NCAA Tournament

Tomfoolery and hullabaloo are sure to result regardless of the outcome of tonight’s national title game clash between the Connecticut Huskies and Michigan Wolverines, and either way, Storrs, Connecticut, will be ready for it.

Connecticut Huskies head coach Dan Hurley is known for going head-to-head with officials, but this time, he definitely took it too far.

Alabama Crimson Tide guard Aden Holloway has been granted permission to travel to his team’s Sweet 16 game despite his felony arrest for drug possession.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — North Carolina went from rolling to a 19-point lead to struggling to make a shot, watching that margin whittled away by a VCU team that refused to quit.

A 42-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded near Atlanta’s State Farm Arena just before Friday’s NCAA Sweet Sixteen game between Michigan and Ole Miss. 

Florida center Micah Handlogten suffered a gruesome injury in the opening minutes of Sunday’s SEC championship tilt against Auburn.

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 report by the law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP recommends that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) combine the men’s and women’s Final Four tournaments to stop “undervaluing and underfunding the women’s game.”

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.

Charles Barkley says that the American political system keeps people divided so politicians can “keep their grasp on money and power.”

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.

Baylor Bears coach Kim Mulkey is taking stiff criticism for saying the NCAA tournament should stop coronavirus testing for the Final Four.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

March 13 (UPI) — College basketball’s regular season and conference championship week is finished, with multiple teams earning automatic bids ahead of the NCAA tournament.

Once again, Virginia basketball is off to a roaring start. Cavaliers fans have grown accustomed to their squad piling on the victories ever since Tony Bennett took the helm in Charlottesville back in 2009.

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.

(ATLANTA, GA – AP)  In its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1985, Loyola is one win away from an improbable trip to the Final Four.

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.