NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

Michigan makes NCAA final by holding off Syracuse

2013-04-06 20:43:00

ATLANTA -- This one, Michigan fans, is on the books. Two decades after the famed Fab Five led the Wolverines to two NCAA tournament championship games that were later vacated, another group of fabulous young players has Michigan back in the title game...

NCAA Final Four: Wichita State vs. Louisville

2013-04-05 22:01:00

WICHITA STATE Starters P; Player; Ht; Wt; Statistics G; Ron Baker; 6-3; 218; 8.6 ppg F; Cleanthony Early; 6-8; 215; 13.7 ppg F; Carl Hall; 6-8; 238; 6.9 rpg G; Tekele Cotton; 6-4; 202; 6.4 ppg G; Malcolm Armstead; 6-0; 205; 10.9 ppg...

BCS leaders hone new college football playoff format

2013-04-23 00:00:00

The last vestiges of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, conceived years ago on a cocktail napkin, will be phased out this week at a swank Pasadena hotel. College football power brokers are meeting in Southern California to tie up loose BCS ends...

TV This Week: April 7 - 13 'Louis C.K.: Oh My God' on HBO

2013-04-05 15:22:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 7 -13, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SUNDAY Yee-haw and amen! Blake Shelton and...

Looking for a basketball coach? Salt Lake's the place

2013-03-20 19:45:00

SALT LAKE CITY — Top collegiate athletic directors need many things but should not live without a back-door office exit or a secret list of coaching candidates in advance of their next football and basketball openings. It doesn't matter if your...

With Ben Howland, UCLA could have been on pedestal, ended in abyss

2013-03-27 19:39:00

The saddest part of the Ben Howland saga at UCLA is not that a decent guy and good coach got fired. He's a big boy. He'll be fine. Give it a couple of years and he'll have another team in Pauley Pavilion, rendering UCLA black-and-not-so-Bruins-blue....

NCAA Tournament: Syracuse topples top-seeded Indiana, 61-50

2013-03-28 21:20:00

WASHINGTON -- It took winning a national title for Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim to get over a late-shot loss to Indiana the last time the schools faced off in the NCAA tournament. This meeting, 26 years later, was never close enough to come down to the...

NCAA Tournament: Marquette shuts down Miami, 71-61

2013-03-28 18:30:00

WASHINGTON -- Vander Blue's buzzer-beater came at the end of the first half. For a change, Marquette didn't need one at the end of the game. After sweating through a pair of edge-of-your-seat comebacks in the NCAA tournament, Blue and the Golden...

NCAA Tournament: Wichita State dispatches La Salle, 72-58

2013-03-28 21:50:00

�Wichita State went from sweet to elite, beating La Salle 72-58 on Thursday night to reach the final eight of the NCAA tournament for the first time in 32 years. Malcolm Armstead scored 18 points, Carl Hall added 16 points and freshman Ron Baker 13...

Wichita State scores an outsized victory over La Salle, 72-58

2013-03-28 23:30:00

You could see it was going to be a problem for La Salle from the opening tip. The basket on both ends of Staples Center was 10 feet from the floor and Wichita State players were always closer to it. The four-guard rotation that got La Salle to the...

Some March Madness 2013 teams don't make the grade

2013-03-18 12:23:00

Six teams headed for the 2013�NCAA tournament this week have Academic Progress Rates below 930, meaning they would not be eligible for the postseason under�tougher NCAA requirements that will be enacted in the future. Oregon, Oklahoma State, James...

A different kind of bluegrass statement on Selection Sunday

2013-03-17 20:32:00

Kentucky is the top-seeded team entering this year's NCAA tournament that tips off Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio, and ends on a Monday in Atlanta. Check that: A team from Kentucky, coached by a former Kentucky coach, is top-seeded entering the NCAA...

Teams that don't garner a league AQ are thrown into a pool for the eight at-large selections. The Atlantic Coast Conference doesn't have enough teams ? for now ? to award an automatic qualifier in men's lacrosse, but its four members are usually in the running for an at-large berth.

2013-04-13 00:00:00

Huge Duke University fan Matt Losey of Bethlehem sits with a large photo of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski as he watches the NCAA basketball games at lunch time at Revolutions. SEE LANDAUER STORY BETHLEHEM DONNA FISHER/THE MORNING CALL Pic made FRIDAY,

2013-03-22 00:00:00

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Kenyatta Smith, a Flintridge Prep graduate, helped the Harvard basketball team win its first NCAA Tournament game with a huge upset win over third-seeded New Mexico, 68-62.

2013-03-21 22:19:00