NCAA tournament units mean payouts for men’s teams only. That will soon change.
Despite a ton of progress—schools still get zero dollars for their women’s basketball teams participating and advancing in the NCAA Tournament.
Despite a ton of progress—schools still get zero dollars for their women’s basketball teams participating and advancing in the NCAA Tournament.
Indiana State University doesn’t feel like a Cinderella as it prepares for the National Invitation Tournament semifinals Tuesday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Purdue fans were looking for history, and they got it. The Boilermakers will face 11th-seeded North Carolina State in the national semifinals in Phoenix on Saturday.
The Milan story is basketball’s version of “The Andy Griffith Show” and seems to rerun nearly as often. It reflects wholesome small-town values that never existed as perfectly as our nostalgia-tinted lenses would have us believe but still reminds us of a simpler, more innocent time.
The NCAA’s changes to the NIT selection process this year were designed to preserve the viability of the once-storied college basketball event in the face of possible competition. But many programs haven’t embraced the changes.
Former Purdue University and NFL quarterback Drew Brees is heading up a partnership that plans to bring 30 The Picklr franchises to Indiana, Ohio and Michigan over the next three years.
Artist Koda Witsken and NBA player Gary Harris, both Fishers natives and Hamilton Southeastern High School graduates, are partnering to create two basketball court murals at Brooks School Park.
Women’s basketball is one of the hottest tickets in college sports, a popularity driven in part by players like Caitlin Clark of the University of Iowa and Angel Reese of Louisiana State University. Their name, image and likeness, or NIL, valuations are some of the highest in the nation.
Overall, the tournament is averaging 9.07 million viewers on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. That is a slight increase over the 9.05 million average at this point last year.
There were 1,970 touchbacks on kickoffs last season that now could be returns under the new rule.
This time of year, with so many eyes on college basketball, NIL deals are now a part of the tradition. Still, for lesser-known players, it can be important to strike while the March lights are hot.
The territories are the first international markets for Indianapolis since the league began its Global Markets Program in 2022.
Playing close to home, Purdue was a hot ticket on Sunday, with seats on the secondary market topping $200 each in the upper reaches of the arena and exceeding $500 in the lower level.
Wiistream’s introduction to Indianapolis came last year via One-Zero, a sports tech conference that takes place twice a year: in Dublin, Ireland, in the spring and in Indianapolis in the fall.
Players, leagues and fans have been reckoning with the still-unfolding effects of sports gambling since a Supreme Court ruling handed the question of legalization to states in 2018. Each constituency may be arriving at the realization those impacts have mushroomed beyond anyone’s control.
As March Madness gets underway, offensive efficiency is at its highest point in almost three decades.
Omaha Productions, the entertainment studio founded by former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Manning, has produced a new four-episode docuseries, “Full Court Press,” that follows Clark through her historic senior basketball season.
Indiana State (28-6) will be in the NIT as a No. 1 seed. The Sycamores are among the nation’s high-scoring teams at 84.4 points a game, bolstered by their school-record 373 made 3-pointers.
Executive Director Bill Hancock said the agreement doesn’t lock in a format for the CFP for 2026 and beyond, but it guarantees at least a 12-team field and five conferences having annual access to the playoff through 2031.
Flacco is heading to the Indianapolis Colts after helping the Cleveland Browns reach the playoffs and winning the AP Comeback Player of the Year Award.