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Two young NCAA hoops stars have pulled ahead in the race for Player of the Year

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Two youngsters are pulling ahead in the race for the sport’s highest individual honor.

March 05, 2025

Last week of NCAA men’s basketball regular season promises rivalry matchups

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Who's chilling during the last week of the regular season?

March 03, 2025

JuJu Watkins pulls ahead in Player of the Year race as regular season ends

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And the award for Best Drama goes to...

March 03, 2025

Bizarre night in college hoops sets up thrilling regular-season finale

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Last night featured all sorts of bizarre score lines as teams careen towards the postseason

February 28, 2025

The puck drops on NCAA women’s ice hockey conference championships

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The small bracket makes the hunt for the natty extra-spicy from the beginning

February 28, 2025

Major shakeups in NCAA women’s and men’s basketball polls as regular-season finales near

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The latest AP Polls reflect the parity on both the women’s and men’s sides.

February 26, 2025

Thursday slate of NCAA women’s basketball matchups can clinch tourney seeds

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An elite midweek slate awaits.

February 26, 2025

College

Where the Power conferences sit a week before NCAA women’s basketball conference tourneys

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February 24, 2025

On the line? Regular-season titles and seeding for next week’s conference tourneys.

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The GIST of It Podcast

Ep #454

It’s PWHL expansion time

April 24, 2025

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It’s happening!

The PWHL is officially growing. Yesterday, the upstart pro women’s hockey league announced it’s expanding to Vancouver for the 2025-26 season, delighting local fans who turned out in massive numbers during the PWHL Takeover Tour’s stop in the city.

On this episode of The GIST of It, co-hosts Steph Rotz and Lauren Tuiskula dig into why Vancouver was chosen as the league’s first expansion team and what that means for the future of the PWHL. Let’s do that hockey.

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