NCAA Tournament

The NCAA women’s basketball tournament will start using “March Madness” in marketing and branding beginning this season.

Haley Jones scored 17 points and Stanford beat Arizona 54-53, giving the Cardinal and coach Tara VanDerveer their first national championship in 29 years

Health officials in Indiana are investigating whether anyone was exposed to COVID-19 by Alabama residents.

At halftime Saturday night, UCLA coach Mick Cronin challenged his team to keep it close 10 more minutes and that they should then crank up the pressure on unbeaten Gonzaga. The flawless combination created a masterpiece of a college basketball game. It just didn’t lead to a win for the upstart Bruins. After UCLA star Johnny Juzang’s basket with 3.3…

Gonzaga has given fans the NCAA championship game they wanted with a shot for the ages.

It’s not easy to bury a team as good as USC, let alone in a half, no matter how easy Gonzaga made it look. Somehow, coach Mark Few called it in advance.

Johnny Juzang poured in 28 points while playing most of the second half on a hurt ankle, and UCLA survived a series of nail-biting misses by top-seeded Michigan in the closing seconds for a 51-49 victory Tuesday night that made the Bruins the fifth No. 11 seed ever to reach the Final Four. After dictating the pace all game, eschewing…

Southern California knew it might take a perfect game to spoil Gonzaga’s perfect season and reach the Final Four. Less than 20 seconds in, perfect was long gone. The turnovers came quickly. So too did a big deficit. And just like that, the Trojans’ chances of beating the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed were all but over. By the…

Gonzaga got on a roll and put on a show Tuesday night, moving to 30-0 on the season and cruising into the Final Four with an 85-66 beatdown of previously rolling Southern California. Drew Timme had 23 points and five rebounds and, after one dunk, pretended to slick down his handlebar mustache for the few thousand fans in the stands….

Official Bert Smith collapsed on the floor early in the Elite Eight game between Gonzaga and Southern California and had to be taken off the court on a stretcher

The NCAA Tournament still looks like the field versus Gonzaga.

Isaiah White scored 22 points and Southern California shut down Oregon’s potent offense to reach the Elite Eight for the first time in 20 years with an 82-68 win in the West Region semifinals Sunday night. Pac-12 After Dark Indy-style turned into a lights-out performance by USC. The Trojans (25-7) clipped the high-flying Ducks with their length on the perimeter…

Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 17 points, hitting two big jumpers early in overtime, and No. 11 seed UCLA held on after Alabama’s Alex Reese drained a buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of regulation to beat the second-seeded Crimson Tide 88-78 in a Sweet 16 showdown Sunday night. With star guard Johnny Juzang fouled out, Jaquez and David Singleton took control…

UCLA and Southern California games are usually late-night viewing for most college basketball fans during the regular season, but both programs have prime time spots for the second weekend of March Madness.

Grand Canyon basketball player Oscar Frayer died from a car accident, three days after the Antelopes played in the NCAA Tournament for the first time.

Considering how everything else has gone this past year, March was bound to be mad. So far, it hasn’t disappointed.

Southern California coach Andy Enfield is taking another program back to the Sweet 16. The only surprise about this one? How handily his Trojans took apart No. 3 seed Kansas. Isaiah Mobley hit four 3-pointers and scored 17 points, All-American big brother Evan added 10 points and 13 rebounds, and sixth-seeded USC rolled to an 85-51 victory Monday night inside…

Johnny Juzang scored 17 points and 11th-seeded UCLA carefully brushed off pesky Abilene Christian 67-47 Monday to become the fifth team to go from First Four to Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins (20-9) meet the winner of Maryland-Alabama in their first regional semifinal appearance since 2017 — and their first with second-year coach Mick Cronin. UCLA started…

It’s not like anyone’s going to the office anyway

Add COVID-19 testing to the differences between the women’s and men’s tournaments that has coaches and players unhappy in Texas about what they say is a growing list of inequities.