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NCAA Tournament Midwest Region breakdown: Top matchups, upsets, predictions

[ad_1] Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer For the third time in as many years, Houston earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament under the stellar tutelage of head coach Kelvin Sampson, who is among the best in the business at 69 years young. His Cougars stormed to a 30-4 overall record and 19-1 mark in the Big 12 that more than warranted a top seed
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Rory McIlroy, J.J. Spaun set for Monday playoff at The Players Championship

[ad_1] Rory McIlroy had every reason to think he would be leaving The Players Championship with the gold trophy and a big payoff Sunday. He was three shots ahead of J.J. Spaun after a four-hour rain delay and had a rain-softened course ahead of him.Spaun refused to give in easily.He caught McIlroy with two great shots, held his nerve down one of the most daunting closing stretches and it ended
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Christopher Bell’s bid at history falls short: ‘We were going to lose at some point’

[ad_1] Bob Pockrass FOX Motorsports Insider LAS VEGAS — Christopher Bell entered Sunday as the driver everyone focused on to make history at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.Instead, it was the sport’s most historically active team, Wood Brothers Racing, stealing the show with Josh Berry capturing his first career victory and the 101st for the storied organization, while Bell settled for a 12th-place finish."I'm just really trying to soak this all
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2025 Men’s NCAA Tournament: 10 early March Madness betting thoughts

[ad_1] Sam Panayotovich FOX Sports Betting Analyst Let the madness begin!The 68-team field is all set for the 2025 NCAA Men’s Tournament and the opening-round betting lines are finally starting to settle after about three hours of the odds screen getting lit up like a Christmas tree.I’ll be posting my favorite first-round bets in the coming days here on FOX Sports, but first, I wanted to hit you with some
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NCAA Tournament East Region Breakdown: Top matchups, upsets, predictions

[ad_1] John Fanta College Basketball Broadcaster and Reporter The East Region is The Region of Stars. Why? Because the nation's top player and future No. 1 NBA Draft pick, Cooper Flagg, headlines Duke, while Mark Sears is at the forefront for Alabama, John Tonje leads a Wisconsin team that reached the Big Ten Championship Game, and Caleb Love has national title game experience with an Arizona team that could be dangerous
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NCAA Tournament South Region Breakdown: Top matchups, upsets, predictions

[ad_1] John Fanta College Basketball Broadcaster and Reporter The South Region will be the region of chaos! I can't believe I'm saying that about the region that Auburn resides in, but the NCAA Tournament isn't about who the best team has been all year, but rather who's playing their best basketball at this time of year. Bruce Pearl's squad has lost three of its last four games, and if you
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NCAA Tournament West Region Breakdown: Top matchups, upsets, predictions

[ad_1] Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer It's difficult to imagine a region with more coaching star power than what the West will offer viewers of this year's NCAA Tournament. There's Rick Pitino at St. John's and Bill Self at Kansas. There's John Calipari at Arkansas and some guy named Dan Hurley at UConn, winner of the last two national championships. Those four heavyweights have seven rings between
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Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins agree to record extensions with Bengals, at long last

[ad_1] Ja'Marr Chase will become the first receiver in NFL history to make $40 million per year. That's just the latest record for the 25-year-old, who won the league's receiving triple crown in 2024. The star wide receiver and the Cincinnati Bengals have agreed to a four-year, $161 million deal with $112M million guaranteed, FOX Sports' Jordan Schultz reported. It's the largest deal for a non-quarterback ever. The Bengals were busy Sunday,
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2025 March Madness bracket predictions: Picks and analysis from FOX Sports writers

[ad_1] Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer John Fanta College Basketball Broadcaster and Reporter The 2025 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament field is set, which means the most entertaining three-week stretch in sports is set to get underway. The bubble popped for several teams during conference tournament action this past week, as the likes of West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio State and Boise State were among the teams left out
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UNC sneaks into NCAA Tournament, Tar Heels AD assures he sat out of committee talks

[ad_1] When North Carolina failed to take down Duke in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament on Friday, many presumed that was the end of the Tar Heels' March Madness hopes. That wasn't the case, though.UNC was included in the 68-team field for the NCAA Tournament, sneaking in as the final at-large team and set to play against San Diego State in one of the First Four games. The Tar