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Brook Lopez, a 7-foot sophomore who was already academically ineligible for the start of Stanford's season, has been suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules.
Alec Kessler, a Georgia basketball star who played four seasons for the Miami Heat before becoming an orthopedic surgeon, died after collapsing during a pickup game. He was 40.
Billy Gillispie threw one of college basketball's biggest parties Friday night, but the new Kentucky coach stayed true to his promise to remain under control.
UCLA coach Ben Howland, who has guided the Bruins to consecutive Final Four appearances, has agreed to a new seven-year contract.
Billy Donovan might not be done with the Florida Gators after all. FoxSports.com, citing two anonymous sources, reported Sunday night that Donovan was having second thoughts about coaching the NBA's Orlando Magic and attempting to return to Gainesville.
Dana Altman's stint at Arkansas was over in one day. Altman quit Tuesday, apologizing to Arkansas fans and saying it was in his family's best interest to return to Creighton.
The Florida Gators beat Ohio State 84-75 Monday night to become the first team since Duke in 1992 to repeat as NCAA men's basketball champions.
It's hard to escape attention when you're the center of attention.
Thad Matta was still enjoying Ohio State's win over Georgetown when he walked courtside at the Georgia Dome to catch some of the first half of the other national semifinal between UCLA and Florida.
First, an instant replay. Next, a classic repeat? Florida and its in-demand coach, Billy Donovan, moved one win away from a second straight national championship Saturday night, defeating UCLA 76-66 in a game that looked very much like the meeting between these two in last year's Final Four.
Before he was Billy the Kid, Billy Donovan was really just a kid. A pudgy kid with a funny push shot just waiting for the day when the 3-point line would come into college basketball and Rick Pitino would come into his life.
John Thompson III and Patrick Ewing Jr. could only hope, the same way their dads did a generation ago. On this night, it was different. A North Carolina freshman missed.
North Carolina wouldn't let a huge second-half deficit stand in the way of an enticing rematch of its 1982 championship game with Georgetown.
Ohio State senior Ron Lewis knew better than to look at the scoreboard. One look at the Tennessee Volunteers told him all he needed to know. Although the top-seeded Buckeyes trailed by 17 and freshman sensation Greg Oden was in deep foul trouble, Lewis could tell his team had the Vols right where they wanted them.
The best player on the floor will be the best player on the couch for the rest of the NCAA tournament. Texas star Kevin Durant's season came to an unceremonious close Sunday after an 87-68 thumping at the hands of surprising Southern California.
The mask protecting his broken nose kept sliding around, frustrating Tyler Hansbrough as he tussled in the paint with Michigan State's physical defenders. So North Carolina's big man tossed it off, then helped the Tar Heels dispose of the determined Spartans.
Tommy Amaker maintained it was fair to expect Michigan to earn an NCAA tournament bid in his sixth season leading the basketball program. When the Wolverines fell short of that goal, athletic director Bill Martin decided it was time for a change.
Seinfeld was the reigning sitcom king, Bill Clinton was still in his first term as President and Duke sophomore center Josh McRoberts was barely 9 years old.
Will Whittington scored 31 points and Marist upset Oklahoma State 67-64 on Tuesday night in the first round of the NIT.
The Memphis Tigers are among the best scorers and shooters in the country — until it's time to shoot free throws.
Ohio State, Kansas, Florida and North Carolina — the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament — held the top four spots in the final Associated Press college basketball poll Monday.
South Florida basketball coach Robert McCullum was fired Friday after the Bulls lost 28 of 32 games during the school's first two seasons in the Big East Conference.
Marquette needed to huddle up and quickly analyze the situation. Its big lead was gone and St. John's was scoring at will. The Golden Eagles knew if they weren't careful, the Red Storm might send them home early from the Big East tournament.
Players from four elite basketball universities will be hitting the court this week with distinctly different Nike uniforms that showcase their upper bodies — and a little less leg.
An in depth look at the favorite in the Big Ten.
Mark Fox is one of the good young coaches in college basketball. In three years as the head coach at Nevada, he's won three WAC titles. His team has advanced to the NCAA tournament three times. So why is he still with the Pack?
Syracuse will travel to Virginia to play the Cavaliers on December 4th. The Orange was left out of the NCAA tournament last season despite a 20-win season in the Big East.
Many expected the NCAA to overrule a text message ban earlier this week. It didn't happen. Now many are upset about it.
I wasn't puffing my chest out, I wasn't the head coach at Wake Forest," Gaudio said yesterday. "I just said, 'This is what's going to happen this year.
Some institutes of higher learning are better at controlling players than others, but they all operate in the same risky bandwidth. If you're going to be competitive, you simply accept the possibility a couple of student-athletes will make guest appearances on COPS.
Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser died, multiple sources said Thursday. He was 56. Prosser collapsed while jogging, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
TAIPEI -- Although the Jones Cup is not its main goal, the San Miguel-Pilipinas national team showed its tremendous potential by toppling defending champion United States, 72-67, at the start of the tournament's 29th edition here Monday.
The next time the University of North Carolina's NBA stars gather for the World's Greatest Alumni Game, they're going to have to add a qualifier to the previously indisputable title -- the Alumni Game Formerly Known as the World's Greatest Alumni Game.
Jeff Green is not on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, and his face isn't splashed across the newest video game. He's not co-starring in the...
Jeff Green, the fifth pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, has been traded from the Boston Celtics to the Seattle Sonics. In Seattle, he will play with the second pick the the 2007 draft, Kevin Durant.
A Look into one fans expectations for tomorrow's NBA draft.
When he was apparently murdered, he was building bridges between crime and decency. Howard Porter was a probation officer working the potholed back streets of St. Paul, Minn. And so it would be that for all his efforts, some work would be left incomplete.
The top sports is still the NFL - by far - and baseball has declined the most since 1985
Lon Kruger and the Runnin' Rebels received a signed national letter of intent from Beas Hamga to enroll at UNLV and play for the Runnin' Rebels starting with the 2007-08 season. Hamga had considered playing for Iowa, Kentucky, and Indiana before settling on the Rebels.
College basketball players might want to start working on longer shots. Two decades after adding the 3-point line, the NCAA men's basketball rules committee approved a measure Thursday that will move the line back one foot — from 19 feet, 9 inches to 20 feet, 9 inches.
Tonight might be your last chance to see freshman Greg Oden at Ohio State. Or it might not.
new basketball coach at Arkansas
ATLANTA--With his Junior year behind him, Florida forward Joakim Noah is planning to leave school and go pro next season, where he is looking forward to annoying people on an NBA level.
Is today the best day in sports? With the championship game of the greatest sports event in the country, and the opening of America's pasttime its hard to argue that its not.
But he'll ditch Ohio State after just his freshman season because you'd have to be a bona fide basketball moron to turn down the chance to be the first pick, right? All that money. All those great players in "the league."
Sources have confirmed to me that Billy Donovan has been offered the University of Kentucky job at $3 million per season. The deal is worth at least 7 seasons, and the final contract could be for as many as 12 years.
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