The NCAA has a list of everything that will be different about the Division I women's basketball tournament this year. It's the smallest entries on the list ...
Per the report, “holding a joint Division I men’s and women’s basketball Final Four in one location over a single weekend would be the best, and likely the only way to reduce the existing gender inequities seen in Division I men’s and women’s basketball.” (When the NCAA initially responded to the scandal over the tournament last year, it claimed the discrepancy between the men’s and women’s tourney budgets was because the men brought in money while the women annually lost $2.8 million—but it backed up that number by saying that the television rights payment brought in by the women was just $6 million. Even the tourney selection show—which had traditionally been held on Monday, but was moved this year to Selection Sunday, the same as the men—saw a big spike: 1.1 million viewers, representing a 160% increase from 2021. And: The women will have a yogurt bar and a pasta station to match the men’s yogurt bar and pasta station. “The time is now,” Close says. The men’s tournament has a massive deal with CBS and Turner, whose latest extension was for eight years and $8.8 billion. But there are still questions around what that will actually mean—namely, whether it will involve more of the moves recommended in the gender equity review conducted by the law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink, and if so, which ones and when. The NCAA has a list of everything that will be different about the Division I women’s basketball tournament this year. The coaches had long felt there were striking disparities between the men and women. A year after the NCAA met with controversy for its disparate handling of the men’s and women’s tournaments, it announced a suite of moves designed to change the experience. But that still leaves plenty of questions about structural issues with the tournament. Those questions stand out to a coach like Close. She is the president of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association—putting her at the helm of one of the biggest groups that has been pressing for change over the last year.
ESPN's panel picks the best spot to be in the first round and the must-see players, and predicts the potential upsets in the first 32 games.
In a battle of conference players of the year, I see Villanova's Maddy Siegrist outdueling BYU's Shaylee Gonzales and getting the Wildcats an upset. As a freshman at Maryland in 2019, Austin got a two-game taste of March Madness. How will that experience help her, and how can she help her teammates understand the environment? No. 5 seed North Carolina has the edge on paper over No. 12 seed Stephen F. Austin (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNews), but the Lumberjacks' style of play makes them a tough squad to go up against. Hollingshed, a 6-3 forward, is averaging 14.1 points and 7.5 rebounds to lead the Buffs. Colorado plays Creighton in Iowa City, Iowa, at 1:30 p.m. ET Friday (ESPNews). Things might be looking up for No. 4 seed Arizona -- which faces 13-seed UNLV (10 p.m. ET, ESPN2), back in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002 -- with 6-2 forward Cate Reese expected to return from a late season shoulder injury. Voepel: I'm not saying it will be a pretty game, because it almost certainly won't. But it will be cool to see Spokane No. 8 seed Kansas back in the tournament for the first time since 2013. But the Wildcats' play has still been so up and down this season that I'll be looking to see how they look now that they're healthy and, in theory, starting fresh in the NCAA tournament, where last time out they advanced to the national title game. But the Terps lost two of the past three, including a dispirited 62-51 defeat to Indiana at the Big Ten tournament. No. 6 Georgia (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNews) in Ames, Iowa. The Flyers demolished DePaul in their First Four game Wednesday, holding the highest-scoring offense in the country to just 57 points on 27% shooting. According to ESPN Stats & Information, they were only the second team in the past 20 years to register 12 3-pointers (on 13-for-23 shooting no less!) and 12 blocks in an NCAA tournament game. Virginia Tech (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU). The Eagles are tragically underseeded and should be a No. 9 or 10 at worst, not a No. 12 seed. The No. 13 seeds have won 10 times, most recently last year when Wright State beat Arkansas in the first round; however that game -- like all the games last season -- was on a neutral court.
A full day of college hoops will be on tap Friday, with 16 men's tournament games and 16 women's games.
Streaming is also available on FuboTV. Tipico has no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage. Gannett may earn revenue from Tipico for audience referrals to betting services. On the men's side, two-seed Duke tips off against Cal State Fullerton as retirement for coach Mike Krzyzewski beckons. Streaming is also available on FuboTV and through March Madness Live on the NCAA website. Men: Live streaming is available at CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports app; truTV.com, on the truTV app; TNTdrama.com and the TNT app and TBS.com and the TBS app.
Whether those games (and more) can live up to the opening day of the 2022 NCAA Tournament remains to be seen. That said, there's a reason it's called March ...
Whether those games (and more) can live up to the opening day of the 2022 NCAA Tournament remains to be seen. No. 9 TCU, which tips off at 9:57 p.m. No. 10 Loyola-Chicago) and ends with No. 8 Seton Hall vs.
We take a look at each matchup on the board for today's March Madness action.
9:50 — No. 3 Wisconsin vs. 7:20 — No. 6 LSU vs. 7:10 — No. 2 Duke vs. 4:30 — No. 6 Texas vs. 4:15 — No. 6 Alabama vs. 3:10 — No. 7 USC vs. 2:45 — No. 2 Villanova vs. 2:00 — No. 3 Purdue vs. 12:40 — No. 2 Auburn vs. 12:15 — No. 7 Ohio State vs. TCU and Seton Hall enter the first round as a pick-em matchup, at -110. The smallest spread of the day isn’t a spread at all.
This season marked the first time that the NCAA women's basketball tournament featured a First Four round. The quartet of matchups took place on Wednesday ...
No. 9 Georgia Tech (-3.5), 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNUNo. 6 Georgia (-3.5) vs. No. 15 Fairfield, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN2No. 1 Stanford (-30.5) vs. No. 16 Montana State, 10 p.m. ET, ESPN2No. 3 Iowa State (-19.5) vs. No. 11 Dayton, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNewsNo. 2 Texas (-23.5) vs. No. 10 Arkansas, 5:30 p.m. ET, ESPNewsNo. 1 Louisville (-32.5) vs. No. 15 Illinois State, 4 p.m. ET, ESPNNo. 4 Maryland (-17.5) vs. No. 15 Hawai'i, 4 p.m. ET, ESPN2No. 2 Iowa (-21.5) vs. No. 13 Delaware, 5 p.m. ET, ESPNUNo. 7 Utah (-1.5) vs. No. 9 Gonzaga, 3:30 p.m. ET, ESPNewsNo. 2 Baylor (-28.5) vs. No. 16 Howard (no line), 2 p.m. ET, ESPNNo. 5 Virginia Tech (-6.5) vs. No. 10 South Dakota, 1:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2No. 7 Colorado (-2.5) vs. No. 9 South Florida (-1.5), 11:30 a.m. ET, ESPN2No. 7 Ole Miss (-2.5) vs.
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