College Basketball

ITHACA, N.Y. — TJ Power scored an Ivy Madness-record 44 points and Cam Thrower hit five clutch points in overtime, lifting Pennsylvania to an 88-84 victory over Yale to win the Ivy Legue championship on Sunday. Thrower’s 3-pointer with two minutes left in overtime gave the Quakers an 82-78 lead. After Yale answered with a 3, Thrower rebounded his own …

TJ Power stats today: How ex Duke forward poured in 44, forced OT with buzzer beater and led Penn to Ivy League title originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Penn likely wouldn’t have stood a chance against the Yale Bulldogs without ex-Duke forward TJ Power in the Ivy League …

When the House v. NCAA settlement received final approval in Summer 2025, it gave schools the opportunity to directly share up to $20.5 million with athletes through revenue-sharing. The majority of those dollars went to football, which is why the thought was conferences without football – such as the Big East – would be able to spend more on rosters. …

CHICAGO — Back in December right before Indiana’s Big Ten basketball schedule started, I was in Bloomington with my old college roommate and his son, both astute and passionate fans of several of the Hoosiers’ teams. We were talking IU basketball, and I had a question for his son. “If the over/under on Big Ten wins for Indiana was 10 …

The No. 4 Florida Gators men’s basketball team entered the SEC Tournament on a roll. The defending national champions won 11 consecutive games to close the regular season. Consequently, they earned the top seed in the conference tourney and were projected as a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Advertisement An SEC Tournament title would send the Gators into …

UMBC beat Vermont in the America East final Saturday to clinch its first bid to the NCAA men’s basketball tourney since 2018 when the Golden Retrievers pulled off a stunning upset over 1-seed Virginia in the first round. This year, they couldn’t wait until the big dance to take a shot at a power-conference team. Advertisement After UMBC secured its …

Bracketology season is nearly at an end, with the official bracket reveal coming at 6 p.m. eastern this afternoon. While most of the national conversation now centers around the bubble teams, the most relevant questions for Duke fans are what teams will be the Blue Devils’ biggest competition in their bracket. With that in mind, I’m throwing my hat into …

All the metrics, analytics and number crunching in the world cannot erase the most important statistic attached to the team that has captured college basketball’s imagination and its curiosity leading into March Madness. Miami of Ohio’s record is 31-1. The Redhawks were the first college basketball team in five years to enter their conference tournament with an undefeated record. Advertisement …

Don’t expect the final version of this bracket to differ too much from what I release before the Selection Show. For a time on Saturday afternoon, it looked like we might have a new No. 1 seed in the South, thanks to Florida’s no-show against Vanderbilt. But both Houston and UConn lost in their respective title games, with the Huskies’ …

It doesn’t get much better than this. After meeting just once during the regular season, Michigan and Purdue will get their rematch in the Big Ten Championship Game on Sunday afternoon at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The game comes on the heels of two hard fought close wins for both teams who entered the seasons as favorites to …

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 …