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Your heart breaks for all the student-athletes, all these kids with the biggest dreams at Seton Hall, and the kids with the Cinderella dreams at Hofstra, as well as the kids from the other 66 schools who could not wait to stand and cheer as one for...

The college basketball season came to a close Thursday afternoon, with the NCAA announcing it was canceling the season due to the coronavirus pandemic. The inevitable news came a few hours after every conference canceled its postseason tournament....

The NCAA will not crown a basketball champion this year. Just one day after it said it would restrict attendance at upcoming Division 1 men's and women's basketball tournaments, the NCAA has officially cancelled those events, as well as all of its re...

The NCAA will not crown a basketball champion this year. Just one day after it said it would restrict attendance at upcoming Division 1 men's and women's basketball tournaments, the NCAA has officially cancelled those events, as well as all of its re...

LAS VEGAS — The sports world is often considered to exist in a parallel universe from real-world problems, but it was dealt a double dose of reality on Wednesday and Thursday with the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament and the suspension of the...

As it became apparent the NCAA basketball tournaments could not be held over three weeks because of concerns about the coronavirus, organizers scrambled to devise a plan for a 16-team event to salvage the postseason in one long weekend. NCAA vice...

The NCAA is still considering presenting a tournament bracket as a means of closure and acknowledgement to players, coaches and teams, senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt told CBS Sports. Thursday afternoon, March Madness was canceled due...

The sound was difficult to interpret. Mostly, it sounded like phone static. Then, it sounded like Joe Mihalich again. “Excuse me, I’m sorry,” the Hofstra basketball coach said. “I’m just choked up.” That was just a couple of hours after...

Posted in the Rutgers locker room was the scheduled date — March 15, 2020 — of Selection Sunday. Scarlet Knights coach Steve Pikiell didn’t like to talk about the NCAA Tournament publicly, but internally, that was the mission from the time the...

First was the NBA. Then came MLS and the NHL. Then the NCAA Tournament and MLB. Those major sports organizations ceased operation on Wednesday and Thursday. Then, on Friday morning, the PGA Tour announced it was suspending play for the next month....

Student-athletes who participate in spring sports will not lose a year of eligibility due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NCAA announced Friday. A day after spring season championships were canceled and nearly all the spring sports were eliminated,...

Iona College finally lost in the MAAC Tournament, but that didn’t stop the Gaels from making major March noise. Though the season ended for them Wednesday, a day before everyone else’s season came to a close due to the coronavirus pandemic that...

Of course Rick Pitino is the center of college basketball again. With the NCAA Tournament on hiatus, Pitino stole the attention of the sport Saturday afternoon, when the scandal-scarred Hall of Famer agreed to end his two-year exile in Greece and...

March Madness 2020 was cancelled, and there won’t be a bracket to acknowledge anyone’s accomplishments, either. Dan Gavitt, the NCAA senior vice president of basketball, said Sunday the NCAA will not be releasing brackets for the NCAA men’s and...

The fun should just be starting. Selection Sunday should just have passed. You should be ignoring work, dissecting matchups, choosing Cinderellas, figuring out the Final Four. Instead, the NCAA Tournament has been canceled because of the coronavirus...

This weekend, ESPN was supposed to have its networks jam-packed with college basketball conference tournaments. Next weekend, CBS, Turner and ESPN were set to be flooded with men’s and women’s NCAA tournament games. The week after that, YES and...

March Madness lives on. Following the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament, The Post projected the final bracket and will spend the rest of the week presenting round-by-round results produced via online simulation, thanks to our friends at...

March Madness lives on. Following the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament, The Post projected the final bracket and will spend the rest of the week presenting round-by-round results produced via online simulation, thanks to our friends at...

LAS VEGAS — We will never know how far Obi Toppin would have led Dayton in the NCAA Tournament. We can debate, dream and speculate, but there never will be an answer. Four months into the college basketball season, we reached March and approached...

Rest easy sports bettors — you can still wager on the weather. As major sporting events like the NCAA tournament have shuttered due to coronavirus, online sportsbooks are coming to the rescue with new quirky lines to bet on, including everything...