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Florida guard Zach Hodskins, a walk-on who only has one hand, scored his first career points Tuesday during the Gators’ 89-65 win over Jacksonville. The sophomore from Georgia made a nice spin move and finished it off with a layup for the …
Standards are high when you’re a North Carolina basketball player, as Brice Johnson was reminded on Saturday. Johnson, one of the team’s key players, found himself on the bench for 8:37 of the first half against UCLA. Why? Because he used …
Skal Labissiere, the jewel in the crown that is John Calipari’s 2015 recruiting class and a potential top pick in next year’s NBA Draft, has gotten off to an inauspicious start with Kentucky this season. The freshman big man is averaging …
How do you get a struggling college basketball player to pull his head out of his you-know-what and starting making some shots? Take away his cell phone, apparently. UMass point guard Trey Davis scored 40 points in a thrilling 103-95 overtime win …
The Monmouth basketball team has been one of the big underdog stories of the college basketball season thanks to their big wins over teams like UCLA, USC, Notre Dame, and on Tuesday, Georgetown. But the only thing about them that supersedes their …
Bo Ryan announced his retirement effective immediately following Wisconsin’s win over Texas A&M Corpus Corpus Christi on Tuesday night. Ryan, 67, said in a statement that he approached athletic director Barry Alvarez in April about …
Randy Peterson, a beat writer who covers Iowa State athletics for the Des Moines Register, suffered a broken leg Thursday night when Cyclones fans stormed the court following their win over in-state rival Iowa. After receiving treatment, Peterson …
Randy Peterson, a beat writer for the Des Moines Register who covers Iowa State athletics, suffered a broken leg during the court storming following the Cyclones’ 83-82 victory over rival Iowa on Thursday night. Peterson suffered the leg injury …
Things got heated between a couple of Kentucky players during the loss to UCLA on Thursday night. As the No. 1-ranked Wildcats were defeated by the Bruins 87-77, top players Tyler Ulis and Skal Labissiere got into it after Ulis shoved the forward. …
Stephen Curry is the most high-profile basketball player Davidson has ever produced. He holds many school records and led the team to the Elite Eight in 2008. Retiring his number 30 seems like a foregone conclusion, right? Well, as it turns out, …
Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim lost his suspension appeal on Thursday, and his nine game ban was upheld by the NCAA. It was slightly modified, however. Originally banned for the team’s first nine ACC games, the penalty was amended, and Boeheim …
John Calipari made some comments about Derrick Rose earlier this week that were interpreted by many as being unflattering, and the Kentucky coach took to Twitter on Thursday to do a bit of damage control. In an appearance on Colin Cowherd’s …
John Calipari coached Bulls point guard Derrick Rose at the University of Memphis for one season in 2007-08, coming within one Mario Chalmers three of winning the national championship that year. While Rose played in all 40 games that season, …
Colorado Buffaloes forward Tory Miller was ejected from Wednesday’s game against Air Force after pulling a Luis Suarez. Miller was on the ground fighting for possession with Hayden Graham and ended up biting his opponent in the shoulder: This …
A junior college basketball player pulled off over the weekend one of the more incredible things we’ve seen on a court. Central Arizona College’s Trace Dimeff suffered what he termed a “mild concussion” towards the end of his …
Whoever handles tweeting from the Wisconsin athletics account got a lesson in the perils of scheduled tweets on Saturday. The UWBadgers account sent out a pre-scheduled tweet on Saturday about how the women’s basketball team looked to emulate …
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