Chane Behanan

The Sports Xchange Report: Louisville's Smith to return Louisville junior guard Russ Smith is returning to school, giving coach Rick Pitino and the Cardinals a shot at back-to-back national championships. Smith's father, Russ Smith Sr., told...

The Sports Xchange Louisville's Smith to return Louisville junior guard Russ Smith is returning to school, giving coach Rick Pitino and the Cardinals a shot at back-to-back national championships. "I really realized how much I enjoyed playing with my...

ATLANTA (AP) — Rick Pitino held court in a tunnel beneath the Georgia Dome, going on and on about the grittiest bunch of guys he's ever coached. One of them sat in the corner of the locker room, a net around his neck, grinning away. The...

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Luke Hancock went 5-for-5 from 3-point range en route to matching a career-high with 22 points off the bench as the Cardinals captured their first NCAA Tournament title since 1986 by holding off the Wolverines in Atlanta. Peyton Siva...

ATLANTA — Scoring is down, players leave early and the best action on television today is still probably 1980s replays of the Atlantic Coast Conference. For one Monday night, though, college basketball stood history on its head and produced high-...

LOUISVILLE Starters P; Player; Ht.; WTt; Stats F; Wayne Blackshear; 6-5 230; 7.6 ppg F; Chane Behanan;6-6; 250; 9.6 ppg C: Gorgui Dieng;6-11; 245; 9.4 rpg G: Russ Smith;6-1; 165;18.9 ppg G: Peyton Siva;6-0 185;9.8 ppg Reserves F; Luke...

ATLANTA -- Luke Hancock came off the bench to score 20 points, walk-on Tim Henderson sparked a second-half rally with a pair of monster three-pointers and Louisville advanced to the NCAA title game Saturday night, escaping with a 72-68 victory over...

Atlanta, Los Angeles thinks your traffic is awful. Seriously. We talked to someone from Atlanta before we landed here and they said that the traffic is rough. We didn't believe them. I regret that mistake. To move a couple miles in your car takes an...

WICHITA STATE Starters P; Player; Ht; Wt; Statistics G; Ron Baker; 6-3; 218; 8.6 ppg F; Cleanthony Early; 6-8; 215; 13.7 ppg F; Carl Hall; 6-8; 238; 6.9 rpg G; Tekele Cotton; 6-4; 202; 6.4 ppg G; Malcolm Armstead; 6-0; 205; 10.9 ppg...

Kevin Ware is already up and walking, and he's got a nice souvenir to keep him company until he's cleared to return to Louisville. Cardinals coach Rick Pitino brought the Midwest Regional championship trophy when he visited Ware, who remains...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Louisville survived its first test. Russ Smith matched his career high with 31 points to lead three Cardinals in double figures, and top-seeded Louisville showed it can win close games, too, beating Oregon,77-69, on Friday night. Kevin...

There were eight losses for six top-10 teams. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 all went down. A total of 14 schools in the Top 25 had at least one loss. All in one wild week for college basketball. "It's a crazy season, man," Illinois forward Tyler Griffey...