Takeaways from an LSU win in Oxford
NCAA Basketball
2025-26 Bracketology: The Committee gave us answers, and the games gave us questions
The selection committee revealed its top 16, then we had more games, and everything got thrown into disarray
Justine Pissott didn’t plan for Vanderbilt, but now she couldn’t be anywhere else
Shea Ralph: The excellent three-point shooter ‘can make it from Chattanooga’
The Weekly Fast Break: Max effort and energy
Reveals, records & conference clashes
From I-95 to the Organ Mountains: Inside Delaware’s transition into Conference USA
Ella Wanzer: ‘I’m blessed to be able to play in a conference that’s this competitive’
Takeaways from a pivotal Ivy League back-to-back in New York
NEW YORK — At halftime of a game against then-No. 24 Princeton on Friday, Columbia head coach Megan Griffith told junior star Riley Weiss to get out. More specifically, “I told her to leave the locker room and come back in when she left her ego outside,” Griffith told reporters postgame. So Weiss left briefly […]
CAA notebook: Towson’s India Johnston made loyalty her legacy
When asked about India Johnston Towson’s fourth-year head coach Laura Harper didn’t hesitate. She responded with a smile, but there was a firmness in her voice, the kind a schoolteacher uses to stop side conversations cold. Harper leaned her 6-foot-4 frame forward, lowered her head and made her position clear. Forget diplomacy. “Let’s be clear, […]
How Malia ‘Pitt’ Samuels sparks defensive chaos for USC
Malia Samuels’ coaches and teammates often refer to her as “Pitt,” short for pitbull. She got the name at 14, when she was going head-to-head with 17-year-olds, fearless and feisty. It stuck. Now, she’s bringing that effort and intensity to a short-handed USC team, as a leader who has been on the court at the […]
BIG EAST notebook: The march to March, key storylines
UConn can clinch conference title this week
South Carolina’s composure, LSU’s missed chances define primetime showdown
Kim Mulkey: ‘We missed nine [free throws]. There’s the difference in the ballgame’
