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Articles Written by: JAKE CURTIS
Villanova was fourth in the Big East, but teams have finished worse in their conference and won the NCAA championship. North Carolina has six or seven future NBA players, but better teams than the Tar Heels have failed to win it all. Michigan State ...
The only two West Coast teams to make it to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament - Gonzaga and Arizona - were crushed like bugs in the third round, Gonzaga losing by 21 to North Carolina and Arizona falling by 39 to Louisville. It could be argued ...
A bigger issue is next season, because there is no reason to believe the Cardinal (20-14, 6-12 Pac-10) will be better and, in fact, might take another step backward.
Three of the team's starters - Lawrence Hill, Anthony Goods and Mitch Johnson - will ...
Madness begins: Today is the 30th anniversary of television's highest-rated basketball game, college or pro: the 1979 men's NCAA Tournament championship game between Indiana State, featuring Larry Bird, and Michigan State with Magic Johnson. The game, ...
From JAKE CURTIS, SCOTT OSTLER, JOHN CRUMPACKER,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 Mar 2009
Richard "Dick" Murray, a highly successful high school baseball coach in San Francisco and a member of the San Francisco Prep Hall of Fame as well as a longtime basketball official in the Pac-10, died March 16 of natural causes. He was 89.
Mr. Murray ...
Duke guard Nolan Smith still calls Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins "Uncle Johnny" even though the two parted ways when Dawkins moved cross country to accept his first head-coaching job.
Dawkins has been Uncle Johnny to Smith practically his entire life, ...
(03-24) 18:47 PDT --
For all the credit coaches get for their teams' postseason success, the simple fact is, the teams with the most talent usually advance the furthest in the NCAA Tournament.
The 24 teams in the past 12 national-championship games ...
(03-22) 21:29 PDT --
Stanford can claim its season lasted longer than Cal's, but the Cardinal's season will end too if it cannot handle the hostile crowd it will face in tonight's second-round College Basketball Invitational game at Wichita State.
The ...
When Siena failed to hold off Louisville, it meant that, for the first time since 1997, no so-called outsider had survived the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament.
Thirteen of the 16 remaining teams are from the six power conferences, and the other ...
The Cardinal players did their part by dominating Boise State, leading to a 96-76 Stanford victory in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational at Maples Pavilion.
Not many people were there to appreciate it, though.
At tip-off about 500 ...
