One person came one first-round women’s NCAA Tournament game away from perfection in the CBS Sports Bracket Challenge.

The Villanova Wildcats have hired Maryland's Kevin Willard as their new coach.

MiLaysia Fulwiley scored 23 points, including a go-ahead layup with 2:22 left, and Chloe Kitts added 15 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 1 seed South Carolina beat fourth-seeded Maryland 71-67 in the Sweet 16 of the women's NCAA Tournament.

Dan Hurley’s emotions ran the gamut following his team’s 77-75 loss to Florida in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, which ended UConn’s bid for a third straight national championship.

Robert Wright scored 19 points, V.

Tobacco Road is the center of the NCAA Tournament this week with three women’s first-round sites at Duke, North Carolina and N.

SIU Edwardsville guard Ray'Sean Taylor broke down in tears after his team was routed by Houston in the NCAA Tournament.

A year after earning the first NCAA bid in school history, the Columbia women's basketball team is back in the NCAA Tournament.

March Madness fans are encouraged to share their game-day photos and celebrations through Click2Pins

RJ Davis scored 26 points and went 6 of 6 from 3-point range to help North Carolina silence some skeptics with a 95-68 victory over San Diego State in their First Four matchup.

Amarr Knox’s layup with a second left lifted Alabama State to its first NCAA Tournament win, 70-68 over Saint Francis (PA) in a matchup of No. 16 seeds at the First Four.

Kellie Harper has been hired as the new women's basketball coach at Missouri.

Three No. 1 seeds will be in the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

The top seeds continued to roll in the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament, including UCLA, South Carolina and TCU.

UCLA is the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament.

The college basketball season is winding down, which means March Madness is upon us.

If the Xavier Musketeers get left out of the NCAA Tournament, they’ll look back at their latest game as a missed opportunity.

Colorado State’s winning streak is at 10, and the Rams are headed to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Mountain West’s automatic bid with a victory over Boise State.

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is in favor of expanding the men’s NCAA Tournament to 76 teams.

UCLA, South Carolina, Texas and Southern California have all stated their cases for No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament with their stellar play this season.

The No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament along with the last spots in the 68-team field will be riding on the outcome of a plethora of conference tournaments this week.

Georgia may have ended its 10-year NCAA Tournament drought by beating Vanderbilt 79-68.

St. John’s coach Rick Pitino wanted his Red Storm to close the regular season with the kind of challenge they could expect to face in the NCAA Tournament.

Women’s basketball teams finally will be paid for playing games in the NCAA Tournament each March just like the men have for years under a plan approved Wednesday at the NCAA convention.

Cougars extend home win streak to 31 straight games at Fertitta Center while improving to 3-0 in Big 12

UH rolls past Cowboys to improve to 9-3, 1-0

Wade Taylor IV scored 17 points and fellow guard Zhuric Phelps added 16 as No. 23 Texas A&M erased a 16-point deficit in a 71-54 victory over Southern.

USC star JuJu Watkins and UConn’s Paige Bueckers headline The Associated Press preseason All-America team that for the first time includes three sophomores in a clear sign of the young talent in a sport coming off a record year of fan interest.

UH and Texas A&M square off

South Carolina is starting the season at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 women's college basketball poll.

Kansas is No. 1 in the AP Top 25 preseason men's basketball poll ahead of Alabama and two-time defending national champion UConn.

A northern Idaho prosecutor won’t bring hate crime charges against an 18-year-old accused of shouting a racist slur at members of the Utah women’s basketball team while the team was in Idaho to attend the NCAA Tournament.

First-team Associated Press All-American RJ Davis is returning to North Carolina to play his fifth season of eligibility.

Hailey Van Lith is focused on making the USA Basketball 3x3 Olympic team this summer and not worried about where she’ll end up at college next year.

In elementary school, Caitlin Clark wrote down her dreams and goals that included playing in the WNBA one day.

John Meinen has been an avid Iowa basketball fan for decades.

The basketball world can’t get enough of Caitlin Clark and now that the college season is over, next up is the WNBA draft.

South Carolina, Iowa and UConn have finished atop the final AP Top 25 women's basketball poll of the season.

South Carolina's bench wore down Iowa in the national championship game.

After spraining his ankle midway through the first half, Jamal Shead is “going to give it a go” a source told KPRC2.

Caitlin Clark has been invited to the USA Basketball national team training camp during the Final Four in Cleveland, contingent on Iowa’s season being over.

Caitlin Clark scored 32 points and No. 1 seed Iowa survived one of its worst offensive performances of the season to beat No. 8 seed West Virginia 64-54 on Monday night in a women’s NCAA Tournament second-round game.

The Houston Cougars overtime thriller left, players, coaches and fans lost for words. That includes the family of Houston star guard Jamal Shead.

Stanford has hired Kyle Smith away from Washington State to take over its struggling men’s basketball program.

First up is a Sweet 16 matchup against Duke at roughty 8:40 p.m. Friday night, with the winner playing either Marquette or N.C. State on Sunday for the right to go to the Final Four in Arizona.

A Texas size showdown awaits the Houston Cougars as they will take on the Texas A&M Aggies in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

UH opens Friday night vs. Longwood University in the South Region in Memphis

We are eyeing five unique things of the tournament itself aside from just wins, losses and who’ll cut down the nets in Arizona.

Reigning national champion Connecticut is back at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll.

South Carolina, Iowa, USC and Texas are the top four teams in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, a day after all four were chosen as the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament that begins later this week.

Duquesne earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time in 47 years, beating fifth-seeded seeded VCU 57-51 to win the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship.

Conference tournament season took an even more chaotic turn — and that’s bad news for at least a couple teams on the bubble.

North Carolina State is heading back to the NCAA Tournament after beating fourth-ranked North Carolina 84-76 in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament title game.

With most of the major conferences having their tournaments finished, there are a few anxious teams waiting to see if their names will be called for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday when the field is announced.

Brian Dutcher has experienced all 25 seasons of Mountain West basketball and he’s never seen one as crazy as this one.

Iowa star Caitlin Clark is taking her scoring records to March Madness.

Members of the women’s basketball community say the new NCAA eight-year deal with ESPN that will pour an estimated $65 million annually into the sport reflects the growth of the game.

An NCAA review has concluded that the officiating in the national championship game between LSU and Iowa fell short of expectations.

LSU All-American Angel Reese has a new endorsement deal with a major shoe and athletic apparel company.

Kansas is the preseason No. 1 in the AP men's college basketball poll.

Iowa will attempt to set the all-time women’s basketball attendance record when it hosts DePaul in an outdoor exhibition at 69,000-seat Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 15.

An NCAA infractions panel has imposed a three-game suspension for Memphis coach Penny Hardaway for recruiting violations tied to two in-home visits with a prospect two years ago.

The WNBA and Scripps have signed a multiyear deal to televise Friday night regular-season games on ION.

Louisville’s Hailey Van Lith has entered the transfer portal.

Zach Edey of Purdue has won the John R.

Thousands of UConn fans, most of them students, spilled onto campus after watching a broadcast of the Huskies’ NCAA Tournament win over San Diego State, with some pulling down signs and light poles, smashing windows and causing other damage.

There was a short list of believers in the potential of a rebuilt UConn roster before the season started.

The Cinderellas certainly had their moments in this March Madness.

The UConn Huskies delivered one of the most impressive March Madness runs in history Monday night, bringing home its fifth national title with a 76-59 victory over San Diego State.

UConn had its way with San Diego State in a dominating first half, threatening to turn the national championship game into a monumental rout.

San Diego State was done in by a terrible shooting drought in the first half of Monday night's national title game against UConn.

Adama Sanogo powered UConn to the school's fifth national title with a 76-59 victory over San Diego State.

Both Connecticut and San Diego State used an offseason of work in the transfer portal to bolster teams that have reached the NCAA title game.

Connecticut guard Jordan Hawkins says he had no doubt he was going to play in Saturday night's 72-59 win against Miami in the Final Four despite battling a stomach illness.

Lamont Butler hit the biggest shot in San Diego State history, putting the Aztecs in the national championship game for the first time.

Nijel Pack might need to up his shoe game.

FAU’s debut at the Final Four ended in the most excruciating manner imaginable.

Lamont Butler hit jump shot at the buzzer, sending San Diego State to its first national championship game with a 72-71 win over fellow mid-major Florida Atlantic in the Final Four.

Florida Atlantic and San Diego State are giving the Final Four a mid-major flavor.

Shaka Smart was voted the AP men's basketball coach of the year after leading Marquette to regular-season and Big East Tournament titles.

The advanced stats can tell us a lot about the teams in this year's Final Four.

The college basketball season started with familiar faces and ended up with an unexpected Final Four.

Dusty May is going to the Final Four and it's safe to say that few might have seen that coming.

South Carolina is two wins away from completing the 10th undefeated season in women's college basketball history.

A person with knowledge of the deal says Texas has reached an agreement with Rodney Terry to be the Longhorns’ full-time head basketball coach.

Caitlin Clark put on a show with 41 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds to help No. 2 seed Iowa beat fifth-seeded Louisville 97-83 and send the the Hawkeyes to their first women's Final Four in 30 years.

Jordan Miller scored 27 points and made a series of crucial foul shots down the stretch as Miami rallied to an 88-81 victory over Texas for a spot in the Final Four.

Everyone’s heard of UConn.

Dan Hurley got choked up when asked about his dad on the eve of UConn’s Sweet 16 game.

Florida Atlantic has defied expectation and description all season.

Jordan Hawkins scored 20 points and UConn overwhelmed its fourth straight NCAA Tournament opponent, earning its first trip to the Final Four in nine years with an 82-54 blowout of Gonzaga.

Georgia Amoore scored a career-high 29 points and top-seeded Virginia Tech advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time in school history with a 73-64 win over No. 4 seed Tennessee.

Aliyah Boston had eight points, 14 rebounds and two blocks while reigning national champion South Carolina turned in its latest overwhelming defense-and-rebounding-first performance to beat UCLA 59-43 on Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Creighton used its size, 3-point shooting and a swarming second-half defense to end the March Madness run of Princeton, beating the 15th-seeded Tigers 86-75 in the Sweet 16.

Caitlin Clark scored 31 points and No. 2 seed Iowa shook disappointments the past two seasons and reached the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament with an 87-77 win over Colorado in the Seattle 4 Regional semifinals.

All four No. 1 seeds fall short of Elite Eight in NCAA Tournament for first time as Houston loses 89-75 to Miami.

Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.

Alexis Morris hit two foul shots with 10 seconds to play as No. 3 seed LSU reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2008, beating second-seeded Utah 66-63, Down 64-63, the Utes had a chance to back in front, but Jenna Johnson — a near 75% foul shooter — missed both attempts with 4.7 seconds to go.

UCLA freshman Kiki Rice is checking in periodically from the NCAA Tournament as told to AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg.

Julian Strawther hit a 3-pointer with 7.2 seconds left to answer a 3-pointer by UCLA’s Amari Bailey, lifting Gonzaga to a wild 79-76 win over UCLA in the Sweet 16.