Brady Murrietta's silence rounding the bases and his intense stare at St. John Bosco's pitcher after his home run sent a clear message: Don't poke the bear.
St. John's basketball ranks ninth all-time in NCAA Division I wins with 1,973 and has appeared in 32 NCAA Tournaments, achieving nine Sweet 16s and two Final Fours.
Long Island University was the first team to clinch a spot in the annual tournament. The Sharks did so by defeating Wagner in the NEC Tournament Semifinals. This was because their opponent in the championship game, Mercyhurst, is ineligible to compete in the NCAA Tournament. The Sharks earned their first spot in March Madness since combining their two campuses' athletic programs (Brooklyn and Post).
I think my experience and my knowledge of how this works, recruiting and going on visits, because I've been there, I've done it. I was the No. 1 one guy in the country who had to deal with these type of things. My message to him was, I want you to enjoy this recruiting process. Just enjoy it. Take the visits, go on the visits you want to go on.
Cornell is thrilled to welcome all of these incredible student-athletes to Ithaca. The NCAA basketball tournaments are cultural institutions and lots of fun. I'm excited and proud, both as a fan and as the university's president, to host our terrific Ivy athletes, coaches and fans.
For the first time ever, the St. John's Red Storm are back-to-back Big East champions after defeating UConn in a wire-to-wire 72-52 win in the conference title game on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. When these teams last met, the Huskies handed the Johnnies a humbling 32-point loss, snapping the team's 13-game winning streak and leaving them eager for redemption.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) - The Syracuse Mets have to chalk this one up as an error. The baseball team had previously announced plans to retire the "Syracuse Mets" name and unveil a new identity and brand for future seasons. After months of planning, the team's rebranding process struck out. The Mets' general manager Jason Smorol tells NewsChannel 9 | LocalSYR.com that the new name they had selected was already trademarked.
Cal couldn't overcome its lowest scoring half of the season and the 21-point deficit it caused and lost 70-59 to Syracuse in the women's ACC Tournament on Thursday afternoon. Uche Izoje recorded 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead Syracuse (23-7) to its first ACC Tournament win since 2021.
Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack is retiring, as he's planning to leave the school on July 1. He exits the job after a decade in charge, leaving Syracuse without an athletic director, a chancellor who is departing for Michigan and with the basketball program struggling in the post-Jim Boeheim era. Wildhack came to Syracuse in 2016 after a long tenure as an ESPN executive in the wake of Mark Coyle's sudden departure for Minnesota after less than a year on the job.
Syracuse wasn't expected to win it all that year. But Melo played with the calm of someone who'd already read the last page. Midrange fadeaways, smooth like butter. Big shot after big shot. Bucket after bucket. When the confetti fell in New Orleans, the Carrier Dome back in upstate New York would never be the same. Syracuse, a program that had long flirted with greatness but never sealed the deal, had its first-ever national championship. And it had its forever king.