NCAA Basketball NewsSaturday, Mar 14, 2026

North Carolina star freshman Caleb Wilson will miss the remainder of the season after breaking his right thumb during Thursday's practice, the school announced Friday.

Vanderbilt took down SEC No. 1 seed Florida 91-74 in the SEC tournament semifinals to advance to the conference championship on Sunday, March 15.

Donovan Dent had 23 points and 12 assists, Trent Perry added 22 points and UCLA held off No. 8 Michigan State 88-84 in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals on Friday night despite losing star Tyler Bilodeau to a leg injury. Bilodeau had to be helped off the court late in the first half and spent the second on the sideline with his right knee wrapped. The Bruins led by 15 early in the second half and withstood several big pushes down the stretch to advance to a semifinal matchup with No. 18 Pu...

DJ Armstrong buried seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 33 points, leading top-seeded UMBC to a 74-59 victory over No. 2-seed Vermont in the championship game of the America East Playoffs on Saturday. The Retrievers (24-8) will play in the NCAA Tournament for the third time and earned their first bid since 2018, when they famously became the first 16-seed to beat a No. 1 seed, upsetting Virginia 74-54. Three 3-pointers by Armstrong, with the second one resulting in a four-point play, ga...

Isaac Johnson scored 19 points and Harry Rouhliadeff added a double-double to propel Hawaii to a 78-63 victory over Cal State Fullerton on Friday night in a Big West Conference Tournament semifinal. No. 2 seed Hawaii (23-8) will play No. 1 seed UC Irvine in the championship game on Saturday with a berth in the NCAA Tournament on the line. Johnson made 6 of 15 shots with a 3-pointer and all six of his free throws for the Rainbow Warriors.

Darius Acuff Jr. scored five of his 24 points in overtime and No. 17 Arkansas held off Mississippi 93-90 Saturday to reach the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game for the eighth time and first since winning the 2020 title. The third-seeded Razorbacks (25-8) will play No. 22 Vanderbilt, which routed No. 4 Florida earlier Saturday. Acuff, the SEC’s scoring leader and league’s player and freshman of the year, also had seven assists.

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Jaden Bradley hit a fall-away jumper at the buzzer to send No. 2 Arizona to the Big 12 tournament finals with an 82-80 win over Iowa State on Friday night.

A tenacious defensive performance carried No. 13 St. John's to its second straight Big East tournament championship Saturday night with a 72-52 blowout of sixth-ranked UConn at Madison Square Garden.

James Nnaji, the 7-foot center and 2023 NBA draft pick whose signing drew criticism from coaches across college basketball last month, debuted Saturday, scoring five points with four fouls in Baylor's 69-63 loss to TCU in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

Yaxel Lendeborg made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds remaining, giving No. 3 Michigan a 68-65 win over No. 23 Wisconsin to advance to the Big Ten tournament championship.