Bill Jauss

Illinois coach Theresa Grentz was asked a couple of questions last Sunday just after Tauja Catchings' buzzer-beating basket defeated Penn State and advanced the Illini into the Big Ten women's...

To some basketball purists, Indiana's Bob Knight and DePaul's Doug Bruno stooped to conquer last weekend. Both coaches, taught by some of the game's greatest teachers that man-to-man defense is...

When Susan Blauser played through pain and illness and helped Illinois win a critical game over Ohio State on Sunday, it reminded her coach, Theresa Grentz, of another center's inspirational...

Loyola coach Larry Farmer challenged his players Thursday night by suggesting that when they lost by 19 points at Detroit Mercy earlier this season, they demonstrated "borderline fear." And Farmer...

Most coaches commend a player who passes up an open look from three-point range and drives toward the basket to get into position for a closer shot. But when Wisconsin-Milwaukee's...

Dennie Bridges has coached the Illinois Wesleyan men's basketball team since 1965. He's had had 991 opportunities to tell his Titans, "Go out tonight and play hard for 40 minutes."...

When Michigan junior guard Stacey Thomas played high school ball for Flint Southwestern she once achieved a quadruple double: 32 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 20 steals, according to...

"The Tasmanian Devil in knee pads." That's what Ohio State coach Beth Burns calls Megan Chawansky, Northwestern's versatile, resourceful 5-foot-11-inch senior guard from Avon Lake, Ohio. Burns' description of Chawansky...

Tim Eatman, the first-year head coach at Illinois-Chicago, held an interesting get-together with his young team Sunday. Eatman gathered his players to watch Tennessee's victory over Connecticut on TV "to...

Briana Fitzgerald, a leading scorer and rebounder on DePaul's women's basketball team, could not shake the thought that she was in the right church, but the wrong pew. Just a...