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The Georgia Bulldogs won four SEC games all season — and two today.
The Bulldogs’ improbable run through the SEC tournament continued with a 60-56 win over Kentucky in the game…

Mario Chalmers has plenty to celebrate…

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Lots to cover today, so let’s get right to it:

I could not be more impressed at the Georgia Bulldogs’ run through…

A note from the “From Bad to Worse” department… the Kentucky/Georgia game went into overtime.
I hear the winning team will also throw in a half-marathon before tonight’s game, just to…

One of the toughest challenges of Championship Week is the lack of downtime. In the Big East, for example, Pittsburgh will be playing a fourth game in four days when…

There are 48 current Division I schools that have played in the NCAA Tournament.
When March Madness starts next week, we’ll have to update that list; at least three schools will…

It’s that time of year again… the birds are returning from their winter nesting grounds, the green is coming back to the lawns of suburbia…
And college basketball coaches…

Kelvin Sampson is gone, but Indiana’s basketball program will likely feel the effects of his brief reign for some time to come. One of the aftershocks of Sampson’s abrupt departure…

The Horizon, Summit and Sun Belt conferences crowned champions in yesterday’s action, bringing the number of teams with locked-in NCAA Tournament bids to twelve. The newest entries:

Butler - Horizon League
Oral…

Arizona coach Lute Olson has missed the entire 2007-08 season, but the 73-year-old Hall of Famer announced Monday that he’ll return to the sidelines for the 2008-09 season and beyond.
Olson…

The road to the Final Four may be impassable for one of the big-time basketball schools currently on the NCAA Tournament bubble — the San Diego Toreros and Middle Tennessee…

We told him not to do it. We told him to bite his tongue, but the fiesty Rays have tempted Dayn Perry into a controversial stance.

Allen Iverson and the Nuggets exposed almost every hole in Seattle’s defense, scoring 168 points — 4th most in a regulation game.

His defense makes the Pistons potent. But Charley Rosen says Detroit reaches a new level when Rasheed Wallace scores.

Playground legends can’t lead teams to historic heights, right? Rafer Alston is proving the doubters — and Mark Kriegel — wrong.

Playground legends can’t lead teams to historic heights, right? Rafer Alston is proving the doubters — and Mark Kriegel — wrong.

The 2007-2008 season will feature one of the most talented freshman classes in recent memory. Here’s your chance to get introduced to some of the names that you’ll be hearing — regularly — this March.

A listing of the 31 conferences that will receive automatic bids to the 2008 NCAA Tournament and their 2007 representatives.

According to FBI estimates, over $2.4 billion dollars changes hands — mostly in tens and twenties — in NCAA Tournament pools. Is any of this legal?

On February 6 and 7 members of the print and broadcast media gathered at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis and put together an early field of 65 for this year’s tournament. Here’s a look at who made the cut.

We can’t all be players, and we can’t all be coaches. We can all take the virtual court through the magic of XBox or PlayStation. Check out the reviews of the latest college hoops video games.

Schedule, venue and ticketing information for the sites hosting the 2008 NCAA Tournament.

They hang the hoops at the same height… but that might be the only thing the NBA and NCAA do exactly the same way. Here’s a brief rundown of the key differences between pro and college ball.

Everyone loves a Cinderella story — but the big conferences dominate the NCAA Tournament’s final weekend.

A complete list of NCAA Champions and Final Four teams, from the 1985 Villanova Wildcats to the 2007 Florida Gators.

An introduction to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament — the largest, most elaborate and, arguably, the best postseason event on the American sports calendar.

Things were bleak in Phoenix after the Shaq trade, but then the Big Fella dove into the crowd and everything changed, says Mike Kahn.

Tommy Lasorda said goodbye to Dodgertown in style, walking out of Holman Stadium under an archway of bats. Bartolo Colon and Carlos Silva also had a difficult day, but for a much different reason.

His eyes red, his steps slow, Lasorda waved to the fans for the final time at Dodgertown. Down in the right-field corner, his players and coaches silently gathered and formed two lines.

DW was left speechless Sunday — both literally and figuratively. Here’s what he really wanted to tell you after Bristol.

Last year’s NFL draft class had a bounty of wide receivers. This year’s? Well, Peter Schrager isn’t sold on any of them just yet.

Japanese right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka will start the Boston Red Sox’s regular-season opener against the Oakland Athletics in Toyko on March 25.

“I think that will be a ton of excitement,” Boston manager Terry Francona said before Monday’s exhibition game against the New York Yankees. “I know he’s honored.”

John Lester will pitch the second game of the two-game series with the Athletics in Japan on March 26.

Even with none of the precincts reporting, WhatIfSports.com is still prepared to project a winner for the 2008 NCAA Tournament.

Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas is increasing the intensity of his workouts in an attempt to return this season from knee surgery.

The All-Star guard had an MRI on his surgically repaired left knee Monday. He underwent surgery Nov. 21.

“They said everything healed,” Arenas said before Washington played Atlanta Monday night. “They want me to ramp it back up - go full speed.”

Arenas said he would work out Monday night, and see how it feels Tuesday.

Free agent wideout D.J. Hackett agreed to two-year, $3.5 million deal with Carolina on Monday as the Panthers continued to upgrade their receiving corps.

The former Seahawk chose Carolina over Seattle, Washington and Tampa Bay, according to his agent, Kevin Robinson.

The Panthers have been busy trying to get star receiver Steve Smith help after he faced constant double-teams last season. The Panthers signed receiver Muhsin Muhammad last month after he was released by Chicago.

When the Florida Gators lost in the first round of the Southeastern Conference tournament, they knew it knocked them out of the NCAA tournament field.

They had no idea it also would get them kicked out of their practice facility.

Coach Billy Donovan, feeling like his players had settled into a state of complacency and entitlement, banned them from Florida’s $12 million facility. He also told them they couldn’t wear any Florida attire.

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