March Madness Articles - Page 37

This college basketball season in particular, it seems as if the freshman class of 2024 is making a huge impact across the country. From USC Trojans star JuJu Watkins to Notre Dame Fighting Irish sensation Hannah Hidalgo, it’s been a special freshman group. One name that has not come up as much, but should be […]

Thanks to another excellent performance from super freshman JuJu Watkins, the No. 1 USC women’s basketball is still alive in the 2024 NCAA Tournament through three games. They survived the Sweet 16 round with a thrilling 74-70 win over the No. 5 Baylor Bears on Saturday and will be facing another Elite Eight round winner […]

The USC Trojans have advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1994, and that’s largely due to the phenomenal play of freshman sensation JuJu Watkins. Watkins opened up the NCAA Tournament in style in the first round against Texas A&M Corpus Christi when she set the school record […]

UConn basketball advanced to their second-consecutive Final Four after completely dismantling Illinois 77-52 to win the East Region. This makes 10 March Madness wins in a row for the defending national champions and coach Dan Hurley, all by double digits. With each passing blowout, UConn basketball builds a stronger case for placing this two-year run […]

Caitlin Clark had 29 points and 15 assists to lead top-seeded Iowa women’s basketball to an 89-68 win over fifth-seeded Colorado in the women’s NCAA Tournament on Saturday, setting up a rematch of last year’s national title game against LSU. After the game, Clark spoke about her mentality approaching the game: "I'm only promised 40 […]

The NCAA women’s basketball tournament has been entertaining so far, and a big reason why has been the play of Caitlin Clark and the Iowa women’s basketball team. Clark has truly changed the game of basketball with her talent, and exposure for women’s hoops is at an all-time high. The Hawkeyes cruised through their first […]

The LSU women’s basketball team is going to the Sweet 16 after a gutsy 78-69 victory over the UCLA Bruins. LSU had standout performances across the board, but sophomore guard Flau’jae Johnson stood out the most. Johnson had an emotional reaction to the Tigers’ March Madness win on Saturday. Johnson revealed an insightful pre-game revelation […]

Monday night will host arguably the most highly-anticipated college basketball matchup between Iowa and LSU women’s basketball teams. It’s a rematch of last year’s National Championship and features Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese. The Hawkeyes superstar opened up about the upcoming matchup after taking down the lady Colorado Buffaloes. Considering Reese openly taunted Clark after […]

As the UConn basketball team is looking to achieve glory once again in winning the NCAA tournament, they have received the endorsement of one significant college basketball head coach in St. John’s Rick Pitino. In a phone interview with The New York Post, he mentioned that he doesn’t “see a weakness” with the Huskies. “I […]

The LSU women’s basketball program pulled off a tight 78-69 Sweet 16 victory over the UCLA Bruins on Saturday. Angel Reese was one of two Tigers to amass a double-double during the matchup, and she sent a striking message to the college basketball world after her team’s gritty March Madness win. LSU has been under […]

Following a Thursday and Friday that featured five upsets, we’re down to eight teams left in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Which four teams will punch their ticket to the Final Four in Glendale, who will fall one game short, and hey, while we’re here, you ever think about if we’ve seen Elite Eight matchups like […]

Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few is very happy for one of his colleagues in the coaching profession. Few is praising Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter following the Boilermakers’ victory over Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament. Purdue used a red-hot second half on Friday to defeat the Bulldogs, 80-68. "They're hunting right now. They're not being […]

North Carolina State basketball forward D.J. Burns Jr. is sending a warning to the other remaining schools in the NCAA tournament. The Wolfpack big man wants those other teams to know that his team is pushing their way through March Madness like a wrecking ball. The no. 11 seed Wolfpack are now the only double […]

Duke basketball guard Jeremy Roach is being honest about his team’s rematch with North Carolina State in the Elite Eight. Roach is looking forward to a rematch between the two heated ACC rivals. Duke is headed to the Elite Eight for the first time with Coach Jon Scheyer after defeating Houston on Friday, 54-51. "It's […]

Gonzaga coach Mark Few is very impressed with Purdue basketball. The Bulldogs coach had nothing but compliments to give the Boilermakers after they handled business in the NCAA tournament, defeating Gonzaga in the Sweet 16. "They're hunting right now. They're not being hunted. That's how you get to Final Fours and that's how you get […]

The Wolfpack stood tall over another foe. On Friday, NC State basketball pulled off an upset over Marquette basketball to book their ticket to the Elite Eight. (per ESPN and NCAA March Madness). Led by guards DJ Horne and Casey Morsell, NC State took an early lead and held off Marquette for the rest of […]

When third-seeded Illinois basketball booked their ticket to the Elite Eight, no one would have expected their locker room celebration to be as hilarious as what ensued. Just after the Fighting Illini’s win over number two Iowa State basketball, the Illinois players were waiting for head coach Brad Underwood with water guns. At first, it […]

Houston basketball’s best player suffered a troubling injury at about the worst possible. Cougars star Jamal Shead was forced to exit his team’s Sweet 16 matchup with Duke after twisting his right ankle with 6:50 left in the first half. The injury occurred as Shead tried to plant on two feet and rise for a […]

Missing nearly an entire season is tough for any basketball player, let alone their first year of college basketball. But that was the reality for UConn Huskies forward Ice Brady who was sidelined for the entirety of her freshman season last year after suffering a knee injury before the season began. Brady was a highly-touted […]

The South Carolina Gamecocks have been cruising through the regular season and the NCAA Tournament so far. But they had a brief scare on Friday against the Indiana Hoosiers in the Sweet 16. After building a 22-point lead, South Carolina saw Indiana slice that deficit down to two points in the fourth quarter. While South […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish saw their season come to an end at the hands of the Oregon State Beavers in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. It’s been a tough season for the Fighting Irish who had only six available players during the Tournament. But perhaps the biggest storyline of the game was […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s season came to an end in the Sweet 16 against the Oregon State Beavers, 70-65. It’s been a tough season for Notre Dame as they’ve dealt with numerous injuries to the roster. Amid Notre Dame’s March Madness loss was the issue of star freshman Hannah Hidalgo and her nose ring. […]

The Illinois basketball team won a close one against Iowa State basketball on Thursday night, and the Fighting Illini are now going to the Elite 8 for the first time since 2005. The Fighting Illini have had some disappointing finishes to recent NCAA Tournaments, but they are playing well this year. The road is going […]

Amid the excitement of the NCAA tournament, Iowa women’s basketball standout Caitlin Clark is the talk of the town, not just for her games, but for her recent invitation to the Team USA basketball training camp and a staggering offer from Ice Cube’s BIG3 league, both of which have elicited candid reactions from her coach […]

North Carolina basketball star RJ Davis was never supposed to go out like this. The ACC Player of the Year had been a force all season, right up until the most important game of the year. The No. 1 Tar Heels fell 89-87 in the Sweet Sixteen of March Madness to No. 4 Alabama Wednesday […]

The Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team faces uncertainty as they gear up for the Sweet 16 against Colorado on Saturday with the news that guard Molly Davis is considered “doubtful” for the upcoming game. The announcement made on Friday by coach Lisa Bluder hints at a hiccup in the team’s strategy. The announcement comes despite […]

The Sweet 16 brings out some of the best basketball of the season. It also brings heavyweight matchups and that’s exactly what Duke basketball’s game against No. 1 seed Houston basketball is on Friday night. The Blue Devils are fresh off consecutive blowout wins during the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament and are hoping […]

LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey is making headlines not only for her team’s NCAA Tournament wins, but also for her fiery comments that have stoked the controversy and brought new attention to women’s basketball. The defending national champions are once again at the epicenter of March Madness, not just for their games but also […]

45 years ago, Kelvin Sampson got his first crack at coaching as a graduate assistant at Michigan State. From there, Sampson’s coaching career took him to Montana Tech, Washington State, Oklahoma, and Indiana before he took half a decade detour as an assistant coach in the NBA following allegations of NCAA recruiting violations. In 2014, […]

There were a good amount of upsets in the first round of the NCAA Tournament this year, but 15/16 favorites won in the round of 32. Because of that, we have just one double digit seed in the Sweet 16, and it is NC State basketball. Just a couple of weeks ago, it looked like […]

A trip to the Final Four in Glendale, Arizona is on the line as Illinois faced UConn. It is time to continue our College Basketball odds series with an Illinois-UConn prediction, pick, and how-to watch. After a solid first weekend of the tournament for Illinois, the Illini faced Iowa State in the Sweet Sixteen. There was […]

Last season, the Purdue basketball team was a one seed in the NCAA Tournament, but they were eliminated in their very first game by 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson. The Boilermakers had that on their mind all of this season, and they are now back in the tournament as a one seed yet again. The first […]

Once again, Caleb Love and Arizona basketball’s hopes for a Final Four appearance were dashed this year as No. 6 seed Clemson basketball pulled off a surprising upset against the second-seed Arizona the Sweet 16, winning 77-72 and securing a spot in the Elite Eight at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday. “For […]

When North Carolina basketball held a 40-25 halftime lead over Kansas in the 2022 national championship game, Caleb Love and RJ Davis nearly experienced all the joy that March Madness has to offer. But a historic collapse, which included their own shooting woes, saw a phenomenal run end in complete dejection. Although the talented guards […]

There’s a lot of uncertainty about what comes next for Armando Bacot. He and the rest of the North Carolina basketball squad could not keep dancing in the NCAA Tournament. The individuals who battered them down? Mark Sears’ Alabama Crimson Tide. Before the Tar Heels star parted ways with the college basketball scene, there was […]

Ahead of Alabama basketball’s Sweet 16 matchup against North Carolina basketball, Charles Barkley described the fourth-seeded Crimson Tide as “frail”. While he did compliment Alabama’s three-point shooting, Barkley felt that the Tar Heels’ physicality would be too much for Alabama. “They (Alabama) are going to have to make 15 three-pointers to win this game but […]

Despite reaching the national championship in his first season as head coach and amassing a 78-31 record through three seasons, the Hubert Davis era of North Carolina basketball continues to be overshadowed by gut-wrenching results. The last three Marches have ended in despair, in some form or another. None of this is to say that […]

It took a Lamont Butler buzzer-beater and some heroics to push San Diego State into an NCAA Tournament finals berth last year. Unfortunately, the same story was not fated for Brian Dutcher’s Aztecs this year. The music had to stop when they had to dance against Dan Hurley and the Cam Spencer-led UConn Huskies. Coach […]

Following their fifth national championship win, where they dominated the NCAA Tournament by an average margin of nearly 20 points, UConn basketball continued their dominance in the 2024 March Madness with a ninth consecutive double-digit victory last weekend. Their victories in this tournament have been by margins of 39, 17, and 30 points. “We suck […]