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Penn 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 MoreEuroChallenge: Quarterfinal pairings now set
In what could have been a EuroChallenge statisticians nightmare had certain scenarios played out on Tuesday, things came together about as simple as they could have to finalize the last three slots of the EuroChallenge quarterfinals. Coming into Week 6 of the Last 16, seven teams still had opportunities to qualify for the quarterfinals, some…
Read MoreNCAA: Indiana one vote shy of unanimous #1
With a 24-3 overall record, 12-2 in Big Ten Conference play, the University of Indiana Hoosiers came one first place vote shy of a unanimous No. 1 selection in the Associate Press NCAA Top 25 Poll released on Monday. They also took 28 of 31 first place votes in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. Moving…
Read MoreItaly SerieA: FoxTown Cantu stops Varese
Italian SerieA leader Cimberio Varese suffered their second loss in three games on Sunday when FoxTown Cantu took an important home game for them, 67:60. The loss drops Varese to 16-4 and in a tie for the league lead with Banco di Sardegna Sassari, who won comfortably over Scavolini Banca Marche PU, 87:76. Cantu remains…
Read MoreNCAA: Wake Forest topples No. 2 Miami
The University of Miami has never been ranked as high as No. 2 in the NCAA, so they no doubt have been feeling some extra pressure the last week. For a team that wasn’t in the Top 25 until Week 12 (of 16), to get to No. 2 as quickly as they did was nothing…
Read MoreEuroleague: Anadolu rolls to seventh straight
As the Euroleague qualifier round concluded, Anadolu Efes sat in third place in their group with a 5-5 record. As the Top 16 began, they lost their first contest with CSKA Moscow, 90:71, and it wouldn’t be difficult to have written them off at that time. From that point though, the Turkish club has been…
Read MoreEuroleague: Maccabi Tel Aviv pounds Siena
Day 1 of Euroleague Week 8 had contrasting contests between the two groups on Thursday as the two games in Group F were massive blow-outs of 30+ points each, while the Group E games both came down to the final seconds. Coming into week 8 FC Barcelona Regal and Montepaschi Siena were tied at the…
Read MoreEuroCup: It’s now on to the Quarterfinals
The final matches of the EuroCup Last 16 are now complete and the quarterfinal pairings have been determined. Starting on March 6th with the first of two games between the eight clubs, the second place teams from the groups will get home games, then on March 13th the Last 16 group winners will play hosts…
Read MoreEuroChallenge: It all comes down to Week 6
With EuroChallenge Week 5 in the books, five clubs have their invitations to the quarterfinals and seven still have a shot at moving on. The group to watch is Group I as all four clubs are still alive, with only Pinar Karsiyaka the only team locked in, the other three all sit with 2-3 records.…
Read MoreChinese Basketball Association: Regular season round-up
China’s Basketball Calendar roughly parallels their zodiac calendar. By the first week of February, the Year of the Dragon concluded in China, and
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