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
Denver Summit Smashes NWSL Attendance Record With First Game at Mile High It was a historic inaugural home opener for the NWSL expansion team. Sports Illustrated · Mar 29
Women’s March Madness: UCLA’s Monster Second Half Has Bruins Back in Final Four The Elite Eight has arrived. Follow along as Sports Illustrated delivers live updates, scores and analysis during Sunday’s matchups from the women’s NCAA tournament. Sports Illustrated · Mar 29
Arizona’s Final Four Bid Came Down to One Thing: Figure It Out Tommy Lloyd trusted his players in the biggest moment of the season and they delivered a second-half March Madness masterpiece to beat Purdue. Sports Illustrated · Mar 29
March Madness: Four Bold Predictions for Women’s Elite Eight Will all four No. 1 seeds advance to the Final Four in the women’s NCAA tournament? Or will a surprise team play spoiler? Sports Illustrated · Mar 29
Raven Johnson Recruited BFF Ta’Niya Latson and South Carolina Is Reaping the Benefits In her first Sweet 16 game on Saturday, Latson led all scores with 28 points and showed just how dynamic the Gamecocks are this year. 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
Texas Has Cruised to the Elite Eight. Now It’s Time for the Hard Part. The Longhorns, who are never an easy opponent, dismantled Kentucky on Saturday. But there are some heavy hitters awaiting Vic Schaefer’s squad in the NCAA tournament. Sports Illustrated · Mar 29
Michigan Is Playing Like a No. 1 Seed in the Women’s NCAA Tournament The No. 2 Wolverines just played half of a great game and whipped No. 3 Louisville, 71–52 anyway. They have won their three tournament games by 35, 29 and now 19 points. Sports Illustrated · Mar 28
Arizona and Illinois Advance to Final Four: Recap From Men’s March Madness Elite Eight The Illini and Wildcats await their Final Four opponents with the winners of Sunday’s games. Sports Illustrated · Mar 28
Rick Pitino’s Petty Proposal After St. John’s Loss to Duke Actually Makes a Lot of Sense The St. John’s coach wasn’t happy with one of the NCAA’s postgame media protocols after the Red Storm’s Sweet 16 loss to Duke. Sports Illustrated · Mar 28
Geno Auriemma Blasts NCAA for Tournament Schedule, Basketballs Auriemma has a bone to pick with the NCAA. Sports Illustrated · Mar 28
Tom Izzo Shoots Down Retirement Talk: ‘What the Hell Am I Going to Do?’ Tom Izzo says he plans to keep coaching the Spartans for as long as his energy allows. Sports Illustrated · Mar 28
Women’s Elite Eight Is Set: TCU Ends Virginia’s Cinderella Run, Texas and South Carolina Cruise Sports Illustrated was here to delivers live analysis, updates and highlights throughout Saturday’s four games to wrap up the Sweet 16. Sports Illustrated · Mar 28
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28 ‘There Is No Retiring’: Kim Mulkey Adamantly Denies Rumor After LSU’s Sweet 16 Loss The Tigers coach is the only person in the women’s game to win a national title as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28 While Duke Held Its Breath, Ashlon Jackson’s Buzzer Beater Sank LSU’s Season The guard’s game-winning shot took what felt like an eternity to drop, but once it finally did it sent the Blue Devils past the Tigers and into the Elite Eight.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28 March Madness: Four Bold Predictions for Men’s NCAA Tournament Elite Eight The Elite Eight has arrived as we move closer to crowning a new national champion.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28 March Madness: Jon Scheyer Built a Juggernaut in Duke’s Post–Coach K Era Four years after a seismic change, the Blue Devils look as dominant—and as inevitable—as ever in dispatching St. John’s in a physical Sweet 16 showdown.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28 Yaxel Lendeborg Passed on the NBA and Became Michigan’s March Madness Monster The Wolverines joyful big man could have been a first-round draft pick last year, but chose to return to college and help Michigan chase a national championship.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28 Nate Oats Says Charles Bediako’s Ineligibility Cost Alabama in Sweet 16 Alabama’s season is over, and coach Nate Oats is disappointed in what could have been.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 28 Arizona’s Stability Is About to Be Tested by Tommy Lloyd’s Men’s Hoops Success The Wildcats coach’s meteoric rise has made him one of the sport’s hottest names as blueblood programs open.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 27 Hannah Hidalgo, the Ultimate Disrupter, Is Stealing Dreams This March Madness Vanderbilt simply couldn’t keep up with the junior guard, who had a triple-double in Notre Dame’s upset win to send her team to the Elite Eight in the women’s NCAA tournament.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 27 Amber Glenn Shares ‘Exhausted’ Message After Missing Podium Again at 2026 World Championships Glenn fell short of medaling again just a month after her Olympic heartbreaker.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 27 Where Are They Now? Catching Up With March Madness Viral Heroes of the Past Northwestern’s crying kid. Villanova’s sobbing piccolo girl. Doug Edert and his viral mustache. Where are they now?
Sports Illustrated · Mar 27 What to Expect From Caleb Foster’s Likely Return in Duke-St. John’s Sweet 16 Clash Barring any pregame setbacks, Duke is expected to have its veteran guard back against the Red Storm on Friday night.