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Doron Lamb scored 22 points, and Kentucky held off a spirited Kansas rally to beat the Jayhawks 67-59 in the NCAA title game in New Orleans on Monday night. The win gave the Wildcats (38-2) their eighth national championship in school history and first since 1998.

The Timberwolves lost 119-106 at Portland Sunday night.  Kevin Love led the Wolves with 26 points and 9 rebounds and both Derrick Williams and Luke Ridnour each scored 21 points.  Minnesota shot 46 percent from the field while Portland shot 52 percent...

The Gopher men’s basketball team lost 75-51 in the NIT title game to Stanford Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York.  Minnesota trailed by 6 at halftime and were quickly down double figures early in the 2nd half.  Rodney Williams led the Gophers with 12 points before fouling out...

The Gopher men’s basketball team will play Stanford tonight in the NIT Championship game at Madison Square Garden in New York at 6pm, pregame on AM 1390-the Fan at 5:30.  Minnesota is 23-14 while Stanford is 25-11.  The Gophers are coming off a 68-67 overtime win over Washington Tuesday night ...

The Timberwolves won 88-83 at Charlotte Wednesday night.  Kevin Love led Minnesota with 40 points and 19 rebounds and Luke Ridnour added 15 points and 14 assists for the Wolves.  Minnesota shot 41 percent while Charlotte shot 40 percent ...

The 2012 Final Four includes four NCAA basketball programs that have each won at least one national championship in its history. In total, Kentucky, Louisville, Ohio State, Kansas have 49 Final Four appearances and 13 NCAA basketball titles between them.

We turn our hungry eyes to the world of sport for this installment of ‘Crush of the Day,’ and it’s fair to say that we’re diggin’ University of Notre Dame women’s basketball star Skylar Diggins.

The Gopher men’s basketball team defeated the University of Washington 68-67 in overtime at Madison Square Garden in New York in the NIT semifinals to advance to the NIT finals in New York Thursday night against Stanford at 6pm, pregame on AM 1390-the Fan at 5:30.  Mi ...

Traditional college basketball powers Kentucky and Kansas each won regional finals on Sunday to join Ohio State and Louisville in the 2012 Final Four in New Orleans next weekend. Here’s a recap of Sunday’s regional final games:

Louisville and Ohio State became the first two teams to advance to the 2012 Final Four in New Orleans next weekend. Here’s a recap of Saturday’s regional finals.

Ohio State and Florida joined Big East powers Syracuse and Louisville in advancing to the regional finals of the 2012 NCAA tournament on Thursday. Here’s a recap of Thursday’s NCAA tournament games:

In addition to working on a book large enough to read from Venus, as seen in this photo dispatch from their official site, Kiss has some other big plans in April. The rockers will be appear at high profile events like the NCAA Final Four in New Orleans, on ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and the ACM Awards in Las Vegas on CBS.