NNPA NEWSWIRE — Coach Hamilton has been a good friend, role model, and trusted adviser. He has given much of his invaluable time by singing in...
Mike Chiari, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) — University of Wisconsin head basketball coach Bo Ryan‘s Hall of Fame-worthy career will come to an end following the 2015-16...
MICHAEL MAROT, AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — College basketball is undergoing a major overhaul next season. Men’s teams will use a faster shot clock —...
DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nobody will hang any nets to replace the ones Duke cut down Monday night for several months, giving...
AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Krzyzewski stood beside the gleaming national championship trophy, posing for the traditional, confetti-soaked photos after winning a...
(USA Today) – Former North Carolina Tar Heels coach Dean Smith, who passed away in February at the age of 83, set up a trust to send...
WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The whistle sounds. The horn blows. And the madness grinds to a halt. Another stoppage in play. Another...
RUSTY MILLER, AP Sports Writer DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Let this be a lesson to the 64 NCAA Tournament teams yet to take the floor: A...
RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Massachusetts guard Derrick Gordon became a better basketball player and a better teammate this season,...
GENARO C. ARMAS, AP Sports Writer Conference tournaments will give the nation’s best teams opportunities to boost their credentials to claim one of the four No....
JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Jim Boeheim has become used to the spotlight in his long career at Syracuse. It’s awfully bright...
JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was suspended for nine games Friday, with the school punished for ignoring the...
PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Kentucky has been in some close games. This was a new predicament, however. With just over 9...
(USA Today) – Kansas has won the Big 12 for 10 consecutive years, a remarkable, underrated run of college basketball supremacy in one of the...
JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer One of college basketball’s greatest rivalries and a showdown between two Pac-12 powers highlight this week in college basketball. The marquee...
DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — When he arrived at Illinois in 1975, the first thing Lou Henson did was preach patience....
AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer There’s no argument about who is No. 1. The second-best team in the nation behind Kentucky, however, is up for debate....
BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Frustrated by the way his undefeated Kentucky Wildcats were playing, coach John Calipari starting fist-pumping facetiously...
PETE IACOBELLI, AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Top-ranked South Carolina is ready for the next — and perhaps hardest — stretch of the season...
JOSEPH WHITE, AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The first major “I Can’t Breathe” protest from college sports would naturally come from Georgetown, where societal statements...
by Starla Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call This 2012 file photo shows then-Baltimore Ravens NFL football player Michael McAdoo, who was released...
JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Days before this game, Geno Auriemma credited Stanford and Hall of Fame coach Tara VanDerveer for continuing...
JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer The 2013-14 college basketball season was known as the year of the freshman. With the likes of one-and-doners like Andrew Wiggins,...
PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Ryan Boatright doesn’t see basketball as a game. Since he was a 13-year-old prodigy and gave a verbal...
JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer Jahlil Okafor has yet to play a game for Duke. The hype surrounding his arrival is all pegged to potential and...
