Big East Conference

New Rutgers athletic director addresses hiring controversy

2013-06-05 14:35:00

New Rutgers Athletic Director Julie Hermann sure didn’t sound like someone who was going to lose her job�during�a Wednesday news conference on the New Jersey campus. Hermann, recently hired away from Louisville, met with reporters�to address...

Power conferences in college football gain even more strength

2013-04-25 17:45:00

College football commissioners were going to end their three-day unity conference in Pasadena with a round of "Kumbaya" at the hotel's valet carport. That was before the consulting firm that dreamed up "College Football Playoff" suggested something more...

NCAA Tournament: Syracuse topples top-seeded Indiana, 61-50

2013-03-28 21:20:00

WASHINGTON -- It took winning a national title for Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim to get over a late-shot loss to Indiana the last time the schools faced off in the NCAA tournament. This meeting, 26 years later, was never close enough to come down to the...

NCAA Tournament: Florida Gulf Coast takes down No. 2 Georgetown

2013-03-22 18:25:00

� PHILADELPHIA -- Florida Gulf Coast sure made an entrance at the NCAA tournament. A school that hasn't even celebrated its first 20-year reunion yet, and is in just its second season of being eligible for Division I postseason, busted a load of...

NCAA women's basketball final: Can Louisville beat UConn?

2013-04-09 08:00:00

Louisville is a No. 5 seed that beat a No. 1 seed (defending champion Baylor) and a pair of twos (Tennessee and California) on its way to a date with another No. 1 seed, women's basketball powerhouse Connecticut, in the NCAA championship game Tuesday...

Michigan-Louisville NCAA title game: Gratitude adjustment required

2013-04-08 00:00:00

ATLANTA — Michigan will have three or four thank-you notes to hand out should it win Monday night's national championship game against Louisville at the Georgia Dome. It can start with Penn State, which beat the Wolverines by 14 points in State...

Rutgers basketball scandal: Tim Pernetti is the wrong fall guy

2013-04-06 11:09:00

It appears in the aftermath of Mike Rice getting fired as Rutgers basketball coach for his abusive behavior toward players and Tim Pernetti being subsequently forced to resign as athletic director over the fiasco, that university President Robert Barchi...

NCAA Final Four: Syracuse vs. Michigan

2013-04-05 22:00:00

SYRACUSE Starters P; Ht.; Wt.; Statistics F; C.J. Fair; 6-6; 215; 14.3 ppg F; James Southerland; 6-8; 215; 13.5 ppg C; Rakeem Christmas; 6-9; 242; 4.6 rpg G; Brandon Triche; 6-4; 210; 13.7 ppg G; Michael Carter-Williams; 6-6; 185; 12.1 ppg...

Rutgers makes it official: Tim Pernetti out as athletic director

2013-04-05 10:51:00

Tim Pernetti, a Rutgers graduate and former Scarlet Knights football player, has resigned as athletic director, university President Robert Barchi announced during a news conference Friday. After two days of public outcry over the abusive behavior of...

Mike Rice fired as Rutgers coach after airing of practice video

2013-04-03 08:34:00

Mike Rice was fired as the Rutgers basketball coach Wednesday, one day after ESPN aired a video that showed him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players and directing anti-gay slurs toward them during practice. Rutgers Athletic Director Tim...

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...

Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw sits down with WSBT Sports Director Pete Byrne after ND's 1st Big East Conference Tournament championship in March.

2013-05-29 20:45:00

UConn celebrates after beating Notre Dame Sunday in the Big East tournament championship game.

2013-05-26 00:00:00

UConn junior Anthony Marzi, starting on two days' rest, pitched a four-hitter in the Big East tournament championship game victory over Notre Dame on Sunday.

2013-05-26 00:00:00