Virginia Commonwealth Rams

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Bumping, banging and leaving Colorado State with a whole lot of bruises, top-seeded Louisville is into the Midwest Region semifinals. Russ Smith led four players in double figures with 27 points, and the Cardinals put on a defensive...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Michigan made Havoc look helpless. Mitch McGary had 21 points and 14 rebounds, and the fourth-seeded Wolverines breezed through Virginia Commonwealth's vaunted pressure with a clinical performance Saturday, beating the fifth-...

And with that............... K-State's tournament run is done. A one and done shocker to upstart La Salle that had everyone dropping their jaws. The Wildcats literally played two games on Friday against the Explorers. The first half was all La Salle,...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Virginia Commonwealth set an NCAA tournament record with the largest victory by a fifth-seeded team over a No. 12. And it could've been an even bigger rout. Troy Daniels had 23 points, Juvonte Reddic scored 21 and the Rams...

RICHMOND — As Akron prepared for the Mid-American Conference tournament, VCU coach Shaka Smart sent the Zips a 45-second motivational video. "It was all about how much I believed in their team and how good they could be," Smart said Tuesday....

VCU enters the NCAA tournament with a 26-8 record, not quite as glossy as last season, when the Rams were 28-6. Yet VCU is a No. 5 seed, light years better than last year’s No. 12. Coach Shaka Smart knows why. “A lot of people don’...

VCU versus Michigan in suburban Detroit. North Carolina against Kansas in Kansas City. A Duke-Louisville rematch in Indianapolis. North Carolina State encountering preseason No. 1 Indiana. Much of the regional contingent in the NCAA basketball...

The beauty of this season may be that there actually is no beauty. If the NCAA tournament follows the same script as the regular season, expect an unpredictable ride. Indiana was ranked No. 1 for the first six weeks of the regular season and then …...

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NCAA Basketball Selection Show announcers from CBS love their Jackrabbits.  The 13th-seeded South Dakota State men’s basketball team (25-9) will play No. 4 Michigan (26-7) in the South Region in Auburn Hills, Mich. The teams will play at 6:15 p.m....

For What it’s Worth---March 18 -- Was it a bigger deal that yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day, or Selection Sunday? Ho-Hum number 1--- Kansas is a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament for the 13th time and for the fifth time in seven...

Virginia faithful resigned to Selection Sunday disappointment may find some comfort in tournament committee chairman Mike Bobinski’s most recent public remarks. “Key criteria for the committee is what is has been for some time,”...