Basketball Page 826 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Michigan Pulls Off The Walk-On Scholarship Surprise Pretty Well
Much like pregame soldier-family reunions or fake-out marriage proposals, the tradition of surprising walk-on athletes with full-rides has become something of an over-used social media fixture. It’s cute and fun for the people involved, and the other players always eventually jump up and down, screa...
ACC: "There Is Nothing Conclusive" About Grayson Allen's Latest Dirty Footwork
Grayson Allen’s “indefinite” suspension for lunatic play turned out to be only one game, and just one game after his return, it looks as if that may not have been long enough for him to learn his lesson. During yesterday’s game against Boston College, the junior was involved in something that looks ...
Jim Boeheim: Actually, A Team's Record Means Nothing
Yesterday, Syracuse Post-Standard columnist Bud Poliquin wrote a piece titled “Syracuse basketball isn’t in six-week swoon; it’s more like three-year downward spiral.” Today, head coach Jim Boeheim let everyone know exactly what he thought of that....
Belmont Basketball Fan Insists That He's Actually Eating Mayonnaise At Games
A Bruins fan at Thursday’s UT Martin-Belmont women’s basketball game sat behind the announcing table and downed spoonfuls from what appeared to be an enormous jar of mayonnaise. But was the mayo boy actually eating mayo? Let’s review the evidence....
WNBA Players Looking To Get Out Of Turkish League After Terrorist Attacks
A big problem with the WNBA is that for many of the best players, it makes financial sense to not play in the league. Players make so much less money stateside than they do by participating in international leagues during the winter that the overseas leagues have started offering compensation to sta...
Grayson Allen's Back And Coach K Doesn't Care What You Think
Grayson Allen said he had no idea he’d be back in the lineup against Georgia Tech until he arrived for the pregame walk-through, and that’s when coach Mick Krizilonski let him know: Allen’s “indefinite” suspension, for tripping yet another player, was over after one game....
Duke Ends Grayson Allen's Indefinite Suspension After Just One Game
All it took for Duke to end the “indefinite suspension” of star shooting guard/humility-themed motivational poster Grayson Allen was one loss to Virginia Tech. Allen was suspended after Duke’s Dec. 22 win over Elon for tripping yet another opponent (this is somewhat of a habit for Allen), and coach ...
Kansas Beats Kansas State At The Buzzer Despite Blatant Traveling Violation
With Kansas and Kansas State tied up at 88 with 5.6 seconds left, the Jayhawks gave the ball to Svi Mykhailiuk. Mykhailiuk took it end-to-end and scored a buzzer-beating layup, preserving Kansas’ NCAA-high 50-game home win streak....
Duke Flails, Falters, Gets Killed By Virginia Tech
Duke’s last two non-conference games of the year should have been cupcakes. But the Blue Devils were all over the place and struggled against both Tennessee State and Elon, trailing in the second half in both games before getting their shit together and taking the two victories....
Dillon Brooks Nails Second Coolest Three-Pointer Of His Career
Through 14 games, Oregon forward Dillon Brooks has taken a step to the side or backwards in nearly all major offensive categories—his long ball is hitting just 30 percent of the time. Still, as he has throughout his career, the third-year player from Ontario has focused on basketball’s fundamental t...
Duke Suspends Grayson Allen Indefinitely
Duke beat Elon, but who cares. We’re all here for Grayson Allen getting T’d up for tripping an opponent (his third such tripping incident in the calendar year), having a mini-meltdown about it, the ensuing pile-on of Coach K, and everyone waking up this morning to the news that Duke has indefinitely...
Duke Doofus Grayson Allen Trips Dude
Aspiring Matthew Dellavedova Grayson Allen did the following just now in front of God, his mom, and the world as Dook played fearsome Elon:...
Iowa Refuses To Shake Hands After North Dakota, Down By 11, Tries Buzzer-Beater
With the Hawkeyes up by 11 with three seconds to play, there was no question about who was going to win tonight’s game between Iowa and North Dakota. But North Dakota’s Corey Baldwin stole the ball and Drick Bernstine tried to beat the buzzer with a little jumper anyway*, and Iowa coach Fran McCaffe...
Duke's Grayson Allen Draws Foul Without Being Touched
In the photo above, Tennesse State’s Darreon Reddick is quite literally watching Duke’s Grayson Allen go by. He should’ve observed the unwritten-but-well-known Duke Buffer Zone of at least five feet; he got whistled for the foul on Allen....
Get To Know Marcus Keene, 5-Foot-9 Scoring Wizard
The leading scorer in college basketball this season isn’t Lonzo Ball, Josh Jackson, or Ivan Rabb. He isn’t even 6-foot. Marcus Keene plays point guard for the Central Michigan Chippewas of the Mid-American Conference, and he has a legitimate chance to become the first 30-point-per-game scorer in co...
Battery Charge Against Kansas's Carlton Bragg Jr. Dismissed, Girlfriend To Be Charged Instead
The misdemeanor battery charge brought against Kansas Jayhawks forward Carlton Bragg Jr. has been dismissed, Douglas County prosecutors announced today. In the same press release, they said a battery charge was being filed against Bragg’s girlfriend....
Suspended Morehead State Coach Sean Woods Charged With Battery
Morehead State coach Sean Woods has been charged with battery after two players reported him to campus police for physically abusing them during a November basketball game....
Abandon All Hope, Any Who Would Seek To Block This Dunk
You think you have the mettle and athletic character to block Steven Davis’s mighty dunk attempt, scrawny Urbana defender?...
Lonzo Ball's Long Ball Is One Of The Best Things In College Basketball
It’s hard to be your program’s savior when six players are averaging double-digit scoring numbers, so for now, UCLA point guard Lonzo Ball will have to make due with being one of head coach Steve Alford’s very dope stars....