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Duke's title was aided by awful officiating down the stretch

Why waste everybody's time taking two minutes to look a replay, giving analysts, viewers and anyone else with two eyes the chance to see what should been the correct call, only to have officials walk away from the sideline desk to say the exact ...

UConn Has One Last Run Before SMU Snuffs Out NCAA Hopes

This time they must cede the stage to other, better teams. One of those teams, Southern Methodist, crushed out UConn's final, flickering hopes of going back to the NCAA Tournament with a 62-54 victory in the American Athletic Conference Tournament ...

Checking out all 68 teams in the field

It's not just the goofy nicknames or bad-sports-movie uniforms. There are stories like Wofford Terriers (55): Spartanburg's finest narrowly avoided history in the SoCon title game, edging an 11-win Furman team that would have been among the worst ...

Xavier back in NCAA Sweet 16 for 5th time since 2008

CINCINNATI (AP) — Xavier's youthful lineup is growing up in March, just in time to add to the Musketeers' history of late-season success. They've beaten Ole Miss and Georgia State to reach the Sweet 16 for the fifth time since 2008. Only eight other ...

A dream realized for women's water polo

Alexa Philippou. Desk Editor With 11 seconds on the clock in the final quarter of the NCAA women's water polo national championship game, Kiley Neushul drilled the ball into the bottom right corner past UCLA goalie Sami Hill on a penalty shot ...

Wisconsin steals Kentucky's perfect ending in Final Four, 71-64

The Badgers again closed the deal, beating previously undefeated Kentucky 71-64. With the victory, which avenged a national semifinal loss to Kentucky last season, Wisconsin will play Duke in the NCAA Tournament championship game Monday night....

Peterson: Is Hoiberg the dream candidate the Bulls described?

He is a former Minnesota Timberwolves vice president, so he knows that side of the desk, too. Furthermore, he's close to Forman, an ISU He'll inherit a program that has been to four NCAA Tournaments in a row. He inherits Georges Niang, Jameel McKay ...

John Calipari questions if refs will 'have the stomach' to call fouls

The NCAA's new basketball rules to improve pace of play and reduce ... Speaking Wednesday at the SEC spring meetings, Calipari said the decision to reduce the shot clock from 35 to 30 seconds won't help or hurt the product. But if officials aren't ...

NCAA approves 30-second shot clock in men's basketball

It's the first time the shot clock has been trimmed since ... and if either team calls a timeout within 30 seconds of a media timeout, it would count as the scheduled break. On Monday, the NCAA's Playing Rules Oversight Panel officially approved both ...

CBSSports.com Players of the Week (Oct. 13): Chubb steps up for Georgia

Every Monday, we will highlight the best and brightest performances from the weekend with the CBSSports.com Players of the Week. The honors will run through the end of the regular season right up until the CBS Sports All-America Team in December.

Video: Lack of game clocks in Cancun doom Seton Hall's final shot

As the ESPN announcers later would say, the only game clock in the building is on the scoreboard above the court ... some sort of oversight in how these arenas are set-up. Would the NCAA stand for an 84-foot court? Or baskets that were six inches too ...