Archive | Basketball – Men’s
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WVU stifles Kentucky for 73-66 win and Final Four berth
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – All season long West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins talked about the importance of making shots. Someone forgot to tell Kentucky to listen in. The Wildcats shot 34.
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Rumors swirl around U. Florida basketball coach Donovan
Florida coach Billy Donovan has been surrounded by rumors the last few years, and this offseason doesn’t appear it will be any different.
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Young U. Kentucky team clicking at right time
The youthful U. Kentucky Wildcats’ birth certificates may still say they are 19 and 20 years old, but the way they’re playing basketball says anything but that.
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Without the 3-pointer, Duke leans on defense
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The past few seasons, a 3-for-17 shooting performance from beyond the arc might have doomed Duke. Sunday night, though, this year’s Blue Devils showed why they’re different from those previous editions that fizzled out early in the NCAA Tournament.
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Hot shooting leads U. Kentucky to 90-60 win over Wake Forest
NEW ORLEANS – UK gave the Big Easy another big blowout. Sophomore guard Darius Miller scored a career-high 20 points and freshman forward DeMarcus Cousins poured in 19, leading a group of four Cats who scored 13 or more points, and UK (34-2) cruised to a 90-60 win over Wake Forest to advance ...
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Duke knocks Cal basketball out of tournament
A season full of promise for the Cal men's basketball team ended with one of its worst performances of the year Sunday. Outmatched in both size and depth, the Bears never got rolling on offense and were handed a decisive 68-53 loss by No.
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Cal beats Louisville to advance in NCAA Tournament
The Cal men's basketball team isn't done yet. The eighth-seeded Bears advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, defeating ninth-seeded Louisville, 77-62, on Friday night at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Defense, role players drive Duke rout in NCAA 1st Round
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Duke wasn't the home team in Jacksonville Friday night, but if more Cameron Crazies had ventured to Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, a chorus of "Airball!" would have likely serenaded No.
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Murray State buries Vanderbilt on buzzer-beater
As Murray State senior Danero Thomas sank the biggest shot of his life — a game-winner at the buzzer in the NCAA Tournament — he dually sank a Commodore squad that had been treading water for quite some time.