The annual NCAA Tournament rewards teams high and low for proving themselves to be among the best in the country.
Once the games begin, everyone is focused on which of the Davids will slay their Goliaths in the early rounds of the tournament, writing their stories into the pantheons of college basketball history...
By now, most people know that Barack Obama is a basketball guy. So it's no surprise that come Tournament time, ESPN asks him to fill out a bracket. Do you agree with his picks?
The 2013 NCAA Tournament is upon us, and sure, the games are fun but we're more interested in the battle raging on in the bleachers.
Student body against student body. Alumni against alumni. Fans against fans. Bands against bands in battles of brass...
Sports fans always assume they've seen it all... until something crazy happens that we've never seen before. College basketball is usually where the oddest stuff happens with players, coaches, and fans responsible for all kinds of mayhem and mischief
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Afraid your boss is going to catch you checking out NCAA Tournament scores while you’re supposed to be working? Well, like a bubble team who gets an invite to the Big Dance, you can breathe a huge sigh of relief.
Doron Lamb scored 22 points, and Kentucky held off a spirited Kansas rally to beat the Jayhawks 67-59 in the NCAA title game in New Orleans on Monday night. The win gave the Wildcats (38-2) their eighth national championship in school history and first since 1998.
Not all of this past few days’ college basketball action happened at the Final Four. While Kentucky and Kansas were busy advancing to Monday night’s NCAA title game, the nation’s best dunkers gathered on Thursday to crown a champ at the 2012 College Dunk Contest.
Not every great college basketball team wins the NCAA tournament. Some incredible college teams have suffered heartbreaking losses only to win the NCAA tournament title the following year (1973 North Carolina State, 1975 Indiana, 1982 Georgetown). Other championship teams have lost in an attempt at repeating (1961 Ohio State, 1985 Georgetown, 1991 UNLV, 1997 Kentucky).
Here are the 12 best teams t