Michigan overpowers Arizona and reaches national title game with 91-73 win
INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan overpowered Arizona early and humbled the ‘Cats all night long, turning the Final Four meeting billed as the Game of the Year into a 91-73 Wolverines highlight reel Saturday night. Junior center Aday Mara scored a career-high 26 points and had nine rebounds, a dinged-up Yaxel Lendeborg...
UConn reaches 3rd national title game in 4 seasons, beating Illinois 71-62 behind Mullins and Reed
INDIANAPOLIS — Dan Hurley had UConn ready for another Final Four fight night. Again, his Huskies scored a knockout. Fabulous freshman Braylon Mullins made another last-minute 3-pointer — his only basket of the second half — and the Huskies muscled their way past Illinois, 71-62, on Saturday to reach their...
Dawn Staley eyes another title as South Carolina meets UCLA in the NCAA women’s final
PHOENIX — Dawn Staley has fond memories of her first trip as a coach to the NCAA championship game. It ended with South Carolina’s first national title nine years ago. She hopes that UCLA’s first time playing for an NCAA title won’t end the same way for the Bruins, who...
Auriemma and Staley clash in tense postgame exchange after South Carolina beats UConn in Final Four
PHOENIX — Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma’s coaching rivalry has had something for everyone on and off the court. It reached a dramatic peak Friday night, and the heated exchange between them stirred all the elements that make their matchups must-see TV. Auriemma said it started at the beginning of...
Tim Benz, Mike DeCourcy give 4 key storylines for this week’s Final FourVideo
Throughout the NCAA Tournament, Mike DeCourcy (Sporting News/Fox/Big Ten Network) and I have been breaking down the NCAA men’s basketball brackets region by region. Now we are down to the Final Four this Saturday in Indianapolis. Illinois plays UConn at 6:09 pm Saturday. Arizona and Michigan square off at 8:54...
South Carolina snaps UConn’s 54-game win streak in NCAA semis
PHOENIX — Ta’Niya Latson scored 16 and Agot Makeer added 14 points and South Carolina played stifling defense to beat UConn, 62-48, on Friday night, ending the Huskies’ 54-game winning streak and advancing to the women’s NCAA Tournament championship game. The Gamecocks will face the winner of Texas and UCLA...
Powerhouses Arizona, Michigan meet in Final Four in matchup with championship feel
INDIANAPOLIS — More than 24 hours before the first shot flew at a Final Four that really feels like a five-team affair, Arizona already had a win. The Wildcats kept their coach from bolting to that fifth team — North Carolina. Tommy Lloyd dropped the news of the contract extension...
Illinois tries to erase memories of previous matchups with UConn heading into Final Four
INDIANAPOLIS — Illinois coach Brad Underwood doesn’t need any reminders about what happened the last two times his team faced UConn. He can just plug in the game tapes, rewind them and watch them again. Back in November, the Huskies led wire-to-wire in a 74-61 victory. Two years ago in...
Penn State’s Cooper Cousins on growing at guard, his new look, and the size of PSU’s DTs
UNIVERSITY PARK — If you get a chance to take a closer look at Penn State’s football players and coaches at the Blue-White game at Beaver Stadium in late April, you will notice many things look different. Interior offensive lineman Cooper Cousins is now a veteran, entering his third season...
President Trump signs executive order that aims to stabilize college sports
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at restoring “order, fairness and stability” to college athletics. The order directs federal agencies to bolster the effectiveness of key rules on transferring, eligibility and pay-for-play by evaluating whether violations of such rules render a university unfit for federal grants and...
Report: Duquesne’s Jimmie Williams to enter transfer portal
Jimmie Williams, a junior guard at Duquesne, plans to enter the transfer portal, according to League Ready. Williams, a 6-foot-guard, averaged 15.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists in one season for the Dukes. He shot 46.4% from the field and was the only member of the Dukes to start...
Height, size got Illinois, UConn, Arizona, Michigan to the Final Four
INDIANAPOLIS — Tarris Reed Jr. sat at his locker Thursday, fielding questions about his run as the interior-scoring, rebound-snagging force in UConn’s latest Final Four push. Yet he wasn’t the main attraction. That’s because across the room, an even bigger gaggle of reporters waited for freshman guard Braylon Mullins —...
Keaton Wagler leads deep group of talented freshmen still putting their imprint on March Madness
INDIANAPOLIS — Keaton Wagler’s high school basketball transcript contained everything a college coach would want in a recruit. The 6-foot-6 sharp-shooting Illinois guard helped Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Kansas win its first two state titles, one coming with a perfect season. He won a school record 80 games...
Michigan starter Elliot Cadeau joins teammates at Final Four after accidental exposure to nuts
INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan starting point guard Elliot Cadeau rejoined his teammates for the Final Four and said Thursday his allergic reaction that required hospitalization a day earlier was the result of an accidental exposure to nuts. “I just ate something I was allergic to,” the junior said as he sat...
NFL Draft top prospect profile: Olaivavega Ioane, Penn State G
TribLive is highlighting the top prospects leading up to the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh. The three-day event is April 23-25. Olaivavega Ioane Position: Guard Height/weight: 6-foot-4/320 pounds College: Penn State Ioane, who goes by “Vega,” is the top interior offensive lineman in this year’s draft class. Some of the...
Pitt’s receivers, defensive backs compete for takeaway, big-play helmet stickers
Pitt wide receiver Blue Hicks is quickly running out of room on his helmet. The shell of Hicks’ helmet, from the top of his head down to the facemask, is plastered with white stickers spelling out “Blurrr.” In total, Hicks has a team-leading six “Blurrr” stickers, each of which is...
Kansas coach Bill Self is returning for a 24th season with the Jayhawks
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is returning for a 24th season with the Jayhawks. The program released a statement from Self on Wednesday confirming his return for another year with the program he has led to 21 regular-season conference championships, four Final Fours and a pair of...
Geno Auriemma takes undefeated UConn team to Final Four for 9th time
Geno Auriemma is taking an undefeated UConn team into the women’s Final Four for the ninth time. This group, while extremely talented like the rest, is a bit different than the previous ones. Auriemma recalls those earlier teams with AP Player of the Year winners Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Tina...
Reed, Demary hoping to help UConn win title with transfers again
STORRS, Conn. — In the days and weeks after Silas Demary Jr. arrived on the next stage of his basketball career, he sought out the one UConn men’s player who was navigating a similar path coming from another power conference school. The year before Demary left Georgia to try to...
After strong freshman season, Pitt’s Josh Guerrier eyes starting role at safety
Early last August, long before he ascended to the starting quarterback role at Pitt, then-freshman Mason Heintschel offered a prediction regarding a fellow young teammate. “Josh Guerrier, he’s a freak,” Heintschel said. “That dude is a stud. He’s going to make some noise here soon. It’s tough going against him...
Texas’ Schaefer chasing an elusive title in 4th women’s Final Four
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas coach Vic Schaefer has come agonizingly close to winning a national championship. Close as in three previous trips to the Final Four. And two title game appearances, including one lost on a last-second 3-pointer. The 65-year-old Schaefer is close again. Only he’s over being close in...
Underwood waited 26 years for D-I job, now has Illinois in Final Four
Illinois’ Brad Underwood coached for 26 years before landing his first Division I head coaching job. Now in Year 39, the well-traveled 62-year-old finally is heading to the Final Four, where the Fighting Illini meet UConn on Saturday. He’s doing it in what he’s long referred to as his dream...
Nebraska-Missouri and Penn State-Kentucky volleyball matches are set for Wrigley Field in September
CHICAGO — Wrigley Field will host a women’s college volleyball doubleheader to highlight the Big Ten/SEC Volleyball Challenge Week in September. The conferences announced Monday that Nebraska will play Missouri, and Penn State will meet Kentucky at the home of the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 6. Matchups between Big Ten...
Report: Pitt roster exodus continues, as Roman Siulepa plans to enter transfer portal
News surfaced Tuesday that both Pitt’s Brandin Cummings and Papa Amadou Kante would enter the transfer portal. But a bigger blow for the Panthers was in store before the day was through, as promising Australian forward Roman Siulepa is expected to do the same, according to DraftExpress. NEWS: Pitt's Roman...
Pitt’s Papa Amadou Kante to enter transfer portal
Following news Tuesday that Pitt’s Brandin Cummings plans to enter the transfer portal, a second Panthers men’s basketball player is preparing to do the same. Forward Papa Amadou Kante, who will be a redshirt junior for 2026-27, has also informed the Panthers of his intentions to enter the portal upon...
