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BOSTON -- It was nine years ago that Scottie Reynolds hit a game-winning runner here as the seconds ticked down in a round of 8 matchup with Pittsburgh, the shot [...]

BOSTON -- With all that was at stake on Friday, the key numbers that Purdue fans were focused on were 1-26.2. That marks the section of the N.C.A.A. basketball rule [...]

BOSTON -- After Villanova watched University of Maryland, Baltimore County, complete its unforgettable upset over top-seeded Virginia from a hotel room in Pittsburgh, Coach Jay Wright said nothing to his [...]

Florida State's players were so jubilant they didn't quite know where to go, so they ran up into the stands to shake hands with whomever they might find. The program [...]

Clayton Custer's jumper glanced off the front of the rim, floated up high to kiss the backboard and then seemed to hang in the air forever. When it finally fell [...]

It took a bit longer than usual. But this year's N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament finally got its first major upset on Thursday. And No. 13-seeded Buffalo did not need a [...]

DO NOT PUBLISH...WILL TOP BRIEFINGXXX For most of the first day of what has been billed as the most wide-open N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament in years, fans were left wondering [...]

North Carolina, whose heartbreaking loss in the N.C.A.A. tournament championship game a year ago provided one of the game's indelible moments -- the buzzer-beating shot by Villanova's Kris Jenkins -- [...]

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Scripture led North Carolina's Justin Jackson to the tale of David and Goliath, of all things. He did not plan it that way. The words spoke [...]

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- From the sideline, Isaiah Hicks could sense a big play coming from his North Carolina teammate Kennedy Meeks just by the look on his face. Hicks whispered [...]

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- It had been 78 years since Oregon last played in the Final Four. And North Carolina Coach Roy Williams wanted to be clear: He did not remember [...]

In the moments after South Carolina clinched the first Final Four berth in team history, Coach Frank Martin found his 74-year-old mother, Lourdes, and finally let down his guard. The [...]

South Carolina's win over second-seeded Duke was not only a surprise to fans. In the postgame revelry, Coach Frank Martin had to ask an assistant whom his team would face [...]

There were five Wisconsin players and one whirring blur of white cleaving all of them -- a Florida point guard, motoring up the court, veering out of control and finally [...]

Duke, universally admired and despised, found itself engulfed by Carolinas -- North and South -- at the sold-out Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C., on Sunday. Cheers and jeers [...]

It was a tough day for the A.C.C., with Louisville and Duke both getting knocked out in the round of 32, and No. 1 North Carolina narrowly escaping an upset [...]

It took a while -- too long, some might say. But in the second round on Saturday, the N.C.A.A. men's tournament finally delivered the kind of bracket-shattering jolt that basketball [...]

Stay here for live updates, scores and analysis from the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament Round of 32. How to Watch or Stream: CBS, truTV, TNT, TBS, ncaa.com, and the NCAA [...]

Stay here for live updates, scores and analysis from the first round of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament. How to Watch or Stream: CBS, truTV, TNT, TBS, ncaa.com, and the [...]

Once again, there were no buzzer-beaters, no unexpected upsets or overtime thrillers, but at least the second day of the N.C.A.A. tournament offered a few reasons not to change the [...]

The first day of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament went mostly according to plan, with No. 12 Middle Tennesse State and No. 11 Xavier pulling off the only upsets. In [...]

Years upon years, decades upon decades, had passed without Northwestern's reaching the N.C.A.A. tournament. So when the Wildcats finally -- finally -- advanced this year, their coach, Chris Collins, shared [...]

HOUSTON -- They run the play so often in practice that Villanova Coach Jay Wright hardly needed to draw it up in the huddle. It is instantly recognizable by a [...]

HOUSTON -- Renegades, that's what they were, banding together in opposition and commiseration Saturday night, like enemies slowly realizing that their differences were outweighed by what they had in common. [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- They might well be the most fearsome team in the country, but in the vulnerable moments before tip-off, North Carolina relies on a routine of flying elbows and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament resumes Thursday in the round of 16, the key to advancing, for most teams, might be a little closer to the floor than [...]

Cinderella almost looked like a Lumberjack. Or a Ram. Or a Blue Raider. Instead, those upstarts with lower seeds, lower profiles, and representing smaller conferences, largely hit a wall Sunday [...]

After tearing up millions of brackets on Thursday and Friday, underdogs in this year's N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament flooded the weekend. They settled into hotel rooms in regional sites where [...]

The odds looked strong for Michigan State -- not just to make it past the first weekend of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament, but to roll on to the Final [...]

Yale (12) Over Baylor (5) WHY IT COULD HAPPEN Yale ended the season on a 17-1 run, cruising through the increasingly competitive Ivy League with a 13-1 record. Its veteran [...]

A hooded figure approached Seton Hall Coach Kevin Willard and offered quick congratulations as Willard stood outside the locker room on Saturday. ''I haven't enjoyed facing you that much,'' Willard [...]

When the text message arrived at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, Justin Talavera had to be the one to deliver the disappointing news to his team: DePaul's flight into New York had [...]

ALBANY -- As the wins pile up for Stony Brook again this season, the Seawolves remain haunted by the question that has troubled them for five agonizing years, beginning with [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW HAVEN -- The mood inside the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Friday evening felt mostly like impatience. Fans filled rickety wooden bleachers that have ached for success. Basketball [...]

A brilliant second-half performance by Grayson Allen lifted No. 5 Duke over Georgetown, 86-84, in the championship of the 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden on Sunday afternoon. Allen scored [...]

When it was over, and Chris Mullin's first win as a coach was in the books, he made his way toward the southeast corner of the stands, to kiss the [...]

INDIANAPOLIS -- This Duke team was forged not over years but months, weeks, days. Its genesis was a Friday afternoon in November 2013, when the star high schoolers Tyus Jones [...]

INDIANAPOLIS -- He spent hours dunking outside at the hoop in his driveway, with the rim low at first, then raising it just a tad, higher and higher, until no [...]

INDIANAPOLIS -- It was here, finally, after 364 days -- long enough for Kentucky to reload and to rewrite history and for Wisconsin to reconcile its paralyzing defeat on this [...]

INDIANAPOLIS -- It was here, finally, after 364 days -- long enough for Kentucky to reload and to rewrite history and for Wisconsin to reconcile its paralyzing defeat on this [...]

SYRACUSE -- The moment was worth savoring, so Michigan State stayed on the court long after the final buzzer sounded, the nets came down and Travis Trice's back began tightening [...]

SYRACUSE -- It has become almost trite and half-expected: Tom Izzo coaching Michigan State deep into the N.C.A.A. tournament, pushing all the right buttons at all the right times in [...]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Perfection was at stake, but maybe even more significant, more alluring, Princeton had an opportunity to send shock waves through a tournament that rarely registers even [...]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- They were undefeated at 30-0 and perhaps under-respected, too, with a low seeding that left them feeling like the oddest underdogs in recent N.C.A.A. tournament memory. [...]

It had been so long that nobody really knew how to get the postgame celebration started, so all the players stood sheepishly in a huddle, as if they were at [...]

There was disconsolation in the Providence locker room, and frustration, and certainly a little simmering anger, and then there was Kris Dunn, who seemed to wipe away the dejection of [...]

It had been so long that even Coach Steve Lavin could not remember the last time St. John's won a game in the Big East tournament. He had near-perfect recall [...]

The gold ball was at one end of the court, and the St. Francis of Brooklyn players -- stunned, drained, devastated -- were at the other, walking quickly out of [...]

No record was at stake Sunday afternoon. Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski had already taken care of that, eclipsing Bob Knight's mark for wins by an N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball [...]

It was a hole that St. John's proved unable to dig itself out from: five straight losses to open Big East Conference play, a lesson that players said they never [...]