“You did what you thought you needed to do… so this is goodbye, forever,” a stoic Graham told DeAnna after she eliminated him at the Rose Ceremony that followed DeAnna’s hometown visits with the four men that were still in the running to receive her final rose.“I made it perfectly clear what it was like […]
Yeah, that’s right the Elite 8 takes a backseat to Steph Curry right now. He is no longer Stephen Curry he’s Steph. You know you made it when you get a nickname over night. My man was unbelievable. What a pleasure to watch him play. His quick release, the way he slices through defenders and […]
The Bulldogs surprised everyone, including themselves, in a 2008 campaign that won’t soon be forgotten. Entering the season this Drake squad was picked to finished ninth in their conference; now they’re a Top 20 team nationally and a favorite to advance on the biggest stage college basketball has to offer. The Missouri Valley champs personify […]
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Jerel McNeal and Marquette cut short Kentucky’s record 49th NCAA Tournament appearance.McNeal scored 20 points and Wesley Matthews hit eight free throws in the final 31 seconds to help the Golden Eagles beat the Wildcats 74-66 in the first round of the South Regional on Thursday.Marquette overcame 35 points by Kentucky senior […]
Kansas State’s women’s basketball team is the No. 5 seed in the New Orleans region and will go against No. 12 Chattanooga in the first round.</p><p>The Wildcats, who won the Big 12 regular-season title, will have to travel quite a ways for this game: They are playing in Bridgeport, Conn.</p><p>The Mocs are 28-3 and went […]
Alabama lost to UMass in NIT last year. Get it right!Tidal: Ouch. Brain cramp. Must’ve blocked it out
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After a couple hours of promises that the pairings were about to be released, the Gazelle Group, which runs the first-year College Basketball Invitational, finally made it official about 1:50 a.m. — Western Michigan has been left out of the postseason.There’s a story up on the Gazette’s Broncos page, and I’ll have more here on […]
He thinks it was 48.5 seconds, but it doesn’t really matter.Saddle Brooke’s Fred Klein isn’t the kind of guy who races against the clock anyway.The oldest competitor in this year’s Green Valley Senior Games seems to swim and live life mostly for today, and for the fun of it.However, he admits he would like to […]
Over the past six days, a trio of nearby schools — George Mason, American and UMBC — claimed NCAA tournament berths. All three victories were accompanied by the iconic image of March: hundreds of fans, media members and college basketball players irrepressibly drawn to center court, like Dick Vitale to a Duke game. The practice […]
When Marian Bemis Johnson and Dorothy McIntyre began seeking out stories of Minnesota women who’d played high school basketball in the early 1900s, they were amazed at what came pouring forth.Women called them and wrote to them. They dug out old photographs from scrapbooks and closets.“They would turn 16 again, talking to me,” Johnson said.This […]