College Basketball

[ad_1] Michigan State basketball has opened the 2025 NCAA Tournament with a big time win over the 15-seeded Bryant Bulldogs on Friday night, 87-62. While the score isn’t totally indicative of the game, Bryant showed up physically, and gave the Spartans a headache for a majority of the contest. In the end, behind a career high performance from Coen Carr, …

[ad_1] Women’s NCAA March Madness: Keys to a deep run Local reporters break down some of the top teams, and their keys to victory in the 2025 March Madness tournament. Game times have been announced for the next round of the NCAA Tournament. As a No. 4 seed, the Kentucky women’s basketball team will play 5-seed Kansas State in the …

[ad_1] CLEVELAND (AP) — Earl Timberlake’s toughness is no secret to his Bryant teammates. Facing Michigan State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament late Friday night, Timberlake offered a glimpse of it to the rest of the college basketball world. The senior guard and American East Player of the Year took an elbow to the forehead from Spartans …

[ad_1] RALEIGH, N,C. — A third straight national title for UConn may be improbable, but it’s still possible. Alex Karaban came through with a critical 3-pointer and a floater in the lane during a late run that helped the Huskies hold off Oklahoma 67-59 on Friday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. “Somebody’s going to have to …

[ad_1] With victories over Purdue, Maryland, Wisconsin and Georgia early in the season, the Marquette Golden Eagles looked at least at times like a top 10 team in the country. A favorable Big East schedule in the first half of the conference season supported that eye test, as the Golden Eagles won 9 of their first 10 league games, getting …

[ad_1] Pitino and Calipari face off in March Madness battle of coaching greats Mackenzie Salmon takes a look at the best games to watch on the first day of second round action in the NCAA Tournament including a battle of coaching legends. Sports Seriously Rick Pitino has won at every stop of his college coaching career, from Boston University to …

[ad_1] So far, March hasn’t been mad at all. The underdogs have underachieved. The longshots have misfired. The giant killers have been swatted aside. Top-four seeds clinched a perfect 16-0 record in the first round of the men’s NCAA tournament this year when Michigan State routed Bryant late Friday night. This is only the sixth time that’s happened since the …

[ad_1] MILWAUKEE — Otega Oweh scored 20 points, Andrew Carr had 13 and third-seeded Kentucky beat Troy 76-57 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Oweh added eight assists and six rebounds, and Amari Williams grabbed 13 boards for Kentucky. Next up for the Wildcats (23-11) in the Midwest Region is the winner of Illinois versus Xavier. …

[ad_1] RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – MARCH 21: Liam McNeeley #30 of the Connecticut Huskies controls the ball while defended by Brycen Goodine #2 of the Oklahoma Sooners during the second half in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Lenovo Center on March 21, 2025 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) UConn’s quest …

[ad_1] CLEVELAND — Donovan Dent scored 21 points and No. 10 seed New Mexico took control late in the second half to defeat seventh-seeded Marquette 75-66 on Friday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Richard Pitino joined his father in the second round after New Mexico (27-7) snapped a four-game NCAA Tournament losing streak and won its …

[ad_1] Pitino and Calipari face off in March Madness battle of coaching greats Mackenzie Salmon takes a look at the best games to watch on the first day of second round action in the NCAA Tournament including a battle of coaching legends. Sports Seriously No. 15 seed Bryant is hanging around with Michigan State basketball in the first round of …

[ad_1] Bruce Pascoe  |  Arizona Daily Star Here’s what you need to know about the University of Arizona UA was established in 1885, and its main campus is in Tucson. The Wildcats once had a live bobcat named Rufus as a mascot. The Republic SEATTLE — Throughout all their inconsistencies this season, the Arizona Wildcats always had a formula for …

[ad_1] SEATTLE (AP) — Jaden Bradley, Trey Townsend and Caleb Love hit 3-pointers within the first two minutes, and No. 4 seed Arizona easily dismissed 13th-seeded Akron 93-65 on Friday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Bradley finished with 19 points, Townsend had 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting, Carter Bryant scored 12 and Love and KJ Lewis …

[ad_1] Check out how social media viewed the UNC-Ole Miss game Friday. The North Carolina Tar Heels entered Friday’s NCAA Tournament matchup against Ole Miss with plenty of momentum, thanks to a massive stomping of San Diego State in Tuesday’s First Four matchup. When the final buzzer sounded from inside the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., UNC’s season came to …

[ad_1] MILWAUKEE — Kentucky basketball didn’t show a lot of sizzle in its NCAA Tournament first-round win over Troy, despite what the 76-57 score may have implied. Frankly, the ability to overwhelm and overpower opponents may have disappeared with Jaxson Robinson’s season-ending wrist injury and Lamont Butler clearly laboring while playing with an injured left shoulder. What the third-seeded Wildcats …

[ad_1] RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — First-team All-American Walter Clayton Jr. scored 23 points and Florida defeated Norfolk State 95-69 on Friday, ensuring all four No. 1 seeds made it out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament unscathed. Alijah Martin added 17 points for the Southeastern Conference champions, who built a 32-point lead in the first half en route …

[ad_1] Thursday’s slate of first round men’s NCAA tournament games didn’t produce many massive upsets. But people still tuned in. According to the NCAA, the 16 games played Thursday were the most-watched games of any opening day in tournament history. The four-game windows across CBS, TBS, TNT and TruTV averaged 9.1 million viewers. The most-watched game came Thursday evening as …

[ad_1] MINNEAPOLIS — Red Lake County’s Connor Duden had never played at Williams Arena, the Minnesota Gophers’ basketball arena in Minneapolis. He’s never attended a game there. But he led Red Lake County’s offense, dropping 30 points in the No. 3 Rebels’ Minnesota Class A state semifinal game against No. 2 Dawson-Boyd. Duden’s night wasn’t enough, though, as the Blackjacks …

[ad_1] The ACC’s issues aren’t about nonconference scheduling or computer numbers. The league needs better coaches and more investment in rosters. Pitino and Calipari face off in March Madness battle of coaching greats Mackenzie Salmon takes a look at the best games to watch on the first day of second round action in the NCAA Tournament including a battle of …

[ad_1] LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Johni Broome and Ryan Kalkbrenner are big men with big-time experience on the March Madness stage. Just not against each other, which makes Saturday night’s NCAA Tournament second-round South Region showdown between overall top seed Auburn and No. 9 seed Creighton so compelling. Plot lines abound thanks to the Tigers’ and Blue Jays’ multiple strengths, …

[ad_1] March Madness arrives at Fiserv Forum from men’s basketball tournament Fiserv Forum hosts the NCAA men’s basketball tournament games in Milwaukee and this is what March Madness looks like . MILWAUKEE – Whatever North Carolina coach Hubert Davis told his team inside the halftime locker room Friday afternoon, the message came about 20 minutes too late. Left for dead …

[ad_1] SEATTLE (AP) — Kyan Evans made a career-high six 3-pointers and scored 23 points to lead No. 12 seed Colorado State past fifth-seeded Memphis 78-70 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Nique Clifford, the Mountain West Tournament MVP, had his quietest scoring night in a month, finishing with 14 points, eight on free throws. He added eight …

[ad_1] PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rick Pitino and John Calipari won’t be confused for chums. Pitino doesn’t think the two have ever even broken bread together. They respect what each other has accomplished in the sport that has defined both of their lives. They’ve shared the court, memorably, many times. But they’ve not been particularly close in decades. “I don’t know …

[ad_1] Davon Barnes and Ole Miss are still dancing after fending off a rally from Seth Trimble and North Carolina. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images) North Carolina’s inclusion in the NCAA tournament was one of the hottest topics of Selection Sunday. The Tar Heels responded with a dominant win over San Diego State in the First Four. But their NCAA …

[ad_1] CLEVELAND — Vanderbilt basketball’s season ended Friday with a 59-56 first-round loss to seventh-seeded Saint Mary’s, denying the 10th-seeded Commodores an NCAA Tournament victory that would’ve been the program’s first since 2012. Here are some postgame takeaways from Rocket Arena: This was never Vanderbilt’s type of game Even as the Commodores led most of the way, climbing in front …