March 12 was Selection Monday for the 64 women’s teams; their seedings and regions were announced for the upcoming annual tournament to ultimately determine college’s women’s national champion in Division I basketball. There will be 63 tournament games televised on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3. The tournament’s early round games will air regionally, according to its […]
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 2018 NCAA tournament field will be the top-seeded teams […]
More than 650 games of the 2018 NCAA Division I Softball regular season will air on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, Longhorn Network, SEC Network +, ACC Network Extra, and the ESPN App. There will be at least 20 television appearances by the top five teams from the preseason Top 25 —No. 1 Oklahoma, No. […]
While most of the nation’s conference tournaments will conclude this weekend, several teams have already clinched automatic bids in the Division I Basketball Championship Tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments: Atlantic Sun: Lipscomb Big South: Radford Big Ten: Michigan Colonial: Charleston Horizon League: Wright State MAAC: Iona Missouri Valley: Loyola (Chicago) Northeast: LIU Brooklyn […]
In the midst of conference tournament season where many of the nation’s teams are vying to earn a spot in the Big Dance (Division I Basketball Championship Tournament), several teams have already clinched automatic bids there by winning their respective conference tournaments: Big Ten: Michigan Big South: Radford Atlantic Sun: Lipscomb Missouri Valley: Loyola (Chicago) […]
Virginia remained at No. 1 for the week of Feb. 25-Mar. 4, receiving 48 votes from a media panel in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, up six from a week ago. No. 2 Michigan State, the 2017-18 regular season Big Ten title winner, received 17 first-place votes. The Xavier Musketeers defeated Georgetown 89-77 on […]
The ranks of the top four teams of the Associated Press Top 25 poll — Virginia, Michigan State, Villanova and Xavier — remain unchanged from last week. Wins over Virginia Tech and Clemson vaulted the Duke Blue Devils back into the Top 5 in at No. 5, up seven spots from last week. The Texas […]
For Feb. 19-25, UConn remains the unanimous No. 1 team. The Huskies (26-0) received all 32 first-place votes from a national media panel. They were followed by Mississippi State, Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame. The Louisville Cardinals lost to UConn by 11 points on Feb. 12. Texas, South Carolina, Oregon, Florida State and UCLA round […]
The top five for Feb. 12-18 remained unchanged with the UConn Huskies leading the way as the unanimous choice from the 32-member national media panel. Mississippi State, Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame round out the first five teams in the poll. No. 7 UCLA changed places with No. 8 South Carolina from last week, and […]
