The National Collegiate Athletic Association has banned a record eight teams from postseason play because of their athletes’ poor academic performance — the most since the academic penalty system was first used two years ago. But, in a sign of the widening gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” in college sport, four of those
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HOUSTON — The rims were tight, the shots weren’t falling and points were at a premium — surely one of the ugliest championships played on college basketball’s biggest stage. Ah, but for Kemba Walker and UConn, the final score was a thing of beauty.In a game that featured 40 minutes of guts and grit, Connecticut
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INDIANAPOLIS — It’s not often Maya Moore meets her match. Skylar Diggins was up to the task, and Notre Dame will play for a national championship because of it. The sensational sophomore guard scored 28 points and hot-shooting Notre Dame upset UConn 72-63 on Sunday night, ending the brilliant career of Moore and the Huskies’
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View more videos at: http://nbcwashington.com. Despite the Rams’ semifinal loss Saturday night, VCU fans spilled into the streets of Richmond to continue celebrating their team’s remarkable run to the Final Four. Despite the celebration, some took out their frustration with the end of the Cinderella story by burning furniture and tipping over trash cans. It
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NEW YORK — An NBA spokesman confirms that the league is investigating Jay-Z’s presence in Kentucky’s locker room after the Wildcats clinched a Final Four berth. The rapper visited the players after their victory over North Carolina on Sunday at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J, home of the Nets. Jay-Z is a part-owner of
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You’ve now seen the bracket, with three more teams but even less certainty. If you thought last year’s games were tough to call, this year promises to make it an even more agonizing process. But it’s a process all of us college basketball fans embrace, even if most of our time spent breaking down the
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WASHINGTON — Kye Allums is surprised by the support he has received as of late. Last week, the George Washington University junior and player on the women’s basketball team publicly came out as a transgender man. Allums is believed by many to be the first openly transgender person to play Division I college basketball, though
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Not many people noticed a slight change on the George Washington University website earlier this year. It concerned a player on the school’s women’s basketball team named Kay-Kay Allums. Just a couple letters were taken away, a Y was moved and an E was added to form the player’s new name: Kye Allums. To most
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There was no panic in the locker room. No pep talk, either. Maya Moore and her Connecticut Huskies knew the score.”It couldn’t get any worse,” she said. And it was all slipping away — the streak, the perfect season, the championship. Leave it to Moore. The tournament’s most outstanding player took over the NCAA title
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