Quite simply, this is not the year of the Cinderella squad. The silver lining: The second-weekend matchups are loaded.

Duke leads our annual 1-68 ranking of national championship contenders — grouped into eight tiers and ordered from most to least likely to snip the nets in San Antonio on the second Monday in April. Here’s the full list, and enjoy the NCAA tournament ...

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Seven are from the SEC — a Sweet 16 record. Four are from the Big Ten. Four are from the Big 12. One is from the ACC. The rest of college basketball’s 31 conferences were shut out. Even the vaunted Big East failed to advance a team beyond the round of 32.

One of the biggest problems about the first two days of the NCAA Tournament is trying to figure out which games to prioritize. Even if you have a multi-screen setup, there are still difficult viewing decisions when games begin to overlap in the Big Dance.

The Sweet Sixteen begins on Thursday night, but who remaining in the NCAA Tournament field is in best position to win the National Title?

The women's NCAA Tournament is down to 16 teams. Ranking and analyzing the 16 teams still in contention in women's March Madness.

The 64-team DII men's basketball tournament concludes the basketball season every March. Here's everything you need to know about how it works, how the selections are made and the history of the DII men's basketball championship.