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HOUSTON -- It was a fun NCAA tournament. It was a fun NCAA tournament. It was a fun NCAA tournament. Keep saying that for as long as it takes to rid your brain of the memory of how it ended. Otherwise, you might be scarred for life. Throu...

UConn completed an improbable run in capturing the national championship, but it was an ugly victory in more ways than one.

HOUSTON -- Rick Pitino is the only coach in America who has beaten the two teams that will play Monday night for the national title. His Louisville Cardinals walloped Butler 88-73 way back in mid-November. The Cardinals were 2-1 against Connecticu...

HOUSTON -- For the record, Milan lost in the Indiana high school Final Four on its first improbable visit, in 1953. The Indians wrote the storybook ending the next year. Just thought I'd point that out for everyone who has loved the serendipitous ...

Rick Pitino, whose Louisville Cardinals were the only team to beat both UConn and Butler this season, thinks the Bulldogs have an edge over a fatigued Huskies team.

In an age of seemingly endless cases of malfeasance in college athletics, a Butler title would be a breath of fresh air.

Is Butler ready to fulfill its destiny as a modern-day Milan? The Bulldogs will have to go through UConn in the title game if it's to happen.

HOUSTON -- For the Butler Bulldogs, hitting their stride meant decelerating to a walk. They're better when they're slower. The more deliberate the game, the more of a half-court skirmish it becomes, the greater the chance that Butler out-executes ...

HOUSTON -- Part of what makes Butler the most irresistible story of the past two college basketball seasons was the skinny freshman sitting in the Reliant Stadium training room getting his ankles taped Friday. His name is Chrishawn Hopkins, and un...

In 2009, ESPN published a College Basketball Encyclopedia. My contribution to the 1,000-plus pages of hoops awesomeness was an essay on Cinderella. In it I listed the sweetest 16 Cinderella runs in NCAA tournament history, revisiting the magic mom...

Shaka Smart has always fought for everything he's gotten. He's always had something to prove. And his VCU team has followed his lead all the way to the Final Four in Houston.

Shaka Smart has always fought for everything he's gotten. He's always had something to prove. And his VCU team has followed his lead all the way to the Final Four in Houston.

With one of the strangest Final Fours in history, is it time to challenge some assumptions we've long held about college basketball?

With one of the strangest Final Fours in history, is it time to challenge some assumptions we've long held about college basketball?

SAN ANTONIO -- When players from both teams shook hands before the game that broke the bracket once and for all, Kansas big man Marcus Morris went to the intimidation playbook once too often. "You guys have had a good run," he told Virginia Common...

SAN ANTONIO -- A quick preview of the Southwest Regional final: Virginia Commonwealth vs. Kansas: No. 11 seed VCU Rams vs. No. 1 seed Kansas Jayhawks, 2:20 p.m. ET (CBS) What to watch: The glass. Kansas is a brutally effective rebounding team, ...