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Byline: Bill Beckner Dec. 30Back from a 10-day break, Saint Vincent knocked off the rust and helped longtime men's basketball coach D.P. Harris to a milestone victory. Harris chalked up [...]

Byline: Chuck Curti Nov. 3When Chandler McCabe flew to Pittsburgh in March to be introduced as Robert Morris' women's basketball coach, it snowed. Welcome to Western Pennsylvania, Florida girl. But [...]

Byline: Kareem Copeland Shyanne Sellers stood with teammates in the corner of Xfinity Center on Wednesday night and did a little dance, mimicking drum riffs as she bounced to the [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY Eight NBA teams start the 2024-25 season with a different coach than they had to start last season. Doc Rivers took over the Milwaukee Bucks [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver LAS VEGAS - Before Steve Kerr and Stephen Curry could begin their month-long chase for gold at the Paris Olympics, the decorated NBA coach and his two-time [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY; Staff The day of the sportswriting event has ended. The pros have figured out that they don't need to give their stories to someone else in order [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore BOSTON - Once he stopped celebrating the crowning achievement of his coaching life, Dan Hurley began grappling with it. The national championship he won last April at [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver LOS ANGELES - Nate Oats has built Alabama into a menâs basketball power with a clear philosophy: be the âmost prepared coachâ who leads the âmost prepared [...]

Byline: John Feinstein PITTSBURGH - It has been nearly seven years since Greg Kampe almost died. Thursday night, he will coach in the first round of the NCAA menâs basketball [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell and Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY BATON ROUGE, La. - When Kim Mulkey left the women's basketball powerhouse at Baylor in April 2021 to take the job at [...]

Byline: Justin Guerriero Mar. 17Results for the past three years have been substandard for John Calipari and the Kentucky basketball team. The NCAA's winningest men's basketball program of all-time, Kentucky [...]

Arthur Dukes Jr. played in pickup basketball games whenever he could, which is why he showed up for an open-gym session at Public School 92 in Harlem one evening last [...]

Byline: Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY Geno Auriemma has entered elite company, earning his 1,200th win when his UConn Huskies beat Seton Hall 67-34 in a Big East women's basketball [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY The one word you never imagined associating with Bob Huggins is pity. The man who grew up in a trailer with six siblings in [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer MIAMI - Erik Spoelstra has an uncanny radar for confrontation. He finds it everywhere and culls it from everything, including praise. The man refuses to back down. [...]

Byline: Candace Buckner BOSTON - The expectations for a Boston Celtics title run are evident around TD Garden. The most visible reminder has to be the big, bold billboard plastered [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, Columnist, USA TODAY At the start of every NBA season, when asked to make preseason predictions for individual awards, out of reflex, I type 'Erik Spoelstra.' He [...]

Byline: Candace Buckner After Sunday, a referendum probably will be decided on the reputations and futures of multiple NBA coaches. If the Philadelphia 76ers lose in Game 7, wasting a [...]

After a middling season at the University of San Diego, Joey Calcaterra, a guard, transferred to UConn and Sam Scholl, the head coach, was hired as a basketball adviser by [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Apr. 1There were a lot of players and coaches who put in plenty of time on the basketball court this season to be the best they could [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Mar. 31There were a lot of players and coaches who put in plenty of time on the basketball court this season to be the best that they [...]

Byline: Candace Buckner GREENVILLE, S.C. - While wearing the champions' hat, with blue and red confetti sticking to her Louis Vuitton jump suit, Dawn Staley took the microphone and flexed [...]

Assistant coaches usually move on after a few seasons. Not Dailey, Connecticut's associate head coach, who sticks to a routine and brings balance to the bench. STORRS, Conn. -- Chris [...]

Byline: Gene Wang WASHINGTON - Ed Cooley was nearing the end of an energetic and charismatic introductory news conference when the new coach of the Georgetown men's basketball team made [...]

Byline: John Feinstein ALBANY, N.Y. - Rick Pitino didn't take long to leave the court Friday evening after Connecticut blew his Iona team out in the second half of a [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer SACRAMENTO - Dennis Gates, the calmest person in the arena, didn't submit to emotion until he was out of sight. When the game ended with a 76-65 [...]

Byline: Chuck Culpepper Amid the everyday, socially accepted madness of a mad, mad culture, a Cornell men's basketball coach in March 2010 fielded a call from a populous Midwestern school [...]

Byline: Chuck Culpepper COLUMBIA, S.C. - Here in the happy empire, the waitress learns you've traveled in and wonders which side you're on for the colossus of a game upcoming. [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY The $86 million marriage between the University of Kentucky and John Calipari no longer works. Everyone can see that, right? After nearly 14 seasons, [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Jan. 20The talk is way, way premature, and Jeff Capel and his players don't want to hear it. But in recent days, there have been more than [...]

Byline: John Feinstein In March of 2015, Notre Dame played Northeastern in a first-round NCAA tournament men's game in Pittsburgh. The game came down to a final possession, Notre Dame [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo Deep into December three years ago, the Maryland men's basketball team trudged through an abysmal offensive performance against Seton Hall. The Terrapins, who entered that season with [...]

Byline: John Feinstein DURHAM, N.C. - It was 6:50 p.m. Monday night when Jon Scheyer walked onto the court where he 'grew up,' as he put it later. This time, [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo The banners in Maryland's basketball arena are reminders of the program's history and potential. They also are the expectations hanging over each practice and every game. This [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo MINNEAPOLIS - When Kevin Willard took the job as the Maryland men's basketball coach in March, he lauded the program's history and spoke of his memories of [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer For Jason Kidd, Luka Doncic isn't merely the superstar every NBA coach needs to chase glory. Doncic is an equal, a modern basketball prodigy to match wits [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY Los Angeles Clippers coach Ty Lue did a fantastic job this year despite not having his best player for the entire NBA season and his [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo Noah Batchelor, a 6-foot-6 wing, committed to join the Maryland men's basketball program Monday, becoming the first addition under Coach Kevin Willard. Batchelor, a three-star in-state prospect, [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace WASHINGTON - As the season wound on, Wes Unseld Jr. developed a pat response to the greeting, 'How are you, coach?' 'How do I look?' he'd shoot [...]

Byline: Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY GLENBROOK, Ill. - Chris Collins says Mike Krzyzewski would crack the same joke on Jon Scheyer that he'd rib him with on recruiting trips to [...]

The South Carolina coach's teams have proved themselves over and over, and the players have enough comfort together to play like ''shorthand writing.'' MINNEAPOLIS -- Dawn Staley was losing. Staley, [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY MINNEAPOLIS - Like all great point guards, Dawn Staley set it up perfectly. Asked why there's not a surge of young coaches climbing the ranks [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore PHILADELPHIA - He had hugged his North Carolina players and shaken hands with Saint Peter's coaches, and all of a sudden, at last, Hubert Davis was alone. [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo CHICAGO - As the Miami men's basketball players began trickling toward the locker room and the celebration continued in the stands, Jim Larrañaga veered from his route [...]

Byline: Randy Peterson, The Des Moines Register, USA TODAY Network Gary Thompson paused after I asked the Roland Rocket's input on something pertaining to this surprising Iowa State men's basketball [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY This year's Sweet 16 features one of the strongest and most interesting groups of coaches ever in the second weekend of the men's NCAA Tournament. [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY Two weeks ago, as Duke wheezed, wobbled and ultimately collapsed down the stretch of Mike Krzyzewski's final home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, it looked [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga Let's do a little exercise as it pertains to hiring a new men's basketball coach for the University of Maryland. For the moment, you're Damon Evans, the [...]

Byline: Chuck Culpepper GREENVILLE, S.C. - Game 1,435 of the Mike Krzyzewski era at Duke will coincide Sunday with Game 933 of the Tom Izzo era at Michigan State and [...]