College Sports
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South Carolina women stay perfect, surge past N.C. State 78-59 to reach NCAA title gameApr 05, 2024 9:29 pm - Perfectly dominant. Nothing new for South Carolina. With All-America center Kamilla Cardoso scoring 22 points, the Gamecocks emphatically kept their unbeaten season going, advancing to the championship game of the women's NCAA Tournament with a 78-59 victory over North Carolina State on Friday night.
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Suburban Sprawl has NFL predraft news and coaching hiresApr 05, 2024 11:15 am - The latest edition of Suburban Sprawl has some local players making NFL pre-draft news, plus some area coaches moving back home.
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Transfer portal bound to affect basketball recruiting, tooApr 05, 2024 6:00 am - The impact of the college transfer portal is bound to start having an effect on basketball recruiting.
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Florida's 2007 repeat came in 'totally different environment' than UConn is facing at Final Four
Apr 04, 2024 7:50 pm - Billy Donovan hasn’t watched many UConn games. He doesn’t have the time while coaching the NBA’s Chicago Bulls. But he’s seen enough to know the Huskies’ bid to repeat as...
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South Carolina is unbeaten and maybe underrated as it heads into women's Final Four seeking titleApr 04, 2024 7:04 pm - South Carolina has no losses, and maybe not enough love. While two sublime star players are soaking up much of the spotlight at this year's women's Final Four, the undefeated, unafraid and unabashedly true-to-themselves Gamecocks seem to be getting overlooked.
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UConn’s long road back to the Final Four is complete. Clark and Iowa stand in their wayApr 04, 2024 6:19 pm - Geno Auriemma keeps waiting for it to all fall apart. Keeps waiting for the injuries that have shortened UConn's rotation and frazzled his nerves to become too much. For the Huskies to falter under the weight of it all.
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Clark’s path to stardom paved by pioneering players who changed trajectory for women’s hoopsApr 04, 2024 12:00 pm - Long before Caitlin Clark broke records, packed arenas across the country like a Taylor Swift in sneakers and inspired young girls to be like her, women's basketball looked very different than it does today.
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Final Four, football, fencing? College athlete salaries will deeply impact future U.S. Olympic hopesApr 04, 2024 12:00 pm - At the Final Four this week, they will play for a trophy and the right to cut down the nets. Also at stake: Olympic gold medals.
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Cook’s strong 2nd half leads Illinois past Villanova 71-57 for inaugural WBIT championshipApr 03, 2024 8:15 pm - Makira Cook rebounded from first-half foul trouble by scoring 22 of her 27 points in the second half and Kendall Bostic had 15 points and 15 rebounds, leading fourth-seeded Illinois past top-seeded Villanova 71-57 on Wednesday night to win the first Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament championship.
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O’Donnell: Clark flourished but UConn women held betting eyes to anxious endApr 03, 2024 6:00 am - WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL sliced deeply into the psyches of the most cynical sports fans in America Monday night. And the supremely charismatic Caitlin Clark and Iowa we...