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The Final Four is set

All that talent at Arizona and Michigan. All that momentum and good vibes at UConn. And somebody has to play the part of the unheralded “little guy.” At the Final Four next weekend, that role belongs, improbably, to Illinois. In a sign of the times, the Illini — a Big Ten team with more ...

Sometimes the difference is just one swing. Sean Smith was that one swing for West Virginia baseball Sunday night in Arizona. After five innings of a pitching master class from Arizona State's Kole Klecker, he worked his way into a jam, loading the bases with one out. Smith took the plate. With ...

West Virginia got its first taste of the Big 12ĢƵ best hitter in Landon Hairston and the 17th-ranked Mountaineers saw their six-game winning streak end following a 14-4 loss against No. 22 Arizona State on Friday night. Hairston blasted two home runs, one of them a grand slam that broke the ...

It didn’t take long for Kristin Erb to make her pitch to the PennWest California University softball team. The first-year coach has been making great pitches for a long time. Erb is the all-time winningest pitcher in NCAA Division II history and had been a veteran assistant coach at the ...

Autumn Stemple celebrated senior day by pitching Waynesburg to a 3-1 victory over visiting Grove City in the first game of a softball doubleheader on Saturday, handing the Wolverines their first PAC loss of the season. Grove City (4-1, 12-3) bounced back to take the second game, 7-0, to earn a ...

Iowa continues improbable March run

HOUSTON (AP) — Alvaro Folgueiras converted a critical three-point play when Nebraska only had four defenders on the floor, and ninth-seeded Iowa continued its unpredictable NCAA Tournament run under first-year coach Ben McCollum, beating Nebraska 77-71 in a South Region semifinal on Thursday ...