Category: College Sports

At age 70, Tom Izzo has Michigan State in the Sweet 16 for the 16th time in his three-decade-long career.

Lauren Betts, Ayoka Lee and Sedona Prince are traditional post players, and all have been in the middle of their teams making it to the Sweet 16 in the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Of the 16 teams remaining in the women’s NCAA Tournament, 15 are members of Power Four conferences and other is perennial juggernaut UConn.

Alabama broke the 35-year-old NCAA Tournament record for 3-pointers with 25, a relentless spree that ushered the second-seeded Crimson Tide past BYU 113-88 on Thursday night.

Alabama broke the 35-year-old NCAA Tournament record for 3-pointers with 25, a relentless spree that ushered the second-seeded Crimson Tide past BYU 113-88 on Thursday night.

Alex Dragicevich stood tall at 6-foot-6 over a four-year collegiate career split between Notre Dame and Boston College. He’s now one of the biggest — in size, at least — stand-ups in comedy.

Penn has hired Fran McCaffery as its men’s basketball coach, two weeks after he was fired at Iowa in a season where the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten regular-season finish in seven years.

The styles of Notre Dame’s Niele Ivey, LSU’s Kim Mulkey, Alabama’s Nate Oaks and South Carolina’s Dawn Staley stand out in a sea of coaches in team polo shirts and quarter-zip pullovers.

Every team in the Sweet 16 is from a power conference for the first time since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

Miles Rubin had 18 points, 9 rebounds and two blocks to help Loyola win its NIT quarterfinal against Kent State at home on Wednesday.