 77, Wofford 62 — Chaz Lanier scored 29 points on 11-of-22 shooting and No. 2 seed Tennessee ...
March 20, 2025 College
MOON TOWNSHIP — Andy Toole is still here. This isn't how it's supposed to work, at least not from the outside looking in. The Robert Morris coach knows this. All but one ...
March 20, 2025 College
Harvard is all it’s been cracked up to be for Alayna Rocco. The Crimson freshman women’s basketball player and former North Catholic hoops standout has had to adjust to l...
March 20, 2025 Sports
LAS VEGAS — Caitlin Clark not only drew lots of eyes to women's basketball when she led Iowa to consecutive national-championship games, she also attracted a lot of betto...
March 17, 2025 College
UCLA had one of the best seasons in school history and was rewarded with the top overall seed in the women's NCAA Tournament. The Bruins were joined by South Carolina, S...
March 17, 2025 College
Auburn is the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, with Duke, Houston and Florida joining the Tigers on the No. 1 line in the March Madness brackets released Sunday. ...
March 16, 2025 Sports
Women's basketball has not slowed down at all this season as March Madness arrives. A year ago, the women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than...
March 11, 2025 College
The countdown to March Madness is on. The beloved annual tradition that is the NCAA Tournament will begin next week. Tens of thousands will fill out brackets in hopes of...
March 11, 2025 College
Seneca Valley graduate Justin Jennings, now the men’s basketball head coach at Edinboro University, was named PSAC West Coach of the Year last week. In his second season ...
March 11, 2025 Sports
There are a handful of teams from mid-majors that could make life very stressful for programs from the power conferences come Selection Sunday, especially if they fail to...
February 24, 2025 College
With a week left in the regular season for the four major conferences, those schools have their final few chances to get quality wins and avoid bubble-bursting losses. Vi...
February 24, 2025 College
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — RJ Davis scored 18 points, Ven-Allen Lubin added 17, and North Carolina defeated Pittsburgh 67-66 on Saturday in a back-and-forth battle between two t...
February 09, 2025
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Caitlin Clark wasn’t back in her home arena to play a game. Still, the “butterflies,” the former Iowa guard said, were quite similar. Clark returned to...
February 03, 2025
DURHAM, N.C. — Star freshman Cooper Flagg scored 14 of his 19 points after halftime — including a jaw-dropper of a coast-to-coast dunk — to help No. 4 Duke beat Pittsburg...
January 07, 2025 Sports
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