N.C.A.A

For more than 20 years, fans of college sports like softball, baseball, women’s basketball and more than two dozen others have known just where to find N.C.A.A. championships — on ESPN’s…

Britton Wilson of Arkansas, one of this year’s most accomplished college runners, will race in the 400 meters at the N.C.A.A. Division I outdoor track and field championships in Austin,…

Lamont Butler practiced moments like these when he was a young child, shooting on the hoop at his house, counting down to the buzzer of the imaginary shot clock in his mind.Fast-forward to…

DALLAS — Last spring, Isaiah Wong led the University of Miami’s men’s basketball team to its best season to that point, a run to the round of 8 in the N.C.A.A. tournament, where it lost to…

Louisiana State Coach Kim Mulkey had been trying to temper expectations all season.She had added nine new players. Who knew how they would jell? In her second year coaching at L.S.U., nobody…

The gritty battle for the women’s college basketball championship on Sunday between Louisiana State and Iowa drew an average of 9.9 million viewers, making it the most viewed N.C.A.A.…

HOUSTON — The Connecticut men’s basketball team has endured many tribulations in recent weeks. The Huskies walked into soiled hotel rooms when they arrived in Las Vegas for their first games…

An average of 9.9 million people, according to ESPN, watched a women’s college basketball national title game on Sunday that didn’t feature the odds-on pretournament favorite, South…

WASHINGTON — It was, to borrow from sports parlance, an unforced error.Jill Biden, the first lady, attended the N.C.A.A. women’s championship game last weekend, sitting in the stands with…