Basketball

Jim Boeheim enrolled at Syracuse in 1962. Played there until 1966. Started coaching there in 1969. Took over the program as head coach in 1976. Put si...

There are times when something one intends to write … thankfully isn’t written. That happened to me early last month … to my good fortune. St. Bonaven...

With the dust of Super Saturday settling and the District playoffs over, the surviving basketball teams in the area now have a new task at hand: the P...

The hope was that this might be its salvation, the origins of the run that has so often happened in these situations. Instead, on what proved to be it...

The four head coaches for New York and Pennsylvania’s girls and boys basketball teams have been chosen for the 2023 Big 30 Senior Classic. Coaching fo...

It wasn’t quite the haul of the last five years, when it was among the most decorated teams in the conference. But then, there was no way it could hav...

South Carolina stands alone with the second-longest streak atop The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll as the Gamecocks remained No. 1 fo...

UCLA is surging, both toward the postseason and in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. While Houston was No. 1 for a third straight we...

He could tell the tale of what happened nine years ago. In 2014, his St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team endured a similar skid to end the season, d...

It wasn’t the storybook ending the Salamanca boys basketball team envisioned for itself. After making the New York state semifinals in Glens Falls las...

CLARION — Union had been the feel-good story of the District 9 boys basketball playoffs. Back-to-back upsets brought the sixth-seeded Knights of Rimer...

CLARION — Against a deep and talented Clarion-Limestone squad, the Otto-Eldred boys basketball team found itself in a dozen-point hole late in the Dis...

CLARION — This game had it all. The District 9 Class A girls basketball final was everything its matchup promised — two of the state’s best small-scho...

By the midway point of the second half, things weren’t looking so good for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team. Chad Venning and Daryl Banks III...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Antoine Davis outscored them all – except for “Pistol” Pete. Detroit Mercy’s star guard finished four points shy of surpassing...

He’s done it at home, perhaps as much as, or more than, any other player in the league. In nine Atlantic 10 contests at the Reilly Center, Daryl Banks...

CLARION — It’s often said great teams find ways to win when they don’t play their best, and that’s exactly what the Punxsutawney Lady Chucks did Thurs...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Of all the troubling video made public over a year of crisis at New Mexico State – from the brawl involving basketball players...

ST. MARYS — There was little to separate between Cameron County and DuBois Central Catholic Friday evening. Except Luke Fragale’s 3-pointer. CC met DC...

BROCKWAY — Facing the end of its season or a chance to finally make it to the state tournament, the Clarion girls basketball team forced a second-half...