March Madness wasn't for mid-majors this year. For the first time since the women's NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1994, no programs from mid-major conferences advanced to the second round, leaving 32 teams representing the Power Four conferences and the Big East. In the men's ...
There is still madness in March. There are buzzer beaters. Upsets. Postgame tears. "Wait, what?" moments that go viral and become part of NCAA Tournament lore. The chaos that makes the tournament such a captivating three-week spectacle is just getting a little harder to come by these days. ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Kim Barnes Arico has turned Michigan's women's basketball into a consistently winning program for the first time in school history. The Wolverines earned bids to March Madness just five times between 1982 and 2012 before hiring Barnes Arico away from St. John's and much ...
ST. LOUIS — Purdue guard Braden Smith broke former Duke star Bobby Hurley's Division I assist record on Friday night, picking up his second of the game and the 1,077th of his career with a feed to Trey Kaufman-Renn with 12:11 to go in the first half of the Boilermakers' NCAA Tournament game ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota was confident enough in this women's basketball resurgence that the event calendar for Williams Arena was blocked out months ago for the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament. The Gophers hadn't made the tournament since 2018 or hosted since 2005, but the potential ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Morez Johnson Jr. had 21 points and 10 rebounds on a perfect shooting night, and No. 1 seed Michigan rode a second-half surge to a 101-81 victory over 16th-seeded Howard in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. Towering center Aday Mara had 19 points, seven ...