GARY B. GRAVES, AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — John Calipari’s platoon system has given way to a nine-man rotation that gives the Kentucky coach...
(Grantland) It irks me that the Villanova and Virginia haters were validated. Virginia has won the ACC two years running, and Villanova just went 33-3...
(USA Today) – Former North Carolina Tar Heels coach Dean Smith, who passed away in February at the age of 83, set up a trust to send...
WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The whistle sounds. The horn blows. And the madness grinds to a halt. Another stoppage in play. Another...
FRED GOODALL, AP Sports Writer Georgia State’s Ron Hunter beamed as a proud father, not a jubilant coach whose underdog team advanced in the NCAA Tournament...
(SB Nation) – Your school’s athletic program is probably known either for being a football school or a men’s basketball school, sometimes vacillating based on the...
(Bloomberg) – University of Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery didn’t have to ask for a raise after the Hawkeyes played in last year’s NCAA tournament. It was...
The Associated Press Thursday is something of a national holiday for American sports fans, when office productivity plummets. The NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship, also...
(Bloomberg) – Twenty five years ago, the NCAA decided something had to be done about March Madness money. The year before, CBS agreed to pay...
EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer If you got that warm-‘n-fuzzy feeling the weekend Lehigh beat Duke or the year N.C. State socked Phi Slama Jama or...
JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim will retire in three years and the university’s athletic director has resigned,...
RUSTY MILLER, AP Sports Writer DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Let this be a lesson to the 64 NCAA Tournament teams yet to take the floor: A...
(NNPA) – President Barack Obama predicted that Kentucky will remain undefeated and win the title in the NCAA Tournament during an interview broadcast Wednesday on ESPN. He picked a Wildcats...
STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Basketball Writer The NCAA is going all in on high-def video reviews during March Madness. For the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments that...
RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Massachusetts guard Derrick Gordon became a better basketball player and a better teammate this season,...
DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Princeton Tigers capped off a perfect regular season with a hard-fought victory over their rival. When the...
GENARO C. ARMAS, AP Sports Writer Conference tournaments will give the nation’s best teams opportunities to boost their credentials to claim one of the four No....
JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Jim Boeheim has become used to the spotlight in his long career at Syracuse. It’s awfully bright...
JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was suspended for nine games Friday, with the school punished for ignoring the...
PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Kentucky has been in some close games. This was a new predicament, however. With just over 9...
(USA Today) – Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings apologized for vulgar comments he made in an intense exchange with guard Wade Baldwin following the Commodores’ 73-65 victory...
(USA Today) – Kansas has won the Big 12 for 10 consecutive years, a remarkable, underrated run of college basketball supremacy in one of the...
JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer One of college basketball’s greatest rivalries and a showdown between two Pac-12 powers highlight this week in college basketball. The marquee...
DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — When he arrived at Illinois in 1975, the first thing Lou Henson did was preach patience....
AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer There’s no argument about who is No. 1. The second-best team in the nation behind Kentucky, however, is up for debate....
