The NCAA tournament's regional semifinals are set after a thrilling and exhausting first two rounds, which filled wastepaper baskets with battered brackets and left coaches on their knees in agony and throwing their arms to the heavens in joy. On Thursday in Salt Lake City, No. 1 seed ...

Not so long ago, having Butler and Xavier among the last 16 teams in the NCAA tournament would have spawned feel-good stories about the plucky mid-major conferences and the wonderful hoops democracy that is March Madness. This year, those teams barely caused a buzz outside their own campuses, mostly because ...

One late dry spell couldn't spoil Oklahoma's run of success in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Nyeshia Stevenson scored 17 points, Abi Olajuwon added 15 and third-seeded Oklahoma beat South Dakota State 68-57 on Sunday night despite going the final 7 ...

On the big stage for the first time, Arkansas-Little Rock looked like an NCAA tournament veteran. Kim Sitzmann scored a season-high 21 points — all but three in the first half — and 11th-seeded Arkansas-Little Rock won in its NCAA tournament debut, stunning No. 6 seed Georgia Tech 63-53 ...