Pat Summitt, who has more wins than any basketball coach in NCAA history, is stepping down after 38 seasons at the University of Tennessee as she continues her battle with early onset dementia. Summitt, 59, who has 1,098 wins and a record eight NCAA championships, will remain head coach emeritus. Long-time assistant Holly Warlick, 53, who took over daily supervision [...]
The mystery is over. The debate over where the top center in the class of 2012 would end up playing college ball culminated Wednesday night live on ESPNU when Nerlens Noel committed to Kentucky over Georgetown and Syracuse. The 6-10 big man out of the Tilton School in New Hampshire reclassified from the 2013 class to senior status back in [...]
The glory days of Baylor basketball may be coming to an abrupt end. On Monday, ESPN.com learned that the Baylor men’s and women’s program is facing possible NCAA sanctions for making an improper amount of phone calls to recruits. A 29-month NCAA investigation uncovered more than 1,200 impermissible phone calls and text messages made to recruits. This comes on the [...]
It’s a good time to join the bandwagon of a bad NBA team. One of them is just a pick away from being popular again. An NBA season has a number of seasons within the season. Of course, there is the pre-season, regular season, and post-season. Then there is the draft season, the free agency season, the trade deadline season, [...]
One of the greatest college teams assembled on paper would’ve remained just that – ‘on paper’ – if they didn’t truly live up to their potential and capture the biggest win in college basketball. The University of Kentucky Wildcats did just that on April 3rd, 2012 by defeating Kansas University Jayhawks 67-59 in the final to capture the NCAA Men’s Championship. In the [...]
The final horn had sounded and the handshake line was beginning to form. But in the moments after Saturday’s 69-61 victory over Louisville in the Final Four, Kentucky forward Anthony Davis wasn’t ready to leave the court. Walking from one end of the floor to the other, the national player of the year gazed into sea of 73,361 fans who [...]
It makes sense. The Big Man in the Big Easy. This year’s Final Four will feature the nation’s top frontcourt standouts. All season long, they’ve racked up accolades as the undeniable leaders for their respective programs. Jared Sullinger, Thomas Robinson and Anthony Davis are three premier big men whose performances in New Orleans will determine the difference between disappointment and [...]
Adreian Payne accents his postgame threads with a pair of chic black glasses that resemble the specs worn by Clark Kent, Superman’s secret identity. The fashionable frames convey sophistication for the 6-foot-10 specimen. If you’d watched the Michigan State sophomore fly through the air on monster dunks that rocked Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, during the Spartans’ wins in the [...]
No excuses now. Anything short of a national title for Kentucky will equal failure. For the current team, for the program and for John Calipari. No blue ribbons, Final Four banners or “One Shining Moment” appearances for Coach Cal’s team will not suffice. This has to be the year. It’s as if college basketball’s higher powers orchestrated the NCAA tournament’s [...]
Alex Oriakhi will spend his senior season with a team that has a chance to play in the NCAA tournament. The 6-foot-9, 240-pound Oriakhi will transfer from Connecticut, his father, Alex Sr., told the Hearst Connecticut Media Group. “Alex will transfer because of the NCAA tournament next year,” his father told the newspaper group. UConn is appealing an NCAA decision [...]
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