Aaron Craft

He not only made the winning pass, he ordered the winning basket. That is how Aaron Craft rolls, either into your heart or under your skin, his tiny hands rummaging deep into the pockets of March, his rosy cheeks squarely in America's face. With two...

“Give Wichita State the credit. Tremendous, unbelievable basketball team and they’re playing as well as any team that we’ve played this year”. Ohio State of the Big 10 coach Thad Motta What can you say--- As a man of many...

Some West Regional final this turned out to be. The closest school left, Wichita State, is located 1,380 miles from epicenter court at Staples Center. Ohio State in the NCAA West makes as much sense as Dallas in the NFC East. That is not to say...

Florida Gulf Coast is a hot story and, gee, that old La Salle played great, but all of that may not matter. Forget Louisville, Indiana, Duke and Syracuse and save your talk about difference-maker guards Peyton Siva of Louisville, Miami's Shane Larkin,...

My dream of a West Regional foursome of Wichita State, La Salle, Harvard and Iowa State came only half true. Los Angeles fell two underdogs short from hitting for the Cinderella cycle. The disappointment abated when, in Philadelphia, the hallucination...

The Big Ten Conference might be losing a handful of high-profile players to early entry in the NBA draft and dozens more to graduation, but it shouldn't stop business as usual for the perennially strong league in 2013-14. A few months ago, the 12-team...

The public might watch Ohio State men's basketball coach Thad Matta sweat, yell and go through other histrionics on the sideline during games and assume he is the impatient sort with a low boiling point. But what fans did not see this past season was...

It's counterintuitive, but Ohio State's small lineup paid big dividends on the boards Thursday. Ohio State defeated Arizona, 73-70, at Staples Center and advances to the West Regional final on Saturday. The Buckeyes out-rebounded the Wildcats, 32-30, and...

A day before LaQuinton Ross leaped, splayed his legs and downed Arizona with a decisive three-pointer Thursday, the 6-foot-8 Ohio State forward randomly won the locker-room lottery. He walked into the Lakers' locker room at Staples Center — his...

What a stage and an opportunity for Wichita State. Nationally televised game on neutral court for a huge prize. If that sounds like the MVC Tournament title game, you are right. I'd like to equate this stage of the Elite 8 in Staples Center in Los...

LOS ANGELES --- Facing an Ohio State team seeking a second straight Final Four appearance and thrust back into the underdog role after a one-game foray into favor, coach Gregg Marshall and Wichita State were right back where they wanted to be on...

Wichita State is headed to the Final Four, and these Shockers should be no surprise to anybody. Not after the way they held off mighty Ohio State in the West Regional final at Staples Center on Saturday night. Malcolm Armstead scored 14 points, Fred...