Houston's Kelvin Sampson was close to his 1st national title. It slipped away painfully vs. Florida
Kelvin Sampson watched his Houston team come within seconds of the first NCAA title for both himself and the program
April 08, 2025Kelvin Sampson watched his Houston team come within seconds of the first NCAA title for both himself and the program
April 08, 2025The end of national championship game was gritty and ugly, just the way Houston usually likes it
April 08, 2025A thrill-a-minute NCAA title for the Florida Gators in San Antonio has reminded us all of what’s so good about the games these college athletes play
April 08, 2025One person came one first-round women’s NCAA Tournament game away from perfection in the CBS Sports Bracket Challenge
April 07, 2025J’Wan Roberts has been at Houston for six seasons and played in 149 wins for the Cougars
April 06, 2025Whoever said there were no great underdog stories left in March Madness, or that the title would go to whoever spends the most money — or amasses the best collection of big names from the transfer portal — clearly never checked out Houston
April 06, 2025Florida has gone from being picked to finish sixth in the rugged Southeastern Conference to playing for national championship
April 06, 2025Houston’s suffocating defense wiped away a 14-point deficit over the final eight minutes and erased Cooper Flagg and Duke’s title hopes Saturday in a 70-67 stunner over the Blue Devils at the Final Four
April 06, 2025Two All-Americans, one chance to give their their team a chance to win a national championship
April 06, 2025The $1 million March Madness wager between a pro gambler and an artificial-intelligence site will be decided by the winner of the Duke-Houston game in the Final Four
April 04, 2025Three of four teams in the women’s Final Four are No. 1 seeds
April 04, 2025A decade ago, Bruce Pearl of Auburn and Kelvin Sampson of Houston were looking to resurrect their careers after being handed show-cause penalties by the NCAA for recruiting violations
April 03, 2025Fittingly for an NCAA Tournament in which big schools from big conferences took record numbers of spots in the first week, then hogged them all for the second week, the Final Four will bring four teams seeded No. 1 to the sport’s biggest stage to play for the title
March 31, 2025Mark Sears was held to six points and Alabama followed an NCAA Tournament-record 25 3-pointers with only eight, dooming its shot at a second straight Final Four in an 85-65 loss to Duke in the East Region final
March 30, 2025Milos Uzan soared for an uncontested layup on a beautifully executed inbound play with 0.9 seconds left, and No. 1 seed Houston survived a late collapse to beat fourth-seeded Purdue 62-60 in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament
March 29, 2025MiLaysia Fulwiley scored 23 points, including a go-ahead layup with 2:22 left, and Chloe Kitts added 15 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 1 seed South Carolina beat fourth-seeded Maryland 71-67 in the Sweet 16 of the women's NCAA Tournament
March 28, 2025Darrion Williams scored to break a tie with 7.3 seconds left in overtime after tying the game with a 3-pointer in the closing seconds of regulation to lead Texas Tech to an 85-83 win over Arkansas and a spot in the Elite Eight
March 28, 2025Will Richard scored 15 points, Alijah Martin added 14 points and seven rebounds, and top-seeded Florida played a steady second half to run away from No. 4 seed Maryland and into the NCAA Tournament’s West Region final with an 87-71 win
March 28, 2025Alabama broke the 35-year-old March Madness record for 3-pointers with 25 and Mark Sears scored 30 of his 34 points on 3s in an 113-88 victory over BYU in an NCAA Tournament East Region semifinal
March 28, 2025Nearly every year there’s at least one lovable underdog that rises from obscurity in the NCAA Tournament to capture the hearts of basketball fans and bust their brackets
March 27, 2025What to watch from the Sweet 16 of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament
March 27, 2025If there’s a single player Duke or any of its fans would love to not run into when the stakes are this high, Caleb Love would be that player
March 26, 2025Lamont Butler doesn’t want to settle for just one shining moment on a Final Four stage
March 25, 2025