At twenty-four years old, Sedona Prince is starting her seventh year of college basketball, but she has only played in seventy games. Last year, her first at Texas Christian University, she averaged roughly twenty points, ten rebounds, and three blocks, but she missed a long portion of the season with a broken finger that required … Read more
The season ended badly. There is no disputing that. Selection Sunday can be cruel that way. It was St. Patrick’s Day, too, remember, and so it felt like a wonderful and festive stage for St. John’s to appear in the bracket for the first time in five years. But the weird stuff had already started. … Read more
It has become routine for Shaheen Holloway. His teams are typically overlooked. They are dismissed. It happened at Saint Peter’s and it’s happening at Seton Hall. Seton Hall coach Shaheen Holloway is not worried that his team has been predicted to finish 10th in the Big East preseason coach’s poll. Noah K. Murray / New … Read more
The Huskies were truly a pack on Wednesday night in Brooklyn. As Stephon Castle learned he was being taken No. 4 overall in the 2024 NBA Draft by the Spurs, the UConn product shared a warm moment with his old head coach Dan Hurley and former teammate and fellow draftee Donovan Clingan. After Castle’s name … Read more
The recently proposed settlement involving three antitrust lawsuits against the NCAA, including $2.77 billion to settle the class-action “House v. NCAA” suit, seems to be a win-win for college sports at first glance. Athletes who missed out on the NIL revolution will receive back pay, the door will open for current athletes to share in … Read more
In 1999, the U.S. women’s soccer team captivated sports fans across the globe when it won the World Cup and became the first team in the female league to do so on home soil. The championship title was a pivotal moment for women’s sports that inspired a generation of young girls, among them Miranda Spencer … Read more
UConn’s men’s basketball team returned Tuesday night to the campus the school has branded the “Basketball Capital of the World.” Fans lined the streets in Eastern Connecticut, cheering as the team’s buses passed by on the hourlong journey from Bradley International Airport to Gampel Pavilion. Several thousand fans waited inside the arena to hear from coach … Read more
By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. — UConn left Donovan Clingan on the loneliest island, stuck deep in the paint to wrestle massive Purdue center Zach Edey. Even when Edey bulled his way to shots at the rim, the Huskies refused to give their big man help, knowing the two-time national player of … Read more
Especially with the juxtaposition of the current turmoil at Kentucky, there is no question Connecticut has become one of the true defining blue bloods of men’s college basketball. A program that top recruits and transfer-portal players gravitate toward. A program where the head coach can mold them into winners. A program that has an unquestioned … Read more
Caitlin Clark’s boyfriend, Connor McCaffery, sent her a sweet message after the Iowa star point guard and the Hawkeyes came up short against the South Carolina Gamecocks in Sunday’s NCAA Women’s Tournament championship game. Taking to his Instagram Story, McCaffrey reposted a photo of Clark exiting the court for final time in her collegiate career … Read more
