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3:49 PM on Thursday, March 19

No school located anywhere close to the West Coast has won an NCAA men’s basketball championship since Arizona did it in 1997

3:39 PM on Thursday, March 19

LSU coach Kim Mulkey says she's gotten a lump in her throat while discussing Flau'jae Johnson's fourth and final NCAA tournament with the Tigers

3:38 PM on Thursday, March 19

Chase Johnston had tried four 2-point shots all season and missed them all before he made a go-ahead layup in the closing seconds of High Point's March Madness stunner over Wisconsin

3:27 PM on Thursday, March 19

TCU is hosting women's NCAA Tournament games for the second year in a row, and trying to extend its 42-game home winning streak

3:14 PM on Thursday, March 19

Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews had surgery Thursday in New York to repair the torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee

3:03 PM on Thursday, March 19

Minnesota was confident in this women’s basketball resurgence

3:00 PM on Thursday, March 19

North Carolina looked like a bit of a long shot to serve as a host in the NCAA Tournament when the regular season wound down

2:53 PM on Thursday, March 19

Justice Carlton has provided some critical scoring bursts in some of the biggest games for Texas this season

2:48 PM on Thursday, March 19

Tyler Tanner had 26 points, seven rebounds and five assists, and Vanderbilt rallied to beat McNeese 78-68 on Thursday for its first victory in the NCAA Tournament since 2012

2:42 PM on Thursday, March 19

Michael Porter Jr. will miss at least two weeks with a strained left hamstring, perhaps leaving the Brooklyn Nets without their leading scorer for the rest of the season

2:41 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Duke and Baylor basketball teams might be headed in opposite directions, but they are approaching the women's NCAA Tournament with a similar view

2:30 PM on Thursday, March 19

Pryce Sandfort and his brother, Payton, achieved two basketball firsts in a whirlwind 24-hour window

2:28 PM on Thursday, March 19

San Francisco Giants pitcher Hayden Birdsong will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the entire season

2:10 PM on Thursday, March 19

Miami of Ohio's run to the NCAA Tournament has been supported by some exuberant fans who gather behind the basket wearing nothing but Speedos, goggles and swim caps

1:51 PM on Thursday, March 19

1:47 PM on Thursday, March 19

Michigan is hosting the women’s NCAA Tournament for the second time, and is hoping home court is an advantage again

1:22 PM on Thursday, March 19

Chase Johnston made his first 2-point basket of the season, a fast-break layup with 11.7 seconds remaining that gave No. 12 seed High Point an 83-82 victory over fifth-seeded Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

11:58 AM on Thursday, March 19

Pryce Sandfort scored 23 points and Nebraska rolled to its long-awaited first NCAA Tournament victory, beating Troy 76-47

1:37 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Colin Dorgan has helped lead his high school hockey team to a Rhode Island state championship after losing his mother, brother, and grandfather last month in a shooting at an ice rink

10:40 AM on Wednesday, March 18

Given his strong ties to Syracuse and his recent success in transforming Siena into an NCAA Tournament team in just two seasons as head coach, Gerry McNamara is an obvious candidate to replace Adrian Autry