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The road to the 1996 Final Four went through Newark Airport for Kentucky broadcaster Tom Leach. Upon landing there, he hopped a bus over to Manhattan that carried him to the Marriott Marquis, where the media covering the tournament’s championship rounds were to be headquartered. He checked in, stashed his bags in the room and […]
The NBL could start next season without imports should international travel restrictions still be in place. NBL owner Larry Kestelman told The Age that the league was prepared for the possibility that imports may not be able to enter the country ahead of the new season, which he hopes will tip off at its usual […]
College basketball transformed into the widely followed sport that it is today — that we miss so dearly now — as a result of the expansion of the NCAA Tournament to 64 teams 35 years ago. NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt, whose father Dave was among those on the committee that approved […]
On March 19, ESPN launched SportsCenter Special: College Basketball’s Greatest of All Time, a 64-player bracket celebrating the best men’s and women’s players ever. ESPN writers and commentators will provide daily roundtables and predictions as the bracket advances through March 31. Here, writers John Gasaway, Myron Medcalf and Joe Lunardi break down the Final Four. […]
Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Top-50 senior Cliff Omoruyi announced his commitment to Rutgers on Sunday, becoming the Scarlet Knights’ highest-ranked recruit since 2008. Omoruyi chose Rutgers over Arizona State and Auburn. The 6-foot-10 center from Nigeria took multiple visits to Rutgers’ campus during the season, including an […]
I was sitting courtside for The Greatest Shot That Almost Was, and you could have almost drawn a straight line that started from my seat, connected to Gordon Hayward and went on to the basket at the far end of the court. Hayward was slightly left of a perfectly straight line. As Hayward launched The […]
Australia have beaten competition from Russia to win the bid to host the women's basketball world cup in 2022. The tournament will be hosted at Sydney Olympic Park over 10 days in September and October. Australia won the world title in 2006, and took silver and bronze in the past two editions both won by […]
It was a play so good it became known in college basketball as “The Shot.” A Grant Hill heave. A Christian Laettner turn around. Kentucky heartbreak. Duke elation. The 1992 Elite Eight matchup between Kentucky and Duke is considered by many to be the greatest college basketball game ever. The game-winning jump shot by Laettner […]
David Edwards, a guard for the Texas A&M basketball team in the early 1990s who still holds the school’s single-season record for total assists, has died of complications from the coronavirus. A university official confirmed the news to The Dallas Morning News after Edwards’ former Aggies teammate, Charles Henderson, posted about it on social media […]
The actual NCAA Tournament has been canceled, but Sporting News is still offering the chance to pick upsets and virtually watch your favorite teams advance, round-by-round to the Final Four. With the first round games in the books Thursday and Friday — a handful of double-digit seeds advanced — the first day of the second […]