College Basketball

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke will enter the NCAA tournament as the No. 1 overall seed and ACC champion, led by arguably the most impactful player in the country. But the March microscope isn’t going to be on Cameron Boozer. In a sport of inconsistency and unpredictability, he’s too strong, too reliable — just too good — to be a question …

UConn coach Dan Hurley says Huskies ‘laid an egg’ after Big East title loss to St. John’s originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The magic that often follows UConn Huskies  in March never showed up Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Advertisement Instead, it was St. John’s Red Storm …

And with that, the NCAA Tournament is upon us. Conference tournaments will wrap up this afternoon, punching the final few automatic bids to the big dance. However, as we know by now, the field is largely already set. The committee will be watching to finalize the final few details of the bracket, which will be revealed this evening live on …

After Friday’s four-point victory over Ohio State, Michigan head coach Dusty May was asked if he liked close games. “If we win, yes, I love it,” he quipped. He must have loved Saturday’s game against Wisconsin. In a contest that started out slowly but heated up late, Michigan prevailed in a thriller thanks to a last-second three-pointer by Big Ten …

Two events occurred on Saturday in women’s college basketball that made the NCAA Tournament picture a bit clearer. First, the selection committee unveiled its top 16 seeds — in alphabetical order — allowing host sites an extra day to prepare and giving fans time to make travel arrangements. This is the first time the top 16 has been unveiled a …

This past week and the next week have long been my favorite two week period in the college basketball calendar. Championship Week and the first week of the tournament. There are so many basketball games, so many stories, tons of game winners, and just generally fun games to watch. But the central event to each and every college basketball season …

We’ve reached the championship portion of the OSAA basketball season, and athletes throughout Lane County have delivered plenty of strong performances on the big stage. Every week, you get to vote for The Register-Guard’s Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Active Chiropractic. Advertisement Here are the nominees for this week’s boys Athlete of the Week: Ace Arnold, Creswell basketball Luke …

There are still some pieces that will be sorted out Sunday, and of course bracketology is not the final word. But it is fun, and it is worth taking a look at. After Duke’s win in Saturday’s ACC Championship, Duke is likely to retain the #1 seed overall and the #1 seed in the East. ESPN has the Blue Devils …

Happy Selection Sunday, everyone! Today, Kentucky Basketball will learn its fate for the men and women’s NCAA Tournaments. We have a pretty good idea of where Kentucky will be seeded in each tournament, but their opponents and where they’ll be playing remain up in the air. Advertisement On the men’s side, it is generally believed Mark Pope’s squad will enter …

Greetings, BBN! The Kentucky Wildcats are now handing in a complete resume for Selection Sunday, and unlike a lot of other programs around the country, theirs has everything it needs to comfortably make the field and land them squarely in the middle of the bracket. Advertisement At one point in the nonconference, they were 5-4, and at one point early …

The Arizona Wildcats are headed back to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in as many seasons under Tommy Lloyd, this time as an automatic qualifier after winning the Big 12 Tournament title. All signs point to them getting a No. 1 seed in the West Region. That, and who they begin tourney play with, will be revealed Sunday. …

It’s Christmas Day for bracketologists. Those who study in the dark arts of predicting what the NCAA tournament bracket will look like will finally get to see where they were right and where they were wrong. Advertisement It’s Selection Sunday. There seems to be a consensus that the 1-seeds are locked in: Duke, Michigan, Arizona and Florida, with UConn as …

NEW YORK (AP) — Zuby Ejiofor had seven blocks, nine rebounds and three steals to anchor a tenacious defensive performance that carried No. 13 St. John’s to its second straight Big East Tournament championship Saturday night with a 72-52 blowout of sixth-ranked UConn at Madison Square Garden. Ejiofor and Bryce Hopkins each scored 18 points for the top-seeded Red Storm …

Utah Valley squandered its chance to make the NCAA tournament in the most brutal possible way late Saturday night. Sophomore forward Isaac Davis botched a potential game-tying alley-oop dunk with just over three seconds left in the second half of the final Western Athletic Conference title game before the league rebrands before next season. Advertisement With top-seeded Utah Valley trailing …

Why Bruce Pearl is on CBS’s Selection Sunday show broadcast in 2026 originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Along with being Auburn basketball’s winningest coach and second-fastest NCAA coach to reach 300 victories (Roy Williams is the fastest), Bruce Pearl will appear on TNT’s Selection Sunday show. Advertisement Pearl recently …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jon Scheyer shared somewhat of an update on Caleb Foster and Patrick Ngongba II following Duke basketball’s ACC Tournament championship win over Virginia on Saturday, March 14. Foster fractured his foot in Duke’s regular-season finale against UNC on March 7, while Ngongba missed the contest with foot soreness and has not played since Duke’s win over N.C. …

Duke basketball is a projected No. 1 seed heading into Selection Sunday. The Blue Devils, who finished the regular season 29-2 and as the nation’s top-ranked team, are coming off their second straight ACC Tournament title, taking down Virginia 74-40 to claim the league’s regular-season and tournament crown for back-to-back seasons. They did so without starting center Patrick Ngongba II …

When are March Madness brackets due? Here’s the date, time to fill out your 2026 NCAA Tournament bracket originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. While many celebrate the holiday season in December each year, college basketball fans mark their calendars for March. The NCAA tournament is here. Advertisement Bracket …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Time and time again, Cameron Boozer attacked the paint with an Atlantic Coast Conference championship on the line. And Duke’s star freshman repeatedly found himself meeting an unusual outcome. Seeing his shots batted out of the air by Virginia’s Ugonna Onyenso. Advertisement “Well,” Boozer admitted, “I definitely got frustrated.” That battle between the 6-foot-10, 250-pound Boozer …

The Virginia Cavaliers lost an absolute heartbreaker on Saturday night, falling to the Duke Blue Devils, 74-70, in the ACC Tournament championship game. After a no-show performance in Durham on February 28th, the ’Hoos looked like an entirely different squad in round two against the Blue Devils, using the momentum of Friday night’s 22-point semifinal win over Miami to take …

UConn HC Dan Hurley reveals what’s next after Big East loss to St. John’s appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Dan Hurley explained the next steps for UConn after the No. 6 Huskies lost 72-52 to the No. 13 St. John’s Red Storm on Saturday night. Advertisement Hurley and UConn hoped to beat …

NIT selection show 2026 time, TV channel, live stream for college basketball tournament bracket reveal originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. March Madness goes beyond the NCAA Tournament, and the NIT is back to give more teams a shot at postseason basketball. Advertisement The 32-team event has long been …

Kentucky men’s basketball has won 32 SEC Tournament titles. People called it the “Kentucky Invitational.” Now you have punks like Dan Dakich taking pot shots at the program for being “irrelevant,“ and Todd Golden proving he is the most annoying winner in college basketball at the expense of the Cats. It’s not been a good run for Kentucky. Since 2020, …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brayden Burries scored 21 points, including a pair of free throws with 8.3 seconds left, and second-ranked Arizona held off No. 5 Houston 79-74 on Saturday night in a rematch of last year’s Big 12 Tournament title game won by the Cougars. Koa Peat also had 21 points and Jaden Bradley followed his semifinal game-winner …

PITTSBURGH – The final 30 seconds of Saturday afternoon’s Atlantic 10 Semifinal showdown between Saint Louis and Dayton played all the hits that only a conference tournament game in March can deliver. Dayton’s Amael L’Etang was the hero, tipping in a ball that seemed to hang in the air in slow motion with less than a second to go in …