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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
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
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
WASHINGTON (AP) — RJ Davis took over the game with 25 points, Armando Bacot scored 19 while grabbing 11 rebounds and No. 4 North Carolina beat Pittsburgh 72-65 on Friday...
March 16, 2024 Sports
WASHINGTON — Ishmael Leggett scored 19 of his season-high 30 points in the second half and Pittsburgh turned away Wake Forest 81-69 on Thursday in the quarterfinals of th...
March 15, 2024 College
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Zach Edey had a banner day. The 7-foot-4 Purdue senior withstood a physical onslaught from Wisconsin in his home finale, persevered and received a ...
March 11, 2024 College
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke star big man Kyle Filipowski said he didn't intend to trip North Carolina forward Harrison Ingram during the first half of Saturday night's rivalry ga...
March 11, 2024 Sports
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — The Slippery Rock University men’s basketball season came to an end Wednesday night with a 91-57 PSAC quarterfinal loss at California (Pa.). SRU ended t...
March 08, 2024 Sports
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Abbey Ellis scored 25 points, 10 in the fourth quarter when she made six free throws in the last 40 seconds, and 12th-seeded Purdue rallied to beat 13...
March 07, 2024 College
Butler graduate became a legend at Edinboro University
Butler graduate became a legend at Edinboro University
March 06, 2024 Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK — Jomo Goings sank a jumper with 3.7 seconds remaining Monday night, giving the Slippery Rock University men’s basketball team a 71-69 victory over Seton Hi...
March 06, 2024 Sports
BOSTON (AP) – Blake Hinson knocked down the first of Pittsburgh's 16 3-pointers 12 seconds into the game and freshman Carlton Carrington scored a career-high 27 points as...
March 04, 2024 College
ERIE — Slippery Rock University is the No. 3 seed in the PSAC Men’s Basketball Tournament despite Saturday’s 69-51 regular season-closing loss at Mercyhurst. The Rock (15...
March 04, 2024 Sports
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU's dome-roofed basketball stadium, the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, is named for a supremely crafty, skilled and mesmerizing player who has b...
March 01, 2024 Sports
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's Caitlin Clark, who is on the verge of becoming the all-time NCAA scoring leader in college basketball, announced Thursday that she will wil...
March 01, 2024 Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University’s men’s basketball team clinched a home game in the upcoming PSAC Tournament with a 90-73 win over Edinboro on Wednesday night at...
March 01, 2024 Sports
CRESSON — All Annalyn Isaacs was looking for was a little playing time. She’s made a big impact instead. The Mars graduate and Mount Aloysius freshman signed on with the ...
February 27, 2024 Sports
Duke coach Jon Scheyer wants the Atlantic Coast Conference to implement measures to prevent court-storming after star big man Kyle Filipowski was hobbled following a col...
February 27, 2024 Sports
Now it is Houston's turn at the top of The Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll . The Cougars moved to No. 1 for the first time this season in Monday's ...
February 27, 2024 Sports
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Kyle Filipowski remembered seeing the images of Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark being accidentally knocked down by a fan storming the cou...
February 26, 2024 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Blake Hinson scored 22 points and Jaland Lowe scored 18 points and Pittsburgh took control in the second half to beat Virginia Tech 79-64 on Saturday. Reserv...
February 26, 2024 Sports
The Slippery Rock University men’s basketball team brushed aside a 10-point deficit early in a home tilt with arch rival Indiana (Pa.), earning an 81-62 win Saturday nigh...
February 26, 2024 College
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Zach Hicks made three free throws after being fouled on a 3-pointer with three seconds left to give Penn State a 90-89 victory over No. 12 Illin...
February 22, 2024 College
CLARION — Malyziah Etheredge came off the bench to score 18 points and grab nine rebounds Wednesday night as Clarion ended a 26-game losing streak with an 82-64 women’s b...
February 22, 2024 Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK — Ike Herster came off the bench to score a game-high 19 points on Saturday as the Slippery Rock University men’s basketball team clinched a PSAC Tournament...
February 20, 2024 Sports
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark broke the NCAA women's career scoring record, making a 3-pointer from about 35 feet in the first quarter for No. 4 Iowa against Mich...
February 16, 2024 Sports
ERIE — Slippery Rock University’s men’s basketball team dropped a 94-91 decision at No. 7 Gannon on Wednesday night. The Rock (11-12, 9-8) still occupies fourth place in ...
February 15, 2024 Sports
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