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Green Bay women beat Purdue Fort Wayne 76-63 for back-to-back Horizon League Tournament titles
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Natalie McNeal scored 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds as top-seeded Green Bay beat No. 2 seed Purdue Fort Wayne 76-63 on Tuesday to claim back-to-back Horizon League Tournament championships. Green Bay (29-5) extended its winning streak to 22 games, the longest since rattling off 24 in the 2012-23 season. Green Bay ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Houston paces AP Big 12 honors again, Kelvin Sampson repeats as top coach and LJ Cryer top player
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
Houston’s Kelvin Sampson is The Associated Press Big 12 coach of the year for the second year in a row and Cougars guard LJ Cryer is the league’s top player after another regular-season conference title for the second-ranked program. Texas Tech sophomore JT Toppin was named the newcomer of the year Tuesday and was a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crass or cool, awesome or eyesore: Big 12 Tournament’s logo’d court makes a statement either way
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark wanted the league’s postseason tournament to reflect his idealized version of the league — young, hip, upscale and current — and that spilled like a bucket of paint onto the floor this week. Goodbye, clean and traditional hardwood. Welcome, a court emblazoned with hundreds of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!From South Africa to Canada, Alan Koch looks to make a difference as a soccer coach
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
New Zealand to Guelph, Ont., is quite the commute, especially when the family home is in B.C. But for veteran soccer coach Alan Koch, it’s normal. Koch, whose resume includes stops in Major League Soccer and the Canadian Premier League, as well as coaching a young Alphonso Davies, has made the University of Guelph men’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stephen Curry announced as investor in Unrivaled 3-on-3 women’s basketball league
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
Steph Curry was announced as an investor in Unrivaled on Monday, adding to a long list of high-profile stars to align with the startup 3-on-3 women’s basketball league. The four-time NBA champion’s investment was included in Unrivaled’s oversubscribed Series A investment round in December, in which the league said it secured more than $28 million ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tchouaméni downplays boos by Real Madrid fans and turns attention to Atletico
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
MADRID (AP) — Aurélien Tchouaméni can definitely hear the boos from the Real Madrid crowd. He is not really listening to them, though. The France midfielder has being doing his best to turn the cheers into applause after a tough stretch and has been playing well going into Madrid’s decisive Champions League match against city ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jason Day reunites with father figure and swing coach Colin Swatton
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The biggest change Jason Day made this year was a series of text messages and phone calls with Colin Swatton, his longtime coach who was a father figure to him when Day was 12. They had stopped working together seven years ago, but toward the end of last year, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Collin Morikawa is reminded by tough losses that winning on the PGA Tour is hard
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It’s hard to win on the PGA Tour, a sentiment usually heard from players when they are sitting next to the trophy and realize what it took to get there. Collin Morikawa keeps getting reminded after some painful losses. The player who won five times on the PGA Tour ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Higher interest in youth level leading to rapid increase of Division III women’s hockey programs
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
MILWAUKEE (AP) — When Baylee Marabella got interested in ice hockey while growing up in Wisconsin, she had to play alongside boys up until high school because she couldn’t find a girls team in her area. That isn’t as much of a problem in hockey hotbeds such as Wisconsin anymore with a steady increase in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Purdue’s Braden Smith is AP’s Big Ten player of the year, Izzo is top coach, Tonje newcomer of year
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
Braden Smith of Purdue was named the Associated Press Big Ten player of year on Tuesday, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo the coach of the year and Wisconsin’s John Tonje the newcomer of the year. Smith continued the Boilermakers’ hold on the top individual honor after Zach Edey won it the past two seasons. Smith backed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!TCU’s Hailey Van Lith is AP women’s basketball player of the week
By Canadian Press on March 11th, 2025
The Associated Press national player of the week in women’s college basketball for Week 18 of the season: Hailey Van Lith, TCU The graduate student guard averaged 21 points and 4.7 assists and shot 52.9% from the field to help TCU win its first Big 12 title. She earned Most Outstanding Player of the tournament ... Read More »
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