The Southeastern Conference will earn a whopping $70 million payout from the NCAA Tournament after sending a record 14 of its 16 schools to the Big Dance.

The highly anticipated matchup between USC's JuJu Watkins and UConn's Paige Bueckers, which had fans salivating, won't happen Monday night.

The last at-large team in the NCAA field, UNC couldn’t replicate its wire-to-wire spirited play from its First-Four win. The 11th-seeded Tar Heels fell behind early to No. 6 Ole Miss and never fully recovered.

Bailey’s 1983 title with NC State is a great of example of a college player’s draft profile getting boosted by March Madness.

With no JuJu Watkins, USC can't keep pace with Paige Bueckers and Connecticut in the fourth quarter of a 78-64 loss in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.

“From my point of view....I wanted to help them so bad,” Adams, a Manasquan, N.J. native who is one of three UConn commits in Tuesday’s McDonald’s All-American Game (9 p.m., ESPN2), said Monday in Brooklyn. “I wanted to be in that spot. And so I kind of felt the pain, too.”

No. 2 TCU will face No. 1 Texas in the Elite Eight of the Women's NCAA Tournament with a spot in the Final Four on the line.

Nate Oats has turned to the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball program into an SEC powerhouse over the past several years. Alabama, led by Mark Sears and Grant Nelson, entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 2 seed in the East region, looking to make a run at the national championship.