Prior to their American Athletic Conference game against the Houston Cougars, the University of Connecticut faithful saw five of the nine players on scholarship for the Huskies receive honors from USA Basketball for gold medal…
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – It was a day for rookies at the Barclays Center Women’s Invitational Friday afternoon with newcomers sending Michigan and LSU into Saturday night’s late title game at the home of the NBA…
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – During the summer when Rutgers officials were tweeting pictures of the installation of the new gaudy scoreboard here in the Louis A. Brown Athletic Center, some wondered where the Scarlet Knights women’s…
You’ll excuse fans of the Big East conference if they are feeling nostalgic this week, flashing back to 2009. Louisville “crashed the party” to earn a spot in the women’s national championship game. No, not…
At around 9:30 p.m. ET tonight, either Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw or Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma will lift the Big East conference women’s basketball tournament trophy. Neither of them will be able to do…
An undefeated conference season has translated into Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Freshman of the Year honors for Big East regular season champion Notre Dame. To virtually no one’s surprise, senior…
[display_podcast] Site: XL Center, Hartford, Connecticut Top Seeds: (1) Notre Dame, (2) Connecticut, (3) Syracuse, (4) Louisville For consecutive years Notre Dame has won the Big East regular season championship, knocking Big East tournament host…
[display_podcast] Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes The roundtable discussions on Dishin & Swishin have been some of the most fun to do, and definitely are the most listened to among the podcasts. With the…
The Big East conference kicked off the first of several years of transition with their preseason polls and awards announcements. Gone is West Virginia this season, to be followed by Pitt, Syracuse and eventually Notre…
The airlines and the expressways will see a lot of action in this bracket. There is Connecticut, playing in Bridgeport and should they advance, Rhode Island, a total of around 200 miles. Then there is…
According to Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma, all is right with the women’s basketball world, for at least one night. “When it comes to the Big East tournament and the two best teams that should…
From January 29th through February 15th, C.Vivian Stringer’s Rutgers team dropped five straight games, all to teams that ended up being seeded ahead of the them in the Big East tournament. They were a team…
When most of the 9,882 people that were at Gampel Pavilion for the Rutgers versus Connecticut game bought their tickets, they expected to see their Huskies tested by a top ten ranked-Rutgers team. Instead, with…
Sixth-ranked Tennessee (6-2) rallied on the strength of a 13-0 in the second half to defeat no. 11 Rutgers (9-2), 67-61, Tuesday night in Piscataway in front of a crowd of 6,368. Led by Shekinna…
No. 6 Tennessee at No. 11 Rutgers, 7 p.m., ESPN/ESPN3.com (Pam Ward and Carolyn Peck) || Southern at No. 12 Ohio State, 7:30 p.m., Big Ten Network (Lisa Byington and Stephanie White) || UCLA at…
