Lindsay Gottlieb and USC women’s basketball laying the foundation for a rebuild
USC women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb speaks with guard Rayah Marshall during a game against Stanford on Feb. 6. (Ringo H.W. Chiu / Associated Press) No more waiting in crowded airport terminals for Desiree Caldwell this year. USC’s senior…
Providence’s Ed Cooley is Sporting News’ college basketball Coach of the Year
Luck is a four-letter word in college basketball. It is employed as a pejorative, a dismissal of teams that succeed against expectation, against the variety of mathematical formulas designed to indicate which have achieved the degree of power necessary…
NCAA Basketball Power Rankings: With Chet Holmgren excelling, it’s hard for anyone to reach Gonzaga
It’s awards season, and we don’t just mean the Oscars. As college basketball approaches the final week of its season, as well as the start of conference tournaments in such leagues as the Ohio Valley and ASUN, the conversation alights regarding which…
College Basketball Power Rankings: Gonzaga moves up to No. 1, Arizona makes big jump to No. 2
1 Record: 20-2 | Last week: 2nd. If Gonzaga can get past Saint Mary’s at home on Saturday, the Bulldogs will move back to No. 1 in the AP Top 25. If you missed it, my deep dive on what makes Zags star freshman Chet Holmgren so special was published…
Red-hot PC Friars are the top Big East team in the nation: RI college basketball news
Providence’s Al Durham (1) drives against DePaul’s Javon Liberty-Freeman during Saturday’s game in Chicago. Providence won, 70-53. Providence College enters the week as the top Big East men’s basketball team in the Associated Press…
Providence College beats Seton Hall Big East men’s college basketball
PROVIDENCE — Time to raise the bar if you’re PC coach Ed Cooley. No. 21 Providence doesn’t look like a team that was picked seventh in the Big East. The Friars resemble something much more at the moment, and that was put on display again Wednesday…
St. Bonaventure to require proof of vaccination for home basketball games | College Sports
Fans at the Reilly Center await the tipoff of the St. Bonaventure Bonnies home opener. James P.McCoy / Buffalo News St. Bonaventure will become the final Big 4 athletic program to require proof of vaccination against Covid-19 for attendance at basketball…
Providence College scrimmages Purdue in men’s basketball
The limited information leaking out of the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on Saturday afternoon was all good news for Providence. The Friars rallied to slip past Purdue, 89-88, in an overtime thriller. This was one of the NCAA’s sanctioned closed-door scrimmages…