Basketball
The latest Basketball coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Sports section.
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Gillespie, Boswell have comprised quality guard tandem for Vols
Elite guard play has long been synonymous with deep NCAA basketball tournament runs.
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Bracket Reset: NCAA Tournament down to a Sweet 16 of high-majors
Cinderella has been kicked out of the dance early for the second straight season.
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Blakes leads Vanderbilt to 1st Sweet 16 since 2009 with near triple-double in March Madness
Mikayla Blakes scored 25 points as No. 2 seed Vanderbilt beat seventh-seeded Illinois 75-57 Monday night to advance to the Sweet 16 in the women's NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009.
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Sweet 16 mixes some surprise teams with chalk favorites. Here’s 16 numbers to know about next round
The regional semifinals, better known as the Sweet 16, are up next in the NCAA Tournament.
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In the era of NIL and transfers, the Sweet 16 is filled with veteran teams that have stuck together
Purdue was struggling to put away Miami in the second half of their second-round NCAA Tournament game on Sunday when Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kauffman-Renn combined to score the Boilermakers' next 22 points, helping them to turn a three-point lead into a 79-69 victory and a spot in the Sweet 16.
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Confident Chattanooga Prep aims for area-best third consecutive boys title
Entering the TSSAA BlueCross Basketball Championships as two-time defending boys champions, Chattanooga Prep is comfortable wearing the favorite's label.
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Vanderbilt’s breakout season in football followed by a March Madness double act
There's a certain vibe on the Vanderbilt campus that's been a long time coming for the Southeastern Conference's smallest and only private university.
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Aden Holloway, Alabama’s No. 2 scorer, had 2.1 pounds of marijuana when arrested, authorities say
Authorities found 2.1 pounds of marijuana in Alabama basketball star Aden Holloway's apartment when they arrested him Monday, according to court records released Tuesday — just below the 2.2-pound threshold for a drug trafficking charge.
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The NCAA Tournament is loaded with top NBA prospects. Consider this the March of the freshmen
It was early in the final week before March Madness when BYU’s AJ Dybantsa opened his Big 12 Tournament run by scoring 40 points, breaking a freshman single-game record held by NBA great Kevin Durant.
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Freshman stars Cameron Boozer, AJ Dybantsa and Darius Acuff Jr. picked for AP All-America first team
Duke forward Cameron Boozer, BYU star AJ Dybantsa and Darius Acuff Jr. of Arkansas arrived this season as part of what could go down as one of the most heralded freshman classes in college basketball history.
