Caitlin Clark is one of the top collegiate basketball players in the country. She turned in a triple-double in Iowa’s Elite Eight win over Louisville. Clark was spotted doing John Cena’s trademark ‘You Can’t See Me’ gesture.
Caitlin Clark led the Hawkeyes to a final four for the first time in three decades. It's the first 40-point triple-double ever recorded in the men's or women's NCAA tournament. The game was the largest deficit of the tournament so far.
A university that once boasted a top-tier basketball programme decades ago hired Rick Pitino as their next head coach. He is a two-time NCAA champion (though one was vacated) with Kentucky and Louisville, and went to the Final Four with three universities.
Rick Pitino has signed a six-year deal to become the new coach at St. John's. He will leave Iona after three seasons, helping them make the NCAA tournament twice. The Hall of Fame returned to college basketball in 2020 after his controversial exit from Louisville three years earlier.
Darling Furman had 13 points, Lamont Butler added 12 and leading scorer Matt Bradley finished with 10. The Aztecs have won 11 of their past 13 games and will play either Alabama or Maryland next week in the south region semifinals in Louisville, Kentucky.
The center played for his hometown program from 1986-90. He shot a school record 62.8 percent in 134 games. His sister, Tammy Pollock, tweeted that he died.
Leslie Jordan, 67, was a prime-time Emmy winner for his role on the hit sitcom will & Grace. He co-starred on the show as a newly single gay man working as the head baker at the Louisville, Kentucky, cafe of the lead character, Kat.
EST Gee dropped his new album I Never Felt Nun last month. The track featured the seemingly unlikely pairing of the Louisville native with another Midwestern mainstay, Machine Gun Kelly. Fans loved the pair, favorably comparing their track to the two Kentuckians’ prior team-ups.
Rick Pitino says he hopes Donovan Mitchell winds up with the Knicks. Pitino coached the Knicks in the late 1980s and has been at Iona since 2020. Mitchell played for Pitino at Louisville from 2015 to 2017. The Jazz selected Mitchell with the 13th-overall pick of the 2017 draft.
