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Overall top-seed Kentucky and Midwest Region champ Kansas each won national semifinal games in the Final Four in New Orleans on Saturday to advance to the NCAA title game on Monday night.

When the Harlem Globetrotter's recently visited the Lafayette Cajun Dome, I was hoping to see this guy in action. Unfortunately, the world's tallest basketball player Paul Sturgess, "Tiny" is his nickname, was not present that night. "Tiny" stands at a whopping 7-feet-8-inches tall and weighs over 300 pounds!!  The pride of Loughborough, England, Sturgess played basketball at W

In all our years of watching basketball, we don’t think we’ve ever seen a harder flagrant foul than the one Jason Smith doled out to Blake Griffin.

Ohio State and Florida joined Big East powers Syracuse and Louisville in advancing to the regional finals of the 2012 NCAA tournament on Thursday. Here’s a recap of Thursday’s NCAA tournament games

Make room for Baylor's 6-foot-8 star Brittney Griner in the NCAA Women's Basketball history book. Griner just became the second woman ever to dunk the basketball in an NCAA tournament. The top-seeded Baylor team rolled to a 76-57 win over ninth-seeded Florida.

Ohio, Cincinnati and Xavier all won on Sunday to join Ohio State in the NCAA basketball tournament round of 16.

One of favorite halftime attractions at professional basketball games is when amateurs take to the court and attempt to pull-off the slam dunk. Of course, with the help of a trampoline or two that's when the entertainment takes new heights. Watch what happened at a recent Phoenix Suns game and see the end result of what happens when one simply jumps TOO HIGH for a slam dunk.

Higher-seeded teams won all but two games during Thursday’s play in the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament. VCU and Colorado were the only lower-seeded teams to record victories. Here’s a recap of all of the day’s action in the NCAA tournament:

Even if you aren’t a sports fan, you’ve probably been hearing an awful lot about this Jeremy Lin fellow. The New York Knicks point guard’s completely-out-of-nowhere run began on February 3rd when the-then obscure bench warmer came off the pine to spur the Knicks to a victory over the New Jersey Nets. He was inserted in the starting line-up after that, and since then has led the Knicks — who were p

We have seen it many times during the halftime festivities or during timeouts at basketball games, the team's mascot takes the court and displays it's leaping abilities, with the assistance of a trampoline, and slam dunks the ball.

The Harlem Globetrotters are making a stop at the Cajundome on Monday January 23rd at 7pm, WIN your FREE tickets from Hot 1079!

Four-year-old basketball sensation Cody “Cross Over” Jordan shows off some serious skill at ball handling, shooting and footwork in these videos. We may have found the next Michael Jordan.

According to a report on TMZ, what was set to be a friendly exhibition between Georgetown University and a professional Chinese Basketball team turned into a massive bench clearing brawl with chairs & fists flying. Reports say that tensions were high the whole game, but something set off an explosion between the two teams in the fourth quarter.

Often-injured Houston Rockets center Yao Ming has informed the NBA he has retired after eight seasons in the league. Yahoo! Sports first reported the news.

Local talent is always the best, and since basketball season just ended, I thought it would be fair enough to share this up and coming prospect I found.

Trick shot videos are popping up all over the internet these days and Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash makes a pretty unbelievable one that combines both his basketball and soccer skills (he was a footie star as a youth, FYI) in this ad for Chinese athletic apparel company Lu You. This definitely isn’t a guy you’d want to play in H-O-R-S-E. Now the question is, did he make it in one take?

In honor of NBA star Allen Iverson's 36th birthday today, I decided to revisit a couple viral YouTube videos. A few years back, Allen was given a hard time by sports writers, fans and others about his "practice" comment during a press conference. If you've never watched it before, check it out...if you watched it before, what's another couple times?

Just when you thought you could make that behind-the-back shot from the foul line, or maybe bounce the ball in while standing on the roof of your car, Kyle Singler has made another video pulling off some amazing basketball trick shots, watch and be amazed. "BUCKETS!"

Results from our 'Inner Squad Bracket Challenge' are coming soon, and I must say, not 1 member of the Hot Crew picked the correct Final Four? Did You, or do you know anyone who did, we would love to know! Anyway, looks like Butler gets another shot at the NCAA Championship tonight!

Phoenix Suns' head coach Alvin Gentry labeled the dunk Los Angeles Clippers' rookie Blake Griffin threw down over Suns' center Marcin Gortat on Sunday as "impressive of a dunk as I have seen in the NBA in 23 years."