college basketball

Afraid your boss is going to catch you checking out NCAA Tournament scores while you’re supposed to be working? Well, like a bubble team who gets an invite to the Big Dance, you can breathe a huge sigh of relief.

When the NBA season rolls around the Sportscenter Top 10 is filled with powerful dunks from Lebron James and Blake Griffin. Wednesday night, Daniel Skinner, a sophomore from Jacksonville College in Texas, might have thrown down one of the greatest in-game dunks of all time.

One of the biggest boxing matches of the year, the return of UFC to Fox and a storied college football rivalry highlight the upcoming sports calendar. Here's what to watch this weekend:

In honor of their late coach, North Carolina state will be wearing special Jimmy Valvano jersey's at next week's annual game.

College sports is steeped in tradition, from Notre Dame football players singing their alma mater with fans at the end of home games to the eerie 'Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk!' chant of Kansas basketball fans.

Not all of this past few days’ college basketball action happened at the Final Four. While Kentucky and Kansas were busy advancing to Monday night’s NCAA title game, the nation’s best dunkers gathered on Thursday to crown a champ at the 2012 College Dunk Contest.

Traditional college basketball powers Kentucky and Kansas each won regional finals on Sunday to join Ohio State and Louisville in the 2012 Final Four in New Orleans next weekend. Here’s a recap of Sunday’s regional final games:

Louisville and Ohio State became the first two teams to advance to the 2012 Final Four in New Orleans next weekend. Here’s a recap of Saturday’s regional finals.

For the first time in the history of the NCAA basketball tournament, two No. 2 seeds — Duke and Missouri — were upset by No. 15 seeds on Friday. Several other lower seeds also won to advance to the third round of play on Sunday. Here’s a full recap of the day’s action in the NCAA basketball tournament:

The No. 2 ranked Missouri Tigers were one of the top teams in the nation all season long, but couldn't get past their opening game of the 2012 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament. Kyle O'Quinn led the No. 15 ranked Spartans of Norfolk State University to a 86-84 victory Friday afternoon becoming just the fifth No. 15 seed to defeat a No. 2 seed in the tournaments history.

Higher-seeded teams won all but two games during Thursday’s play in the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament. VCU and Colorado were the only lower-seeded teams to record victories. Here’s a recap of all of the day’s action in the NCAA tournament:

Don't forget to sign up for our Bracket Madness Challenge The country is rapidly approaching March Madness, an annual celebration of rabid sports fandom and hallowed college tradition. Every year, NCAA fans follow their alma mater or college they’d go to if grades and criminal records didn’t matter from hope and glory to everlasting victory or crushing defeat.