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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The ball sailed from halfcourt with the buzzer sounding — bounced off the backboard, the rim, the floor.Most of the 70,000 fans on Butler’s side let out an “Ohhhhhh,” and the Duke players piled onto forward Kyle Singler at center court. What a game! And what a way to end the season, even if America’s
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We have our Final Four, each team playing its own role: Butler, the fairy-tale townie; Michigan State, the battered overachiever; West Virginia, the East Coast bully; and Duke, the headlining villain. This is the most unlikely of quartets to reach Indy, even though each team was in the top 11 of the preseason Associated Press
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Black lawmakers are urging black football recruits to reconsider playing for the University of South Carolina because the school could lose its lone black trustee. State Rep. David Weeks, chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he doesn’t think there are enough votes in the Legislature to get lawyer
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Georgetown’s leading scorer Austin Freeman has been diagnosed with diabetes, leaving his status uncertain for the team’s upcoming games. Freeman returned to practice Wednesday and Thursday after missing Monday night’s loss to West Virginia. He was also limited in Saturday’s loss to Notre Dame. Originally thought to have a stomach virus, Freeman learned he had
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A pickup game f basketball last spring brought good luck to the University of North Carolina’s basketball team and to Barack Obama, the president said Monday as he welcomed the national champions to the White House. North Carolina won the title this year. And Obama, who scrimmaged with the players during a campaign visit to
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