Temple would also be an excellent addition in basketball as it is among the best teams in the Atlantic 10 every year.
For a college basketball season in which it seemed anybody could beat anybody, and the No. 1 ranking was never secure, Rick Pitino's Cardinals have certainly cemented themselves as a prohibitive front-runner now that there are only four teams left.
Because it is unrealistic to believe that any institution can begin to make up the difference in loss of football guarantee revenue by playing any number of additional such games in basketball, it is more likely that the second option will occur.
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Ironically Li Ning has been one of the leaders in selling cheap basketball shoes in China, but it now is using Shaq to graduate to selling high-end shoes.
Louisville is a basketball city in a basketball state, and it appears the general public agrees.
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An Olympiad? (Please don't say the Pro Bowl or the NHL All-Star Game.) Every spring someone trots out the claim that the flurry of buzzer beaters in the NCAA basketball tournament makes it the most riveting event in sports, and there's always the World Cup, but what's happening in tennis feels far more intimate, close up, personal.
The Jordan Brand has the most iconic name in basketball tied to it, and its success is not going away for a long time, if ever.
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In college basketball, it pays to pamper your players.
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That made it easier for teams to collaborate, and for Nike to deploy teams quickly to the hottest opportunities, whether it was basketball in Poland or swimwear in Germany.
But Deron Williams is as sublime as it gets for basketball in this area right now.
In women's basketball it is almost stranger when it doesn't happen.
Asked whether he considered quitting out of loyalty to the Big East, Boeheim said that, indeed, he is loyal to the conference that played a huge role in turning college basketball into what it is today.
In the final year of the Big East before it splits into two new conferences, Louisville and Syracuse provided a fitting send-off to a league that quickly became a basketball powerhouse after it was founded in 1979.
It reissued the basketball boot in Europe in 2000, hoping to capitalize on the mania for retro sneakers.
His team made history last weekend by being the first 15 seed in the NCAA Basketball Tournament to make it to the Sweet 16.
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Interest in college basketball is at its annual March zenith in the United States right now, so it seems appropriate to reflect for a few moments on a coach who models passion, accountability and collaboration, Butler University's Brad Stevens.
Some foreign basketball players aren't exactly roughing it in the more-cosmopolitan cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
The National Basketball Association is also based in Manhattan, and it too has seen its product greatly enhanced by non-citizens from the world over.
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For all the bluster about the Big Ten being the heart and soul of basketball, it has just one national championship in the last 23 years Michigan State in 2000.
But if there's been a consistent thread in the basketball life of Jeremy Lin, it's been people telling him he wasn't good enough, and Lin going out and proving his skeptics wrong.
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"I really do believe that, based on the talent on display this weekend that I have seen we are in a golden age of basketball, that the appreciation of our game is really as high as it has been in recent memory, " said Stern, who has now run the NBA for 25 years.
In North Carolina, it is all basketball, all the time.
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"I think we did a really conscious effort of just pushing the basketball and getting out in the open court and making it easy on ourselves to get some easy baskets, " Smith said.
She will deliver scores and stats, and as seen in an onstage demo can even tell you which basketball player is taller -- Kobe Bryant or LeBron James (it's LeBron, in case you're wondering).
D. in Russian literature in the time it takes to complete the basketball postseason.
The owner can melt the ice in 24 hours to switch it to a basketball court.
But what makes these developments truly surprising is the fact that birds are historically rather low on the food chain, at least when it comes to animal-based mascots playing basketball in March.
Back in the 1980s, the Big East helped make basketball what it is today, with players like Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin, coaches such as John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca, and its league tournament at Madison Square Garden.
Anyone who has played a pick-up basketball knows what it's like when the old guys in the short-shorts and knee braces show up at the gym they may not run up and down the court like 19-year-olds, but they're going to play defense, box everyone out, contest every layup, look for the right shot and make the whole court stink of liniment.
It might implement something like the shot clock in basketball.
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