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Conference: Big Ten. Bid: Automatic. Region: Midwest. Seed: No. 1. Tournament History: 40-31, 5 Final Fours in 30 appearances. Last appearance: 2013, lost to Miami in the Second Round. Season Stats Top Scorers: Ayo Dosunmu 20.9; Kofi Cockburn 17.6; Trent Frazier 10.4. Rebounds: Cockburn 9.6; Dosunmu 6.2; Avg team margin (plus-10.2). Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.23): Dosunmu (5.4/3.3), 135 assists. Last 10 Games: 9-1. Worst Loss: 72-81 at Michigan St. on Feb. 23. The Skinny: No. 3 Illinoi...

0 of 7 The bracket for the 2021 mens NCAA tournament is finally here. As always, many fans feel their team was royally screwed by the selection committee. Some of those controversial decisions involve the bubble, where there will be a whole lot of "How did that team get in while this team was left out?" for the next few days. In other cases, teams got in, but perhaps on a seed line or two worse than expected. And then there are the teams that simply got screwed with bad matchups. One differen...

By Mike Wennmacher Photo Credit: Fighting Illini / Official Website The Fighting Illini have put together quite a season thus far as they captured the team’s first Big Ten tourney Championship since the 2005 season on Sunday but now the sights are set on something bigger a National Title. The journey will not be easy and here we take a look at how it may unfold. The Illini are the top seed in the tourney’s Midwest region and should easily dispatch of first round opponent Drexe...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Michael Devoe scored a game-high 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the field and Georgia Tech men’s basketball closed the regular season with its sixth-straight win, a 75-63 triumph over Wake Forest at Joel Coliseum on Friday night. With the win, Georgia Tech (15-8, 11-6 ACC) clinched no worse than a fifth-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings for the second-straight year. If No. 21 Virginia defeats Louisville on Saturday, Tech will finish fourth in...

No. 9 seed Jackets and No. 8 seed Ramblers to tip at 4 p.m. Friday in opening round

0 of 7 Paul Sancya/Associated Press Whos ready for another March of angrily tearing up your bracket before the dust settles on the first day of the NCAA tournament? The dreaded bracket-buster comes in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes a mid-major team pulls off an early upset as a double-digit seed. Other times, a major conference team gets hot to reach the Sweet 16 and beyond despite being seeded outside the top four lines. Weve highlighted seven teams that could fill the role of bracket-buster...

By Syndicated Content Mar 14, 2021 3:12 AM Duane Washington Jr. scored 19 of his 24 points in the second half and No. 9 Ohio State booked a spot in the Big Ten tournament title game by escaping with a 68-67 semifinal victory over No. 4 Michigan on Saturday afternoon in Indianapolis. E.J. Liddell tallied 13 of his 18 points in the second half to help the fifth-seeded Buckeyes (21-8) reach the Big Ten title game for the first time since 2013. Ohio State faces second-seeded Illinois (ranke...

Gerry Broome/Associated Press For the first time in 27 years, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are ACC tournament champions after their 80-75 win over the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday night. Georgia Tech secured a spot in Saturdays game after Virginia had to withdraw from the tournament because of a positive COVID-19 test within the program. This marked the Yellow Jackets first appearance in the ACC title game since 2010. Florida State advanced to the title game by holding off North Carol...

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team secured an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after winning the ACC Conference tournament Saturday night.