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Ohio State basketball player E.J. Liddell reacts to death messages he received after his team was eliminated from the NCAA tournament.

Here’s The Post’s guide to some of Monday’s best NCAA Tournament games: (7) Oregon vs. (2) Iowa 12:15 p.m., CBS After getting an unprecedented free pass into the Round of 32, how will Oregon fare against an Iowa team with a game already under...

Monday’s battle between Alabama and Maryland for a spot in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 features a pair of teams playing at opposite speeds, with Alabama ranking 13th in the country in possessions per game and Maryland averaging the 12th-fewest...

The little guys and have-nots aren’t the only unlikely stories in this NCAA Tournament that’s become defined by upsets. Sometimes, the blue bloods can get their elbows dirty and surprise, too. Sometimes, the haves can become feel-good stories in...

This is no time to be a killjoy, not after the Creighton Bluejays advanced for the first time to the Sweet 16 since the NCAA Tournament expanded in 1985, and for the first time to the regional semis since the 25-team field in 1974. This is no time to...

The sympathy these past few days had mostly been aimed where it belonged, with the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. The odds of all 68 teams escaping this NCAA Tournament in a time when COVID-19 remains a part of our everyday world were remote, and it was...

Already, the NCAA Tournament is nearing a record. There have been 12 upsets, which are defined by the NCAA as a win by a team seeded five spots lower than its opponent. That’s one shy of the record for an entire tournament, set in 1985 and equaled...

While the nation’s attention has been paid to all that’s happening in the NCAA Tournament, the team with the worst record in the CBI field, Stetson (12-14), has made a run to the final four of this tournament and will look for an upset against...

Buddy Boeheim has been one of the big stars of the NCAA Tournament, as the Hall of Fame coach’s son has led his team to the Sweet 16. But his backcourt mate, Joseph Girard III, hasn’t been forgotten by Jim Boeheim, either. “He’s playing great...

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...

Logan Ryan gave up a once-in-his-lifetime moment to facilitate a union between Adoreé Jackson and the Giants. Instead of watching his alma mater Rutgers play in the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1983 from his offseason...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt is like the rest of us — she is certain Loyola Chicago was under-seeded. After all, college basketball’s favorite nun had her Ramblers advancing to the Elite Eight in her NCAA Tournament bracket. So this isn’t a...

Just three days after playing in his first NCAA Tournament, Grand Canyon’s Oscar Frayer died Tuesday morning in a car accident. The 23-year-old was traveling with his sister, 28-year-old Andrea Moore, and one other passenger on I-5 SB south of...

It’s fitting that Cinderella’s star would have this story. Lightly recruited. Overlooked. Mostly forgotten. Oral Roberts wasn’t expected to even reach the NCAA Tournament. The Golden Eagles were the fourth seed in the Summit League Tournament....

The tables have turned on NCAA Tournament darlings Loyola Chicago. The Ramblers are no longer defined — and seemingly carried — by the charming Divine Intervention of Sister Jean, their 101-year-old team chaplain who’s omnipresent in the stands...

It has become a March tradition. Syracuse enters Selection Sunday firmly on the NCAA Tournament bubble. Its inclusion is questioned. Then, the Orange prove how silly that debate was. This year’s surprising run to the Sweet 16 is the third time in...

Everything fans and viewers see at the NCAA Tournament is carefully curated.  NCAA officials are hawkish, making sure official brand sponsors and partners are front and center, going as far as making players, coaches, and media change their paper...

For the third time in the last five NCAA Tournaments, Syracuse has made the second week as a double-digit seed, and the Orange will look to keep their run going against Houston in the Sweet 16. Despite not having particularly stifling size, Houston...

Baylor needed this. Badly. The underachiever label is perhaps the most distasteful reputation a team can have hung around its neck. Baylor, with too many early exits from the NCAA Tournament relative to its seeding in recent years, had developed that...

Alabama has asserted itself as one of the best teams in the nation this season, as evidenced by its No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament’s East Region entering Sunday’s Sweet 16 game matchup against UCLA. Yet hours after Alabama extended its stay in...