TAMPA, Fla. — University of Connecticut forward Sarah Strong is the best freshman in college basketball — men’s or women’s. That may seem blasphemous in a season where everyone has been saying that distinction belonged to Duke forward Cooper Flagg. But while Duke was eliminated from the men’s tournament on Saturday, Strong’s 24-point, 15-rebound performance...
Written by Aya Abdeen & Sara Jane Gamelli The Women’s National Championship game is set in Tampa Bay. On Sunday, the South Carolina Gamecocks will face the UConn Huskies in a rematch of the 2022 National Championship. Out of 24 Final Four Appearance for Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies, South Carolina head coach Dawn...
TAMPA, Fla. — “I think we built our program based on the standard. UConn is and was the standard in our sport. If you can beat UConn, you can beat anybody.” — Dawn Staley We often talk about the need for individual stars in women’s college basketball, but the lifeblood of sustainability is programmatic rivalry....
Dwight Howard will join Carmelo Anthony at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield. Dwight Howard’s Magic basketball journey will end in Springfield. (Photo by Greg Nelson /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)= Per Shams Charania of ESPN, Howard is among the Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025. Howard enters the Hall on...
SAN ANTONIO — It’s not common to feel cheated taking a team to the Final Four, but that’s exactly how Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson felt in 2021 when the Cougars earned a trip to championship weekend in the midst of a global pandemic. “We had to stand in line to get tested before every...
The biggest questions of the San Antonio Spurs’ offseason will be when will superstar Victor Wembanyama be healthy enough to play again and whether Hall of Fame head coach Gregg Popovich will coach again. Overlooked in the heaviness of those two Spurs’ futures is whether future Hall of Fame guard Chris Paul will be retiring...
The Battle of LA vs NJ! Roosevelt and Plainfield battled it out at the Throne and It came down to the wire! The post #1 Team In New Jersey Gets TESTED By Brayden Burries & #1 Team In California! appeared first on Ballislife.com.
From Oak Hill Academy to Springfield, NBA great Carmelo Anthony has been elected into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) Selected No. 3 overall in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets, Carmelo Anthony is officially a first-ballot Hall of Famer, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania....
With only a few weeks before the WNBA Draft, Skechers and Kiki Iriafen announced a new partnership today. The former University of Southern California forward will be Skechers’ first-ever collegiate athlete signing. Iriafen will be a brand ambassador for the Los Angeles-based company and will appear in the performance brand’s global marketing campaigns as she...
Kansas-bound Darryn Peterson and Duke-bound Cameron Boozer are named co-MVPs at the 2025 McDonald’s All-American Game in Brooklyn, N.Y. The best in high school basketball participated in the 48th annual McDonald’s All-American Game at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening. It was the first time the rotating site event has taken place in...