FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Paul Maurice will see the video tributes, whether he thinks they're warranted or not. He'll hear the ovation from fans, see players tapping their sticks on the ice in the hockey version of applause and give a wave in what will probably be a futile effort to make it ...
Wisconsin defender Caroline Harvey cemented her reputation as one of college women's hockey's top players in being voted this season's Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner on Saturday. The award caps a decorated college career for the 23-year-old and comes a month after Harvey won a gold medal representing the United States at the Milan Cortina Games. Harvey finished tied with fellow U.S. defender Megan Keller for the Olympic tournament lead with nine points (two goals, seven assists). Harvey is just the third defender in 29 years to win the award, joining Ohio State's Sophie Jaques ...
Forty games into the NCAA Tournament, fans hoping to fill out a perfect bracket were a respectable 2 for 26,587,885. No. 11 seed Texas all but wiped out the remaining unblemished entries in the annual March Madness contests with its 74-68 upset of No. 3 seed Gonzaga on Saturday night. After the win by the Longhorns, who started in the First Four, there were 22 perfect entries in ESPN's bracket challenge and 27 in the NCAA's contest. The last three games on Saturday were won by higher-seeded teams, but No. 4 seed Nebraska was hardly a sure thing, having never won an NCAA Tournament ...
There is still madness in March. There are buzzer beaters. Upsets. Postgame tears. "Wait, what?" moments that go viral and become part of NCAA Tournament lore. The chaos that makes the tournament such a captivating three-week spectacle is just getting a little harder to come by these days. ...
ST. LOUIS — Purdue guard Braden Smith broke former Duke star Bobby Hurley's Division I assist record on Friday night, picking up his second of the game and the 1,077th of his career with a feed to Trey Kaufman-Renn with 12:11 to go in the first half of the Boilermakers' NCAA Tournament game ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota was confident enough in this women's basketball resurgence that the event calendar for Williams Arena was blocked out months ago for the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament. The Gophers hadn't made the tournament since 2018 or hosted since 2005, but the potential of coach Dawn Plitzuweit's team was easy to see for athletic director Mark Coyle before the season. The boys state high school tournament would have to wait a week for building access. That belief was rewarded when the Gophers — ranked 18th in the latest Associated Press poll — drew the No. 4 ...
