college basketball

The UAlbany Great Danes were the class of the America East last season, winning their conference tournament en route to an NCAA Tournament clash with Duke last March. Tonight, their accomplishments will be celebrated when their championship banner is raised to the rafters of SEFCU Arena prior to their game against NJIT.

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For the last three years, I've spent a very special weekend in March at the America East Basketball Championships, a multi-day marathon in which contained three straight days, four games in each day, and at least 24 hours of basketball. Now that fun is being taken away from America East fans starting in 2015, as the conference has elected to go to a high seed format.

Siena Saints coach Ali Jaques hopes her team will be ready for conference play when it starts up in late December. To that end the 2nd year head coach has scheduled a pretty good non-conference schedule to get her team ready. The Saints will play 9 non-conference games before the MAAC season begins play...

Andrew Wiggins will be dealing with some pretty outrageous pressure during his only first season with the Kansas Jayhawks. ESPN.com's Myron Medcalf named him the most indispensable player in the NCAA next season over such players as Marcus Smart and Doug McDermott despite the fact that they are men who have actually played college basketball before...

After graduating during the 2011-2012 men's basketball season, then-UAlbany shooting guard Logan Aronhalt was aware he still had one year of eligibility remaining, giving him a choice about whether or not he wanted to use it. Aronhalt went on to use his final year of eligibility under Mark Turgeon at the University of Maryland, and now it looks like the move paid off.

The last time we heard from the UAlbany Great Danes, they were making national pundits question the conference tournament system, winning conference championships, and competing with the Duke Blue Devils in the NCAA Tournament. Now we know when and where they'll be playing the first half of this season, as they have released their non-conference schedule.

Things seem to be on the upswing for the Siena Saints men's basketball team. After 3 years of what seemed to be stuck in neutral under the former head coach Mitch Buonaguro, new head coach Jimmy Patsos has things shakin and bakin a bit...

Earlier this month, we mentioned that Louisville basketball head coach Rick Pitino promised his team prior to the NCAA tournament that he'd get a tattoo if they won the national championship. Well, Pitino kept his promise. Rick Pitino said he’d get a tattoo if Louisville won the National Championship...

The 2013 NCAA Tournament was one full of upsets, clutch shots and other shining moments. Now that it is complete, we can sit back and enjoy the official highlight film of this year's tournament, One Shining Moment.

Louisville 82, Michigan 76 Reserve guard Luke Hancock scored 22 points, including making all five of his 3-point shot attempts, as Louisville beat Michigan, 82-76, in the 2013 NCAA basketball championship in Atlanta on Monday night. The victory gave Cardinals' head coach Rick Pitino a second national title in addition to the one he won at Kentucky in 1996, making him the first coach to win a men's

The NCAA basketball championship is tonight. It's the Big East against the Big 10 for the national title, as Louisville (33-5) meets Michigan (31-7) for the 2013 NCAA national championship in Atlanta.