Category: Sport

SAN ANTONIO – This year’s women’s NCAA Tournament may be one of the most-wide open in years, with nearly a dozen teams having a good chance to win the championship. The uncertainty seems apropos after a pandemic-stressed season of stops, pauses and cancellations. The top seeds Stanford, South Carolina, N.C. State and UConn are definitely […]

INDIANAPOLIS — RaiQuan Gray scored 17 points and No. 4 seed Florida State began what it hopes will be another deep NCAA Tournament run under coach Leonard Hamilton, holding off 13th-seeded UNC Greensboro 64-54 in the East Region on Saturday. The Seminoles, who reached the Elite Eight and the Sweet 16 in the previous two […]

David McCormack gave third-seeded Kansas a spark when the big man returned from his COVID-19 quarantine in time to practice for its NCAA Tournament opener. When the first round game against Eastern Washington began, McCormack gave the Jayhawks much more than a boost of energy. Put on the ropes early by Tanner Groves and the […]

INDIANAPOLIS – Chances are, you can fit Colorado’s entire NCAA Tournament history on the back of an old Patrick Ewing jersey. And now Ewing is part of that history, too. The Buffaloes used an early 3-point barrage to parlay their highest seeding ever at March Madness into a first-round win Saturday over one of the […]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Freshman Cameron Thomas scored 27 points in another impressive performance and his LSU teammates provided the rebounding muscle, leading the eighth-seeded Tigers past ninth-seeded St. Bonaventure 76-61 on Saturday and into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. LSU (19-9) can reach its second straight Sweet 16 if it beats Michigan, the […]

SAN ANTONIO — Teams at the NCAA women’s basketball tournament finally have a weight room. A day after the NCAA was heavily criticized for not having an adequate facility for the women’s teams to lift, the organization created a fully stocked workout room at the convention center near the practice courts. The NCAA had originally […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Juwan Howard loved playing in the NCAA Tournament. Sharing that experience with his players was pretty sweet, too. Howard got the win in his first NCAA tourney game since taking over at Michigan, guiding Mike Smith and the top-seeded Wolverines to an 82-66 victory over Texas Southern on Saturday. Smith scored […]