College Basketball

Longtime Sanford women’s basketball coach Tara Vanderveer announced her retirement Tuesday. Accomplishments With such an accomplished person where do you even start? Why not begin with the fact Vanderveer was inducted into the Naismith’s Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011. Beside the pro’s Vanderveer has been a successful coach …

Billy Donovan, former two-time national champion head coach for the Gators and current head coach of the Chicago Bulls, was asked Tuesday about his name being thrown around for the Kentucky head coaching job. While Donovan didn’t completely shut it down, he implied heavily against it. https://twitter.com/MichaelEppsTV/status/1777846387851325924 Coaching History & …

John Calipari has signed a five-year contract with the Arkansas Razorbacks to be the men’s basketball head coach a day after stepping away from Kentucky. https://twitter.com/RazorbackMBB/status/1778060489127575903 He has a starting salary of $7 million per season. Included in his contract is a maximum of two automatic rollover years if the …

The UConn Huskies defeated the Purdue Boilermakers 75-60 Monday to become the second team to win the national championship back-to-back this century. The last team to accomplish the feat were the 2006-2007 Florida Gators. The Gators that year did not just win the title back-to-back, but were the first team …

The UConn Huskies will square off with the Purdue Boilermakers in the Men’s College Basketball National Championship on Monday night. The Huskies are looking to repeat as national champions after a dominant tournament run, while Purdue hopes to dethrone the reigning champs. An Expected Meeting No national championship matchup is …

The NCAA Women’s Basketball season concluded Sunday afternoon with South Carolina (39-0) completing its perfect season and winning the program’s third national title over Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes 87-75. https://twitter.com/GamecockWBB/status/1777172154099843177 The Setup Iowa fell in last year’s title game to LSU 102-85. After beating LSU in the Elite …

Just two games stand in the way of UConn’s men’s basketball team from accomplishing a feat that has not been conquered in 17 years in college basketball. The No.1 overall seeded Huskies are seeking to win back-to-back national championships. However, a high-flying and explosive Alabama team will look to play …

The last time NC State was in the Final Four was 1983, and they won their second national championship. As for Purdue, the Boilermakers are in their first Final Four since 1980, and they failed to reach the championship game after falling to UCLA. The Wolfpack and the Boilermakers have …

Just a year ago, Connecticut’s Paige Bueckers sat as a spectator with a knee injury during the women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. In Monday night’s match up against Southern California, Bueckers gave it everything she had, scoring 28 points to lift UConn to an 80-73 regional final win to send them …

Caitlin Clark and the No. 1 seed Iowa Hawkeyes defeated the three-seeded LSU Tigers 94-87 Monday in the Elite Eight in Albany, N.Y., to advance to the NCAA Women’s Final Four. The rematch of the last year’s national championship game drew a women’s college basketball game record 9.9 million viewers …