
Florida Gulf Coast stars in Week 1 of NCAA tourney
The basketball blue bloods from Louisville, Kansas and Indiana made it through. So did the iron men from La Salle. Then there's Florida Gulf Coast, ...

Second-half run sends Kansas past Tar Heels
Top-seeded Kansas was on the ropes, turning the ball over about as often as it was putting up shots, and had allowed North Carolina to build a ...

No. 2 Ohio State beats Iowa State 78-75 on late 3
Aaron Craft dribbled in place at the top of the arc, watching to see if any of his Ohio State teammates were getting open near the basket for a ...

Family connections a big part of NCAA tournament
Tim Hardaway Jr. can take the questions in stride at this point. Any time Michigan is in the national spotlight, his familiar name stands out — and ...

BracketRacket: 'There's a pattern. I memorized it'
Welcome back to BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for all your NCAA tournament needs. Today, we throw down, challenge follicles, solve a ...

No. 1 Kansas survives Western Kentucky upset bid
Kansas coach Bill Self predicted this week that a No. 1 seed would someday lose to a No. 16. He didn't know his Jayhawks would be trying to fend off ...

North Carolina tops Villanova 78-71 in NCAAs
First his North Carolina players gave Roy Williams a tough, hard-fought, milestone victory. Then they surprised their coach with a specially made gift ...

Iowa State rolls to 76-58 win over Notre Dame
After spending most of the season doing damage from outside the 3-point line, Iowa State moved inside for its first game in the NCAA tournament.

No. 13 seed La Salle beats No. 4 K-State, 63-61
John Giannini kept calling timeouts as La Salle's big lead kept slipping away, an 18-point halftime advantage wiped out by fourth-ranked Kansas ...
Storm could dump up to 8 inches of snow in Midwest
A major weekend storm could give new meaning to March Madness for the thousands of fans in Kansas City for the men's college basketball tournament, ...

Pac-12 starts strong in NCAA tourney in San Jose
Twelve turned out to be a lucky number for the Pac-12 Conference. Go figure. A year after sending only two teams to the NCAA tournament, the league ...

Time to see if NCAA tourney really up for grabs
Brad Stevens is amused by all this talk of parity in the NCAA tournament. The coach who guided little Butler to the national championship game two ...

A guide to the NCAA games
The NCAA tournament will not have a repeat champion for the sixth straight season. Kentucky made sure of that by failing to make the field of 68.
Gonzaga No. 1 in final AP poll
Gonzaga's first stint on top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll lasted through the final Top 25 of the season. The Bulldogs (31-2), the ...

The bracket lives before the games
Drop the pen. Everybody knows no ink makes contact with a bracket sheet until Monday night at the earliest. Until it's deadline time, pencils are ...

Louisville top overall seed in NCAA tournament
Good luck filling out those brackets. The No. 1 seeds are set for the NCAA tournament, but very little has gone as expected in this college basketball ...

'That's 1 MILLION times bigger than 9 TRILLION!'
Welcome back to BracketRacket. Think of it as one-stop shopping for all your NCAA tournament needs. We'll have interviews with celebrity alumni drawn ...

Coach K, Izzo maybe rare March meeting in Midwest
Mike Krzyzewski and Tom Izzo have been regulars in the NCAA tournament, both making multiple Final Four appearances and winning national titles in ...

10 things to know for the NCAA tournament
A look at the NCAA men's tournament, the 68-team free-for-all that begins Tuesday and ends three weeks from now at the Final Four in Atlanta: 1.

Louisville earns tops seed in NCAA Tournament
The Louisville Cardinals have shown that they are comfortable being front-runners in their season-long quest to go farther than last year's Final Four ...

No. 7 Kansas beats No. 11 K-State for Big 12 title
One by one, Kansas players headed to the top step of the ladder to cut down the nets, with Jeff Withey carefully nipping at a piece of nylon and then ...

Kansas, K-State to decide Big 12 championship
Kansas and Kansas State won't be able to share this championship. The longtime rivals, separated by about 80 miles of interstate, finished the ...

Iowa State-Kansas, Round 3 in Big 12 tourney
Iowa State and Kansas already have played two memorable games this season, highlighted by buzzer-beating shots, controversial calls and unforgettable ...

No. 14 Oklahoma State holds off Baylor in Big 12
Phil Forte stepped to the foul line and Marcus Smart couldn't bear to watch, so with 2.9 seconds left on the clock in a tie game, Oklahoma State's ...

No. 11 K- State beats Texas in Big 12 quarters
It didn't seem to matter what Rodney McGruder did — fire away over the Texas zone, pull up in the lane or take a pass from Angel Rodriguez down low.