NCAA basketball

The NCAA Tournament is a haven for trends – betting trends, performance trends, seed success trends. Name the nugget, and it's attached to a broader data point.

The Gaels won close decisions in the first two matchups, prompting GU’s coaching staff to not only adjust the starting five – inserting Braden Huff for Ben Gregg – but push the players to summon every ounce of their competitive fire in Las Vegas.

One week after making his debut in the NBA, former Gonzaga and Gonzaga Prep standout Anton Watson is officially in the scoring column with the New York Knicks.

The Washington State women were given a first-round bye in the 48-team Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

Gonzaga is an eight seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament, but still ranks among the national championship favorites.

The NCAA Tournament's selection committee didn't do Gonzaga basketball any favors when it seeded the Zags eighth in the Midwest Region on Sunday.

March obviously brings out the best in Drew Timme. The former Gonzaga star and current forward for the G League's Long Island Nets is averaging 28.2 points this month, including last Tuesday's 40-point effort – including four 3-pointers – in a game against the Westchester Knicks in White Plains, New York. 

The new Pac-12 beat the old Pac-12 on Selection Sunday, with the collection of schools joining the conference in 2026 earning four bids to the NCAA Tournament and the group of 10 departed universities receiving just three.

Ajayi and Battle will achieve a career milestone when they suit up in their first NCAA Tournament game Thursday against Georgia in Wichita. Freshman center Ismaila Diagne is also a newcomer to March Madness.

This cannot be phrased delicately, so we won't bother with the attempt: Arizona has a brutally difficult path to the Final Four. Even the Sweet 16 seems daunting for the Wildcats, thanks to the presence of an old frenemy.

Gonzaga’s run to the West Coast Conference Tournament championship, including a title-game win over Saint Mary’s, vaulted the Zags back into the AP Top 25 for the first time since mid-January.

Filling out a March Madness bracket can be intimidating. Everywhere you look this week, fans and pundits will be pontificating about which teams will advance past the opening weekend, which will make the Final Four and which have no chance. Some of it will be good advice, but most of it is noise, distracting you from the real wisdom needed to fill out a bracket that has a fighting chance. That’s why I created this guide to help you maximize your pool entry.

PULLMAN – Washington State’s season isn’t over just yet.

It’s not madness to say that Spokane is about to hold one of the biggest sports events in its history.

The NCAA Tournament selection committee tried to distract us by offering front-row seats to its theatre of the absurd. And the ploy almost worked.

Entering Sunday’s women’s NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, there was a looming question about who would be the field’s top seed. In a season full of parity, SEC tournament champion South Carolina and Big Ten tournament champion UCLA both had strong cases.

If there’s a consolation prize in college basketball, then the Gonzaga women received it Sunday.

Members of Gonzaga’s backcourt had mixed results during prior trips to Wichita, Kansas, the site of the team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game on Thursday against No. 9 Georgia.

Warning, I’m going to continue my argument against the relevance of analytics in the assessment and prediction of athletic competitions.