College Sports
A look at Veldman’s recent commitment and York’s new football coach.
Iowa superstar’s three-point prowess provides us all with something to admire.
Monday’s highly anticipated matchup was a rematch of last year’s national championship game won by LSU.
Davis infamously retired during halftime of a game in 2018.
Since 1990, there have only been three Final Fours — 2021, 2007 and 1995 — in which a team didn’t have an Illinois player on scholarship.
“Are you asking me should we slip?” Underwood fired back when that very inquiry was made after his team’s 77-52 loss to the Huskies on Saturday. “Shame on you. Hell, we’re not going anywhere.”
The Boilermakers got 40 points and 16 rebounds from Edey, who put his team on his back and put a size-20 foot down in unforgettable fashion in a 72-66 victory against Tennessee.
Bruising big man DJ Burns Jr. scored a season-high 29 points as the 11th-seeded Wolfpack continued their improbable run.
The Tide will face defending national champion UConn in Glendale, Arizona, on Saturday.
The 72-66 win in the Regional Final gives coach Matt Painter his first Final Four and the Boilermakers’ first trip to the Final Four since 1980.
The Illini went into halftime down five, but the Huskies proved their opponents are never as close as they seem, going on an astonishing 30-0 run.
If there is a team in the tournament with the confidence and skill to give UConn a run for its money, it just might be the Illini. That confidence was bolstered when they beat Iowa State in an uncharacteristic way Thursday.
As the Illini go deeper in March Madness, more and more of our readers are tuning in — and some of them are only beginning to learn about Terrence Shannon Jr.’s case and consider how it makes them feel to cheer the team on.
The third-seeded Beavers (27-7) will face overall top seed South Carolina or Indiana on Sunday.
A look back at last year’s transfer-portal rankings shows Domask wasn’t even among the top 50 transfer prospects on many lists. Luckily for the Illini, coach Brad Underwood doesn’t recruit based on college basketball pundits’ rankings.
Despite getting into foul trouble, which limited him to just six minutes in the second half, Shannon finished with 29 points, five rebounds and two assists.
The Chicago native has been silent due to advice from his legal counsel, which the Illini basketball player sought after being charged in an alleged sex assault in a bar in Kansas.
This year, to continue making history, the Illini will have to get past No. 2-seeded Iowa State.
Illinois or Iowa State? Purdue or Gonzaga? We’ve got your winners right here, pal.
“We had several instances of some kind of racial hate crimes toward our program and (it was) incredibly upsetting for all of us,” Utes coach Lynne Roberts said.
Departing star got Wildcats into winning habits — can younger players keep it up?
Nothing says ego, entitlement and status like a furious diatribe from a coach at a news conference about a piece of unseen journalism. And nothing guarantees more viewers of the alleged upcoming story.
Buie finished with nine points, shooting 2-for-15 from the field and going 5-for-5 from the free-throw line.
When Underwood says this Illini team might be his favorite of all he has coached, it’s a real mouthful — old-fashioned relationship-building being a relic as a concept.
“We know we’re the underdog, and that makes us more confident because we don’t have anything to lose,” Brooks Barnhizer said. “We have always been the underdog. It definitely gives us a little experience going into the game.”
Terrence Shannon Jr. went off for another 30, but the team’s 50-point first-half explosion featured the team’s full arsenal. While fans brace for a monster matchup with East No. 2 seed Iowa State, they should give coach Brad Underwood some love.
Those were two of the questions in this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the site formerly known as Twitter.
Staley led the Gamecocks to another undefeated regular season, a feat few pundits thought possible.
The 11th-seeded Dukes are all hands, disruption and chaos at the defensive end of the floor.
It’s clear Illini coach Brad Underwood has questioned Dainja’s fit this season. But he can’t turn away from Dainja now.