How Missouri and Dennis Gates launched a storybook turnaround from an 0-18 SEC nightmare
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Dennis Gates is wearing a Lululemon hoodie with a hole in the right elbow. Gray sweats. Gray ...
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‘Ready, shoot, aim’: The Doug Gottlieb coaching experiment
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Bare tree branches don’t quiet the wind, and the ice on the bay is thick enough ...
Johni Broome’s chase for greatness and ‘embodiment of the American dream’
AUBURN, Ala. — Pastor Carl McKay goes back with the Broome family of Plant City, Fla. So far back, he ...
Duke freshman sensation Cooper Flagg is ahead of schedule — on and off the court
DURHAM, N.C. — It’s 45 minutes after a January blowout at Cameron Indoor Stadium when Cooper Flagg comes walking into ...
How St. John’s has ridden the Rick Pitino Effect back to college basketball’s center stage
NEW YORK — As noon approached on a cold winter Saturday in Midtown Manhattan, the crowd packing Madison Square Garden ...
Dan Hurley, college basketball villain? Actually, this sport could use more like him
The best part of Dan Hurley’s latest week at the center of sports villain discourse was his hard pivot on ...
The search for a high school basketball all-time scorer that time forgot
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Faint yellow with a blue screened-in entrance, the house on Cypress Street is squeezed in among the ...
Five stars, seven figures, zero eligibility: Why are the Bewley twins still paying?
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It’s a scene inside the Lemerand Center on an unfairly cold Wednesday night in early January.A junior ...
In Houston’s comeback for the ages at Kansas, Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars flipped their scripts
LAWRENCE, Kan. — With 51.5 seconds left in regulation, as Houston coach Kelvin Sampson called timeout after Kansas guard Rylan ...
The buzzer-beating Blakes siblings: Jaylen and Mikayla hit game-winners on the same weekend
Mikayla Blakes timed her jump perfectly, grabbed the rebound off the front of the rim and tipped the ball in ...
Duke’s Cooper Flagg has put exclamation point on 2025 NBA Draft No. 1 pick status
Throughout the season, Duke freshman forward Cooper Flagg has been considered the 2025 NBA Draft’s likely No. 1 pick. Beginning ...
Court Vision: SEC is its own worst enemy. Plus, the underrated elite
Sweet, sweet conference play. We’ve been waiting for you.Especially from a certain league, whose cannibalism may be the only thing ...
2025 NBA mock draft: After Cooper Flagg and Dylan Harper, a whole lot of questions
We’re firmly into conference play in the college basketball season, which means it’s time to update the 2025 NBA Mock ...
NBA greats think this D-II coach is a basketball genius. So why don’t you know who he is?
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Erik Spoelstra is always seeking out original thinkers. Four years ago, the NBA’s fourth-winningest active coach ...
Paid to lose, college basketball’s worst team takes the L’s to make ends meet
A sweat-drenched Donovan Sanders returned to the bench for a timeout late in the first half, looked up at the ...
Can a team led by Division II transfers become college hoops’ most dangerous mid-major?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Drake head coach Ben McCollum paced in the coaches’ locker room before speed-walking in to address ...
2026 NBA Draft potential No. 1 pick reshaping NIL, basketball: Meet AJ Dybantsa
BROCKTON, Mass. — The first time AJ Dybantsa got paid for basketball, he didn’t want the money.When the nation’s top ...
Men’s college basketball Top 25: SEC’s dominance, depth takes over another weekend
Even SEC football is jealous of what SEC basketball is doing right now.The league went 14-1 this weekend and has ...
2025 NBA Draft Big Board: Does Cooper Flagg have competition for No. 1 spot?
Now that Feast Week has passed and most of the best college basketball players in the country have played real ...
VersaClimbers, Tiger Woods and Houston’s plan to get Kelvin Sampson a championship
HOUSTON — Jamal Shead sat in his locker stall after Houston’s Sweet 16 loss to Duke with a towel draped ...
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