The NCAA proved once again that its primary focus is not the future of its athletes. Donald De La Haye is a kicker for the University of Central Florida as well as a YouTuber that goes by the name of Deestroying. Today, the school ruled that De La Haye is ineligible as a NCAA student athlete due to a violation of NCAA rules because...
On March 4, 1990, Hank Gathers died on the court while playing basketball for Loyola Marymount University, the most high-powered offense in the country. A year earlier he had become only the second player in NCAA history to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same year.
Gathers had a heart condition, for which he took...
And then there were two.
Saturday night’s games were a couple of classic Final Four battles. In the first matchup, the Gonzaga Bulldogs had a comfortable nine point halftime lead, but gave the lead up after the Gamecocks got hot in the second half. However, Gonzaga’s big men dominated the game and were able to do enough near...
After the Georgetown Hoyas basketball team fired their former head coach, John Thompson III, many accused the school of not having a plan when looking for a new coach, and they just proved everyone wrong hiring Georgetown great Patrick Ewing as their newest head coach. Ewing, who has spent the last 15 years as an assistant coach in...
After controversy among fans about the seeding and a few wild finishes, we have found ourselves ready for the Final Four with an unexpected quartet of teams ready to compete for the title in Phoenix. Two of the four teams are making the first appearance and one of the remaining two is making their first appearance since the very...
So here’s what it’s like to be North Carolina today. You thought your biggest nemesis might be waiting in the title game. Nope, dispatched in the second round.
You expected your coach’s old team to be waiting in the semifinals. Wrong, wiped out in the Elite 8.
Perhaps this latest version of Kentucky, every bit as much...
A year ago around this time of year, the buzz of college basketball centered around a freshman from Melbourne, Australia, named Benjamin David Simmons.
Simmons never got a chance to show off his skills in the NCAA Tournament - LSU missed the tournament with a 19-14 record. But the 6-foot-10 ball-handling forward averaged 19.2...
The Southeastern Conference can seemingly do no wrong, raking in more money than any other league and continuing to hold onto the trust of the majority of the college football world. After two years of falling short, the SEC is once again sitting at the pinnacle of the game after Alabama prevailed against Clemson in last January's...
And so we come to the portion of the Power Five previews where we cover the conference that was looking in from the outside at the College Football Playoff last year. In 2015, three-quarters of the teams ended the year with winning records, but none ended them with fewer than two losses after conference champion Stanford fell at...