May 22, 2013

College Basketball: Tuesday’s Women’s and Men’s Results / Notre Dame women win Big East title

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Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw, center smiles as Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins, left, and teammate Jewell Loyd hold the championship trophy after their 61-59 win over Connecticut Tuesday. (Jessica Hill/Associated Press) (PhatzRadio / AP) — Hartford, Conn. — Skylar Diggins cut the final strand off the net and twirled it around. Finally, Notre Dame [...]

March Madness 2012: Lady Bears finish 40-0, win national title

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(Picture courtesy of NCAA) DENVER (AP) — Brittney Griner came up big for Baylor, scoring 26 points and grabbing 13 rebounds to help the Lady Bears finish off an undefeated season with an 80-61 win over Notre Dame in the national championship game Tuesday night. Baylor became the first team in NCAA history to win [...]

March Madness 2012: Theme of unfinished business drives Notre Dame, Baylor

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Notre Dame guard Brittany Mallory (22) celebrates victory after an NCAA women’s Final Four semifinal college basketball game against Connecticut in Denver, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Notre Dame won 83-75. (Eric Gay/AP Photo) (PhatzRadio / USA Today) — DENVER – The teams that have run the gantlet to reach Tuesday night’s NCAA women’s basketball championship [...]

March Madness 2012: Women’s Final Four and NIT Results

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(Sklyar Diggins had no limits on Tuesday, posting a triple-double of 22 points, 11 assists and 10 boards. She helped to spearhead an 80-49 Notre Dame win versus Maryland to advance to the Final Four. Picture courtesy of NCAA) KINGSTON, R.I. (AP) — Tiffany Hayes scored 22 points and top-seeded Connecticut beat Kentucky 80-65 on [...]

College Basketball Roundup: Syracuse bounces back beats Cincy

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Top 25 College Men’s Basketball Roundup CINCINNATI (AP) — Kris Joseph scored 17 points, and No. 3 Syracuse recovered from its first loss of the season by beating Cincinnati 60-53 on Monday night, giving coach Jim Boeheim a notable career win. The Orange (21-1, 8-1 Big East) used a late 12-2 run to pull away [...]

College Basketball: Griner Powers No. 1 Baylor Past UConn

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(PhatzRadio / NYT) — Brittney Griner scored 12 of her 25 points in a closing run that pushed top-ranked Baylor past No. 2 Connecticut, 66-61, on Sunday night in Waco, Tex. The Lady Bears (11-0) won their second No. 1-versus-No. 2 game this season while avenging a 1-point loss at UConn early last season when [...]

March Madness – NCAA Women’s – Once unthinkable, Texas A&M crowned champions for first time

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(Courtesy of SI) (PhatzRadio/ SI) – INDIANAPOLIS — Texas A&M overcame a lot on Tuesday night. Its own gender-biased history. A hostile Indiana crowd. The newly anointed “face of the game” in Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins. The hand-wringing over a national championship game without UConn. The Aggies went to a place they’d never been, the [...]

March Madness – Women’s NCAA – Diggins, ND outduel Moore, UConn

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(Courtesy of SI) (PhatzRadio/ SI) – INDIANAPOLIS — Back and forth they went on Sunday night, Maya Moore of UConn and Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins, each offering magic on the floor of the Conseco Fieldhouse. There was Diggins, with a name that oozes basketball and a game as smooth as her name, driving into the [...]

March Madness – NCAA Women’s – Irish beat Tennessee, reach third Final Four

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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) Moments before they climbed the blue stepladder to cut down the net, Skylar Diggins and her Notre Dame teammates joined arms, formed a circle and did a jig at the free-throw line. There’s a little history in that step. The Fighting Irish began kicking up their heels during the 1999-2000 season, turning [...]