The NCAA tournament's regional semifinals are set after a thrilling and exhausting first two rounds, which filled wastepaper baskets with battered brackets and left coaches on their knees in agony and throwing their arms to the heavens in joy....
Not so long ago, having Butler and Xavier among the last 16 teams in the NCAA tournament would have spawned feel-good stories about the plucky mid-major conferences and the wonderful hoops democracy that is March Madness....
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Two-time All-Big Ten player Kalin Lucas is out of Michigan State's second-round NCAA tournament game against Maryland with a leg injury that has him in a walking boot....
They've floated the trial balloons and watched as they were punctured one by one. The games of the last few days alone should convince any rational sports fan that expanding the NCAA basketball tournament is the kind of madness no one needs in March....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Fresh off its first NCAA tournament win in six decades, third-seeded Baylor will face 11th-seeded Old Dominion in the second round of the South Regional on Saturday....