Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma has a theory on why anyone thinks there’s a better freshman in the country than his starting point guard, Paige Bueckers. “I’m not boasting, but if I talked to every single coach in America and they told you they’d rather have their freshmen than Paige, I would tell you they’re […]
At Oregon, Kelly Graves’s teams are no stranger to putting up obscenely efficient offensive numbers. The Ducks led the nation in points per 100 possessions last season and the season before that. But surely, the loss of Sabrina Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally — a generational point guard, a ruthless finisher in the paint […]
We start with college basketball’s plan to deal with the United States’ worst surge in the coronavirus pandemic since it began in March. That plan is, mostly, to muddle through, adapting to two-week halts when teams test positive and rolling with game postponements. The NCAA Tournament itself will be in a bubble-like (perhaps bubble-lite) environment, […]
It’s the strangest women’s college basketball season anyone can remember. Teams simply don’t know who they’ll be playing. Don’t believe me? Here’s Jeff Walz, Louisville head coach, on Twitter on Monday, looking for someone to play … on Wednesday. Game at MTSU cancelled for Wednesday, Nov. 25. Louisville willing to travel, if you have an […]
In their Howard University dorms in the early 1990s, Milan Brown and his classmates used to discuss how their school and other historically Black colleges and universities could become basketball powerhouses. “You’d be surprised at how many talks we had,” said Brown, now an assistant men’s basketball coach at Pittsburgh. Brown, whose jersey number is […]