Tag: College basketball
NCAA basketball players use biggest stage to deliver message
INDIANAPOLIS — A social media effort to raise awareness about inequities in college sports by some prominent basketball players came with calls for rules...
Texas Southern beats Mount St. Mary’s 60-52 in NCAA opener
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — John Walker III scored a season-high 19 points and Jordan Gilliam had 12 to help Texas Southern erase a 10-point halftime...
NCAA teams locked away in hotel rooms amid Texas reopening
SAN ANTONIO — Looking down from her hotel room, Kentucky All-American Rhyne Howard can see the River Walk bustling with life.
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Pick Six: Unusual teams hallmark of NCAA Tournament
INDIANAPOLIS — One of the beauties of the NCAA Tournament is that every team has a story.
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Have we met? Familiar names in a new place, March Madness
INDIANAPOLIS — Nobody will get a lump in their throat or start sizing up glass slippers for programs like these — Alabama, Illinois, Baylor....
Funderburk, Bates spark N.C. State in NIT opener
DENTON, Texas — DJ Funderburk and Manny Bates combined for 35 points on 15-of-17 shooting and North Carolina State defeated Davidson 75-61 in a...
BYU players get assist for freeing Wade from elevator
The BYU Cougars already have the biggest assist in the NCAA Tournament and they’ve yet to play their first game.
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Oregon State embraces its underdog role in the NCAAs
As Oregon State's players celebrated their unlikely Pac-12 tournament title, former teammate Tres Tinkle was in the stands with his arms raised, one finger...
What some advanced stats may tell us about the NCAA field
Two years ago, before the start of the last NCAA Tournament, we presented a system that could help narrow down the bracket, using advanced...
A memorable car ride leads Gates, Sampson to NCAA meeting
The book is never far from Dennis Gates' reach, with the inscription providing inspiration at every stop of his coaching journey — from Marquette...
