Gannon wins D-II championship
NCAA, Sports
April 6, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS — Pace Prosser totaled 28 points and 11 rebounds and Gannon beat Lander 84-61 on Sunday to win the Division II Championship. Prosser made 10 of 19 shots with four 3-pointers for the Golde...
Auriemma apologizes for exchange with Staley
NCAA, Sports
April 6, 2026
PHOENIX (AP) — UConn coach Geno Auriemma has apologized for his actions during a heated exchange with Dawn Staley at the end of the Huskies’ loss to South Carolina in the women’s Final Four. A visibly...
UCLA storms past South Carolina for women’s crown
NCAA, Sports
April 6, 2026
PHOENIX (AP) — It’s mission accomplished for UCLA. Gabriela Jaquez, Lauren Betts and the rest of the UCLA seniors secured the first NCAA women’s basketball national championship in school history — a ...
Auriemma, Staley get heated after Gamecocks end Huskies’ streak
NCAA, Sports
April 4, 2026
PHOENIX (AP) — UConn’s Geno Auriemma was not a happy man. With the officiating. With his team’s performance. With South Carolina coach Dawn Staley. The Huskies coach ripped into the officiating crew d...
Panthers’ wide receivers, corners competing hard
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
April 4, 2026
Pitt wide receiver Blue Hicks is quickly running out of room on his helmet. The shell of Hicks’ helmet, from the top of his head down to the facemask, is plastered with white stickers spelling out “Bl...
Track protest spells out NCAA’s drug-fighting issues
NCAA, Sports
By By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer 
April 4, 2026
It was supposed to be a time to celebrate as the top finishers in the NCAA Division III 5,000-meter title race lined up on the eight-tiered podium to receive their trophies. Instead, when winner Seth ...
Huskies carry 18-game streak in Sweet 16 and later
NCAA, Sports
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
By By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer 
April 3, 2026
When UConn makes it past the opening weekend of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the Huskies are almost impossible to stop. UConn won its 18th straight game played in the Sweet 16 or later when i...
Mullins’ hometown eager for Final Four reunion with star
NCAA, Sports
April 3, 2026
GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) — UConn guard Braylon Mullins might be the talk of college basketball this week. He is still just a small-town Indiana guy at heart. Here in his hometown of Greenfield, the stree...
Kansas coach Bill Self will return for 24th season
NCAA, Sports
April 2, 2026
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is returning for a 24th season with the Jayhawks. The program released a statement from Self on Wednesday confirming his return for another year...
Reed, Demary hoping for their UConn title
NCAA, Sports
April 2, 2026
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — In the days and weeks after Silas Demary Jr. arrived on the next stage of his basketball career, he sought out the one UConn men’s player who was navigating a similar path coming ...
Sarah Graves goes from walk-on to cult hero for Texas
NCAA, Sports
By By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer 
April 1, 2026
Sarah Graves owes her Texas teammates dinner. It might be the best money the senior guard ever spends. Given a couple of minutes of run late in a lopsided 77-41 victory over third-seeded Michigan in t...
Bulls waive Jaden Ivey after Instagram comments
NCAA, Sports
April 1, 2026
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey on Monday in the wake of anti-LGBTQ comments and remarks about religion he made in videos on his Instagram account. “They proclaim Pride Mo...
Women’s Final 4 a repeat of last season
NCAA, Sports
By By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer 
April 1, 2026
The women’s Final Four is on repeat. No. 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport’...
McNamara officially introduced as new Orange coach
NCAA, Sports
April 1, 2026
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — He became a legend as a player at Syracuse, helping the Orange to the program’s only national championship as a freshman in 2003. Now, his alma mater is banking on him becoming a...
Staley: Money driving transfer portal recruiting
NCAA, Sports
March 31, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Dawn Staley says her conversations with recruits have changed over the past few years, with finances becoming a top point of discussion, especially with players in the transf...
ND’s Hannah Hidalgo wants more after NCAA Tournament
NCAA, Sports
March 30, 2026
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Hannah Hidalgo made a little March Madness history and went deeper in the NCAA Tournament than she had in her first two years at Notre Dame before running into a tough draw ag...
Betts, UCLA rally past Duke to clinch Final Four
NCAA, Sports
March 30, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lauren Betts and her fellow UCLA seniors wouldn’t allow their season to end short of the Final Four. Betts had 23 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks to help UCLA rally from ...
Tennessee suffers another Elite Eight loss to Michigan
NCAA, Sports
March 30, 2026
CHICAGO (AP) — Ja’Kobi Gillespie threw down a thunderous right-handed dunk over Yaxel Lendeborg on a fast break and stared at the All-American. It was the sort of play that might have energized Tennes...
Men’s Final Four is set after wild UConn win
NCAA, Sports
By By EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writer 
March 30, 2026
All that talent at Arizona and Michigan. All that momentum and good vibes at UConn. And somebody has to play the part of the unheralded “little guy.” At the Final Four next weekend, that role belongs,...
No. 1 Duke overcomes 10-point deficit to beat St. John’s
NCAA, Sports
March 28, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Caleb Foster returned from a broken foot and rescued Duke’s national title hopes, helping the top-seeded Blue Devils rally from a 10-point second-half deficit to beat St. John’s 80-7...