Category: NCAA Basketball

Since 2002, VCU has had to hire a basketball coach seven times. The last five have all led the Rams to the NCAA Tournament. So, as he spoke to the media, boosters and fans on Thursday during his introductory press conference, Phil Martelli Jr. knew what kind of expectations he would be taking on as the latest coach in that line.

A decade ago, K.T. Harrell went on a historic run for Auburn in the SEC tournament. He's now Michigan's director of basketball operations.

New SMU athletic director Damon Evans is taking over a department enjoying momentum it hasn't seen in decades after the Mustangs exceeded expectations in their first year in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The football team didn't lose an ACC regular-season game and qualified for the first expanded, 12-team playoff. The men's basketball team flirted with an NCAA Tournament bid before settling for the NIT and reaching the second round.

The Tobacco Road rivalry is finally happening on the NCAA tournament stage on Friday.

Ole Miss men's basketball coach Chris Beard talked about the one Tom Izzo drill he still runs every day and previewed their March Madness matchup.

Nearly every year there's at least one lovable underdog that rises from obscurity in the NCAA Tournament to capture the hearts of basketball fans and bust their brackets. All 16 regional semifinalists are from power conferences for the first time since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The popular theory is that the transfer portal has led to a concentration of the best players at the big schools paying the most NIL money and, soon, the most through revenue sharing.

Basketball analyst Wally Szczerbiak joins the Dan Patrick Show to discuss the transfer portal in college basketball, the toughest player he faced in the NBA, what teams are on upset watch in the Sweet 16 and more.

Penn hired Fran McCaffery as its men’s basketball coach on Thursday, two weeks after he was fired at Iowa in a season where the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten regular-season finish in seven years.

Penn fired Steve Donahue after the Quakers went 8-19 in his ninth season on the job.

Todd Golden knows he might need to leave NCAA Tournament tickets for a couple of VIPs, his special longtime mentors and former coaches at nearby Saint Mary’s College.

UConn coach Dan Hurley acknowledged there are things that “I wish I didn’t do” as he expressed regret over making profane comments about the officiating after the Huskies’ tournament loss to Florida.

Auburn small forward Chad Baker-Mazara, who scored 17 points in the Tigers’ second-round win over Creighton on Sunday, has not had a traditional college basketball career. After playing a postgraduate season at Spire Academy in 2020, he spent his freshman year at Duquesne, then transferred to San Diego State, transferred again to Northwest Florida State …

In an NCAA Tournament sorely lacking in Cinderella stories, coach John Calipari has the unusual role of being the closest thing to it.

Tre Holloman isn’t the star player on the Michigan State roster. He just wins games.

This time last year, Oakland men’s basketball coach Greg Kampe had just experienced what he called “the greatest win I’ve ever been a part of” in his four-decade tenure leading the program. His No. 14-seeded Golden Grizzlies shocked the basketball world, pulling off an upset over John Calipari’s No. 3-seeded Kentucky in the first round …