Articles filed under Basketball
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UConn tops women's preseason AP Top 25 ahead of South Carolina, UCLA; SEC has 5 teams in top 10Oct 14, 2025 9:14 pm - Defending champion UConn picked up where it left off as the No. 1 team in the country in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason women's basketball poll released Tuesday. T...
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Boiler up! Purdue tops preseason AP Top 25 for first time, ahead of Houston, reigning champ FloridaOct 13, 2025 6:17 pm - Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s po...
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Lincicome: The Bulls will play this season, which might be as much as we can expectOct 11, 2025 11:44 am - Columnist Bernie Lincicome wonders what will make this a successful season for the Bulls.
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Wilson scores 31 and Aces win 3rd WNBA title in 4 seasons, beating Mercury 97-86 for 4-game sweepOct 10, 2025 10:22 pm - A'ja Wilson scored 31 points, Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young both added 18 and the Las Vegas Aces won their third WNBA championship in four seasons, beating the Phoenix Mercury 97-86 on Friday night for a four-game sweep of the Finals.
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What do Hoosiers need from Benet graduate Lenee Beaumont this season? It’s a long listOct 10, 2025 8:31 pm - She missed last season with a knee injury, but Indiana University is counting on Benet Academy graduate Lenee Beaumont to lead it to a strong women’s basketball season in the Big Ten and back to the NCAA Tournament.
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Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106Oct 09, 2025 11:26 pm - Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night.
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Four coaches new to the Big Ten look to get their programs back on trackOct 09, 2025 6:36 pm - Four coaches new to the Big Ten this season — Indiana’s Darian DeVries, Iowa’s Ben McCollum, Buzz Williams at Maryland and Niko Medved at Minnesota — will try to replicate Michigan coach Dusty May’s first-year success story.
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Angel Reese to make history as first professional athlete in Victoria's Secret Fashion ShowOct 09, 2025 2:37 pm - Angel Reese is getting a pair of wings. The Chicago Sky star announced on Instagram that she will be walking in the upcoming Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on Oct. 15. It will be the first time a professional athlete will walk the runway in the show.
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JuJu-less Big Ten prepares for another women's basketball season with UCLA a favoriteOct 08, 2025 5:05 pm - Southern California star JuJu Watkins propelled the Trojans to a Big Ten regular-season title and a second consecutive Elite Eight appearance last season. If the Trojans want to match that success this year, they'll need to do it without her.
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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert vows to repair player relationships after criticism by CollierOct 03, 2025 9:06 pm - WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Friday there's work to be done to repair relationships with players in the league, while adding that there were “inaccuracies” in some of the comments attributed to her by Napheesa Collier in a blistering assessment earlier this week.