College Basketball

The Florida men’s basketball team opens the regular season this Friday against Georgetown in the Navy/Marine Corps Classic at Mayport.  The game will take place on the deck of the USS Bataan battleship in Jacksonville and the 10th ranked Gators are preparing for the outdoor elements.  Florida senior guard Kenny Boynton …

The 10th ranked (pre-season)Florida men’s basketball team defeated Nebraska-Kearney 101-71 in an exhibition game Thursday night in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. This was the first meeting between the two schools. UF returned three starters from last season’s Elite Eight squad; senior guard Kenny Boynton, senior forward Erik Murphy and junior …

The Gator men’s basketball team has been gearing up for the start of the 2012-2013 season.   Florida is ranked 10th in preseason for both the AP and USA Today Coaches  polls.  The Gators open their season with an exhibition game against Nebraska-Kearney in the O’Dome this Thursday, Nov. 1. Gator head coach Billy Donovan has named …

Although basketball season doesn’t tip off until November, the Florida women’s basketball team has been hard at work with practices starting last week.  This is a new team for the Gators as the roster includes seven freshman (four true freshman) and only one senior, Jennifer George.  George is one of …

Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in the history of Division 1 college basketball, has stepped down as the head coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team.  This comes less than a year after the 59 year old Summitt was diagnosed with early onset dementia-Alzheimer’s type, a disease that …

Next season, the University of Kentucky basketball starting five is going to look a lot different. This season’s starting lineup, which consisted of three freshman and two sophomores, all declared for the NBA draft Tuesday in a nationally televised news conference. Freshmen Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, and Marquis Teague, and sophomores Terrence …

The University of Florida and USA Basketball announced today that men’s basketball head coach Billy Donovan will lead Team USA at the 2012 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championships. Team USA is the reigning champion from the 2010 tournament, beating Brazil 81-78 in the championship game on a last second three pointer by Baylor swingman Quincy Miller.  In …

A week after junior guard Kenny Boynton tweeted that he will return to Florida for his senior year, freshman forward Walter Pitchford announces that he will be leaving the program. Pitchford made the announcement on Wednesday he will be transferring in order to be closer to his family.  He is …

March Madness began with 68 teams dreaming of cutting down the nets in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 2nd. Those 68 teams have now become two. The Kentucky Wildcats and the Kansas Jayhawks are the last teams left standing and after tonight one of them will be crowned champion. The Kentucky …

The Baylor Bears and the Stanford Cardinal have secured their spots in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four in Denver. In the Des Moines Regional, overall number one seed Baylor defeated NCAA hoops’ winningest coach, Pat Summit, and her number two seed Tennessee team on Monday night. The Bears won 77-58, but it was not …