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DENVER (AP) — Brittney Griner took the Baylor Lady Bears to new heights. Blocking layups, snagging rebounds, hitting shots over two and three helpless defenders, all season long she towered over the competition. That left Griner with just one more task Tuesday night – cutting down the nets. Griner had 26 points, 13 rebounds and [...]
He finally did it. John Calipari has finally added a championship to his resume. Despite a rough shooting night by the best of Kentucky’s talented freshmen, Anthony Davis, the Wildcats defeated Kansas 67-59 on Monday night to win their eighth national title, and first since 1998. Davis, who might have had the most dominating six-point [...]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)—Thirty-six years after he was hired as an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University, Bernie Fine is out of a job amid an investigation into child molestation allegations against him. Fine was fired Sunday night after a third man accused him of molesting him nine years ago. “At the direction of Chancellor Cantor, [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—This NCAA tournament had plenty of twists, turns and upsets even before the championship game. Gary Blair and Texas A&M delivered a thrilling ending. This was the supposed to be the year Maya Moore’s Connecticut juggernaut won its third straight title or Stanford broke through or Tennessee got back to the top. Instead, the [...]
HOUSTON (AP)—The rims were tight, the shots weren’t falling and points were at a premium—surely one of the ugliest championships played on college basketball’s biggest stage. Ah, but for Kemba Walker and UConn, the final score was a thing of beauty. In a game that featured 40 minutes of guts and grit, Connecticut made Butler [...]
SAN ANTONIO (AP)—Move over, Butler. Virginia Commonwealth is crashing the Final Four. Two weeks ago, the 11th-seeded Rams so doubted they would get a NCAA tournament invite that they watched Cartoon Network and went out for burgers instead of watching the selection show. Now, all of America will be watching them in the Final Four. [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In a state where basketball is king, Rick Pitino cuts quite the fine figure. Designer suits, Italian dress shoes, best-selling books on how to succeed on the court and in life, a hit TV commercial with fellow college coaching titans Bobby Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams, a devout Roman Catholic [...]
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