March Madness

TNT cameras showed UCLA guard David Singleton’s apparently gruesome ankle injury despite pleas from broadcaster.

In news that will no doubt shock everyone (not really), a prediction made by President Joe Biden did not actually work out.

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale bet a combined $4.05 million on the Houston Cougars to win March Madness for a big payout.

A college basketball cheerleader from St. Bonaventure University in New York claims a player from the University of Saint Louis told her to “shut the f*** up, b****” during a game between the two schools in Washington, DC, on March 11.

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), spanning over 3,200 pages, appear to show a March Madness-style bracket that includes fatal diseases, crowning coronavirus as champion.

WACO, Texas — Baylor and coach Scott Drew have refused to accept a vehicle wrapped with the school’s national championship logo after an insensitive remark made by the dealership’s general manager when discussing it during a live TV interview.

Baylor is on top of the college basketball world, winning its first national championship while denying perfection for Gonzaga.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Official Bert Smith collapsed on the floor early in the Elite Eight game between Gonzaga and Southern California and had to be taken off the court on a stretcher.

Charles Barkley called the NCAA the “Barney Fife of the world” Sunday night for their poor administration and enforcement.

Reporter Pat Forde tweeted how thrilled he was that three coaches who Forde thinks seem disinterested in wearing a mask lost their NCAA games

The official SUV, produced by General Motors (GM), of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) annual “March Madness” tournament is made in China. 

Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell shared offensive comments, including racial slurs and threats of violence, posted to his Instagram account after the Buckeye’s 75-72 loss to Oral Roberts on Friday in the first major upset of the NCAA Tournament.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — NCAA basketball administrators apologized to the women’s basketball players and coaches after inequities between the men’s and women’s tournament went viral on social media and vowed to do better.

Several players took a knee during the playing of the national anthem as the NCAA March Madness tournament kicked off on Friday, reports say.

The NCAA Tournament caught criticism for what some called a disparity in how it furnished its men’s and women’s workout/weight rooms.

Six March Madness referees were sent home after some of them violated coronavirus policies

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Duke arrived at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament hoping to make an unprecedented run to extend its long NCAA Tournament streak.

A limited number of fans will be allowed to attend all rounds of next month’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA announced Monday that all 67 men’s basketball tournament games will be played entirely in Indiana.

The NCAA has filed a trademark for the term “Mask Madness,” as a way to promote the wearing of masks during “March Madness.”

The University of Maryland-Baltimore County pulled off one of the greatest upsets in American sports history at the 2018 NCAA Tournament, knocking off Virginia to become the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1.

Canceling March Madness because of the coronavirus pandemic will cost the NCAA about $375 million that it would have distributed to 350 schools across the nation.

March Madness may be played without fans after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that he is asking sports teams to play without spectators.

The NCAA is being urged to conduct March Madness without any fans in the stands, over fears of the Coronavirus.

April 27 (UPI) — The Virginia men’s basketball team has declined, while the Baylor women’s team has accepted a visit to the White House after NCAA tournament title wins.

Upon winning the NCAA championship on monday night, coach Tony Bennett of the University of Virginia Cavaliers knew just who to thank. His first words after taking the title were “Thank you. I’m humbled, Lord,” Fox News reported.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz thought the Texas Tech Red Raiders were about to win Monday’s NCAA championship game against University of Virginia, and he prematurely took to Twitter to celebrate. But, only minutes later, Texas Tech lost in a stunning overtime reversal and Twitter users went after Cruz for jinxing Tech.

Never let college kids tell you that they’re not living lives of privilege. Because, apparently, they have it so good they can afford to burn their furniture.

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.

April 6 (UPI) — Virginia edged the Auburn Tigers in the last second and Texas Tech held off Michigan State as the Cavaliers and Red Raiders advanced to the national championship game Saturday in Minneapolis, Minn.

It looks like “flopping” has made its way to college basketball again as the Oregon Ducks’ Ehab Amin flopped dramatically to the boards after the Virginia Cavs’ Mamadi Diakite merely gave him a stern look.

UC Irvine Coach Russell Turner was proud to tell fans and the media that he and his team taunted Oregon Ducks player Louis King, by calling him “Queen.” But not everyone thought his “anti-woman” and “homophobic” name calling was funny.

The news cycle was an embarrassment of riches for the White House on Monday, so why not have some fun embarrassing those who got it so embarrassingly wrong when it came to the charge of Russian collusion?

CBS live TV broadcast of it’s March Madness NCAA basketball championship was interrupted for millions of viewers on Sunday with a live news update that Donald Trump did not, nor did members of the Trump Campaign conspire or coordinate “with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” according to a letter Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress Sunday summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 presidential election.

March 21 (UPI) — The NCAA tournament’s opening round kicked off Thursday with No. 1 seed Gonzaga coasting to a blowout victory and second-seeded Kentucky beating Abilene Christian.