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Aaron Craft (Photo: Richard Mackson/USPRESSWIRE) The NCAA men's basketball tournament resumes with the Sweet 16, which will get down to the Final Four by the end of the weekend. We have selected 15 players and 1 coach representing all 16 teams. Ohio head coach John Groce is hotter than any of the players I was […]

Oliver McNally Corbin Miller (Photo by Greg M. Cooper-US PRESSWIRE) We asked our readers to select their hottest player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and you responded. Below are various players who will be in this year's tournament, which starts with play-in games on Tuesday. With 68 teams and everyone having different tastes, it's […]

Joe Harris (Photo by Geoff Burke-US PRESSWIRE) Outsports has set up a pool for the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. Fill out your bracket and see how you do against other Outsports readers. We are using Yahoo this season. To play, simply go to our Outsports NCAA Pool link and fill out the sign-up info. […]

Sherri Murrell is a trailblazer in college basketball, living her life openly in Div. 1.

Former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan, who graduated four years ago, is only the second former Div. 1 male basketball player to publicly come out of the closet as gay.

Connecticut beat Butler, 53-41, in an NCAA tournament final that set men’s college basketball back 60 years. It figures that a game pitting the Bulldogs against the Huskies turned out to be a dog. The 53 points by Connecticut was the fewest for a champion since 1949, while Butler's 41 was the lowest since 1950, […]

VCU coach Shaka Smart Only two people out of 5.9 million people in ESPN'S NCAA men's basketball pool correctly picked the Final Four: Connecticut (3 seed), Kentucky (4), Butler (8) and Virginia Commonwealth (11). One of them was so bad in their other picks that they stand around 6,000. But Joe Pearlman, an I.T. worker […]

I haven’t paid much attention to the NCAA tournament this year; The decline in talent, poor officiating and lack of compelling storylines just left me disinterested. But I got a lot more interested this morning when I saw BYU lost last night! For the last two weeks we've had endure columns praising BYU for "standing […]

Ryan Kopacsi Virginia Commonwealth is one of the surprise teams in the NCAA men's basketball Sweet 16, having been one of the final entries into the expanded field. VCU also has a pep band that goes to every game with a band leader, Ryan Kopacsi, who likes to do a partial strip, not a surprise […]

I did not watch any regular season men’s college basketball but did watch a fair amount of the tournament the past four days. I had not realized the quality of the sport had dropped so much. Jay Bilas on ESPN said it is one of the weakest fields he’s seen in years, owing to college […]

Outsports has set up a pool for the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. Fill out your bracket and see how you do against other Outsports readers. We are using CBS Sportsline this season. For the first two rounds, you will get the seed of the winner added to your points, which will reward correct upset […]

We hear it every time this year. Waaaaah. Waaaaaaaaaaaah. All the way from Bristol, Conn., the rest of the country can hear Dick Vitale and countless other commentators whining because so-and-so didn’t get into the men’s basketball tournament…despite the NCAA adding three more spots this year! You can see Vitale’s annual whining fit after the […]

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The NCAA has unveiled its 68-team tournament plan. It entails four “play-in” games, but not the way you might expect. Instead of teams ranked 61-68 playing for those coveted 16-seeds, two of the games will feature the last four at-large bids. That is, you will have This past year would have likely featured something like […]

I was like millions of Americans hoping that Gordon Hayward’s desperation, last-second shot would drop and give Butler an improbable NCAA men’s college basketball title. But the ball caromed off the backboard and hit the front of the rim and out and Duke held on for a dramatic 61-59 win. It was the closest NCAA […]

Butler cutie Gordon Hayward CBS got the matchup it wanted in the NCAA men's college basketball final — Butler vs. Duke, David vs. Goliath. It all came together when Butler held off Michigan State, 52-50, while Duke ripped West Virginia, 78-57. The two Final Four games were generally uninteresting. For a two-point game, the Butler-Michigan […]

Last year President Barack Obama was heralded as a genius and good luck charm for picking the favorite (North Carolina) to win the NCAA tournament (they did). This year, not so much. Obama’s final four of Kansas, Kentucky, Kansas State and Villanova went up in flames this weekend; It seems playing the chalk this year […]

Well, so much for the Kansas-Villanova final I picked in the Outsports NCAA pool. Villanova, a No. 2 seed, lost to St. Mary’s, but the even bigger stunner was Kansas losing, 69-67, to Northern Iowa. I had not watched college basketball in the regular season, so when the pairings were announced it was interesting how […]

Once again we will host an NCAA men's basketball tournament pool. The field of 65 is set, with Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse the four No. 1 seeds. You can sign up any time prior to the start of the first game Thursday. Once again we will host an NCAA men's basketball tournament pool. The […]

I love the first few days of March Madness. Even in a season when I don’t pay a lot of attention, I’ll watch those first couple rounds. But as if six rounds over three weeks wasn’t enough, the NCAA is talking very seriously about expanding the number of teams in the tournament to 96 or […]