The road to San Antonio for the 2025 Men’s Final Four begins Tuesday with the play-in round, First Four.

Hailey Van Lith is The Associated Press women's college basketball player of the week.

Those “Underfrogs” from TCU are now outright women's Big 12 champions.

Sedona Prince had 16 points and 19 rebounds as 10th-ranked TCU won its first Big 12 regular-season title.

TCU goes into the regular-season finale with a chance for its first Big 12 women's basketball title.

Four New Orleans players who’ve been suspended since late January are under investigation for possible NCAA violations related to sports gambling, a person familiar with the situation said.

Tobe Awaka had 14 points and 12 rebounds as No. 19 Arizona moved into second place alone in the Big 12 Conference with a 74-67 win at Baylor.

Kansas coach Bill Self is going for comic relief after the biggest blown lead in a loss in the storied program's history.

Dick Vitale said he’s cancer-free after his fourth bout with the disease in just over three years.

Liam McNeeley scored 17 points and No. 25 UConn came back from an early deficit to beat No. 15 Baylor 76-72 in the Big 12-Big East Battle.

Jeremy Roach reached a Final Four and won Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season and tournament titles during four productive years at Duke.

Jeremy Roach made a 3-pointer at the buzzer, and No. 13 Baylor rallied from five points down in the final 18 seconds of the second overtime to beat No. 22 St. John’s 99-98 on Thursday night at the Baha Mar Championship.

LaJohntay Wester caught a 43-yard Hail Mary pass from Shedeur Sanders with no time remaining in regulation and Travis Hunter forced a fumble at the 1-yard line in overtime as Colorado rallied for an improbable 38-31 win over Baylor on a drizzly night.

The New York Knicks have had a busy week retooling their roster. Their future plans now include a former Wagner Thunderbird.

Freshman All-American JuJu Watkins drove the length of the floor for a go-ahead three-point play with 3:13 left and finished with 30 points, leading top-seeded Southern California past Baylor 74-70 and into the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1994.

Chase Hunter had 20 points and six assists, and No. 6 seed Clemson held off third-seeded Baylor for a 72-64 victory in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Bella Fontleroy scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lift Baylor to an 80-63 victory over Vanderbilt in the first round of the women's NCAA Tournament.

Jalen Bridges scored 23 points, Ja’Kobe Walter added 19 and third-seeded Baylor coasted past 14th-seeded Colgate 92-67 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

RayJ Dennis had 19 points and 10 assists, Jayden Nunn scored 18 points with consecutive fastbreak layups to ignite a key run for No. 15 Baylor and the Bears beat seventh-ranked Kansas 82-74.

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Aly Khalifa had 14 points, seven assists, and seven rebounds to lead No. 25 BYU to a 78-71 victory over No. 11 Baylor on Tuesday night.

Brittney Griner’s No. 42 jersey has been retired by Baylor.

Hunter Dickinson scored 15 points to lead a balanced attack as No. 4 Kansas extended its home winning streak to 18 games with a 64-61 win over No. 13 Baylor.

Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades was critical of Big 12 officials after coach Scott Drew was ejected for the first time in his 21 seasons with the 18th-ranked Bears.

The Big 12 has revealed its football schedule for the 2024 season, its first without Southeastern Conference-bound marquee programs Texas and Oklahoma.

Tyrese Hunter’s driving layup at the buzzer sent Texas to a 75-73 win over No. 9 Baylor, handing the Bears their second straight loss in the Big 12 Conference.

Arthur Kaluma converted a four-point play to give Kansas State the lead with 20 seconds left in overtime, and Tylor Perry added a pair of free throws with 6.9 seconds to go, helping the Wildcats beat No. 9 Baylor 68-64 on Tuesday night.

South Carolina remains No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll and is one of just three unbeaten teams left in women’s college basketball.

South Carolina remained the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday.

Purdue’s slide from No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll turned out to be brief.

Maryland’s 13-year run in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll has come to an end after a week that saw more chaos in the Top 25.

Jonathon Brooks ran for two touchdowns and No. 3 Texas got a dominant game from its defense to overpower Baylor in a 38-6 win Saturday night to launch the Longhorns into their final Big 12 season.

San Antonio will be hosting the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Series for the first time ever.

New Mexico State has hired longtime Sam Houston coach Jason Hooten to try to restore a program that was shut down in the middle of the season after one player was involved in a fatal shooting and another accused teammates of hazing.

No lead seemed safe on Saturday in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

There will be no Big 12 regular-season title for the Baylor women for the first time in 13 seasons.

Sir’Jabari Rice scored 21 points and Timmy Allen added 19 to send No. 10 Texas to a 76-71 win over No. 11 Baylor.

Purdue is this season's first unanimous No. 1 team in the AP men’s college basketball poll.

Ashley Joens scored 32 points to lead No. 18 Iowa State to an 86-78 win over No. 14 Oklahoma, overshadowing the Sooners’ Taylor Robertson becoming the Division I leader in 3-pointers.

Houston is back at No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the second time this season.

Missing the top to backs could put more pressure on first-year quarterback Quinn Ewers, who struggled even while Texas finished the regular season with three wins in its last four games.

Tidal flooding exacerbated by heavy winds from a winter storm has inundated roads, homes and businesses in parts of New York City.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency as wintry weather moves through the state.

Reece Beekman and No. 16 Virginia capped an emotional week by going on a late 13-point run to defeat No. 19 Illinois 70-61 to win the Continental Tire Main Event.

Griffin Kell kicked a 40-yard field goal on the final play of the game, and fourth-ranked TCU remained undefeated with a 29-28 win at Baylor.

Armaan Franklin scored a career-high 26 points, and No. 16 Virginia used a big second-half run to knock off No. 5 Baylor 86-79 in the team’s first game since three Cavaliers football players were killed in a campus shooting.

Virginia’s basketball players wore sweatshirts in warmups for Friday's game against Baylor that honored three Cavaliers football players who were fatally shot nearly a week ago.

East Central alumna and Baylor star NaLyssa Smith was drafted second overall in this year's WNBA Draft by the Indian Fever.

Kim Mulkey is The Associated Press women's basketball Coach of the Year in her first season at LSU.

There were 17.3 million brackets filled out in ESPN's Tournament Challenge this year, and the quest for a perfect one was done before the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament.

Double-digit seeds are leaving their mark on the first weekend of the women’s NCAA Tournament and bouncing some of the top players and teams in the country, including Iowa's Caitlin Clark and Baylor's NaLyssa Smith.

Hannah Sjerven scored 16 points and Chloe Lamb had 15 as the 10th-seeded South Dakota women beat Baylor 61-47 to advance to their first Sweet 16.

RJ Davis scored a career-high 30 points and eighth-seeded North Carolina beat defending champion Baylor 93-86 in overtime in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Matthew Mayer scored a career-high 22 points and defending national champion Baylor opened the NCAA Tournament with an 85-49 victory over Norfolk State.

Kentucky's Rhyne Howard has become the ninth player in women’s basketball history to earn first-team Associated Press All-America honors three times.

Gonzaga will head into the NCAA Tournament exactly where it ended up in the final AP Top 25 — right on top.

Last season’s NCAA Tournament ultimately unfolded in familiar fashion.

The March Madness bracket is out.

Kansas senior guard Ochai Agbaji is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press Big 12 player of the year.

Baylor standout NaLyssa Smith is the Big 12 women’s basketball player of the year for the second season in a row.

Art Briles is out as Grambling State’s offensive coordinator, less than one week after the disgraced former Baylor coach was surprisingly hired.

The top six and seven of the top 10 teams in the AP Top 25 lost on the same day last week, both records.

Gonzaga has reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll.

Christian Braun and Ochai Agbaji each scored 18 points and No. 10 Kansas bolted to a big lead and routed No. 8 Baylor 83-59 to hold the top spot in the Big 12 Conference race.

Jaden Shackelford scored 19 points and had nine rebounds as Alabama toppled No. 4 Baylor 87-78 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.

Auburn has climbed past Gonzaga and into the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the first time ever.

Bryce Thompson scored the game’s final six points and finished with 19 as Oklahoma State beat No. 1 Baylor 61-54 on Saturday, giving the Bears consecutive home losses for the first time in nearly six years.

No. 19 Texas Tech has now beaten consecutive top-10 opponents in the Big 12.

The nation's longest winning streak is over after No. 19 Texas Tech won 65-62 at top-ranked Baylor.

Baylor is once again the unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, and fifth-ranked Southern California climbed to its highest ranking in nearly five decades.

Adam Flagler rallied No. 1 Baylor with 18 of his 22 points in the second half, and the Bears extended their national-best winning streak to 21 games with a 76-64 victory over TCU.

South Carolina remains the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll despite its first loss of the season.

Baylor kept its firm hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll with few changes at the top and no new teams entering the latest rankings.

Al Walcott set a Sugar Bowl record with a 96-yard interception return, Monaray Baldwin raced 48 yards for the go-ahead score on an end around, and sixth-ranked Baylor beat No. 8 Mississippi 21-7 as injured Rebels quarterback Matt Corral looked on from the sideline.

Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral injured his right leg while being sacked by Baylor’s Cole Maxwell during the first quarter of the Sugar Bowl.

James Akinjo scored 16 points, LJ Cryer had 10 of his 13 in the second half, and top-ranked Baylor beat No. 8 Iowa State 77-72 for the Cyclones’ first loss.

Dick Vitale is taking an extended break from the airwaves to rest his voice.

Baylor remained No. 1 for the third straight week in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll, receiving all 61 first-place votes from a national media panel.

Defending national champion Baylor has maintained its top spot in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll, though not without ceding a No. 1 vote to Arizona, while the six remaining unbeatens continued their rise.

The Washington Mystics have won the WNBA draft lottery for the first time in franchise history.

Leigha Brown scored 25 points to lead No. 13 Michigan to a 74-68 win over fifth-ranked Baylor in the Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase.

Highly touted quarterback Spencer Rattler will try to restart his college career with South Carolina in a major acquisition for Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer.

UConn has dropped to seventh in the women's AP Top 25, its lowest ranking since 2007.

James Akinjo had 16 points with seven rebounds and second-ranked Baylor defensively dominated No. 6 Villanova 57-36.

Iowa State running back Breece Hall is The Associated Press Big 12 offensive player of the year for the second year in a row.

Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy says injured star running back Jaylin Warren will not play in the Big 12 championship game against No. 9 Baylor.

The Big 12 will play a title game without Oklahoma or Texas for the first time since 1998.

Baylor coach Scott Drew knew his sixth-ranked Bears might need time to blend a changed roster after losing four starters from a national-championship run.

LJ Cryer scored 21 points, and No. 9 Baylor took control early in the second half of an 86-48 victory over Stanford.

Gerry Bohanon threw a touchdown and ran for two more scores as 18th-ranked Baylor won 27-14 to end fourth-ranked Oklahoma's FBS-best 17-game winning streak.

Texas Tech has named Baylor assistant and longtime Texas high school coach Joey McGuire as its next head coach.

Ben Sims and Abram Smith had TD runs in the fourth quarter and No. 16 Baylor beat Texas 31-24.

Second-year Baylor coach Dave Aranda has the No. 16 Bears fighting for the top of the Big 12 standings.

The Associated Press preseason women's All-America team is out and Paige Bueckers of UConn is a unanimous choice.

Gonzaga is the preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll.

Abram Smith ran for 188 yards with three touchdowns and Baylor beat future Big 12 foe and 19th-ranked BYU 38-24.

Huddle up! Here’s a look back at this weekend on the gridiron, with three key takeaways from the state’s football scene.

For about 45 minutes late Saturday afternoon, college football was on overload.

Gerry Bohanon threw for two touchdowns and ran for another and Baylor stopped a two-point try with 24 seconds left to beat No. 14 Iowa State 31-29.

An AMBER Alert has been discontinued for a missing child who police believed was in “grave or immediate danger.”