NCAA tournament

The NCAA announced on Wednesday that its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held without fans in response to the coronavirus pandemic, limiting attendance to “essential staff and limited family.”

Like so many families across Chicagoland and Illinois, Porter Moser and his family are adjusting to a new normal, as the Loyola coach, his wife and four kids are back together living under one roof in Wilmette due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve played Spike Ball, we’ve played different things when the weather’s been better,” Moser said via FaceTime....

Like so many families across Chicagoland and Illinois, Porter Moser and his family are adjusting to a new normal, as the Loyola coach, his wife and four kids are back together living under one roof in Wilmette due to the coronavirus pandemic. NBC 5’s Mike Berman spoke to him on FaceTime.

Before fears about the coronavirus scrubbed sports for the foreseeable future, Sunday was supposed to be the Big Reveal in college basketball

A Division III men’s basketball NCAA Tournament game at Johns Hopkins University is believed to be the first U.S. sports event held without fans because of the new coronavirus

What normally would be thought an impossibility isn’t so far-fetched as the United States and the rest of the world attempt to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.

Ruth Riley Hunter says her journey to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame began in front of her television set more than a quarter-century ago. Ticha Penicheiro’s own dream started when she received a basketball from her parents when she was 6. Both entered the Hall of Fame on Saturday night as part of a class that also included former...

The NCAA baseball tournament is set to get underway this weekend, and the Illinois Fighting Illini will get a chance to earn a spot in the College World Series for the first time in school history.

Virginia has clinched a win advancing to the NCAA Championship final, after beating Auburn 63-62.

Michigan State is a regular, making its eighth appearance in the national semifinals of the NCAA Tournament under Tom Izzo....
The Spartans will face Final Four newbie Texas Tech and its oxygen-sucking defense....
The Cavaliers and their impenetrable pack-line defense will try to stop the volume-shooting Auburn Tigers, who have poured in 3-pointers during this NCAA Tournament like they’re playing...

Texas Tech shut down the nation’s most efficient offense to reach its first Final Four in 93 years as a program. Virginia erased the bitter taste of last year’s historic NCAA Tournament flop by surviving Carsen Edwards’ offensive onslaught to earn a spot in the national semifinals for the first time 1984. No doubt, there’s going to be a different...

For a sport that leans so much on familiarity and tradition, baseball seems to be changing at an unusually rapid pace. Whether it’s because of new technology, new strategies or new rules, the game could look a lot different over the next decade or so. “I think the commissioner’s just trying to stay ahead of the curve, do what’s best...

DePaul’s women’s basketball team will return to the NCAA tournament for their 17th straight year.

Jairus Lyles couldn’t suppress a smile, knowing that a school known more for chess than hoops had finally made it happen — a 16 ousting a 1 in March Madness. The University of Maryland-Baltimore County stunned the sports world by pulling off the most surprising upset in college basketball history, trouncing Virginia 74-54 on Friday night to become the first...

Fans are praying for Loyola’s 98-year-old Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt. Their prayer? For Ellen Degeneres to bring Sister Jean on “The Ellen Show.”

The NCAA’s payout system means that one upset by UMBC should be worth more than $1.7 million. The money goes to the conferences, unless the school is an independent in basketball. The NCAA encourages equal distribution by conferences among its members, but it is not required. Most do. The NCAA Tournament generates more than $700 million in revenue for the...

Porter Moser wants his Loyola-Chicago players to savor every moment of the NCAA Tournament. It took the Ramblers a long time, and last-moment shots in consecutive games, to go from what the coach termed a “grassroots rebuild” to the Sweet 16.

We now know Loyola’s Sweet Sixteen competition.