Basketball

Pressey declares for NBA draft
Missouri point guard Phil Pressey is skipping his senior season to enter the NBA draft. The decision was announced in a statement from the school on ...
UConn women win 8th title in rout of Louisville
His eighth national championship in hand, Geno Auriemma wanted to savor the moment and not talk about a dynasty just yet. He had just tied Pat Summitt ...
Knicks win 1st Atlantic division title since 1994
The Atlantic Division title has gone from preseason goal to late-season stepping stone. The New York Knicks celebrated their first division title in ...
Lakers beat Hornets 104-96 to stay in hunt
Kobe Bryant looked around, drew in a breath and gathered himself. Time for one of the game's best closers to get to work with the score tied to start ...
Louisville overwhelmed by UConn for title, 93-60
Shoni Schimmel tried to fling a long, hard bounce pass to Jude Schimmel along the right sideline — the kind of crowd-pleasing play the sisters often ...
UConn women rout Louisville for 8th title
Geno Auriemma has been chasing Pat Summitt since he started coaching. Now with his eighth national championship, he has finally caught her. It might ...
Pitino heads to New Orleans without his team
Louisville men's coach Rick Pitino went to New Orleans to watch the Cardinals' women's team play Connecticut in Tuesday night's NCAA championship game
Heat tie team mark with 61st win, top Bucks 94-83
Dwyane Wade was hurt, Chris Bosh was sick, the Miami Heat missed 15 consecutive 3-point attempts and allowed the Milwaukee Bucks to score 22 points ...
Dad says Louisville G Russ Smith leaving for NBA
Junior guard Russ Smith will leave Louisville early to enter the NBA draft, according to his father. Russ Smith Sr. said the Cardinals' leading scorer ...
Injured Wade remains sidelined for Heat
Dwyane Wade got back on the court with the Miami Heat, if only for a practice. Wade was ruled out of Tuesday's home game against the Milwaukee Bucks, ...
Indiana star Oladipo leaving for NBA
Indiana junior Victor Oladipo is heading to the NBA. Cody Zeller could be next. Oladipo made his announcement official Tuesday at a news conference ...
McLemore, Oladipo, Ledo declare for NBA draft
Ben McLemore is one and done at Kansas. Ricky Ledo is none and done with Providence. McLemore, Kansas' talented freshman guard, was among several ...
Jayhawks' Ben McLemore declares for NBA draft
The hardest decision of Ben McLemore's life turned out to be no question at all. Kansas coach Bill Self made sure of it. The talented guard announced ...
Pac-12 to commission review of officiating program
The Pac-12 announced plans Tuesday to commission an independent review of officiating during the league tournament after comments by the conference's ...
Former RMU player: Rice used anti-gay slur
A Robert Morris internal investigation into former basketball coach Mike Rice found no evidence of the "coaches against player" brawls alleged by an ...
Louisville police disperse crowd with tear gas
Fans poured into the streets to celebrate the Cardinals' NCAA championship win over Michigan, throwing all-night parties that at one point became so ...
Anthony tops NBA's jersey sales list
Carmelo Anthony now tops the NBA's scoring race and its most popular jerseys list. Anthony took over the No. 1 spot on the league's sales list ...
Congratulations Louisville ... what's next?
The last note of "One Shining Moment" had yet to reach the people in the cheap seats at the Georgia Dome when college basketball started doing what ...
Louisville's Hancock wins Most Outstanding Player
Two minutes. Four 3-pointers. Safe to say, Luke Hancock knows how to make good use of his time. The backup forward, better known as "Plan B" for Rick ...
Column: Maybe the best week a coach ever had
Someday soon, Rick Pitino is going to have to explain the tattoo to his grandkids. But first, he's going to tell them the story of how getting into ...
Louisville beats Michigan 82-76 for NCAA title
Rick Pitino held court in a tunnel beneath the Georgia Dome, going on and on about the grittiest bunch of guys he's ever coached. One of them sat in ...
Burke's big title game not enough for Michigan
With a national championship slipping away in the final minutes, Trey Burke raced back on defense and gave Michigan fans one more spectacular play to ...
AP PHOTOS: Scenes from the NCAA title game
The Cardinals proved it earned its No. 1 March Madness ranking, rallying from 12 points down — with a huge 22-point game off the bench from Luke ...
Rutgers to look deeper at problems with coach
Rutgers University is pledging to get to the bottom of how a basketball coach who kicked and shoved players and used gay slurs as he yelled at them ...
FINALS WATCH: Bluegrass glory, Louisville wins
Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games