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 point guard, after three seasons of commercial flights that crisscrossed the […]
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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 to excel. It is not enough to merely to win in […]
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 All-America candidate will stand alone as Player of […]
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 […]
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 poll. The Friars checked in tied for 16th in the latest edition, which was released on […]
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 night. You could argue No. 15 Seton Hall was […]
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 games. Bona’s athletic department announced Tuesday that as of […]
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 played by men’s basketball teams prior to the Nov. 9 opening of the regular season. Providence […]