INDIANAPOLIS — The ultimate hero of UConn’s game-clinching sequence in its 71-62 Final Four victory over Illinois on Saturday night inside Lucas Oil Stadium was a familiar one, as freshman phenom Braylon Mullins drilled a 3-pointer from the left wing with 52 seconds left that cemented the outcome. But the defining shot of a tight…
PHOENIX — If Dawn Staley and South Carolina beat UCLA in the national title game Sunday, she would become the fourth coach to win four championships. UCLA coach Cori Close is looking for her first. After 15 years of building the Bruins to a program that could get to the Final Four, and a year later, the…
Getty Images The 2026 NCAA Tournament is officially down to a Final Four. With 64 teams eliminated and only three games remaining in March Madness, there is no rest for the weary this time of year — even though all four remaining programs will get six days off before competition continues Saturday in Indianapolis. The final three games…
INDIANAPOLIS — Solo Ball isn’t just a good shooter. He’s a great one. A net-shredder in the flesh. His 99 3-pointers last year — the fourth-most in a single season at UConn — prove that loud and clear. But with a Final Four clash with No. 3 seed Illinois looming in less than 48 hours,…
With Kendrick Lamar’s “tv off” blaring outside the Mo Ostin Basketball Center, a crowd of cheering fans gave the UCLA women’s basketball team a fitting sendoff Tuesday as they left Westwood for Phoenix. The Bruins are back in the Final Four, where they’ll play Texas — the only team that has beaten them this season…
The Final Four in men’s and women’s basketball is scheduled for this weekend, and Southern California has two players to root for who were high school graduates from the area. McDonald’s All-American Brayden Burries, a freshman at Arizona from Eastvale Roosevelt, has been a key player in the Wildcats’ season, averaging 16.1 points. Gabriela Jaquez…
Braylon Mullins will forever live in UConn basketball lore after hitting a game‑winner from 35 feet that sent the Huskies back to the Final Four. The go-ahead 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left gave No. 2 seed UConn a 73-72 win and ended No. 1 overall seed Duke‘s season in one of the most dramatic swings…
SACRAMENTO — The team that can’t stop dancing won’t stop dancing. The top-seeded UCLA women’s basketball team beat Duke 70-58 in the Elite Eight. It wasn’t balletic, but beautiful. Sunday’s game at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento wasn’t a fun, free-flowing joy ride that so many of the Bruins’ wins have been this season. It was a…
The CIF championship was not on the line, but it may as well have been Friday night in the annual boys’ volleyball showdown between Mira Costa and Loyola. Showing why they entered their grudge match in Manhattan Beach ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the country, two of the Southland’s most storied programs battled…
