Brian Hamilton

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton |CJ Moore

Outside the Yuengling Center on the first day of March, the palm trees are still and partly cloudy skies are barely partly cloudy. Inside, the mood matches the moment. The South Florida men's basketball team is smiling and breezy before what's to be a light practice. A final home game, and the Senior Day celebration that comes with it, awaits the following afternoon. The season has not been what anyone expected, largely because the person everyone wants to be here isn't.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton

SAN FRANCISCO - In summer 2022, the new Florida men's basketball staff had zero wins, an auspicious but limited track record and one guarantee: Thomas Haugh, the lanky three-star recruit in the practice gym, was not leaving Gainesville without plans to come back. He was possibly the only human ever to be both a native of New Oxford, Pa., and a die-hard Florida fan. A 6-foot-9 devotee of Tim Tebow Mania. If anyone was going to run to the front of the line, it was him.

Mar 26, 2025 | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton

SAN FRANCISCO - Wednesday's first update in the employment drama engulfing Maryland coach Kevin Willard presented itself shortly before 10 a.m. The assembled media were at that point permitted to watch the first 15 minutes of the Terrapins practice at the Chase Center. In doing so, all on hand could confirm that, yes, Kevin Willard was in fact still coaching Maryland men's basketball in the NCAA Tournament.

Mar 24, 2025 | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton

To jolt its men's basketball program from a malaise roughly 15 years long, Minnesota is doing a very Minnesotan thing: turning to one of its own. Colorado State's Niko Medved, who was born in Minneapolis and is a graduate of suburban Roseville High School and the state's flagship university, has been hired as the Gophers' next head coach, according to multiple reports. CBS Sports first reported the move. This is far more than a parochial pick, though.

Mar 23, 2025 | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton

RALEIGH, N.C. - Beyond midnight, wearing a blue blazer covering a gray UConn T-shirt, Dan Hurley looked like a tired basketball coach but talked something like an old, battle-worn gunslinger. You know the archetype. Lots of scars. Lots of blood bled. But stumbling on through the dust, one last showdown to come, because there's no other choice.