Not every team gets invited to the “Big Dance.” For the teams that almost made it to the Final 68 on Selection Sunday, there is the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). A total of 32 teams comprise the NIT. The first four teams left out of the 2019 NCAA tournament field will be the top-seeded teams […]
ESPN will continue its industry-leading college basketball slate with more than 180 matchups during Championship Week. Digital coverage began Monday, March 4, while television coverage as part of Champ Week tipped off on Friday, March 8, and continues through Sunday, March 17. ESPN networks will air 27 Division I conference tournaments across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, […]
The Gonzaga Bulldogs remained at No. 1 after extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 20 games. Virginia stayed at No. 2 after winning both its games last week. North Carolina and Tennessee both moved up two spots, to Nos. 3 and 5. Duke fell one spot to No. 4. No. 15 Virginia Tech had […]
The Gonzaga Bulldogs, without a loss since December (winning by a margin of victory of at least 12 points per game), took this week’s top spot in the Associated Top 25 poll (released Feb. 25). They last were at No. 1 back in late November. The Atlantic Coast Conference hoards three spots in the poll’s […]
The Duke Blue Devils reclaimed the top spot in the Associated Top 25 poll (released Feb. 18), the third time this season they’ve reached No. 1. Tennessee, which had spent four weeks at No. 1, fell to fifth after their Feb. 17 loss at Kentucky. The LSU Tigers (21-4) made the week’s biggest jump, climbing […]
Tennessee and Duke stayed atop the Associated Top 25 poll (released Feb. 11). Gonzaga and Virginia swapped the 3rd and 4th seed positions from last week. Kentucky rounds out the top five. No. 17 Florida State had the biggest jump in this week’s poll, climbing five spots after beating Syracuse and Louisville, which remained at […]
The top four teams in the Associated Top 25 poll (released Feb. 4) remained unchanged, with Tennessee at No. 1, Duke sitting at No. 2, followed by Virginia and Gonzaga. The Michigan Wolverines, still undefeated two weeks ago, dropped two spots to No. 7 after losing to now-No. 20 Iowa. The Michigan State Spartans fell […]
The top six teams in the Associated Top 25 poll (released Jan. 28) remained unchanged, with Tennessee at No. 1 Duke sitting at No. 2, followed by Virginia, Gonzaga, and Michigan. The Michigan State Spartans also stayed put at No. 6 despite suffering their first Big Ten loss at Purdue in a game that helped […]
Six of last week’s Associated Press top-10 teams lost, but of the remaining four, the Tennessee Volunteers — last week’s No. 3 squad in the nation — vaulted up to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll released on Jan. 21. It’s Tennessee’s first top ranking since the 2007-08 season. Among the six teams […]
