College Basketball

Although basketball season doesn’t tip off until November, the Florida women’s basketball team has been hard at work with practices starting last week.  This is a new team for the Gators as the roster includes seven freshman (four true freshman) and only one senior, Jennifer George.  George is one of …

Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in the history of Division 1 college basketball, has stepped down as the head coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team.  This comes less than a year after the 59 year old Summitt was diagnosed with early onset dementia-Alzheimer’s type, a disease that …

Next season, the University of Kentucky basketball starting five is going to look a lot different. This season’s starting lineup, which consisted of three freshman and two sophomores, all declared for the NBA draft Tuesday in a nationally televised news conference. Freshmen Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, and Marquis Teague, and sophomores Terrence …

The University of Florida and USA Basketball announced today that men’s basketball head coach Billy Donovan will lead Team USA at the 2012 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championships. Team USA is the reigning champion from the 2010 tournament, beating Brazil 81-78 in the championship game on a last second three pointer by Baylor swingman Quincy Miller.  In …

A week after junior guard Kenny Boynton tweeted that he will return to Florida for his senior year, freshman forward Walter Pitchford announces that he will be leaving the program. Pitchford made the announcement on Wednesday he will be transferring in order to be closer to his family.  He is …

March Madness began with 68 teams dreaming of cutting down the nets in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 2nd. Those 68 teams have now become two. The Kentucky Wildcats and the Kansas Jayhawks are the last teams left standing and after tonight one of them will be crowned champion. The Kentucky …

The Baylor Bears and the Stanford Cardinal have secured their spots in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four in Denver. In the Des Moines Regional, overall number one seed Baylor defeated NCAA hoops’ winningest coach, Pat Summit, and her number two seed Tennessee team on Monday night. The Bears won 77-58, but it was not …

After Sunday night, the 2012 NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s Final Four is set. Kentucky and Kansas joined Louisville and Ohio State as the last four alive as the spotlight shifts to New Orleans, Louisiana. Kentucky is the lone number one seed left in the tournament. The SEC champs entered the tournament …

The Florida men’s basketball team entered the 2012 NCAA Tournament as the seventh seed in the West Region and took down the tenth seeded Virginia Cavaliers 71-45 on Friday afternoon to advance to the Round of 32. Florida Freshman guard Bradley Beal led the attack for the Gators with 14 points and 11 rebounds. Fellow …

The Madness is here! The NCAA men’s basketball tournament kicks off in full force today with 16 games and WRUF Sports Radio 850 will have live day long coverage of the tournament today starting at 11am. In action last night, South Florida wins its first ever NCAA Tournament game when …