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MINNEAPOLIS -- Earlier this month, coaches and administrators gathered at a local hotel for the annual Villa 7, a program that was created to help assistants navigate the pipelines that often lead to head-coaching gigs. Jim Delany, Big Ten commiss...

Four more teams officially punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament in the last week, with Cal State Fullerton winning the Big West regular-season title and Army, Jackson State and Savannah State winning conference tournaments. They join Columbia ...

Louisiana-Lafayette, Florida State and UAB all are unseeded in the NCAA softball tournament. And all three are just one victory from moving on to the super regionals.

Steve Mock scored seven goals and Rob Pannell added two goals and six assists, and unseeded Cornell routed third-seeded Ohio State 16-6 in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals Saturday.

Lannah Campbell tossed a complete game in UAB's big victory over UCLA. A few hundred miles away, sister Hannah Campbell threw a six-inning perfect game in South Alabama's 10-0 win against Mississippi Valley State.

Will a mid-major pull an upset in Knoxville, Louisville or Tuscaloosa? Can Florida finally master an in-state foe? Graham Hays answers those questions and more in his regional capsules.

Coach Mike Krzyzewski makes a lot of money. That's not surprising. Compensation for private-school coaches is not disclosed the way salaries are for coaches at public schools due to a bunch of legal stuff that I will not attempt to explain. "Priva...

Graham Hays breaks down the opening round of the NCAA tournament, where the host teams are favored to win.

Joe Lunardi compares the Louisville Cardinals to past preseason favorites coming off of national championship seasons and explains what history tells us about their chances of repeating.

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With the NCAA softball tournament set to start, Graham Hays breaks down the seeds, sleepers and players to watch in Norman, College Station, Ann Arbor and Baton Rouge.

1. Texas lost 18 games last season. The Longhorns won seven in the Big 12 and were shut out of the NCAA tournament for the first time since head coach Rick Barnes arrived in 1998. Sheldon McClellan and Julien Lewis were third and fourth, respectively...

Julien Lewis, Texas; third leading scorer last season, is transferring.

With 90-plus games on tap and double-elimination at stake, Graham Hays highlights the teams to beat and the players to watch in the opening round of the NCAA softball tournament.

Editor's Note: This month, ESPN Insider's college basketball and recruiting experts are teaming up to examine how 15 of the nation's best recruiting classes will fit in with their teams in the 2013-14 season. Today's featured program: Louisville. Che...

In case you missed it, basketball was a pretty big deal at Miami this spring. Jim Larranaga's team won the ACC and made a deep run into the NCAA tournament; along the way it embarrassed Duke as thoroughly and mercilessly as Duke has ever been embarra...

Chattanooga hired VCU assistant Will Wade as the Mocs' new men's basketball coach on Monday, hoping his experience helping the VCU Rams develop into an NCAA tournament team can get that program back on track.