Jeremy Lamb

Somewhere along the way, the Notre Dame men's basketball team scrapped what was supposed to be the script. In the process, the Irish have sent a season once considered suspect on a collision course toward special. Notre Dame's latest magic trick...

STORRS, Conn. – With its heartbeat having fouled out, No. 8 Notre Dame labored to maintain a pulse at such a critical time Saturday against No. 16 Connecticut. A 10-point lead with under 10 minutes remaining should have been plenty for the Irish...

SOUTH BEND — A challenge like no other to close a three-game Big East stretch like no other for Notre Dame awaited senior captain Ben Hansbrough. Asked to defend high-scoring Connecticut guard Kemba Walker, the country’s leading scorer (26.7...

Last weekend, the website Collegespun.com posted some interesting research about various major college basketball programs and the money their players have gone on to earn in the NBA. UConn, which currently has 13 players who earned more than $76...

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Shabazz Napier made the All-Big East first team for his solid junior season. It's the 21st time a UConn player made first team, starting with Corny Thompson in 1980-81. Thompson, Donyell Marshall, Ray Allen, Richard Hamilton and Emeka Okafor made were...

STORRS – Kevin Ollie has his dream job, he has it in writing for five more seasons and, in some sense, he has had a dream first season as UConn's head coach. Now comes the hard part. The Huskies' season ended abruptly with their 63-59 overtime...

On Wednesday, the Huskies will "continue writing the story," in their coach's words. They will face one more big moment, in a season in which the UConn men's basketball team will be denied the biggest moments. The Huskies will face Georgetown at...

There are games when the stat sheet should be tossed aside. There are games when the stat sheet should be shredded, incinerated as soon as possible. Once in a career, perhaps, there is a game like this. Kevin Ollie might want to save the stat sheet from...

— You watch a team so badly outrebounded. You watch a team destroyed on the offensive boards. You watch big man after big man head to the bench with five fouls. You see that team outscored by 13 points on the free throw line. And afterward you see...

This probably won't make the UConn basketball coaches, players or fans feel any better, but if the Huskies were eligible for the NCAA Tournament in March, they would be well on their way to making it. "I actually evaluate UConn the same as any eligible...

— When Jim Calhoun took his place on the baseline at the XL Center Monday night, he looked up and saw the large crowd filing into the arena. This was more like it. Not all the way there, but more like UConn basketball, he thought. "We need to...