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Gator glory

Posted Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Game, set, match — and a championship, too — for Joakim Noah and the Florida Gators. The tennis star’s son dominated UCLA with 16 points, nine rebounds and a record six blocks Monday night to key a 73-57 blowout that gave Florida its first national title in basketball and officially wiped away its reputation as only a football school. Read more.

Noah simply dominant

Posted Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Ponytail power. Every kid in America might want to toss away those oh-so-yesterday headbands, grow out the dreadlocks and tie their hair back in a large bun. Forget about Kobe, LeBron, A.I. and Nash. Read more.

Storied finalists to clash for first time

Posted Monday, April 3, 2006

UCLA had Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and all those championship banners. Florida had Vernon Maxwell and Norm Sloan. Read more.

Tale of the tape: Florida vs. UCLA

Posted Monday, April 3, 2006

Gators (32-6) vs. Bruins (32-6) Read more.

This UCLA team unlike the rest

Posted Monday, April 3, 2006

John Wooden’s teams scored 100 points or more 88 times. That could be the UCLA you know — the hook shots of Lew Alcindor (before he became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), the bank shots of Bill Walton, the silky-smooth jump shots of Keith Wilkes (later Jamaal Wilkes), the long left-handed ones of Gail Goodrich, the swoops to the hoop of Marques Johnson. Read more.

Patriots’ dream derailed

Posted Sunday, April 2, 2006

Lee Humphrey lingered outside the arc, determined to keep on shooting. Swish. Swish. And make it three. Read more.

Commentary: Patriots’ fairy tale up in smoke

Posted Sunday, April 2, 2006

George Mason awoke Saturday night and became George Mason again. Read more.

Slipper time

Posted Saturday, April 1, 2006

Before the madness began, before the world came calling to their campus, hardly anyone outside of Fairfax, Va., knew anything about George Mason’s Patriots. Read more.

NCAA tourney has room for more

Posted Saturday, April 1, 2006

He is not calling for a revolution or even suggesting major surgery. He is not asking for an all-comers free skate or even proposing a major increase in the number of participants. But Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim does want the NCAA Tournament field expanded. Read more.

Self likes Florida to win title

Posted Saturday, April 1, 2006

With zero No. 1 seeds in the field for the first time in 26 years, this year’s Final Four truly is up for grabs. Read more.

Fans, prepare for slogfest

Posted Saturday, April 1, 2006

Baby blue is their color. Black and blue is their attitude. At some point early in coach Ben Howland’s tenure on the West Coast, the UCLA Bruins woke up and realized they looked more like bruisers than a bunch of SoCal softies. Read more.

Young teams could be trend

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006

The three big-name teams at this year’s Final Four start a combined four freshmen and seven sophomores. Read more.

Brand touts progress

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006

No school could match the postseason success of Florida, George Mason, LSU or UCLA on the basketball court. The classroom marks of those teams weren’t as tough to beat.
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Study in contrasts

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006

George Mason coach Jim Larranaga and Florida’s Billy Donovan, his counterpart on the other bench in Saturday’s first Final Four matchup in the RCA Dome, both played college basketball at Providence College. Read more.

Hard way OK for Sampson

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006

Kelvin Sampson’s success at Oklahoma was never much about flash. A denim-shirt sort of guy, it never took long for Sampson to shed his sportcoat on the Sooners’ sideline. Read more.

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