NCAA Basketball News

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan referenced sunflower seeds; asked his players about the "Mario Kart" video game; and briefly spoke in an Italian accent.

Wichita State's reward for a perfect regular season is a loaded Midwest Region, where the top-seeded Shockers will be joined by fellow Final Four participants Michigan and Louisville from a year ago and two of the titans of college hoops.

At a time when everybody from college basketball experts to those who don't know the difference between Michigan and Michigan State has an opinion on the NCAA tournament, here's one look at what could happen over the next three weeks.

Arizona's Nick Johnson, center, puts up a reverse layup against UCLA in the second half during the championship game of the NCAA Pac-12 conference college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 15, 2014, in Las Vegas.

Xavian Rimmer scored a career-high 27 points, Louisiana-Lafayette rallied from a 9-point deficit in the last three minutes of regulation to force overtime and the Ragin' Cajuns beat Georgia State 82-81 in the Sun Belt Conference championship game Sunday.

Malcolm Brogdon scored 23 points and No. 6 Virginia claimed its first Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title since 1976 by beating No.

23 VCU 65-61 on Sunday to win its first Atlantic 10 tournament title since 1997.

N.C. Central coach LeVelle Moton ends every practice by picking someone on his team and asking them to make a pressure free throw.

The senior guard scored 23 points and Providence won its first Big East tournament title since 1994 with a great defensive effort against McDermott and No.

The ups and downs, good times and bad. The serious knee injury that ended one season and threatened his career.

It's not uncommon for the selection committee to have its bracket drawn up before all the games are over on Sunday.

"They're an NCAA tournament team," said Florida coach Billy Donovan, relieved after his team rallied from 10 points down for a 56-49 victory Saturday in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament.

The league's regular-season champs will face No. 12 Wisconsin or No. 22 Michigan State in Sunday's championship game.

Charles Mann scored 16 points, including a go-ahead basket with 17 seconds remaining, and Georgia edged Mississippi 75-73 in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals on Friday night.

That's exactly where the Bears have been twice in the last six years, losing each time to former conference member Missouri.

Dwayne Polee II had 18 points and six rebounds to lead No. 8 San Diego State to a 59-51 win over UNLV in the semifinals of the Mountain West Conference tournament Friday night.

"I told him it's been an honor playing against his teams," Crawford said after Friday night's 67-51 loss to the No.

Now that one of the nation's best defenses is reaching its peak, it's hard to imagine anyone having much of a chance against No.

LaDontae Henton had 26 points and 14 rebounds, Bryce Cotton added 18 points and 10 assists, and Providence advanced to its second conference championship game with an 80-74 victory over stubborn Seton Hall on Friday night.

Rodney Hood hit two free throws with 3.8 seconds left to lift No. 7 Duke past Clemson 63-62 Friday night in the Atlantic Coast Conference quarterfinals.