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The first Cinderella of the 2021 NCAA Tournament has stamped its slipper. Oral Roberts, with its modest 16-10 record and 15th seed in the South Region, stunned No. 2 seeded Ohio State 75-72 in overtime Friday in West Lafayette, Indiana. It was Oral...

The NCAA is being criticized for the lack of amenities at the 2021 women's basketball tournament compared to men's tournament.

This figured to be the Cade Cunningham show for Oklahoma State.   The Cowboys’ freshman guard, after all, is considered one of the best players in the nation and he figured to carry them in the NCAA Tournament.  Instead, in Oklahoma State’s...

The hangover will wait. Oregon State can’t go home just yet. The Beavers haven’t had this much fun in 39 years. The team picked to finish dead last in the Pac-12, the team which sat at .500 one month ago, the team which needed to beat three NCAA...

SAN ANTONIO — 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. NCAA Senior Vice President of...

The seconds were bleeding away Friday in the second-most stunning upset of the NCAA Tournament’s opening round, and North Texas guard Javion Hamlet found himself screaming at the cheering section for No. 4 seed Purdue. “Don’t ever doubt me...

Who are the Georgetown Hoyas as they enter the NCAA Tournament? Are they the team that went 6-1 in its past seven games and buzzed through the Big East Tournament, winning it for the first time since 2007 and cementing a spot in the NCAAs for the...

The record will show that Loyola of Chicago beat Georgia Tech 71-60 on Friday, March 19, 2021. Years from now, the NCAA Tournament archives will back that truth up: March 19, 2021. That’s when this win happened. That will be a lie, of course....

Gonzaga is the biggest and mightiest of the March Madness Goliaths, undefeated with designs on a perfect season that would put them on a pedestal with Bobby Knight’s 1976 Indiana Hoosiers. But there lives a formidable Goliath in the South Region...

As blunt as he is intense, Connecticut coach Dan Hurley admitted he has no idea what to expect from his team Saturday night. Not a single Huskies player has been in the NCAA Tournament before. Not one has even participated in a postseason game, other...

Here’s The Post’s guide to some of Saturday’s best NCAA Tournament games: (12) Georgetown vs. (5) Colorado12:15 p.m., CBS The second day kicks off with one of the most unlikely teams in the field, Patrick Ewing’s Hoyas. To beat Colorado and...

But wait, there’s more. After fans waited two long years for March Madness to return in full on Friday, Saturday offers another jam-packed slate of first-round games from Indianapolis. The schedule is that of a typical Friday during the NCAA...

Ohio State has contacted police after forward E.J. Liddell was threatened on social media following the second-seeded Buckeyes’ overtime loss Friday to No. 15 Oral Roberts in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, ESPN reported. Liddell reposted...

Years ago, when Frank McLaughlin, then Fordham AD, attended one of those feckless NCAA reform conventions, he was stunned to see and hear Jerry Tarkanian, basketball coach of notoriously lawless UNLV, support the most stringent rules and punishment...

The NCAA Tournament saw its first game canceled due to COVID-19 on Saturday. Saturday night’s game between No. 7 Oregon and No. 10 VCU was declared a no-contest by the NCAA because of COVID-19 protocols with VCU. Oregon will automatically advance...

Rutgers has made plenty of history so far. Another potential landmark achievement awaits. First, the Scarlet Knights became the first Rutgers group to reach the men’s NCAA Tournament in 30 years. Then, they got their first win in the dance in 38...

Kansas was booted from the Big 12 Tournament by COVID-19. It entered the NCAA Tournament shorthanded, with leading-rebounder Jalen Wilson and reserve Tristan Enaruna ineligible to return for the team’s first round game. Fortunately, David McCormack...

After his team's loss to Oral Roberts in the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Friday, Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell says he was the victim of threatening messages on social media.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Mark Turgeon has seen Maryland stifle its share of opponents this season but nothing like what his team did on a big stage. Eric Ayala scored 23 points and the 10th-seeded Terrapins clamped down on defense to snag a 63-54...

Abilene Christian, a tiny Texas school that has been in Division I for only the past eight years and had never won an NCAA Tournament game, stunned Texas 53-52 in Saturday’s first round of the NCAA East Region in Indianapolis. It was the third...