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May 10, 2021 : By Jacob Couch - Office of Communications & Public Engagement Coming off a year that many desire to forget, when spring sports came to a halt and many fall sports were delayed, Liberty University Athletics has given Flames fans worldwide a spring sports season for the ages, adding seven conference titles — and counting — to the trophy case. In the Spring 2021 semester, all but one of Liberty’s 20 NCAA Athletics programs (football) competed as the university packed in almost a year’s worth of competition into one spring season, dubbing the busy schedule “Super Spring...

1 of 8 Ronda Churchill/Associated Press Greg McDermott is back coaching Creighton after a brief suspension for racially insensitive comments. But either his team was actively protesting his reinstatement against Georgetown or it was just not ready to play as the Hoyas smacked the Bluejays, 73-48. That has the Bluejays in a bit of a rough spot heading into their first-round matchup against UC Santa Barbara, one of the best low-major teams in the country. In his Sunday writeup on the Gauchos, B/R's Kerry Miller put the team in recent historical context:  "UCSB finished the season in the top 7...

Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports For the third consecutive year the Liberty Flames have won the ASUN Tournament, and with it, the conference’s March Madness auto bid. But this team is different from the previous iterations that made waves on the national stage. Can the 2020-21 squad reach similar heights? What’s New and What’s Still the Same? Gone are nearly all the major contributors from the 2018-19 team that won 29 games and pulled off the classic 12-5 upset over Mississippi State. The gang came back for one more ride last season, winning 30 games and looking like they were going to ...

0 of 9 Michael Conroy/Associated Press The Midwest Region of the 2021 men's NCAA tournament is headlined by No. 1 Illinois, which learned it had secured a top seed just minutes after knocking off Ohio State in overtime in the Big Ten tournament's championship game. The Fighting Illini will need to navigate No. 2 Houston, No. 3 West Virginia, No. 4 Oklahoma State and a host of upset-minded lower seeds if they hope to reach the Final Four. For NBA fans, Oklahoma State freshman guard Cade Cunningham will be must-see TV as the presumptive No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 draft following a stellar s...

Conference: Big Ten. Bid: Automatic. Region: Midwest. Seed: No. 1. Tournament History: 40-31, 5 Final Fours in 30 appearances. Last appearance: 2013, lost to Miami in the Second Round. Season Stats Top Scorers: Ayo Dosunmu 20.9; Kofi Cockburn 17.6; Trent Frazier 10.4. Rebounds: Cockburn 9.6; Dosunmu 6.2; Avg team margin (plus-10.2). Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.23): Dosunmu (5.4/3.3), 135 assists. Last 10 Games: 9-1. Worst Loss: 72-81 at Michigan St. on Feb. 23. The Skinny: No. 3 Illinois claimed its first Big Ten Tournament title since 2005 by topping No. 9 Ohio State. Illinois has wo...