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Well, on the one hand this is Bill Walton’s worst nightmare. The UCLA legend — and outspoken Pac-12 fanboy — has called the pairing of conference foes Oregon and USC on Sunday in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament “a disgrace.” Still, the...

The Pac-12 has had a glorious run as a conference in the 2021 NCAA Tournament, with four teams making the Sweet 16 and a 9-1 overall record, but Alabama will look to help the SEC’s cause on Sunday against UCLA. UCLA’s weak point is its perimeter...

Gonzaga kept its perfect season alive and inched closer to making history. The Zags, the No. 1 ranked team in the nation and No. 1 seed in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament, dispatched No. 5 seed Creighton, 83-65, in Sunday’s Sweet 16 game at...

At the buzzer, Ethan Thompson found his father Stephen. They shared a hug and some tears, Oregon State’s star player and his coach/father celebrating an unlikely NCAA Tournament berth following three consecutive upsets in the Pac-12 Tournament....

Forty minutes from the Final Four. A place Baylor hasn’t been since 1950, when it was an eight-team NCAA Tournament. Forty minutes to the Final Four. A place Arkansas hasn’t been since 1995. Close to midnight in the South Region on Monday night,...

In a year of chaos in the NCAA Tournament, Baylor, the No. 1 seed in the South Region, has been able to overcome it and make the Elite Eight. Now the Bears must get by an Arkansas team that has won 12 of its past 13. Both teams do a good job of...

SAN ANTONIO — Paige Bueckers scored 28 points and top seed UConn used a huge run spanning the final two quarters to beat No. 2 Baylor 69-67 on Monday night and reach a 13th consecutive Final Four in the women’s NCAA Tournament. “Each year that...

SAN ANTONIO — Baylor coach Kim Mulkey thinks the NCAA should do away with COVID-19 testing for the Final Four and implied Monday night that players should be able to participate in those games even if they’re infected with the coronavirus. “I...

From the First Four to the Final Four. It has a nice ring to it. UCLA was one of the last teams invited to the 2021 NCAA Tournament. Now, the Bruins are one win away from being one of the last four still dancing among the 68 teams that began this...

This year's March Madness might have exposed gaps in gender equity in college sports, but for two Black women, the 2020 NCAA women's tournament will always represent a moment when history was made.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday scrutinized the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s bid to maintain its limits on education-related compensation for student-athletes – restrictions that a lower court deemed an...

Legendary North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams is retiring after 33 seasons as an NCAA head coach, the Tar Heels announced Thursday morning. Williams, 70, won three national championships with North Carolina, his alma mater, since...

What we have here is a failure to excommunicate. Since the start of the NCAA Tournament, for all the time and talk invested by both CBS and the Turner networks, neither has found the time or inclination to tell the story of coach Kelvin Sampson,...

Like it or not, the new transfer rule seems inevitable. NCAA president Mark Emmert is on board with changing the rule to allow college basketball players one transfer without the penalty of sitting out a season and expects it to get passed....

Pete Gillen, who coached Providence to the Elite 8 and took Xavier and Virginia to the NCAA Tournament, is a college basketball analyst on CBS Sports Network. Throughout the tournament, he appears on “NCAA March Madness 360” and “NCAA March...

Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has agreed to a new contract that will keep him with the Jayhawks until he retires, even as the school awaits a decision from an independent panel investigating five Level I infractions charges alleged by the NCAA....

Greg Anthony has played for and against teams that are considered among the best the NCAA has produced. He has followed college basketball since his playing days in the NBA ended in 2001. And he will put this Gonzaga team up there with any champion....

SAN ANTONIO — Aari McDonald and Adia Barnes have marched Arizona out of the basketball desert to the doorstep of a national championship. McDonald scored 26 points and led a smothering defensive effort as the Wildcats beat UConn 69-59 Friday night...

Of the teams competing in the NCAA women's basketball Final Four, just one of them -- Arizona -- was on this stage for the first time.

The Final Four is traditionally an event in itself. College basketball’s biggest stage. The four teams that get there have to survive the gauntlet otherwise known as the first two weekends of the NCAA Tournament.  This year feels different. This...