When the 136 NCAA Tournament teams were revealed Sunday night, the bracket and betting bonanza began. Americans are expected to legally wager more than $3.3 billion on the Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments over the next three weeks, according to the American Gaming Association. But exactly two months before Selection Sunday, the NCAA was dealing with a different kind of ...

SEATTLE — Seattle basketball is having a moment. The Washington Husky men are missing it. They are an outlier amid the optimism, as a seventh consecutive men’s NCAA Tournament begins without Washington. Meanwhile, the Husky women are dancing for a second straight March, with Tina Langley’s team earning a No. 6 seed. Professional basketball is simmering in the city, with a Sonics return teasing ...

DAYTON, Ohio — SMU just wanted to put the narratives to bed. In football, the shadow of the death penalty stretched more than 30 years. In basketball, it was a decade-long NCAA Tournament drought and a reputation for falling short on Selection Sunday. The move to the ACC was supposed to change that — a chance to return to college sports’ biggest stages and reshape how SMU is perceived. Less ...