Legendary Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire following the upcoming 2021-22 college basketball season, according to CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish. Krzyzewski, who turned 74 in February and is famously known as “Coach K,” has led Duke to five NCAA Tournament championships, 12 Final Four appearances and 27 combined ACC titles in tournament and regular-season […]
College basketball fans have been waiting almost a year for the NCAA Tournament to return since the 2020 edition was canceled. March Madness has returned, and one thing is certain: it has returned in a greater way than any of us could have expected. Now, all that’s left is 16 teams. After one of the […]
Five of Sunday’s eight second-round 2021 NCAA Tournament games will feature double-digit seeds as the group of underdogs that emerged on Friday looks to keep the momentum going with more upsets. And a couple of those double-digit seeds have legitimate chances to advance out of the round and into the Sweet 16. The day’s best […]
Florida Gulf Coast’s Kierstan Bell received an honorable mention nod from The Associated Press as it named this year’s All-America women’s team. Bell is the highest-rated recruit to ever play for the Eagles, and the 2020-21 season was spectacular for the sophomore guard. She was named ASUN Player of the Year and Newcomer of the […]
Tishara Morehouse scored 28 points, Kierstan Bell had 22 points, 13 rebounds and five assists, and No. 24 Florida Gulf Coast won its 23rd straight, cruising past No. 9 seed Jacksonville 87-62 on Thursday in the quarterfinals of Atlantic Sun Conference tournament. FGCU (24-2) hasn’t lost since dropping back-to-back games against ranked opponents, Missouri State […]
Duke arrived at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament hoping to make an unprecedented run to extend its long NCAA Tournament streak. Instead, the Blue Devils abruptly had to pull out of the tournament and end its season due to a positive COVID-19 test and the resulting quarantining and contact tracing. The ACC announced that the […]
The San Antonio region will host the entire NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The move Friday was made to help mitigate the risks of COVID-19 and matches that of the men’s tournament, which the NCAA said last month will be played in the Indianapolis area. The tournament will still feature 64 teams and will run from […]
The NCAA is giving Indiana an exclusive ticket to showcase March Madness and the basketball-crazed state can’t wait to take center stage this spring. The NCAA announced Monday that its showcase event – the Division I men’s basketball tournament, all 67 games of it – will be played entirely in or near Indianapolis. The hope […]
Colin Castleton scored a career-high 23 points and Florida opened the SEC season on Wednesday night with a 91-72 win over Vanderbilt in the Gators’ first game since Keyontae Johnson’s collapse. Johnson, who entered the season as the SEC Preseason Player of the Year, collapsed early in an 83-71 loss to then-No. 20 Florida State […]
Florida star Keyontae Johnson is “showing truly encouraging signs of progress” but the Gators will postpone their next three non-conference games, UF athletic director Scott Stricklin said Thursday. Johnson remains hospitalized after collapsing last week in the first half of the Gators’ game against Florida State on Saturday. Florida played the remainder of the game against FSU but postponed its Wednesday […]