UCLA announced Saturday that it hiredSteve Alford as its men's basketball head coach. Alford, 48, was the head coach at New Mexico for the past six years, with stops at Iowa and Southwest Missouri State before guiding the Lobos. Alford agreed to a 10-year contract extension at New Mexico just 10 days prior to accepting the UCLA job...
Sports fans always assume they've seen it all... until something crazy happens that we've never seen before. College basketball is usually where the oddest stuff happens with players, coaches, and fans responsible for all kinds of mayhem and mischief
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Top-ranked Gonzaga, Davidson and James Madison were among five teams that won their conference championships on Monday to clinch automatic bids for the 2013 NCAA tournament. Here's a recap of Monday's conference championships:
West Coast Conference Championship: Gonzaga 65 — St...
The Northern Illinois Huskies' men's basketball team isn't very good. They are spectacularly bad, actually. On Saturday, Northern Illinois broke its own NCAA Division I record for least points in a first half in the shot clock era by scoring just four points before halftime in a 42-25 loss to Eastern Michigan.
This has been bothering me for weeks now, ever since the Summer Olympics were on, and the media gave the women gymnastic team the nickname "Fab 5". Every time the gymnastic team was called the fab 5 I would get so upset it would make me sick.
While perennial favorites Duke may have suffered a stunning first round defeat in this year’s NCAA men’s tournament, the Blue Devils are still number one in the hearts of many college basketball fans.