At the beginning of last decade, when conferences snatched up schools and teams scrambled to find a chair before the music stopped, the Big Ten expanded eastward. Its additions of Maryland and Rutgers for the start of the 2014-15 season were wildly lucrative: They extended the Big Ten Network’s reach to the east coast and […]
When Anthony Grant was named the seventh Dayton men’s basketball coach in the last 70 years back in 2017, he inherited a winning culture but also a demanding assignment: To fill the shoes of Archie Miller, who in six seasons transformed a dormant program into a mid-major powerhouse that made four consecutive tournament appearances, including […]
Guard Stella Johnson — the 5-foot-10 pride of Denville, New Jersey — wasn’t offered many scholarships ahead of her decision to play at Rider University. “Stony Brook did, but then they pulled it,” recalled Johnson, the leading scorer in women’s Division I college basketball this year and the darling of WNBA draft boards. “Hartford pulled […]
When Brigham Young replaced retiring head coach Dave Rose with former assistant Mark Pope last offseason, there was a sense of continuity. Pope was Rose’s assistant for four years before he moved on to a successful four-year head coaching tenure at Utah Valley, 6 miles down the road. He was familiar with BYU’s culture. But […]
The top-ranked Baylor men’s basketball team hasn’t lost in more than three months and is riding a Big 12-record 23-game win streak. This isn’t the first stint at No. 1 for the school under head coach Scott Drew, but this team is nothing like previous iterations of his Bears. While a revered recruiting prowess and […]