On an average night of college basketball, when the scoreboard shows Gonzaga scoring 98 points in a game against the sport’s premier defensive program, or Baylor leading 38-5 in the first half of a conference matchup, it’s easy to make an idle statement about the country’s only two unbeaten teams standing far above the rest. […]
The biannual regular-season showdown between Duke and North Carolina is typically appointment television for men’s college basketball fans. Not so much this year, with the bitter rivals meeting unranked for the first time since 1960. The Feb. 6 matchup posted the lowest TV rating and audience for the series in at least 14 years. Unexpected […]
Marquise Kennedy was a junior at Brother Rice High School in Chicago when the Jesuit university uptown made a run to the Final Four of the 2018 men’s NCAA tournament. Kennedy knew almost nothing about Loyola basketball. He doesn’t even recall watching many of the games. “I was kind of late to it,” he said […]
When the NCAA started using a 3-point line in the 1986-87 season, it was an instant hit. While the NBA had made its line official seven years earlier, the pros hadn’t taken to it yet: They attempted only 5.3 percent of their shots from behind the arc. But at their first chance to trade in […]
There’s a cohort in the country that only knows the Gonzaga Bulldogs as college basketball royalty. Among that cohort is Mark Few’s active roster, of which only one member of the starting lineup was alive when he was named head coach in 1999. Gonzaga has piled up 614 wins in the two decades since. In […]