College basketball begins its new season the way the last one ended — under a cloud of uncertainty. The COVID-19 outbreak went quickly to DEFCON-1 during conference tournaments last season, going from full arenas to […]
Charlotte’s second-year coach, Ron Sanchez, honed his craft for decades as an assistant to Tony Bennett. So it’s only natural that the 49ers’ improvement would be slow and methodical. Sanchez took over a team that […]
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Olivier Sarr soared for a dunk, only to send the ball off the back iron — and it still somehow fell through the rim. Those kinds of bounces haven’t exactly gone Wake […]
Last season, the Charlotte 49ers were dead last in Conference USA in defense, allowing 79.9 points per game. Their solution was to bring in an assistant from the nation’s top defensive team to run things. […]
The Virginia basketball program had a historically bad weekend in Charlotte. Apparently, though, the experience of becoming the first No. 1 seed in NCAA tournament history to lose to a 16 seed in the opening […]
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