It would have been hard for Oregon to script a better start than what it had in its first-round game against Liberty in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The No. 5 seed Ducks began the game on an 18-2 run, and the outcome was never in doubt after that as the Ducks defeated the 12th-seeded Flames 81-52 on Friday night in the last of four games at Climate Pledge Arena. Oregon (25-9) figures to get a much tougher challenge Sunday against No. 4 seed Arizona (23-12), its former Pac-12 rival,...

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. The Spartans are 16-0 against MEAC opponents and 13-4 in non-conference play. Norfolk State is 25-2 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 13.2 turnovers per game. The Bison’s record in MEAC action is 14-2. Howard ranks third in the MEAC with 12.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Zennia Thomas averaging 3.0. Norfolk State makes 43.9%...

An unexpected moment was caught on camera at a college baseball game — and now a video of the moment is circulating on social media. During the March 8 matchup between the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and the Eastern Carolina Pirates at Clark-LeClair Stadium in Greenville, N.C., an ESPN+'s broadcast captured two women in all-black outfits and sunglasses pulling out their phones in the third inning. Broadcasters Patrick Johnson and Mike Mullis could be heard commentating during the moment. "Selfie time for some Chanticleer fans," one remarked, as one of the...

The Pittsburgh Panthers football team is mourning after an 18-year-old cornerback died in a car crash in Indiana over the weekend. Freshman recruit Mason Alexander was killed on Saturday, March 1, in a crash in his hometown of Fishers, located northeast of Indianapolis, according to reports from , FOX 59 and WRTV . Per the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, Alexander was a passenger in the car, a BMW, heading south on Florida Road, when the car’s driver tried to pass another vehicle from the northbound lane. The BMW veered off...

Nebraska is hiring New England Patriots director of pro personnel Patrick Stewart as the football program's new general manager, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel. Current Nebraska general manager Sean Padden -- who oversaw top recruiting classes in this cycle in both high school recruiting and in the NCAA transfer portal -- will move to a new role of assistant AD for strategic initiatives, sources told Thamel. Padden's role will include ties to the salary cap, contract negotiations and analytics, while Stewart will run the personnel department. Under second-year head coach...

What looked like a normal occurrence — Maliq Brown deflecting the ball away from an opponent — instead has thrown a wrench into Duke basketball’s final stretch of what’s been a sterling regular season. A key to Duke’s solid defense, the 6-9 Brown dislocated his left shoulder on an otherwise innocuous play where he didn’t make contact with any other players. With a grim look on his face and his left arm in a black sling, Brown left Duke’s lockerroom following an 80-62 win over Virginia at John Paul Jones...

The 24th-ranked UC Irvine baseball team scored five runs in the fourth inning and opened its season with a 10-5 victory over Nebraska in the MLB Desert Invitational on Friday afternoon at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, Arizona. Jacob McCombs had an RBI double in the first inning, then the Anteaters erupted with a pair of two-out, two-run singles from Will Bermudez and Chase Call in the fourth to open a 6-0 lead. Nebraska answered with two runs in the bottom of the fourth, but UCI scored four more runs...