Men’s College Basketball Awards: No. 1 Seeds Sweep Naismith Honors Every top team but Michigan went home with some hardware. Sports Illustrated · Apr 5
Braylon Mullins’s Miracle: Ranking the 12 Most Improbable Shots of March Madness Based largely on shock value, here are the NCAA men’s tournament buckets that also had historic impact, spontaneity, a degree of difficulty and contextual drama. Sports Illustrated · Mar 30
Elite Eight Recap: UConn Advances to Final Four on Braylon Mullins’s Game-Winning Three UConn will face Illinois, while Michigan will play Arizona in the Final Four next week in Indianapolis. Sports Illustrated · Mar 29
UConn Thought Its Run Was Over a Year Ago. Turns Out, It Was Just Beginning. Veterans Alex Karaban and Solo Ball reaffirmed their commitments and the Huskies’ core bounced back from an early NCAA men’s tournament exit in 2025 to a Final Four trip on the line this year. Sports Illustrated · Mar 29
Rick Pitino Argues There Is ‘No Such Thing As a Blueblood’ in College Basketball Anymore Pitino’s St. John’s squad just beat the blueblood Kansas to set up a matchup vs. another blueblood in Duke. Sports Illustrated · Mar 26
‘Nobody’s Tired in March’: No. 10 Virginia Stuns Its Way From First Four to Sweet 16 The Hoos prevailed 83–75 in double overtime against No. 2 Iowa on Monday to become the biggest underdog in the women’s Sweet 16. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
Dan Hurley Still Coaching UConn, Not Lakers, in Part Thanks to Tom Izzo’s Friendly Advice Hurley apparently leaned on Michigan State’s Tom Izzo for some career advice. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
Reseeding the Sweet 16: Ranking Every Team Left in Men’s March Madness After a chaotic opening weekend, here’s how the remaining 16 teams stack up based on their tournament performance so far. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
Coach K Offers Funny Reponse to Rick Pitino Bringing Up Christian Laettner’s Iconic Shot Pitino will never forget Blue Devils legend Christian Laettner draining a buzzer beater against Kentucky in 1992. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
St. John’s Rick Pitino Going Viral for Classy Move After NCAA Win vs. Bill Self, Kansas Many took notice of how Pitino celebrated St. John’s win over Kansas in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
Inside Florida’s Late-Game Gamble and How It Backfired to End Repeat Title Hopes The Gators’ plan to foul, avoid a three and extend the game unraveled in 4.4 seconds and a final possession never materialized. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
March Madness 2026: Game Times, TV Channels for Sweet 16 of the Men’s NCAA Tournament The full schedule for the Sweet 16 at the 2026 men’s NCAA tournament is set. Here are full details, matchups and broadcast information. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
‘Bells’ at the Buzzer: How Dylan Darling Delivered a March Madness Miracle for St. John’s After missing every other shot, the Red Storm guard called his own number to the disbelief of everyone—including Rick Pitino. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
Iowa’s Alvaro Folgueiras Shared Sweet Moment With His Mom After Game-Winning Shot Folgueiras, who is originally from Spain, hadn’t seen his mom since August before the NCAA tournament. Sports Illustrated · Mar 23
Sports Illustrated · Mar 23 Madison Booker Is a Serious Problem for the Rest of the NCAA Tournament As shown in her 40-point explosion against Oregon, Midrange Maddie is in her final form and gives Texas the offensive ceiling to win it all.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 23 Rick Pitino Hopes to Get Revenge on Duke After Infamous 1992 Christian Laettner Shot Pitino will never, ever forget Laettner’s buzzer beater known as “The Shot” against his Kentucky Wildcats in the 1992 Elite Eight game.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 3 USA WBC Manager Had Definitive Answer About Whether or Not This is a ‘Dream Team’ Team USA manager Mark DeRosa compared his squad for the 2026 World Baseball Classic to the Dream Team.
Sports Illustrated · Jan 15 College Basketball Served Fans With a Bevy of Buzzer Beaters on Wednesday Night Fans saw an extraordinary amount of buzzer beaters across college basketball Wednesday night, here are the best ones.
Sports Illustrated · Jan 15 Kentucky Slips Past LSU on Wild Buzzer Beater Off Full-Court Pass Kentucky defeated LSU after trailing by 18 points off a wild buzzer beater from big man Malachi Moreno.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 23, 2025 Greater Than Ohtani? How Other Top Performances Match Up Against the Dodgers’ Two-Way Star To find anything even close to what Shohei Ohtani did in the NLCS, SI scoured the major sports for the best individual performances.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 23, 2025 The Greatest Men’s Basketball Performances of All Time Comparing the top individual performances in the NBA and men’s college hoops to Shohei Ohtani’s unbelievable show in Game 4 of the NLCS.
Operation Sports · Jul 2, 2025 The Greatest College Basketball Rosters We’d Love to Recreate in EA College Basketball I compiled the top ten College teams throughout history that I absolutely want to play as in EA College Basketball
Sports Illustrated · Jun 26, 2025 Cooper Flagg Has Already Picked Out His Number on the Mavericks Some of his jerseys were already on sale in Dallas on Wednesday night.
The Guardian - US · Jun 25, 2025 Cooper Flagg will go No 1 in the NBA draft. He also broke the Duke supervillain stereotype I played alongside – and greatly respected – Christian Laettner. His fellow Blue Devil is attracting love in the same measure his predecessor attracted hate
The Guardian - US · Jun 4, 2025 The Thunder team I played for could have been a dynasty. This one still can As Oklahoma City prepare to play in the NBA finals, I can’t help but think back to playing in a team that included James Harden, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook