The star power of Washington’s Markelle Fultz and UCLA’s Lonzo Ball helped the Pacific 12 Conference draw a record crowd last year during its first basketball tournament at T-Mobile Arena.
NCAA Tournament
It’s that time of year again when college basketball takes over Las Vegas for March.
There is no end in sight to an FBI investigation in which Yahoo Sports reported Friday that players from more than 20 Division I programs possibly broke NCAA rules.
The brackets may not be out yet, but college basketball fever is heating up.
In honor of that age-old classic known as the Vegas 16 postseason tournament, which turned out to be the Vegas 8 and then the Vegas Zero, we give you our top 16 teams entering the college basketball season.
There is still much to love about the game and those who play it, still much to celebrate amid federal indictments and dudes flipping like Sammy the Bull.
The corrupt and dishonest culture that has defined the sport for decades has finally (thankfully) been shoved from the shadows and into plain view for all to see, the result of an FBI investigation into charges of fraud and bribery.
A sixth year of eligibility means Michigan State fans will finally get to experience the former Bishop Gorman standout as a player and, more important, a man.
Baseball’s winter meetings will return to Las Vegas in 2018 at Mandalay Bay. The resort also will host the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics annual convention in 2020 and 2022.
The state’s sports books won a record $41.275 million on basketball in March, a hold of 9.61 percent from a record handle of $429.5 million.
The father of UCLA star Lonzo Ball says the Bruins lost in the NCAA Tournament because “three white guys” couldn’t pick up the slack after his son injured his hamstring.
The Tar Heels have a sixth national championship and are deserving in the sense they proved to be the better of two teams hardly at their best and yet never permitted to be Monday night.
North Carolina found a way to redemption after a heart-breaking loss in the NCAA championship game a year ago.
It wasn’t a great night for North Carolina. It just happened to be a slightly worse one for Gonzaga.
Steve Carp on Monday was enshrined into the United States Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in a ceremony hours before the national championship between North Carolina and Gonzaga.
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