Two prominent local travel basketball coaches said this week that Rebels athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy put Dave Rice in an awkward position on the recruiting trail this summer when she publicly placed him on the hot seat.
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Mississippi guard Stefan Moody scored 26 points and forward M.J. Rhett added 20, as the Rebels completed a stirring second-half comeback from a 17-point halftime deficit, defeating Brigham Young 94-90 in an NCAA Tournament first-round game Tuesday night at University of Dayton Arena.
Hampton coach Edward Joyner Jr. said he’d seek divine intervention if the Pirates earned a matchup against the unbeaten Kentucky Wildcats. Following Tuesday night’s 74-64 win over the Manhattan Jaspers, he made the call.
There’s no way around it — Villanova is playing some seriously good basketball. Here are six teams with momentum that are entering the NCAA Tournament.
Sure, millions will be watching the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament to see whether Kentucky’s bid for an unbeaten season can be quashed or whether a 14 seed can make it to the Final Four. But the popularity of the tournament also spawns another kind of madness.
It takes more than one upset to be a Cinderella in the NCAA Tournament. Here are five teams in the 2015 NCAA Tournament field with a chance to don the slipper.
Despite dwindling win totals, UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy is betting basketball coach Dave Rice can turn around the program in his fifth year and take the Rebels back to the NCAA Tournament. Anything less will be unacceptable.
Undefeated No. 1-ranked Kentucky can be written in Sharpie when you fill out that office bracket, but the picks that put you over the top aren’t tracing the chalk to Lucas Oil Stadium.
Larry Eustachy was convinced, adamant, certain of his basketball team’s fate. It wasn’t false bravado, either. He truly believed.
Sportswear group Adidas will not renew its contract to supply basketball uniforms to the NBA, when it expires in the 2016-17 season, it said on Monday.
If any one player epitomizes what the NCAA Tournament means to bettors and the sports books, it’s Mamadou Ndiaye, a 7-foot-6-inch, 300-pound mountain of a man for UC Irvine.
Undefeated, top-ranked Kentucky was selected the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, while Wisconsin, Duke and Villanova received the other No. 1 seeds in the tournament.
No. 1-ranked Kentucky will take a perfect 34-0 record into the NCAA Tournament this week after thrashing Arkansas 78-63 in the Southeastern Conference tournament championship game Sunday at Bridgestone Arena.
The Rebels’ season that just concluded was way below standard — an 18-15 record, a seventh-place finish in the Mountain West and an exit in the quarterfinal round of the conference tournament. There are disappointed fans and powerful boosters who want coach Dave Rice out.
It was as ugly as it gets, a grinding game about defense. But there were a few style points, and Josh Adams got the credit. He let a shot fly that was a thing of beauty.
