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UCLA coach Cori Close first met Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd as teenagers playing for USA Basketball and remains a fan of the ...

The Big 12 has been one of the country’s most dominant men’s basketball conferences, and it could soon remind the world. On ...

The Houston Cougars are headed back to the NCAA men’s basketball national championship game for the first time since 1984.

The gauntlet that is CONMEBOL qualifying has eased a bit with the expanded, 48-team field for the 2026 World Cup; Six teams will qualify automatically and a seventh will reach the six team ...

I think I can be the best basketball player in the world. I think I’m on my way,” Cade Cunningham said. “I want people to ...

UConn finished the season at 37-3 with a 16-game winning streak. South Carolina fell to 35-4, with two of its four losses coming against the Huskies.