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Analyzing the NCAA Tournament South Region, where Alabama is No. 1 overall.

North Carolina started the year at No. 1 only to miss the NCAA Tournament. And that was enough for the Tar Heels to call it a season. The Tar Heels on Sunday officially became the first top-ranked team in The Associated Press preseason poll to miss March Madness since the field's expansion to 64 teams in 1985.

The Georgetown Hoyas are expected to be interested in Providence's Ed Cooley for its coaching vacancy, according to multiple reports.

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Villanova won six of its final eight regular-season games to secure the No. 6 seed in the Big East tournament.

NEW YORK (AP) — This Big East Tournament has a distinctly different look. No. 6 Marquette is the top seed heading into the four-day frenzy at Madison Square Garden for the first time since the Golden Eagles joined the conference in 2005.

The label of “loser” is unfair, often lacking nuance or context. And in all of sports, there is no better example of a label misrepresenting a player than the Ewing theory. The Ewing theory, popularized by former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons, is simple: A star athlete that receives a large amount of media attention and fan interest—but, crucially, never leads his teams to any meaningful success—leaves their team. The team then exceeds expectations without the player. The theory, he explai...

The former BIG EAST is considered one of the most dominant and fiercely contested leagues in men's college basketball history. College basketball fans recall when Patrick Ewing of Georgetown...

When Georgetown hired Patrick Ewing in March 2017, it was supposed to signify a moment of change for a once-great basketball program that found itself mired in mediocrity. Coming off a season that saw the Hoyas go 14-18 under John Thompson III—son of the late, great coach of the same name—Georgetown decided it was time to move in a different direction. What better way to do that than to bring in the man who led the program to its lone NCAA championship as a player in 1984? The prodigal son o...

After losing three of its past four games and slipping out of this week AP Top 25 poll, Creighton has an opportunity to right the ship in the final week of th