Archive | Basketball – Men’s
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U. Kansas basketball player suits up for football
Five quarterbacks wearing red jerseys stood on Kansas’ practice fields Wednesday afternoon, and each practiced handing off to a running back.
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Column: Izzo currently best coach in college basketball
The NCAA tournament has been more unpredictable than usual this year. As a result, most people didn’t come within a whiff of picking the Final Four teams correctly.
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Ohio State U. recruit Sullinger shines in high school all-star game
After being hospitalized earlier in the day with apparent food poisoning, Ohio State recruit Jared Sullinger still managed to put on a show for the Schottenstein Center crowd.
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West Virginia U. guard held out of Final Four practice
West Virginia U. point guard Truck Bryant did not practice Tuesday afternoon as he continues to recover from a broken fifth metatarsal in his right foot. Bryant was recently fitted for an orthotic for his right sneaker in Durham, N.C.
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Column: Indy’s underdog becomes America’s Cinderella story
One cannot help but wonder if Butler head men’s basketball coach Brad Stevens is standing beneath the basket at Lucas Oil Stadium right now, tape measure in hand, recreating the iconic “Hoosiers” scene. Hinkle Fieldhouse doesn’t look so big anymore.
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Column: Baylor escape puts questions to rest for Duke
I’m not quite sure when I started thinking Duke deserved consideration for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. It wasn’t when Villanova started its late-season slide in early February, and it wasn’t when Purdue star Robbie Hummel tore his ACL later that month.
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Boston College fires basketball coach Skinner
Boston College Athletic Director Gene DeFilippo has fired men’s basketball head coach Al Skinner, he announced at a press conference today, leaving BC without a head coach in a major sport for the second time in the past 15 months.
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Iowa basketball names McCaffrey new coach
The name “Fran McCaffery” wasn’t one many Hawkeye fans conjured up as a replacement after Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta fired Todd Lickliter and began his pursuit for a new men’s basketball head coach.
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Harvard U. coach Amaker not going anywhere
The season may have ended nearly two weeks ago for the Harvard U. men’s basketball team, but the candle is still burning in the office of coach Tommy Amaker.