NCAA
Baylor’s first-half flurry propels Bears into NCAA Final
Baylor quickly made it clear that it would be playing for the NCAA national title on Monday night. The Bears went on an incredible 29-9 run over the final 12:48 of the first half to take a commanding halftime lead in a comfortable 78-59 win over Houston in Saturday’s semifinals of the men’s NCAA Final…
Read MoreGonzaga needs a buzzer-beater to survive UCLA and enter NCAA Final
Unbeaten Gonzaga defeated No. 11 UCLA in an overtime thriller and enters the NCAA Final. Some say that Gonzaga’s win over the UCLA Bruins might have been one of the greatest games in NCAA tournament history. The game was a breathtaking back-and-forth between Gonzaga, which has legitimate aspirations of going down as one of the…
Read MoreLegendary North Carolina coach Roy Williams retires
North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball coach Roy Williams announced his retirement Thursday after 33 seasons as a Division I head coach. Williams, 70, won three NCAA Tournament titles at North Carolina, his alma mater, and finishes his career with 903 victories (third all-time). He advanced to the Final Four nine times and was inducted…
Read MoreNCAA Final Four Preview
The big question in the upcoming NCAA Final Four is if anybody will be able to stop Gonzaga? From a statistical point of view, it is not impossible. A top-ranked team hasn’t taken home the men’s tournament trophy since 2007 when Billy Donovan’s Florida team beat number one-seed Ohio State 84-75 in the national championship.…
Read MoreUCLA upsets Michigan and heads to Final Four
The UCLA Bruins, an 11 seed, reached the Final Four for the first time since 2008 as they knocked out the East Region’s top seed Michigan 51-49. UCLA followed a similar blueprint that led to four previous wins in this NCAA Tournament: Toughness. Coach Mick Cronin’s gritty group took charges, forcing turnovers and making the…
Read MoreGonzaga enters Final Four on auto-pilot
Gonzaga got on a roll and put on a show, cruising into the Final Four with an 85-66 beatdown of a Southern California team that was nowhere near ready for what it ran into Tuesday night. The top-seeded and top-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs will be the third team to bring an undefeated record into the Final…
Read MoreBaylor earns first Final Four since 1950
Baylor is in the Final Four for the first time in 71 years. The No. 1 Bears put No. 3 Arkansas away over the final six minutes of their Elite Eight matchup Monday night in an 81-72 victory thanks to a couple of key threes by MaCio Teague and a long shooting drought by Arkansas.…
Read MoreHouston heads to NCAA Final Four
The first ticket to the 2021 NCAA Men’s Final Four has been punched. Second-seeded Houston is in the Final Four for the first time in nearly 40 years. Back in the days of Phi Slama Jama in the early 1980s, Houston made three-straight Final Fours from 1982-84, with back-to-back national championship appearances those final two trips. Since…
Read MoreMike Woodson takes over at Indiana University
Mike Woodson is taking over as the new men’s basketball coach at his alma mater, Indiana University. Indiana University athletics director Scott Dolson announced the news on Sunday. Woodson, who is leaving his current job as a New York Knicks assistant, will take part in an introductory news conference on Monday. The 63-year-old Woodson is…
Read MoreUCLA advances to Elite Eight
UCLA defeated the University of Alabama 88-78 in overtime on Sunday and reached the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight for the first time since 2008. For the Bruins, the storied program of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor), Bill Walton and legendary coach John Wooden decades ago, it was a huge upset. Eleventh-seeded UCLA knocked off the No.…
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