Stories By Dick Weiss
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoCarolina turns on its scoring machine
PHILADELPHIA–The University of North Carolina is the only team in the country that is capable of scoring 100 points or more...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoVillanova continues to Dream Big
LOUISVILLE– There are some nights like this when you think anything is possible for this Villanova team– even a national championship....
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoCoach K Down on Fifth Year Graduate Transfers
LOUISVILLE– Duke’s Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski has not changed his mind about players seeking early entry to the NBA...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoAtlantic Coast Conference hogging the spots in the NCAA Sweet 16.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.– When The Atlantic Coast Conference convinced Syracuse, Pitt, Notre Dame and Louisville to defect from the Big East in...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoRyan Arch thinks Cats can win it all.
BROOKLYN– When the final buzzer sounded at the end of Villanova’s impressive 87-68 NCAA second-round victory over Iowa here Sunday and...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoNova haunted by its past as it prepares for Iowa in NCAA second round.
BROOKLYN– Villanova’s nationally ranked basketball team has not been able to go anywhere this season without being accompanied by the elephant...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoSFA Lumberjacks chop West Virginia down to size in NCAA upset
BROOKLYN– The Stephen F. Austin University beat West Virginia at its own game here Friday night. The 14th-seeded Lumberjacks from Nacogdoches,...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoMiddle Tennessee shocks Michigan State and the world with NCAA upset.
BROOKLYN–I was here at the Barclays Center Friday covering the first round of the NCAA Tournament. But I could hear...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoYale climbs the Ivy covered wall to defeat Baylor in NCAA Tournament.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.– Ivy League champion Yale is on spring break this week so the university invited the pep band from Hillhouse...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoYale fights through controversy before first NCAA appearance since 1962.
PROVIDENCE– This was supposed to be the calm before the storm. Yale, which has won the Ivy League basketball championship for...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoNBA scouts look past March Madness for first round talent
PROVIDENCE– It didn’t take long for LSU’s versatile 6-10 freshman forward Ben Simmons top move on with his life once the...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoSecurity and Anxiety in the Atlantic 10
BROOKLYN– Atlantic 10 commissioner Bernadette McGlade is hopeful five of the teams from her league– Dayton, St. Bonaventure, Virginia Commonwealth, St....
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoXavier has that Final Four look about them.
NEW YORK– There was a frightening clap of thunder heard throughout the Garden last night. That was just fifth-ranked Xavier, once...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoHart beats loudly for Nova in Big East tournament
NEW YORK– There was a time when Villanova’s 6-6 forward Josh Hart thought he might be wearing a Georgetown jersey. Hart...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoBen Simmons can only take LSU so far.
This has been a season of twisted logic for Louisiana State’s enigmatic basketball team. As soon as 6-10 freshman Ben Simmons...
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Dick Weiss
/ 9 years agoAlabama Coach Nick Saban
GLENDALE, Ariz.— Alabama coach Nick Saban is rapidly becoming the reincarnation of the late Bear Bryant. Saban won his fourth national...
