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BigTyme March Fest kicks off the spring with top talent

DALLAS, Tex. -- With close to 100 teams and a thousand players, the DFW Elite BigTyme March Fest had dozens of players from various classes that will go on to play at the next level. I picked nine players but I probably could have picked 50, there was that much talent to choose from.

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Ariel Atkins, 5-11 guard, Cy Fair Nike Elite

New details revealed in Kaela Davis' decision to leave Buford

BUFORD, Ga. -- The midseason departure of one of the nation’s top prep players from her high school team took a new twist when Full Court received copies of a text message reportedly sent by Kaela Davis of Buford High School to her teammates indicating that she left the team due to a dispute with her coach.

Harper out at NC State

RALEIGH, NC -- The North Carolina State Department of Athletics announced today that head women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper will not return in 2013-14.

“We thank Kellie for her service to our women’s basketball program,” said Director of Athletics Deborah A. Yow. “We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

Bears ready for Griner's last home gome

WACO, Tex. – It’s been unseasonably cold for the last few days in central Texas.

Marion County rules the Bluegrass State

BOWLING GREEN, KY -- Not eight, six or even four!  Just a single school each year can claim to be the champion of girls’ basketball in the state of Kentucky.  This year for the first time the champion was Marion County (39-0) of Lebanon, Kentucky. 

A tradition as much as an event…

Engleman, Goodrich guide Jayhawks to upset of Gamecocks

BOULDER, Colo. –- Kansas is headed to the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row after back-to-back upsets against No. 5 Colorado and No. 4 South Carolina.  The Jayhawks are the first No. 12 seed to advance to the Sweet 16 since San Francisco in 1996.

Senior guard Monica Engleman scored a career-high 27 points, including 18 in the first half, to guide Kansas past the tough South Carolina Gamecocks 75-69.

“Monica was on fire tonight, so we did our best to get her the ball,” said Kansas senior Angel Goodrich about her teammate.

Armstrong's leadership rallies Bulldogs past Cyclones

SPOKANE, Wash. -- With their season on the brink in the face of a rip-roaring 19-1 Iowa State surge that erased a 14-point Georgia lead and put the Cyclones up 56-52 with 2 minutes and 32 seconds to play in Monday night’s NCAA tournament second round game at the McCarthey Athletic Center, Bulldogs senior center Anne Marie Armstrong calmly gathered her teammates together.

No crying towels in Prairie View locker room

WACO, Tex. -- The postseason was over quickly for 16^th-seeded Prairie View A&M and with it the collegiate careers of the team’s three seniors. The Panthers lost, yet again, and in dramatic fashion in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament Sunday, falling, 82-40, to the defending national champion Baylor Bears on their home court in Waco.

Plenty of talent at California state championships

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The prize of the Class of 2014 has been scooped up – Jordin Canada of Windward will go to UCLA, and even a loss to Bishop O’Dowd in the California Open Division finals couldn’t dim Canada’s luster. Sure, it would be nice if she went left a little more, and if she had more faith in her jump shot, but those are nitpicks. She’s a great young player, and will help keep UCLA in the national rankings during her time there.

Anna Prins' love and basketball story at Iowa State

SPOKANE, Wash. — When Iowa State head women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly took the microphone minutes after the Cyclones’ 86-47 win over Alabama State on Dec. 30, he thought that the crowd at James H. Hilton Coliseum was expecting a New Year’s salute.

But Fennelly had something far more monumental in store for the fans that had attended the final game of Iowa State’s holiday classic.

Two weeks prior, Ryan De Hamer had stepped into Fennelly’s office and asked for a favor. He had a life-changing event in mind, and he wanted Fennelly’s help in pulling it off.