College Basketball

Debate has persisted about who should be the next Gator women’s basketball head coach. University of Florida’s athletic director, Scott Stricklin, targeted Belmont’s Cameron Newbauer as a candidate early. As of Monday morning, Stricklin announced that Cameron Newbauer is officially hired as the head coach for the Florida Gators. Newbauer is the 10th head basketball coach in program history at the University of …

The University of Florida held their press conference to introduce the new women’s basketball coach Cameron Newbauer to the program on Tuesday. Newbauer is the first hire of the Scott Stricklin era after Florida fired former head coach Amanda Butler. Newbauer says this job is a “dream come true” for …

Who Is Becky Hammon? Becky Hammon spent her college years at Colorado State being a top-performer for the Rams women’s basketball team. Hammon finished off her career as an All-American and lead the team to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in the 1998-1999 season. The Western Athletic Conference Mountain Division’s player …

Head coach Johnny Dawkins has been enjoying a successful first year with the UCF Knights men’s basketball team, guiding it to the NIT, their first postseason appearance since 2012. The Knights will take on the TCU Horned Frogs in the NIT semifinals. The Horned Frogs are coached by Jamie Dixon who is also in …

Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team are in the Final Four again. Should it be a surprise, though? This is the Huskies tenth straight trip to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament’s Final Four and, as usual, they made it look simple. The Huskies are pursuing their twelfth NCAA …

It was a somber evening for the Seminoles when their late-game comeback was stifled by South Carolina. Last night in Stockton, California the No. 1 seeded Gamecocks defeated No. 3 Florida State 71 – 64 en route to the Final Four. After a notable season out of Tallahassee for FSU with …

Recap: Stanford-Notre Dame In the last seconds of the game, both Stanford and Notre Dame’s fans were holding their breath in suspense of who would punch their ticket to the Final Four. With Stanford only scoring 7 points against Notre Dame’s 23 in the 2nd quarter, this granted Notre Dame a …

March Madness may be winding down, but the race to the Final Four is still heating up.  Stanford and Mississippi State both pulled off upsets to punch their tickets to the semifinals.  They will await the outcome of two games tonight– Connecticut vs. Oregon and Florida State vs. South Carolina– to …

The Oregon Ducks basketball team returns to the national semifinals for the first time since 1939. In that appearance, Oregon took home the first NCAA tournament title. The Ducks have since appeared in the NCAA tournament 15 times and made it to the Elite Eight in 2016 before falling Oklahoma. …

Mississippi State women’s basketball clinched its first trip to the Final Four with its 94-85 overtime win over Baylor. The win was thanks in large part to a historic performance from the Bulldogs point guard Morgan William. No, it wasn't a dream. Yes, it really happened. We're #FinalFour bound. #HailState …