NCAA Basketball NewsFriday, Mar 20, 2026

VCU made NCAA Tournament history with its comeback win vs. North Carolina on March 19. Here are the best reactions:

AJ Dybantsa was expected to take BYU to new heights, but the once promising season ended in the first round of NCAA Tournament.

Georgia Tech is finalizing a deal to hire Troy coach Scott Cross to be the school's next men's basketball head coach, sources told ESPN.

What you need to know and how to watch Friday's first-round action in the 2026 NCAA Tournament

Who moved on in March Madness bracket? Here's a list of yesterday's NCAA Tournament results and today's schedule.

Iowa State's Joshua Jefferson took an awkward fall early against Tennessee State and was later seen on crutches.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — MJ Collins' steal and emphatic one-handed slam dunk with 1:13 left gave him 20 points and Utah State opened its fourth straight NCAA Tournament by beating Villanova 86-76 on Friday. Mason Falslev, the Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, scored 22 and helped bring the Aggies back from a 10-point deficit early in the second half. Utah State (29-6), the No. 9 seed in the West Region, will play No. 1 seed Arizona in the second round on Sunday. The Wildcats beat No. 16 Lo...

TNT Sports and CBS Sports have announced tip times and matchups for Second Round coverage of the 2026 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on Saturday, March 21 (Noon-Midnight ET), with all 67 games available live in their entirety across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – and NCAA March Madness Live. Games airing on TBS, TNT and truTV will also stream live on HBO Max. Games airing on CBS will also stream live on Paramount+.

Jaylen Petty scored 24 points, Christian Anderson added 18 and fifth-seeded Texas Tech beat No. 12 seed Akron 91-71 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. The Red Raiders (23-10) will face fourth-seeded Alabama or No. 13 seed Hofstra in the second round in the Midwest Region on Sunday. Playing without All-America guard JT Toppin, who tore the ACL in his right knee last month, Texas Tech got double-figure scoring from five players.

Watch the highlights from No. 3 Virginia and No. 14 Wright State’s matchup in the first round of the 2026 men’s NCAA tournament.

Here is the schedule for March Madness 2026, which begins with Selection Sunday on March 15 and continues through the Final Four and the national championship game on April 4 and 6 in Indianapolis.

Watch the highlights from No. 9 Utah State and No. 8 Villanova’s matchup in the first round of the 2026 men’s NCAA tournament.