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Euroleague and Adriatic League reach agreement
Following the recent communication confirming that the 2012-13 ABA League Bylaws contradict the previously approved 2012-13 Euroleague Bylaws regarding the qualification criteria for clubs coming from the ABA League to participate in the 2013-14 Euroleague, Euroleague Basketball has worked together with the ABA League to find a solution. The solution is to be applied only…
Read MoreNCAA: Gonzaga takes over the No. 1 poll spot
Gonzaga University isn’t the typical NCAA powerhouse basketball team that people think about when they start putting thoughts into March Madness brackets, yet anyone who’s paid attention to collegiate basketball in the US has heard of them. They don’t have multiple Final Four appearances, they don’t have National Championship banners flying in the McCarthy Athletic…
Read MoreVideo: Heads up play by Khalil Edney wins ‘ship
Over the last 3:50 in the New York State Section 1 Class AA high school championship game New Rochelle had outscored their opponents from Mount Vernon 9:1 to get within two points, 58:60, with just 2.9 seconds left on the clock. New Rochelle had one last chance at winning the game as they had the…
Read MoreLiga Endesa: Five of top eight teams fall
While there’s still a lot of basketball to play in Spain’s Liga Endesa, when five of the top eight teams lose in any particular week, it’s not difficult to predict that the last few weeks of the regular season are going to be interesting. With only eight of 18 teams making the playoffs, 13 teams…
Read MoreAdriatic League: Two clinch spots in semifinals
With only three weeks remaining in the 2012-13 Adriatic League, the battle for the four playoff spots is now down to just six teams and two spots, as the top two have already been booked. Radnicki’s 78:63 win over Buducnost VOLI on Saturday split the two from a tie in the No. 3 spot, keeping…
Read MoreEuroleague: Nenad Krstic named Week 9 MVP
He was the 2011-12 All-Euroleague First Team center and on Friday Nenad Krstic showed again why. The CSKA Moscow big man not only put up the best numbers of any player in Top 16 Game 9, but he did so at the most important times in the game to pave the way to an 80-65…
Read MoreEuroleague: Panathinaikos halts Efes streak
The excitement of close games was all spent on Day 1 of the Euroleague Week 9, as Day 2 provided three games, all with differences topping 13 or more. The game of the day, Panathinaikos Athens against Top 16 surprise club Anadolu Efes, ended with the Greens putting an end to Anadolu’s seven-game Top 16…
Read MoreEuroleague: Brose takes Madrid to the buzzer
Euroleague Week 9 got off to a dramatic start as three of five contests were decided by fewer than four points. Winless Brose led for more than half their game with Real Madrid before falling 76:73 on a Dontaye Draper triple at the buzzer. Barcelona Regal held off BC Khimki Moscow Region, 71:69, to extend…
Read MorePenn State win over Michigan stops skid at 18
The No. 4 Michigan Wolverines have been involved in the breaking of some of the longest streaks in college basketball this season. After running the table on their non-conference schedule and winning their first three Big Ten Conference games, the Maize and Blue traveled to Columbus, Ohio to take on Ohio State Jan. 13th armed…
Read MoreNCAA: Rutgers’ Vivian Stringer gets 900th Win
C. Vivian Stringer, who has been coaching women’s collegiate basketball for 42 years, starting at Cheyney State College (PA) in 1972 and currently in her 18th season at Rutgers, picked up win number 900 on Tuesday when her club downed South Florida, 68:56. Stringer joins six others in NCAA Division 1 history to have recorded…
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