2010 MARCH MADNESS

NCAA basketball news, brackets, scores, schedules, picks and more

No Pac-10 men's basketball team is ranked for the eighth consecutive week, but the "Conference of Champions" isn't as awful as some might lead you to believe. (We're talking to you, Chris McKendry.) Full story »

The line between tortoise and hare is firmly established in the Pac-10. Full story »

"With the team we have coming back and the members we've added, we feel we're a very, very dangerous team," junior guard Calvin Haynes says. "Anything less than the NCAA Tournament would be a disappointment." Full story »

March Madness, which made a successful return to Oregon this year, will be back at the Rose Garden in 2012 Full story »

Time-lapse video shows thousands of North Carolina fans celebrating just minutes after they won the NCAA title. Full story »

DETROIT -- There was a team of destiny out there, all right. It's the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the final chapter of their story was about as heartwarming as a demolition derby. Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and North Carolina won a national championship a season or more in the making, stomping out Michigan State's inspirational run Monday night... Full story »

DETROIT -- Michigan State coach Tom Izzo has put his own spin on tonight's NCAA championship game at Ford Field. To hear Izzo tell it, the contest is a battle between mighty North Carolina -- a team that defeated his Spartans by 35 points in December at this same football stadium -- and his gritty band.  Full story »

When the only Final Four held in Oregon came to Portland in 1965, the Trail Blazers were nearly six years from debuting, and other sports had higher billing. "Portland, where horses and hockey have a sports stranglehold, was preparing Wednesday for a weekend surrender to basketball," Leo Davis wrote in The Oregonian on March 18, 1965. Full story »

Three of the teams are Final Four regulars, programs that expect to be practicing and playing in the first week of April, not attending end-of-season banquets. Trying to pull a postseason surprise is Villanova, a school that might not have the tradition of North Carolina, Michigan State or Connecticut but does have the biggest shocker in NCAA tournament history on its colorful resume. Full story »

The Spartans will play Connecticut next Saturday at Ford Field in Detroit. Full story »

Forget your favorite sports bar or your friend's super-cool basement. The place to be for the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments is a private room in Indianapolis. Most of the year it's a large conference room at NCAA headquarters. But during the first four days of the men's and women's tournaments it becomes Central Command. Full story »

Organizers will bid for games at the Rose Garden in 2011, 2012 or 2013.  Full story »

The Oregonian's photographers capture the final seconds of Gonzaga's 83-81 victory against Western Kentucky, set to audio from postgame interviews with Gonzaga coach Mark Few and players Demetri Goodson and Jeremy Pargo.  Full story »

The building was no place for little ears on Saturday. And good thing, too, because Western Kentucky coach Ken McDonald paced around for most of what was an epic basketball game at the Rose Garden Arena, muttering, and shouting, and scattering F-bombs across the court. Hey, it's what some coaches do.  Full story »