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NCAA Tournament roundup: Arkansas in Sweet 16 for 1st time in 25 years 
INDIANAPOLIS — Justin Smith had 20 points and played a key role in a final-play defensive stop, helping Arkansas beat Texas Tech, 68-66, on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament, securing the program’s first trip to the Sweet 16 in a quarter-century. In the final seconds of a tense finish, Smith...
Belle Vernon’s Zach Hartman, Kiski Area’s Darren Miller represent Bucknell well at NCAA Tournament
Belle Vernon’s Zach Hartman and Kiski Area’s Darren Miller put together special high school careers during their time in the WPIAL, but this past weekend, the pair represented Bucknell at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships. Hartman (13-3), who was making his third NCAA appearance after last year’s tournament was...
Oregon advances in NCAA Tournament after VCU exits for covid protocols 
INDIANAPOLIS — VCU has been pulled from the NCAA Tournament because of covid-19 protocols. The NCAA says the 10th-seeded Rams’ first-round game Saturday against Oregon was declared a no-contest. The seventh-seeded Ducks will advance to the second round without playing. The announcement came a little more than three hours before...
North Texas pulls stunner, knocks Purdue out of NCAA Tournament 
INDIANAPOLIS — To be, or not to be? For an underdog named Javion Hamlet and his group of scrapping North Texas teammates, that was an easy question. Hamlet scored 24 points and Thomas Bell had 16, along with some game-changing defense in overtime, to lift the 13th-seeded Mean Green to...
Oral Roberts puts madness in March, shocks Ohio State 
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Oral Roberts welcomed the madness back to March. The 15th-seeded Golden Eagles pulled off the first major upset of the first NCAA Tournament in two years, holding off second-seeded Big Ten power Ohio State, 75-72, in overtime Friday. Oral Roberts got poised, impeccable performances from its...
NCAA Tournament roundup: Underdog Oregon State stays hot, upsets Tennessee 
INDIANAPOLIS — Oregon State opened the season picked to finish 12th in its conference but instead won its first Pac-12 Tournament title. The Beavers faced another No. 12 hurdle in the NCAA Tournament and pulled off the upset. They’re certainly enjoying this underdog role. Roman Silva scored 16 points, and...
Short-handed Florida gets past Virginia Tech in OT to open NCAA Tournament 
INDIANAPOLIS — Florida is heading to the second round for an eighth straight NCAA Tournament appearance — and with arguably its best player on the bench as a de facto assistant coach. Colin Castleton scored 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, Tre Mann hit a step-back 3-pointer with 23 seconds...
Weighty issue: Inequity raised in women’s, men’s tourneys
SAN ANTONIO — The teams had barely landed in Texas when complaints of inequity between the women’s and men’s tournaments roared over social media posts noting the women’s weight training facilities in San Antonio were severely lacking compared to what the men have in Indianapolis. The women’s field has 64...
Former Fox Chapel pitcher Pat Monteverde emerges as ace for No. 7 Texas Tech
Almost a month ago, former Fox Chapel southpaw Patrick Monteverde stood in right field of Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, a day before Texas Tech’s season opener against the Arkansas Razorbacks and just took everything in. Six months earlier, the Los Angeles Dodgers had beaten the Tampa Bay Rays...
Franklin Regional notebook: Spencer Lee, Michael Kemerer help Iowa win Big Ten
Franklin Regional graduates Spencer Lee and Michael Kemerer won Big Ten wrestling titles to help Iowa to its 37th conference championship March 7 at Penn State. It was the Hawkeyes’ second consecutive conference title. But neither is satisfied, their work not done. They want NCAA titles. Lee already owns two...
Gonzaga remains No. 1, Baylor back to No. 2 in AP Top 25
Gonzaga’s bid to go wire-to-wire No. 1 is in its final week. The Zags received 61 of 63 first-place votes from a media panel in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll released Monday as they attempt to become the first wire-to-wire No. 1 since Kentucky in 2014-15. Baylor had...
No. 4 Illinois makes statement, dismantles No. 2 Michigan 
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Andre Curbelo scored 11 of his 17 points in the first half, and No. 4 Illinois dismantled No. 2 Michigan with a smothering defensive performance, routing the Wolverines 76-53 on Tuesday night. Playing again without injured star Ayo Dosunmu, the Illini (19-6, 15-4) kept Michigan from...
College sports struggling to keep up with covid-19 variants 
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Playing college sports during the pandemic potentially has become more problematic as more contagious variants of the coronavirus start to show up across the U.S., including one that prompted Michigan to shut down its athletics department for two weeks. It was not clear this week how...
Minus fanfare, small college football getting underway
PARKLAND, Wash. — At some point each week since athletes returned to campus, Pacific Lutheran football coach Brant McAdams has donned the full uniform of personal protective equipment — gown, gloves, mask and face shield. There was never a chapter in any of the books on becoming a small college...
Steve Sarkisian puts finishing touches on Texas class near top of Big 12 
Tom Herman started the 2021 Texas recruiting class. Steve Sarkisian is finishing it up, and the new Longhorns coach still can sign a few more players. Sarkisian inherited a group of 19 signees recruited by Herman before the coaching change in January, then Wednesday added a group of four more...
National champion Alabama secures ‘championship-winning’ class 
Alabama continues recruiting at a level that should strengthen the reigning national champion’s status as college football’s premier program. If anything, coach Nick Saban’s ability to land the nation’s top prospects grows stronger with each passing year. The recruiting class Alabama finalized Wednesday has the highest rating in the history...
Powerhouse Clemson leads way again in ACC recruiting rankings 
Clemson’s most recent berth in the College Football Playoff arguably was its least successful, but a 49-28 semifinal loss to Ohio State didn’t appear to damage the Tigers’ appeal to recruits. Six consecutive appearances in the game’s final four, with national championships in 2016 and ‘18, are difficult to overlook....
Maryland hopes top-20 recruiting class brings improvement in Big Ten 
The Maryland athletic department slogan is “Fear The Turtle.” In seven seasons in the Big Ten, its football team has scared no one. That might be about to change judging by the recruiting work done by coach Mike Locksley and his staff. Locksley signed four four-star prospects in December and...
Pine-Richland grad focuses on defense to earn starting role at Binghamton
Dan Petcash saw an opportunity and he took it. Going into his sophomore season at Binghamton, there were several openings in the lineup, so he spent the summer working on becoming a lockdown defender. That training has paid off and has led to Petcash, a Pine-Richland grad, getting starter’s minutes...
NFL hopefuls who opted out look to shake off rust at Senior Bowl 
MOBILE, Ala. — Former Wake Forest quarterback Jamie Newman hasn’t played in a game in about 400 days since first switching schools and then opting out of the 2020 season. Newman hardly is alone among the players trying to shake off the rust after long layoffs leading up to Saturday’s...
Robert Morris loses in overtime to Illinois-Chicago 
CHICAGO — Rob Howard scored 18 points as Illinois-Chicago narrowly beat Robert Morris, 66-62, in overtime Saturday. Maurice Commander and Teyvion Kirk added 15 points each for the Flames. Commander also had eight rebounds, and Kirk posted eight rebounds. Illinois-Chicago (7-4, 4-2 Horizon League) scored 25 points in the second...
NCAA expects straightforward March Madness for this year only 
INDIANAPOLIS — There will be a bit less mystery to the March Madness bracket now that the NCAA selection committee no longer has to adjust matchups for travel concerns. With the entire tournament taking place in the Indianapolis area this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Division I Men’s...
NCAA president Mark Emmert expects athletes’ pay issue to be done in 2021 
NCAA President Mark Emmert expressed frustration Tuesday with the delay in moving ahead with proposals surrounding athletes’ ability to make money and to freely transfer to another school and said he remains committed to getting those things done in 2021. Emmert’s remarks came during his state of college athletics address...
Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence declaring for NFL draft
Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence has made it official — he’s heading to the NFL. Lawrence, the 6-foot-6 QB with the power arm and flowing hair, released a video on social media Wednesday announcing he was leaving school and declaring for the NFL draft. “I really feel like I’m a man...
Alabama’s DeVonta Smith becomes 4th wide receiver to win Heisman Trophy 
NEW YORK — On an Alabama team stacked with stars, DeVonta Smith emerged as the best player in college football. Smith became the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy in 29 seasons Tuesday night, breaking the monopoly quarterbacks have had on college football’s most prestigious award by beating...


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