Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from NCAA

Saint Peter’s: the tiny college taking on basketball giants and winning

Everyone loves a Cinderella story in the NCAA tournament and the Peacocks are fulfilling their role nicely this year

The Guardian - US

Coach K’s Gutsy Night Gives Duke’s Fairytale Hopes Their Biggest Jolt Yet

The win over Texas Tech showcased Krzyzewski’s gifts and grit, from an emergency zone to a team-wide floor slap.

Sports Illustrated

Duke outlasts Texas Tech. Coach K and Blue Devils advance to face Arkansas in Elite 8

Duke’s perfect finishing kick sent the Blue Devils to the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight Thursday night.

Tribune News Service

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Inside Collin Gillespie’s Rise From Unheralded Prospect to Villanova’s Soul

The Wildcats’ guard went from a high schooler few wanted to offer to the core of a perennially contending team. It wasn’t by accident.

Sports Illustrated

Chet Holmgren fouled out on a questionable call and college hoops fans weren’t happy

Look how they messed with Gonzaga's boy.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Villanova takes Michigan out in the NCAA Sweet 16

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Jermaine Samuels is usually a cool customer, with a friendly manner about him, letting his game do most of his talking. In the second half Thursday inside the AT&T Center, NCAA Sweet 16, the Villanova fifth-year forward played it entirely different. Samuels took a charge and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Los estados lidian con permitir patrocinios de atletas de secundaria

En un puñado de estados, los deportistas de secundaria han empezado a hacer tratos de patrocinio con pizzerías, empresas de ropa y aplicaciones de teléfonos inteligentes, aprovechando su condición de jugadores estrella.

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Jim Souhan: Why the women’s NCAA, Final Four are better than the men’s

The first women's NCAA basketball tournament allowed to employ the phrase "March Madness'' will culminate in the first women's Final Four held in Minneapolis since 1995.

Tribune News Service

NCAA Midwest: all you need to know about Kansas, Providence, Miami and Iowa State

It’s Jayhawks-Friars followed by Hurricanes-Cyclones in Friday’s Sweet 16 matchups at the United Center.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kansas’ Bill Self not buying into theory that Jayhawks’ Sweet 16 foe has been lucky

CHICAGO — Analytics guru Ken Pomeroy provided Providence College’s men’s basketball team a rallying cry recently when his metrics deemed coach Ed Cooley’s Friars the “luckiest” of the NCAA’s 358 Division I programs.

Tribune News Service

Michael Hiltzik: In outbreak of charity and good sense, GOP governors in Utah and Indiana veto anti-trans bills

For those desperately seeking evidence that the Republican Party has not completely thrown in with its worst instincts, let us consider Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb.

Los Angeles Times

Adidas is launching an NIL program for NCAA Division 1 athletes

The first major sports brand to offer college athletes a name, image, and likeness network.

Input

Inside Tommy Lloyd’s Instant, International Transformation of Arizona

He had never been a head coach at any level before last year. But it seems his unique path through Spokane and around the world prepared him just fine.

Sports Illustrated

March Madness stars can now cash in on endorsements – but some limits set by states and universities may still be unconstitutional

March Madness is proving lucrative for some of its Cinderella stories and standout stars, thanks to a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that led the NCAA to end its longstanding ban on student athletes earning money from endorsement deals.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

How much is the media buzz from a March Madness Cinderella run worth to a school like Saint Peter's?

Few people outside Jersey City had heard of the No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s Peacocks before they upset No. 2 seed Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Sports Illustrated

Players Who Need to Step Up in the Sweet 16

We pick the most pivotal players for the Sweet 16 teams as the tournament picks up again Thursday.

Sports Illustrated

NCAA Tournament Showcasing Lack of Consistency and Accountability in Officiating

Numerous missed calls and poorly-officiated games have college basketball’s refereeing problem on full display.

The Independent UK

Vetoes show lack of GOP lockstep on transgender sports bans

Republican governors in two states this week rejected legislation to ban transgender players from girls sports

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

USC guard Ethan Anderson enters NCAA transfer portal

LOS ANGELES — When USC needed a stabilizing force to save its tournament life last week, it turned to Ethan Anderson, a veteran guard and former Los Angeles Fairfax High star who’d spent three seasons guiding the Trojans as their floor general, on and off the court.

Tribune News Service

John Clay: Your NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 rooting guide

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky's out. We all know that. The Wildcats' early exit from the NCAA Tournament is no less shocking than it was a week ago. That doesn't mean you should turn off the Big Dance, however. Not when things are about to get interesting.

Orlando Sentinel

Mike Bianchi: Gators’ new whiz-kid basketball coach Todd Golden finds safety in numbers

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scott Stricklin has a message for anyone who thinks Todd Golden doesn’t have the résumé or credentials to be the University of Florida’s new basketball coach.

The Independent UK

Critics accuse trans swimming star Lia Thomas of having an unfair advantage. The data tells a different story

The NCAA champion has sparked controversy and become a hate figure among conservatives, but statistics show little evidence that she performed any differently to other women, Io Dodds reports

Tribune News Service

Rays’ Taylor Walls sides with DeSantis on transgender athlete issue

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Rays infielder Taylor Walls said he wasn’t looking to become the center of a political controversy on social media — and seemingly at odds with his bosses — on Wednesday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Jensen: Villanova, in case you missed it, has Phil Martelli (and Michigan) next

SAN ANTONIO — Two guys walked around a corner inside the back bowels of the AT&T Center. They started laughing at a sight just past that corner. May as well have been Lancaster Avenue, down by City Line.

Tribune News Service

Tim Cowlishaw: TCU fans, others know there’s something foul about March Madness and what it’s become

Maybe the problem I have with the NCAA men’s tournament is that it has reached its ultimate goal. It has become the NFL — an (occasionally) entertaining game producing great moments and played with no discernible rules.

1 … 223 224 225 226

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.