#team-usa-coaching

#team-usa-coaching

Tahaad Pettiford, who could've easily been a first-round pick last year, chose to stay with Auburn for another season despite a strong performance.

"Being as young as we were is something very unique, especially with certain positions, especially by the end of the year after the trade deadline and injuries. I think it was a pretty good experience in the sense that, when you have a group that mainly the whole group's going to return, you can kind of go through some of that growth you have to go through."

"That's just how I was raised. I feel like Northwood, the basketball gym felt like my home since I'm there so much, before, during and after school... I just wanted to help out. That was really it."

Wright averaged 18.1 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists, shooting 41% from 3-point range. He had five games of at least 25 points in Big 12 play.

"We try to put ourselves in situations every day in practice where we're facing adversity, where we're being pushed to our edge, and that's where you're forced to grow and feel forced to make decisions."

The starting lineup is going to change, the rotation is going to change. As a coach, I am still in fact-finding mode. Not in terms of who they are ... but trying to find some chemistry and see what combinations work together.

Listen up, that roar at your door is the UCLA women's basketball team, bursting on to the national headlines Sunday after delivering the kind of Big Ten tournament title beating that sounds, well, fake. They defeated ninth-ranked Iowa 96-45. They won the title game in arguably the country's deepest conference by 51 points.

Team USA men's hockey easily handled Latvia in their opening game of the 2026 Winter Olympics, securing a 5-1 victory. The focus now turns to their second round-robin game against Denmark on Saturday at 3:10 p.m. ET. Denmark lost their opener 3-1 to Germany but played better than the scoreline suggests. They outshot the Germans 38-25 but struggled to contain the star power of Leon Draisaitl and Tim Stutzle.

What I loved about it at first was the oranges. The parents were responsible for half-time, and a lot of times I couldn't wait for half-time because they cut up oranges, but I fell in love with the game because it was just being outside playing with my friends. I played centre forward and I wanted to score. I found out very fast what scoring was all about and also what it was like playing with team-mates.

MILAN -- Jack Eichel scored off his own faceoff win a minute after setting up Brady Tkachuk's first of two goals the same way, and the U.S. rode its top line to a 6-3 defeat of Denmark on Saturday night, keeping pace with also-unbeaten Canada for the top seed in the men's hockey tournament at the Olympics. The U.S. bounced back from goaltender Jeremy Swayman getting beaten by a shot from 95 feet away, just inside the center red line, 11 minutes in.

Chang, the Hall of Famer who won the 1989 French Open at age 17 and later rose to No. 2 in the world, has rarely taken on coaching roles since retiring from the tour. But the opportunity to mentor Tien - a rising 20-year-old American with a brainy game and similar background - proved intriguing.