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When adidas unveiled updated Baylor basketball uniforms earlier this week that decided to go the fluorescent route, many people probably didn’t know what to think. Were they radioactive? Were they glow-in-the-dark? Were they made of Aggro Crag? …
Coming off of three straight losing seasons under Tom Crean, the Indiana Hoosiers finally have their swag back. They are comfortably in the NCAA Tournament and are competing for the Big Ten Tournament championship. However, senior guard Verdell Jones …
The King’s College’s women’s basketball team reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III National Tournament in Amherst, Ma., but they’ll be forced to play their playoff game without their leading scorer. Senior Paige …
Sophmore forward Perry Jones III is Baylor’s second-leading scorer (13.1 ppg) and the team’s leading rebounder (7.5 rpg), but did you know that candy is his true motivation? Jones’ mother Teri spent most of the day at the Big 12 …
A few creative UT-San Antonio students used a cutout of Rosie O’Donnell’s mug to distract free throw shooters on the opposing team Wednesday, and the trick worked. McNeese State only made 62 percent of their free throws (26-42). …
There’s good, clean home court advantage , and then there’s shaking the opponent’s basket when they’re shooting free throws. We have very rarely — if ever — seen the latter, but conference tournaments bring out the …
Guess that SI article had an impact on Ben Howland and he’s now out to prove what a disciplinarian he is. The UCLA coach benched center Josh Smith for the first half of the team’s Pac-12 tournament game against USC Wednesday for missing …
Louisville beat Seton Hall 61-55 in the second round of the Big East tournament Wednesday, hurting the Pirates’ chances of making the NCAA Tournament. Rick Pitino was asked about Seton Hall’s tournament chances after the game, and he said …
These must be trying times for sports enthusiasts. As if the rising cost of peanuts wasn’t bad enough, there is plenty of talk about how coaches are offering bounties to free your team of its star players. And, here I thought, bounties went out with …
Neon uniforms? I must have missed the memo, but it sounds like some of the Big East and Big 12 Tournament games are scheduled to turn into a black light party at some point. How else would you explain these neon uniforms? According to the adidas …
ESPN has a commercial advertising its mobile platforms, and the ad features an exciting clip from the Indiana-Kentucky game in December. Most people probably don’t think twice about the ad, but apparently it’s motivated the Wildcats. …
Yahoo! Sports is on the case again, this time nabbing Syracuse for reportedly violating its internal drug policy. The report says the school’s basketball program overlooked positive drug tests by some of its players and either miscounted …
Reeves Nelson already had a bad reputation for being kicked off the UCLA basketball team for poor behavior, but what remained of it was shredded by a damning article published in Sports Illustrated this week. Reeves reacted swiftly and hired a lawyer …
Sports Illustrated did in one article what Ben Howland could not accomplish in three years: hold Reeves Nelson accountable for being a jerk. SI exposed Nelson for being a bully who injured teammates during practice, fought them, and intimidated them, …
SI spent a few months interviewing players to write an article about the struggles of the UCLA basketball program the past few seasons. The article was hyped as an “expose,” but it turned out to be nothing more than a strong historical …
SI published a lengthy article about the downfall of UCLA basketball the past few years. In the piece, Ben Howland is depicted as a coach who struggles to properly handle his assistant coaches and players. He is shown as a coach who has serious …
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