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[unable to retrieve full-text content]No. 3 Gonzaga knocks out No. 2 UCLA with second-half flurry in wild NCAA tournament finish  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]March Madness 2023: Games, scores, schedule, times and TV channels for NCAA men’s tournament Day 2  Yahoo Sports Source link

The Michigan football program is under NCAA investigation for numerous potential rules violations, including head coach Jim Harbaugh directly for failing to cooperate with investigators, a Level I violation, sources told Yahoo Sports. The NCAA has prepared a draft of a notice of allegations, which once delivered to the school, will start a 90-day window on the case before the official notice is given. The program is also being investigated for four Level II violations, which are generally… Source link

Kansas pulled off the biggest comeback in men’s national championship game history to beat North Carolina, 72-69, and win the 2022 NCAA tournament. The Jayhawks were down by 15 at halftime and trailed at 16 at one point in the first half. The 16-point deficit breaks a record held by Loyola Chicago after the Ramblers came back from a 15-point deficit to win the national title. And until Monday night, the biggest halftime deficit ever turned around in a national title game was 10 when… Source link

Villanova is back in the Sweet 16 for the fourth time in the last five men’s NCAA tournaments. The No. 2 Wildcats hung on in the second half to bounce No. 7 Ohio State, 71-61, on Sunday in the South region. The Buckeyes never led at any point but were able to cut Villanova’s lead to two points with less than six minutes to go. Ohio State never got any closer, however. Villanova got the lead back to four after Ohio State missed the chance for a tie or the lead and was able to stay two… Source link

After Thursday’s first day of NCAA tournament action, only 14 perfect Yahoo Tourney Pick’Em brackets remained. By Friday afternoon, there were none. An entry named Go Back To Webster Ave. was the last bracket standing after Miami edged USC, 68-66 on Friday. It was the only bracket to correctly pick the tournament’s first 22 games. That means that they picked No. 15 St. Peter’s to beat No. 2 Kentucky, No. 12 New Mexico to beat No. 5 UConn and No. 12 Richmond to beat No. 5 Iowa — impressive… Source link

The college basketball regular season is over. Selection Sunday is in the books. The NCAA tournament — the drama, the pageantry, the elation, the heartbreak — is here. And that means somebody in your life is talking about brackets. It may be a friend, or a family member, or a coworker. No matter who it is, they’re talking about seeds, and Cinderellas, and Final Fours and upsets. All of which would sound nonsensical or foreign for 11 months of the year. But this month? This is March…. Source link

The NCAA men’s tournament selection committee faced a tougher challenge than usual this March when trying to differentiate among the final at-large contenders. There were bubble teams of every flavor up for consideration this year. Some surged into at-large contention during March; others arrived at Selection Sunday leaking oil and missing cylinders. Some were barely over .500 but with a bushel of impressive wins; others had sparkling records but little to show for it. Some were marquee programs… Source link

Will Wade is officially out as LSU head coach, almost three years to the day after it emerged that he had been caught on an FBI wiretap discussing illegal payments to a recruit. LSU announced in a statement Saturday that Wade had been terminated for cause, the cause being the NCAA’s recent notice of allegations regarding an infractions case dating back to 2017, the year Wade was hired as LSU head coach. LSU associate head coach Bill Armstrong has also been fired. Assistant coach Kevin… Source link

Welcome to March, David Jean-Baptiste. The Chattanooga senior guard set a ridiculously high bar for 2022 madness with a wild 3-point heave to secure the Mocs’ place in the NCAA field on Monday. Frantic finish in SoCon final With 4.3 seconds remaining in overtime, Chattanooga inbounded the ball under its own basket trailing Furman in the Southern Conference championship game, 63-61. Jean-Baptiste corralled the inbounds pass and didn’t give it up until he’d secured victory. He dribbled the ball… Source link