Basketball

Tim Herman, successful varsity basketball coach at Flint Powers high school, announced his resignation today.  Mr. Herman is very active in the community with the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce among his other responsibilities in the area.  I ...

Ohio, Cincinnati and Xavier all won on Sunday to join Ohio State in the NCAA basketball tournament round of 16. Top-seeded North Carolina and Michigan State also won to advance to the regional semi-finals. Here’s a full recap of the day’s action in the NCAA tournament:

The higher-seeded team won every NCAA tournament game played in men’s Division I basketball on Saturday. Top seeds Kentucky and Syracuse were among the teams which advanced to the regional semifinal round next week. Here’s a recap of all of the NCAA tournament action from Saturday:

The University of Michigan's mens basketball team stayed in the hunt for a share of the Big Ten championship with a 72-61 win over Illinois last night. U of M got plenty of scoring from Tim Hardaway Jr., who lead the team with 25 points and went on a personal 11-0 run against the Illini during the game...

The fifth-ranked Michigan State Spartans lost last night, 70-55, to the 18th ranked Indian Hoosiers in their first bid to win the Big Ten Title outright. According to the Detroit Free Press, the Spartans were down from the beginning as Indiana pounded the boards early...

When it comes to shot selection in the game of basketball, a players instruction from a coach, or their own intuition, may cause them to shoot for the basket. But a new study from the University of Minnesota, reveals that using mathematics could play a more successful role.

Oklahoma State, which dealt with the tragic deaths of 10 people in a 2001 plane crash, including some men’s basketball players, is reeling from another crash that took the lives of women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and an assistant coach, Miranda Serna.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski won his Division 1 Men’s Basketball record 903rd game on Tuesday. According to a Harris Interactive poll, it seems like most people are sharing in the Blue Devils’ success as the highest percentage of Americans pull for this college team.

The White House has announced that President Obama, a well-known basketball afficionado, will attend a Veteran’s Day college game onboard the USS Carl Vinson — the aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden at sea.