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Zoom Diallo, UW Huskies top recruit, noncommittal about joining men’s team

A week after Washington hired new men's basketball coach Danny Sprinkle, it's uncertain if UW's top 2024 recruiting target Zoom Diallo is still committed to the Huskies. When asked about joining Washington next season, Diallo, a five-star prospect, was vague and noncommittal during a news conference before playing in Tuesday's McDonald's All-American Game. "I'm excited to take the step ...
Sports >  NCAA basketball

Commentary: The NCAA’s incompetence is an unfair stain on women’s basketball

Even now, the women’s NCAA basketball tournament, that ceiling-rupturing Roman candle of an event, is still being treated with a combination of incompetence and indifference by its stagers. Somebody, multiple people actually, didn’t care enough to make sure the Sweet 16 court in Portland had the right proportions. What else did they misdraw with such insulting lack of care? The world wonders. Don’t think for a second that small discrepancy in 3-point lines didn’t matter. Just because something is petty doesn’t make it unimportant. Actually, it’s all the more belittling.
Sports >  NCAA basketball

UConn storms into Final Four with breakout second half, 77-52 win over Illinois

BOSTON – UConn men’s basketball is storming back to the Final Four. The reigning national champs blasted third-seeded Illinois in the second half on Saturday, turning a five-point lead into 30 in a flash behind the dominance of Donovan Clingan, and advanced to the program’s seventh national semifinal, second in a row, with a 77-52 win in TD Garden. Illinois had no answer for Clingan on either ...