Basketball

It’s tourney time! Soon we’ll see last-second game winners, Cinderellas emerging and favorites fall as the madness begins. While basketball is a team sport, the stars create intrigue, and heroes...

For nearly four decades, the men’s NCAA Tournament has been one of the most revered spectacles in sports, a 68-team, three-week gauntlet where legends are made, brackets are busted, and...

Some college basketball coaches enter March fighting for a championship. Others are fighting to keep their jobs. The 2025 season has put several head coaches on the hot seat, with...

On Sunday afternoon, South Carolina reasserted their status of the SEC’s best. The No. 1-seed in the SEC Tournament, the Gamecocks delivered a dominant performance against No. 2-seed Texas, taking...

The Road to a Title Runs Through Duke in this Year’s ACC Tournament in Charlotte.  It’s March. It’s the ACC Tournament. And Duke is exactly where you’d expect them to...

It’s not called March Madness for nothing—and the Duke Blue Devils proved that all weekend long in Greensboro, NC. The No. 3-seed Blue Devils first took out No. 6-seed Louisville...

The late Bill Russell once said, “No. I’m not a basketball player. I’m a man who plays basketball.” He was declaring that his profession doesn’t define him. Another influential baller...

If not for their seven-season stint in the American Athletic Conference, UConn would be going for their 12th-straight Big East Tournament title. Instead, the Huskies, currently ranked No. 3 in...

It’s going to be hard to top last year’s SEC Tournament. First, we had the “Thrilla from Kamilla,” when then-South Carolina senior center Kamilla Cardoso saved the Gamecocks’ perfect season...

Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images Beginning with conference tournaments and extending through the Final Four in Tampa, Swish Appeal’s staff will cover all the madness of March.