UConn wins fifth game in five days to earn Big East tournament title NEW YORK — Kemba Walker capped the best five days an individual and team may have ever had in college basketball, scoring 19 points to lead Connecticut (No. 19 ESPN/USA Today, No. 21 AP) to a 69-66 victory over No. 14 Louisville [...]
Published on: 4th June, 2010
Los Angeles — Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, whose teams won 10 national titles, was in grave condition Thursday, school sources confirmed. Wooden, 99, is being treated at UCLA Medical Center, according to the sources who were not authorized to speak publicly. A UCLA athletic department official declined to comment on the situation. Wooden’s [...]
Published on: 2nd April, 2010
Gregory Did Great Coaching Job With DaytonNEW YORK — Dayton players danced at midcourt and then lingered on ladders as they cut down the nets at Madison Square Garden. Forgive these Flyers for taking a little extra time to soak it all in. They’re not as accustomed to trophy ceremonies as the North Carolina team they had just beaten. Marcus Johnson [...]
Published on: 31st March, 2010
NEW YORK – The National Invitation Tournament used to be the penultimate of college basketball events. An invitation from the N.I.T. committee to bring your team at season’s end to the “mecca” of basketball, Madison Square Garden, was akin to what is today known world-wide as March Madness. Of course, those days have been long [...]
Published on: 29th March, 2010
Former UCLA Coach, Lavin To Interview Today For St. Johns JobNew York — Former UCLA coach and current ESPN analyst Steve Lavin will meet with St. John’s athletic director Chris Monasch Monday in New York after a lengthy conversation Sunday night, multiple sources told ESPN.com Sunday. Lavin has been an analyst for ESPN the past six seasons. He coached UCLA for seven seasons from 1996 [...]
Published on: 15th March, 2010
New York – After watching some of the very best basketball teams in the country over the past five days in New York at the Big East Championship tournament, I must admit to a bit of a change in my approach towards the upcoming NCAA tournament. In a contest whose only purpose is to have the [...]
Published on: 14th March, 2010
New York – West Virginia was only the third-seeded team in the Big East tournament when this annual get-together began here at Madison Square Garden five days ago but when the conference championship game tonight was all said and done, they were something else, as well. The Mountaineers were Big East champions for 2010. In [...]
Published on: 12th March, 2010
New York – So, it’s come down to this. These may not have been the highest-profile teams in the Big East but they’re here, they’re competitive as can be, and we’re stuck with them. Last night’s quarterfinal games guaranteed that three of the top four seeds in this league were not going to appear again. Syracuse, the [...]
Published on: 12th March, 2010
NEW YORK — The Big East’s day of quarterfinal upsets ended with an unlikely long shot. West Virginia became the only one of the conference’s top four seeds to advance to the semifinals when Da’Sean Butler took an inbounds pass and banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Mountaineers (No. 6 ESPN/USA [...]
Published on: 11th March, 2010
NEW YORK — Deonta Vaughn made two free throws with 5.9 seconds left then made the game-saving strip just before the buzzer and Cincinnati beat Louisville 69-66 on Wednesday night in the second round of the Big East tournament. The 11th-seeded Bearcats (18-14), who had never won a game in the tournament until Tuesday’s opening-round [...]