Trouble lurks as the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments ... an altercation with Houston’s mascot, Shasta the cougar, during the football team’s season opener.

In the entire history of the NCAA tournament, only 20 teams have ever entered the tournament with a perfect record.

was the handwriting on the wall that would urge them to drop these team names and mascots.” ¢ Imposing stronger penalties for schools that fall well below the NCAA’s new academic scoring system.

THE 2021 NCAA TOURNAMENT will begin Thursday ... ESPN has identified 12 of the top teams in college basketball this season, arranging them according to basketball-related and other less scientific ...