RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke’s Blue Devils are growing accustomed to being No. 1.

The Devils are ranked No. 1 in the AP basketball poll and the NCAA NET rankings. They won the ACC regular-season title and then added the tournament championship in Charlotte, N.C., with a 74-70 victory over Virginia.

When the selections and seedings were announced ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan men's basketball always was locked into a 1 seed.

But its position in the NCAA Tournament bracket did change slightly Sunday, following its 80-72 loss to Purdue in the Big Ten championship game in Chicago.

The loss dropped Michigan to the third overall No. 1 seed, and the Wolverines (31-3) will open Thursday in Buffalo, N....Read more

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida received the final No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, a day after the Gators’ SEC Tournament no-show loss against Vanderbilt in the semifinals cast doubt whether they’d secure one of four coveted spots.

Todd Golden’s squad will face the Prairie View or Lehigh on Friday in Tampa’s Benchmark ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The NCAA Tournament path for the Kentucky men’s basketball team is set.

The 2026 bracket was revealed on the CBS Selection Show on Sunday evening, and the Cats will be the 7 seed in the Midwest Region, with a first-round game against 10-seeded Santa Clara set for Friday in St. Louis.

The tip time and TV assignment for that...Read more

STORRS, Conn. – A new season begins for the UConn men’s basketball team, which was announced as a No. 2 seed in the March Madness field on Sunday.

After failing to dethrone St. John’s in the Big East regular season and the conference tournament, attempting to sleep off the pain of a brutal loss in Manhattan and turn the page, the Huskies ...Read more

Brandon Ingram made a 3-point field goal at the 2:30 mark of the third quarter, prompting coach J.B. Bickerstaff to call a timeout. As Ingram celebrated with his teammates while returning to the bench, Bickerstaff expressed frustration, as the basket highlighted Detroit's lackluster defensive performance during the period.

The Pistons' defense ...Read more

CHICAGO — Michigan’s bid for a Big Ten double-double ran into trouble.

All that stood between the Wolverines and the chance to become the first team in program history to sweep both conference titles in the same season was the Purdue Boilermakers.

Top-seeded Michigan couldn’t overcome a rough start to the second half and fell short of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Guarding Shai Gilgeous-Alexander or Luka Doncic on the last possession of a deadlocked game is one of the most unenviable tasks in any professional sports league.

That’s why the Nuggets’ goal was to guard them with two defenders, not one.

Twice in the span of a week, an NBA MVP candidate broke Denver hearts with a game-...Read more

The Minnesota Timberwolves know in order to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder, most things have to go right. There is little margin for error. Despite some good moments, the Wolves didn’t play close to perfect, and because of that, they came away with a 116-103 loss Sunday to wrap up a four-game road trip 1-3.

The number that stood out was the ...Read more

MIAMI — From the start, there has been Heat homage for greatness, their own and beyond.

During the team’s initial season, amid Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s retirement tour, a Haitian marble sculpture was presented to the Lakers center in 1989 for his contributions to the game.

Famously, there was the retirement of Michael Jordan’s No. 23, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Lakers entered a critical six-game stretch Saturday that could very well determine their playoff position in the competitive Western Conference postseason race.

Behind the heroics of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, the Lakers defeated the Nuggets in a thrilling 127-125 win at Crypto.com Arena that secured a playoff seeding ...Read more

MIAMI — The Magic have the Heat’s number this season.

Five times, the in-state rivals have faced off this year. All five times, the Magic picked up the win. Saturday was no different, as Orlando took down Miami, 121-117, at the Kaseya Center despite a late comeback attempt form the home team. The loss snapped the Heat’s seven-game winning...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It hadn’t been Cameron Boozer’s night up until then, but still, with 27.4 seconds left and the game on the line, one of the best young coaches in the game commanded the ball — and the game’s fate — to be in Boozer’s hands.

Boozer delivered.

Not how you thought he might — but he did nonetheless.

Up two, the ...Read more

UMBC men’s basketball will be mired in the madness.

The Retrievers assured themselves of that fate when they defeated Vermont, 74-59, in the America East Tournament final Saturday afternoon before an announced 4,753 at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena in Catonsville, Md.

UMBC (24-8), the No. 1 seed, extended its winning streak to a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Zuby Ejiofor got his wish.

Following last month’s historic 72-40 loss to UConn, the St. John’s star left Huskies head coach Dan Hurley with a parting message.

“He muttered something like, ‘I’ll see you again, my man,’ ” Hurley said at the time on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”

And in Saturday night’s Big East ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An amazing Big 12 season was good through the final seconds.

Arizona outlasted Houston 79-74 a Big 12 Tournament final between the top-two seeds and highest ranked teams.

The Wildcats led nearly the entire game but couldn’t feel comfortable with the victory until freshman Brayden Burries hit a pair of free throws with ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For much of the season, Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball star Darryn Peterson has dealt with a variety of health issues.

The freshman guard missed 11 games during the 2025-26 season, his only one in Lawrence as he heads to the NBA draft, due to various health issues. And when he has played, he was rarely fully healthy.

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PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers squeaked out a 104-97 win over the Brooklyn Nets in a game they led by 28 points.

Down Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid, Paul George, Kelly Oubre Jr., Andre Drummond and Johni Broome, the Sixers are hanging on by a thread to the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference.

Here are three things we learned from ...Read more

CHICAGO — Maybe they needed this, a test of their mettle and a taste of peril. Yaxel Lendeborg certainly needed it after his recent struggles. The Wolverines will take it this time of year, any way they can get it.

You’d think by now, Michigan would have run out of new ways to win games. But then here came Wisconsin, heaving 3-pointers from...Read more