The number 10 seed in the Midwest Region Davidson (27-6) defeated number 7 seeded Gonzaga 82 to 76. Gonzaga has gone from being a Cinderella team in past NCAA Tournaments to being a power in Division I basketball to now being the conquest of a new Cinderella team the Davidson Wildcats. Davidson got into the NCAA Tournament by winning the Southern Conference Tournament.

The Xavier University women's basketball team will be making its second-straight trip to the NCAA Tournament as the Musketeers earned a No. 9 seed in the Spokane Regional. The Musketeers, who will play No. 8 Nebraska (20-11, 9-7 Big 12) on Sunday, March 23, earned the Atlantic 10 Championship title after defeating Temple last Monday night and garnered the league's automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. XU is currently 24-8 overall and finished 11-3 in conference play.

As we follow the NCAA Tournament, some results and scores are already out. Michigan State defeats Temple, 72-61, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday in Denver, Colorado.

The Coppin State men's basketball team begins play in the NCAA Tournament tonight, March 18th, when they face off against the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers in the Opening Round game in Dayton, Ohio. Tip-off for the game is set for 7:30 p.m.

Campus today is even quieter. Many of my colleagues are at the ACC Tournament to watch our Deacs. They lost to FSU 70-60 today. I know this is not the way anyone wanted our season to end, particularly after the heartbreak of losing Skip Prosser in July. But our team will bounce back, and so will we.

The University of Michigan women's basketball team dropped a difficult 69-67 decision to Wisconsin Thursday evening (Feb. 28) in Crisler Arena. What was more interesting is to see Michigan women's basketball coach Kevin Borseth produced one of the more memorable post-game anger and frustration.

Mario Chalmers led Kansas (KU Basketball team) with 18 points and made two key defensive plays in the final minutes to lift the third-ranked Jayhawks to a 76-70 win at Missouri in Big 12 basketball action here Saturday night.

VMI junior Chavis Holmes (Charlotte, N.C.) and UNC Asheville junior Kenny George (Chicago, Ill.) have been selected as the Big South Conference Choice Hotels Men's Basketball Co-Players of the Week for games played from Jan. 1-6, while VMI guard Austin Kenon (Virginia Beach, Va.) has been selected as the New Balance Freshman of the Week for the same span, it was announced today by the League office.

The UNC Asheville Bulldogs visit Chapel Hill tonight and many will fondly recall Kenny George from last year’s game with UNCA.

ESPN reports that retired Oklahoma State University coach Eddie Sutton will coach San Francisco for the rest of the season.

A Division I rule change that allowed NCAA basketball teams an extra regular-season game during the 2006-07 season led to total attendance records being shattered for the division and for all three divisions combined.

University of Alabama basketball coach Mark Gottfried has been selected as an assistant coach for USA Basketball at the Pan American Games in Brazil this July.