NCAA Tournament

So, the four-day marathon known as the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament is now in our rearview mirror. If your bracket busted like a cheap watch, you may not care too much about the rest of March Madness, so here are some ways to pass the time until a national championship is crowned:

You REALLY think they're all goody-two-shoes?

Conference baseball and March Madness!!

Do you have your NCAA bracket filled out yet? You'd better hurry. The 2012 NCAA basketball tournament gets underway Tuesday with two of the 'First Four' games. Mississippi Valley State plays Western Kentucky in a 16-seed game in the South Region, while BYU takes on Iona in a 14-seed game in the West Region. Here are 10 t ...

The NCAA basketball tournament is wide-open in a way that no other major American sporting event is. Hence its nickname “March Madness.” But if you were to single out the other distinguishing characteristics of the tourney, they would be the brackets that everyone is so fond of filling out and the fact that a good chunk of the games takes place when folks are supposed to be at work.

The annual NCAA Tournament kicks off Tuesday with two games featuring lower seeds vying for a spot in the field of 64.

The country is rapidly approaching March Madness, an annual celebration of rabid sports fandom and hallowed college tradition. Every year, NCAA fans follow their alma mater or college they’d go to if grades and criminal records didn’t matter from hope and glory to everlasting victory or crushing defeat.

I've made no bones about the fact I love the NCAA Tournament. I miss games because of my commitments, especially on the weekend, but I watch as many games as I possibly can.  I even downloaded the tournament app which allows me to watch all of the games on my phone, or listen to the radio broadcast.  Fo...

Every year I do my own bracket for the NCAA Tournament.  I take the 68 teams, including my choices for the 37 at-large teams and give them my own seeding.  Every year I miss a couple. This year, it was just one. And, it was the same one everyone else missed. Each ...

The 68-team field for the 2012 NCAA Tournament, for men's basketball, is set. Kentucky, who is the top-overall seed, is the #1-seed in the South bracket. Other top-seeds are Michigan St. in the West region, Syracuse in the East, and North Carolina in the Midwest.

The field of 64 is set for the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The bracket, which was released on Monday, includes three schools from the Sun Belt Conference, and eight from the SEC. Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns, and the LSU Tigers, were both left out of this year's tournament. View the bracket, courtesy of espn.com, below.

SEC members South Carolina, Florida, and Vanderbilt were announced as NCAA baseball regional hosts on Sunday. See the complete list of the 16 host sites, courtesy of espn.com, below.

Tonight Butler and Connecticut play for the National Championship in a matchup that seemed most unlikely when the NCAA Tournament began a little more than two weeks ago.  Connecticut has won ten straight after finishing ninth in the Big East this year.  Ma...

Okay, we're down to the Final Four. It's been the most unpredictable tournament ever, judging by the way brackets have been shredded throughout the country.

To describe CBS college basketball announcer Gus Johnson's play-by-play as animated, enthusiastic, hyperactive, passionate, and feverish, would be an acceptible description. However, no amount of adjectives can paint a true picture of how excited Johnson gets when calling a game.

The Sweet Sixteen round begins tonight, with four games on tap and then four more Friday night.  Two regional finals will be held Saturday and two more on Sunday.  My bracket is toast, but that won't stop me from picking on from here.  Tomorr...

Upsets abound again, except in the West

March Madness is always full of great finishes, memorable shots, unlikely heroes, and at times, controversy. The ending of the Arizona versus Texas game yesterday had all four.

Here's the lineup of times and networks for Friday's action in the NCAA Tournament:

Here's the schedule for the first day of the NCAA Tournament.  This might be the day to look for big upsets:  three of the #12 seeds and three of the #13 seeds are in action today: