NCAABB

6:50 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — North Carolina and Duke have played each other 257 times since 1920. They’ve competed in thunderclap matchups of No. 1 vs. No. 2, battled frequently in the ACC tournament and even faced off once in the 1971 NIT semifinals. The 258th matchup will be the first one to

6:32 PM ET CHICAGO — Kansas coach Bill Self never ruled out the possibility of his team reaching the Final Four. He didn’t feel as certain as he did in 2020, when Kansas spent the final month of the season ranked No. 1 before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the NCAA tournament. This Jayhawks version had

6:34 PM ET Villanova junior guard Justin Moore suffered a torn right Achilles and will undergo surgery this week, the school announced Sunday. Moore suffered the injury in the final minute of Saturday’s Elite Eight win over Houston. He is out indefinitely. “This is a tough blow for all of us, not just because of

11:52 AM ET The improbable NCAA tournament run by Saint Peter’s has some sportsbooks facing historic liabilities and put New Jersey bookmakers in the unusual position of potentially having to pay out on a losing team. The 15th-seeded Peacocks could be found as long as 10,000-1 to win the national men’s basketball championship before the

3:25 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — He swears he can’t remember records or scores, but he can’t forget an ending. The devastating ones, the jubilant ones and every one that falls somewhere in between. This one, though — the final one — has been an ending from the beginning. It has taken on the feel

7:56 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — One of the most endearing facets of Saint Peter’s NCAA tournament run is the proportional size of the school’s athletic budget compared to the schools that it has slayed. Saint Peter’s has beaten No. 2 Kentucky, No. 7 Murray State and No. 3 Purdue, which is remarkable considering

11:23 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Before Duke beat Arkansas 78-69 on Saturday night in the Elite Eight of the men’s basketball tournament, securing Mike Krzyzewski’s record 13th trip to the Final Four in his final season, it was easier to talk about what the Blue Devils were missing instead of what they have. Their

11:05 PM ET Two Elite Eight games down, two to go. And at least one of Sunday’s 2022 NCAA tournament meetings is what March Madness is about for a great many viewers. The Saint Peter’s Peacocks have been the story of the tourney to date, becoming the first No. 15 team in NCAA tournament history

9:55 PM ET Villanova guard Justin Moore will have an MRI after suffering an apparent injury to his leg late in Saturday’s win over Houston in the Elite Eight, Wildcats coach Jay Wright said. Wright said X-rays on Moore’s injury revealed no broken bones but that “it’s probably not good for Justin.” Moore had to

7:56 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — One of the most endearing facets of St. Peter’s NCAA tournament run is the proportional size of the school’s athletic budget compared to the schools that it has slayed in the NCAA tournament. St. Peter’s has beaten No. 2 Kentucky, No. 7 Murray State and No. 3 Purdue,

8:27 PM ET SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Villanova is headed to its third Final Four in the past six NCAA tournaments, with a chance to win its third national championship over that same stretch. In a grind-it-out affair at the AT&T Center on Saturday night, 2-seed Villanova got out to an early lead over 5-seed

5:45 PM ET Associated Press Joe Williams, who coached Artis Gilmore and tiny Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA tournament championship game against mighty UCLA, died Saturday. He was 88. Williams, who also coached at Furman and Florida State, died in Enterprise, Mississippi, while in hospice care after a lengthy battle with cancer, his son

6:44 PM ET CHICAGO — Kansas coach Bill Self knows that for all he has accomplished in a Hall of Fame career, the Elite Eight often hasn’t been his shining moment. “We’re 3-7 in my career in the Elite Eight games,” Self said Saturday. “So that’s not good enough.” Self, who is 3-5 in Elite

2:54 PM ET Memphis is reportedly facing four Level I and two Level II NCAA violations stemming from an 18-month-long investigation into the Tigers’ program. The Daily Memphian obtained the Notice of Allegations and an amended Notice of Allegations from the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP) investigation. An infractions case involving former Memphis center James

1:46 AM ET CHICAGO — Jim Larrañaga knew the water his Miami players had doused him with was cold, but he couldn’t remember the rest of the celebration. “Did I dance?” the Miami coach asked. Star guard Kameron McGusty confirmed he did, and mimicked Larrañaga’s moves. WE’RE GOING TO THE ELITE EIGHT FOR THE FIRST

1:00 AM ET Our 2022 NCAA tournament brackets are broken. All of them. And the uncle who claims he had Saint Peter’s in the Elite Eight? He’s lying for the ninth year in a row. We’ve never seen his actual bracket. Your sibling who said they picked Miami to make the Elite Eight for the

11:00 PM ET John GasawayESPN Insider Close ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal PHILADELPHIA — You will likely watch the NCAA tournament for a very long time before you see anything comparable to what the Saint Peter’s Peacocks have

10:58 PM ET CHICAGO — As Kansas prepared to face Providence in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, Jayhawks coach Bill Self reluctantly acknowledged his team’s improvement on defense. “I’m not exactly giddy about it yet because we haven’t been as consistently good,” Self said Thursday. “But I think people that follow us would