The Villanova Wildcats have hired Maryland's Kevin Willard as their new coach.

MiLaysia Fulwiley scored 23 points, including a go-ahead layup with 2:22 left, and Chloe Kitts added 15 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 1 seed South Carolina beat fourth-seeded Maryland 71-67 in the Sweet 16 of the women's NCAA Tournament.

Dan Hurley’s emotions ran the gamut following his team’s 77-75 loss to Florida in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, which ended UConn’s bid for a third straight national championship.

Jackson Shelstad scored 15 of his 17 points in the first half.

Robert Wright scored 19 points, V.

Tobacco Road is the center of the NCAA Tournament this week with three women’s first-round sites at Duke, North Carolina and N.

SIU Edwardsville guard Ray'Sean Taylor broke down in tears after his team was routed by Houston in the NCAA Tournament.

A year after earning the first NCAA bid in school history, the Columbia women's basketball team is back in the NCAA Tournament.

RJ Davis scored 26 points and went 6 of 6 from 3-point range to help North Carolina silence some skeptics with a 95-68 victory over San Diego State in their First Four matchup.

Amarr Knox’s layup with a second left lifted Alabama State to its first NCAA Tournament win, 70-68 over Saint Francis (PA) in a matchup of No. 16 seeds at the First Four.

Kellie Harper has been hired as the new women's basketball coach at Missouri.

For fans of the Liberty University Flames, they got a double dose of Selection Sunday as both the men’s and women’s basketball squad automatically qualified for March Madness.

The top seeds continued to roll in the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament, including UCLA, South Carolina and TCU.

Three No. 1 seeds will be in the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

GOING DANCING: 13-seed Liberty women set to face 4-seed Kentucky in first round of NCAA Tournament

The Flames earned an automatic bid by winning the Conference USA tournament.

UCLA is the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament.

The college basketball season is winding down, which means March Madness is upon us.

If the Xavier Musketeers get left out of the NCAA Tournament, they’ll look back at their latest game as a missed opportunity.

Colorado State’s winning streak is at 10, and the Rams are headed to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Mountain West’s automatic bid with a victory over Boise State.

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is in favor of expanding the men’s NCAA Tournament to 76 teams.

UCLA, South Carolina, Texas and Southern California have all stated their cases for No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament with their stellar play this season.

The No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament along with the last spots in the 68-team field will be riding on the outcome of a plethora of conference tournaments this week.

Joshua McClary hit the game-winning shot with just seconds left to get Roanoke the 77-75 win.

Georgia may have ended its 10-year NCAA Tournament drought by beating Vanderbilt 79-68.

St. John’s coach Rick Pitino wanted his Red Storm to close the regular season with the kind of challenge they could expect to face in the NCAA Tournament.

Roanoke College heading to DIII NCAA tournament for first time in more than 20 years

The Maroons fell to Guilford 79-74

Women’s basketball teams finally will be paid for playing games in the NCAA Tournament each March just like the men have for years under a plan approved Wednesday at the NCAA convention.

Caitlin Clark's No. 22 will be retired in a ceremony Feb. 2 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

USC star JuJu Watkins and UConn’s Paige Bueckers headline The Associated Press preseason All-America team that for the first time includes three sophomores in a clear sign of the young talent in a sport coming off a record year of fan interest.

South Carolina is starting the season at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 women's college basketball poll.

Kansas is No. 1 in the AP Top 25 preseason men's basketball poll ahead of Alabama and two-time defending national champion UConn.

The iconic women's hoops legend will have her No. 33 jersey retired on January 19.

Freshman Eric Becker drove in four of the Cavaliers runs.

Pitcher Emma Lemley earned her 50th career win in the Hokies 5-1 decision.

Flames snap 49ers 16-game winning streak.

Liberty Flames Softball Gears Up for Fourth Consecutive NCAA Tournament Appearance

Virginia Tech, Virginia, and Liberty softball all heading to NCAA softball regional sites

A northern Idaho prosecutor won’t bring hate crime charges against an 18-year-old accused of shouting a racist slur at members of the Utah women’s basketball team while the team was in Idaho to attend the NCAA Tournament.

First-team Associated Press All-American RJ Davis is returning to North Carolina to play his fifth season of eligibility.

Hailey Van Lith is focused on making the USA Basketball 3x3 Olympic team this summer and not worried about where she’ll end up at college next year.

In elementary school, Caitlin Clark wrote down her dreams and goals that included playing in the WNBA one day.

John Meinen has been an avid Iowa basketball fan for decades.

The basketball world can’t get enough of Caitlin Clark and now that the college season is over, next up is the WNBA draft.

South Carolina, Iowa and UConn have finished atop the final AP Top 25 women's basketball poll of the season.

South Carolina's bench wore down Iowa in the national championship game.

The two follow coach Kenny Brooks who recently accepted the head coaching job after leading Virginia Tech for 8 seasons.

The Virginia Tech senior guard averaged 18 points during the 2023-2024 season.

Caitlin Clark has been invited to the USA Basketball national team training camp during the Final Four in Cleveland, contingent on Iowa’s season being over.

Caitlin Clark scored 32 points and No. 1 seed Iowa survived one of its worst offensive performances of the season to beat No. 8 seed West Virginia 64-54 on Monday night in a women’s NCAA Tournament second-round game.

Stanford has hired Kyle Smith away from Washington State to take over its struggling men’s basketball program.

Virginia Tech advances to second round with confident young players

Matilda Ekh scored 21 points to lead No. 13 Virginia Tech to a 92-49 victory over Marshall in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Ekh connected on 6 of 9 from the floor and hit five 3-pointers for the Hokies (25-7), who set a school record by winning their 26th consecutive game at Cassell Coliseum. Abby Beeman scored 12 points for Marshall (26-7), which saw its 10-game winning streak snapped.

The Virginia Tech Hokies and Marshall Thundering Herd are battling it out in Blacksburg in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.

While a tournament run without Kitley is not what Hokie fans wanted to hear, the excitement for March Madness continues to build.

Devastating news for Hokie fans - Virginia Tech basketball standout Liz Kitley will not be playing in the 2024 NCAA tournament.

10 News went around Virginia Tech's campus today talking to students and they told us they can’t wait for this week’s games.

With thousands coming into Blacksburg for the NCAA Tournament games, we wanted to talk to a local Virginia Tech merchandise store about how they handle these weeks.

Evan Hughes and Jake Lyman are the voices of their universities’ women’s basketball programs, but they are also former sports media students at Virginia Tech.

We are eyeing five unique things of the tournament itself aside from just wins, losses and who’ll cut down the nets in Arizona.

Reigning national champion Connecticut is back at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll.

South Carolina, Iowa, USC and Texas are the top four teams in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, a day after all four were chosen as the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament that begins later this week.

The Virginia Tech women are going dancing!

Virginia Cavaliers, JMU, and Longwood all representing the Commonwealth in NCAA Tournament

Duquesne earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time in 47 years, beating fifth-seeded seeded VCU 57-51 to win the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship.

Conference tournament season took an even more chaotic turn — and that’s bad news for at least a couple teams on the bubble.

North Carolina State is heading back to the NCAA Tournament after beating fourth-ranked North Carolina 84-76 in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament title game.

With most of the major conferences having their tournaments finished, there are a few anxious teams waiting to see if their names will be called for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday when the field is announced.

The Dukes dominated Arkansas State in what proved to be their 31st win of the season.

Brian Dutcher has experienced all 25 seasons of Mountain West basketball and he’s never seen one as crazy as this one.

Excitement is in the air for all of Hokie Nation as they prep for ESPN College GameDay.

Iowa star Caitlin Clark is taking her scoring records to March Madness.

Members of the women’s basketball community say the new NCAA eight-year deal with ESPN that will pour an estimated $65 million annually into the sport reflects the growth of the game.

An NCAA review has concluded that the officiating in the national championship game between LSU and Iowa fell short of expectations.

The conference had eight teams play in the 2023 NCAA Tournament.

LSU All-American Angel Reese has a new endorsement deal with a major shoe and athletic apparel company.

Kansas is the preseason No. 1 in the AP men's college basketball poll.

Iowa will attempt to set the all-time women’s basketball attendance record when it hosts DePaul in an outdoor exhibition at 69,000-seat Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 15.

An NCAA infractions panel has imposed a three-game suspension for Memphis coach Penny Hardaway for recruiting violations tied to two in-home visits with a prospect two years ago.

Georgia's bats were too hot for the Hokies in the 12-3 final on Sunday.

The Aztecs eliminated the Flames with a 6-3 victory in the Los Angeles Regional Final.

Hudson Pokorny scored 5 goals for the Generals.

Xander Dickson set the program record for most goals in a season.

The WNBA and Scripps have signed a multiyear deal to televise Friday night regular-season games on ION.

Louisville’s Hailey Van Lith has entered the transfer portal.

Welcome to Appitude, a sports commentary show from our very own John Appicello — or as you know him, Appy.

The attorneys who beat the NCAA in the Supreme Court have filed a new class-action antitrust lawsuit against the association and the five wealthiest college sports conferences.

UConn's NCAA champion basketball team arrived back on campus Tuesday to more than 7,000 cheering fans inside Gampel Pavilion, the team's home arena.

There was a short list of believers in the potential of a rebuilt UConn roster before the season started.

The Cinderellas certainly had their moments in this March Madness.

UConn had its way with San Diego State in a dominating first half, threatening to turn the national championship game into a monumental rout.

San Diego State was done in by a terrible shooting drought in the first half of Monday night's national title game against UConn.

Adama Sanogo powered UConn to the school's fifth national title with a 76-59 victory over San Diego State.

Both Connecticut and San Diego State used an offseason of work in the transfer portal to bolster teams that have reached the NCAA title game.

Connecticut guard Jordan Hawkins says he had no doubt he was going to play in Saturday night's 72-59 win against Miami in the Final Four despite battling a stomach illness.

Miami earned its way to the Final Four in part by having one of the nation’s best offenses with multiple options for hitting big shots.

Lamont Butler hit the biggest shot in San Diego State history, putting the Aztecs in the national championship game for the first time.

Nijel Pack might need to up his shoe game.

FAU’s debut at the Final Four ended in the most excruciating manner imaginable.