Category: NCAA Basketball

Jewel Spear scored 11 of her 20 points at the free-throw line, Talaysia Cooper added 16 points and No. Tennessee beat No. Alabama 88-80 on Thursday night for its fifth win in six games.

AP) — Max Brooks' 30 points led UMass Lowell over UMBC 98-79 on Thursday night. Brooks had five rebounds and four blocks for the River Hawks (16-11, 5-7 America East Conference). Quinton Mincey scored 24 points and added 10 rebounds and five assists.

Maria Gakdeng had 21 points and 14 rebounds as No. 9 North Carolina defeated Syracuse 68-58 on Thursday night. Ustby didn’t make the trip to Syracuse after sustaining what appeared to be a lower-body injury Sunday against North Carolina State. Tar Heels coach Courtney Banghart said Ustby “would be back soon.”

La Salle's Fran Dunphy, who has won more than 600 games and made 17 NCAA Tournament appearances in 33 seasons as coach at three of Philadelphia's Big 5 schools, said Thursday he would retire at the end of the season. The 76-year-old Dunphy will become special assistant to the president at La Salle. Dunphy is ingrained in the Philadelphia hoops scene like few others.

Longtime college basketball coach Fran Dunphy will retire from La Salle at the end of the 2024-25 season

"As disciplined as any team I've ever seen ... getting up floor as fast as possible," Michigan basketball assistant Kyle Church said.

While Tom Izzo remains a stalwart fixture at Michigan State, Michigan's Dusty May is getting his first taste of the bitter rivalry between the two schools on Friday.

The 6-foot-9 junior was hurt after playing just 10 minutes in the third-ranked Blue Devils’ win at Virginia.

Duke coach Jon Scheyer is “optimistic” that versatile forward Maliq Brown will return this season from a shoulder injury. The 6-foot-9 junior was hurt after playing just 10 minutes in the third-ranked Blue Devils' win at Virginia on Monday. Scheyer said Thursday that medical imaging had found nothing unexpected with what he described as a dislocated shoulder.

After Missouri basketball fans stormed the court following a victory over then-No. 1 Kansas on Dec. 8, Tigers coach Dennis Gates made sure there wouldn’t be an encore after No. 15 Missouri beat No. 4 Alabama.

Arkansas head coach John Calipari sat at the podium Wednesday evening inside Neville Arena in Auburn, Alabama, just minutes after his Razorbacks (15-11, 4-9 SEC) lost yet another close game, this time a 67-60 defeat against the No. 1 Auburn Tigers (24-2, 12-1 SEC). Calipari was disappointed in the loss, but not deterred from his goal of taking his Razorbacks to the NCAA Tournament in March.

There is optimism that Duke will have Maliq Brown back on the court at some point this season. The Blue Devils just don’t know when that could be. Scheyer added that Brown won’t play “in the next week or so.”

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