The 34-0 UConn Huskies were well represented on the AP All-American list. UConn’s Sarah Strong and Azzi Fudd became the 10th teammates to be named first team and the first since Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard made the list in 2020. Strong and Fudd carried the load for UConn this season. Strong averaged 18.5…
LOS ANGELES – The Bruins are going Dancing, and now the stage is set. Of course, the Bruins already knew that they would be the No.1 regional seed and host team for the first two rounds of the tournament, but the lingering questions were who exactly UCLA would be playing in the bracket and the…
It doesn’t get much better than this. After meeting just once during the regular season, Michigan and Purdue will get their rematch in the Big Ten Championship Game on Sunday afternoon at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The game comes on the heels of two hard fought close wins for both teams who entered…
One day before Selection Sunday, the NCAA is giving a sneak preview into the women’s seeding for March Madness. On Saturday, the association revealed the top 16 seeds in the women’s tournament. The NCAA listed the teams in alphabetical order, leaving the exact seeding a mysterious until the selection ceremony on Sunday. But the reveal…
CHICAGO — UCLA will be without Tyler Bilodeau, its best shooter and leading scorer, for Saturday’s Big Ten tournament semifinal game against Purdue. But the mild knee sprain Bilodeau suffered Friday night isn’t expected to linger into next week’s NCAA tournament, according to a team spokesperson. Bilodeau, who averaged 17.6 points on 51.8% shooting from the field,…
CHICAGO — This was hardly a masterpiece of Big Ten basketball, what with the barrage of bricks and busted possessions. Nor was it the sort of night to convince you of UCLA’s chances as a surefire conference contender. But amid the mess of its 72-59 win over 14th-seeded Rutgers on Thursday night, UCLA showed the sort of…
Hall of Fame high school football coach Bob Johnson, who turned El Toro and Mission Viejo into powerhouse high school football programs and became one of the winningest coaches in state history, has died. He was 80. He had been battling Alzheimer’s. “I feel for the family,” Mission Viejo football coach Chad Johnson (no relation)…
