🏀 At the buzzer
Top NCAA basketball teams fall in buzzer-beaters
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The parity shifts in women’s basketball (WBB) and men’s basketball (MBB) have created anarchy this season, and the past two days brought enough photo finishes to send your blood pressure through the roof.
February 23, 2024
⚖️ Crossover event
Stephen vs. Sabrina contest illustrates various benefits of NBA–WNBA collaboration
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Last Saturday’s Stephen vs. Sabrina 3-point challenge was the first formal competition between an NBA and WNBA player during All-Star Weekend. Seeing the athletes on equal footing proves we’re beyond the “Battle of the Sexes” dichotomy — fans simply want to see legends of the game compete, something that will help both leagues.
February 21, 2024
🏀 Missed connection
NBC misses historic opportunity to air Caitlin Clark in order to promote Peacock
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NBC has been enjoying the perks of the Caitlin Clark Effect, but when it came to airing her historic NCAA moment, the network didn’t put the game on linear television — a decision that not only cost them a larger audience, but also likely impeded the momentum of Clark’s popularity.
February 21, 2024
😡 Ex-Nebraska women’s basketball player groomed by coach
Former Nebraska women’s basketball player sues school and staff after a coach-initiated inappropriate relationship
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News broke Monday that former Nebraska women’s basketball player and current UNLV guard Ashley Scoggin is suing Nebraska’s board of regents as well as current and former athletic department staff for inappropriate actions taken after ex-assistant coach Chuck Love allegedly groomed and sexually abused her from 2021 to 2022.
February 21, 2024
🏀 The history
Legends of the Game: John Wooden
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John Wooden built an incredibly dominant program at UCLA but never lost sight of what truly mattered. Let’s dive into the late, great Wizard of Westwood.
February 20, 2024
🏀 More like UCan’t
The top three NCAA men’s basketball teams were pushed to their limits this week
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The long weekend saw plenty of unexpected NCAA men's basketball scorelines, but the last 48 hours took the cake.
February 20, 2024
🏀 The rest is still unwritten
Caitlin Clark breaks the all-time NCAA women’s scoring record
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No. 4 Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark is now the all-time NCAA women’s basketball leading scorer with a whopping 3,569 points, sealing the deal with a signature logo three while dropping a career-high 49 points in last night’s 106–89 win over Michigan.
February 16, 2024
🏀 Where’s Larry Bird when you need him?
Once-hot NCAA men’s basketball teams failed their heat checks this week.
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Basketball fully took center stage this week, and the NCAA men’s courts brought all the chaos.
February 14, 2024
🏀 Records are made to be broken
The “Caitlin Clark Effect” is in full-force as the No. 4 Iowa senior closes in on the NCAA women’s career scoring record
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Barring absolute disaster, No. 4 Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark will break the NCAA women’s basketball career scoring record in one of the sport’s most in-demand games ever — college or pro — when her Hawkeyes host Michigan tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET.
February 14, 2024
🏀 A guide to the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Weekend
🏀 A guide to the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Weekend
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This feature is the second in a season-long partnership with the NBA, where, alongside their REPRESENT campaign, we’ll be celebrating the next generation of Canadian NBA stars.
February 12, 2024
🏀 The history
Legends of the Game: Pat Summitt
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Since we’re spending today celebrating women, there’s no better place to start than with the late, great Pat Summitt — a winner in every sense of the word, a champion, a role model, and an inspiration to everyone who had the honor of crossing paths with her.
February 12, 2024