A new coach's challenge rule has changed college basketball this season. The impact is also being seen in the NCAA tournaments.
- DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press
The only person left out of millions who entered men's and women's NCAA tournament brackets in ESPN's competition is an eighth-grader from suburban Pittsburgh.
- STEVE MEGARGEE Associated Press
This could be a familiar Final Four in the women's NCAA Tournament.
- STEVE MEGARGEE Associated Press
Florida isn't around to defend its title anymore, but all the other top seeds in this year's NCAA Tournament are still around. And many of them are winning convincingly.
- DOUG FEINBERG Associated Press
The Sweet 16 will have a definite SEC feel with six teams advancing from that conference to the second weekend of March Madness.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The odds of going 63-0 in a bracket contest are somewhere between one in 9.2 quintillion (for totally random guesses) or one in 120 billion (semi-educated ones).
- Associated Press
Lower-seeded teams have long filled March with shocking upsets to earn the almost honorary title of Cinderella.
This marks the 40th season with the 3-pointer fully integrated into college basketball, an advancement that has transformed the sport since its 1986-87 introduction.
The potential class of draft prospects is considered among the deepest in years if all go the one-and-done route as expected.
March Madness generates more wagering than any other event in the U.S. The American Gaming Association estimated a record $3.3 billion would be legally bet on the games this year.
Teams coming off long runs in their league tournaments have a short window to regroup ahead of March Madness.
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The maple hardwood that makes up the courts at the men's and women's Final Four is part of basketball's foundation.
Some players thrive in a pressure cooker. BYU's Richie Saunders prefers the deep fryer.
Expanding the men's NCAA Tournament would not be a good move for women's March Madness.
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Purdue faces UConn in the men's NCAA Tournament basketball championship game.
UConn delivered the latest of its suffocating basketball beatdowns Monday night, smothering Purdue for a 75-60 victory to become the first team since 2007 to capture back-to-back national championships.
Dawn Staley and South Carolina have cemented their place as the next dynasty in women's basketball. With two NCAA titles in the past three seasons and 109 wins in the last 112 games, it's hard to argue with that. It doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon with most of the players back from this year's title team. First it was Immaculata then Louisiana Tech and USC. Next was Pat Summitt with Tennessee before Geno Auriemma and UConn took over. Now it's Staley's turn.
UConn delivered the latest of its suffocating basketball beatdowns, smothering Purdue for a 75-60 victory to become the first team since 2007 to capture back-to-back national championships.
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UConn and Purdue have dominated this year's NCAA Tournament. Now they're set to meet for the national championship on Monday night. The Huskies are going for the first repeat men's title since Florida in 2006 and 2007. They have beaten five tournament opponents by an average of 25 points per game, with the closest margin coming by 14 points. The Boilermakers are in the title game for the first time since falling to UCLA in 1969 in their lone appearance. Purdue is winning its tournament games by an average margin of 19.6 points.
Coach Dawn Staley and South Carolina completed their perfect season, ending Caitlin Clark's historic college career with an 87-75 win over Iowa in the NCAA championship game. The 38-0 Gamecocks became the 10th Division I team to go through a season without a loss.
Purdue kept its March Madness dream alive while snuffing out North Carolina State's, getting 20 points and 12 rebounds from Zach Edey in a 63-50 victory Saturday that placed the Boilermakers a win from their first NCAA title.
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley knows Sunday's national championship game is a big moment for women's basketball. South Carolina is looking to finish a perfect season with the program's third NCAA title. Standing in the way of the Gamecocks is a generational player in Caitlin Clark and an Iowa team looking for the school's first women's national championship.
South Carolina guard Raven Johnson is ready for a shot at redemption against Caitlin Clark and Iowa. Johnson took last year's Final Four loss to Clark and the Hawkeyes personally. At one point Clark waved off Johnson because she didn't feel Johnson was a threat to shoot. Johnson says she's watched tape of the loss 100 times. As difficult as it was to relive the moment over and over, Johnson says the experience has helped her become a better player as a sophomore and she's ready for a rematch a year in the making.
Caitlin Clark led Iowa back to the national championship game, scoring 21 points as the Hawkeyes rallied past Paige Bueckers and UConn 71-69 in the women's Final Four on Friday night.
Alabama coach Nate Oats had become comfortable coaching at Romulus High School outside of Detroit. His desire to take any Division I college coaching job waned through the years before he got an opportunity on Bobby Hurley's staff at Buffalo. Now, Oats has the Crimson Tide in the Final Four with two other coaches who have high school coaching roots. UConn's Dan Hurley got his start at Saint Benedict's in New Jersey long before leading the Huskies to last year's national championship. N.C. State coach Kevin Keatts had two stints at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia, setting the foundation for a philosophy that took the Wolfpack to their first Final Four since 1983.
The opener at the Final Four on Saturday might feel like a trip through a time machine. Yes, those are Purdue and North Carolina State — one program here for the first time since 1980, the other trying to write a 21st-century version of college basketball's greatest story ever told. And yes, those are 7-foot-4 Zach Edey and 6-9 DJ Burns Jr., some 600 pounds worth of center patrolling the paint and dictating a style that has been out of fashion for a decade or more. The winner of the titanic collision will play the UConn-Alabama winner for the title.