Central's state championship team of 1952 had speed and surprise on its side. The end result was the same as in 1951, but the manpower and the manic method were amazingly different. The Bearcats ...

For all the Dayton Flyers men’s basketball program has accomplished over the years, it had never had a moment that compared to what it experienced on the first night of the NBA Draft. » MOCK DRAFTS: ...

The NBA legacy of the Dayton Flyers grew on Thursday as Koby Brea, a UD graduate who finished his career at Kentucky, was selected with the 11th pick of the second round (No. 41 overall) in the 2025 ...

Former Olympic champion Bill Lienhard takes a jump shot in this file photo. Lienhard helped the U.S. to an Olympic victory over the U.S.S.R. in 1952. Former Kansas basketball great Bill Lienhard, one ...

Editor's note: In 1991, Herald sports reporter Greg DeVillers wrote about the 1952 Grand Forks Central state championship boys basketball team and its 40-year reunion. That team included legendary ...

LAWRENCE — Kansas Athletics has announced former men’s basketball player Bill Lienhard died Tuesday, Feb. 8, at his home in Lawrence at the age of 92. According to a release, Lienhard was surrounded ...

One of the key contributors to the Knicks’ run of success in the early 1950s was Ernie Vandeweghe, the former three-sport star who became an All-American at Colgate University. Vandeweghe, who served ...

In December 1952, 6-foot-10-inch West Virginia University freshman basketball player Johnny Coil ate a bowl of soup off teammate Frank Spadafore’s head while coach Red Brown took in the scene. The ...

For the first time since 1952, Iowa has a first-team Associated Press men's basketball All-America player. Hawkeye junior center Luka Garza earned 63 first-team votes from the 65-person media voting ...

In January 1952, the Virginia Military Institute basketball team snapped a 10-game losing streak by beating the University of Richmond 78-67 at the Benedictine gymnasium. Sophomore center Karl Klinar ...

A larger than life figure on and off the court, Hall of Famer Bill Walton was truly one of the giants of the game. An incredibly skilled big man who could shoot and pass, he helped re-invent the ...

So how long has it been since Kentucky was forced to win four SEC Tournament games just to qualify for the NCAA Tournament? Hint: Tulane and Georgia Tech were members of the conference. The year was ...