LOYOLA MARYMOUNT INVESTS IN POSTSEASON PLAY
 The Lions (18-15) are paying $31,500 to host Pacific Wednesday in the third-tier CIT basketball tournament. LMU hopes the extra play and practice will help the young team prepare for next season.
Loyola Marymount's first foray into college basketball's postseason in two decades is going to co...
03/17/2010 03:40, LaTimes |
FIRST HOOPS FAN OBAMA FILLS OUT BRACKET AGAIN
 President Barack Obama predicts Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky and Villanova to make the men's basketball Final Four. Barack Obama - Basketball - Kansas State - President of the United States - United States
03/17/2010 01:40, msnbc |
OREGON FIRES BASKETBALL COACH AFTER 13 SEASONS
 Oregon has let go of Ernie Kent after 13 years as men's basketball coach at his alma mater. The dismissal has been rumored for the past two weeks, after Eugene's KVAL-TV reported that Kent had been informed he would not return as the Ducks' coach on Feb. 22.
03/17/2010 01:40, msnbc |
FIRST HOOPS FAN OBAMA FILLS OUT BRACKET AGAIN
President Barack Obama predicts Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky and Villanova to make the men's basketball Final Four.
03/17/2010 01:40, msnbc |
BASKETBALL STUDY EXAMINES HOW MIDMAJORS GET STARS
 A semi-scientific analysis of college basketball players aims to catalog the skills and talents that make a great midmajor player.
03/16/2010 16:20, nytimes |
SECOND TO NUN
6 Q's About the News | Who is the 5-foot-4, white-haired 77-year-old nun who keeps the Xavier men's basketball team in line academically?
03/16/2010 11:40, nytimes |
CONNECTICUT SEEMS A SHOO-IN TO WIN WOMEN'S TITLE
 Defending champion Huskies are seeded No. 1 overall and aiming for a second consecutive undefeated season. Stanford could give them a run for the championship.
The NCAA women's basketball tournament field of 63 eventual losers and one national champion was announced Monday, not that anyone wa...
03/16/2010 08:00, LaTimes |
ON COLLEGE BASKETBALL: UCONN WOMEN, LIKE U.C.L.A. MEN OF OLD, ARE GOOD FOR BASKETBALL
Just as college basketball needed the U.C.L.A. men in the 1960s and 70s, it now needs the women's dominance of UConn and Tennessee for visibility and viability.
03/16/2010 02:40, nytimes |
UCONN IS TOP NO. 1 SEED FOR WOMEN'S TOURNEY
 Undefeated Connecticut earned the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA women's basketball tournament. UConn (33-0), which has won an NCAA record 72 straight games, will try to complete the sixth perfect season in women's basketball history,
03/16/2010 02:20, msnbc |
LEADING OFF: ROCKY ROAD FOR KANSAS
Many bracket analysts are saying the No. 1 overall seed in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament, Kansas, was placed in the toughest region.
03/15/2010 19:00, nytimes |
CELIZIC: DISMISS DUKE, BUT DO SO AT YOUR PERIL
 Celizic: The Duke Blue Devils don't sneak up on people on the basketball court. Their perennial success always makes them a favorite in every office pool across the country. But this year might be different.
03/15/2010 07:00, msnbc |
JERRY CROWE: ARTIS GILMORE'S BASKETBALL CAREER REMAINS UNDERAPPRECIATED
 The former center's statistics suggest that he should be in the Hall of Fame, but 22 years after his playing days ended, he still hasn't received the call.
If you're a UCLA basketball fan of a certain age, your first glimpse of Artis Gilmore probably was at the Final Four.
03/15/2010 05:20, LaTimes |
UC SANTA BARBARA HOLDS OFF LONG BEACH STATE TO WIN BIG WEST TITLE
The top-seeded Gauchos hold off a second-half rally by the 49ers and earn their second conference tournament title.
Nothing could topple the UC Santa Barbara men's basketball team in their run for the Big West Conference title, not even Long Beach State's "spurtability."
03/14/2010 13:00, LaTimes |
BILL PLASCHKE: IT'S HOW THEY PLAY THE GAME
 Wins and losses aren't part of the Balboa VIP, a basketball league for special-needs children.
Basketball's championship week concluded Saturday with a result far more interesting than anything involving Kansas or Duke.
03/14/2010 08:00, LaTimes |
BIG TEN: OHIO STATE TOPS MICHIGAN ON TURNER'S LONG SHOT
 Evan Turner hit a long 3-point shot at the buzzer to lift No. 5 Ohio State to a 69-68 victory over Michigan in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten basketball tournament Friday.
03/12/2010 21:40, msnbc |
FOR USC'S MICHAEL COOPER AND OREGON'S PAUL WESTHEAD, A NEW CHAPTER
 The ties between the two, whose teams meet Friday in the Pac-10 women's basketball tournament, go back three decades.
The ties between the two, whose teams meet Friday in the Pac-10 women's basketball tournament, go back three decades.
03/12/2010 07:40, LaTimes |
A PUSH FOR BINGHAMTON TO EXIT DIVISION I
A statement signed by 18 faculty members recommended a vote on whether Binghamton should remain in Division I after a scandal surrounding the men's basketball team.
03/12/2010 06:20, nytimes |