Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday to win its first NCAA championship in women’s basketball.
- EDDIE PELLS Associated Press
UConn can cement dynasty status by overcoming a Michigan powerhouse that is racking up historically impressive numbers, hoping to go down as one of the sport's greatest teams itself.
- Dom Amore, Hartford Courant
INDIANAPOLIS — Illinois made its run, kept it close and their fans were loudest among the 72,111 at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday night. But as the game began to wind down, there was only that familiar, eerie silence that settles over a football stadium as the UConn men, who have become a so…
- USA Today - Vertical
The Connecticut Huskies and Michigan Wolverines dominated in their Final Four games to reach the NCAA men's basketball national championship game.
- DAMIEN SORDELETT The Roanoke Times
- DAMIEN SORDELETT The Roanoke Times
“I’d like to keep it as alive as long as we possibly can," Franklin said.
- EDDIE PELLS Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan overpowered Arizona early and humbled the ’Cats all night long, turning the Final Four meeting billed as the Game of the Year into a 91-73 Wolverines highlight reel Saturday night.
INDIANAPOLIS — It was almost as though time had stopped for Illinois six minutes into the second half of Saturday’s Final Four semifinal against UConn at Lucas Oil Stadium. Andrej Stojaković’s put-back attempt rolled around the rim before coming to a dead stop on the back of the basket as everyone in the massive football stadium held their breath and waited for gravity to make a call. In or ...
UConn got another critical 3-pointer from Braylon Mullins and coach Dan Hurley’s Huskies are heading back to the national title game, beating Illinois 71-62 in the Final Four on Saturday.
PHOENIX — People had a lot to say about UConn coach Geno Auriemma’s post-game behavior after Friday night’s NCAA Tournament semifinal loss to South Carolina. Auriemma had angry words for South Carolina coach Dawn Staley and had to be restrained by his assistant coaches while Staley shouted at him in response after UConn lost its first game of the season, 62-48, at the Mortgage Matchup Center. ...
Not even a Sweet 16 run could save Amaka Agugua-Hamilton, who UVa announced will not return as coach of the women's basketball program.
Powerhouses in this weekend's Final Four like UConn and South Carolina stand on the shoulders of schools like Immaculata, Queens College, Wayland Baptist and Delta State.
"I think just the growth process was just the biggest thing that I was really thankful for," he said.
INDIANAPOLIS — Andrej Stojaković walked off the court at Lucas Oil Stadium on Friday morning after Illinois’ open Final Four practice in front of a surprising sea of orange-clad fans. He waved with both hands to some of the people leaning over the wall to greet the Illini players on their way to the locker room, then stopped to sign a hand-drawn poster board that read that he wore No. 2 on the ...
INDIANAPOLIS — When Jimmy Chitwood hit the game-winning shot at the end of “Hoosiers” and became an Indiana high school legend, it was the climactic scene of the movie. It’s a different story for UConn freshman Braylon Mullins, a fellow small-town Hoosier and Indiana Mr. Basketball, who became a March Madness legend Sunday when his game-winning 3-pointer against Duke sent the Huskies to the ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting college sports, seeking to put his imprint on a multibillion-dollar industry whose landscape has dramatically shifted in recent years. The order aims to limit the ability of students to transfer schools, oversee collectives that raise money so that collegiate athletes can profit off their name, image and likeness rights, ...
Virginia Tech secured its second verbal commitment in the 2027 recruiting class on Thursday when Archbishop Spalding (Maryland) junior Brock Frisby announced his commitment on social media.
Schutt made a team-high 65 3-pointers for the men's basketball team this season.
“The belief that they will develop me and just kind of help me help the team and I get towards the goals that we’re striving for," Baker said. "It’s been all I could ask for since I’ve been here. Hasn’t been switched up. Hasn’t been none of that.”
Virginia quarterback Chandler Morris was denied a preliminary injunction in Charlottesville Circuit Court on Thursday, as the court sided with the NCAA in Morris' eligibility case.
Indiana’s 1976 team made history — and 50 years later, no one has matched it. Here’s how the Hoosiers stayed perfect.
Virginia basketball has filled its coaching-staff vacancy by hiring former Syracuse head coach Adrian Autry as an assistant, a source confirmed to The Daily Progress.
When Connecticut makes it past the opening weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, the Huskies are almost impossible to stop.
Plus more basketball news, swimming news, lacrosse action and baseball action.
Virginia football's early-enrollee freshman wide receiver Dylan Cope "has flashed" and stood out during spring practice, according to position coach Adam Mims.
Until recently, Braylon Mullins was a UConn freshman whose name carried weight mostly among the true diehards. Now he's a part of NCAA Tournament lore.
Plus notes on Jeffrey Overton Jr. and the defensive ends.