College Basketball

BASKETBALL—NBA: The regular season ended just the way everybody said it would before it began, Boston running away in the Eastern Division and Los Angeles an easy winner in the West. The Celtics finished strong,...

The college basketball season was in its final days, and as far as the NCAA championship was concerned, the thing to be was a favorite. Sixteen teams played in the four NCAA regional elimination tournaments over the...

Utah surprised everyone in the 1944 NCAA tournament after losing in the first round of the NIT only a week earlier

BASKETBALL—NBA: The game was nearly subordinated to bomb scares, brawls, bad crowds and babies. San Francisco, a real bomb with a 0-4 record, encountered a fake bomb at Baltimore, The scare emptied the Civic Center...

The NCAA championship tournament was barely under way, but already the portents were bad for the favorites. The first action in the two-week event came at Lubbock, Texas, where a Midwest regional double-header...