Newly named Rutgers men's basketball coach Steve Pikiell will add former UConn star Donyell Marshall to his coaching staff, according a report. Rutgers head coach Steve Pikiell will hire Buffalo's Donyell Marshall as an assistant, sources told @CBSSports. Both have UConn ties.— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein)...
DES MOINES, Iowa – There will be time to dissect the season, but for now, let's just stick to the very end. UConn, which lost to No. 1 Kansas 73-61 Saturday night, ran head-on into the Jayhawks and it didn't end well. The Jayhawks built a 40-16 lead, and though the Huskies made a run at it, never...
DES MOINES, Iowa – Win by win, the Huskies have played themselves up in competition. At an early stage in the NCAA Tournament, they now must face one of the best. "It presents a great opportunity for the team and to see if we're battle-tested," Daniel Hamilton said Friday after the Huskies prepped...
DES MOINES, Iowa — On an impulse, Omar Calhoun hit a three-pointer and began putting his hand to his ear, pinky extended, as if making a phone call. And it has become "a thing." "For some reason, after I hit a three I just did it," said Calhoun, a senior playing off the bench for the Huskies in this...
National championships UConn: 4 (1999, 2004, 2011, 2014) Kansas: 3 (1952, 1988, 2008) National runner-up UConn: 0 Kansas: 6 (1940, 1953, 1957, 1991, 2003, 2012) Final Four appearances UConn: 5 Kansas: 14 NCAA Tournament appearances UConn: *33 Kansas: 45 NCAA Tournament record UConn: 59-29 Kansas: 96-44 *UConn's...
DES MOINES, Iowa – As he approached his 70th birthday, and his final months as UConn coach, Jim Calhoun defined the dream he had for UConn men's basketball. "I want people to say the five best programs in the history of college basketball are North Carolina, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky and – they have...
What: NCAA South Regional second round Site: Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa Time: Saturday, around 7:45-7:55 p.m. (30 minutes after conclusion of Kentucky-Indiana game, which starts at 5:15 p.m.) TV: CBS (Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, Tracy Wolfson) Radio: UConn – WTIC-AM 1080, WILI-AM...
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Huskies weren't going to accept a first-round exit from the NCAA Tournament. It hasn't happened very often, and it wasn't going to happen in 2016, even when they were trailing by nine well into the second half. They came back and blew past Colorado with a 24-6 run, and then...
DES MOINES, Iowa – Like a pop-up thunderstorm, the Huskies created a turning point out of nowhere, changing the afternoon. Playing sluggishly, shooting poorly, once again in mounting foul trouble, they were down by nine early in the second half. Then Rodney Purvis made a steal at midcourt and went...
DES MOINES, Iowa — As Sterling Gibbs stepped to the foul line Thursday in the final minute of what could have been his final college basketball game, he heard a familiar voice pierce Wells Fargo Arena. "Shoot 'em like you're in the backyard!" It was his mom, Jacqui. She had driven from New Jersey...
DES MOINES, Iowa – When you're No.1, you have an answer for every occasion. Kansas had an occasion to call on Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, and he came through in a big way. "He came in and fired one right off the bat," coach Bill Self said. "And it went down,...