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No. 1 Gonzaga rolls over Saint Mary's 65-51 at WCC
Gonzaga played well enough to earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, all season and in the West Coast Conference title game. Whether the top-ranked ...
Baylor still No. 1 in AP women's basketball poll
Baylor remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll for a 10th consecutive week. The Lady Bears received all 40 first-place votes ...
UConn women beat Cuse advance to BEast title game
Get ready for UConn-Notre Dame, Part III. The teams who played a triple-overtime thriller a week ago will meet for the Big East title Tuesday night.
Brooks leads Davidson to SoCon championship 74-55
De'Mon Brooks has had a difficult time this year playing up the high expectations he set following a sensational sophomore season. Or, perhaps he was ...
Will March be madness after wild regular season?
College basketball fans with fond memories of the wild 2011 NCAA tournament may have forgotten this fact: A mostly tranquil regular season led up to ...
Crean says he has apologized to Michigan assistant
Indiana coach Tom Crean says he has apologized to Michigan assistant Jeff Meyer for their heated exchange after Sunday's game. Crean said during the ...
Gonzaga starts 2nd week at No. 1
Gonzaga is no one-week wonder at No. 1. The Bulldogs beat Loyola Marymount 66-48 in its first — and so far only — game as the nation's top-ranked team
Oklahoma State guard AP's top player, freshman
Marcus Smart has made quite an impression in his first — and maybe only — Big 12 season. Smart, Oklahoma State's impressive guard and a top NBA ...
No. 1 Baylor holds on, 77-69 over Oklahoma State
With the NCAA tournament right around the corner, maybe this was just the kind of reminder defending national champion Baylor needed of how to hold ...
Creighton beats Wichita St 68-65, wins MVC tourney
Creighton repeated as Missouri Valley Conference tournament champion without much production from its star. "I didn't have my best game, but my ...
Temple uses big rally to beat No. 21 VCU 84-76
On the way out of the Atlantic 10, Temple looked ready to take one more trophy as a keepsake. Khalif Wyatt scored 30 points and Jake O'Brien had 19, ...
Liberty, with 15-20 record, earns NCAA berth
Liberty coach Dale Layer doesn't care how many losses it took to get his players to the NCAA tournament. The Flames became just the second 20-loss ...
No. 1 Gonzaga beats LMU 66-48 to reach WCC final
For the first time in school history, Gonzaga stepped on the floor as the top-ranked team in the country. Thanks to a second-half surge Saturday night ...
No. 3 Duke hammers North Carolina 69-53
Seth Curry kept burying shots against helpless North Carolina defenders to give No. 3 Duke a big lead, then Mason Plumlee dominated inside to keep the ...
Baylor wins 81-58, No. 4 Kansas shares Big 12
Kansas had a share of its ninth Big 12 regular-season title in a row even before Ben McLemore scored a layup off the opening tip at Baylor. That ended ...
No. 13 Oklahoma State edges No. 9 K-State 76-70
Coach Travis Ford can't be certain whether NBA prospect Marcus Smart has played his last home game at Oklahoma State. If he did, he went out with one ...
No. 8 Louisville beats No. 24 Notre Dame 73-57
Peyton Siva and Gorgui Dieng added another major achievement to their impressive legacy at Louisville. Siva and Dieng, who helped the Cardinals win ...
No. 6 Miami beats Clemson for outright ACC title
Miami coach Jim Larranaga mounted the ladder last and went to the basket hard, scissors in hand. The net came off with one final snip, and he twirled ...
No. 23 UCLA knocks off Washington 61-54
Once they got word, UCLA stopped with the hugs and handshakes on the court and raced into the locker room, huddling around cellphones and computers ...
No. 5 Georgetown beats No. 17 Syracuse 61-39
Georgetown coach John Thompson III was noting all the ways — and there were many — in which his team's lopsided, Big East-closing victory over ...
Comer, Brown lead FGCU to 1st NCAA tournament bid
Florida Gulf Coast is not the least bit patient. In just their second year of eligibility, the Eagles are headed to the NCAA tournament. Brett Comer ...
Big East completes football-basketball breakup
When the Big East divorce was complete, the basketball schools got the early separation they wanted, the name of the conference many of them founded ...
Akron guard pleads not guilty to drug charges
Akron's special season has hit a stunning snag. Zips starting point guard Alex Abreu pleaded not guilty to trafficking and possession of marijuana on ...
Thomas leads Terp women past Wake in ACC tourney
Alyssa Thomas had the first triple-double in Atlantic Coast Conference tournament history, and No. 10 Maryland beat Wake Forest 92-81 in overtime in ...