In the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee’s most recent top 16 announcement on Thursday, UCLA moved up to the top spot from Colorado, joining fellow top seeds South Carolina, Ohio State, and Stanford. Following the February 15 announcement, Oklahoma, which won the Big 12 regular-season championship handily, and Gonzaga have also been predicted to […]
The WVSSAC Class AAA Girls Basketball State Tournament will feature eight teams. Starting on March 5, the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center will host the five-day, 28-game event. Every state tournament game will have a radio broadcast on the MetroNews Radio Network and be available to stream online at wvmetronews.com. The four championship games will […]
Mercer County girls basketball fans are well-aware of Ewing’s three senior Division I recruits. Because of this, what happened on Thursday as Ewing started its pursuit of a second consecutive state title was encouraging because the Blue Devils also received a significant win from a different source. Lillie Alston, a sophomore, is front and center. […]
Played Wednesday evening inside Rockwell Cage, the NEWMAC Women’s Basketball Tournament quarterfinal matchup between third-seeded Engineers and sixth-seeded WPI ended in a 65-52 victory for Kamsi Nwogu (Algonquin, IL) and three other MIT players with 14 points apiece. With their improved record of 19-7 overall, MIT—which is currently ranked fifth in the NCAA Division III […]
After defeating Sierra Canyon, which was ranked No. 19, Harvard Westlake advances three spots this week to take the No. 12 spot in the country. The Wolverines dominated Sierra Canyon, winning 72–38 behind the play of ESPN 100 No. 98 Robert Hinton and USC signee Trent Perry, who is ranked 26th overall. They also defeated […]
Not every team competing in the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments of the newly expanded Atlantic Coast Conference will be present in 2020–21. The American Conference (AAC) and the Pac-12’s Stanford and California will compete in the ACC’s first-ever tournaments for the top 15. The league made this announcement on Wednesday. With the addition of […]
USA Basketball announced on Tuesday that Mike Thibault, Kara Lawson, and Joni Taylor will be the women’s national team’s assistant coaches as they compete for gold in the summer Olympics in Paris, 2024. The USA Basketball women’s national team committee chose the assistants, who will work under head coach Cheryl Reeve. They are members of […]
who played basketball professionally for 13 years, winning a championship with Toronto, being named Defensive Player of the Year, and being selected as a three-time All-Star, declared his retirement from the game on Wednesday. In 2007, Gasol was selected by the Lakers with the 48th overall pick after beginning his career in Spain with FC […]
Iowa’s Caitlin Clark is getting close to Kelsey Plum’s all-time record of 3,527 points in women’s basketball. This season, the Hawkeyes star has scored 3,389 points and is averaging 32.0 points per game. On February 15, she has a good chance of surpassing Plum’s record against Michigan. Jan. 27 saw Clark, the AP player of […]
The USA Basketball Men’s National Team for 2024 has a pool of 41 athletes, as of today. Grant Hill, managing director of the USA Basketball Men’s National Team, chose the players; they could vary. The 12-person 2024 USA Men’s National Team will be revealed later. This team will compete for the United States in the […]