Skip Myslenski

It is only the third week of January, too early to speak of critical games and defeats crushing enough to alter a season. Still, the game DePaul lost 59-50 Saturday...

The only thing it has to fear is it itself. That is what a late-and-great president might have said about Wisconsin, which is No. 1 in the Big Ten and...

As the Big Ten churns . . . He arrived replete with enough superlatives to suffocate Superman. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe it's the memory of hearing Michigan State coach...

It can be as tempting as a pecan pie recently pulled from the oven. It also can be just as bad for you. That is the truth about the three-point...

A ruler is a measuring stick. The Pitt basketball team is not. The Panthers certainly could have been viewed that way on their Wednesday night visit to Allstate Arena, where...

This was late October, and Indiana guard Roderick Wilmont was discussing the aggressive approach new coach Kelvin Sampson was introducing. It was rooted in grit and willfulness, on marauding defenders...

He is a stock character in any coming-of-age movie. He may lack looks or money, muscles or manners or savoir faire, but no matter the failing, it is the reason...

One symbolic moment, and there were many, came with just more than six minutes gone in the second half. That's when Louisville guard Andre McGee dribbled down the left side...

It is always different once conference play begins. Coaches say this and so do the many inexplicable results. Suddenly, as if an unseen switch has been turned, the pressure is...

Its performance hardly approached perfection, which is the standard Bob Knight continually preaches. But while escaping with a 70-68 victory over New Mexico on Monday in Lubbock, Texas Tech often...