Gorgui Dieng

It's full speed ahead as Louisville beats Michigan for NCAA title

2013-04-08 23:14:00

ATLANTA — Scoring is down, players leave early and the best action on television today is still probably 1980s replays of the Atlantic Coast Conference. For one Monday night, though, college basketball stood history on its head and produced high-...

NCAA Final Four: Wichita State vs. Louisville

2013-04-05 22:01:00

WICHITA STATE Starters P; Player; Ht; Wt; Statistics G; Ron Baker; 6-3; 218; 8.6 ppg F; Cleanthony Early; 6-8; 215; 13.7 ppg F; Carl Hall; 6-8; 238; 6.9 rpg G; Tekele Cotton; 6-4; 202; 6.4 ppg G; Malcolm Armstead; 6-0; 205; 10.9 ppg...

For Louisville, injury leads to inspiration in NCAA win over Duke

2013-03-31 20:55:00

Tears are part of the NCAA tournament. They flow when teams win and flow when they lose. The tears shed for Louisville guard Kevin Ware on Sunday, though, were different. They almost spontaneously gushed in response to Ware's gruesome leg break during...

NCAA tournament: Louisville turns back Oregon, 77-69

2013-03-29 18:35:00

INDIANAPOLIS -- Louisville survived its first test. Russ Smith matched his career high with 31 points to lead three Cardinals in double figures, and top-seeded Louisville showed it can win close games, too, beating Oregon,77-69, on Friday night. Kevin...

Who does Vegas favor tonight? And other tidbits on the NCAA men's basketball tourney

2013-04-08 16:24:05

National championship game features Michigan vs. Louisville

2013-04-06 22:22:00

ATLANTA -- Luke Hancock came off the bench to score 20 points, walk-on Tim Henderson sparked a second-half rally with a pair of monster three-pointers and Louisville advanced to the NCAA title game Saturday night, escaping with a 72-68 victory over...

Final Four set after blowouts and another surprise

2013-04-01 06:23:00

ATLANTA (AP) — After a season of uncertainty, there's a clear favorite heading to the Final Four. The Louisville Cardinals. While the other No. 1s have fallen by the wayside, the top overall seed romped to the Georgia Dome with four dominant...

College Basketball: Siva dominates Louisville's NCAA-opening win, if not the scoring column

2013-03-22 08:26:00

LEXINGTON — Peyton Siva showed how to dominate a game without scoring in the first 20 minutes Thursday. The Louisville point guard did not got his first bucket until there were 2 minutes, 36 seconds left in the first half. But by that time, he...

Louisville coach Rick Pitino watches his Kentucky Derby horse train

2013-05-01 14:06:00

On Wednesday at Churchill Downs, a crowd clad mainly in Louisville basketball shirts gathered at Barn 45 to watch Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino as he visited a horse of which he owns five percent. Pitino, a month removed from becoming the...

Highs And Lows Of UConn's Memorable Season

2013-03-16 07:58:00

On Oct. 11, the day of the Husky Run, Kevin Ollie said he wanted teams to walk off the court after playing the Huskies and ask themselves, "Why do they play so hard? They have no postseason to play for; why are they playing so hard?" Right to the end,...

Syracuse Claws Out Win Over Pitt

2013-03-14 21:16:49

It was an old-fashioned physical battle, the type of game that epitomized the rich history of the Big East Conference. And when it ended, Syracuse was left standing with a 62-57 battle-scarred win over Pittsburgh in the quarterfinals of the tournament on...

Napier Named To All-Big East First Team

2013-03-10 18:37:34

Once again, things changed for UConn when Shabazz Napier emerged. It wasn't 35 minutes into the game this time, it wasn't in overtime — it was 35 minutes before. "We got our ace back," R.J. Evans said. And when the Huskies had their ace on the...

Louisville center Gorgui Dieng blocks a shot by Wichita State guard Fred Van Vleet in the second half of their Final Four game Saturday night at the Georgia Dome.

2013-04-06 00:00:00

Louisville Cardinals center Gorgui Dieng, who had 16 rebounds, gets tangled with UConn's Tyler Olander.

2013-01-14 00:00:00