Skip Myslenski

Corey Beck, the Arkansas guard, sat off by himself. Only 7 minutes 57 seconds remained in this Midwest Regional final, and once again his team found itself in a steel-cage...

Fall, in college basketball, symbolizes renewal. It is a time of hope, of sweet dreams, of potential blossomings, with a full season of endless possibilities ahead. But last fall, as...

Here is what Wisconsin-Green Bay coach Dick Bennett said Thursday about the vacant job at Wisconsin, which is reportedly interested in hiring him: "I'm not a candidate. Right now that's...

Great expectations draped Maryland at season's start. Absent from the rankings for a decade, it had finally resurrected itself in 1994 and returned to the NCAA tourney for the first...

Rebecca Lobo, Connecticut's All-American center, looks at the picture, reads the words on it, and then breaks out in hearty laughter. Not that she is unfamiliar with bizarre behavior. After...

On Saturday, college basketball's 302 Division I teams hold their first official, mandated-by-the-rulebook, no-worry-about-probation practices. At last. The sweet smell of that sport that offers up more characters than a...

To hear B.J. Armstrong tell it, home-court advantage is all but meaningless, even though most of the parties involved held it largely responsible for the Knicks' victories in Games 1...

West Regional Top-seed Missouri is driven by guard Melvin Booker, center Jevon Crudup and a bench deeper than coach Norm Stewart normally enjoys. Most prominent of those popping from that...

The exercise, all season long, has gone like this: Check the week's games. Note the teams that lost. Shuffle the deck. Deal. That transformed the list into an amoeba, an...

Gosh. Just for something different, let's see if anything weird happened last week in college basketball. Oh, yeah. Here's something. Back on Tuesday, No. 11 Massachusetts won at No. 8...