Author: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY

NCAA once called him a cheater. Bill Self has since received a lifetime KU contract that might as well be a middle finger pointed toward Indianapolis.

Here’s how you know the era of basketball coaches wearing suits is officially dead: Even Jay Wright didn’t bring one to this year’s Final Four.

It’s clear that NCAA president Mark Emmert has run out of answers for an organization that no longer seems capable of determining its own destiny.

If gender equity is really going to be at the forefront of the NCAA’s strategy, why not putting the two Final Fours in the same city just once?

Houston’s defensive pressure and aggressiveness on the glass turned one of the best teams all season into dust, beating No. 1 Arizona 72-60.

A few years ago, it was criminal for shoe companies to lure college recruits with money. But NIL rules mean they can now pay athletes out in the open.

Penn swimmer Lia Thomas struggled in the 200-yard free, a night after becoming the first openly transgender person to win a Division I national title.

Heading into March Madness, the ACC looks like a mishmash of fading powers and underachievers, programs in transition and others that need a jolt.

The MAC penalized four Kent State players for a social media video that took aim at rival Akron, but the harsh punishment could doom its NCAA chances.