In normal times, even fans who don’t follow college basketball would be feeling nervous anticipation while the No. 1-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs chase history. Few teams…
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C. Vivian Stringer Is the Thread Between the W.N.B.A.’s Emerging Stars
Erica Wheeler still remembers vividly what Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer, standing in the Wheelers’ home, told Wheeler’s mother would happen if her daughter came…
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N.C.A.A. Basketball Tournaments Will Welcome Fans After All
The N.C.A.A. announced on Friday that it would welcome fans — tens of thousands of them — to Indianapolis and San Antonio, where the entire…
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High School Basketball Players Are Jumping to College
Colleges tend to have more sophisticated Covid-19 protocols than high schools do, so they are safer places for players, Williams said. Many players are enrolling…
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Paige Bueckers Knows UConn’s History. She’s Paving Its Future.
Burnout doesn’t seem to exist in Paige Bueckers’s world. In a coronavirus-riddled season where student athletes can do little else on campus besides play their…
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For This College Athlete, Covid-19 Was Just the Start of a Nightmare
“I could die.” Demi Washington will never forget the cold jolt of fear she felt as a doctor explained what could happen if she kept…
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Valparaiso U. Drops Crusader as Mascot, Citing Ties to Hate Groups
Valparaiso University, which is known for one of the biggest upsets in the history of the N.C.A.A. Division I men’s basketball tournament by a mid-major…
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UConn’s Paige Bueckers Has Three Straight 30-Point Games
With the shot clock about to expire and her team ahead by a single point in overtime, Paige Bueckers threw up a long 3-pointer that…
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Kentucky, Duke, Kansas and North Carolina Struggling This Season
Kansas lost two key players from last season’s team to the N.B.A., the senior big man Udoka Azubuike and the sophomore guard Devon Dotson, and…
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N.C.A.A. Women’s Basketball Tournament Will Be Held in Texas
The pinnacle of this coronavirus pandemic-disrupted women’s college basketball season — the national tournament for Division I teams — will be contested entirely in Texas,…
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