By DENNIS WASZAK Jr., AP Sports Writer
The LSU Tigers were in big trouble a month ago.
After missing the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament last season for the first time in 23 years—a sacrilege to many in Baton Rouge—the Tigers were again struggling with a 6-11-1 conference mark.
That’s when LSU turned it all around. The Tigers have [...]

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr., AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP)—Brett Boretti has been busy reading and responding to tons of e-mails during the past week.
With each visit to his crowded inbox, the Columbia University baseball coach further realizes the magnitude of leading the Lions to their first NCAA tournament appearance in 32 years.
“The alums have really [...]

STORRS, Conn. (AP)—Connecticut center Hasheem Thabeet plans to return to school for his junior season instead of entering the NBA draft.
The 7-foot-3 native of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, was projected as a first-round pick in the draft.
Thabeet averaged more than 10 points and almost eight rebounds a game as a sophomore, and ranked third in [...]

By Mike DeCourcy – SportingNews
Consider the numbers: 51.9 points, 17.4 rebounds, 8.1 assists.
And 36 victories.
That has been a heavy burden to carry, and all has been weighing on the minds of North Carolina fans with Sunday’s deadline approaching for college underclassmen to declare their entry to the 2008 NBA draft.
More than three dozen of their [...]

By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
It was late January and Kentucky was 7-9. Billy Gillispie looked like he needed a vacation or three and some of the Wildcats fans were having some serious buyers’ remorse. This was not happening, was it?
Gillispie was supposed to take the Wildcats from good to great again. A program with seven [...]