College Basketball

If the rest of March Madness is going to be like the first two games of the NCAA Tournament, this should be a fun few weeks of college basketball. BYU rallies from 25 points down to stun Iona 78-72 as Noah Hartsock scores 23 points for the Cougars who now …

The National Invitational Tournament begins tonight and LSU, Mississippi State, and Tennessee will be representing the South Eastern Conference. The fourth seeded Mississippi State Bulldogs will play at home against fifth seeded Massachusetts at 7 p.m.  The Bulldogs finished their season 22-11 overall and 8-8 in conference play.  Mississippi State had a …

With everyone scrambling to fill out their brackets for the NCAA Tournament this week, four Southeastern Conference teams were selected to the big dance. However, another four SEC teams found themselves in a completely different tournament after last night’s selections. The National Invitational Tournament, the oldest college basketball tournament, tips off on March 13th …

The SEC men’s basketball tournament kicks off today in New Orleans with four games on tap.   Fifth seed Alabama faces 12 seed South Carolina with the winner of that game facing Florida tomorrow.   LSU and Arkansas will open tournament play with the night games finding Ole Miss facing Auburn and …

Four more teams have qualified for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament today after winning conference championships on Monday. Virginia Commonwealth, a Final Four team a year ago, is heading back to the tournament after beating Drexel 59-56 in the Colonial League title game.   Loyola-Maryland is dancing after beating Fairfield 49-44 …

Listen to WRUF Sports Radio 850 tonight for Santa Fe Saints men’s basketball. Tune in at 7:30pm as the Saints take on Central Florida Community College in live hoops action tonight.

Second ranked Kentucky beat Arkansas and Florida’s next opponent, LSU, beat Auburn in SEC men’s basketball action on Tuesday. The Wildcats tame Arkansas 86-63 at home as freshman Anthony Davis scores a career high 27 points and also sets a new school record for blocked shots in a season as …

The second ranked Kentucky Wildcat men’s basketball team survives a road scare by Auburn in beating the Tigers 68-53 Wednesday night. Kentucky has now won 14 straight against Auburn but the Wildcats had to end the game with a late run to finally put the Tigers away. In other SEC …

Legendary University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summit said she has been diagnosed with early onset dementia, the Alzheimer’s type. Despite this, Summit says she plans to continue coaching for her 38th season at UT. Summit said she thought she was having memory issues as a side effect to …