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Purdue loss may linger for Texas A&M's Turgeon
Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon didn't try to hide his feelings after his team's 63-61 NCAA Tournament loss to Purdue in overtime. He probably couldn't have if he tried.

Tim Cowlishaw: Sixteen items on NCAA Tournament, including how Baylor is no Cinderella
In any other year, Baylor's arrival in the Sweet 16 would be THE Cinderella story. Instead, the Bears are one of the favorites still standing in the tournament.

Despite loss, Texas A&M on firm footing under Turgeon

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Blog: What could have been for Texas A&M

Hairopoulos: Who are these guys in the NCAA Tournament?

Baylor's next opponent shows why teams are afraid of mid-majors

Meet Baylor's next opponent: The darlings of March Madness

Baylor ranks better than Kansas State

Baylor keeping Big 12 relevant in NCAA Tourney

More on Texas A&M, Baylor on the College Sports blog

Who are these guys in the NCAA Tournament?
This year's opening two rounds restored the NCAA Tournament's anything-goes allure, writes DMN's Kate Hairopoulos. But will the upsets continue into the second week? A look at the remaining teams, along with picks of who will emerge from each region to make it to Indianapolis for the Final Four.

Butler leads West Virginia past Missouri, 68-59
Da'Sean Butler accounted for 19 of West Virginia's 30 points in the first half, then finished with 28 to lead the second-seeded Mountaineers to a 68-59 victory over 10th-seeded Missouri in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday.

NCAA Tournament: Syracuse 87, Gonzaga 65
Wes Johnson wasn't so unselfish for a change, and Gonzaga paid dearly.

03/20/2010

Dunn deal: Baylor wins, 76-68, to reach Sweet 16

Baylor's Anthony Jones (left) and Quincy Acy defend Old Dominion's Frank Hassell.

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Baylor, led by guard LaceDarius Dunn's 26 points, has defeated Old Dominion, 76-68, to advance to the Sweet 16.

Carlton: How sweet for Baylor!

Career day for Baylor's Lomers

Tweety Carter: Lomers 'our rock down low'

A&M's Turgeon, Purdue's Painter put friendship aside with Sweet 16 berth at stake

A&M vs. Purdue: A case for defense

Scoreboards: Men's | Women's

Blog: Colleges

03/21/2010

Huge game for Syracuse star from Corsicana
Former Corsicana star Wesley Johnson scored 31 points on 11-of-16 shooting to lead Syracuse to an 87-65 rout of Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Baylor's Lomers picks right time for a career game
Baylor made it look as though it was going to be so easy to sweep Old Dominion aside with a stunning display of athleticism and shot-making.

03/20/2010

A&M, Purdue set to make a case for defense
The smash-mouth, fourth-seeded Purdue Boilermakers (28-5) collide with rugged Texas A&M (24-9) in a second-round grudge match in the South Regional today (4 p.m., Ch. 11).

A&M-Purdue preview

A&M's Turgeon, Purdue's Painter put friendship aside with Sweet 16 berth at stake

Huge game for Syracuse star from Corsicana

Scoreboards: Men's | Women's

Blog: Colleges

Northern composure: Northern Iowa stuns top-seeded Kansas, 69-67
Ali Farokhmanesh hit another big 3-pointer with 34 seconds left and Northern Iowa pulled off the biggest upset in the NCAA tournament, beating top overall seed Kansas 69-67 in the second round on Saturday.

Kansas State rallies past BYU
BYU's Jimmer Fredette got smacked in the face, whacked on the head and then sent home from the NCAA tournament.

Men's basketball: North Carolina 76, Mississippi St. 74
Point guard Larry Drew II hit a shot over center Jarvis Varnado with 2 seconds to play to North Carolina a 76-74 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday in the second round of the NIT.

03/19/2010

Texas A&M's Aggies move ahead, take care of Utah State

Freshman Khris Middleton (22) was Texas A&M's leading scorer in its first-round NCAA Tournament victory Friday.

Freshman Khris Middleton scored a career-high 19 points and fifth-seeded Texas A&M beat No. 12 Utah State, 69-53, on Friday.

Carlton: Clinic by A&M

'Zero-knucklehead' factor helped A&M

Texas failed to grasp team concept

Horn's Hot air: Tournament talk

Men's scoreboard

Watching OSU women's opener will be tough for Riley

Women's scoreboard

Blog: Updates all day

Jean-Jacques Taylor: A&M has moment over burned Texas

Texas guard Avery Bradley drives past Wake Forest center Chas McFarland.

If the Aggues beat Utah State (3:45 p.m.), they can leave their inferiority complex with Texas behind.

Live box score: A&M-Utah State

Full scoreboard

Texas coach: 'We'd like to sign another guard'

What's next for Texas?

Will Longhorns lose players to NBA?

Updated bracket

Dallas locals in NCAAs

Cowlishaw: Don't expand Tourney

Blog: Updates all day.

Team concept is what Longhorns never grasped
I expected to be writing about Texas today. I didn't expect the Longhorns to be here to offer comment.

Hot air: Talk of the tourney
Things I learned watching the greatest two days of the year in sports television: first-round games of the NCAA Tournament.

NCAA Tournament: Ga. Tech holds off Oklahoma State
Gani Lawal scored 14 points, Derrick Favors added 12 points and nine rebounds, and Georgia Tech made 24 of 25 free throws Friday night to hold off seventh-seeded Oklahoma State 64-59 in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

03/18/2010

Longhorns lose heartbreaker to Wake Forest in OT, 81-80

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Ishmael Smith's pull-up jumper from about 17 feet out with 1.3 seconds remaining in overtime gave ninth-seeded Wake Forest an 81-80 win over No. 8 seed Texas in the first round of the NCAA tournament Thursday night.

UT one and done

Updated bracket

Carlton: A&M seniors want to add to win total

Scouting report: A&M-Utah State

Baylor survives scare

UNT shown the door | Junior guard carries load

Cowlishaw: Don't expand NCAA Tournament

Scoreboard

Winningest Texas A&M class wants to add to its total
With more wins than any other class in Texas A&M history, the Aggies' seniors are targeting a defining run in their fourth and final NCAA Tournament, beginning with today's game against Utah State in Spokane, Wash., writes Chuck Carlton.

03/19/2010

UNT shown the door
By the time Josh White's runner in the lane dropped through the net, it was a foregone conclusion that North Texas' second trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last four years would be a short one.

03/18/2010

More the merrier doesn't apply to expanding NCAA Tournament
The first afternoon of the NCAA Tournament couldn't have been any better for the average fan. But lots of people are working hard to make future "first days" a whole lot worse.

03/19/2010

Junior guard carries load for UNT
North Texas needed offensive punch from Tristan Thompson more than ever in its first-round game against Kansas State in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday.

03/18/2010

Baylor survives scare from Sam Houston State

Baylor tops Sam Houston State, 68-59, in one of the few dominant performances by a top seed on Thursday.

Baylor advances

Baylor box score

UNT ousted by K-State

Live summary: Texas-Wake Forest

Scoreboard

Blog: Colleges

NCAA Tournament: Butler surges past UTEP, 77-59
Shelvin Mack's second-half surge helped Butler to keep the nation's longest winning streak intact.

Baylor's program bearing right at last

Baylor ranks among the NCAA's top 13 teams in four key categories: scoring margin, field-goal percentage, field-goal percentage defense and rebounding margin.

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For a team seeking its first opening-round NCAA win in 60 years, Baylor has become a trendy pick to make a deep tournament run, writes Chuck Carlton.

Despite struggles, UT excited

Seniors scarce, but UNT has experience

Texas schools don't fare well in President Obama's bracket

Printable bracket | NCAA Tournament on TV

Scouting reports: Baylor-SHS | UT-Wake Forest | UNT-KSU | A&M-Utah St.

A&M game will be aired in Dallas

Despite struggles, Texas is excited
Eternally optimistic Longhorns coach Rick Barnes offered more encouraging words that NCAA Tournament play might be the glue that binds his dysfunctional team into a cohesive unit today against similarly inclined Wake Forest in an East Region opening-round matchup.

03/17/2010

Obama likes Kansas for title, K-State for Final Four
The First Fan appears to be a big fan of basketball programs from Kansas.

03/18/2010

NCAA Tournament: Let madness reign again

03/16/2010

Win or lose, Damion James' Texas career is 'perfect'

Damion James (left) enters the NCAA Tournament leading Texas in scoring (18.0 ppg) and rebounding (10.4 rpg). He's the Big 12's leading career rebounder.

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Damion James, down to his last loss at Texas, hopes he can lift his team out of a downward spiral, writes Chuck Carlton. If not, he has no complaints. "It played itself out perfectly," James says of his career.

NCAA Tournament trivia quiz

UNT gets TV call over Baylor

Carlton: Big NCAA run could lead Baylor's Drew elsewhere

Carlton: Aggies will reach Elite Eight

Longhorns optimistic

Carlton: Tech in NCAAs next year

Blog: Colleges

Know it all? Here's an NCAA Tournament trivia quiz
Are you an NCAA Tournament neophyte or do you have the hugest hoop head? Find out with this quiz about some of the trickier rules of college basketball.

NCAA Tournament notebook: UNT gets TV call over Baylor
Faced with the North Texas-Kansas State and Baylor-Sam Houston State games tipping off within minutes of each other Thursday afternoon, CBS said it had no choice which game to send to the Dallas market via Channel 11.

Some of NCAA's regulations for basketball may seem like a joke
Say this for the NCAA. The people who sit behind desks in Indianapolis and often confound basketball fans, coaches and players are thorough.

Chat replay: Chuck Carlton answers your Big 12 and NCAA Tournament questions

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SportsDay's Chuck Carlton answered Big 12 and NCAA Tournament questions in a chat today.

Printable bracket

Taylor: Baylor will have state's best run

Baylor's Pops; A&M should have Dash

N. Texas needs big shot to upset KState

Men’s schedule for Big 12, local teams

UNT, UT on TV, Baylor not in local area

Women's schedule

Blog: Updates from our Texas, A&M and Texas Tech bloggers

UNT-K-State picked over Baylor game in NCAA Tournament TV schedule
This is the lineup for NCAA Tournament games airing Thursday from KTVT-TV Ch. 11, the CBS affiliate in North Texas.

03/15/2010

Jean-Jacques Taylor: Baylor will have state's best tournament run

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This is only Baylor's third trip to the tournament since 1988, but the Bears will make a deep run because it consistently gets quality guard play from LaceDarius Dunn and Tweety Carter.

Printable men's bracket (.pdf)

Carlton: Big 12 gets 7 teams

A&M coach: 'I thought we would be a 4 seed'

North Carolina columnist: 'Longhorns are fragile'

Blog: Updates from our Texas, A&M and Texas Tech bloggers

03/14/2010

Texas' James: No team in the country wants to play us

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Printable men's bracket (.pdf)

Carlton: Big 12 gets 7 teams

A&M coach: 'I thought we would be a 4 seed'

Texas best college hoops state in US

Viewers guide: Times for Big 12, Texas teams

North Carolina columnist: 'Longhorns are fragile'

Hot Baylor could go far at No. 3

Texas Tech headed for NIT

Blog: Updates from our Texas, A&M and Texas Tech bloggers

03/15/2010

Seven Big 12 schools head for the ball
The state of Texas contributed three of the Big 12's all-time high seven teams to the tournament, a testament to the conference's depth and strong nonconference play this season, writes DMN's Chuck Carlton.

03/14/2010

NCAA matchups for Big 12, area teams
The matchups for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, which begins Thursday.

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