ST. LOUIS (AP) 鈥� Purdue was struggling to put away Miami in the second half of their second-round NCAA Tournament game on Sunday when Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kauffman-Renn combined to score the Boilermakers' next 22 points, helping them to turn a three-point lead into a 79-69 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) 鈥� Chase Johnston made his first 2-point basket of the season, a fast-break layup with 11.7 seconds remaining that gave No. 12 seed High Point an 83-82 victory over fifth-seeded Wisconsin on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Johnston finished with 14 ...
Purdue had just battled through the Big Ten Tournament, beating three straight NCAA Tournament teams 鈥� the last a No. 1 seed in Michigan 鈥� to claim a grinding championship in Chicago. 鈥淥bviously playing four games in four days is something we haven鈥檛 done before,鈥� longtime coach ...
The team that went undefeated in the regular season, racked up more victories than anyone but Duke and Arizona 鈥� and fewer losses than any team at all 鈥� is anything but your run-of-the-mill basketball behemoth. In fact, Miami (Ohio), despite that 31-1 record and maybe because of a little ...
The Pittsburgh Pirates鈥� opening week brought to mind a quote from Karate Kid II (yeah, I sense the collective eye roll). Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) kneels bedside where his father, in failing health, is resting. His father stirs and recognizes his son, who left the village years before, ...
