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Vincentian Academy grad Wise wins major student-athlete award at Indiana
Vincentian Academy grad Brenna Wise, a senior at Indiana, has been named one of the top five student-athletes in NCAA Division I women’s basketball. Wise was selected to the Senior CLASS Award first team, Indiana announced Tuesday. A two-year team captain, Wise has started every game for the Hoosiers over...
Iowa’s Spencer Lee wins Hodge Trophy, college wrestling’s Heisman
In a nearly unanimous vote, Iowa’s Spencer Lee was announced Monday as the winner of the Dan Hodge Trophy, college wrestling’s version of the Heisman Trophy. Lee, a junior from Franklin Regional, received 52 of 57 first-place votes. Lee went 18-0 and was the top seed at 125 pounds for...
NCAA weighs more eligibility for sports cut short by virusVideo
The NCAA Division I Council is scheduled to vote Monday on whether to allow another year of eligibility for spring sport athletes such as baseball, softball and lacrosse players, who had their seasons wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic. Providing similar relief to winter sport athletes, such as basketball and...
Three UPJ wrestlers from WPIAL win all-PSAC honors
Pitt-Johnstown’s wrestling team lost out on a legitimate chance at a team title when the NCAA Division II national championships were canceled due to coronavirus. Three of its top wrestlers, all WPIAL graduates, received some consolation Thursday in the form of a postseason award. Brendan Howard, Jacob Ealy and Chris...
Iowa’s Spencer Lee named NCAA’s most dominant wrestler
By any measure, Iowa’s Spencer Lee has been one of the most dominant athletes in college wrestling this season. On Tuesday, the NCAA made it official. Lee, a Franklin Regional graduate, was named winner of the Most Dominant Wrestler award for Division I. Lee went 18-0 in matches against Division...
Kansas tops final AP Top 25 pollVideo
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Bill Self spent much of the past week mulling ways to commemorate one of the more remarkable seasons in the school’s proud basketball history, one that began with off-the-court distractions too numerous to count and ended in the unprecedented cancellation of the NCAA Tournament. The...
Plum Hall of Famer Kristy Trn earns PSAC basketball coaching honor
Kristy Trn is no stranger to success, but the longtime coach of the Shippensburg women’s basketball team is not used to a rebuilding project. Trn faced one after the 2016-17 season, when the Raiders won 24 games, reached the PSAC Tournament semifinals and earned a berth in the NCAA Division...
NCAA cancels men’s, women’s basketball tournaments
March Madness came to a screeching halt before a bracket could even be filled out. The NCAA canceled its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments Thursday because of the spread of coronavirus, putting an abrupt end to the season less than a month before champions were to be crowned. The unprecedented...
Northern Kentucky repeats as Horizon champs, heads to NCAA TournamentVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — Tyler Sharpe scored 16 points, and Jalen Tate added 14 on Tuesday, helping Northern Kentucky beat UIC, 71-62, to lock up its second straight Horizon League Tournament title and earn another trip to the NCAA Tournament. The second-seeded Norse (23-9) will make their third appearance in four seasons...
Duke’s Tre Jones earns ACC Player of Year honorsVideo
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The ACC on Monday named Duke guard Tre Jones as the league’s player of the year and its defensive player of the year and Leonard Hamilton of regular-season champion Florida State as coach of the year. Jones, a sophomore, is averaging 16.2 points and 6.4 assists for...
Iowa’s Luke Garza earns Big Ten honor; Penn State’s Lamar Stevens makes 1st teamVideo
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Iowa center Luka Garza is the Big Ten Player of the Year after emerging as one of the nation’s best players this season, and Wisconsin’s Greg Gard took coach of the year honors in voting announced Monday. Garza leads the Big Ten in scoring and ranks fifth...
Division III NCAA Tournament game played in empty gym because of coronavirus fearsVideo
BALTIMORE — In what was believed to be the first U.S. sports event held without fans because of the new coronavirus, Yeshiva beat Worcester Polytechnic Institute in a Division III men’s basketball NCAA Tournament game Friday in an empty gym at Johns Hopkins. Players on each team’s bench cheered and...
After Big 3, SEC loaded with NCAA Tournament bubble teamsVideo
The SEC has three teams that should be locks for the NCAA Tournament. The rest of the conference has work to do. No. 11 Auburn (22-3) climbed as high as No. 5 in the AP Top 25 and was among the top 16 seeds in the NCAA’s preliminary rankings earlier...
Northern Iowa reverses course, will pay $10k winner full prizeVideo
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The sponsor of a halftime basketball shooting promotion at Northern Iowa games reversed course in the face of growing criticism and will pay out the full $10,000 to a contestant who competed earlier this week. A public outcry was swelling since the Wednesday night contest, when...
Ohio State football back on top of Big Ten recruiting heapVideo
Ohio State is back on top in Big Ten recruiting, with Ryan Day wrapping up his first full signing class Wednesday with a letter of intent from the two-time Michigan high school player of the year. Michigan, Penn State and Nebraska followed the Buckeyes in the Big Ten composite rankings...
ACC recruiting: Miami lands No. 2 safety in nation in surprise signing day moveVideo
Avantae Williams was committed to Miami three years ago, then decommitted, then seemed like he would be headed to Florida. And then he pulled off a signing-day shocker Wednesday. Williams, the No. 2 safety in the nation according to most rankings, is headed to Miami after all as a capper...
Washington State’s Anthony Gordon leads North over South in Senior BowlVideo
MOBILE, Ala. — Washington State quarterback Anthony Gordon is used to waiting his turn. Gordon, who didn’t start until his senior year, led the North to three touchdowns in the third quarter in a 31-17 victory over the South in the Senior Bowl on Saturday. The Cougars’ prolific passer entered...
Oregon’s Justin Herbert, other top quarterbacks on display at Senior BowlVideo
MOBILE, Ala. — Jalen Hurts and Shea Patterson started for Power 5 programs, Justin Herbert passed for 10,000-plus yards for another and Jordan Love became a highly rated prospect without playing for one. The Senior Bowl quarterbacks followed different paths to potential NFL careers, but they started this week on...
LSU rewards Ed Orgeron with 6-year, $42 million contract extensionVideo
BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU coach Ed Orgeron agreed to a contract extension worth more than $7 million annually that runs through the 2026 season, the university announced Friday. The six-year agreement comes on the heels of the Tigers’ 15-0 national championship season that concluded earlier this month with a...
Clemson can join elite group by beating LSU for College Football Playoff championshipVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has this drill down. The Sunday before the College Football Playoff championship game a news conference is held with the head coaches. They compliment each other’s team and talk about focus and preparation. After, they shake hands and pose for photographs with the...
Why Clemson Wins: Defensive coordinator Brent Venables can slow LSU, BurrowVideo
NEW ORLEANS — No. 1 LSU has been unstoppable this season but the top-ranked team in the nation hasn’t faced Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables this season. It is a given that in prepping for the College Football championship game Venables spent plenty of long, dizzying nights in his meeting...
Sources: Former Pine-Richland and Notre Dame quarterback Phil Jurkovec commits to Boston College
Phil Jurkovec wasn’t a free agent for long. Three days after his name appeared in the NCAA transfer portal, the Pine-Richland graduate and former Notre Dame quarterback will enroll at Boston College, two sources confirmed. Jurkovec committed to Boston College coach Jeff Hafley on his visit Saturday. Jurkovec was one...
North Dakota State tops QB DiNucci, James Madison for FCS national championshipVideo
FRISCO, Texas — Now this was a perfect ending for North Dakota State, with its redshirt freshman quarterback and the senior safety in his final game after first wanting to be a Bison quarterback. Trey Lance ran for 166 yards, with a clutch 44-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, and...
North Allegheny grads Ehling, McGrath make impact for Princeton swimming
North Allegheny graduate John Ehling has been a pleasant surprise as a freshman on the Princeton men’s swimming team. “He’s developing into a solid distance swimmer,” Tiger coach Matt Crispino said. “We expect he’ll make some big contributions down the stretch.” Crispino said Ehling, the WPIAL Class AAA silver medalist...
Poll shows Americans favor endorsement money for NCAA athletesVideo
As the NCAA grapples with how to provide athletes opportunities to be compensated for their fame, about two-thirds of Americans support college players being permitted to earn money for endorsements. That is according to a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Support for the NCAA allowing...
