San Diego State throttles Yale 85-57 at the Arena, sets up NCAA title-game...
<p><p>Bigger obstacles lie ahead for San Diego State, but so far nothing has stopped Aztec forward Jaedon LeDee.</p></p><p><p>The 6-foot-9 LeDee led SDSU to a...
View ArticleA tale of two student sections: While Antelopes ran rampant through the Lilac...
<p><p>That steady thumping coming from the Spokane Arena on Sunday was due in large part to the herd of Antelopes taking residence in the northeast corner of the...
View ArticleUConn women beat Syracuse 72-64 to reach 31st consecutive Sweet 16
<p><p>STORRS, Conn. – For the 31st consecutive season under coach Geno Auriemma, UConn women’s basketball is headed back to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA...
View ArticleZags Basketball Insiders Podcast (episode 20): Ben Gregg's toughness,...
<p><p>The Gonzaga men’s basketball team must focus on Zach Edey this week.</p></p><p><p>Not surprisingly, Edey and his top-seeded Purdue Boilermakers –...
View ArticleMen's NCAA Tournament best bets: Arizona's work against the spread...
<p><p>Arizona is the No. 4 betting favorite to win the NCAA championship, behind Connecticut, Purdue and Houston.</p></p><p><p>Yep, the second-seeded Wildcats are...
View ArticleNew UW athletic director Pat Chun responds to backlash from WSU president...
<p><p>Anybody but Washington.</p></p><p><p>That’s the popular sentiment among Washington State fans regarding Pat Chun, the former Cougars athletic director who left...
View ArticleNCAA to take tough look at tournament sites after racist incident in Coeur...
<p><p>PORTLAND – The racist incidents experienced last weekend in Coeur d’Alene by the University of Utah women’s basketball team could affect how the NCAA structures the women’s tournament...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament: Clemson upsets Tommy Lloyd's Arizona for rare Elite...
<p><p>The Clemson basketball team was unfazed by pregame “U of A” chants.</p></p><p><p>Chase Hunter scored 18 points and converted a three-point play with 25.7...
View ArticleNC State sends Stanford women, Cameron Brink packing in Sweet 16
<p><p>Stanford achieved its goal of getting out of Maples Pavilion but will go no further, as senior post Cameron Brink saw her career end in her hometown, having fouled out early in the...
View ArticleDuke downs No. 1-seeded Houston after Jamal Shead leaves with injury
<p><p>It didn’t matter to Duke’s Jeremy Roach how poorly he performed in the first half Friday night against Houston.</p></p><p><p>A season, and his career, was on...
View ArticleUConn storms into Final Four with breakout second half, 77-52 win over Illinois
<p><p>BOSTON – UConn men’s basketball is storming back to the Final Four.</p></p><p><p>The reigning national champs blasted third-seeded Illinois in the second half...
View ArticleFlau'jae Johnson keeps LSU women's season alive, lifting Tigers...
<p><p>The shot clock ticked under 8 seconds when Flau’jae Johnson shot it a glance. The LSU guard couldn’t wait. Because she didn’t have much time – to salvage a possession and score a...
View ArticleIowa and LSU handle business, setting up an epic rematch in the Elite Eight
<p><p>ALBANY, N.Y. – Was there ever any doubt?</p></p><p><p>Caitlin Clark certainly didn’t act like it as she got to the rim at will and handed out assists like...
View ArticleNC State women upset No. 1 seed Texas, 76-66, to make Final Four
<p><p>The Wolfpack women’s basketball team planned to get matching tattoos – even if some were temporary – if they made the Final Four. It’s time to book an...
View ArticleNC State basketball’s charmed March to Final Four continues with upset win...
<p><p>A ninth consecutive win put North Carolina State on Cloud 9 and on its way to the Final Four.</p></p><p><p>The Wolfpack’s magical run through March, from its...
View ArticleCommentary: The NCAA’s incompetence is an unfair stain on women’s basketball
<p><p>Even now, the women’s NCAA basketball tournament, that ceiling-rupturing Roman candle of an event, is still being treated with a combination of incompetence and indifference by its...
View ArticleMen’s NCAA tournament winners and losers: The West fails and Zach Edey shines
<p><p>It wasn’t just the teams from the West Coast. Or from the Pacific Time Zone. Or from west of the Rockies.</p></p><p><p>Nope, the entire western half of the...
View ArticleCaitlin Clark hits a new level in leading Iowa past LSU, into Final Four
<p><p>ALBANY, N.Y. – Caitlin Clark walked alone down a long hallway in the depths of MVP Arena on Monday night, no coaches or teammates in sight. </p></p><p><p>She...
View ArticlePaige Bueckers, Aaliyah Edwards carry resilient UConn Huskies past USC in...
<p><p>In yet another star-studded matchup of a thrilling night in women’s college basketball, Paige Bueckers and the UConn Huskies pulled out a 80-73 win over JuJu Watkins and USC on Monday...
View ArticleCommentary: Assessing Tommy Lloyd's March Madness loss, Arizona's...
<p><p>We could plunge into the weeds of Arizona’s latest NCAA Tournament exit, but all the ghastly losses strewn across the Sonoran landscape – the hides of March, so to speak – provide far...
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