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Former Auburn University coach Pat Dye, who took over a downtrodden football program in 1981 and turned it into a Southeastern Conference power, died Monday. He was 80.

Eddie Sutton waited so long to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He couldn’t hang on long enough to make it to the ceremony.

Mr. McCarthy won an NBA title with 1964 Boston Celtics and helped the Canisius Golden Griffins to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances in the 1950s.

Former Syracuse football coach Frank Maloney, who succeeded the winningest coach in school history when the program was in decline, has died. He was 79.

The buzzer-beaters, upsets and all the other shining moments of this year’s NCAA Tournaments will be played in mostly empty arenas.

Jordan Roland hit 5 of 12 3-pointers and scored 21 points and sixth-seeded Northeastern led wire-to-wire to beat No. 7 Elon 68-60 in Monday night’s Colonial Athletic Association tournament semifinal.

She scored 12 points in the last five minutes as the Eagles went on a 14-0 run in the ACC quarterfinals.

In two years, Joanna Bernabei-McNamee took a seven-win team and made it into an ACC contender.

The madness of March begins with these preludes to the NCAA Tournament.

The Huskies won the best-of-three series to set up a semifinal match with New Hampshire.

Javante McCoy’s jumper with 29 seconds left snapped a tie as Boston University topped Bucknell, 74-71.

BC is tied with UConn at a game apiece in the other quarterfinal series.

The 25-0 Jumbos are hosting the conference semifinals and finals this weekend in Medford.

Allen, who remains on the Celtics staff, was caught up in a federal criminal trial involving a Florida man who tried to guarantee his son admission to Penn, where Allen was head coach.

BC strength and conditioning coach Phil Matusz realized the best way to prepare college players for the combine was to replicate it for them.

New Hampshire tipped Providence in Game 1 of its quarterfinal series.

Tyler Soule (11 points) led BC (17-11, 10-7 ACC) but the No. 5 Cardinals (26-3, 15-2) proved too much in clinching league title.

The two-time Division 2 All-American soccer player carries the same determination in his position as a firefighter in Nashua, N.H.

Coach Mike Cavanaugh credits senior leadership with getting the Huskies into position to vie for home ice in the quarterfinals.

Fighting Irish guard T.J. Gibbs flipped in the winning basket with 0.1 seconds to beat the Eagles, 62-61.

A slew of first-year talent has helped keep our interest in a season when postseason bids may be scarce.

Energized by their fans, Parker McLaren (23 points) and Jake Robertson (21 points) led the third-seeded Clippers to a 67-57 victory.

Effort, enthusiasm — and fun — a high priority for Eagles in their first spring workout with new coaching staff.

Udoka Azubuike had 23 points and a career-high 19 rebounds for Jayhawks in a 64-61 win at Baylor on Saturday.

The former three-year captain lives in South Boston, still plays ball, and is an international consultant for Explorica.

The award, given to the the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey, will be presented to the winner March 21.

Senior guard Packy Witkowski of Melrose averaged 28.5 points per game in a pair of wins for the Coast Guard Academy men’s basketball team.

With three weeks left in the regular season, only 5 points separate the top nine teams in the conference.

Nearly half of the Eagles’ 11 assistants have NFL experience, and all but one has been on a staff at a Power 5 school.

Metcalf, the deputy director of athletics at UNH, will take over for Joe Bertagna in April.

Northeastern, for one, likes its chances if it can get into the top six in the Colonial Athletic Association.

The Huskies’ run of 253 straight weeks as one of the first five teams in the Associated Press Top 25 dated back to Feb. 5, 2007.

The Huskies fell to sixth on Monday, ending a run of 253 consecutive weeks that was nearly 2.5 times longer than any other in the sport’s history.

Sophomore Taylor Soule scored a career-high 29 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Boston College to an ACC win over North Carolina.Sophomore Taylor Soule scored a career-high 29 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Boston College to an ACC win over North Carolina.

Dayton was the Minutemen’s highest-ranked home opponent since a game against No. 2 Saint Joseph on Feb. 25, 2004.

The forward has a knack for the big goals, and he’ll be needed as the Huskies fight for postseason position.

The 6-foot-9 Watertown native remains the only Brandeis player to net 1,000 career points and rebounds.

The St. Mary’s grad is a five-time conference Rookie of the Week for the Gulls, ranked 21st in Division 3.

Oliver Ames and Bentley grad Lauren Battista has been named the Division 2 East Regional Player of the Decade for women’s basketball.

Isaiah Wong scored 21 points as Miami snapped a three-game losing streak, defeating the Eagles, 85-58.

Lauren MacInnis scored the winner on the power play after, just like Monday’s men’s final, the Terriers tied in the waning seconds of the third period.

Senior Eric Demers carries a hefty average of 33.8 points per game — the top average among all NCAA divisions — for the Wenham school.

Regular-season records could be better than expected because of the widespread parity in the game.

The NCAA’s pressure campaign comes as the Senate prepares for a committee hearing Tuesday on player compensation.

Six skaters scored for BC, with Jack McBain scoring twice and Matt Boldy adding a goal and two assists.

Defenseman Jordan Harris scored a power-play goal from blue line at 14:33 of the second overtime to beat BU for the Beanpot title

Northeastern won its third straight championship in a classic against Boston University that reminded us all of what sports can be.

The senior scored a game-high 24 points and Makayla Dickens added 21 to lead the Eagles to a 70-68 ACC road win at Clemson. The senior scored a game-high 24 points and Makayla Dickens added 21 to lead the Eagles to a 70-68 ACC road win at Clemson.

The Bridgewater native had one more season of eligibility after his senior season at Merrimack, so he tranferred to Northeastern.

Mitchell had scored just 17 points in Boston College’s previous four games, but he tied his career highs in points (21) and rebounds (15).