Category: College Basketball
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Eddie Jordan wanted to coach his alma mater, Rutgers, for quite some time. The school kept passing him up, but not this time. With the Mike Rice saga putting Rutgers on the map for all the wrong reasons, the school hired Jordan to come in and pick up the pieces, ...
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Monday, April 15th, 2013
Ohio State Buckeyes forward Deshaun Thomas is one of many players who have decided to leave the college level early and enter the NBA Draft. He averaged almost 20 points and nearly six rebounds per game as a junior this past season as the Buckeyes made the Elite Eight in ...
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Friday, April 12th, 2013
When Victor Oladipo arrived at Indiana, the program was going through a transition. Tom Crean had just gotten there two seasons earlier and he was trying to bring the Hoosiers back to relevance. In Oladipo's first season, he played sporadically. Getting just 18 minutes per game, Oladipo averaged only 7.4 ...
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Friday, April 12th, 2013
Could the NBA become the first of the major American professional sports leagues to have a female player? Mark Cuban has suggested that could be the case by stating that he'd consider drafting Baylor star Brittney Griner. But Charles Barkley is having none of it.
Charles Barkley joined The Dan Patrick ...
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
The story for much of the first half of Monday's national championship game was the play of Michigan's Spike Albrecht. Albrecht, who entered the game averaging about a bucket a game, finished with a career-high 17, all in the first half. It didn't end the way Albrecht and the Wolverines ...
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Rick Pitino is a lucky man this week. He was elected to the Hall of Fame, his horse is headed to the Kentucky Derby, his son got a prominent head-coaching job in Minnesota and Pitino is also a national champion once again.
The Louisville Cardinals rallied from a 12-point deficit to ...
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Jamal Crawford's had a good year. Not only are his Los Angeles Clippers division champions and en route to the playoffs with big expectations, but Crawford's Michigan Wolverines went on their first Final Four run since the Fab Five era, falling just short of a national title last night in ...
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
The Louisville men's basketball team was the top seed in the NCAA tournament and proved that they were the top team by winning it all. Now the Cardinals women's team has the chance to match that feat, but in a different fashion. The Cardinals are a No. 5 seed on ...
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Things looked rocky in the national championship game for Louisville on Monday night when they fell behind Michigan by 12 points in the first half. But Luke Hancock helped the Cardinals come from behind again. They beat the Wolverines 82-76 to take a national championship back to Louisville.
Luke Hancock, Rick ...
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
For most of Saturday's game, it appeared No. 9-seeded Wichita State was heading for the national championship game. Instead, Louisville -- the top overall seed in the NCAA tournament -- stormed back to beat the Shockers. Now the Cardinals get Michigan tonight with a national title on the line.
Russ Smith, ...
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