Harrison Barnes will still be a top-three pick in June’s NBA draft. And his North Carolina Tar Heels hung on to survive a scare from upset-minded Ohio on Friday night and will be playing later this weekend for a chance to go to the Final Four. North Carolina needed overtime to defeat 13th-seeded Ohio 73-65 [...]
Ohio State Football is vacating its wins from the 2010 football season, including its share of the Big 10 championship and the Buckeyes’ victory over Arkansas in the 2011 Sugar Bowl. Ohio State’s 2010 Big Ten championship, its 12-1 season, its victories over rival Michigan and in the Sugar Bowl – all gone. Coach Jim [...]
Athletic director Pat Haden on the NCAA’s decision to deny the Trojans’ appeal. The N.C.A.A. rejected Southern California’s appeal to reduce sanctions imposed on its football program, keeping in place some of the harshest penalties in a quarter-century. U.S.C. will serve the second year of its two-year postseason ban this fall. It will also lose [...]
Minnesota Duluth won its first NCAA hockey title when Kyle Schmidt scored 3:22 into overtime to give the Bulldogs a 3-2 victory against Michigan in the championship game at St. Paul, Minnesota Freshman Justin Faulk had a chance to give the Bulldogs the win in the opening moments of overtime, but his shot from below [...]
Butler reached its’ second straight NCAA title game with a semifinal win over VCU Saturday. As Rich Matthews reports, the Bulldogs will take on UConn. The Huskies won a close semi over Kentucky. As officials huddled late Saturday to determine how many ticks should remain on the clock when Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier stepped to [...]
Move over, Butler. Virginia Commonwealth University is crashing the Final Four. Two weeks ago, the team so doubted they would get into the NCAA tournament that they didn’t watch the selection show. Now, they’ve made it to Houston. 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth is heading to the Final Four, and No. 1 seed Kansas is heading home [...]
NCAA tournament 2011 field is set and now it is time to take a look at the bracket indepth and take a look how the three Mountain West teams will fare. San Diego State takes on the Northern Colorado Bears who won the Big Sky Conference regular season and postseason tournament to secure their bid. [...]
Jim Tressel for the first 2 games of the 2011 season and fined him $250,000 after he acknowledged that he did not inform the university of potential violations of N.C.A.A. rules. The university also reported what it called a major violation to the N.C.A.A. There is a chance that the N.C.A.A. could impose further penalties [...]
Big 12 matchups among the interesting games today – including Kansas vs. Missouri, which is just getting underway. With a win, Kansas can clinch the top-seed in the Big 12 tournament, something the Texas Longhorns had before their recent skid. If you’re soulless, Duke and North Carolina play tonight on CBS as well. Anyway, the [...]