WEST LAFAYETTE − Purdue basketball's defense got it through a tough road trip to the Pacific Northwest. The Boilermakers saw their seven-game winning streak end because the offense couldn't ...

Defensively, we really got back to what we need to do and where we need to force the basketball to create turnovers.” “We had to guard the three better,” Newman Catholic coach Jerry Gatton said.

CLEAR LAKE— Second-ranked Clear Lake fended off a late Waverly-Shell Rock comeback attempt to remain one of Iowa's unbeaten teams Thursday. Behind a strong defensive showing, the Lions held on ...

The No. 2 Cyclones defeated No. 9 Kansas 74-57 on Wednesday and have won 11 consecutive games, tied with Duke for the longest streak in college basketball. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi projects the ...

The Davis Kern show comes to town For the second time this week, West faced a 6-foot-9 future Division I basketball player. Tuesday, it was Cedar Falls junior Will Gerdes, who finished with 27 ...

Jamarion Sharp was born on August 26, 2001, in Hopkinsville Kentucky and is a basketball giant. At 7 feet 5 inches (2.26 meters) tall and 235 pounds (106 kg) heavy he ranks among the tallest NBA ...

The SEC is easily the best men’s basketball conference this season, featuring multiple teams that are Final Four contenders. The league is also having too many unwatchable games. The games are ...

University of Houston guard Emanuel Sharp missed Wednesday's 70-36 win over Utah with an ankle injury. Sharp, the second-leading scorer for the seventh-ranked Cougars, twisted his right ankle in ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. – Northern Iowa made just four of 28 first-half shots as the Panthers buried themselves in a huge hole it couldn’t dig out of in a 73-49 Missouri Valley Conference loss to ...

Kayla Johnson — a junior forward who spent three seasons with the University of Alaska Fairbanks women’s basketball team — is no longer part of the program, head coach Amy Donovan confirmed ...

University of South Carolina head women's basketball coach Dawn Staley just became the highest-paid coach in women's college basketball after she signed an extension to stay with the team.

The Journal Times will recognize the accomplishments of five high school boys basketball players from our coverage area each week. The efforts may not be the greatest statistically but are notable.