Basketball

3/28/2025 |  March Maddening? Timing of transfer portal opening can be tough on coaches still in the tourney (Associated Press (AP)) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Coaches still playing in the NCAA Tournament are having to split their time between preparing their teams for the Sweet 16 and talking to potential transfers who have entered the portal.
Such is life in college basketball.
Dawn Staley is one of those coaches, and she said it’s a huge challenge.

3/28/2025 |  Late Season NBA Roster Situations To Monitor (Spotrac News) At this point in the NBA calendar, there isn’t a lot of roster movement. The trade deadline is nearly two months behind us. Buyout season more or less wraps up at the beginning of March. Even the deadline to sign players to two-way contracts was a month ago (more on that in a bit!).

3/28/2025 |  How the SEC grabbed control of the NCAA Tournament and became the best college basketball conference ever (CBS Sports) INDIANAPOLIS – The exact moment the SEC became a basketball conference is still up for debate. What Rick Barnes can tell you is when his league was barely known for basketball.
It was 1987, the beginning of what will someday be a hall of fame career for Tennessee's current coach. Barnes had just taken what turned out to be a one-season-and-done job at George Mason. That season marked only the program's 10th year of existence. It was a year before its first ever NCAA appearance, 18 years before its first NCAA win during a miracle run to the 2006 Final Four. 

3/28/2025 |  Does a rivalry game hit different in March Madness? Duke, UNC meeting in NCAA women's tournament for the first time ever (Yahoo Sports) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When North Carolina’s Courtney Banghart and Duke’s Kara Lawson took over their respective programs in back-to-back seasons, the questioning was loud. Could they return the ACC powers to prominence? Carry them deep into the NCAA tournament? Pour more fuel on the the UNC-Duke rivalry?

3/28/2025 |  Sick of the basketball transfer portal? Then root for Michigan State and Purdue in NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 (CBS Sports) It's becoming an annual rite of passage in college basketball. As the transfer portal opens amid the NCAA Tournament, consternation abounds over how different — and perhaps not for the better — college basketball is now than it was a decade ago.