The Florida Gators softball team is hosting the NCAA Gainesville Regional Tournament for the 18th time and enters as the national No. 4 seed. The Gators’ (46-12) first matchup is noon Friday against Florida Gulf Coast (37-19) at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium. The game will air on the SEC Network. …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Florida Gymnastics Produces Results
The Back Nine comes at you after an eventful weekend where I got some sun and Kentucky fans got burned. 10. Or did they? So many of them were sick of coach John Calipari in Big Blue Country. They gave him everything and he gave them back a 1-4 record …
Read More »NC State takes on Purdue in First Final Four Matchup
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 …
Read More »Clark-led Iowa Advances to NCAA Women’s Final Four With Win Against LSU
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 …
Read More »UConn Faces USC in Women’s Elite 8
The No. 3 seed UConn Huskies face the No. 1 seed USC Trojans in the Elite 8 in Portland, O.R., Monday at 9:00 p.m. https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1774856653604577436 UConn is in the Elite 8 for the 28th time. Meanwhile, USC has made the regional final for just the seventh time in program history. …
Read More »Men’s NCAA Tournament Final Four Set
The Men’s NCAA Final Four is set. https://twitter.com/MarchMadnessMBB/status/1774586902152151489 While UConn makes its return to to the big stage, the Final Four is uncharted territory for others. Alabama will play in the national semifinal for the first time in program history, while Purdue returns to the Final Four for the first …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Florida Baseball Making Things Interesting
The Back Nine comes at you after a great weekend and I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday. I know I did. 10. Let us start with baseball where the Gators had two walk-off wins in a series for the first time in 10 years. On Friday night, …
Read More »Tennessee Set to Take on Creighton in Sweet Sixteen
The Tennessee Volunteers, a No. 2-seed, is set to take on No. 3-seed Creighton in the Sweet Sixteen of NCAA Tournament at 10:09 p.m. Friday. Road to the Sweet 16 Tennessee defeated 7-seed Texas 62-58 to secure the Vols’ second consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearance. Team scoring leaders included Dalton Knecht …
Read More »Alabama and Others Have Tickets Punched to Elite Eight
Half of the Elite Eight is set as UConn, Clemson, Alabama and Illinois have all punched their tickets to the next round. Out of four games Thursday night, three of them resulted in an upset. The first No. 1 seed fell as No. 4 Alabama took down No. 1 North Carolina. …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five: These UF NCAA Tournament Loses Still Sting
A week ago today I received a text from a good buddy who was a classmate of mine. “This one stings,” was how the text ended. Yeah, that 102-100 loss to Colorado in the NCAA Tournament did sting a lot and was not easy to get over. It felt like …
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