Nelly Cummings scored 13 points and No. 11 seed Pittsburgh held sixth-seeded Iowa State to 23% shooting in a 59-41 victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday. Jamarius Burton added 11 points and Greg Elliott had 10 for coach
Joey Hauser scored 17 points and No. 7 seed Michigan State clamped down defensively on No. 10 seed Southern California in the second half Thursday for a 72-62 win in the first round of the NCAA tournament’s East Region. Coach Tom Izzo’s
Vice President Kamala Harris, unfortunately, witnessed her alma mater, Howard University, lose to the defending NCAA men’s basketball national champion Kansas on Thursday, 96-68. Howard and Kansas played at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, and when Harris appeared on
While brackets around the country may already be busted, fans of college basketball are just getting started. Day 1 of the NCAA Tournament kicked off Thursday with a bang as 12-seed Furman took down 4-seed Virginia in the final moments. BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
Andrew Funk had the shooting game of his career on Penn State’s biggest stage in over two decades. Funk made 8 of 10 3-pointers and scored 27 points Thursday night in a 76-59 win over Texas A&M for the Nittany Lions’ first
Sir’Jabari Rice scored 23 points and No. 2 seed Texas shut down sharpshooting Colgate for an 81-61 victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night. Rice made five of his seven 3-pointers in the first half, helping the
Boo Buie scored 22 points to lead Northwestern to a win in the school’s second appearance ever in the NCAA Tournament, 75-67 over Boise State on Thursday. The seventh-seeded Wildcats (22-11) previously made it to the Big Dance in 2017, and just
President Biden could relate to many Americans Thursday night after he saw his NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket busted when Princeton shocked Arizona in the first round, 59-55. Princeton, the No. 15 seed in the South regional, used a late rally to
The No. 15-seed Princeton Tigers roared late in the second half to pull off the largest upset of March Madness thus far, taking down the No. 2-seed University of Arizona Wildcats, 59-55. The Tigers strung together a 9-0 run at the end
Jalen Wilson had 20 points and seven rebounds for No. 1 seed and defending national champion Kansas, which allowed absent and recovering coach Bill Self to rest during an easy 96-68 victory over Howard on Thursday in a West Region first round