PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Scottie Reynolds didn’t start Villanova’s first NCAA tournament game of his senior season.
But he sure did finish.
After getting benched to start the game because of what Villanova coach Jay Wright called a “teaching moment,” Reynolds hit a clutch 3-pointer and then two foul shots with 9.1 seconds left in overtime to help [...]

Syracuse big man Arinze Onuaku will likely miss the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, Orange coach Jim Boeheim told ESPN Monday.
“He’s still hurt and I don’t know if he’ll play this weekend,” Boeheim said. “We’re hopeful he might be able to play Sunday, but that’s a long-shot. We’re really kind of focusing, if [...]

West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is fond of telling a story about his hometown of Midvale, Ohio, which features, “500 people, two stoplights and nine bars.”
As a young man, Huggins once got into a truck with a man from his hometown, noticed the vehicle had no rear-view mirror and asked him about it.
“I don’t back [...]

NEW YORK — As John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” blared over the speakers at Madison Square Garden and the West Virginia players, fans and cheerleaders enjoyed a prolonged celebration on the floor, it felt for an instant as if Morgantown, West Va., had moved to New York City.
And that seemed only fitting considering [...]

Saturday was a day of backtracking for West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart.
Two days after he told a local television station that it was inevitable that West Virginia would leave the Big East Conference, Stewart did an about face.
“I’m a Big East coach at heart and want to make it clear that I believe the [...]

NEW YORK — We all  know the storied legacy associated with Georgetown centers.
Patrick Ewing.
Dikembe Mutombo.
Alonzo Mourning.
Roy Hibbert.
Greg Monroe could well be the next in that line, but he’s not ready to say so just yet.
“I’m honored to follow people that were so good  here,” Monroe said after putting up 23 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists [...]

West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart became the first Big East coach to openly talk about the league disbanding when he gave this video interview to WTAP in Parkersburg, W.Va., on Thursday.
The quotes first appeared on Brian Bennett’s ESPN.com blog.
There has been much talk about the Big 10 expanding and possibly raiding the Big East [...]

NEW YORK — Syracuse may have lost more than a basketball game on Thursday.
Senior center Arinze Onuaku fell to the floor with a right knee injury with five minutes, seven seconds remaining in the game and left the arena on crutches after No. 8-seeded Georgetown upset top seed Syracuse, 91-84, in the [...]

NEW YORK — Dan Hurley sat behind a basket at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night watching one of his former players compete for his alma mater in the Big East tournament.
Eugene Harvey and Seton Hall lost to Notre Dame in the second round, but Hurley still has plenty of horses in [...]

NEW YORK – The storylines surrounding UConn coach Jim Calhoun and St. John’s coach Norm Roberts were intriguing even before their two teams squared off Tuesday in the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden.
How close is the aging and ailing Calhoun to the end of his own career? What’s left in the cupboard at [...]