College Basketball

A pair of surprise teams square off for the right to play in the Final Four when the fifth-seeded San Diego State Aztecs face the sixth-seeded Creighton Bluejays in the 2023 NCAA Tournament South Region Final on Sunday. The Bluejays (24-12, 14-6 Big East), who placed third in the Big East, advanced with an 86-75 win over 15th-seeded Princeton on …

The 2023 NCAA Tournament began last week with a nice, neat clean bracket with 68 team names on 68 lines on the bracket. Well, what a difference a week makes. As we head to the Elite Eight the number of championship contenders has dwindled dramatically.  We’ve made it through the first full weekend of March Madness but not every team …

NEW YORK — The first two tickets to the 2023 Final Four will be punched Saturday — one here in New York via the East Regional Championship, the other out in Las Vegas via the West Regional Championship. Both NCAA Tournamentgames figure to be close. Saturday’s first game is Kansas State, the No. 3 seed in the East Regional, against …

The third-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs will look to earn their third Final Four appearance when they battle the fourth-seeded Connecticut Huskies in a 2023 NCAA Tournament West Region Elite Eight matchup on Saturday in Las Vegas. The Bulldogs (31-5, 14-2 West Coast), who won the West Coast Tournament championship, are looking to win their first-ever national championship. The Huskies (28-8, 13-7 …

The Florida Atlantic Owls aim to continue a Cinderella ride in the 2023 NCAA Tournament on Saturday. FAU, the No. 9 seed, takes on the No. 3 seed Kansas State Wildcats in the East Regional final at Madison Square Garden. The Owls have won 10 straight games, improving to 34-3, and Florida Atlantic is one win from the Final Four …

Gonzaga’s Malachi Smith LAS VEGAS — Gonzaga and UCLA played one NCAA Tournament game that left the Zags’ star player bawling, and another game that stunned the Bruins. Add another to the list. Maybe the maddest one in March yet. Julian Strawther hit a 3-pointer with 7.2 seconds left to answer a 3-pointer by UCLA’s Amari Bailey, lifting Gonzaga to …

No. 1 Alabama disappointingly concluded its season on Friday with a 71-64 loss to No. 5 San Diego State in Louisville, Kentucky. Let’s dive into the film room to analyze Alabama’s 2-point shooting struggles from its Sweet 16 defeat. What went wrong  Early into the first half, it was evident that it was one of those Alabama outings. The defense …

OK, the last Dooley’s Dozen may have depressed you a little as I gave you my 12 reasons why Florida has sunk into mediocrity in football and basketball. The only thing I can do to lift your spirits is to relive the past, especially when it comes to basketball. I started thinking about all of the Sweet 16s I was …

LAS VEGAS — When he first arrived at Gonzaga, Drew Timme earned a nickname from coach Mark Few. “Dumbass,” he revealed. “Pretty fitting.” These days, though, Few is calling Timme something different: One of the greatest college basketball players of the modern era. In fact, this week at the West Regional, he’s mentioned it in two sessions with the media. …

The Pac-12 did it again. It failed to win the NCAA Tournament. The conference, which has not cut down the nets on the final Monday night of the season since 1997 (when Arizona celebrated its lone national championship), got knocked out of the Big Dance on Thursday night in Las Vegas. UCLA, the one Pac-12 team to reach the Sweet …

Alabama’s NCAA tournament run has come to an end. The Crimson Tide had shown plenty of flaws throughout the season — namely, their 3-point shooting and scoring beyond controversial star Brandon Miller — and all of those flaws were on full display on Friday night in a 71-64 loss to San Diego State in the Sweet 16. Miller finished what …

In this UConn news conference, head coach Dan Hurley knows what UConn is up against when they face Gonzaga on Saturday night for a berth in the Final Four. He talked about his respect for the Bulldogs program and their head coach Mark Few. The key matchup will be UConn’s Adama Sanogo and All-American Drew Timme who Hurley says, “Is …

Yahoo Sports college basketball writer Krysten Peek takes you through 5-seed San Diego State’s impressive win over top overall seed Alabama in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Video Transcript KRYSTEN PEEK: Down goes the number one overall seed Alabama, as San Diego State defeated the Crimson Tide in a back and forth battle 71-64. It was a 2-point …

Fifth-seeded Miami did more than upset top-seeded Houston  in a Sweet 16 matchup Friday. The Hurricanes walloped the Cougars 89-75 in the men’s NCAA Tournament that ended Houston’s hopes of playing for the school’s first national championship in its hometown. Houston is the site of this year’s Final Four. But the Cougars (33-4) will be watching. The Hurricanes (28-7) advance to …

Alabama men’s basketball fell to San Diego State in the Sweet 16 with a final score of 71-64. With this loss to the No. 5 seed Aztecs, the top-seeded Crimson Tide now have an all-time record in the Sweet 16 of 1-9. The game was close for the full 40 minutes and Alabama even had a nine-point lead at one …

san diego state alabama LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16. Trammell scored 21 points while Miller, whose outstanding season was marred by off-the-court complications, …

miami houston KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nijel Pack and Miami hit shots from near and far against the stingiest defense in the country to beat Houston 89-75 on Friday night in the Sweet 16, leaving the NCAA Tournament without a single No. 1 seed among its final eight teams for the first time since seeding began in 1979. Miami (28-7), …

creighton princeton LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Creighton used its size, 3-point shooting and a swarming second-half defense to end the March Madness run of Princeton, beating the 15th-seeded Tigers 86-75 on Friday night in the Sweet 16. The sixth-seeded Bluejays (24-12) advanced to their first regional final since they were part of an eight-team NCAA Tournament in 1941. Creighton will play …

texas xavier KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tyrese Hunter scored 19 points, Marcus Carr and Christian Bishop added 18 apiece, and second-seeded Texas rolled to an 83-71 victory over No. 3 seed Xavier on Friday night to reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 15 years. Playing most of the way without ailing star Dylan …

Only a few minutes after his team’s Sweet 16 face-plant against San Diego State on Friday night, Alabama head coach Nate Oats took a seat in front of a microphone and answered eight minutes of basketball-related questions. Left unasked was the most pertinent one: Was it all worth it? Was it worth refusing to bench Brandon Miller despite his involvement …

USATSI KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Texas senior forward Dylan Disu is day-to-day after the senior was removed early in the No. 2 seed Longhorns’ 83-71 victory vs. No. 3 seed Xavier on Friday in the Midwest Regional semifinals with a bone bruise in his left foot. His availability for Sunday’s regional final against Miami has not been determined. Disu, a …

The San Diegro State Aztecs have done something no Mountain West team has done before. They made it to the Elite 8. (Yes, we know UNLV won a championship a long time ago, but they weren’t in the Mountain West when it happened, so it doesn’t count for this purpose.) The Aztecs made it to the Elite 8 by defeating …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – If it wasn’t surgical precision by Miami on Friday night, it was something that needed surgical tape for the team to get the point .  That was the visual left by Hurricanes coach Jim Larranaga after yet another bracket-rocking upset in this rock-and-rolling NCAA Tournament. This one left the Elite Eight without a No. 1 seed for …

After a wild week-and-a-half to kick off the 2023 NCAA Tournament, the 68-team field we had to begin March Madness has been trimmed to only eight as we head to the second weekend of the event. By the time Sunday turns to Monday, four more teams will be cut from the bracket with the others punching their tickets to the …

Getty Images Elite Eight field: set. Your bracket: a shambles. March: Officially mad.  The NCAA Tournament provided a ton of drama in the lead-up to the Elite Eight as we nailed down the first leg of the second weekend of March Madness. The two No. 1 seeds left standing entering Friday both got bounced, giving us a first-ever Elite Eight …