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Cincinnati hires former Memphis coach Katrina Merriweather
Cincinnati hired former Memphis coach Katrina Merriweather as its new women's basketball coach Saturday. Merriweather, who starred for the Bearcats from 1997-01, helped the team reach four consecutive postseason tournaments in her time at the school. Merriweather...
NFL to vote on changes to punts, kickoffs for safety
The NFL will consider significant changes to the kicking game with the competition committee proposing that the league adopt the college rule that allows touchbacks on fair catches of kickoffs and moving the touchback spot on punts to the 25-yard line. NFL executive Troy Vincent said...
South Carolina's leading scorer Jackson heads to NBA draft
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina leading scorer Gregory “GG” Jackson II said Friday that he's entering the NBA draft after one season in college. The 6-foot-9 freshman said on Instagram Live that his year in college with the Gamecocks helped him mature. ...
Florida Atlantic makes first Elite Eight, bounces Tennessee
NEW YORK (AP) — When the horn sounded on the greatest victory in the history of Florida Atlantic athletics, Nick Boyd and Bryan Greenlee hopped onto the press row table to celebrate. Instead of going to the locker room, some of the Owls players made their way up into the stands to...
Women hope Sweet 16 next step to own March Madness TV deal
Women’s college basketball believes it has the makings for a hit reality TV show with star power driving a marketable product that has a growing audience. So they're taking the ensemble on the road for the Sweet 16. The NCAA changed the format of the tournament this...
Coaches' sons Hurley and Musselman to meet in Sweet 16
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Every day he wasn't out recruiting or away at a game, Bill Musselman wrote a message on his son's school lunch bag. Effort, energy, enthusiasm. The message and the relentless pursuit of perfection it implored served as the substratum of Eric...
Ed Cooley takes over at Georgetown with lofty aspirations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ed Cooley's task at Georgetown is to bring a once-storied program back to prominence in a competitive conference that has three teams still part of March Madness in the Sweet 16. Cooley's lofty aspirations go beyond lifting the Hoyas up from the bottom of the Big...
Sports gambling legislation advances in North Carolina House
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation authorizing and regulating sports gambling in North Carolina advanced through two more House committees on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for key chamber-wide votes next week. The finance and judiciary committees approved the measure one day...
For top-seeded Houston, basketball is a family affair
HOUSTON (AP) — Lauren Sampson remembers riding on the team bus in frigid winters as a preschooler during her father’s first head coaching job at Montana Tech, athletic tape affixed around the windows in a losing effort to stave off the cold. Her family told her the team’s...
Study: Most women's NCAA teams are still coached by men
Women comprised less than half the head coaching positions and just over half of the assistant coaching spots for women's college teams in the 2021-22 school year, according to a diversity study released Wednesday. Women held just 42% of head coaching positions of women’s teams in...
