It looks like Tre’Darius McCallum is amped to play in basketball’s Mecca. In the first half of DePaul’s Big East Tournament first round game Wednesday, the junior forward took flight off a fast break feed from R.J. Curington, dunking it home past two Xavier defenders.…
BY SHANE DAVIES The 35th annual Big East Tournament tips off Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City and will continue through Saturday’s championship game. The winner of the tournament will receive the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, and the…
DePaul’s first season under coach Dave Leitao concluded Wednesday with a 70-53 loss to Georgetown in the first round of the Big East Tournament in New York. DePaul (9-22) clung within two possessions late in the first half. The Blue Demons trailed 29-24 with three…
It was a fantastic regular season for the Big East, if only because two teams—Villanova and Xavier—managed to dodge losses while the rest of the elite college basketball teams often scuffled. The Wildcats and Mustangs have kept the Big East in the spotlight in spite…
DePaul’s hot stretch and lead in the Big East standings seems years away now. The Blue Demons’ season ended Wednesday with a 78-63 loss to the Creighton Bluejays in the first round of the Big East Tournament, the team’s eighth straight loss and 11th in…
The Big Ten/ACC challenge is always a fun series in non-conference play, but this season it takes on a bigger meaning as these two leagues each make a very strong case to be the best league in all of college basketball. The Big Ten has…
The 2K Sports Classic is always one of the better early season events. This year, the four-team field is once again exceptional with a pair of NCAA tournament caliber teams, Connecticut and Indiana, expected to meet in the championship game. Boston College is a third…
