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South Carolina started the 2024-25 women’s college basketball season at No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The Gamecocks were also the defending national champions, defeating Iowa in the final. Eighteen preseason No. 1 teams have gone on to win the national championship. Before the complete list, here are some quick facts about these preseason

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The women’s NCAA tournament is often heralded for its huge upsets, game-winners at the buzzer and championship runs, but a large contributor to the Madness we find in March is the blowout performances of teams looking to assert their dominance on their way to the next round. Here are the 10 biggest blowouts in NCAA

ESPN News Services Jan 29, 2025, 01:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. LOUIS — A fight between fans in the stands near the VCU bench caused a Rams’ Atlantic 10 Conference game with Saint Louis to be delayed about seven minutes with 1:10 remaining in regulation. The Billikens led 69-63 when fans wrestling with

Share The 8-9 matchup is the toughest first round game to pick when you’re filling out your NCAA tournament bracket. That’s because 8 and 9 seeds have the closest head-to-head record against one another since the March Madness field expanded in 1985. After the 2024 tournament, 9 seeds hold a 81-75 edge. In the 2024 tournament,

EAST LANSING – Tom Izzo wore a pair of shoes unlike any other Tuesday night. The legendary Basketball Hall of Fame coach sported a pair of white low-top Nike with a green swoosh during No. 7 Michigan State basketball’s 73-51 win over Minnesota. It was the messages scrawled on them in multicolor marker that carried

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Share Vanderbilt scored two wins over ranked teams for the first time since the 2015-16 season, with both wins coming over the last week, earning the Commodores NCAA.com team of the week honors. Moving into the Associated Press Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Poll for the first time in over a decade (Feb. 10, 2014), Vanderbilt

Men’s Basketball Jan. 27, 2025 AP poll breakdown: Andy Katz Q&A, reactions to college basketball rankings (01/27/24) Jan. 27, 2025 March Madness correspondent Andy Katz went live on Bleacher Report to break down the men’s basketball AP poll and his own Power 37 rankings released on Jan. 27, after the twelfth week of the regular

Jan. 26—PORTLAND — Gonzaga coach Mark Few weighed a question about a pair of changes in the starting lineup and if he got what he wanted from those adjustments. “Listen, two totally separate things,” explained Few, shortly after the Zags dismantled Portland 105-62 Saturday at the Chiles Center to snap a two-game West Coast Conference

Associated Press Jan 26, 2025, 07:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Vanderbilt was fined $500,000 by the Southeastern Conference on Sunday for allowing fans to storm the court Saturday after the Commodores’ 74-69 victory over No. 9 Kentucky. Vanderbilt was penalized for a third offense under the conference’s revised access to competition

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Share Twenty-three No. 14 seeds have shocked a No. 3 in men’s NCAA tournament play, with Oakland becoming the most recent surprise in the 2024 tournament, when the Golden Grizzlies stunned Kentucky, 80-76. While 3s have generally had their way with 14s since the NCAA tournament expanded in 1985, the lower seed has won enough

Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Myron Medcalf Close Myron Medcalf ESPN Staff Writer Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Jan 24, 2025, 10:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There are several types of

Free Press sports writer Tony Garcia shares three quick thoughts and a prediction for No. 20 Michigan basketball‘s road game at Purdue on Friday (8 p.m., Fox) in West Lafayette, Indiana. Meeting the standard Although the Wolverines (14-4, 6-1 Big Ten) are ahead of Purdue (15-5, 7-2) in the conference standings after the Boilermakers were

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The First Four is the official start to March Madness, with four games played earlier in the week before the Round of 64 in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. Here’s a quick guide to the the First Four: When did the First Four start as part of March Madness? In 1999, the Mountain

Share Oklahoma State delivered a thrilling upset over No. 9 TCU, 60-59, rallying from a 15-point deficit in front of a lively Gallagher-Iba Arena crowd. 📊 FINAL STATS: No. 9 TCU at Oklahoma State The Cowgirls (16-3, 6-2 Big 12) surged in the second half behind impressive performances from sophomore Stailee Heard, who scored a