La Crosse Tribune Sports News

Georgia State's Ron Hunter beamed as a proud father, not a jubilant coach whose underdog team advanced in the NCAA Tournament on his son's late heroics.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Take away the sluggish start and the ragged finish, and top-ranked Kentucky opened the NCAA Tournament opener the way it wanted against 16th-seeded Hampton.

Fourteen is the new 12 this year at the NCAA Tournament.

Two wins by No. 14 seeds. Two sons winning games for their father-coaches. Two overtimes. Several big comebacks. The team nobody thought belonged in the field winning a game. The Big 12 starti…

PHOENIX (AP) — Brandan Wright scored 16 points and matched his career high with seven blocked shots, helping the Phoenix Suns to a sluggish, cold-shooting 74-72 victory over a New Orleans Peli…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gordon Hayward scored 22 points, Trey Burke added 17 off the bench, and the Utah Jazz sent the Los Angeles Lakers to their 50th loss of the season, 80-73 on Thursday night.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gordon Hayward scored 22 points, Trey Burke added 17 off the bench, and the Utah Jazz sent the Los Angeles Lakers to their 50th loss of the season, 80-73 on Thursday night.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Ryan O'Reilly and Jarome Iginla scored 29 seconds apart in the first period, Semyon Varlamov made 27 saves, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Arizona Coyotes 5-2 on Th…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Rookie Marko Dano recorded his first two-goal game in the NHL and Sergei Bobrovsky made 38 saves as the Blue Jackets routed the Vancouver Canucks 6-2 on Thur…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Troy Caupain banged a layup off the rim with 61 seconds left, and his Cincinnati teammates told him to shake it off.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two wins by No. 14 seeds. Two sons winning games for their father-coaches. Two overtimes. Several big comebacks. The team nobody thought belonged in the field winning a …

PHOENIX (AP) — Brandan Wright scored 16 points and matched his career high with seven blocked shots, helping the Phoenix Suns to a sluggish, cold-shooting 74-72 victory over a New Orleans Peli…

OMAHA, Neb. — Traevon Jackson says he won’t be in the lineup tonight when the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team opens the NCAA tournament against Coastal Carolina, and the senior p…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Michael Qualls scored 20 points, Southeastern Conference player of the year Bobby Portis added 15 points and 13 rebounds, and fifth-seeded Arkansas held off No. 12 se…

TUCSON, Ari. — Junior Emilie Wiltzuis drove in a pair of runs to help the UW-La Crosse softball team run away with a 7-0 win over St. Joseph’s College (N.Y.) before falling 2-0 to Central Coll…

DETROIT — Habits cultivated over the course of five months are hard to dismantle in one evening.

Three University of Wisconsin wrestlers advanced to today’s quarterfinals with a pair of victories Thursday on the first of three days at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships on Thursda…

TRACK AND FIELD

Jenna Engh was more than a scorer for the Viterbo University women’s basketball team.

Actress and Kentucky Wildcats fan Ashley Judd is firing back at those who posted threats and hateful comments online after she tweeted that she thought Arkansas was playing dirty in its SEC ba…