College Basketball

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. – Last season, Purdue joined a club they didn’t want to be a part of when they were upset by a No. 16 seed as a No. 1 seed in the first round. They fell one game short of coming all the way back to win a national championship this year. It wasn’t for Purdue star center Zach …

[ad_1] There’s a tradition unlike any other that comes around every year in the first two weeks of April — and, no, it’s not the Masters. In the hours after a college basketball national champion has been crowned, after the confetti has fallen from the rafters and “One Shining Moment” has played on the videoboard, the look ahead begins with …

[ad_1] It wouldn’t be far-fetched to believe Cuonzo Martin will begin adding players via the transfer portal to Missouri State’s basketball roster in the coming weeks. He has many spots to fill before the 2024-25 season. Martin, who was re-introduced as Missouri State’s head coach last week, has spent recent days at the Final Four festivities in Glendale, Arizona, watching …

[ad_1] The men’s college basketball season has just concluded with Connecticut again cutting down the nets. But there’s little time to savor the success of winning the national championship because it’s already time to look ahead to how the 2024-25 campaign will shake out and who will be the contenders to reach the Final Four in San Antonio. It’s admittedly …

[ad_1] Getty Strike Dan Hurley from the Kentucky coaching candidates boards. The UConn coach ended his national championship postgame press conference with a question from a reporter about a job “coming open tomorrow.” And Hurley grinned, before it became an outright laugh. “Yeah, yeah, I don’t think that’s a concern,” he said. “My wife, you should have her answer that. …

[ad_1] UConn’s 75-60 win over Purdue in the national championship game on Monday gave Huskies coach Dan Hurley something new in common with his big brother. Bobby Hurley was the starting point guard for Duke’s national titles in 1991 and 1992, meaning the Hurley brothers have each accomplished the rare feat of winning back-to-back titles. “It’s incredible to join Bob …

[ad_1] With its 75-60 win Monday, UConn became the first repeat champion since 2006-07 Florida. But the Huskies didn’t just repeat. They dominated. Steamrolled. Crushed. Whatever verb you want, UConn did it. The Huskies posted a +140 point differential, the best ever in a single tournament. Their average scoring margin of +23.3 was second-best of all time behind only John …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — There is Connecticut.  Then there is a massive gap.  And then there is everyone else.  The Huskies have no peers. We saw it for weeks; it only needed to be made official on Monday night when they scheduled a 40-minute basketball game for the final victim, Purdue, to join the rest who have been hounded into …

[ad_1] UConn opened the 2023-24 season with the seventh-best odds (20-1) to win the national title. The Huskies started the year behind Kansas, Michigan State, Kentucky, Duke, Purdue and Arizona. On Monday night in Glendale, Arizona, the Huskies became the first team since Florida in 2006-07 to repeat as national champions with a 75-60 statement win over Purdue. Opening future …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — The lovable maniac who rebuilt UConn into a juggernaut refused to allow his team to relax. Dan Hurley exhorted the Huskies to keep pushing for more even though their place in history was already cemented. He screamed for more defensive pressure after an Alex Karaban corner 3-pointer put UConn up 14. He got down in a …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Purdue star Zach Edey won the battle of the big men in Monday night’s national championship game, but UConn center Donovan Clingan and his Huskies ultimately won the war. The 2023 champs strategically picked apart the Boilermakers with a defensive game plan so sound it made Purdue abandon one of its most potent weapons, the 3-point …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Zach Edey went quietly.  No, not like that. The man had 37 points Monday night against UConn, the most in a national championship game since 1978. But Purdue’s 7-foot-4 center left the State Farm Insurance court the same way he entered the program four years ago: stoically.  A subdued exit was probably assured before the 75-60 …

[ad_1] Connecticut became the first Division I men’s college basketball team to win back-to-back championships since Florida 17 years ago, as the Huskies downed Purdue 75-60 in the NCAA title game Monday. “You can’t even wrap your mind around it because you just know how hard this tournament is,” UConn head coach Dan Hurley said after the game in Glendale, …

[ad_1] UConn completed its historic NCAA Tournament run with a 75-60 win over No. 1 seed Purdue in the national championship game on Monday in Glendale, Arizona. The Huskies became the first No. 1 overall seed to win the national title since Louisville in 2013. They accomplished that feat while recording the second-highest points per game differential (23.3) in NCAA …

[ad_1] One of the top jobs in college basketball opened unexpectedly on Sunday with Kentucky coach John Calipari expected to take the vacant job at Arkansas after 15 seasons with the Wildcats. Kentucky will have a coaching vacancy just weeks after UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart met with Calipari to confirm he would be returning for his 16th season with …

[ad_1] UConn head coach Dan Hurley celebrates cutting the net after their win against Purdue in the NCAA college Final Four championship basketball game, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) GLENDALE, Ariz. — The pie-in-the-sky idea that Kentucky could lure Dan Hurley away from UConn almost certainly isn’t going to happen. Hurley made that clear …

[ad_1] Getty Images The UConn Huskies have completed one of the most impressive runs in NCAA Tournament history, defeating Purdue 75-60 on Monday night to win a second straight national championship. They join an elite list of back-to-back champs that, spanning the last 50 years, includes just Duke (1991-92) and Florida (2006-07). In defeating the Boilermakers, UConn has claimed the …

[ad_1] Connecticut won the men’s basketball national championship, defeating Purdue, 75-60, in the NCAA Tournament championship game in Glendale, Arizona, on Monday night. UConn became the first back-to-back men’s March Madness winner since Florida in 2006-07. This also is the UConn’s sixth national championship (1999, 2004, 2011, 2014 and 2023 were the others), moving the Huskies into a tie with …

[ad_1] USATSI Zach Edey’s career has come to an end. An astounding NCAA Tournament run that ended in a 37-point performance in Purdue’s 75-60 loss to UConn will be the final game for the two-time Naismith Player of the Year. The Purdue star, who led the country in points and rebounds this season among all Division I players, will not …

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[ad_1] UConn got 20 points from Tristen Newton and 15 from Stephon Castle as they outlasted Naismith Player of the Year Zach Edey and ran away from the Purdue Boilermakers, 75-60, to win the national title game Monday night in Glendale, Ariz. The Huskies, who led by six after 20 minutes, entered the night winning their last 47 straight games …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. – Before Purdue’s win against North Carolina State in the Final Four, they played the national anthem at State Farm Arena. Of course they did. From my specific seat, looking over at the U.S. flag, Barry Collier was in my line of sight. Collier, the former Butler basketball coach and retiring athletic director, is on the NCAA’s …

[ad_1] X / @HowardWKYT While Kentucky faithful — and, honestly, all of college basketball — waits to officially hear about his future with the Wildcats or Razorbacks, John Calipari’s focus while on a Monday afternoon walk was another animal: his dog. Calipari, who is expected to sign a contract to become the next coach at Arkansas per CBS Sports’ Matt …

[ad_1] “The Road Ends Here” as this year’s men’s NCAA basketball national championship game between No. 1 Purdue and No. 1 Connecticut pits two traditional centers on Monday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Zach Edey, the 7-foot-4, two-time national player of the year anchors the Boilermakers. Edey was the nation’s leading scorer at 25 points per game and is …

[ad_1] The UCONN Huskies and the Purdue Boilermakers were the two best teams in college basketball this season. They may have been the two best last season. The difference is well-documented as Zach Edey and co. were upset as a 1-seed in the First Round of last season’s tournament while Danny Hurley’s squad ran roughshod over the field enroute to …