The tournament’s first upset belongs to ... the same team responsible for the biggest one a year ago. The Blue Raiders sent a jolt through the 2016 NCAA tournament as a No. 15 seed, dumping No. 2 seed Michigan State. Same song, different Big Ten team. Two of this sea...
Even some casual fans get in on the fun by filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket. The 2024 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament field includes 68 of the best teams in the country. Here is how each team places in the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. Schools are listed in or...
Biggest strength: This is a good rebounding team. The Bears entered the Big 12 tournament with a plus-6.4 board margin, best in the conference. Baylor has the second-best offensive rebounding percentage in the country, and three players who average at least six reboun...
team that beat South Carolina in the 2014 Sweet 16 and lost to the Gamecocks in that same round in 2015. Now, after sitting out a year as a transfer, she's trying to help South Carolina make its second Final Four. Friday's game was a very good tou...
he's the engine that makes them go. He dealt with some injuries this year. He just has a great story as well. Starting out at UCF, being a kid playing pickup ball and all of a sudden being this breakout star. He's a great story for the tournament and he will be in the NBA....
In addition, the overall and non-conference strength of schedule has been modernized to reflect a truer measure for how hard it is to defeat opponents. The strength of schedule is based on rating every game on a team's schedule for how hard it would be for an NCAA tournament-caliber team...
Savannah Wheeler scored 20 of her 22 points in the second half, and No. 11 seed Middle Tennessee overcame an 18-point, second quarter deficit to defeat sixth-seeded Louisville 71-69 in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
(and somekey injuries) since then have cast doubt on Kansas’s NCAA Tournament potential. This is a well-balanced team, but to say it doesn’t shoot well from the outside is an understatement — see KU’s 3-for-18 performance from deep inSaturday’s Big 12 ousteragainst Iowa State. ...
While each conference is guaranteed at least one team in the tournament, the bulk of the at-large bids tend to go to the so-called Power Five conferences: the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Pac-12 and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Thefuture of the...