Photo: Gamecocks Athletics. CLEVELAND, Ohio — With a breakout performance from freshman guard Tessa Johnson and a monster game by senior center Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina became the tenth team to finish the season undefeated (38-0) with an 87-75 win over Iowa on Sunday at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse for the national championship.The win also made
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With a heroic effort as two of its starters sat out due to injury, the Las Vegas Aces beat the New York Liberty 70-69 in a closely fought Game Four to win the 2023 WNBA championship Wednesday night in Brooklyn. The win sealed back-to-back titles for the franchise. Forward A’ja Wilson earned the Finals MVP
The 2023-24 NBA season tips off on Oct. 24 and teams will be chasing the Denver Nuggets as they look to defend their title. The latest 2023 NBA futures odds list Denver at +450 to repeat, which trails only the Boston Celtics (+380) and the Milwaukee Bucks (+400. Milwaukee made one of the biggest splashes
It was a Sunday afternoon in early July, and Jamal Murray had been in Las Vegas for a few days — enough time for the city to wear out anyone. “I’m a little hung over,” he said, smiling in apology as he tried — unsuccessfully — to remember some details of the post-championship interactions he’d
It took 56 years and 38 playoff appearances for the basketball team nestled in the high plains just east of the Rocky Mountains to finally reach the peak of its sport. It took an unheralded center from Serbia who turned into the most formidable player in the game and a Canadian point guard who found
Photo: Denver Nuggets/Twitter Four-time NBA champion Draymond Green shared his insights on the NBA Finals series between the Heat and the Nuggets. Following the Game 4 win by Denver which puts them ahead 3-1 in the Finals, Green thinks that the Nuggets feel they are going to win it all this year. As an indication
The NBA Finals are finally set! The Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets will battle it out for the Larry O’Brien trophy beginning Thursday, and bettors are already getting in on the action for this exciting matchup. Representing the Western Conference are the Nuggets, who are the -480 favorites to win it all. Led by two-time
Every fan roots for their team to win the championship this year, but the ultimate goal is to be the greatest franchise of all time. At Swish Appeal we decided to rank all the WNBA teams that have ever existed in order of greatness. For franchises that have moved to between two or three different
Sports betting is becoming legal in more and more states. Massachusetts became the latest state to allow state residents to place wagers on sporting events with the opening of retail sportsbooks at the end of January and the legalization of online sportsbooks for residents in early March. While women’s sports aren’t as prevalent in sportsbooks
DALLAS – With the backdrop of a sell-out crowd at American Airlines Center, LSU won its first-ever national championship with a 102-85 victory over Iowa Sunday afternoon. Guard Jasmine Carsons’s prolific shooting in the second quarter propelled the Tigers to the title under the leadership of second-year head coach Kim Mulkey. The win marked the
BBL Championship London Lions 88-75 Surrey Scorchers (25-24, 18-21, 21-20, 24,10)(Lions – Hruban 17, Zubcic 15, Nelson/Ward-Hibbert 14; Scorchers – Mcfolley 13, Wang/Jacdonmi 11, Steel/Martin 10) BBL Championship Leicester Riders 106 – 89 Bristol Flyers (29-17, 27-22, 29-26, 21-24)(Riders – Jackson 28, Whelan 18, Mackenzie 17; Flyers – King 25, Watson-Gayle 15, Bell III 11)
The 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament bracket is officially set, with the exception of the First Four matchups that will be played Wednesday and Thursday. The tournament itself will begin in earnest on Friday with all games being broadcast on the ESPN family of networks. As in any other season, the seeding of the teams
Play video content TMZ.com Too Short isn’t sweating the Golden State Warriors’ current slump in the season, and is advising all die-hard fans to follow his lead!!! We recently spoke to the Oakland rap legend — who made sure to rep in his authentic Warriors gear while offering his two cents on the Warriors season.
Led by Stephen Curry’s 34 PTS, 7 REB and 7 AST, the Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics in Game 6, 103-90. Andrew Wiggins added 18 PTS, 6 REB, 5 AST, 4 STL and 3 BLK for the Warriors in the victory, while Jaylen Brown tallied 34 PTS and 7 REB for the Celtics.
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How Kerr intends to coach Warriors coming off championship originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea The Warriors are in a different position heading into the 2022-23 NBA season. Before the 2021-22 season, Golden State was coming off two campaigns in which they failed to reach the playoffs and consisted of a mix of veteran and
Las Vegas – A’ja Wilson. Photo: Las Vegas Aces. Social media recap Even though the Las Vegas Aces won the first game of the best-of-five WNBA Finals series on Sunday at home with a 67-64 victory over the Connecticut Sun, the team and its coach were not happy with their performance. It was the first-ever
Mark your calendars, Dub Nation. The 2022-23 NBA season reportedly will begin with a matchup between the Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers on Oct. 18 at Chase Center, per Shams Charania of The Athletic. Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and the rest of the 2021-22 Warriors will be presented with championship rings that night.
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee announced the championship format for the 2022-23 season after its annual summer meeting in July. The 68 teams competing in the 2023 tournament will be revealed on March 12 during the annual Selection Show on ESPN. Features of the new format: The 2023 championship regional rounds will move
Slava Medvedenko, a Ukrainian native, played six seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was on the same team as Kobe and Shaq — winning …
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NYTimes.com: “It turns out the dynasty had just been paused. Golden State has won the N.B.A. championship again, four seasons after its last one. It is the franchise’s seventh title and the fourth for its three superstars: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, who have spent the past decade growing up together, winning together
The British Basketball League (BBL) are excited to reveal new changes to the format of the BBL season ahead of the start of the 2022-23 campaign. The new season will begin in September with BBL Championship action, with each team now facing each other four times (2H, 2A), playing 36 games across a 28-week
A coronation awaits the Golden State Warriors, and they have come too far to retreat. Everything they imagined in the darkest days, with Klay Thompson grinding through rehab and the losses piling up, has come to fruition — not merely through their unshakable belief, but an on-court system that stands alone in NBA excellence. The
Photo: Darron Cummings/Associated Press Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas, to put it mildly, did not favor the appointment of Doc Rivers as the head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. Recently he revealed that he told the Sixers general manager Elton Brand not to hire Rivers who led the Celtics to a championship in 2008. Arenas
MINNEAPOLIS – From being the preseason top team to gaining the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, South Carolina (35-2) reigned supreme all season with outstanding play from the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player, junior forward Aliyah Boston, and senior guard Destanni Henderson. Their accomplishments came along with championship play from their teammates
With 2:55 remaining in the third Sunday night at Target Center in Minneapolis, South Carolina junior forward Laeticia Amihere saw teammate Victaria Saxton out of the corner of her eye near the sideline. She threw the ball in Saxton’s direction, but, problematically, Saxton was on the wrong side of the sideline, merely moving toward the
The Nets may be sitting eighth in the East and stuck in the play-in coming out of the All-Star break, but that hasn’t dented their confidence. General manager Sean Marks proclaimed the goal is still a championship, while Kyrie Irving’s message for the rest of the league down the stretch was: Watch out for Brooklyn.
BBL ChampionshipSurrey Scorchers 62-90 Cheshire Phoenix (18-27, 35-52, 52-67, 62-90)(Scorchers: S.Davis Jr – 21, D.Thomas – 11, C.Raftopoulos – 10; Phoenix: B.Mockford – 17, L.Austin Jr – 17, N.Dickerson – 16) BBL Trophy Semi-Final First LegBristol Flyers 61-81 London Lions (17-22, 33-39, 47-54, 61-81)(Flyers: M.Delpeche – 20, M.Evans – 15, T.Jacob – 9; Lions: D.Williams
BBL ChampionshipLondon Lions 67-80 Leicester Riders (26-22, 48-46, 63-66, 67-80)(Lions: D.Williams – 16, L.Cugini – 15, J.Washburn – 12; Riders: P.Whelan – 17, M.Walker – 16, G.Crandall – 12) BBL ChampionshipB.Braun Sheffield Sharks 102-81 Newcastle Eagles (19-19, 45-36, 68-57, 102-81)(Sharks: M.Delpeche – 23, D.Wallace – 20, A.Johnson – 18; Eagles: R.Fletcher – 21, W.Person Jr