College Basketball

MINNEAPOLIS-Now that, Virginia, is the way to close out a season.

CBS cameras cut away from the Texas Tech locker room the moment their head coach entered the room and began leading the team in prayer.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is offering to make one of his employees a multi-millionaire if they can craft the perfect Sweet 16 NCAA tournament bracket.

Bruce Pearl and the Auburn Tigers can be given credit for many things, after their SEC championship run. They can be given credit for winning the mental game. They can be given credit for winning the physical battles in the paint.

Every March, the inner fire of college basketball fans is unleashed as their teams compete for conference and tournament championships.

Basketball and soccer, are sports that are well-known for having players that will, shall we say, exaggerate their reactions to contact with opposing players. A practice known across the sports world as flopping.

The Minnesota Golden Gophers greatly helped their tournament chances on Tuesday night, with a thrilling 4-point victory over conference rival Purdue. However, as Minnesota fans stormed the floor, one Gopher fan greatly helped his chances of getting knocked out as he gave a Purdue player the double-bird.

Court-storming has become more and more common in college basketball over the years. What’s less common is emotional behind the scenes footage of angry players who have lost, smashing glass fire extinguisher cases in the hallway after the game.

There are a lot of moving part when a college basketball team goes on the road. There are schedules that have to be made, reservations that have to be booked, transportation that has to be arranged, and, uniforms that have to be packed.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Eight University of Mississippi basketball players kneeled during the national anthem Saturday before a victory over Georgia in response to a Confederacy rally near the arena.

Nike’s stock took a dive after Duke star Zion Williamson suffered an injury from a blown out shoe during the Blue Devils bout with North Carolina on Wednesday.

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Freshman sensation Zion Williamson was knocked out of the North Carolina-Duke rivalry game with a knee sprain after his Nike shoe blew out during the top-ranked Blue Devils’ opening possession Wednesday night.

A video shows a Division III basketball player delivering a vicious elbow shot directly to an opposing player’s face, but only after he looked to see if the ref was paying attention first.

College basketball analyst Jay Bilas believes players will eventually be paid, and tells PodcastOne Sports Now that he’s not sure top players will forgo a year on the big stage in college to play in the NBA’s developmental league.

A pair of University of Kentucky basketball greats are demanding that their plaques be removed unless the school stops the sale of Ku Klux Klan and Nazi items sold at collector’s historical swap meets and gun shows held at the university’s Expo Center.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently criticized college basketball rules that prevent student-athletes from making money off merchandise featuring their faces or names, a report says.

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics supports recent reform proposals to the NCAA amid a federal corruption investigation into college basketball — but wants the NCAA to do more.

Mikal Bridges needed to choose between returning as the top-rated college basketball player in 2019 according to the Value Add Basketball projections – or the potential $9.5 million in guaranteed contracts over three years if the projection of him going ninth in the NBA draft proves accurate.

Looking for something salacious to attack Villanova guard Donte DiVincenzo on the day of his team’s big win, the media found a seven-year-old “offensive” tweet that the player posted when he was a 14-year-old kid.

The NCAA Final Four tournament featured a Cinderella team with a feisty nun, big named schools, and a record breaking MVP, but despite all that the series still saw lower ratings than last year’s games.

Tuesday, Fox Sports 1 “Undisputed” co-host Skip Bayless reacted to Villanova defeating Michigan Monday night 79-62, led by Donte DiVincenzo and his 31 points off the bench. Bayless said he has watched Villanova this year and DiVincenzo always catches his eye. “[W]hy doesn’t [DiVincenzo]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — For the past three weeks, it’s been all about buzzer-beaters, bracket-busters and basketball — a much-needed reminder about just how beautiful this game can be.

Mighty Michigan is rolling all the way back to the Final Four.

ATLANTA (AP) — Porter Moser stood in front of the scarf-clad Loyola cheering section, a bit dazed but beaming from ear to ear.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Duke found a way to crack Syracuse’s zone defense, and now the Blue Devils are a game away from the Final Four for the first time since the 2015 team won it all.

BOSTON (AP) — Chris Beard has done it to Purdue again.

Introductory press conferences for college coaches sure have changed quite a bit. In the past, merely promising to win within the rules would be enough to please the fans.

The upset-minded Loyola-Chicago Ramblers took down the Tennessee Volunteers Saturday 63-62 in the second round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Ramblers guard Clayton Custer hit the go-ahead shot with 3.6 seconds left on the clock and the 11th-seeded team held

Sister Jean’s prayers were answered again in another heart-stopper, and the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers are going to the Sweet 16, just as they did the last time they were in the NCAA Tournament 33 years ago.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Senior guard Jairus Lyles scored 28 points, and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County pulled off the most shocking upset in NCAA Tournament history, defeating Virginia 74-54 on Friday night to become the first No. 16 seed ever to beat a No. 1 seed.