The NBA suspended its season due to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak on Wednesday night, and Thursday morning, a second player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the virus. Donovan Mitchell, the leading scorer on the Utah Jazz, became the second NBA player to test positive for coronavirus. “We […]
The NBA announced it’s suspending all games after Rudy Gobert, a member of the Utah Jazz, tested positive for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Shortly before tip-off of Wednesday night’s Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz game at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, officials gathered, and players and coaches walked off […]
The NCAA announced Wednesday that its championship events, including the men’s and women’s March Madness basketball tournaments, would be held without most fans in attendance going forward due to the coronavirus pandemic. The move came shortly after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine declared that NCAA tournament games in Dayton and Cleveland […]
The top two teams in the Patriot League, the Colgate Raiders (25-8) and the Boston University Terriers (20-13), will meet in the conference tournament championship game to determine which team secures the Patriot League’s automatic bid to March Madness. Colgate finished the regular season in first place with a 14-4 […]
Marcus Zegarowski, the second-leading scorer for the #7 Creighton Bluejays (24-7), will miss the Big East tournament after getting his right knee scoped after a meniscus injury. The point guard’s status for March Madness is unknown. Zegarowski suffered a right knee injury at the end of the Seton Hall game. […]
The Saint Mary’s Gaels (26-7) are on the bubble, but one win away from punching their ticket to the 2020 March Madness tournament. Thanks to a game-winning buzzer-beater by Jordan Ford, Saint Mary’s upset #14 BYU 51-50 in the West Coast Conference (WCC) semifinals to secure themselves a spot in […]
The Ivy League canceled its upcoming Ivy Madness conference tournament for both men’s and women’s basketball due to escalating concerns of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Ivy League regular season champions will earn the automatic bid to March Madness. Yale (23-7) secures the men’s basketball automatic bid, while Princeton (26-1) […]
Paige “Buckets” Bueckers was still in grammar school in Minnesota when she earned her first scholarship offer to play college basketball. She had three, actually, and they were all Big Ten schools. Last year, Bueckers committed to UConn and she came into this season as the top-ranked girl’s high school […]
Sam Merrill hit a 3-point shot with 2.5 seconds remaining to secure a 59-56 victory for Utah State over #5 San Diego State (30-2) in the Mountain West Conference tournament in Las Vegas. Utah State punched their ticket to March Madness after winning three games in three days to win […]
The Brooklyn Nets decided they would “mutually agree to part ways” with head coach Kenny Atkinson after almost four seasons with the team. The move came as a surprise because the Nets (28-34) are currently in the playoff hunt for a second season in a row. Atkinson also never got […]
North Carolina, ensconced in their worst season in nearly 20 years, throws down with the universally hated #12 Duke. In Hollywood, crosstown rivals UCLA and USC meet with the loser most likely missing out on an invite to the March Madness. Also in the Pac-12, Stanford needs a win at […]
Heading into the final weekend of the regular season, Harvard (20-7) hosts Yale (22-6) with a chance to secure the Ivy League season title and the top seed in the Ivy Madness conference basketball tournament. Harvard has won six games in a row, while Yale has won four straight. With […]
The two best teams in the NBA meet on Friday night, which could be a preview of the 2020 NBA Finals. It’s also rematch time for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, who host the Greek Freak and the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bucks edged out the Lakers in December, […]
A handful of players are in consideration for the NBA’s Most Improved Player (MIP), including Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics), Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat), and Brandon Ingram (New Orleans Pelicans), who is the favorite at 3/2 odds. The MIP is one of the most distinguished honors in the NBA, and it […]
The Big Ten could send 10 teams to the 2020 March Madness college basketball tournament, but Rutgers and Indiana are both fighting to avoid the dreaded bubble. The Scarlet Knights recently ended an untimely losing streak with an upset victory over #9 Maryland. Rutgers has a shot at their first […]
Texas got hot at the right time. It looked like Shaka Smart and Texas would end up on the bad end of the March Madness bubble, but the Longhorns won five in a row, including consecutive wins over #20 West Virginia, #22 Texas Tech, and fellow Big-12 bubble team, Oklahoma. […]
The Wichita State Shockers (22-7) are one of the several bubble teams from the American Conference (AAC) that hope they secured enough big wins to impress the March Madness selection committee. The Houston Cougars (22-7) were a Top 25 team this season, yet Tulsa surprised everyone by competing with the […]
Nick Nurse won the NBA championship in his rookie season as head coach of the Toronto Raptors, but he failed to secure the 2019 Coach of the Year award, which went to Mike Budenholzer of the Milwaukee Bucks. Kawhi Leonard got all the credit for the Raptors title run. Even […]
After ending a three-game skid, USC (21-9) won four out of their last six games and find themselves on the March Madness Bubble. USC has one final game on their schedule when they host crosstown basketball rival UCLA on Saturday night. The loser of the UCLA/USC game will most likely […]
If Stanford (20-9) wins both of their remaining games, the Pac-12 bubble team should secure themselves an at-large bid to the 2020 March Madness college basketball tournament. Stanford seeks a season sweep with a visit to #13 Oregon in the season finale next Monday. Stanford faces Oregon State this weekend […]
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