NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

No. 1 seed Kansas defeats No. 8 North Carolina to win their fourth NCAA national championship.

Griff Aldrich was making $800,000 a year in private equity. He took a huge pay cut to coach college basketball instead — and is leading the Longwood University Lancers to the NCAA’s “Big Dance.”

The Illinois Fighting Illini, co-champions of the Big Ten during the regular season, will take on the Chattanooga Mocs in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday evening in Pittsburgh.

College sports leaders are working to transform the top tier of NCAA athletics, from how Division I should be governed to what should be required of schools to compete at the highest level