Kansas, Kentucky, Orange, Duke top seeds
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:49:31 PDT)
An injury hurts as much as a loss in the days before the brackets are drawn up for March Madness. Syracuse endured both and will have to rack up some major airplane time to make a run to the Final Four. Kansas, Kentucky and Duke won their conference tournaments and the top seeding that went with them when the selection committee rolled out its 65-team NCAA tournament bracket Sunday.

Kentucky ties it at buzzer, wins in OT
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:13:26 PDT)
John Calipari only had questions once he and his Kentucky Wildcats finished celebrating their Southeastern Conference tournament championship. "How did we win this game? How did we go to overtime? I don't know," Calipari said. Credit his fantastic freshmen who scored to get them to overtime and then won the game, even if they celebrated a little prematurely.

Duke holds off Ga. Tech 65-61 to win ACC
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:22:52 PDT)
Miss after miss, open look after open look, yet Jon Scheyer ignored them all. He wasn't going to stop shooting, not with an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship on the line and fourth-ranked Duke clinging to a one-point lead in the final seconds. He curled around a screen, took a pass and launched a 3-pointer that dropped perfectly through the net.

Turner's 31 help Buckeyes take Big Ten
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:52:43 PDT)
Evan Turner didn't need any late-game heroics on Sunday. When it appeared there was nothing more he could do to make his Big Ten tournament performance better, the junior had 31 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 5 Ohio State over Minnesota 90-61 in the championship game. Turner hit a 37-foot shot at the buzzer to beat Michigan in the quarterfinals, then scored 12 of his 31 points after...

Temple wins third straight A-10 title
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:46:30 PDT)
Junior forward Lavoy Allen walked to midcourt seconds after the final buzzer in the Atlantic 10 Conference championship game, smiled and raised three fingers. No. 17 Temple was once again the conference champion, although this time the top-seeded Owls got a scare from third-seeded Richmond in a 56-52 victory on Sunday.

Florida makes return to NCAA tournament
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:34:27 PDT)
Florida is back in the NCAA tournament after a two-year absence. Now, coach Billy Donovan and the Gators have a winning streak they want to extend. Florida earned the No. 10 seed in the West Regional on Sunday and will play seventh-seeded BYU in the opening round Thursday in Oklahoma City. Florida has won 12 consecutive games in the NCAAs, all coming during back-to-back title runs in 2006 and 2007.

UNC, UConn, Arizona, UCLA miss tourney
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:39 PDT)
The NCAA tournament will look monumentally different this year. Connecticut, North Carolina, UCLA, Arizona and Indiana didn't make it into the field of 65, the first time since 1966 five of the biggest names in college basketball missed the tournament in the same season. That's three of the four schools with the most championships, out.

Big names UConn, Tar Heels headline NIT
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:24:26 PDT)
North Carolina and UConn are lending some serious star power to the NIT. Both teams went to the Final Four a year ago, and both were No. 4 seeds in the bracket for also-rans released Sunday. In the case of North Carolina, it's the second time in the past three years that the defending national champion missed the NCAA tournament, joining Florida in 2008.

Mountain West gets 4 teams in tourney
(Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:31:35 PDT)
The Mountain West Conference got exactly what it wanted Sunday with four NCAA tournament bids and the highest seeding ever for one of its schools. New Mexico (29-4) is the third seed in the East and will face No. 14-seed Montana in the opening round, with a possible second-round matchup against sixth-seeded Marquette.