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NCAA Tournament 2017

John Calipari

Report: Referee John Higgins received death threats from Kentucky fans

Kentucky fans were angry with the amount of fouls called against the Wildcats in their Elite Eight loss to North Carolina on Sunday, and some of them have crossed the line in expressing their frustrations. According to a report from ESPN’s Jeff …

Joel Berry

5 Final Four X-factors to watch

Everyone knows about the stars of the Final Four — Justin Jackson, Nigel Williams-Goss, Sindarius Thornwell, and so on. But these aren’t just one-man teams, and there are lots of other factors, both on and off the court, that can impact …

UNC Roy Williams

5 biggest takeaways from Sunday’s Elite Eight games

After two weekends of chaos, the dust has settled and only four teams remain in the NCAA Tournament. South Carolina, Gonzaga, Oregon, and North Carolina will meet in the desert of Arizona to determine a champion. Sunday provided college basketball …

De'Aaron Fox

De’Aaron Fox bawling in locker room after loss (Video)

Some people think that just because they are one-and-done players, Kentucky’s freshmen don’t care much about losing. De’Aaron Fox made that notion look foolish. Fox was absolutely bawling in the locker room after his Wildcats lost …

WBNS weather

Columbus TV station WBNS interrupts Kentucky-UNC finish for weather alert

College basketball fans in Columbus, Ohio, are furious after their local CBS affiliate missed the incredible finish to the Kentucky-North Carolina game to air a weather alert. According to multiple Twitter users, WBNS cut into the Elite Eight game …

Luke Maye

Luke Maye answers Malik Monk with game-winning shot

Luke Maye may have been the hottest shooter on the floor in the fantastic Elite Eight game between Kentucky and North Carolina on Sunday, and he punctuated that with a clutch game-winning shot. North Carolina was up 73-30 and Justin Jackson had a …

Hootie South Carolina

Darius Rucker cries as South Carolina clinches Final Four berth

South Carolina continued its historic run in the NCAA Tournament by reaching its first ever Final Four after defeating Florida in the regional finals on Sunday. One person who was on hand to witness the win was Darius Rucker, better known as …

Jordan Bell Oregon

5 biggest takeaways from Saturday’s Elite Eight action

Saturday’s games marked the first which featured a truly brighter spotlight for the teams playing. The Elite Eight, unlike the three rounds prior, only has one game played and televised at each interval. The entire college basketball world first …

Lawrence Police

Lawrence Police trolls Kansas after upset loss to Oregon

Lawrence Police trolled Kansas after the Jayhawks were upset by Oregon in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday night. The Jayhawks were a No. 1 seed in the tourney and had been destroying opponents, yet they went cold against the …

Dillon Brooks coaches

Dillon Brooks gets upset with coaches during timeout (Video)

Dillon Brooks was heated during a timeout in the final five minutes of Oregon’s game against Kansas in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. The Ducks were up by double-digits against the Jayhawks and essentially started nursing …

De'Aaron Fox

5 biggest takeaways from Friday’s Sweet 16 games

It took 60 games for this year’s edition of March Madness to live up to its nickname, with our first overtime and first buzzer-beater coming on the sixth day of NCAA Tournament play. Friday saw one of the wildest games of the tournament thus …

Chris Chiozza shot

Chris Chiozza sends Wisconsin home on incredible buzzer-beater (Video)

Chris Chiozza is going down in history as one of the biggest heroes of March Madness after the memorable moment he delivered on Friday night. Chiozza went the length of the court with his Florida Gators down 83-81 and four seconds left in their Sweet …

Xavier

5 biggest takeaways from Thursday’s Sweet 16 games

Thursday night provided the benefit of a hotly contested first weekend of play -– eight worthy and talented teams squared off in search of spot in the Elite Eight. The first half of this round’s games provided chances for upsets, statements, and …

Bill Murray Xavier

Bill Murray goes nuts celebrating Xavier’s upset (Video)

Bill Murray is having one heck of a sports year. Not only did his beloved Chicago Cubs finally break their curse by winning a World Series, but his Xavier basketball team is in the Elite Eight after upsetting Arizona Thursday night, 73-71. Bill …

West Virginia

West Virginia’s awful final possession gets Yakety Sax treatment (Video)

West Virginia’s season went down in flames on Thursday night with a 3-point loss to Gonzaga in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The final was 61-58, but based on the way their final possession went, the Mountaineers were miles away from …

Sean Miller

8 biggest storylines entering the Sweet 16

In seemingly the blink of an eye, the NCAA Tournament was cut from 64 teams to 16 last weekend. As more than three-quarters of teams earning a tournament bid were sent home, we learned quite a bit about what to expect moving forward. First off, we …

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