[ad_1] An Alabama man was arrested and indicted this week on charges that he detonated an explosive device outside the Alabama attorney general’s office in late February, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale, was charged with malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device, … Read more
[ad_1] Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 6, 2024, 11:07 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. GLENDALE, Ariz. — If there’s one play from UConn’s win over Alabama on Saturday night that typified the Huskies’ run toward back-to-back national championships, it wasn’t a Donovan Clingan blocked shot … Read more
[ad_1] Led by Castle and Clingan, defending champ UConn returns to NCAA title game, beating Alabama 86-72 — UConn kept its bid to repeat as national champion intact by surviving its first true test of the NCAA Tournament, getting 21 points from freshman Stephon Castle while clamping down defensively in the second half of an … Read more
[ad_1] The UConn Huskies earned a shot at back-to-back men’s basketball national championships on Saturday with an 86-72 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Huskies’ starting lineup was in double figures in scoring and the team shot an impressive 50% from the field to remind the nation why they were the defending champs. The … Read more
[ad_1] The No. 1 seed UConn Huskies and the No. 4 seed Alabama Crimson Tide link up on Saturday evening in the 2024 Final Four. The winner advances to play either Purdue or NC State in the national title game on Monday. UConn is eyeing a back-to-back championship and its sixth overall. Meanwhile, Alabama is … Read more
[ad_1] A regular season filled with top-25 upsets every week has led to a Final Four that includes the two teams that were ranked No. 1 in the AP poll more than anyone else. There is also just the sixth 11-seed to ever reach the Final Four and a team that needed to win five … Read more
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Alabama freshman Jarin Stevenson was sitting in a classroom as a junior at Seaforth High School in Pittsboro, North Carolina, around this time last year. Months later, he decided to speed up his timeline as a college basketball player by reclassifying to join the Crimson Tide for the 2023-24 season. Stevenson … Read more
[ad_1] The 2024 NCAA Tournament’s second week of action comes down to four games that will decide the Final Four. What was once a 68-team field at the start of the Big Dance is down to an Elite Eight, which will again be sliced in half by the time the weekend is out. Action begins … Read more
[ad_1] Paolo Uggetti, ESPNMar 29, 2024, 12:23 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Alabama coach Nate Oats had been firm with his team. During the first two rounds of the men’s NCAA tournament, the Crimson Tide had beaten teams — Charleston and Grand Canyon — that they were supposed to beat. As far as Oats was … Read more
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Alabama’s 345th-ranked scoring defense needed one stop to record a breakthrough win for the program. With North Carolina trailing by two points with 25 seconds remaining, RJ Davis went right, and just like he had been all night, Crimson Tide star Grant Nelson was there to meet him. That UNC offensive possession resulted in a … Read more