LOS ANGELES — Game and game again, someone unexpected decides to play March Madness hero for Alabama basketball. First, it was Mo Dioubate in the Round of 32. Then, it was Grant Nelson in the Sweet 16. But Nelson’s time as hero had to be short-lived. Foul trouble limited his minutes in the Elite Eight. …
DETROIT − Santiago Vescovi is out with the flu as Tennessee basketball faces Creighton in the Sweet 16 on Friday. Vescovi did not practice Thursday with the Vols at Little Caesars Arena. Vols coach Rick Barnes indicated Vescovi was ill but he expected that Vescovi would play when No. 2-seeded Tennessee (26-8) faces No. 3 …
DETROIT — March Madness made its way to Little Caesars Arena with the Sweet 16, where 1-seed Purdue knocked off 5-seed Gonzaga in downtown Detroit to advance to Sunday’s Elite Eight berth in the 2024 NCAA tournament Midwest region. For the third time in two years, Zach Edey proved to be too much for the …
DALLAS — The 11th-seeded NC State basketball team is headed to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1986 after holding off 2-seed Marquette 67-58 in Friday’s Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament in American Airlines Center. The Wolfpack (25-14) dominated the first 20 minutes of the game and held on down the …
Alabama basketball is in the Sweet 16 for the second consecutive season under coach Nate Oats, this time trying to score a win over North Carolina in an NCAA Tournament matchup Thursday (8:39 p.m. CT, CBS). The Crimson Tide escaped the Spokane, Washington, pod with two March Madness victories over Charleston and Grand Canyon. The …
Check out today’s Sweet 16 schedule in the men’s March Madness bracket, including game times, TV channels, streaming info and more. Men’s March Madness Sweet 16 preview With the Sweet 16 upon us, USA Today Sports’ Mackenzie Salmon previews a few of the top matchups we’re most looking forward to. Sports Seriously The first weekend …
COLUMBIA – Kamilla Cardoso couldn’t hold off the tears ahead of tipoff Sunday. Two hours later, after South Carolina women’s basketball routed North Carolina 88-41 to advance to its 10th straight Sweet 16, the senior center still wore the emotion on her face. Cardoso, who has a year of eligibility remaining and is projected to …
SPOKANE, Wash. − Noses bloodied. Guys scrapped. Players hit the floor. The matchup between Alabama basketball and Grand Canyon couldn’t have been much more physical. There wasn’t a much better time for the Crimson Tide to call on true blue-collar basketball. Alabama had no shot of winning the March Madness battle without it. But the …
A 10-0 run to end the game propelled Alabama to a 72-61 win over Grand Canyon in a hard-fought, physical second-round NCAA Tournament game in Spokane, Washington on Sunday night. With 5:25 left, Grand Canyon held a 58-57 lead, but the Antelopes were outscored the rest of the game, 15-3, to end their NCAA Tournament …
Despite a near late-game collapse, Clemson basketball handled No. 3 seed Baylor 72-64 Sunday at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee, to advance to the Sweet 16 for the fifth time in program history. The sixth-seeded Tigers (23-11) carried their momentum from their 21-point win over New Mexico on Friday to take care of the Bears (24-11) …