Basketball

THE NCAAThe NCAA tournament was down to four teams. KENTUCKY, DUKE, TEXAS WESTERN and UTAH will gather in College Park, Md. next weekend to decide the national championship (page 22). In games last Friday and...

In the battle for the national basketball championship only Duke, Kentucky, Utah and Texas Western survive. If last week's pattern is confirmed, the final round at College Park will be the hottest in years

BASKETBALL—NBA: PHILADELPHIA (48-25) charged into first place in the Eastern Division, half a game ahead of the Celtics, with only two weeks left in the season. The 76ers started the week with a loss to the Royals...

Basketball fans all over the country—always an excitable lot anyway—are busy this week buying or searching for tickets, automatically yelling at anything in vertical stripes, hotly debating among themselves and...

For most teams the season was over and done with. But 37 major colleges—including new conference champions Duke, Michigan, Rhode Island, Southern Methodist, Oregon State, Utah and Pacific—and 40 small colleges were...