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March Madness is coming to Wichita. The NCAA announced last week that the expanded Opening Round of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament for both 2027 and 2028 will be held in Wichita, Kansas, at INTRUST Bank Arena. Next year’s tournament will be the first of the 76-team field, up from 68 teams, and Wichita will […]
Continue ReadingMarch Madness is getting madder. After months of speculation, the NCAA formally announced Thursday that it is expanding the Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to 76 teams each, up from 68 teams. The change will take effect with the 2026-27 season and introduce an “opening round” in which 12 lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and […]
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Looming 34 stories above downtown Indianapolis and featuring a curved structure and gleaming glass exterior, the JW Marriott Hotel would be hard to miss at any time of year. This, however, is no ordinary time of year, especially in the hoops-crazy Hoosier State. The men’s NCAA tournament concluded last night with Michigan defeating Connecticut in […]
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Before the start of March Madness, the NCAA issued a travel warning to all Division I athletic directors and head coaches for men’s and women’s basketball, attempting to get ahead of any potential travel issues brought on by a shortage of charter planes and other challenges. Now that both fields have been whittled to 16 […]
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This week the Toyota Center in Houston will finally get the chance to make its men’s NCAA tournament debut, six years later than originally planned — and much to the delight of the fans of its local school. That venue was scheduled to welcome a regional round of the 2020 tournament, with the University of […]
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Unlike 52 of the teams that have already been sent home, the men’s NCAA tournament remains undefeated. The opening week of March Madness featured yet another delectable feast of upsets (so long, Florida), buzzer-beaters (take a bow, Dylan Darling) and Cinderellas (High Point lived up to its name). The second week figures to provide more […]
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Noblesville, Indiana, will host the Horizon League basketball tournament for five years starting in 2027 with both men’s and women’s games taking place at The Arena at Innovation Mile, which opened last year. First-round games will take place on-campus before the tournament moves to the home of the Indiana Pacers’ G League team, the Noblesville […]
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Geno Auriemma is sitting at a table at a hotel in Rhode Island, food laid out before him, surrounded by his Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team that he has every reason to suspect might, in just a few weeks, win the 13th national championship in the school’s gilded history. The legendary coach is looking at […]
Continue ReadingTo the long list of annual headaches for the NCAA basketball selection committees this time of year — weighing resumes, assessing player injuries, balancing the bracket — add a new one: working around the challenges presented by travel problems brought on by the crisis in the Middle East and a limited number of available charter […]
Continue ReadingWith less than two weeks to go until Selection Sunday, the NCAA has issued a letter to all Division I athletic directors as well as all DI men’s and women’s head basketball coaches warning of the potential for difficulties getting to various tournament sites in the early stages of March Madness. In the letter, sent […]
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