Category: NCAA Basketball

Auburn's Bruce Pearl and Rick Pitino of St. John's named AP college basketball coaches of the year, award's first tie.

Chris Russo joins the Dan Patrick show to discuss why basketball focuses on eras of play, why Wilt Chamberlain was underrated, and which teams will find success in men's Final Four matchups.

The $1 million March Madness wager between a pro gambler and an artificial-intelligence site will be decided by the winner of the Duke-Houston game in the Final Four. The bottom line: both pro gambler Sean Perry and the 4C's AI program have done very well over the first 60 games of the tournament. Alan Levy, who runs the 4C site, says ChatGPT — who else?

Nicole Auerbach spells out keys for each team in the men's Final Four, and predicts which ones will advance.

This year's Final Four in the NCAA men's tournament boasts four No. 1 seeds. Is it the best ever? We rank the tops of the expansion era.

Final Four predictions? The picks are in from our March Madness experts.

Several projected first-round picks for the upcoming NBA draft will be playing in San Antonio in the Final Four.

Here's a look at who various experts have winning Saturday's Duke-Houston and Florida-Auburn matchups in the Final Four.

One of these No. 1 seeds is not like the other. Sports betting books list Duke as a clear favorite in the men's Final Four, but hang on just a second.

UCF Knights (19-16, 9-14 Big 12) vs. Villanova Wildcats (21-14, 12-10 Big East) Las Vegas; Saturday, 4 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Villanova faces UCF in the College Basketball Crown. The Wildcats are 12-10 against Big East opponents and 9-4 in non-conference play.

The Tigers are 16-4 against SEC opponents and 16-1 in non-conference play. Auburn is fifth in the SEC in rebounding averaging 34.5 rebounds. Johni Broome leads the Tigers with 10.9 boards.

UConn Huskies (35-3, 21-0 Big East) vs. UCLA Bruins (34-2, 18-2 Big Ten) Tampa, Florida; Friday, 9:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Huskies -7.5; over/under is 135.5 BOTTOM LINE: No. UCLA and No.

Auburn's season began with some real turbulence on its first trip. While it is unclear exactly what happened in the air on Nov. 8, other than there was some kind of in-flight disturbance between players, the plane carrying the Tigers returned home and left two players there. The rest of the team then went on to win at Houston the next day in their first road game.

Collin Mulholland scored 19 points and made five-pointers, Garrison Keeslar sank a go-ahead jumper from the free-throw line with 11 seconds left in overtime and Chattanooga became the first team from the Southern Conference to win the NIT championship after beating UC Irvine 85-84 on Thursday night. Chattanooga (29-9) tied a program record for victories in a season after winning 17 of its last 18 to capture the program’s first postseason title. UC Irvine 7-foot-1 center Bent Leuchten went to the free-throw line with 31 seconds left in overtime for a chance at a three-point lead, but he missed both free throws.

The camera sneaked up behind Jon Scheyer as he started the long walk into the Alamodome's cavernous center, a route that crossed a sea of black carpet and eventually required stairs onto college basketball's grand stage. Scheyer knows a thing or two about this moment. An assistant who did it twice under Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski.