EDDIE PELLS
FILE - Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon, center right, and his team celebrate after they won a share of the Big Ten regular season title after defeating Michigan in an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, March 8, 2020, in College Park, Md. In basketball, whether a team wins a conference regular-season title, a conference tournament title or no conference title at all has very little bearing on what the final verdict will be. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)
March Madness a bedrock in ever-changing college landscape

By Eddie Pells Oct. 31, 2022 08:21 AM EDT
If the latest spasm of conference realignment in college sports was supposed to spell

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski talks with Mark Williams during practice for the men's Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, April 1, 2022, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Coach K on an NCAA revamp: 'Time to look at the whole thing'

By Eddie Pells Apr. 01, 2022 05:26 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The sport Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is leaving is run by an

FILE -The March Madness logo is shown on the court during the first half of a men's college basketball game in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 20, 2021. Kansas, Villanova, North Carolina and Duke will play in the first Final Four to take place under the new world of “name, image and likeness” endorsements in college sports. It allows college players to earn money through endorsements. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
March Madness paying off for players under mishmash of rules

By Eddie Pells Mar. 30, 2022 01:01 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — At long last, some of the cold, hard cash in the billion-dollar

FILE - The NCAA Final Four logo for the NCAA college basketball tournament is painted on a window in downtown Indianapolis, in this Wednesday, March 17, 2021, file photo. The Associated Press has learned that the NCAA has not tested players for performance-enhancing drugs while they’ve been at March Madness and other recent college championships. Three people familiar with testing protocols tell AP full-scale testing has not resumed since the coronavirus pandemic shut down college sports a year ago. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
AP Sources: NCAA has not tested for drugs at championships

By Eddie Pells Apr. 02, 2021 03:37 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA has not tested players for performance-enhancing

Oregon St scrutinizing president for actions in LSU cases

By Eddie Pells Mar. 16, 2021 11:41 AM EDT
The Oregon State board of trustees will meet this week to discuss president F.

FILE - In this Thursday, March 12, 2020, file photo, Florida State players leave the court after the NCAA college basketball games at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., were cancelled due to the coronavirus. A year after the worldwide coronavirus pandemic stopped all the games in their tracks, the aftershocks are still being felt across every sector. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
The long game: COVID changed the way we play, watch, cheer

By Eddie Pells Mar. 08, 2021 12:06 PM EST
It’s the predictable rhythm of sports that draws us in.

FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, fans sit in a mostly empty Greensboro Coliseum after the NCAA college basketball games were cancelled at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C. Scrubbing last year's March Madness due to coronavirus concerns cost the NCAA some $375 million, and another loss like that would have ripple effects throughout college sports. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
More than wins, losses at stake as basketball season arrives

By Eddie Pells Nov. 22, 2020 05:41 PM EST
As more than 300 teams prepare to start a season that will look nothing like

FILE - In this March 26, 2020, file photo, Daniel Clemens looks into the empty ballpark at Progressive Field in Cleveland. Clemens, a season ticket holder, had tickets for the opening day baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers. With no games being played, recent sports headlines have centered around hopes and dreams — namely, the uncharted path leagues and teams must navigate to return to competition in the wake of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
Sports leagues seek return to play but with no guarantees

By Eddie Pells Apr. 19, 2020 08:23 AM EDT
With no games being played, recent sports headlines have centered around hopes

Gonzaga's bench celebrates during the second half against Fairleigh Dickinson during a first-round game in the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament Thursday, March 21, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Gonzaga strikes a deal to get more out of tournament success

By Eddie Pells Mar. 26, 2019 02:27 PM EDT
When leaders at Gonzaga were looking to sweeten the pot for their basketball team in