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Latest on the 2025 NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.

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Sports >  NCAA basketball

John Calipari, Bill Self and Rick Pitino walk into an arena in Providence …

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Sometimes a March Madness selection committee can seem daft, and sometimes it can seem shadowy, and sometimes, to a certain type of fan prone to foaming at the mouth, it can seem satanic. Yet all the while there remain those times when it seems a bunch of puckish pranksters who shovel certain teams into a certain corner of the draw and then start giggling.
Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

March Madness and media rights: Could success (or failure) of Gonzaga and others impact valuations of the Pac-12 and Mountain West?

With March Madness as the frenzied backdrop, executives from the Pac-12 and Mountain West churn forward in pursuit of media rights agreements for their restructured conferences beginning in the summer of 2026. There's nothing at stake except hundreds of millions of dollars, coveted exposure on major broadcast and cable networks and security for the remainder of the decade.
Sports >  NCAA basketball

Women’s March Madness predictions: Look for UCLA, UConn to come out of Spokane

The early rounds of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament generally don’t incite as much madness as the men’s event. Higher seeds are typically much more successful on the women’s side; no seed lower than a No. 3 has won the women’s tournament over the past two decades, a span in which Connecticut won the men’s tournament as a No. 7 and a No. 4 seed. No team seeded worse than No. 5 has even reached the women’s final, and the Elite Eight and Final Four are similarly dominated by the nation’s best teams. All but one Final Four team over the last decade has been at least a No. 4 seed.
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