Iowa State football, basketball guilty of major NCAA violations
USA TODAY
Speaking to the Chronicle of Higher Education, McPhee — the head of the NCAA's Student-Athlete Well-Being Working Group — said Emmert's stipend proposal isn't any closer to surviving the override process than it was last year. “There is still Imagine the greatest week you've ever had. Chances are it pales in comparison to the one [...]
Read MoreIowa State: NCAA case started with basketball aide
U.S. News &
Defending national champion Boston College lost in the first round of this year's 16-team NCAA tournament. The Eagles had won three of the past five Frozen Fours (208, '10 and '12). Neither the 2011 national champion, Minnesota-Duluth, nor the 2009 Kentucky's incoming freshman class / USA TODAY Sports Images. The 2012-13 season and the madness [...]
Read MoreUConn Sank Louisville In Women's NCAA Matchup
NPR
An exciting women's NCAA basketball tournament ended with a dominant win by UConn in Tuesday's final game. ESPN's Pablo Torre talks with host Michel Martin about the game and other sports news. Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial No topics are off limits when Barkley is on the set. He proved that again this [...]
Read MoreForecasting the NCAA basketball top 25 in 2013-14
USA TODAY
Imagine the greatest week you've ever had. Chances are it pales in comparison to the one Louisville head coach Rick Pitino had. His second national championship was merely the icing on the cake. Highlights Box Score The national title game in riffs and GIFs. All In Brian Phillips: At some point during the White Hyperspace [...]
Read MoreLouisville beats Michigan in epic game to clinch NCAA men's basketball title
CNN
Freshman Mitch McGary has emerged as the emotional leader for Michigan. What makes his story rather remarkable, however, is the route in which his season took to get to this point. National Championship: Preview “Boards of trustees started telling the president, 'You've got to get involved,' ”the former N.C.A.A. president Gene Corrigan said. “Are there [...]
Read MoreSpike Albrecht is the surprise NCAA championship MVP
USA TODAY
Mike Huguenin and other Times reporters provided highlights and analysis from the men's N.C.A.A. title game between Louisville and Michigan. The Cardinals won, 82-76. Spike Albrecht, the freshman backup for national player of the year Trey Burke, lit the NCAA championship on fire Monday night, scoring 17 points in an improbable 20 minutes that solidified [...]
Read MoreNCAA Tournament: Michigan beats VCU at own game, 78-53
Los Angeles
The shocker of the tournament, Florida Gulf Coast, looks to try for two in a row on Sunday. Mitch McGary had 21 points and 14 rebounds, and the fourth-seeded Wolverines breezed through Virginia Commonwealth's vaunted pressure with a clinical performance Saturday, beating the fifth-seeded Rams 78-53 to advance to the NCAA round of 16 for [...]
Read MoreFlorida Gulf Coast turns 'dream' into NCAA history
Yahoo! Sport
President Obama has struggled with Catholics over the last 12 months while he defends Obamacare's contraception mandate. And it looks like his woes have just worse as a separate, albeit lighthearted, battle has broken out This tournament is unfolding like a 20-piece camping tent. The NCAA selection committee on Sunday declared Pac-12 wasn't very good [...]
Read MoreNCAA Tournament: Florida routs Northwestern State, 79-47
Los Angeles
Yogi Ferrell dominated the scoring early, but Indiana eventually used its usual balanced offensive attack to rout James Madison in the second round on Friday. It's halftime of the UCLA-Minnesota game in the second round of the South Regional at Austin, Texas. Minnesota leads, 35-25, and UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad hasn't made a field goal as [...]
Read MoreHarvard pulls NCAA tournament shocker vs. New Mexico
USA TODAY
Davidson Wildcats sat on their chairs, as if unwilling — or, perhaps, unable — to move. It was still all too fresh for them, how defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory, another monumental upset in the N.C.A.A. tournament filched with a From Cleveland.com: The Akron Zips remain kings of the Mid-American Conference but [...]
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