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As ‘avalanche’ hits NCAA and paying players debate continues, change is coming

[ad_1] With College Football Playoff expansion and NCAA men’s basketball tournament rights totaling $2.4 billion annually and women’s basketball’s most marketable player in history — Iowa’s Caitlin Clark — launching her sport to unprecedented television viewership, collegiate sports appear healthy, vibrant and lucrative. That goes for everyone except the participants. Questions are brewing from college…

Inside John Calipari’s move to Arkansas, in his own words

[ad_1] John Calipari sat in his hotel room in Phoenix on Friday when a close friend, John H. Tyson, reached out to discuss an important decision. People with knowledge of the conversation say Tyson, the billionaire chairman of Tyson Foods and a longtime major donor at the University of Arkansas, wanted to pick the Kentucky…

$No double-teams, no 3s: The UConn defensive math that strangled Purdue and won a title$

No double-teams, no 3s: The UConn defensive math that strangled Purdue and won a title

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Connecticut assistant coach Luke Murray went to sophomore center Donovan Clingan sometime in the middle of this season with a declaration. UConn was going to face Purdue in the national championship, and he’d better get familiar with Zach Edey. Murray and Clingan discussed how they would play the hypothetical matchup, and…

UConn stymies Purdue in title game, goes back-to-back

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — With exactly six minutes left in Monday night’s national championship game, UConn guard Tristen Newton zoomed a pass to a cutting Stephon Castle, who skipped past Zach Edey in the paint and laid in an ordinary layup. Except it was only ordinary in execution, because that basket put the Huskies up…

UConn’s desire to dominate is a sight to behold

[ad_1] Follow live coverage as UConn, Purdue play for the national championship today GLENDALE, Ariz. — Hassan Diarra brought his hand to his mouth, checking for blood. Alabama’s Rylan Griffen had caught him with a swinging elbow on a move to the basket in the waning moments of a game already decided. Now Diarra was…

Purdue stymies NC State, marches into championship game

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — The first time Zach Edey touched the ball Saturday afternoon, DJ Burns Jr. clenched his teeth and held his ground. There was just one issue when it came to Edey versus Burns: seven inches. Burns was too small for Edey, who could turn and shoot over Burns without issue. Edey scored…

UConn survives Alabama test, returns to national title game

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Tristen Netwon waited for the ball screen up top, then hit cutting big man Donovan Clingan down the lane for an emphatic dunk. The Connecticut bench exploded. Although it took longer than usual, the Huskies pulled away from Alabama on Saturday night to post an 86-72 win at State Farm Stadium.…

‘They’ve got the perfect team’: Anonymous coaches break down the Final Four matchups

[ad_1] The Athletic has live coverage of NC State vs. Purdue in the Final Four. All season it has felt like we were trending toward an epic national championship showdown between Connecticut and Purdue. Each team is one win away from making that happen, but tricky matchups await them in Glendale, Ariz. There’s NC State…

The adventures of Big Maple, Cling Kong and Beast Boy: Now playing at the Final Four

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — There’s a Japanese word for movies involving giant monsters: kaiju. Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra. You know, the kind of city-destroying mega-beasts entire armies struggle to contain. Audiences love the cartoonish carnage. And the only thing better than one kaiju is multiple kaiju, preferably fighting each other. “Godzilla x Kong” is the…

The tactical and practical choices that made DJ Burns Jr. the breakout star of March

[ad_1] DALLAS — DJ Burns Jr. had a rare moment when the lights and the cameras weren’t around on Saturday afternoon inside the America Airlines Center. NC State’s center was asked by reporters how he preferred to be defended: single-covered or doubled-teamed? “I prefer winning,” Burns said. “So however you come at me, I’m gonna…