NCAA Basketball News

Langston Hall and Anthony White Jr. scored 15 points each and Mercer earned its first NCAA tournament berth since 1985, beating top-seeded Florida Gulf Coast 68-60 in the Atlantic Sun Conference championship game on Sunday.

Shavon Shields and Terran Petteway scored 26 points apiece, and Nebraska beat No.

LaQuinton Ross scored 22 points and Aaron Craft added 12, including a late free throw, to lead Ohio State past No.

The Seminoles were unable to do so in a 74-58 loss to No. 7 Syracuse on Sunday in the regular season finale.

After the nation's only unbeaten made another put-away run in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament title game, guard Fred VanVleet fired back at doubters who cast aspersions on a schedule ranked 113th in the nation.

His driving layup with 3 seconds left gave the Billikens their second straight outright conference title and snapped a three-game losing skid after a school-record 19-game winning streak.

Fred VanVleet scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half as the unbeaten Shockers claimed their first Missouri Valley Conference tournament crown since 1987 with a win over the Sycamores in the title game in St. Louis.

Maryland closed out its 61st and final Atlantic Coast Conference regular season in stunning fashion, outlasting No.

Keith Shamburger converted 12 of 14 free-throw attempts in the final 3 minutes as Hawaii held off Cal State Fullerton, 81-77 in a regular-season finale Saturday.

McDermott scored a career-high 45 points and became the eighth player in Division I history to go over 3,000 for a career, helping No.

Corey Walden celebrated by draping a net around his neck and hanging a piece of string over each ear.

It took an awkward layup with 1.4 seconds left to prevent Santa Clara from upsetting longtime nemesis Gonzaga and reaching the semifinals of the West Coast Conference tournament Saturday night.

21 New Mexico was leading No. 10 San Diego State by 16 points and appeared to have all but claimed another Mountain West Conference championship.

Jon Ekey hit a 3-pointer in the final second to lift Illinois to a 66-63 victory over No.

Indiana led by 10 points in the first half and by six at halftime, then rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final five minutes, but ended up losing 84-80 to No.

Jason Calliste made the go-ahead jumper and free throw with 4:22 left and finished with 18 points as Oregon defeated No.

Montrezl Harrell scored 20 points, Russ Smith recorded a career-high 13 assists and No.

Naz Long forced overtime with a 30-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer, DeAndre Kane scored five of his 27 points in the closing seconds, and No.

Patric Young scored 18 points in his final home game and No. 1 Florida routed 25th-ranked Kentucky 84-65 Saturday, becoming the first team in Southeastern Conference history to go 18-0 in league play.

15 Cincinnati clinched at least a share of the American Athletic Conference regular-season title with a tough 70-66 win over Rutgers on Saturday.